Friday, May 24, 2013
Throughout your scholastic career, you were often asked to give one-word answers on tests. Well, for our 2013 Broadway University Final Exam, we instead will offer you one-word questions.
Linked From Kritzerland at 08:28AMFriday, May 10, 2013
All musicals descend from The Black Crook, but On Your Toes is truly its great-great grandson.
Linked From Kritzerland at 11:28AMFriday, May 3, 2013
It was the month in which the word "robbed" is used more around Broadway than any other month for the Tony nominations were dispensed.
Linked From Kritzerland at 05:02PMFriday, April 26, 2013
When producers of American and British musicals book a theater in Amsterdam, Theatre Carre is their first choice. The three-balcony, eight-chandeliered house is where popular hits go to thri…
Linked From Kritzerland at 06:17AMFriday, April 19, 2013
This winter, when I heard Barry Manilow sing "Can't Take My Eyes off of You" from the stage of the St. James, I realized that this song was now being performed in two Broadway theaters.
Linked From Kritzerland at 12:08PMFriday, April 12, 2013
Things are coming along nicely for the Broadway revival of the 1975 musical Good Time Charley. And as you've certainly heard, for the last few weeks the production's powers-that-be have been…
Linked From Kritzerland at 08:56AMFriday, April 5, 2013
A bit more than 60 years ago, a musical called "Wish You Were Here" opened to mostly terrible reviews. The future looked bleak, but then director Josh Logan decided to return to the show and…
Linked From Kritzerland at 07:44AMFriday, March 29, 2013
It was the month in which Breakfast at Tiffany's began performances on the 4th - which meant that by March 8th, after it had played five previews, it had already outrun the 1966 musical vers…
Linked From Kritzerland at 11:56AMFriday, March 22, 2013
Wish I could remember the precise story I was telling my buddy Bob Burger at the opening night party of the York's Starting Here, Starting Now. The point of it was that I was in a situation …
Linked From Kritzerland at 01:34PMFriday, March 15, 2013
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I'm Patti LuPone," says the lady to the packed house - with an as-if-you-didn't-know tone to her voice.
Linked From Kritzerland at 08:12AMFriday, March 8, 2013
March is coming in like a lion for Rodgers and Hammerstein. When most people think of Dick and Ockie, they recall their 11 musical properties (or at least five of them). Many may not know or…
Linked From Kritzerland at 07:24AMFriday, March 1, 2013
It was the month that I attended The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for the seventh time - and I've still yet to be in the right place to catch any one of the Fritos, M&M's, Oreos, b…
Linked From Kritzerland at 07:34AMFriday, February 22, 2013
A movie becomes a Broadway musical? While we think of this as a recent phenomenon, Donnybrook! proves it isn't. Its source, The Quiet Man, hit film screens on Sept. 14, 1952. Fewer than nine…
Linked From Kritzerland at 07:34AMSunday, February 17, 2013
Congratulations to Fred Abramowitz, AnyaToes, Susan Berlin, Brigadude, Mark Canestraro, Laura Frankos, Ingrid Gammerman, John Griffin, Marc Grossberg, Jack Lechner, Paul Mendenhall, Brian Mu…
Linked From Kritzerland at 08:25AMFriday, February 1, 2013
It was the month that I made Page Six in the New York Post for my altercation with a "Fanilow" at Manilow on Broadway.
Linked From Kritzerland at 11:13AMSunday, January 27, 2013
Musicals often want to show their audiences a good, escapist time - which may be one reason why so many refer to alcoholic drinks or matters involving spirits.
Linked From Kritzerland at 06:10AMFriday, January 18, 2013
"Odets is really great," Harold Rome had Marilyn Cooper sing in I Can Get It for You Wholesale 51 years ago. Thanks to Bartlett Sher's fine production Of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy, we see t…
Linked From Kritzerland at 09:33AMFriday, January 11, 2013
Between Christmas and New Year's Day, critics are seldom if ever invited to see shows. Managements don't want to give away tickets that would otherwise be sold. After all, Christmas Week has…
Linked From Kritzerland at 08:39AMFriday, January 4, 2013
Forty-four years ago this week, The Fig Leaves Are Falling became the first new musical of 1969.
And forty-four years ago this week, The Fig Leaves Are Falling became the first new musica…
Linked From Kritzerland at 05:41PMSaturday, December 29, 2012
It was the month that I saw a musical revue at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.
Well, in a manner of speaking. On Dec. 21 at 7 p.m., I attended a free concert called Come Home for Christmas at…
Linked From Kritzerland at 01:40PMFriday, December 21, 2012
So while I was stuck in Cincinnati during Hurricane Sandy, my buddy John Ellis took me to Half Price Books, where I happened to spot a book called 45 RPM: The History, Heroes & Villains of a…
Linked From Kritzerland at 11:12AMFriday, December 14, 2012
What a golden time it is for theater! The Golden Land, the excellent Zalmen Mlotek musical about immigrants finding their way in America, has met with such approval that it's now been extend…
Linked From Kritzerland at 01:32PMFriday, December 7, 2012
Before the year comes to an end, let's take a look at the state of musical theater art in late 2012.
Linked From Kritzerland at 06:50PMFriday, November 30, 2012
It was the month that Jumbo opened at the Hippodrome (well, in 1935), that Don Juan in Hell debuted at the New Century (in 1951) and Anya opened at the Ziegfeld (in 1965).
Linked From Kritzerland at 08:53AMSunday, November 25, 2012
We're all so lucky to live in an age where Ethan Mordden writes about musical theater.
Linked From Kritzerland at 04:13AMSaturday, November 17, 2012
As I mentioned last week, Hurricane Sandy kept me from posting the Leftovers that I usually relate at the end of each month. Would that that were the worst thing to happen during the God-awf…
Linked From Kritzerland at 12:04PMBefore you know it, there'll be only 12 days to Christmas and not plenty of time to do your Christmas shopping. What to get your literate friends who still enjoy having shelves in their apar…
Linked From Kritzerland at 12:03PMTuesday, November 6, 2012
As I write this, it's Wednesday and I'm in Cincinnati, far from the home and computer that I love, not to mention all my Leftover notes. I came here last Friday to see the Cincinnati Conserv…
Linked From Kritzerland at 03:11PMFriday, October 26, 2012
Just as there would have been a time that you would have never predicted that Roger Miller would win a Tony for Best Score -- or that Sally Field would take home a couple of Oscars -- you pr…
Linked From Kritzerland at 11:55AMFriday, October 19, 2012
The bromide that "comedy is tragedy plus time" is certainly true of Modern Terrorism. Jon Kern's constantly funny play deals with people who want to blow up the Empire State Building. Had it…
Linked From Kritzerland at 09:50AMFriday, October 12, 2012
Something occurred to me as I was writing about Allegro for my Tuesday masterworksbroadway.com column. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical celebrated its 65th anniversary this week, as you w…
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