Friday, June 7, 2013

SONTAG: REBORN at NYTW: a smoke screen by Oscar E Moore

This one person multi-media production does nothing to make you want to run out and read anything that Susan Sontag ever wrote - especially her journals on which SONTAG: REBORN is based - ed…

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

MURDER BALLAD transfer – a lusty rock opera fable for our times by Oscar E Moore

For all you lonely young singles out there, here is a show for you.  But be forewarned: drinking and falling in lust with the wrong person in a bar could be dangerous to your health.  But …

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Monday, May 20, 2013

THREE Drama Desk/Outer Critics Circle Off-B’way Nominees: In a bar, in a tent, in a disco by Oscar E Moore

MURDER BALLAD - a lusty rock opera fable for our times REVIEW will be posted May 23rd, 2013     MURDER BALLAD was originally produced in New Yrok City by the Manhattan Theatre Club www.Mur…

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Thursday, May 9, 2013

PIPPIN - a glorious revival by Oscar E Moore

You will be amazed, surprised and thrilled.  You will laugh.  You will sing along.  You will come under the spell of the magic created by some of the best creative minds and performers on…

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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

I’LL EAT YOU LAST – a chat with Sue Mengers starring Bette Midler: All talking. No singing. by Oscar E Moore

For anyone seeking some biographical information about super agent to the A-list stars Sue Mengers during her heyday of 1970’s Hollywood just GOOGLE.  If you desire to see the next to…

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

THE MEMORY SHOW – Off B’way at the DUKE - trying to remember by Oscar E Moore

From the Barrington Stage Musical Theater Lab to the Duke on 42 Street comes an odd, ambitious and contemporary new musical THE MEMORY SHOW by Sara Cooper (Book & Lyrics) and Zach Redler…

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

ORPHANS – Starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge by Oscar E Moore

Stark, searing and sensational.  The best revival or new play I have seen this season.  This production of the timeless ORPHANS by Lyle Kessler excels on so many levels under the expert di…

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Friday, April 26, 2013

THE BIG KNIFE – with Bobby Cannavale needs sharpening and style by Oscar E Moore

    What’s most missing in this Hollywood artifact dug up by the Roundabout Theatre Company - not seen here for sixty years?  A biting edge and that most important word - STYLE.  I…

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

THE NANCE – Starring Nathan Lane – Brave, powerful and disturbing by Oscar E Moore

It’s 1937 and Chauncey Miles (Nathan Lane) headliner at The Irving Place Theatre where burlesque is gasping its final breath and the balcony is a playground for homosexual hanky panky …

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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

THE ASSEMBLED PARTIES – A Jewish Christmas at MTC by Oscar E Moore

The Richard Greenberg prolific writing factory has been working overtime this season.  With mixed results.  His adaptation of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S has prematurely closed.  His boo…

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Saturday, April 20, 2013

MOTOWN-MANIA - the gang’s all here by Oscar E Moore

Can it be possible?  Can MOTOWN, the musical produced and written by Motown’s founder Berry Gordy (an excellent Brandon Victor Dixon) run off with many of the musical awards this seas…

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Monday, April 15, 2013

MATILDA, the musical: What did they say? What did they sing? by Oscar E Moore

The much ballyhooed, highly hyped, multiple award winning Royal Shakespeare Company musical MATILDA has opened on Broadway with four young girls alternating in the part of the highly intelli…

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

KINKY BOOTS – Cyndi Lauper/Harvey Fierstein’s dazzling new musical – a joyous affirmation for acceptance by Oscar E Moore

Can a bevy of high kicking and singing drag queens led on by Lola (a phenomenal Billy Porter - a composite of Tina Turner, Shirley Bassey, Whitney Houston and Effie from Dreamgirls) save the…

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Sunday, April 7, 2013

LUCKY GUY - the latest and last from the late Nora Ephron by Oscar E Moore

Full speed ahead!  And the pace never lets up in this respectful yet disappointing expose of tabloid journalism by Nora Ephron circa 1985.  We are barraged by the cast with short, loud mac…

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Friday, March 29, 2013

HANDS ON A HARDBODY – SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT by Oscar E Moore

Most everything about the new musical HANDS ON A HARDBODY is wonderful.  Everything, that is, except its title.  A title that doesn’t sing - doesn’t say this is a musical.   A…

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Saturday, March 23, 2013

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S – new adaptation induces indigestion by Oscar E Moore

In the opening moments of this disjointed, noiresque, bummer of a production the question is asked, “Where is she?” referring to the heroine of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S - Hol…

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Friday, March 22, 2013

HAPPY BIRTHDAY by Anita Loos attempts a comeback Off B’way by Oscar E Moore

It’s not diamonds that are a girl’s best friend but booze in this admirable but creaky revival of HAPPY BIRTHDAY by Anita Loos who is most famous for writing “Gentlemen Pre…

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

REALLY REALLY – Off B’way newbie – nothing to laugh about by Oscar E Moore

Is this really how the Me-Generation, the I-Generation, the I-Pod, I-Pad Generation thinks and acts to survive and get ahead to achieve what they think they want?  The answer from young pla…

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Tuesday, March 19, 2013

HIT THE WALL, Off B’way – You are there, Stonewall - June 1969 by Oscar E Moore

June 28, 1969.  It’s a hot and muggy night and the gays and lesbians of Greenwich Village New York City have been shattered by the death of their beloved icon Judy Garland - Patron Sa…

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Saturday, March 16, 2013

CINDERELLA WITH A TWIST by Oscar E Moore

  There’s a ball, a banquet, a bachelor looking for a friend, a newly empowered Ella, a flying fairy godmother, Venetian glass slippers, dancing trees, a fox, a raccoon, an election,…

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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

TALLEY’S FOLLY – Unrequited love requited revival by Oscar E Moore

In this splendid revival of Lanford Wilson’s 1980 Pulitzer award winning play TALLEY’S FOLLY the language of love reigns supreme.  It’s July 4th 1944. As beautifully direc…

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Friday, March 8, 2013

ANN – Starring Holland Taylor as Ann Richards – True Grit and White Hot by Oscar E Moore

Texas is noteworthy for two things - the Alamo and Ann Richards who became the 45th Governor of the Lone Star State quite by accident, a twist of fate, her tenacity and hard work ethic insti…

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Monday, March 4, 2013

BELLEVILLE - or is it BELLEVUE? by Oscar E Moore

At the couldn’t-come-fast-enough conclusion of Amy Herzog’s newest foray into drama BELLEVILLE being presented by The New York Theatre Workshop, Amina (Pascale Armand) the French…

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Monday, February 4, 2013

MOOSE MURDERS – REST IN PEACE by Oscar E Moore

Why?  Why resurrect the most notorious flop in Broadway history?  In 1983 MOOSE MURDERS opened and closed in a heartbeat - murdered by the critics.  This production presented by The Beaut…

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Friday, February 1, 2013

THE VANDAL – by Hamish Linklater Off Off B’way at The Flea by Oscar E Moore

  Hamish Linklater is one of our most promising A-list young actors.  He is clever, concise and quirky.  He did a brilliant job in David Ives’s “The School for Lies” at …

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

This CAT scratches only the surface – Tennessee Williams revival by Oscar E Moore

This most recent revival of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by Tennessee Williams, another Pulitzer Prize winning drama from the 1950’s (PICNIC being another) starring Scarlett Johansson who won…

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Monday, January 21, 2013

PICNIC – Clumsy and clunky Roundabout Revival by Oscar E Moore

It’s difficult to imagine that the classic William Inge 1953 play PICNIC was awarded a Pulitzer Prize after seeing this unacceptable, clumsy and clunky production at the American Airli…

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

THE OTHER PLACE – Laurie Metcalf’s descent into dementia by Oscar E Moore

Juliana Smithton (an extraordinary Laurie Metcalf) - caustic, condescending, mocking mother of a distant runaway daughter, successful neurologist and scientific researcher who is in the thro…

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Natalie Toro’s Christmas Gift by Oscar E Moore

Hi Oscar, I hope this finds you doing great and enjoying the Holidays. I wanted to get you my new single release. I know it’s late in the season to release a Holiday song, but I never …

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Sunday, December 16, 2012

GOLDEN BOY – Lincoln Center Theater champion by Oscar E Moore

Lincoln Center Theater has delivered a one-two punch in its gritty, powerful and sterling 75th anniversary revival of GOLDEN BOY by Clifford Odets now playing at the Belasco Theatre where it…

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Penny Fuller: 13 Things about Ed Carpolotti by Oscar E Moore

STUDIO 54 has its 54 Below and now 59E59 has 59 Above where the very talented Penny Fuller is appearing in this one act, hard to remember title, sixty minute, almost one woman chamber-cum-ca…

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