THE PAVILION(Off-off-Broadway: The Producer’s Club)You know the story: middle-aged white guy has a mid-life crisis, so attends high school reunion to attempt to rekindle things with his hi…
SOURCE: reviews250.tumblr.com at 09:23AMTHE PAVILION(Off-off-Broadway: The Producer’s Club)review by David Levy You know the story: middle-aged white guy has a mid-life crisis, so attends high school reunion to attempt to rekind…
SOURCE: reviews250.tumblr.com at 09:23AMOriginally published on 250 Word Reviews. DADA WOOF PAPA HOT (Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse) Most gay men of a certain age never envisioned a world in which t…
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 08:02PMDADA WOOF PAPA HOT(Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse)Most gay men of a certain age never envisioned a world in which they could get married and have children. At …
SOURCE: reviews250.tumblr.com at 08:02PMDADA WOOF PAPA HOT(Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse)review by David Levy Most gay men of a certain age never envisioned a world in which they could get married a…
SOURCE: reviews250.tumblr.com at 08:02PMOriginally published on 250 Word Reviews. ON YOUR FEET:THE STORY OF EMILIO & GLORIA ESTEFAN (Broadway: Marquis Theatre) One gets the feeling about halfway through the first act of On You…
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 11:40PMON YOUR FEET:THE STORY OF EMILIO & GLORIA ESTEFAN(Broadway: Marquis Theatre)One gets the feeling about halfway through the first act of On Your Feet that were you to quiz the cast where the …
SOURCE: reviews250.tumblr.com at 11:39PMON YOUR FEET:THE STORY OF EMILIO & GLORIA ESTEFAN(Broadway: Marquis Theatre)review by David Levy One gets the feeling about halfway through the first act of On Your Feet that were you to…
SOURCE: reviews250.tumblr.com at 11:39PMSYLVIA(Broadway: Cort Theatre)If there’s one reason to see Sylvia, A. R. Gurney’s 1995 canine comedy making its Broadway debut, it’s Annaleigh Ashford. As the titular tail-wagger, she …
SOURCE: reviews250.tumblr.com at 09:01PMSYLVIA(Broadway: Cort Theatre)review by David Levy If there’s one reason to see Sylvia, A. R. Gurney’s 1995 canine comedy making its Broadway debut, it’s Annaleigh Ashford. As the titu…
SOURCE: reviews250.tumblr.com at 09:01PMOriginally published on 250 Word Reviews. SYLVIA (Broadway: Cort Theatre) If there’s one reason to see Sylvia, A. R. Gurney’s 1995 canine comedy making its Broadway debut, it’s Annalei…
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 09:00PMOriginally published on 250 Word Reviews. DAMES AT SEA (Broadway: The Helen Hayes Theatre) Dames at Sea first delighted audiences in 1966 with its low-budget, can-do spunk. A gentle spoof of…
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 09:00PMDAMES AT SEA(Broadway: The Helen Hayes Theatre)Dames at Sea first delighted audiences in 1966 with its low-budget, can-do spunk. A gentle spoof of 1930s movie musicals, the show prefigured t…
SOURCE: reviews250.tumblr.com at 09:00PMDAMES AT SEA(Broadway: The Helen Hayes Theatre)review by David Levy Dames at Sea first delighted audiences in 1966 with its low-budget, can-do spunk. A gentle spoof of 1930s movie musicals, …
SOURCE: reviews250.tumblr.com at 09:00PMOriginally published on CastAlbums.org. There are certain shows by the giants of musical theater that have lesser reputations. While often these reputations are earned (e.g. late-period Andr…
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 08:00AMOriginally published on CastAlbums.org. I don’t think any of us expected to hear a cast recording from Doctor Zhivago, a show that had more above-the-title producers than performances …
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 08:00AMOriginally published on CastAlbums.org. When Side Show hit Broadway in 1998, I became fascinated with the career of lyricist Bill Russell. I had never heard of him before, but I discovered h…
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 08:00AMOriginally published on CastAlbums.org. The Golden Apple is one of those scores that has taken on something of a mythic air, which is entirely appropriate for this Broadway rethinking of The…
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 08:00AMOriginally published on Medium. I found myself with an unexpected case of “the feels” last night at Little Shop of Horrors at Encores! Off-Center, so I sat down to word-vomit a bit on Tu…
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 08:00AMOriginally published on Flavorpill. Take one part 8-bit RPG, one part serialized anime, add some cardboard props and a dash of comedy, and you might have something resembling Kapow-i GoGo, …
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 08:00AMOriginally published on CastAlbums.org. Dames at Sea is the quintessential “little show that could,” growing from a sketch to a nightclub show to a proper off-Broadway musical to…
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 08:00AMOriginally published on Flavorpill. At the intersection of dance and athletics, you might find Séquence 8, the “nouveau cirque spectacular” at City Center through April 26. This show fr…
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 08:00AMOriginally published on CastAlbums.org. If you ever wondered what Sweeney Todd might have sounded like in the hands of Lionel Bart, you should give Jack The Ripper a spin. The long-lost cas…
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 08:00AMOriginally published on CastAlbums.org. I’ve had The Fortress of Solitude cast album on my phone for a week and I can’t stop listening to it. Michael Friedman has given us one of…
SOURCE: itsdlevy.me at 08:00AMThe Great White Way provides an enlightening experience with the potential to open the reader to radical reconsideration of classic and contemporary shows alike ... Black Broadway is a great…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:18AMHistory, as we all learned from Stephen Sondheim's "Something in a Tree," is shaped as much by the storytellers as it is by the story. Herein lies both the charm and the challenge of The Unt…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01AMWith two of Frank Loesser’s biggest hits returning in the form of simultaneous all-star concerts, last week New York experienced a rare treat for Classic Broadway lovers and the ClaB…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:54PMSubtitled "Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater," Shapiro's book delivers exactly what the title promises: interviews with (mostly) above-the-title stars, presented as strai…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:59AMTaking the form of an oral history, including diverse voices from the property's history brought together by editor (and Newsies dramaturg) Ken Cerniglia, this new addition to the genre make…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:48AMThis week, Encores! kicks off its 21st season with Little Me, a jazzy musical comedy — emphasis on comedy — which features a hysterical book by Neil Simon specifically crafted a…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 08:02PMLove Broadway musicals but hate having to sit through all that talking between the songs? You’re in luck. In the next couple of months, you can catch the New York Philharmonic doing S…
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