Wednesday, August 1, 2012
"Every fantasy is you–every dream that might come true; You are the song I sing–YOU are my everything…I am in love with you!"Â Â (–Excerpt from "Love Songs…A Musica…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 03:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Oh, if life were only like what we thought it would be when we were kids…you know: miniature trolley's running through our neighborhood, friendly, sexually ambiguous puppets living just ne…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 06:36PM[SHARE]Monday, June 4, 2012
Once upon a time and long ago, a writer named James M. Barrie introduced the world to a wonderful chap named Peter Pan–the boy who wouldn't grow up. When the musical adaptation of this…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 07:23PM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2012
"This show is dedicated to anyone who has ever danced in a chorus or marched in step…anywhere!" said Michael Bennet of his Tony-Award winning mega-hit, "A Chorus Line" which took 'The Grea…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 09:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2012
What a novelty–a musical that's literally about the music! In these 'post Andrew Lloyd Webber" days of seismically over sized glitz and special effects, it's often easy for a show to g…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 01:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 18, 2012
"The end of the world is over," we're advised in Green Day's "American Idiot", "and no one else seems to care." That, in a nutshell, is the prevailing sentiment (if not the complete …
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 02:14PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2012
"Onward to glory" strides Long Beach California's "Musical Theater West", as they spur their 59th season up to full gallop with a first-rate version of "Man Of La Mancha"– the classic …
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 08:41PM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2012
Whoever said 'They just don't make 'em like that anymore' could easily be describing the 1958 TV adaptation of Cole Porter's classic musical, "Kiss Me Kate". Starring the legendary origi…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 11:20PM[SHARE]Monday, January 2, 2012
"They're quiet enough in the morning hours, they're quiet enough in the afternoon, reserving their terpsichorean powers to dance by the light of the Jellicle moon…" 'They're' that p…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 02:59PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2011
"Strings of street lights–even stop lights blink a bright red and green as the shoppers rush home with their treasures…" goes the unforgettable refrain of "Silver Bells", and what mo…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 02:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2011
Who among us hasn't seen the classic movie based on L. Frank Baum's immortal book? Yet, who can say with the same affirmation that they've seen the stage version based on that same film?…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 04:58PM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2011
'Tis the season for screamin' and for nearly four decades, World famous Knott's Berry Farm in Southern California has welcomed these days of lengthening nights with a grand, ghoulish traditi…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 01:58PM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2011
K, so they're NOT the folks next door–or even farther down the block; they're "The Addams Family", and in the hit musical named after them they actually live in New York's famed "C…
SOURCE: Buck-ing Trends at 02:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 4, 2011
"Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted," grins Willy Wonka–the famous Chocolatier at the close of 1971's classic musical, "Willy Wonka And …
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