Tuesday, April 7, 2015
The Musicals Tonight! production of the delicious 1933 musical Pardon My English, with a score by George and Ira Gershwin and a book by Herbert Fields and Morrie Ryskind, opens tonight. Dire…
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The lusty Lerner and Loewe musical Paint Your Wagon has a wonderful score, but it's not a show you see revived every day, which makes it a perfect choice for the City Center Encores! series.…
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Anyone who knows the work of the Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár only through his beautiful, deeply moving drama Lilliom or his elegant, thoughtful comedy The Guardsman may be taken abac…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 06:32PMSaturday, January 31, 2015
Choreographer Randy Skinner has had hits with a number of revivals, revisals, and others shows based on pre-existing, classic material, from 42nd Street to White Christmas to the City Center…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 05:32PMMonday, November 3, 2014
Michael McKean would have an honored place in entertainment history if only as co-creator and co-star of one of the funniest, most creative films ever made: This Is Spinal Tap. (If you haven…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 10:32PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
The beloved Bob Merrill/Michael Stewart musical Carnival has opened in a Musicals Tonight! production at Theatre Row. Heading the cast are Ali Ewoldt at Lili, Scott Guthrie as Paul Berthalet…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 08:28AMMonday, September 15, 2014
The Mint Theater Company has gained a stellar reputation for researching, finding, and presenting plays that greatly entertained audiences back in the day but now are shrouded in obscurity -…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:03PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
The current issue of The Sondheim Review includes Michael Portantiere's recent interview with Mary Rodgers; the publication has given Talkin' Broadway permission to reprint the interview onl…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 11:24AMFriday, July 11, 2014
Some performers (and theatergoers) have mixed feelings about the "actors doubling as musicians" trend that seems to have grown stronger in musical theater over the past decade or s…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 11:37AMTuesday, July 1, 2014
The 2014 High School Musical Theater Awards showcased the best and brightest of young performers from throughout the country. Here are photos ...
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 11:02AMSunday, June 29, 2014
One of America's greatest composer/lyricists, Frank Loesser in a sense had three careers -- as a writer of stand-alone songs during the Tin Pan Alley era, songs for Hollywood films, and scor…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 09:21AMMonday, June 23, 2014
Depending on one’s point of view, it can be either depressing or strangely comforting to realize that human foibles and societal issues we think of as fairly recent are actually not.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:03PMSaturday, May 10, 2014
It's been a good couple of seasons for those of us who are such great fans of William Inge that we want to see even his most obscure works on stage. Last year, The Actors Company Theatre (TA…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 01:54PMMonday, May 5, 2014
A memorable phrase coined by Henry James to describe Washington, D.C. is an apt title for Anthony Giardina’s The City of Conversation, now receiving its world premiere production by Lincol…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMSaturday, May 3, 2014
Malcolm Gets was most recently seen on stage as one of the witches (!!!), along with Byron Jennings and John Glover, in Macbeth, and before that opposite Will Chase in The Story of My Life. …
Linked From BroadwayStars at 04:20PMWednesday, April 23, 2014
This year's East Bonnet competition was filled with delights, from a hilarious opening number with Rory O'Malley as an ambitious actor and Michael Riedel as Satan, to the roof-raising finale…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 09:00AMSunday, March 30, 2014
I consider myself spoiled -- or maybe privileged is the better word -- to have seen and heard several performances of Frank Loesser's operatic musical The Most Happy Fella with full orchestr…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 06:30PMTuesday, March 25, 2014
The swift closing – after only 11 previews and 21 performances – of Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy on Broadway in 1982 has always mystified me.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:01PMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Little Mary Sunshine, that delightfully silly operetta spoof by Rick Besoyan, is currently being revived by Musicals Tonight! at Theatre Row's Lion Theatre, directed by Thomas Sabella-Mills.…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 06:07PMMonday, February 24, 2014
London Wall offers present-day American theatergoers a glimpse of office sexual politics that is twice-removed from our own culture and time.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 08:02PMFriday, January 31, 2014
It's not always easy to be funny and sexy on stage (or off) at the same time, but Rachel York managed that feat very well as Norma "Paris Makes Me Horny" Cassidy in Victor/Victoria…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 07:36PMSaturday, December 14, 2013
This year's "Gypsy of the Year" competition at the Minskoff Theatre began with a tribute to the star of the original production of Gypsy, the great Ethel Merman, channeled by the w…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 12:49PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
Like most other songwriters, Alan and Marilyn Bergman are less well known by their own names than by the titles of the songs for which they have so beautifully written the lyrics: "The …
Linked From BroadwayStars at 10:18AMMonday, December 2, 2013
The second annual NYC edition of Sparkle!, a charity benefit Christmas concert put together and hosted by Scott Nevins, was held last night (Sunday, December 1) at XL nightclub, spreading ho…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 08:55AMMonday, November 18, 2013
...The Preacher and the Shrink is at once unnecessary and despicable...
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:05PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
When last (and first) I interviewed Jeremy Jordan in September 2011, he was rehearsing for the leading role of Jack Kelly in the world premiere production of Newsies at the Paper Mill Playho…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 04:40PMSunday, October 27, 2013
On Sunday evening, October 27, Encompass New Opera Theatre honored the great lyricist Sheldon Harnick (Fiorello, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof, etc., etc.) with a gala event featuring so…
Linked From BroadwayStars at 11:20PMMonday, October 21, 2013
Having heard that the Soho Rep production of David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette has a running time of 90 minutes, I certainly didn’t expect I was in for a detailed, probing examination of on…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 07:18PMSunday, October 13, 2013
... the audience was also treated to dollops of other forms of dance, from classical to tap to hip-hop. All of that fabulous stuff led up to the Big Moment of the Evening, when superstar An…
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 10:51AMMonday, September 23, 2013
George Kelly’s plays were tremendously popular and highly regarded by critics in his day....
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 06:48AMMonday, September 16, 2013
A real-life married couple since 1999, Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon have worked together several times before on stage -- sometimes playing spouses, sometimes not. Now, they're taking on two o…
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