Today is Sunday, December 22, 2024 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Ralph Fiennes Andrew Lippa
If only! The bar of excellence has once again been lowered for quality musicals on Broadway. Perhaps I should rephrase by writing “non-musical musicals” for these productions lack th…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:18PMI have never been a fan of Sunday. Especially a Sunday when I am scheduled to review at 3pm a new musical – TAMMY FAYE – that has gotten less than stellar reviews and some bad word of …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:31AMAttend the tale of Satchmo’s wives. Four in all. For all to see. In this spotty, chaotic production of A WONDERFUL WORLD – the Louis Armstrong musical at STUDIO 54 where a road m…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:06AMI don’t think that this review will sell many tickets. But with Adam Driver as its star attraction – live and in person, close up and personal – does it matter? I think not. The …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:54AMOUR TOWN has a new look. Integrated. Dr. Gibbs and family are black. And fit in just as natural as the white folks next door. The Webbs. Color doesn’t matter as we all share the sa…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:32PMThe less said or written about this latest Lincoln Center catastrophe the better. McNEAL, starring Artificial Intelligence and featuring Robert Downey Jr. making his Broadway debut. Anyo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:18AMDid he say he was from New Canaan or New Haven? I really can’t remember. It’s been quite a long time that I cared to speak to someone while minding my own business sitting on a bench…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:36AMO woe is me! Well…here goes. A mild mannered, mediocre, meandering musical. Music by Mary Rodgers (daughter of Richard Rogers; mother of Adam Guettel – great musical genes inherit…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:48AMFeeling blue? Down in the dumps? Have your tickle bones not been tickled lately? The extremely talented and wonderfully funny Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln and company might just be…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 05:12PMAs we bid a not so fond farewell to the most recent Broadway season with this car wreck of a musical THE GREAT GATSBY we ask ourselves why? Why import a mediocre musical from New Jersey’…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:54AMLondon, Elizabethan England, 1601 For some, forsooth, I am merely a vagabond – a worthless novelty. I have been accused of wasting my time and the time of others – attempting to …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 03:18PMThis a short somewhat strange take of a new and original musical titled LEMPICKA – not a review – that I had cancelled by the PR folks shortly before I was ready to head out to see it as…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:12PMIn the land of anything can happen, which could be just about anywhere these days, we begin. Sunlight had started to disappear. A dullness at first. Then grayness. Then little or no li…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:35AMTo be perfectly clear this is not GHOSTS by Henrik Ibsen. This is Ibsen’s Ghost by Charles Busch infamous Queen of drag who can sometimes, most times be a riot on stage in his many portr…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:18PMI have a cousin. She’s a mosquito. I am a fly. A reincarnated fly. Oh, the stories I could tell – this being one of them… Matthew by name. Our families somehow, somewhere h…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:06PMSo what! So I haven’t got any professional experience. Just loads of school stuff. Starring roles, by the way. I keep telling myself over and over it doesn’t matter. It doesn�…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:12AMThere have been many a Christmas tree in my life. Even a Hanukkah Bush. But few were chosen. And so, I take this time to reflect. A very personal view. From the ridiculous – does a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:48AMDisclaimer #1 I never saw JAWS the movie nor did I ever want to. Disclaimer # 2 I read the script the night before I saw the production at The John Golden Theater on West 45th Street. No…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:19PMAn overwrought, disappointing production. Hardly worth all the effort that the participants are so forcefully putting forth to be quaint, amusing, sexy and unbelievably outrageous. Unfor…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:33AMThank you Susan Stroman! Thank you for keeping alive the musical theater traditions so dear to many. For your dedication and artistic vision. Your creativity. For your honesty and fo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:32AMGo-o-o-ollee! It’s been said that “laughter is the best medicine” – that is, second only to corn whiskey. So perhaps it is, in such a lackluster theatrical season we get SHUCKED.…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:48AMIn this impressive revival/revisal of Lerner & Loewe’s melodious and witty musical first produced in 1960, based on T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, director Bartlett Sher a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:24AMPoor Cyndi! Forced to being an outcast ‘cuz she doesn’t conform to the standards set forth in Belleville where “beauty is a duty” – just one of the not-so-nifty lyrics of Davi…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:32AMBe prepared. Jessica Chastain is spectacular as Nora Helmer. As she sits seemingly spellbound in a chair on a bare stage, dressed in dark blue, alone with her striking profile and red ha…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:44AMThis won’t take long. Much shorter than the two act, two hour and forty minute excruciating exercise on view at The Connelly Theatre on East 4th Street co-authored by Zuzanna Szadkowski …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:02AMNever leave dirty dishes in the sink. Always make your bed. And if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t! But certain rules are made to be broken. Right? So here goes. PI…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:32AMThis new musical adaptation of the classic Billy Wilder 1959 comedy starring Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe should be herewith subtitled – Thoroughly Modern Daphne or How Jerry…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:06PMFor this we waited 58 years to see back on Broadway?! Summer Stock is alive and faltering at the August Wilson Theatre where this extremely disappointing revisal of FUNNY GIRL has recently…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:54AMThere is a good reason why Neil Simon was known as The King of Comedy. And one prime example is on view at the resplendent Hudson Theatre where a slew of his theatrical posters – plays a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:48AMAs in Bernadette Peters who starred as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George in 1984 at the Booth Theatre. We shared the same vocal coach. I remember arriving at James Gregory’s studio…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 02:12PMI’d like to propose a toast! To celebrate! Here’s to the entire cast, from superstars Hugh Jackman & Sutton Foster to ensemble players to understudies; to all those backstage hel…
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