Sunday, May 10, 2015
Under the tutelage of the usually perfect Bartlett Sher this revival is a really big production with one really big problem. There is a big orchestra (29). A big cast (51) on a big stage…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:15AMSunday, May 3, 2015
Oh to be an usher at the St. James Theatre. Oh to be able to relish over and over again the “song and dance, romance and happy ending” of SOMETHING ROTTEN! Not to mention the hilarit…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:16AMSaturday, May 2, 2015
Claire Zachanassian’s (Chita Rivera) entrance is eagerly awaited by both the downtrodden townspeople of Brachen Switzerland – thinking she will save them - and New York audiences anxious…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:12AMMonday, April 27, 2015
Virginia Beach, Virginia is a long way from Siberia. One wonders why Kelli Barrett a girl from said location and as American as apple pie was cast in the pivotal role of Lara – the love …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:11AMSaturday, April 25, 2015
This lackluster and ill-conceived production directed by Kathleen Marshall will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Based on the 1985 play “Peccadillo” by Garson Kanin and adapted…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:49AMFriday, April 24, 2015
“Never act with children or animals,” this quote is attributed to W. C. Fields who was rumored to have a strong dislike for children - unless you are Matthew Morrison (playwright J. M. B…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:37AMMonday, April 20, 2015
David Hyde Pierce knows from funny. He has a great track record. And in his first ever directorial stint on Broadway he brings out every ounce of funny from his expertly assembled cast.�…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:24AMSaturday, April 18, 2015
The Greek goddess of dance and song – Terpsichore - is smiling her Greek goddess head off as is anyone else who gets to see this spectacular new Gershwin musical inspired – and I do mean…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:31AMThursday, April 16, 2015
Forget the novella by Colette. She must be reeling in her grave. Forget Audrey Hepburn. Hard to do. But necessary. Forget the Oscar winning movie starring Leslie Caron, Louis Jourd…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:23AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
Bring a pillow. Not that you will need it to rest your head due to boredom – although boredom does have its moments in this Royal Shakespeare Company production based on the popular nove…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:09AMSaturday, April 11, 2015
What are we to make of this play? A wordy play that deals with class differences, pasta with a Bolognese sauce (cooked on stage) and a couple of people (one much older than other) who at o…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:28AMSunday, March 22, 2015
There are some second tier musicals from the past that have been crying out to be revived when all the stars are aligned. And by stars I mean people stars, not celestial stars. In this c…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:31AMMonday, March 16, 2015
But will it play in Peoria? HAMILTON is sold out through May 3rd in an intimate space at The Public Theatre and is moving to Broadway’s much larger Richard Rodgers Theatre in July after …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:43AMFriday, March 13, 2015
She isn’t cheap. She’s thrifty. She does her homework. She is confident, charming, composed, and at rare times impatient. She allows her Prime Ministers (twelve in all - eight se…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:21AMTuesday, March 10, 2015
Did you hear the one about the two Drexel brothers (Norman – Larry David and Arthur – Ben Shenkman) arguing in the hospital over who is going to honor dad’s final wish to take care of …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:40AMFriday, January 23, 2015
From the opening notes of the overture of the wonderful score by Jason Robert Brown played by the large on-stage orchestra with a Big Band Sound reminding us of Benny Goodman and Gene Krupa …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:02AMSunday, January 18, 2015
Two major stars – Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson – make for a minor CONSTELLATIONS. This fresh opus by Nick Payne – who last brought us the annoying IF THERE IS I HAVEN’T FOUND IT…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:32AMSunday, December 14, 2014
Standing straight up in his Victorian Hospital skivvies the handsome and buff Bradley Cooper, sharing the stage with an enlarged photo of the actual Joseph Merrick and Dr. Frederick Treves (…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:09AMSunday, December 7, 2014
Don’t think about it. Just laugh. Abundantly. Terrance McNally (a sort of hit or miss kind of playwright) with patience and persistence, with love, valor and compassion and a wicked …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:04AMSunday, November 23, 2014
What can Hugh Jackman ever do to impress us more than he already has? I wondered as I arrived at Circle in the Square. Eighty five minutes later my question had been answered. Hugh Jackm…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:15AMSaturday, November 22, 2014
This new production of the 1997 cult musical SIDE SHOW is more than a revival. It is more than a make-over. It has had radical surgery – not altogether a good thing. The original o…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:50AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
Another Stoppard revival. Another complicated word fest of ideas that is a mere shadow of the original production that ran at the Plymouth from January 84 through May 85 with an all-star c…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:21AMFriday, October 31, 2014
“It’s not easy being green,” according to Kermit the Frog. In Ayad Akhtar’s compelling, pertinent yet somewhat contrived drama DISGRACED, corporate lawyer “mergers and acquisitio…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:02AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
It’s all about Sting. Although he does not appear in the show – Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner better known as STING (singer/songwriter/instrumentalist) wrote its musical score that some…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:53AMSunday, October 26, 2014
A strong shot of Botox has been injected into this newest revival of ON THE TOWN to rid it of any wrinkles that may have appeared since its opening in 1944. Two previous revivals have not …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:47AMSunday, October 12, 2014
Based on the 2003 bestselling mystery novel by Mark Haddon of the same title, this challenging play adapted by Simon Stephens and precisely directed by Marianne Elliot (who also directed WAR…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:29AMFriday, October 10, 2014
Wake up and smell the roses. Be happy. Follow your dream. Don’t pay taxes. Just go for it. Well the Sycamore family is doing just that in this timeless and ageless revival (by sp…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:47AMMonday, October 6, 2014
A bit of British imperialism is on view at the Laura Pels Theatre in what started out as a Tom Stoppard “clash of cultures” radio play in 1991 “In the Native State” that morphed into…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:46AMSunday, September 21, 2014
It’s like stepping into another world. A fantasy world created by director/choreographer Austin McCormick, the new Ziegfeld of Off-Broadway. A world of debauchery, provocative pasties,…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:32AMThursday, June 26, 2014
There were two Mozarts. Two child prodigies. The famous Amadeus (Wolfie) and his older, overshadowed sister Maria Anna (Nannerl). Maria Anna started playing the harpsichord at eight an…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:01AMFriday, June 20, 2014
Tupac Shakur. Palace Theatre. Broadway’s newest odd couple. What’s really odd is that the producers of this new hip-hop-rap musical have redesigned the orchestra section of the Pal…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:23AM 
