Thursday, May 11, 2017
What better message to deliver to kids than that happiness and friendship will come if you’ll “Just be who you really are”? A musical — endearingly entertaining — now playing, wit…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 03:13AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
The agenda on May 6, 7 and 8? Saluting some lyricists who rarely get their due. With insightful, delightful lyricist Sheldon Harnick hosting and narrating and singing a few times, Broadway…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:05AMSunday, May 7, 2017
Here’s a True or False Quiz on the iconic songwriter whose work is still heard today, though he was born 12 years before the 19th century ended. Here are 10 interesting facts (or lies) ab…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 07:33AMSaturday, April 29, 2017
Early on, when that iconic red door that has marked the gateway to Elizabeth Arden’s swank Fifth Avenue salon since 1910, rolls onto the stage, it’s clear we’re in good hands. This goo…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:51PMThink back to 2001. If you went to the art-house cinema at all that fall, chances are it was to catch Jean-Pierre Jeune’s wide-eyed ingénue Amélie. With its many super-tight shots of new…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:50PMThursday, April 20, 2017
In an uncertain world, one thing you can always count on is being uplifted and your cup of cheer will runneth over when entertainer extraordinaire Marilyn Maye is holding court in the spotli…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:35AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Chenoweth & McGovern's pretty inging plus Pretty Filthy, a cast recording.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01AMTuesday, January 3, 2017
Taking their cues from the movies ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:41AMFriday, August 26, 2016
While not a typical or titanic type of musical theatre—it tends to musically glide more than soar with its more subtle persuasive attractions—the cast album is quite pleasing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:58AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
With the alarmingly large number of recent headline stories about gun violence and the ongoing debates about gun control, a sly and smart musical on the topic makes its points —and wins po…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:12PMFriday, June 24, 2016
Here are two contemporary musicals whose scores on disc are among Broadway Records' cluster of recent releases. Neither would be mistaken for a Rodgers & Hammerstein-style musical or a whole…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:10PMThursday, June 9, 2016
Love—or a reasonable facsimile. Or maybe just another shade of the red hot. Hearing their colorful ideas and hearing them perform in a private rehearsal increased my anticipation for ric…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 08:04AMFriday, March 25, 2016
This time, it's Amazing Grace, named for the stirring hymn and charting the journey of the man who wrote it. The second line of that song—"How sweet the sound!"—also describes the voices…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49AMMonday, March 21, 2016
... some whose memories go back a bit more than 50 Broadway seasons may be amazed that it's been that long since Fiddler on the Roof first came along, but it's back and there's another reviv…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:43AMFriday, January 29, 2016
. Each grabbed me right away, having surpassed my expectations based on prior familiarity with the artists and/or songs. They have lasting power, continuing to impress when I hear them again.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:33AMMonday, January 25, 2016
... here are the ones (submitted for review) that radiate with initial impact and staying power.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:10AMFriday, January 8, 2016
The Wiz and Finding Neverland:
Inspired by Baum, Barrie & Believing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:53AMWednesday, December 30, 2015
Monday, December 21, 2015
Two new releases concentrate on [the early] period—with gusto. Several titles appear on both albums, but with quite different stylings.
SOURCE: talkinbroadway.com at 12:43PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
A new recorded version of a score by George and Ira Gershwin is always good news ... [Annaleigh Ashford] bubbles over with excitement, a party gal eager to have you join her party ... [Barba…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:49AMFriday, October 23, 2015
This CD release marks the 40th anniversary of the original LP of the original cast, produced by Goddard Lieberson, a kind of "encore" task for the Columbia Records giant figure.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:30AMFriday, September 4, 2015
The case of the musical Doctor Zhivago is hardly the first time that a Broadway show shuttered quickly, despite a storied road of being a celebrated novel, movie, and having a globe-trotting…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18AMFriday, August 28, 2015
Wanna make a bet? The Fringe Festival’s deliciously ridiculous musical about the selection of a new Pope, Popesical, like the actual Pope’s upcoming visit, will attract big crowds. But i…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:44PMI just caught two new musicals about red-headed female scientists and their partners. One is in town for a brief stay in its world premiere in the Fringe Festival. One was never seen before …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:44PMIt’s rare to find a kids’ show that’s this good. Here are 2 that are new, written by Jamey Hood.
She scores with both, tho’ it’s her first time. And, in fact, non-distractingly, s…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:43PMFriday, July 31, 2015
A 2014 Off-Broadway musical called Fly by Night has key moments with its people seeking solace in the stars of the nighttime sky and being plunged into darkness because of a power failure. N…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:52AMSaturday, July 18, 2015
Summer means the annual summer musical theatre festival, and this summer, Summer Valley Fair is one of the highlights and a uniquely creative style and approach make it compelling. It’s p…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:40PMFellow outsiders, come inside PTC Performance Space and hug a buffalo who’s feeling low. For those of us who like musicals, the annual NYMF series of new ones for three weeks in July feels…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:40PMIn the swirling whirlwind of musical offerings busy invading Manhattan through July 27 comes that increasingly endangered species: the old-fashioned revue. A mix of songs and skits and bits …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:40PMFriday, July 17, 2015
Their roads to the Broadway season were long, but their runs were short. Here are two recently closed musicals whose action takes place in Europe, with scores written by major league songwri…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:35AMThursday, July 2, 2015
Musical theatre's Marin Mazzie does double duty in this spring's CD releases: serving in the title role of a long-gestating/morphing musical's premiere recording with Misia featuring melodie…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27AM 
