Tuesday, August 8, 2017
The first thing I thought about when I heard that Barbara Cook had died was her appearance at the 34th Kennedy Center Honors. To be fair, I think about (and listen to) that Barbara Cook trib…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:41PMThursday, June 15, 2017
Rachel Bay Jones and Gavin Creel picked up Featured Performer Tony Awards last Sunday for their supporting work in Dear Evan Hansen (Best Musical winner) and Hello, Dolly! (Best Musical Revi…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:49PMFriday, June 10, 2016
“Thank you, madam. Please call again. Do call again, madam,” is the rejoinder the staff at Maraczek’s Parfumerie sings each time a customer exits the shop. The line charmingly, simply,…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:06AMTuesday, May 24, 2016
In 1996 Jose Llana performed one of the most beautiful renditions of “We Kissed in a Shadown” on the revival of The King and I. It was his Broadway debut. In 2015 he returned to the show…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:26PMFriday, March 18, 2016
The 2015-2016 theatre season saw us witnessing the fifth Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. This means it is now proceeded by Show Boat, The Threepenny Opera and Porgy & Bess as th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:00AMThursday, February 25, 2016
The latest Stephen Sondheim compilation album immediately courts scrutiny when it announces itself as The Essential Stephen Sondheim. For, as even the most cursory of musical theatre fans kn…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:43PMTuesday, February 16, 2016
Polished. That’s the first word that comes to mind when I think of the New Broadway Recording of The Color Purple, which opened in theatres a few weeks ago. This revival holds an interesti…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:18PMMonday, October 26, 2015
The 1970 Tony Award season was a real curio for the musicals in good ways and bad ways. It was a year of limited options: there were only three musicals nominated for Best Musical – the sa…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:31PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
Doctor Zhivago had the inauspicious title of being the first show to close on Broadway when the Tony nominations were announced in May. It had received no nominations and after poor notices,…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:52PMFriday, July 24, 2015
In May 1965 the first Kander and Ebb musical premiered on Broadway. Flora the Red Menace, despite a lovely score, was not too long for the Great White Way. It scored a Tony for Liza Minnelli…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:15PMThursday, July 9, 2015
The storied journey of The Visit to Broadway has been recounted many times, in 2015, fourteen years after its first planned tryout, The Visit finally made it to Broadway. It was a short tw…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:18PMThursday, June 25, 2015
From the opening of the New Broadway Cast Recording of On the Twentieth Century it’s clear to lovers of the show that they have little to worry about. Among many things On the Twentiet…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:22PMIn the face of multiple two person theatre shows I’ll admit a bit of a penchant for the mid nineties John & Jen, for no reason other than my own sibling relationships making me thrille…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:38PMThursday, June 11, 2015
It’s been a few days since the Tony Awards. From where I sit, it was a generally impressive show with a historic slate of winners. Before we turn over to the new Broadway seasons I wan…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:50PMTuesday, June 2, 2015
What makes for a good musical comedy score? I feel like too often musical comedies work on a funny book and lyrics, and miss the possibility of using musical arrangement to augment humour. S…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00AMThursday, May 28, 2015
With a cast of six and a small orchestra, Tokio Confidential probably never intends to be more than a simple chamber musical; albeit, a chamber musical with a dense plot. The musical premier…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:00AMTuesday, May 19, 2015
Marin Mazzie fans are fortunate that Broadway’s wonderful soprano has finally released a solo album after more than two decades of charming us on the stage. Following in the line of previo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:36PMMonday, March 9, 2015
Bill Condon, the director of the recent revival of Side Show, understands the purpose of cast recordings for theatre fans. In the digital booklet which comes with the recording (released Feb…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:00AMSunday, March 8, 2015
In 1978 Lea Salonga made her stage debut in a Philippines Repertory production of The King & I at age seven. 1989 she made her London debut as Kim in Miss Saigon winning an Olivier Award…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:17PMThursday, February 12, 2015
The newly released soundtrack for the film adaptation of The Last Five Years is an important album. Important for me because the Original Cast Recording of the musical on which it is based w…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:52PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
Can you love a revival just from the casting announcement of the leading lady? The news that Roundabout Theatre Company is producing a revival of She Loves Me in the Spring of 2016 as part o…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 10:00AMTuesday, January 20, 2015
One of the annual Broadway traditions will have its 2015 run when Broadway Unplugged happens on January 26, at The Town Hall. The yearly show is a great chance to hear Broadway stars show of…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:00PMTuesday, December 30, 2014
Next to actually seeing shows, the memories that come with a great cast recording are the next best thing. We were fortunate to have some excellent recordings of new scores, jukebox musicals…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:12AMTuesday, December 23, 2014
We want to wish you a Merry Christmas with the help of musical theatre. For such a popular holiday there are unusually few Christmas songs in the musical theatre canon. Of the sixteen, or th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:42PMMonday, November 24, 2014
A few weeks ago we took a listen of the audio commentary for The Bridges of Madison County and now we give a listen to the Beautiful cast recording with Jessie Mueller. The Beautiful cast re…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:58PMWednesday, October 29, 2014
Ghostlight Records, has released commentary for the Tony winning score of The Bridges of Madison County with composer Jason Robert Brown and star Kelli O’Hara adding commentary to each…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 07:00AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
It doesn’t begin previews until next February but we’re already counting down the days until the On The Twentieth Century revival makes it way to Broadway (its first revival since its 19…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:07PMTuesday, August 5, 2014
Ted Shen, the librettist, lyricist and composer of A Second Chance which had its world premiere in 2011 is a notable theatre enthusiast who left his job on Wall Street in the late nineties t…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:11PMThursday, July 24, 2014
Today, Tony and Emmy winner Kristin Chenoweth celebrates her 46th birthday. The 4’11 songstress is easily one of the most easily identifiable stars of the Broadway stage both for her heigh…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:38PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
Openings are always important. You’ve got the audience in the seat, now how to make them excited about staying there? It seems like every other week someone will mention that contempor…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:38PMFriday, July 4, 2014
Happy Fourth of July! There’s nothing more American than a good stage musical. Literature, books, music but no other art-form is as ensconced in American tradition as the stage musical. It…
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