Everyone who loves theater owes a debt of gratitude to Julie Boardman and Diane Nicoletti. About five years ago, they got the idea of creating a museum in the theater district, dedicated t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:25PMThe new production of "The Sound of Music" at New Jersey’s Paper Mill Playhouse is such an utter delight, you shouldn’t be wasting time reading this review, you should be ordering tick…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:18PMBoy! This is going to be a tough review to write. The York Theatre Company, which has such a strong track record when it comes to honoring important songwriters, is currently presenting a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:12AMClary scored a great success on Broadway in "Leonard Sillman’s New Faces of 1952." My father, who enjoyed that show, recalled Eartha Kitt and Robert Clary as the standouts in the cast of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:47PMHe saw seemingly everything, and championed plays and productions he found meaningful, even if they were at the smallest of theaters. He chose what he wished to cover, and would sometimes …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:26PMI think this is great news. I’m happy the show will finally be getting a full theatrical production in New York. I saw the original festival-production tryout of "Without You" about a do…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:58PMHe had his first album out by age nine, the same year he began opening for the Backstreet Boys. (His older brother, Nick Carter, was of course one of the Backstreet Boys.) And he enjoyed a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:00AMJay Rogers, who's lost his battle with cancer, was a wonderfully impish cabaret star, with impeccable comic timing. Totally likeable fellow, on stage and off stage. I was so happy to be able…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:58PMIn October, he opened in an autobiographical Off-Broadway play that he wrote, 'Everything's Fine"—a good-natured remembrance of his youth, and of a school teacher who fell for him. He pe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:38PMI’ve often told friends what an impact "Funny Girl" had on me. That was the show that made me fall completely, utterly, and permanently in love with Broadway. I was a teenager when I saw…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58PMHe won a Tony Award starring in the Broadway masterwork "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." And fortunately his performance was captured well in the film adaptation of that…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:36PMThis production was an ensemble success—which is what Jonathan Larson was hoping to achieve—so I’d like to mention every member of the company. Not just the leads, whom I very much…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:08AMIn the past 20 years, I’ve produced a total of 34 different albums; 16 of them have dealt with Irving Berlin (1888-1989). The newest album in this ongoing Berlin series, "Chip Deffaa’s …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:02PMI want to be clear. "The Music Man" is such a masterfully written musical that making some changes here and there can’t really ruin it; but changes are not needed in this show and they c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:59PMDe Niro’s goal is to lure more film and television production from Hollywood to New York, and that can only be a plus for New York-based actors. A brand new studio, created for the needs o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:08PMThe show's pre-Broadway, out-of-town tryout was very successful financially, suggesting that there's an audience for the show. (The show broke box-office records in Seattle, during its tryou…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:22PMSo how is Broadway doing right now, in terms of ticket sales and attendance? Not bad at all, all things considered.... There are currently 24 shows running on Broadway. Last week, over…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:27AMGeorge Wein, who died peacefully at his New York apartment at the age of 95, was the founder of the modern music festival. His contributions to pop culture were enormous. I liked him v…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:06PMDon long worked as a publicist for one singer he greatly admired; when age and ill health prevented her from working much anymore and her finances grew precarious, she told him she could no …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33AMGianni Valenti, who runs one of the city’s best-known and most important nightspots, Birdland Jazz Club on 44th Street, deserves a lot of credit for leading the way. He was one of the fi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:15PMMore than 30 Broadway productions are expected to open or re-open before year's end. Producers are gambling that by the fall, audiences will be ready to return. I'll list below the shows and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56AMThere were few women in positions of authority when she started in theater. But as she once told me, “If I wanted to do something, I just went ahead and did it.” She blazed a trail f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:57PMRather than sit around and mope, Flynn wrote “Good Morning, Quarantine”—setting his own new lyrics to the familiar melody of “Good Morning, Baltimore,” composed by Marc Shaiman (wi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:01PMWill people--especially people who are older or have pre-existing health issues (and many theatergoers are older and have such heath issues)--be willing to gather in packed theaters or conce…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:30PMI'm very glad that a friend and I were able to enjoy the high-spirited, fast-moving revue "Five Guys Named Moe," which is currently playing at Westchester Broadway Theatre. A lot o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:19PMThe festival has given birth to musicals that have gone on to Broadway ("Next to Normal," "Chaplin," "[title of show]," "In Transit") and Off-Broadway ("Altar Boyz," "The Other Josh Cohen,"…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:00PMComposer/lyricist Jerry Herman was, of course, a Broadway legend. He gave us such unforgettable shows as "Hello, Dolly!," "Mame," and "La Cage Aux Folles." These musicals were all huge…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:08PMDavid Cassidy’s autobiography “C’Mon Get Happy”–which I ghost-wrote for him at his request–has now come out as a Kindle E-book, with a brand new afterword by me. (It’s availabl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:53PMChasing Rainbows has an exceptionally appealing cast. This is one of those rare productions where even the smallest roles are vivid. The show itself is not perfect. There are fixes that ne…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:49AMI'm stunned and saddened by the passing of one of the best music directors I've known--and one of the nicest gentlemen-- Hubert Tex Arnold. He died suddenly, unexpectedly of a brain aneurism…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:18AMWestchester Broadway's Ain't Misbehavin'--the 208th offering at this venerable dinner theater--is indeed in good hands. For starters, it is directed by none other than Richard Maltby Jr., w…
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