Wednesday, May 16, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, May 16, 2018 In the 1980s, the landscape for Broadway musicals was bleak. As the decade wore on, American musicals were fewer and fewer in numbe…
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By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, May 2, 2018 As anyone who’s been near New York City’s Lyric Theatre over the past few weeks can attest, Harry Potter has made his presence i…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 11:04AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, April 24, 2018 About a month ago, when I was in New York City to see the spectacular Broadway revival of Angels in America, I also took in a ve…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 11:32AMMonday, April 16, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, April 16, 2018 Each year, when I cover Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel in my musical-theater history course at the Boston Conservatory, we…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 12:11PMThursday, April 12, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, April 12, 2018 Lately, new Broadway musicals have been all about jukebox musicals and film adaptations. Both the current season and the next are…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 08:37AMMonday, April 9, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, April 9, 2018 After seeing the new stage version of Disney’s Frozen on Broadway, I posted on Facebook that I had found the show dull, disjoin…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 01:16PMTuesday, April 3, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, April 3, 2018 The current Broadway season is all about the revivals. The new plays have been middling at best, and the new musicals — apart fr…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 11:41AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, March 27, 2018 In 1989, the musical Grand Hotel held an out-of-town tryout in Boston before heading to Broadway. I saw that production, and can …
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 01:07PMMonday, March 26, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, March 26, 2018 This spring, Broadway will host two different — extremely different, by all accounts — stage productions that will require vi…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 01:26PMFriday, March 2, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, March 2, 2018 As I sat watching Jerry Springer – The Opera unfold, I was struck by how much the content of the show helps to explain how w…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 04:29PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, February 27, 2018 Nobody wrote overtures like Jule Styne. I was reminded of that a few weeks back, when the Encores! presentation Hey, Look Me O…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 11:49AMThursday, February 15, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, February 15, 2018 First, let’s all acknowledge a deep debt of gratitude to the venerable York Theatre and their commitment both to fostering n…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 03:41PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, February 13, 2018 As any musical-theater devotee can tell you, Encores! is the annual series of performances at New York City Center of historic…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 12:22PMTuesday, January 30, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, January 30, 2018 You might think that winning the Tony Award for Best Musical would guarantee a show some kind of theatrical afterlife. You migh…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 03:50PMFriday, December 29, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, December 29, 2017 For critics, the end of the year represents a time to look back on the shows they’ve covered. We fondly reminisce about the …
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 12:09PMMonday, November 20, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, November 20, 2017 Whatever happened to Brigadoon? Not the place, the musical. Yeah, the place supposedly comes back every 100 years, but it was …
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 01:54PMMonday, October 30, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, October 30, 2017 Rags is one of those heartbreaking musical flops that theater fans continually lament as they wistfully imagine what could have…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 03:31PMWednesday, October 11, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, October 11, 2017 They don’t write ‘em like this any more. For good reason. As any Baby Boomer knows, “The Honeymooners” was a short-live…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 12:14PMWednesday, August 16, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, August 16, 2017 One of the best places to see top-quality theater outside of New York City has got to be the Berkshires. From the Williamstown T…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 03:06PMMonday, August 14, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, August 14, 2017 As I stood in the lobby of the Westside Theatre, a diminutive women of a certain age came up to me and my theatergoing companion…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 01:55PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, August 9, 2017 If we’ve learned one thing this Broadway theater season, it’s that Jerry Herman’s music retains its crowd-pleasing appeal. …
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 09:16AMThursday, July 13, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, July 13, 2017 Broadway productions don’t come timelier than 1984. Or, at least, that’s what the creators are hoping you will think. And, to …
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 01:00PMTuesday, July 11, 2017
By Chris Caggiano, Contributing Writer, July 11, 2017 Here’s some good news if you can’t get a ticket to see Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly! — or if you couldn’t afford that ticket eve…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 09:23PMMonday, July 10, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, July 10, 2017 One of the best things about summer is the opportunity to get out of the city and take in some quality regional theater. Fortunate…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 10:14AMTuesday, June 20, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, June 20, 2017 There aren’t nearly enough women or African Americans writing musical theater. Not by a long shot. So when someone comes along w…
Linked From www.zealnyc.com at 04:00PMMonday, March 21, 2016
Hey, all. After eight years of blogging, I've moved up in the world and am now writing for About.com. You can check out my regular posts, reviews, and ramblings at theater.about.com. I won't…
Linked From Christopher Caggiano at 01:34PMMonday, December 22, 2014
Regular readers with note that most of my posts lately have been lists of links to my About.com posts. When I took on the About.com gig, I thought that I would be migrating some of my more e…
Linked From Christopher Caggiano at 06:49PMSaturday, November 29, 2014
So, the combination of yet another busy semester at The Boston Conservatory and my contract with About.com to supply them with two posts a week has meant that I haven't had any time to post …
Linked From Christopher Caggiano at 07:40PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
The fall theater season in New York is is full swing. I'll be publishing a series of reviews over the next few weeks, some of them here on the blog, and some of them over on About.com. Here'…
Linked From Christopher Caggiano at 02:42PMSunday, September 14, 2014
So, the new semester at The Boston Conservatory has officially begun. Now I get to see how well I'm going to be able to keep up with my posts on About.com, my reviews of the new Broadway and…
Linked From Christopher Caggiano at 02:53PMSunday, August 31, 2014
As I mentioned a while back, I picked up a new gig writing for About.com as the Musical and Theater Expert. I was hoping that the gig wouldn't interfere with my blogging, and so far that has…
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