Here's my third round of reviews, out of four, of shows from the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). Seeing so many shows in such a short time has been a really rewarding process,…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 11:27AMYou gotta admire the cojones on anyone who writes a musical called Atomic. I mean, theater critics and their editors can be mean enough with headlines even without such low-hanging fruit. OK…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 03:04PMHere's my second installment of reviews from this year's New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF). I continue to be impressed at the overall higher caliber of shows at this year's festival. …
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:34PMOne of my favorite theatrical experiences of this past season was seeing the lustrous Audra McDonald in the play Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, so much so that I went back a second tim…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 04:17PMAh, summer. Looks like it's time for a little NYMF-ing. Well, maybe more than a little. I mean, faced with the prospect of 24 new musicals, 9 concerts, 10 development readings, and numerous …
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 03:21PMHey, folks. Here are my latest posts for About.com. Lots of fun info here regarding what to see on Broadway this summer, which recent cast recordings to buy, whether you spell in "theater" o…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 03:07PMI was in the Berkshires over the July Fourth weekend, and had no intention of seeing any theater. Honestly. But I wound up taking in two shows, one of which was The Servant of Two Masters at…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 04:52PMHere's a roundup of my latest posts on About.com (theater.about.com). I'm supposed to post at least twice a week, which is a bit more frequent than I've been used to in my blogging, but so f…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 09:37PMI just got back from a three-show day in NYC. I hadn't planned on blogging about any of the shows -- I wanted to just sit back and enjoy on this trip -- but as I sat watching one of...
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 12:54PMI'm sure that some of you, like me, greeted the news of a prospective Tupac Shakur musical with at the very least a raised eyebrow. I think this is a vestige of our propensity of limiting ou…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:58PMI can't recall the last time I was so genuinely enchanted by the first act of a show, only to be so disenchanted by the final curtain. The new musical Fly By Night at Playwrights Horizons fe…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 06:10PMHere are my two most recent posts for About.com. One of them is about some A-list Hollywood types that will be playing on Broadway in the coming season (including Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenha…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 04:39PMSo, the Tonys are over, and another season has come and gone. I've caught up (mostly) on my reviews, but I wanted to alert y'all out there in EIKILFM land that I've picked up a companion wri…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:18PMOK, I admit it. I was skeptical when the Roundabout Theatre Company announced its plans to bring its acclaimed 1998 revival of Cabaret back to Studio 54. It seemed like a cynical attempt to …
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:04PMRegular readers will recall that I occasionally attend "straight" plays. (I prefer to call them "non-musicals.) My attendance at these belting-deprived affairs is usually cont…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 09:20AMWe can complain all we want about star casting, but the fact remains that it works. Not always, of course, as the producers of the recently canceled mega-tour of Jesus Christ Superstar disco…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 03:07PMWow. Just wow. I went into the Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch fully expecting to enjoy myself. What I didn't expect was that I would be so blown away, both by the power of the…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:23PMIf I had to sum up musical-theater history in just one word, that word would be "integration," which I define for my Boston Conservatory students as the extent to which a song or dance contr…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:31PMIf I were producing a musical version of the darkly comedic film "Heathers," there are two guys I would have turned to in a New York minute to write the show: Laurence O'Keefe (of Bat Boy an…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 11:30AMOK, grades are in. Let the catch-up begin. I saw quite a few shows this spring, both on Broadway and off, but so far have only had a chance to blog about a handful of them. Now that school i…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:49PMRegular visitors to this blog may have noticed that things have been slightly awry with this blog for the past few weeks. (Or, as my dear friend Esther might say, things have been slightly &…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:33PMI've seen a lot of boxing puns in the reviews of the new Broadway musical Rocky, based on the 1976 film of the same name. Rocky is a "contender," some contend. Others say Rocky "goes the dis…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 05:36PMI've seen a lot of boxing puns in the reviews of the new Broadway musical Rocky, based on the 1976 film of the same name. Rocky is a "contender," some contend. Others say Rocky &qu…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 05:36PMThe Walt Disney Company continues to comb its catalog for stage-musical candidates. You can hardly blame them: The Lion King has become a license to print money, Newsies is still going stron…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 01:21PMI somehow made it through the '90s, the '00s, and nearly half of the '10s without reading The Bridges of Madison County. Nor have I seen the 1995 film of the same name, despite an abiding pa…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 05:52PMHere are three things that I learned from seeing Beautiful: The Carol King Musical: 1. Jukebox musicals don't automatically have to be atrocious 2. Pandering to baby boomers isn't necessaril…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 06:59PMYou may have heard that the new musical Murder for Two, now playing at the New World Stages, announced today that the production is now selling tickets through July. Take it from me, that's …
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 03:12PMAs I pointed out in my recent post of The Best Musicals of 2013, it was a darned good year for musicals, but it was also a doozy for not-so-great musicals. Try as I might, I just couldn't ge…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 11:41PMHey, you know what? The year 2013 was a pretty good one for musicals. And I'm not even talking about the crowd-pleasers that seemed to please everyone in the crowd except me (Kinky Boots, He…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 07:50PMThe musical Working has always held a sort of fascination for me. Opportunities to see it staged live are somewhat rare, but it's one of those shows that, when I listen to the original cast …
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