Sunday, May 12, 2013
Broadway these days is specializing in famous people played by even more famous people: Tom Hanks as the tabloid columnist Mike McAlary, Bette Midler as super-agent Sue Mengers and Holland T…
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Life and showbiz got uncomfortably close in “Bunty Berman Presents . . .,” a likable but overlong new musical set in the demented world of Bollywood movies.
As it happened, Erick Avari, …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:17PMAccording to current conventional wisdom, 1936’s “On Your Toes” could never cut it again on Broadway. After all, it features a goofy fun plot, songs by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart,…
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There’s no right or wrong way to approach “Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance).” Since the late 1960s, Richard Foreman has been creating cryptic, bizarre shows that can be compa…
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It’s not fun being the newbie at a party where the other guests already know each other. You watch them chat about their jobs, laugh at old anecdotes, exchange updates about relationships …
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Drag queens and female impersonators have always had a place in theater. Just look at this year’s Tonys, where several Best Actor nominees — Billy Porter in “Kinky Boots,” Bertie Car…
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In Mike Bartlett’s off-Broadway hit “Cock” — alternatively titled, for weaker hearts and newspapers, “The Cockfighting Play” — a man couldn’t make up his mind between his boy…
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The Transport Group has had great success matching shows with unusual settings — placing the basketball musical “Lysistrata Jones” in an actual gym, letting the gay-male bitch-a-thon �…
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Talk about going out with a bang! Broadway’s ending its season with a sensational revival of “Pippin” — a thrilling piece of eye-popping razzle dazzle filled with daredevil acrobatic…
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For her first Broadway appearance since “Clams on the Half Shell” 38 years ago, Bette Midler split the difference between playing it safe and taking a risk.
Instead of trotting out her h…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PMDavid Byrne and big-beat master Fatboy Slim’s new musical, “Here Lies Love,” owes less to the Great American Songbook than to the disco. With their booming bass and propulsive rhythms,…
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The narrator in Broadway’s “The Testament of Mary” didn’t have the easiest relationship with her late son — she can’t even bring herself to call him by his name.
He tended to ig…
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A word of warning before you sit down for this latest version of “Macbeth” on Broadway: read or reread Shakespeare’s tragedy, or at least the playbill’s synopsis. Because if you’re…
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The climax of “Jekyll & Hyde — The Musical” is the infamous “Confrontation” scene, the peak of the evening-long battle between good Dr. Henry Jekyll and evil Edward Hyde.
The tric…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:10PMConsidering its agitated gestation, it’s amazing how smooth “Orphans” is. During rehearsals, actor Shia LaBeouf had well-publicized — by himself — arguments with co-star Alec Baldw…
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The downtown actress Hannah Cabell is a whiz at physical comedy, especially when it’s driven by manic desperation. This comes in handy in Allison Moore’s new play, “Collapse,” in whi…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:45PMIf you’re a glass-half-full kind of person, you may see Richard Greenberg’s “The Assembled Parties” as warmly catering to the Manhattan Theatre Club’s audience.
If your glass is h…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:02PMClifford Odets’ “The Big Knife” is about disillusion and compromise, but it’s not a pity party. Fueled by Odets’ loathing for Hollywood, this hard-boiled 1949 play packs a wallop.
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If your public personality is the same as your personal one, you can safely be yourself, right?
Not so for Nathan Lane’s character in Broadway’s “The Nance.”
His Chauncey Miles, a bu…
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The premise of “The Call” is ripped from the headlines — or rather from the parenting chat rooms where some white middle-class couples share their thoughts about adopting kids from Afr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PMHere’s what a $150 orchestra seat gets you at “Motown: The Musical”: bargain-basement sets, basic choreography performed merely adequately, and laughable dialogue.
But then there are t…
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‘Sleeping Rough” has just three characters, but none of them makes much of an impression. By the end of the show, the first thing that comes to mind is, “Bye. It was dull not knowing y…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:40PMOnce in a blue moon, a show comes out blazing and restores your faith in Broadway. “Matilda The Musical” is that show.
“Matilda” landed at the Shubert Theatre with daunting advance w…
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This season, chimps are champs. In the recent dark comedy “Trevor,” a chimpanzee dreams of making it as an actor, while in David Ives’ newly revived “All in the Timing,” three prim…
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In David Harrower’s intense 2007 drama “Blackbird,” Alison Pill played a grown woman seeking out the man (Jeff Daniels) she slept with back when she was 12 to his 40.The past also catc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:29AMWhen shows are inspired by stars, they tend to be either fawning tributes or studies in self-destruction. With Judy Garland alone, just think of Rufus Wainwright’s enamored cover of her Ca…
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If you judge a show’s popularity by how many productions it’s had, then “The Last Five Years” is a “Wicked”-size blockbuster.
In the 11 years since its brief off-Broadway run, t…
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Nora Ephron’s “Lucky Guy” is a eulogy. A really fun, really entertaining eulogy.
You may have heard that Tom Hanks, making his Broadway debut, is the star of the show — and he is, h…
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Fittingly for a show about art, “Three Trees” has the speed and intensity of drying paint.
Alvin Eng’s new play centers on the intense bond between the painter/sculptor Alberto Giacom…
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When August Strindberg wrote “A Dream Play,” in 1901, he was mentally shaky, having just emerged from a bout of paranoid psychosis. This may explain why the plotless work is a lot more f…
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