Brinkhoff/MoegenburgHave you ever seen Change of Habit (1969), the last movie Elvis Presley had a starring role in? Presley plays a doctor who works at a clinic. . . "In the Ghetto". Mary Ty…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:32AMSara KrulwichYou Can't Take It With You, currently running in star-studded revival at the Longacre, has been reviewed twice already on this blog. Wendy really enjoyed it (you can read her re…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:46PMWaiting for Godot is one of those masterpieces of modern drama that everyone has read or seen or, at the very least, picked up the basics of through cultural absorption. (If you have manag…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:44PMParade (book by Alfred Uhry, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown) is a musical about the 1913 Leo Frank case, which culminates in his lynching in 1915. A lot of people find entertainments…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:19PMPhoto: Me.Bread and Puppet Theater, a politically radical puppet theater troupe, has been around since the early 1960s. In its first years, it was based in New York City, where, presumably, …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:20PMJoan MarcusIt's one thing to enter the canon; it's another to do so while simultaneously bucking just about everything the canon dictates in the first place.I've been thinking a lot about Ca…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:06PMPhoto: Yoshi KametaniThe original production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which ran Off Broadway at the Jane Street Theater from February 1998 to April 2000, was a show I followed more clos…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:45PMWhen one monstrously talented person impersonates another monstrously talented person, the desire to resort to cliches doubles in intensity. And since seeing Audra McDonald in Lady Day at Em…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:25PMThe Tony Awards are always my favorite awards ceremony, but this year they really pissed me off. And while I am the first to argue that the Tonys are never an accurate barometer of the broad…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:18AMOh, my heart is filled with joy!This year, more than perhaps any other, the race is wide open, just about every Tony award is up for grabs, and no one knows what the hell is going on. …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:23PMWhen it opened in November, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder got some of the best reviews of the season. Which is especially nice because it is a small, old-fashioned musical with no s…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:57AMNo, motherfuckers, I'm not kidding. A show's a show, and I saw this one, so I'm writing it up.A little background before I explain why I just called you a motherfucker: I've never self-ident…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:48PMFew people look directly at Violet (Sutton Foster), and those who do tend to react in unsettling, unsubtle ways. Badly scarred as a child by an axehead that flew off its handle, Violet has g…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:23PMIt's that time of year again. No, not quite time for the Tony Awards ceremony itself--that won't be broadcast until Sunday, June 8th. Rather, it's the time of year where everyone celebrates …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:23PMHi, all:It's mid/late semester for me, which is why I've been largely absent from this blog of late. But I've missed you all dearly, and I promise to be back in full force in late spring and…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:36AMIf/Then, an original musical by the Next to Normal writer/composer team of Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt, has a great deal going for it: a dynamite cast headed up by the bona-fide Broadway star …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:00AMGood people, have you seen this? Because if you haven't, you must. Go. Go now. Watch. It's as good and as brilliant and as effective as this--if not more so.You're welcome.
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