It’s been awhile since I last posted on Girl Meets Broadway. Almost two years to be exact. The reason is simple…life and my full-time job got in the way. I may have lost myself a…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 01:40PMThis weekend the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is presenting a special presentation of the Off-Broadway hit comedy Sex Tips for Straight Women from a Gay Man. In this show, no topic…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 01:34PMIn the Jungle Theater’s latest offering, Bars and Measures, two brothers find themselves on the opposite side of music world and the law. Bilal (Ansa Akyea) loves listening to, playing and…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 05:43PMThe Ordway Center for the Performing Arts kicked off their 31st season on Wednesday, with the opening of Lerner & Lowe’s Paint Your Wagon. The musical about leaving your life behind to…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 03:10PMAmerica has always been a melting pot. A country not only founded by people who left their homeland in search of a better life, but also a place where people continue to flock to for the sam…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 01:36PMIn August, the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is staging Lerner & Loewe’s Paint Your Wagon. The production is being done in collaboration with Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre and…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 06:10PMWhen the murder weapon is a silk pillowcase and candlestick, you would think the murders took place during a game of Clue. Unfortunately, these murders are real and have been the fascination…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 12:15PMOn July 8, 1997, Disney’s The Lion King debuted as a stage musical at Minneapolis’ Orpheum Theatre before bowing on Broadway. Now, the musical is Broadway’s third longest-running show …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 02:26PMThere is something refreshing about a play which celebrates the friendships between women. Calendar Girls is a delightful comedy and a perfect girls’ night date. Based on the 2003 B…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 11:20AMSam Phillips may be a name you’re not familiar with. But in his tiny converted garage studio in Memphis, he launched the careers of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, C arl Perki…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 05:27PMThere are only so many ways you can tell a boy meets girl story. Thankfully, we have Le S witch. A timely new rom-com play making its world premiere at the Jungle Theater. Le Switch is the b…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 04:20PMIn 2011, The Book of Mormon took Broadway by storm with what could easily be described as one of the most controversial musicals at the time. Which is no surprise since the show is written b…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 10:47PMA little over two years ago I was at the Broadway opening night for Bullets Over Broadway. Despite the glitz and glamour of the night, not to mention checking attending a Broadway opening ni…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 10:49PMAustralian native Jemma Jane is criss-crossing the United States as Olive Neal in the Broadway adaptation of Woody Allen’s movie Bullets Over Broadway, opening tonight at the Ordway Ce…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 05:12PMIn an upside down kingdom, an ogre named Shrek (Martino Gabriel-Mayotte) is hired to rescue the spirited Princess Fiona (Anna Larranaga) and bring her to DuLoc to marry Lord Farquaad (Kyler …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 10:06PMAfter a Tony Awards®-nominated performance on Broadway, Mary Bridget Davies brings her incarnation of Janis Joplin to the Ordway in Saint Paul. If you’re expecting a traditional Broadway …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 09:45PMMary Bridget Davies brings her Tony Award®-nominated performance of Janis Joplin to St Paul in A Night with Janis Joplin, March 29 – April 3. Before she takes the Ordway stage, Mary sat d…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 12:29AMDisney’s Beauty and the Beast is loved as much today as it was 25 years ago; when the movie was originally released. Today, girls who grew up wanting to be Belle are introducing the…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 10:56PMIt has been 40 years since A Chorus Line originally took audiences inside the audition for a Broadway musical. A lot has changed in musical theater over the years; Broadway has grown immense…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 10:24PMWhen you’re trying to make it on Broadway, your dream becomes an obsession. Dance, voice and acting classes, auditions and workshops consume your days. In the Ordway’s production…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 11:41PMOn October 2, 2006 gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV, the local milkman, entered the one-room school house in the Amish community of West Nickel Mines, PA ordering the teacher and boys to leave…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 05:54PMLast weekend I attended the first ever BroadwayCon presented by Playbill in NYC. Although Winter Storm Jonas did put a damper on some of the events, overall the weekend was a success. Don…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 01:19PMWe are already almost halfway through January 2016, so why not relive some of my Twin Cities theatre favorites from 2015? It was hard to pick complete favorites. The community is full of so …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 12:20AMFor Lyric Arts’ newest production a modestly designed stage of bleachers, a table, a microphone and a piano greet the audience. You would think you stumbled into the rehearsal of a show an…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 08:20PMWhat happens when a man discovers he’s the distant heir to a family fortune and the title of Earl? Well, in the case of Monty Navarro you start eliminating the eight people standing betwee…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 10:46PMWriting an original musical is hard. Writing one with a powerful and relevant story is even harder. But Grant Sorenson and David Darrow have created one of the best new works I’ve seen in …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 06:36PMOver the years, Wendy Lehr has made numerous and significant contributions to the Twin Cities theatre community. Not only has she acted, directed and danced on stages throughout the area, bu…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 03:55PMFor 41 years, thousands have made the Guthrie Theater’s annual production of A Christmas Carol part of their holiday traditions. The classic Dickens’ tale of redemption is the p…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 01:17AMIf you’re looking for a fast paced show with countless opportunities for laughs, look no further than The Cocoanuts at the Guthrie Theater. This Marx Brothers’ comedy musical from 19…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 11:55PMFor years Broadway has turned to the jukebox musical to fill theaters. Most full of stories that include down on their luck artists and groups who manage to defy all odds and become one of t…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 01:05PMLast Saturday, I attended my first opera MN Opera’s production of The Magic Flute. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was envisioning the stereotypical opera with women in big be…
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