Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is as much loved today as when the movie was originally released back in 1991. The tale of a bookish young woman, her inventor father Maurice, the town meathe…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 10:25PMBefore becoming the first African American appointed to the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for his…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 09:17PMGrab a raft and take a ride down the mighty Mississippi with Huck Finn and friends in the Children’s Theatre Company’s production of Huck Finn. Directed and adapted for the stage by Greg…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 12:57PMLong before it was a box office hit for Disney, Into the Woods was a fan favorite on Broadway. Not just a fan favorite, but an actor’s favorite too. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondhe…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 09:24PMThere comes a time when you realize you can’t please everyone. When you learn that people need to accept you for who you are. That is just one of the messages in La Cage Aux Folles pla…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 11:16PMEveryone longs to spend just five more minutes with a loved one who has passed on. But what if that loved one shows up just to cause havoc for you and your new love? This is exactly what hap…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 01:17PMThis Holiday season the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is home to the regional debut of A Christmas Story: The Musical. This beloved Christmas movie has been adapted for the stage by …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 09:09PMOver the last year, Lyric Arts has proven taking risks doesn’t scare them. These risks have included taking on their biggest production to date in Young Frankenstein. And staging produ…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 04:15PMThis Holiday season the beloved Dr. Seuss classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas is ushering in the season at the Children’s Theatre Company. Known for terrorizing the residents of Whovill…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 08:58PMAnd they all lived happily ever after. At least that’s what Disney and fairy tale books would lead you to believe. In Disenchanted! A New Musical Comedy That Gives Fairy Tales the Bird…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 10:56PMNext to Normal, which opened at Bloomington Civic Theatre on Friday, tackles a topic not regularly broached in musical theatre. The rock musical with a book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and mu…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 11:55PMJoe Iconis is a composer, lyricist and writer based in New York City. His work has been nominated for Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards and he is the recipient of both the Jonathan Larson…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 05:39PMThere is something very familiar about Nice Work If You Can Get It, which opened last night at the Ordway in Saint Paul, but unless you made the trip to New York to see the show during its y…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 06:22PMIts only fitting that Lyric Arts’, located in the “Halloween Capital of the World”, most ambitious show to date is Young Frankenstein. This campy, over-the-top musical com…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 01:12PMEveryone knows “Nobody puts Baby in a corner” and now more than 25 years after its theatrical release ‘Dirty Dancing’ is just as popular now as it was then. Possibly …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 01:19PMOne of the most diverse places is often an apartment building. People from all walks of life for some reason chose to make that building their home. The place they raise their families and c…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 05:50PMThere is something very familiar about Nice Work If You Can Get It opening next week at the Ordway in Saint Paul, but unless you were lucky enough to catch it during its Broadway run in New …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 04:21PMDo you remember when you were first bitten by the theatre bug? If you’re Jeffrey Hatcher you do. The place was Miss K.Smith’s fifth-grade class in Steubenville, Ohio. After beco…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 02:50PMMinneapolis Musical Theatre has built its reputation on producing off beat shows and Eating Raoul is no exception. Originally a low-budget-cult film from 1982 and written by Paul Bartel, the…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 02:57PMShakespeare wrote 37 plays, it would probably take you about 40 hours to read those; possibly longer if you stopped and took the time to comprehend what you’re reading. To see those p…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 05:35PMEver wonder what people do all day? Where the person in the car next to you is headed? How the citizens of your town spend their day? Well, wonder no more. Children’s Theatre Company k…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 07:48PMNestled in the corner of a strip mall is a theatre that has consistently upped its offerings season after season. Yellow Tree Theatre in Osseo opens its seventh season with one of their bes…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 09:36PMThere will always be something special about seeing a classic Broadway show; Hello Dolly at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres is no exception. The musical is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and h…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 02:49PMPark Square veterans Charity Jones and John Middleton portray Alice and Henry, a couple married for twenty-five years and looking to rekindle the romance in their relationship. Locked up in …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 11:55AMOnly a few plays have made the same impact on the American theatre landscape as Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. The play credited with propelling the then unknown playwright i…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 02:34PMIt was a dark and stormy night, always tends to be the setting for a good murder mystery. This is no exception in the case of “The Mystery of Irma Vep”, at The Jungle Theatre. …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 06:23PMIf you’re looking for an old-fashioned Broadway musical look no further than Bloomington Civic Theatre’s production of Guys and Dolls. Full of big production numbers and a Frank…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 03:20PMThis week, theatergoers at the Ordway are being transported to Buenos Aires with the help of the high polished cast of EVITA. The production played Minneapolis in February, and after nearly …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 11:30AMHistory meets the Minnesota Fringe Festival in “The Ohman Stone”. In 1898 the Kensington Runestone was found near Alexandria, Minnesota and its existence and origin have been the…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 02:03PMIn the third installment of my Minnesota Fringe Festival preview, I spoke with playwright Keith Hovis. His contribution to this year’s festival is Shakespeare Apocalypse. Its a comedy …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 03:39PMToday’s generation has grown up with our country at war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Two wars that have divided the country and raised questions on the true reasons behind these fig…
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