Today’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…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 04:16PMIt is time once again for the Minnesota Fringe Festival. This year’s festival features 169 shows, 19 venues and 11 days of some of the most creative and entertaining theatre you’…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 04:09PMSean MacLaughlin is traveling the country and living a dream as Argentinean President Juan Perón in EVITA. His credits include Raoul in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA on Broadway and US and Cana…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 12:09PMTwenty years ago the world was first introduced to Jonathan Larson’s rock opera RENT. Now a new generation of theatre fans are being introduced to RENT’s themes of love, family…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 12:38AMWhat do you get when you mix emo-rock music, the early 19th century and an egotistical President? Minneapolis Musical Theatre’s production of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON currently pla…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 01:10AMFor 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…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 10:34AMIt’s hard to create a musical out of an iconic movie, let alone one that has spawned several sequels and doesn’t fit the norm of a movie musical. Prior to seeing the show I was o…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 09:45PMThe national tour of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess is playing at the Ordway this week and one member of the cast, Sarita Rachelle Lilly has seen this production from its conception at …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 01:16PMSavage Umbrella is entering the closing weekend of their latest production, Rapture playing at Nimbus Theatre through Saturday. Tanner Curl both wrote and directs this show where in an insta…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 12:26PMIn the History Theatre’s latest production “The Things They Carried”, based on Tim O’Brien’s best selling book, recounts a young Minnesotan’s experiences…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 08:22PMThe latest production by Children’s Theatre Company, The Scarecrow and His Servant is a laugh-a-second show enjoyable for the whole family. Based on the children’s book of the sa…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 07:55PMChanhassen Dinner Theatres picked the perfect show to usher in spring in Disney’s “The Little Mermaid”, based on the widely popular 1989 Disney movie. Caroline Innerbichler is undeniab…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 02:39PMEveryone knows the tale of Cinderella. Whether it is the Disney or Rodgers & Hammerstein version. But, I am pretty sure you haven’t seen Cinderella the way the Children’s The…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 05:32PMBefore Andrew Loyld Webber’s The Wizard of Oz lands at the Ordway for a four-week run, I had the chance to interview Jacquelyn Piro Donovan who portrays the Wicked Witch of the West. A…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 04:29PMJennifer Tepper is a musical theatre historian, writer and producer. In September, she took the reigns as Director of Programing at Broadway’s hottest cabaret venue 54 Below. On the e…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 07:04PMWhat happens when the walls come down and our secrets are exposed? What happens when an innocent dinner party with friends takes a wrong turn? These questions and more are answered in the re…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 03:06PMAlfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Driving Miss Daisy” starts as an unwanted affiliation between a white widow and her black chauffeur in 1948 Atlanta, but evolves …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 12:59PMIt is a rare exception to find a show that accurately depicts the joys and sorrows of a relationship. The exception to this rule is The Last Five Years. Written and composed by Jason Robert …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 02:32PMIt has been three seasons since James A. Rocco, the Ordway’s VP of Programming and Producing Artistic Director first introduced the Broadway Songbook series. Part Broadway history lesson, …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 02:04PMBloomington Civic Theatre is currently staging what could easily be their biggest production to date, Les Miserables, and the production is outstanding. Karen Webber directs Les Miserables i…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 09:18AMFor six years after the end of World War II 60 women dressed in green suits criss-crossed the country in a fleet of matching white Chevrolets selling Hormel products Spam and Dinty Moore to …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 10:53AMLove triangles are always complicated. But the one in A Strange and Separate People is as complicated as they come. Making its Twin Cities premiere at Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company, Jon M…
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 10:25PMA lot can change in a year. Which is exactly what LOVE & MARRIAGE: WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES at the Illusion Theater showcases. Last fall as Minnesotans headed to the polls to vote …
SOURCE: Girl Meets Broadway at 06:25PMFamily. Love. Faith. Change. Tradition. Those are the themes running throughout FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Currently playing at Chanhassen Dinner Theatre, FIDDLER is one of the most beloved musica…
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