Dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first original production of the musical Starlight Express The 40th anniversary of the West End production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Starl…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 04:02AMDedicated to the 25th anniversary of the musical Mozart! Contains fragments of the exclusive interviews with the creators of the show – Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay The premiere of…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:30PMEveryone knows Alan Menken – the composer, author of the famous animated films released by the Walt Disney Animation Studios – The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahont…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:50PMIn 1979 the very first French iconic rock opera – Starmania, created by Michel Berger (composer) and Luc Plamondon (librettist), premiered at the Paris Congress Centre / Le Palais des Cong…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:13PMEveryone knows that musical is a synthetic genre in which a story is being told by means of acting, singing, and dancing. One of the main specifics in training for a musical theatre perform…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:37AMDedicated to the 35th anniversary of the musical Miss Saigon, an exclusive interview with the composer Claude-Michel Schönberg. This year the West End production of the musical Miss Sa…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 12:49PMTim Rice became interested in the biography of Eva Perón – the wife of the famous dictator Juan Perón – in the early 70s of the past century. Most of the musical’s book, Tim wrote wh…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:45PMDedicated to the 70th anniversary of the first publication and production of Jean Genet’s unique play – The Maids. “I renounce the world that renounces me.” Jean Genet The original v…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:14AMLittle Shop of Horrors is a famous rock musical by Alan Menken, with the book and lyrics written by Howard Ashman, based on the horror comedy film directed by Roger Corman (1960) – and in …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 09:35AMUp to the present moment a debate has been going on – whether the demon-barber of Fleet Street had a real-life prototype. For the very first time, a character under the name of Sweeney Tod…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:55PMIt has become a beautiful annual tradition: welcoming the musical Notre Dame de Paris at New York City’s Lincoln Center in July. Daniel Lavoie, who originated the part of Frollo in the mus…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:39AMDedicated to the 80th anniversary of the very first publication of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s fairy tale “The Little Prince” and the 20th anniversary of the musical of the same name.�…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:10AMDedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first publication of the play by Jean Poiret La Cage Aux Folles and the 30th anniversary of the musical of the same name. This essay includes parts…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:47PMАn Exclusive Interview with James Paterson who was part of the original cast of the legendary musical The Phantom of the Opera, later on, the resident director at Her Majesty’s Theatre on…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:34AMDedicated to the 35th anniversary of the Broadway musical “The Phantom of the Opera.” It is known that the construction of the Grand Opera or the Palais Garnier in Paris inspired Gaston …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 10:38AMThe Italian American gangster – Al Capone (Alphonse Gabriel Capone), who reigned as a crime boss in 1920-1930s during the Prohibition Era in Chicago – even one hundred years later, his p…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:22PMThe previews of &Juliet the musical, began October 28th 2022 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on Broadway. &Juliet is originally coming to us from the West End, where it premiered in …
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 07:20AMDedicated to the 125th anniversary of the legendary hero of the famous gothic novel “Dracula”, written by Bram Stoker who this year turns 175! One hundred and twenty-five years ago the I…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 02:51AMThis year is the 125th Anniversary of the famous gothic novel written by the Irish writer Bram Stoker – Dracula. 125 years have passed since the book was first published in 1897 by Archiba…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 01:11PMInterview of the “original” Gringoire from Notre Dame de Paris the musical – Bruno Pelletier with Lisa Monde, August 5th 2022 This past August Bruno Pelletier – the “Golden voice…
SOURCE: thetheatretimes.com at 05:14PMAt the turn of the century, in 1998, Luc Plamondon created one of the greatest musicals Notre Dame de Paris, the music written by Richard Cocciante. The musical, based on the eponymous novel…
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