The people sitting next to me went to the wrong show. They were sweet—two friends from Philadelphia and their tweenage daughters, and they meant to get tickets to How to Succeed…. Th…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 05:00PMBlah blah blah… Aaron Tveit… blah blah… new show… Catch Me If You Can… blah blah blah… Frank Abagnale, Jr…. blah blah… opens on Sunday… …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 05:23PMThe Mick In the top drawer of my bureau, buried at the back amidst tangles of bracelets and enormous earrings I rarely get to wear, there is a napkin. It’s folded into the tiniest square p…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:58PMWho doesn’t love seeing Broadway actors in movies? There’s always a curious sense of satisfaction that comes along with it, like we’ve seen our children go on to do amazing…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:26PMSo, there’s something I don’t get about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera sequel, Love Never Dies. OK, there are lots of things I don’t get about Love Never …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 11:39PMSomething that we didn’t expect to be talking about today: The 1992 revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. It seems that lots of other folks are talking about it,…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 04:55PMAnd then God created Gavin Creel. And his solar plexus. That should probably be the tagline of Prometheus Bound at A.R.T., because you will see so much of both if you happen to catch Diane P…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:38PMShows have done a lot of nutty things over the years to show an audience that their $127 is well spent. Priscilla‘s thing is sequins. And feathers. And glitter. Splashed across the sta…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 02:33PMIt’s Friday, baby! New shows are opening! It’s spring, which means that we can feel our hands again! It’s Sutton Foster’s birthday! Reasons for celebration, all. This…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 01:03PMSo, we like new musical theater a lot. And we spend a lot of time seeking out new musicals and composers, partly because it’s fun, and partly because we like to be first to the party i…
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:12AMFrom punk to Jeff Buckley to Billy Joel, just about anything counts as a showtune these days. Priscilla Queen of the Desert, which opens at the Palace Theatre on Sunday, features a playlist …
SOURCE: The Craptacular at 10:27AMTony Vincent made a splash in 2010, originating the role of the sinister-yet-seductive St. Jimmy in American Idiot. But long before that, he was a chart-topping solo artist . We recently cha…
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