Monday, September 16, 2019
Experience the best of Manhattan’s international cuisine
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 04:50PMThe composing team of Robert Wright and George Forrest were attracted to
taking the music of other composers and adapting it into scores for
musicals. They did this this with the musical o…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMSaturday, September 14, 2019
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber often gravitates toward writing musicals that
are both family friendly and that will ignite the curiosity of the kid in
us all. Joseph and the Amazing Technic…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMThursday, September 12, 2019
Check out the new stars of ‘Mean Girls,’ ‘Waitress’ and more
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 11:26AMWednesday, September 11, 2019
Autumn turns the city’s parks into an artist’s palette
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 04:12PMTuesday, September 10, 2019
An old school musical comedy that was not only a perfect star vehicle for
an over-the-top leading lady, but also a fine example of a lost art of
comedy filled with melody, romance, and pur…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMMonday, September 9, 2019
Get ready to laugh at these classic NYC comedy joints
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 03:58PMSaturday, September 7, 2019
Most musical theatre fans think of Hello, Dolly!, Mame, and La Cage aux
Folles when they hear the name Jerry Herman. For this beloved
composer-lyricist of the Great White Way, these wer…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMThursday, September 5, 2019
The musical western isn’t exactly a commonplace subgenre of the Broadway
musical. Only a handful of westerns have been crafted for the musical
stage, with varying results. The best known…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMWednesday, September 4, 2019
New musicals, star-studded plays and more
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 03:27PMMonday, September 2, 2019
It’s that time of year again, that three-day weekend celebration
commemorating the That unofficial end of summer and officially celebrates
hardworking labor in America. That’s right, i…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMSaturday, August 31, 2019
A musical that we rarely see anything written about, but one that has
always fascinated me as a concept is A Day In Hollywood/A Night in the
Ukraine. Each act of this clever, lighthearted…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMWednesday, August 28, 2019
Fall 2019 on Broadway will be full of family-friendly fare
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 12:47PMComposer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim, particularly when he was paired with
director Harold Prince, moved and shaped musical through bold experiments
that challenged audiences while unearthi…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMMonday, August 26, 2019
‘Hadestown’ and ‘Hercules’ are the latest musicals inspired by myths
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 05:52PMSunday, August 25, 2019
A musical that was plagued with troubles during its gestation, that seemed
to solve most of them before officially opening on Broadway, only to fold
after approximately five months, was th…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMThursday, August 22, 2019
Some musicals you just know are going to bomb from the moment they are
announced. It’s just clear that it is half-baked idea that is going to
struggle. Something just doesn’t feel righ…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMTuesday, August 20, 2019
Broadway showtunes rarely get the exposure that music from the world of pop
music enjoys. However, everyone once and a while someone with mass exposure
records a song from a Broadway music…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMSunday, August 18, 2019
Some musical are period pieces, written with the intention of telling a
story in another and place. Other musicals are written as contemporary
stories, starting out relevant and feeling ed…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMFriday, August 16, 2019
Long before there was a film called The Greatest Showman, Broadway had its
own musical version of the life of P.T. Barnum. This show, simply called
Barnum, featured a score with music by…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMWednesday, August 14, 2019
Lerner and Loewe certainly wrote some gorgeous music together for Broadway
and Hollywood musicals. From Brigadoon to My Fair Lady, from Gigi to
Camelot, the duo crafted lush, elegant m…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMMonday, August 12, 2019
Which amorous Disney show tune strikes your fancy?
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 04:30PMMovies have long been the inspiration for Broadway musicals. It is easy to
say that this is a recent trend, but that simply is not so. Just as there
have been many musicals that have taken…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMSaturday, August 10, 2019
The composing team of Kander and Ebb were often attracted to properties
that allowed them to tell a show-within-a-show story, often using the show
or entertainment style within to provide …
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMThursday, August 8, 2019
Summer is such a popular time for weddings, everyone betting the bank on
happiness and receiving gifts for trying. I’m not a fan of weddings and I
often find myself drifting into distrac…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMTuesday, August 6, 2019
These Broadway theaters are as spectacular as the shows they house
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 02:18PMA musical that seems to have those who remember it divided, with some
people having enjoyed it and others just absolutely disgusted by it, was
the 1997 Broadway production of The Life. Wi…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMMonday, August 5, 2019
The quintessential musicals helmed by the late, great director
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 01:57PMSunday, August 4, 2019
An eagerly anticipated musical of the 1984-1985 Broadway season was Grind,
set to be Harold Prince’s big project of the time, but ultimately part of a
sequence of lulls in what was an o…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMFriday, August 2, 2019
I don’t know why, but I have murder and mystery on the mind lately and it
got me thinking about Broadway musicals that have these two intriguing
elements central to their makeup. Though …
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 09:16AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
Helen Gallagher is an actress who came very close to being one of Broadway
musicals’ biggest stars, on a par with Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, or Gwen
Verdon. Always one of the standout su…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AM 
