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 12:00AMWhen I was in college in the 1990s, my favorite course was The History of the American Musical Theatre. The stories, the evolution of the form, the music, the musicals themselves all playe…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMThe composing team of Kander and Ebb are typically first remembered as the creators of the edgy, flashy, razzle-dazzle music of such shows as Cabaret and Chicago. It would be wrong, how…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMWhen I sat down to write a “Top 15” list of Frank Loesser songs, the composer-lyricist behind such Broadway musical hits as Guys & Dolls, The Most Happy Fella, and How to Succeed…
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SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 03:12PMAs I typically do, I have made my pre-Tony Award predictions, my educated guesses as to who will win in each category. This is not particularly my forte, but I am going to do my best here.…
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SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 02:01PMThe 2005 Tony Awards represented a season where all four Best Musical nominees could have easily walked away with the Best Musical prize, each show offering something very different and sp…
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AM1961 was an interesting year in Tony history for a couple of reasons. First, it was a year where there were only three Best Musical nominees instead of four, and second because there were …
SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMWhen I was a teenager, I would pace back and forth waiting for the Tony nominations to come out each spring. I’d walk to the gas station on the corner and pick up a copy of The New York…
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SOURCE: www.markrobinsonwrites.com at 12:00AMThis week’s debate takes us back to 1973, a year were anything was likely to happen and where two musicals (out of four nominees) were really the chief contenders for Best Musical, and t…
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SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 05:18PM1966 was an interesting year in Tony Award history. Three of the four nominated Best Musicals, Man of La Mancha, Mame, and Sweet Charity, ultimately achieved iconic status and could hav…
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SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 05:03PMGoing into the 1992-1993 theatre Season, most theatergoers were anticipating the forthcoming musical The Goodbye Girl to be the big hit and Best Musical victor at the Tony Awards. By Jun…
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