Sunday, October 27, 2019
Original London Cast, 2019 (Ghostlight) When experienced live in the theater, a “bio-musical” — like any other show — may be judged on several levels, including the production values…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:32PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2019 (Universal Music) There’s always a sense of déjà vu when a jukebox musical opens on Broadway, as most people walk in humming the tunes. If Ain’t Too Prou…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:05PMMonday, September 2, 2019
Original Broadway Cast, 2017 (Ghostlight) Stranded in an Israeli desert town by mistake, an Egyptian band stays overnight with the locals before heading on to their engagement. Composer-lyri…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:57PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2019 (Decca Broadway) Librettist Robert Horn and composer/lyricist David Yazbek made some wise moves in translating the popular 1982 comedy film Tootsie into a stage …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:09PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 2018 (Masterworks Broadway) People have adapted Shakespeare’s plays into musicals before, usually taking on the Bard’s hits. Librettist/lyricist Peter Kellogg…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:46PMSaturday, August 17, 2019
Original Broadway Cast, 2019 (Ghostlight) How far will a musical go to give you a good time? In the case of Beetlejuice, all the way to the Netherworld and back. Based on Tim Burton’s cult…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:52PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2018 (Atlantic) Mean Girls has been a major staple in pop culture ever since the film was released in 2004. With instantly quotable dialogue and numerous iconic mom…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:11PMTuesday, July 23, 2019
Original Broadway Cast, 2019 (Broadway Records) The Prom might be described as an old-fashioned musical comedy with a modern sound and up-to-the minute subject matter and plot, about a bu…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:01PMSunday, August 26, 2018
It's interesting to debate just where Lillian Hellman's reputation as a playwright stands as compared to her contemporaries in terms of quality, prolificity, and also revivability.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:58PMThursday, June 21, 2018
Sex, politics, and sex in politics have been rich subjects for theatrical treatment pretty much since day one, and will no doubt continue to be
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:56PMFriday, February 9, 2018
Original Broadway Cast, 2015 (Warner Bros.) Andrew Lloyd Webber found his greatest commercial success in the era of the British pop-opera blockbusters, so it’s easy to forget that he fir…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:27PMThursday, January 18, 2018
The year 1912 was a bad one for certain trans-Atlantic ship passengers—and, based on what happens in the first scene of Stanley Houghton's 1912 play Hindle Wakes, currently on view in a ra…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:04PMWednesday, December 13, 2017
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2017 (Broadway Records) Kid Victory premiered at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA in 2015, and played a limited run Off Broadway at the Vineyard in 2017. …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:49AMThursday, November 9, 2017
It's demonstrably true that people who think they're supposed to hate each other due to cultural, racial, religious, ideological, and other differences amplified by tribalism can actually li…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:14PMWednesday, November 1, 2017
Original Broadway Cast, 2017 (Ghostlight) Based on the real-life rivalry between cosmetics titans Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden, with a score by Grey Gardens team Michael Korie and S…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:01AMThursday, October 26, 2017
Director Julie Taymor has stated that a Chinese puzzle box was the metaphor that came to her mind as the jumping-off point for her new Broadway production of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:07PMMonday, September 25, 2017
Original Broadway Cast, 2017 (Hollywood Records) One wants to applaud In Transit, Broadway’s first a cappella musical, about the semi-connected lives of a small group of New Yorkers played…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 07:03PMSaturday, September 23, 2017
Original Broadway Cast, 2017 (Rhino Warner Classics) The 2001 Jean-Pierre Jeunet film Amélie caused a major resurgence in American audiences’ interest in French cinema and at least briefl…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:50AMThursday, September 21, 2017
Original Off-Broadway Cast (PS Classics, 2011) Bernard Shaw’s plays do not easily adapt into musicals; My Fair Lady took Lerner and Loewe two tries, and only worked when they opened up the…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:05PMThursday, September 14, 2017
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2017 (Broadway Records) A tragic true-life story inspired this musical about The UpStairs Lounge, a popular gay bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans that was …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:05PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2017 (Broadway Records) In Bandstand, composer Richard Oberacker and Robert Taylor, who co-wrote the book and lyrics with Oberacker, created an original musical set i…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:32PMSunday, September 10, 2017
Original Broadway Cast, 2017 (The Musical Company) Alhough they’ve been a songwriting team for years, husband and wife David Hein and Irene Sankoff made their Broadway debut with the mus…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:53AMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2016 (Ghostlight) Steve Martin is a man of many talents: actor, playwright, stand up comic, novelist. And here, with Edie Brickell as his collaborator, he adds musica…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:37AMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2017 (Masterworks Broadway/Broadway Records) After the immense artistic and commercial success of Matilda, Tim Minchin turned his efforts next towards adapting the be…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:10AMThursday, September 7, 2017
Original Broadway Cast, 2017 (Ghostlight) In 1989, Chazz Palminteri told the story of his youth in the Bronx as a one-man play, chronicling his conflicting loyalties to his working-class fat…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:44PMFilm Soundtrack, 2007 (Columbia) This is the deservedly popular soundtrack album of a gorgeously bittersweet indie film, set in Dublin, about the brief but intense romance and songwriting pa…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:25PMMonday, September 4, 2017
Off Broadway Cast, 2016 (Jay Records) Here is a major revisal of the 1970 musical The Rothschilds, cut down to one-act and including several previously unheard Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick son…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:17PMThursday, August 24, 2017
When it was first announced that there would be a show celebrating the Broadway career of Harold Prince, some people expressed the opinion that this did not sound like a good idea.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:04PMIn Michael Moore's Broadway show, he makes the powerful point that a single person can effect tremendous change for the better in our world, and he gives several examples. . . .
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:51PMThursday, August 10, 2017
Have you seen the electoral map of New York City for the 2016 Presidential election?
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 06:36PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
Original Broadway Cast, 2016 (Ghostlight) In 1939, Irving Berlin imagined a themed revue set at an inn that opens only on holidays, with songs highlighting seasonal celebrations. It didn’t…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:08PM 
