Tuesday, October 1, 2024
The less said or written about this latest Lincoln Center catastrophe the better. McNEAL, starring Artificial Intelligence and featuring Robert Downey Jr. making his Broadway debut. Anyo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:18AMSunday, September 29, 2024
Did he say he was from New Canaan or New Haven? I really can’t remember. It’s been quite a long time that I cared to speak to someone while minding my own business sitting on a bench…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:36AMFriday, August 16, 2024
O woe is me! Well…here goes. A mild mannered, mediocre, meandering musical. Music by Mary Rodgers (daughter of Richard Rogers; mother of Adam Guettel – great musical genes inherit…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:48AMMonday, April 29, 2024
Feeling blue? Down in the dumps? Have your tickle bones not been tickled lately? The extremely talented and wonderfully funny Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln and company might just be…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 05:12PMFriday, April 26, 2024
As we bid a not so fond farewell to the most recent Broadway season with this car wreck of a musical THE GREAT GATSBY we ask ourselves why? Why import a mediocre musical from New Jersey’…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:54AMWednesday, April 24, 2024
London, Elizabethan England, 1601 For some, forsooth, I am merely a vagabond – a worthless novelty. I have been accused of wasting my time and the time of others – attempting to …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 03:18PMThursday, April 18, 2024
This a short somewhat strange take of a new and original musical titled LEMPICKA – not a review – that I had cancelled by the PR folks shortly before I was ready to head out to see it as…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:12PMWednesday, March 27, 2024
In the land of anything can happen, which could be just about anywhere these days, we begin. Sunlight had started to disappear. A dullness at first. Then grayness. Then little or no li…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:35AMFriday, March 15, 2024
To be perfectly clear this is not GHOSTS by Henrik Ibsen. This is Ibsen’s Ghost by Charles Busch infamous Queen of drag who can sometimes, most times be a riot on stage in his many portr…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:18PMWednesday, February 14, 2024
I have a cousin. She’s a mosquito. I am a fly. A reincarnated fly. Oh, the stories I could tell – this being one of them… Matthew by name. Our families somehow, somewhere h…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:06PMThursday, December 21, 2023
So what! So I haven’t got any professional experience. Just loads of school stuff. Starring roles, by the way. I keep telling myself over and over it doesn’t matter. It doesn�…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:12AMWednesday, December 20, 2023
There have been many a Christmas tree in my life. Even a Hanukkah Bush. But few were chosen. And so, I take this time to reflect. A very personal view. From the ridiculous – does a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:48AMFriday, August 18, 2023
Disclaimer #1 I never saw JAWS the movie nor did I ever want to. Disclaimer # 2 I read the script the night before I saw the production at The John Golden Theater on West 45th Street. No…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:19PMFriday, July 28, 2023
An overwrought, disappointing production. Hardly worth all the effort that the participants are so forcefully putting forth to be quaint, amusing, sexy and unbelievably outrageous. Unfor…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:33AMTuesday, May 2, 2023
Thank you Susan Stroman! Thank you for keeping alive the musical theater traditions so dear to many. For your dedication and artistic vision. Your creativity. For your honesty and fo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:32AMFriday, April 21, 2023
Go-o-o-ollee! It’s been said that “laughter is the best medicine” – that is, second only to corn whiskey. So perhaps it is, in such a lackluster theatrical season we get SHUCKED.…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:48AMMonday, April 17, 2023
In this impressive revival/revisal of Lerner & Loewe’s melodious and witty musical first produced in 1960, based on T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, director Bartlett Sher a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:24AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
Poor Cyndi! Forced to being an outcast ‘cuz she doesn’t conform to the standards set forth in Belleville where “beauty is a duty” – just one of the not-so-nifty lyrics of Davi…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:32AMFriday, March 17, 2023
Be prepared. Jessica Chastain is spectacular as Nora Helmer. As she sits seemingly spellbound in a chair on a bare stage, dressed in dark blue, alone with her striking profile and red ha…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:44AMMonday, March 6, 2023
This won’t take long. Much shorter than the two act, two hour and forty minute excruciating exercise on view at The Connelly Theatre on East 4th Street co-authored by Zuzanna Szadkowski …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:02AMFriday, February 17, 2023
Never leave dirty dishes in the sink. Always make your bed. And if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t! But certain rules are made to be broken. Right? So here goes. PI…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:32AMThursday, December 15, 2022
This new musical adaptation of the classic Billy Wilder 1959 comedy starring Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe should be herewith subtitled – Thoroughly Modern Daphne or How Jerry…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:06PMFriday, April 29, 2022
For this we waited 58 years to see back on Broadway?! Summer Stock is alive and faltering at the August Wilson Theatre where this extremely disappointing revisal of FUNNY GIRL has recently…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:54AMTuesday, April 5, 2022
There is a good reason why Neil Simon was known as The King of Comedy. And one prime example is on view at the resplendent Hudson Theatre where a slew of his theatrical posters – plays a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:48AMMonday, March 21, 2022
As in Bernadette Peters who starred as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George in 1984 at the Booth Theatre. We shared the same vocal coach. I remember arriving at James Gregory’s studio…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 02:12PMFriday, February 18, 2022
I’d like to propose a toast! To celebrate! Here’s to the entire cast, from superstars Hugh Jackman & Sutton Foster to ensemble players to understudies; to all those backstage hel…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:54AMWednesday, December 15, 2021
2021 is the year of SONDHEIM. Broadway: COMPANY. Off B’way: ASSASINS. Film: WEST SIDE STORY. And his untimely, sudden, unfortunate death. Flashback to 1970. After an extremely su…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:12AMWednesday, December 8, 2021
Bringing the 1993 beloved film to Broadway now starring an equally incandescent Rob McClure as an out of work actor, facing divorce who loves his three kids so much that he manages to become…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:42AMSaturday, November 6, 2021
I wondered while watching this quite expensive extravaganza if those ten year old boys sitting on their make-me-higher cushions in the audience were wondering “what do I make of all this f…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:36AMTuesday, October 19, 2021
Seriously?! At the DR2 Theatre this “new musical in the making” is more like an amateur Fringe Festival workshop production. And in need of a doctor suffering from a weak plot and fo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:36AMSunday, October 17, 2021
Was there anyone in your past who was instrumental in guiding you through your youth, teaching you how to treat others with respect and dignity and at the same time expecting you to be treat…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:48AM 
