Friday, June 21, 2013
I've met many writers of new musicals, and plenty of them have said the same thing: "When I saw (insert here the name of an awful musical), I said to myself 'I know I can do better than that…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:14AMMonday, June 17, 2013
“You’re the one who chose Alan Alda’s entrance music, aren’t you?”
So said many people to me after I’d hosted The 69th Annual Theatre World Awards on June 3. Whenever a presente…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:44PMFriday, June 14, 2013
Another season, another reason for makin' whoopee.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:53AMThey fly through the air with the greatest of ease: those daring young actors currently appearing in the Paper Mill Playhouse production of THE LITTLE MERMAID. Out in Millburn, New Jersey, p…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:40AMMonday, June 10, 2013
So the percentage just went from 56.92% to 57.58%.
I’m talking about the number of Tony-winning Best Musicals that can be found on recordings and downloads on Masterworks Broadway.
With K…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:45PMFriday, June 7, 2013
Congratulations to Fred Abramowitz, Peter Alfano, Brigadude, Susan Berlin, Josh Freilich, Ingrid Gammerman, Jack Lechner, Marc Miller, the Orts Family (Sheri, Daryl, Zach and Becca), Ira Rap…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:47AMTuesday, June 4, 2013
Well, here’s a reissue of a show album that many fanatically dedicated cast album collectors never owned.
ClownAround was originally recorded in 1972 by RCA Victor. But was it ever releas…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:17AMFriday, May 31, 2013
We’ve seen plenty of teenagers in productions of THE BOY FRIEND, CHILDREN OF EDEN and GODSPELL. But LUCKY STIFF? Isabel Carrington, who runs the Warner Theatre Performance Lab for young pe…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 03:38PM"I'd like to make the laws," said Marie earlier this year when Encores! did Fiorello! I'd certainly like to make two as far as Encores! is concerned.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:49AMMonday, May 27, 2013
In October 1983, when Cyndi Lauper’s pop career started taking off in earnest, the current Broadway musicals had music by Andrew Lloyd Webber (Cats), Jerry Herman (La Cage aux Folles), Mau…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:57PMFriday, May 24, 2013
Throughout your scholastic career, you were often asked to give one-word answers on tests. Well, for our 2013 Broadway University Final Exam, we instead will offer you one-word questions.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:28AMMonday, May 20, 2013
We’re about to mark the 60th anniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s most obscure musical.
True, Me and Juliet endured the longest of their three least-successful shows. The musical th…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:35PMFriday, May 17, 2013
Can you find 19 talented performers to play all the roles in Into the Woods? That seems to be an order as tall as the second-act Giant. But if you take some tips from the most inaccurately n…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:36PMMonday, May 13, 2013
“Next week, on the twentieth of May, I proclaim Liza Doolittle Day!”
So sings Eliza Doolittle in her fantasy number “Just You Wait” in My Fair Lady. It’s a line that hasn’t been …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:22PMFriday, May 10, 2013
When Jeff Whitty, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez created the “School Edition” of their Tony-winning AVENUE Q, they had high schools in mind. And yet, this abridged and expurgated edition was…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:16PMAll musicals descend from The Black Crook, but On Your Toes is truly its great-great grandson.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:28AMMonday, May 6, 2013
You’ve heard it said about your town or one nearby.
“If you don’t like the weather here, wait five minutes, and it’ll change.”
The same standard can apply to Stanley Silverman�…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:24PMSaturday, May 4, 2013
All right, so your theater company doesn’t have a juggler who can keep a half-dozen knives in the air. You’re also lacking a contortionist who can balance himself upside down on a board …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:48PMFriday, May 3, 2013
It was the month in which the word "robbed" is used more around Broadway than any other month � for the Tony nominations were dispensed.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 05:02PMTuesday, April 30, 2013
One of the seminal recordings of the 1960s is now with us again via digital download: the first studio cast album of Lady in the Dark.
Until 1963, musical theater enthusiasts who’d been t…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:54AMFriday, April 26, 2013
When producers of American and British musicals book a theater in Amsterdam, Theatre Carre is their first choice. The three-balcony, eight-chandeliered house is where popular hits go to thri…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 06:17AMMonday, April 22, 2013
So you think that the first "so-bad-it's-good" musical was The Rocky Horror Show?
A case can be made for a very different property: Say, Darling.
Truth to tell, Say, Darling was less of a …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:36PMFriday, April 19, 2013
This winter, when I heard Barry Manilow sing "Can't Take My Eyes off of You" from the stage of the St. James, I realized that this song was now being performed in two Broadway theaters.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:08PMIs anyone on the Northeast Corridor planning to present JEKYLL & HYDE? If so, don’t hesitate to contact Donald J. Simon. The president of the International JEKYLL & HYDE F…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:59AMMonday, April 15, 2013
My buddy Ingrid Gammerman has told me that she does it. So has my pal Donald Tesione. On occasion, I’ve done it, too.
That is, play a cast album on the precise night of an all-star concer…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 02:23PMFriday, April 12, 2013
I’m glad to be back in my hometown of Arlington, Massachusetts to see SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM at the local community theater. Granted, you may giggle a bit when you hear the official nam…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:10PMThings are coming along nicely for the Broadway revival of the 1975 musical Good Time Charley. And as you've certainly heard, for the last few weeks the production's powers-that-be have been…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:56AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
On Wednesday, April 8, 1964, Variety told me that Anyone Can Whistle had opened the previous Saturday to three raves and three pans. I’d never seen such an extreme split from the New York …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:04AMFriday, April 5, 2013
It only ran 63 days in 2002, but THE LAST FIVE YEARS has lasted far longer than the last 11 years. Jason Robert Brown’s musical, which has had countless productions around the country, is …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:40PMA bit more than 60 years ago, a musical called "Wish You Were Here" opened to mostly terrible reviews. The future looked bleak, but then director Josh Logan decided to return to the show and…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:44AMMonday, April 1, 2013
Were you among the many who’d planned to go see Betty Buckley do Dear World in London – only to find the show had shuttered earlier than expected?
“I’m not surprised,” says my bu…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:44PM 
