Thursday, May 18, 2023
Rob reviews the new OBC cast recordings for "Shucked" and "KPOP."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:41AMMonday, February 20, 2023
... Laurie Winer sees many sides to the icon, with her own eyes wide open rather than with myopic wide-eyed fandom, and with the advantage of 20/20 hindsight fueled by modern-day perspectiv…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:46AMThursday, February 2, 2023
Now we give due appreciation to duos–with a retrospective of the oeuvre of a long-standing, outstanding songwriting twosome, and then it's time for spare pairings of one singer accompanied…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:49PMTuesday, December 20, 2022
Reviews of new Funny Girl cast recording, A Beautiful Noise OBC recording, plus Harry Connick Jr.'s newest holiday album, and The Skivvies' Sleigh My Name.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:15AMThursday, December 8, 2022
Part one of reviews of 2022 Christmas music releases, starting with Million Dollar Quartet Christmas.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:59PMWednesday, November 30, 2022
Maury Yeston's song cycle and two sets of Sondheim songs: The calendar inching us to December is an apt cue to turn to December Songs, with Victoria Clark taking on Maury Yeston's one-charac…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:35PMThursday, September 29, 2022
The comet at hand is not the celestial object but a musical comedy with a title character named Regina Comet. Constellations and Under the Stars are the names of cool jazz releases. In any c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:30PMWednesday, September 28, 2022
Miracle of The Music Man: The Classic American Story of Meredith Willson, while full of affection and appreciation, is also full of familiar tales and tidbits if you've read some of the othe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:01PMThursday, September 22, 2022
When the feats of production are at their most dense and intense, there's a risk of upstaging the essence of the material's drama or delicacy–at least on the first or second hearing. And I…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:12AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Full of fascinating facts, fond memories, musings, and proffered preferences, Peter Filichia's newest book may be a haven for the theatre maven unable to put it down. While perusing The Book…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36AMTuesday, September 6, 2022
Let's check out two London cast recordings of newer musicals–The Pleasure Garden and It Happened in Key West–and then turn our focus to southern California to report on two singers based…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:48AMThursday, August 25, 2022
In her candid memoirs, self-aware Mary Rodgers (1931-2014) states this about the princess protagonist of the show she worked on as composer in the late 1950s, Once Upon a Mattress: "Despite …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:40PMFriday, August 19, 2022
Here's some "colorful" music: tweaked scores of The Unsinkable Molly Brown and 13 (music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown), and the concept recording for Anne of Green Gables, plus vocals by…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:58AMTuesday, July 19, 2022
Reviews of "Joe Iconis & Family: Album" and others.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:15AMThursday, January 20, 2022
New cast albums from two Broadway shows of this season: "Girl from the North Country" and "Caroline, or Change."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:55AMTuesday, November 10, 2020
Don't expect Funny Girl's twin sister, but more of a distant cousin who's so cute and enthused that one don't want to rain on her parade.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:02AMThursday, October 5, 2017
I’m so glad I landed in Oz with the delightful Harlem Rep’s reputable version of a beloved tale. It’s easy to get to this terrific stage show: just follow the yellow brick road. Oh, yo…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:06AMSunday, August 6, 2017
When art imitates life in the arts, there can be artistic differences. At the festival closing Sunday, August 6, two ambitious NYMF shows celebrate real-life artistic American men: one still…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 07:05AMWhat better message for a musical than, “Find and be your true self, despite pressures to be a clone, and you’ll be a happier true you.” Backbeard and Happily don’t have lyrics sayin…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 07:05AMFriday, August 4, 2017
Looking for musicals about teens and their troubles? See our Pick of the Week for info on Happily (August 3 & 4) at NYMF. And here are reviews at two that came by first: along first at the …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:08AMTuesday, August 1, 2017
Opening in NYC: Hal Prince saluted in The Prince of Broadway …..or do we mean Faith Prince who turns 60 this week (on Sunday)? Or The Student Prince, since that operetta’s composer, Sigm…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 10:06PMTuesday, July 25, 2017
This Friday, see a 3-man Little Shop of Horrors. Its composer, Alan Menken, who turned 68 this week, has more than a birthday to celebrate: the 35th anniversary of that musical’s off-
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SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:59AMMonday, July 24, 2017
Wow! At affordable prices, with top-notch stars, cabaret, class, and classic Cole come East for a feast: merry Mark Nadler launches a Cole Porter-centric series and his own custom brand of …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:35AMFriday, July 21, 2017
Living as the gender one sees oneself as or with same -gendered teammates (girl power)…NYMF shows cover both. Numbers Nerds is a likeable, sweet quite entertaining musical and The Body Pol…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 09:55PMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Two NYMF shows I bet will be back for extensions are colorful, rich, and inspired by pre-existing characters. But they couldn’t be more different than each other. Miss Blanche Tells It A…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:22AMSunday, July 16, 2017
Adapting a lengthy novel as a musical has its challenges — especially if, like The Time Machine and The Picture of Dorian Gray, the work is sprawling, classic, beloved… And you’re unli…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:53PMFriday, July 14, 2017
He IS where Broadway meets cabaret! Cheyenne Jackson, born this week in 1975, started his Broadway career as an understudy. He’d been doing theatre work just on the side back in Seattle, …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:19AMTuesday, June 20, 2017
Once (well, twice) upon a time or two, both Carole Demas and Sarah Rice played the sole female role in the original off-Broadway run of The Fantasticks. Now, many moons later, Carole (the or…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:07AMFriday, June 2, 2017
On June 8 &9 —hooray!—Michael Feinstein will honor Ella Fitzgerald as he did for Mel Tormé earlier (Review herein). Singers Nicole Henry, Jessie Mueller, and South African vocalist Vuy…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:38PMOne of the more interesting singers on the scene these days is the one with the lovely name of Sally Darling whose newest solo cabaret show Love, Lust & Longing I am longing to see. While M…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:37PMFriday, May 26, 2017
Guess who’s back in town and on Broadway? I don’t mean Dolly, it’s that group full of radiant harmony, Marquee Five, although you will hear something from Hello, Dolly! and other Broad…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:35PM 
