Sunday, February 23, 2025
IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT, WILL EX-LOVERS REUNITE OR FIGHT? After decades apart, can the passion of once-young lovers sizzle again, like leftover pizza zapped in the microwave? Picking up an…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 04:27PMSaturday, February 22, 2025
BACKSTAGE BABBLE AT STUDIO 54: TOPS WITH FLOPS Not every musical is a hit, and some barely get a chance to stumble before vanishing into obscurity. The midtown Manhattan nightclub 54 Below h…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 09:36AMMonday, February 17, 2025
DIANNE REEVES’ WITH LOVE RECEIVED WITH LOVE If Grammy-winning singer Dianne Reeves’ suitcase could talk (and I’m guessing that it can’t), it would tell tales of trekking all over the…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 08:07PMSunday, February 16, 2025
EVERYTHING TO GAINES AND NOTHING TO LOSE No, he doesn’t sing “My Funny Valentine” in his entertaining show called Love Is in the Air on the night before Valentine’s Day at Green Room…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 01:28PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
A COLORFUL, KINETIC AND PUPPET-FILLED POW Emilio’s A Million Chameleons at Soho Playhouse offers family-friendly, fabulously frenzied fun. Like many offerings aimed at, or at least semi-ta…
SOURCE: stageandcinema.com at 06:19PMTuesday, December 31, 2024
Here are three releases that celebrate songwriters, each from a long-careered, stylish female singer. Karen Mason mines the oeuvre of the team of John Kander and Fred Ebb. Including selectio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21AMTuesday, November 5, 2024
If you walk through Manhattan's theatre district, you pass locations of theaters owned by a man who wrote many shows (music, lyrics, book) and directed, produced, and often performed in them…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34AMThursday, October 10, 2024
Reviews of new theatre and cabaret recordings.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:06PMThursday, June 27, 2024
Let's start with a recent Off-Broadway cast recording of a show that takes on religion, relationships, and right wing propaganda. Then it's love's ups and downs taking center stage for two s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:32PMMonday, May 6, 2024
Maybe the musical Lucky Stiff wasn't enormously lucky the first time around, managing only 15 performances in its 1988 Off-Broadway debut, but it has continued to pop up over the years aroun…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:46PMSaturday, April 20, 2024
There's a place for a glib, undemanding, unpretentious old-school musical comedy that seeks to entertain and just wants to make someone happy. "Make Someone Happy" was the big song that came…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47PMTuesday, April 2, 2024
Reviews of three new cast recordings.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:39AMWednesday, January 31, 2024
Reviews of albums from Stephen Pasquale & John Pizzarelli, Jan Cronin, Judy Whitmore, and Andy Pratt.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:51AMMonday, January 15, 2024
Reviews of cast recordings from Guys and Dolls, Wild About You, Walking with Bubbles, and The New Peggy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:57AMWednesday, November 29, 2023
I've been doing a deep dive into songs by Stephen Sondheim lately, gorging on the new recording of Merrily We Roll Along, and then, wanting more, I went merrily scavenging through my "waitin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:48PMThursday, November 16, 2023
"New York, New York" OBC, Matthew Scott, "Other Lives", and Chloé Jean album reviews.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:48PMThursday, October 26, 2023
Two "Anything Goes" albums from JAY Records.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:08PMWednesday, September 20, 2023
A Collective Cy: Jeff Harner Sings Cy Coleman and "Harmony" OBC cast recording reviewed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:45AMThursday, August 10, 2023
New album reviews: "Lewberger: The Wizard of Friendship," Fanny Brice: Rare and Unreleased Recordings, and "The Flasher!" soundtrack.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:29PMMonday, June 26, 2023
"New York, New York" OBC, Matthew Scott, "Other Lives", and Chloé Jean album reviews.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:58AMThursday, June 15, 2023
Reviews of newly released albums: Eleri Ward; Legends of Broadway and Vaudeville; Chet Baker Blue Room.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:48PMThursday, June 8, 2023
et's open our minds and ears to alternate versions of classic musicals as presented in cast recordings: Camelot's recently opened revival and a complete South Pacific with a studio cast from…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21AMThursday, 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 09:12AM 
