Sound Advice: "Fly by Night" and "Night People" by Rob Lester

A 2014 Off-Broadway musical called Fly by Night has key moments with its people seeking solace in the stars of the nighttime sky and being plunged into darkness because of a power failure. N…

Summer Valley Fair (NYMF) by Rob Lester

Summer means the annual summer musical theatre festival, and this summer, Summer Valley Fair is one of the highlights and a uniquely creative style and approach make it compelling. It’s p…

The Calico Buffalo at NYMF by Rob Lester

Fellow outsiders, come inside PTC Performance Space and hug a buffalo who’s feeling low. For those of us who like musicals, the annual NYMF series of new ones for three weeks in July feels…

Theatre for “Real Men” (NYMF) by Rob Lester

In the swirling whirlwind of musical offerings busy invading Manhattan through July 27 comes that increasingly endangered species: the old-fashioned revue. A mix of songs and skits and bits …

Sound Advice "The Visit" and "Gigi" New Cast Albums by Rob Lester

Their roads to the Broadway season were long, but their runs were short. Here are two recently closed musicals whose action takes place in Europe, with scores written by major league songwri…

Sound Advice: "Misia" and Mazzie by Rob Lester

Musical theatre's Marin Mazzie does double duty in this spring's CD releases: serving in the title role of a long-gestating/morphing musical's premiere recording with Misia featuring melodie…

PS Classics' "The Golden Apple" 2-CD Set by Rob Lester

The missing slices from the juicy score to 1954's The Golden Apple are on disc at last. So there is reason to rejoice for lovers of adventurous musical theatre scores ...

Sound Advice: "Fun Home," "Tokio Confidential" and Andrew Heller by Rob Lester

Our mix this time contains the high-profile big Broadway hit, a low-profile 2012 show, and a fellow profiling some Sinatra standbys.

Sound Advice: Cy by Cy: Creative Composer Colmean by Rob Lester

It's a treat to listen to these recordings, made from the 1950s to the 1980s, either with the hindsight of history or wondering how it must have been to perform them or hear them fresh, with…

SOUND ADVICE: TIME FOR TRIBUTES TO THE "TIMELESS" by Rob Lester

SOUND ADVICE: JUST A SINGER and a PIANO by Rob Lester

SOUND ADVICE: A COUPLE of COUPLES by Rob Lester

SOUND ADVICE: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES by Rob Lester

SOUND ADVICE: LOST BROADWAY and a NEW FIND by Rob Lester

SOUND ADVICE: JACKSON, JOYCE and JENNIFER by Rob Lester

The Even-More-Limited Runs at NYMF: Over in the blink of an eye by Rob Lester

NYMF Reviews

Taking a shine to a fine Shine! in the theatre festival by Rob Lester

NYMF Reviews

SOUND ADVICE: "ORDINARY" ... SPECIAL ... FABULOUS by Rob Lester

SOUND ADVICE: "SCOTTSBORO BOYS" OFF-BROADWAY and "MOST HAPPY FELLA" in LONDON by Rob Lester

SOUND ADVICE: 2 THINGS WITH STRINGS AND ONE THAT SWINGS by Rob Lester

BUT THE CAT CAME BACK… 1965 BROADWAY MUSICAL DRAT! THE CAT by Rob Lester

Sluths and private detectives seeking long-lost gems from Broadway's past, stolen away by time and the fates and proven-wrong theories and assumptions that befall shows that failed on Broadw…

SOUND ADVICE: GLORY, "GLORY," DAVIS and DAVIS by Rob Lester

A Little More Sondheim Music by Rob Lester

Well, 2010 isn't quite over yet--and that means that the celebration of Stephen Sondheim's·80th birthday isn't quite over yet either.· With many tributes, such as the one just released to …

SOUND ADVICE: HERE COME THE HOLIDAYS by Rob Lester

SOUND ADVICE: ON BROADWAY and OFF-BROADWAY by Rob Lester

SOUND ADVICE: LONDON CASTS PAST by Rob Lester

SOUND ADVICE: TOP CAST ALBUM \ SCORE RECORDINGS OF 2010 by Rob Lester

Sound Advice: Top Ten Vocal Albums of 2010 by Rob Lester

SOUND ADVICE: A LIVE SET and THE SWING SET by Rob Lester

SOUND ADVICE: BUKOWSICAL! and BEN by Rob Lester

SOUND ADVICE: ALICE RIPLEY & CHRISTOPHER JACKSON ALBUMS by Rob Lester