Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Self-portrait of Al Hirschfeld at his drafting table in his Koken barber chair.The artist Al Hirschfeld, a theatrical treasure of the highest order, was born 119 years ago today. Chroniclin…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:56AMWednesday, June 15, 2022
On this day twenty-two years ago, a new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth opened at the Music Box Theatre. Directed by former director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Terry Hands, it w…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 03:27PMFriday, June 10, 2022
Jaquel Spivey, John-Michael Lyles and James Jackson, Jr. at the first Broadway preview curtain call for “A Strange Loop” (Photo: Jeenah Moon for The New York Times).I’ve been handicap…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:00PMTuesday, June 7, 2022
Charles Strouse and Lee Adams’ “The Telephone Hour” from “Bye, Bye Birdie” (1960).Composer Charles Strouse was born on this date ninety-four years ago. His more than thirty stage …
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:26AMThursday, June 2, 2022
During the height of my teenage theatergoing years, which occurred between 1969 and 1973, I was never happier than when I would pore over the New York Times’ ABC’s Directory in order to …
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:46AMFriday, May 20, 2022
Julie Andrews singing “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?” at the recording session for “My Fair Lady” (1956).Having listened to a steady stream of Broadway original cast recordings over the…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:44PMMonday, May 16, 2022
Harold Prince, victorious with Tony #20 for “Showboat,” with Gregory Hines (1995).Now that the 2022 Tony Awards nominations have been announced and campaigning is in full swing, as usua…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 08:53AMThursday, April 21, 2022
Robert Morse as J. Pierrepont Finch in “How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” (1961).It’s with a heavy heart I attempt to put into words what Robert Morse meant to me as a…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:45PMTuesday, April 12, 2022
It’s a funny thing about an actor’s resume: they’re never complete and always a work in progress. In the constant act of selling themselves, an actor’s career needs continual updatin…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:59AMFriday, April 1, 2022
The Original Broadway Cast Recording of “I Do! I Do!” released in 1966.As young kids, I’m sure most Broadway loving-types have all had the same experience. Long before our vocabularie…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:11AMWednesday, March 16, 2022
That tiny slip of paper every theatregoer knows (btw, Christian Dante White was terrific).A common question I see posted from time to time on theatre blogs asks what the difference is betwee…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 08:35AMFriday, March 11, 2022
Vintage Tony Award, prior to its eventual pedestal.Okay, there was never any such thing as a 1944 Tonys. But the awards junkie in me had this thought and decided, for the fun of it, to attem…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:19AMMonday, March 7, 2022
Leigh Whipper, depicted in the painting “Dans un Café a Paris” by Lois Mailou Jones (1939).Not many actors have their portraits on the walls of a museum, so imagine my surprise when I …
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:37AMThursday, March 3, 2022
Tony Walton (1934–2022).Anthony John Walton has passed away at the age of eighty-seven. This is a personal loss for me as from the first moment I met him, I melted. He was one of those rar…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:28PMMonday, February 28, 2022
Bob Gunton and Beth Fowler as Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett in “Sweeney Todd” (1989).“You have to love a character to play him” — Bob Gunton.
And yes, that of course includes …
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:46PMFriday, February 25, 2022
Bob Gunton as Juan Peron and Patti LuPone as Evita in “Evita” (1979).When he was a young man, the actor Bob Gunton took joy in settling in front of the TV with his dad to watch reruns o…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:04PMSunday, February 6, 2022
“ON THE 20th CENTURY” — A LILY BLOOMS
Judy Kaye and Kevin Kline in “On the 20th Century” (1978).For part three of the saga of On the 20th Century, we begin with the Varietyre…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 10:56AMTuesday, September 24, 2019
Author Ron Fassler shares his fall Broadway & Off-Broadway picks
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 09:21AMThursday, August 29, 2019
‘Up In the Cheap Seats’ author Ron Fassler on the new documentary about the classic musical
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 11:55AMTuesday, August 13, 2019
‘Up In the Cheap Seats’ author Ron Fassler looks back on Hal Prince’s immeasurable contribution to Broadway.
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 02:17PMThe Public Theater’s star-studded monologues come to Broadway
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 01:50PMMonday, July 29, 2019
The Broadway musical of the hit film incorporates over 70 pop songs
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 12:55PMWednesday, June 5, 2019
‘Up in the Cheap Seats’ author Ron Fassler predicts all 26 winners
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 02:11PMFriday, April 5, 2019
The living legend tackles one of theater’s toughest roles.
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 05:15PMFriday, March 22, 2019
The Temptations jukebox musical is already drawing a crowd.
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 12:30PMTuesday, March 12, 2019
The Broadway musical powered by online fans opened on March 10th.
SOURCE: ShowTickets.com at 05:39PM 
