Monday, October 21, 2024
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . The lyric writers of popular song have never attracted nearly the spotlight the way composers do in receiving the lion’s share of attention. As Ira Gers…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:14AMSaturday, October 19, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly twenty years since The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee opened on Broadway. It arrived during one of th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:00PMWednesday, October 16, 2024
Richard Mulligan with his two leading ladies: Valerie Harper and Marlo Thomas in “Thieves” (1974).October 16, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
For those with a sense o…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:45AMMonday, October 14, 2024
Music Review By Ron Fassler . . . It’s hard to believe that Kelli O’Hara, an ingenue’s ingenue if there ever was one, first made her Broadway debut close to twenty-five years ago. Sinc…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:50PMCabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . All is right with the world when Marilyn Maye is in town and performing in a small room packed with her fans. And at ninety-six, she still has the charm…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:54AMThursday, October 10, 2024
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Picture the surprise gasp from the audience as the curtain rose on Our Town at its premiere in 1938. The sight of there being no scenery must have shock…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:50PMWednesday, October 9, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . David Cromer is one of the most in-demand directors in the theatre. With his choice of projects his for the asking, when a play arrives with his name atta…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:05PMHunter Foster and Kerry Butler in “Little Shop of Horrors” (2003).October 9, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
Amongst the legendary stories of Broadway shows that have…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:17PMTuesday, October 8, 2024
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . When I was a boy interested in musicals, the scores Anthony Newley wrote (with Leslie Bricusse) for Stop the World I Want to Get Off and The Roar of th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:00AMSunday, October 6, 2024
October 6, 2024 Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . It’s big (well, not that big). It’s gay (it’s very gay). And if a log line like “Stacey woke up in some b*tch ass Music Man …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:53PMSaturday, October 5, 2024
October 5, 2024 Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . If you like a play that starts slowly and takes its time setting up characters and the world in which they live, then builds inexorably to…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:04PMSunday, September 29, 2024
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . This past spring, song stylist Ann Kittredge released an album titled “Romantic Notions,” her musings on the theme of love covering more than a do…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:04AMFriday, September 27, 2024
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Conceived and directed by Stephen Sachs, Fatherland is a powerful verbatim play that is currently at New York City Center Stage II through November 2…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:23AMThursday, September 26, 2024
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . Cabaret regular Renee Katz is back with a new show at Don’t Tell Mama titled “Lost in His Arms.” It doesn’t take much of a sleuth to figure…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:19AMWednesday, September 25, 2024
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . I’ve never had the pleasure until the other night at 54 Below of seeing Cheyenne Jackson onstage. Well aware of his talents, and having seen him in such…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:10PMTheatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Political satire isn’t an easy thing to pull off. Ask the folks at Saturday Night Live who’ve been doing it for fifty years (and those are just sk…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 08:44AMTuesday, September 24, 2024
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . If you aren’t aware of who Kara Young is by now you are missing out on one of the best actresses currently working in the theatre. And man does she wo…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:02PMWednesday, September 18, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . See What I Wanna See is a musical written by composer/lyricist Michael John LaChiusa, first produced at the Public Theatre in 2005. Inspired by the stori…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:23PMTuesday, September 17, 2024
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler… In 2023, the fabled supper club 54 Below became a non-profit organization. Since that time, its longstanding goals of expanding the art of cabaret have taken…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:01PMThursday, September 12, 2024
Dwayne Washington and McKenna OGrodnik in "That Parenting Musical."
The post Musical About Parenting Needs Some Adult Supervision appeared first on Theater Pizzazz.
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:15PMTuesday, September 10, 2024
James Earl Jones (1931–2024).September 10, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
James Earl Jones, who died yesterday at ninety-three, was not only the first dramatic actor to…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:18AMFriday, August 30, 2024
Cabaret review by Ron Fassler … While attending Isaac Mizrahi’s new show at 54 Below, a well-known Shakespeare quote came to mind. In the scene from Hamlet where Polonius is chatting w…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 04:49PMWednesday, August 14, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler. . . City Centers Encores! scored a winner with its 2022 staging of the distorted fairy tales created by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine for Into the Woods…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:54PMFriday, August 9, 2024
August 9, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
Richard Nixon address the nation on August 8, 1974, the night he resigned the presidency.“So it’s really happening,” smiled…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 09:37AMSaturday, July 13, 2024
July 13, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today
Forty-seven years ago tonight, on July 13, 1977 at exactly 9:29 p.m., New York City suffered an electrical blackout that lasted into afternoon the…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 10:06AMThursday, July 4, 2024
Cabaret Review By Ron Fassler… I’m happy to report that old friends and top-notch singers and performers Liz Callaway and Jason Graae are in fine form at 54 Below this holiday week i…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:11PMMonday, June 24, 2024
“Titanic” at City Center “Encores!” (photo by Joan Marcus).June 24, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
As someone who saw all fifteen Tony-eligible Broadway musicals…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 02:45PMStarring Holland Taylor and Ana Villafañe, N/A is a new play by first-timer Mario Correa that is having its world premiere at the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center. Correa, self-d…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:20PMFriday, June 21, 2024
A repurposed logo of David Byrd’s original poster for “Follies” for the one-night only concert at Carnegie Hall, June 20, 2024.June 21, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fass…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:34PMMonday, June 17, 2024
Cabaret review by Ron Fassler . . . . Gavin Lee must know that he can’t really go wrong musically by saluting songs first introduced by Fred Astaire, right? Though naturally best known…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:56AMSunday, May 19, 2024
Nina Hoss as Ranevskaya in “The Cherry Orchard.” Photo by Johan Persson.May 19, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
The Cherry Orchard is one of my favorite plays. I was…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 07:48AM 
