Saturday, December 21, 2024
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . Norm Lewis has been a New York theatre fixture since 1993 when he made his debut as part of the ensemble in The Who’s Tommy. Since then, he has appear…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:41AMFriday, December 20, 2024
Review by Ron Fassler... American Musical Theatre lovers absolutely need to see Audra McDonald as Rose in the new revival of "Gypsy."
The post Everything’s Coming Up Audra: “Gypsy” is…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 12:03AMThursday, December 19, 2024
Preston as Harold Hill selling a bill of goods to Barbara Cook as Marian in “The Music Man” (1957).Same age as me, Meredith Willson’s The Music Man is sixty-seven. My birthday is in M…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:31PMTuesday, December 17, 2024
By Ron Fassler… The world premiere of The Jonathan Larson Project is set to open at the Orpheum Theatre for a limited 16-week engagement beginning Valentine’s Day February 14, 2025. C…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:57AMMonday, December 2, 2024
Theater Pizzazz’s own Ron Fassler’s new book The Show Goes On: Broadway Hirings, Firings and Replacements is available now from STCK Books. A must-have for every theatre lover’s libra…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:37PMThe timing of Sunday being World AIDS Day made for a welcome excuse to bring Ann Talman’s one-person cabaret show “Elizabeth Taylor and The Shadow of Her Smile” to Don’t Tell Ma…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:28AMWednesday, November 27, 2024
Music Review by Ron Fassler . . . Having seen many solo concerts at the 92NY, I was somewhat taken aback when Heather Headley confidently strolled out to start her show Sunday afternoon wit…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:40AMTuesday, November 26, 2024
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Three-time Tony Award nominee Kevin Chamberlin, veteran of ten Broadway shows and numerous off-Broadway and regional productions, made his New York City cabaret …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 03:47PMSaturday, November 23, 2024
Joy Behar is taking the plunge as a playwright with MY FIRST EX-HUSBAND, a new Off-Broadway comedy that will begin previews on January 29, 2025 and open February 6 at the newly renovated MMA…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:25PMWednesday, November 20, 2024
Interview with Ron Fassler Jennifer Ashley Tepper is not only a knowledgeable theatre historian, Broadway producer, and director of programming at the 54 Below supper club, but also one of t…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 05:51PMLiza Minnelli and Chita Rivera in “The Rink” (1984). Photo by Martha Swope.November 20, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
In 1984, Liza Minnelli co-starred with Chita …
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 12:15PMMonday, November 18, 2024
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . The delightful Elf is a 2010 Broadway musical based faithfully on the 2003 film comedy of the same name. A perfect Will Farrell vehicle, Elf tells the…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:38AMSunday, November 17, 2024
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . If you haven’t heard by now, Maybe Happy Ending, a new meet-cute musical with two robots as its leading characters has just opened to excellent reviews…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 11:37AMThursday, November 14, 2024
Carol Channing and Sid Caesar in 1971’s “Four on a Garden” (Photo by Martha Swope).November 18, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, By Ron Fassler
There used to be a certain subset of…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 01:41PMWednesday, November 13, 2024
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . The name Jack Viertel is a somewhat legendary one in Broadway circles as both a former theatre critic, Tony Award-winning producer, and non-fiction author…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 01:43PMMonday, November 11, 2024
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Of all the brassy Broadway musicals that blew through town in the 1960s, Skyscraper is one of the few to receive an original cast recording and then s…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 09:49AMFriday, November 8, 2024
Estelle Parsons as Violet Weston in “August: Osage Country” (2008).November 8, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
In New York City this week, an unseasonably warm Novemb…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 10:06AMMonday, November 4, 2024
The company of “Ragtime” at City Center (photo by Joan Marcus).November 4, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
Last June, as I exited the City Center Encores! production …
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 05:15PMWednesday, October 30, 2024
Review by Ron Fassler I’m a longtime fan of MasterVoices, a performing arts organization which continues to thrive after undergoing many changes in its long history. Founded in 1941, it ha…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 06:23PMReview by Ron Fassler . . . Oscar Hammerstein II was a man of many accomplishments, though he will be best remembered for three indisputably monumental things: 1) He wrote Show Boat with J…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:41PMTuesday, October 29, 2024
Advertising used throughout “Man of La Mancha’s” six-year run (1965–1971).October 29, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
As a teenager and developing theatre nerd of …
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 08:52AMMonday, October 28, 2024
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . Well, knock me over with a feather. I really liked Jamie Lloyd’s sexually charged, visually exhilarating, and highly conceptualized Sunset Boulevard, n…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 02:21PMSunday, October 27, 2024
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . Sponsored by the Mabel Mercer Foundation, the 35th annual New York Cabaret Convention was presented over a three-night period this past week at Rose Hall …
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:57AMThursday, October 24, 2024
The incredibly photogenic Lee Remick (1935–91).October 24, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today by Ron Fassler
In 1982, when John Pielmeier’s Agnes of God was trying out in Boston, the top…
SOURCE: ronfassler.medium.com at 11:16AMMonday, October 21, 2024
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Actor and Playwright James Hindman’s What Doesn’t Kill You, which recently opened at the 59E59 Theaters complex in midtown, has just been extended th…
SOURCE: Theater Pizzazz at 10:51AMCabaret 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 10:50PM 
