Saturday, June 4, 2016
Alas, there won’t be a June Brainteaser. This is my last column for Kritzerland. I need more time to work on a musical with Douglas J. Cohen and Gerard Alessandrini. Wish us luck!
Linked From Kritzerland at 12:01PMFriday, May 27, 2016
Congratulations to Fred Abramowitz, Peter Alfano, Steve Bell, Susan Berlin, Brigadude, Regina Miller DeCuzzi, Bill Downs, Laura Frankos, Ingrid Gammerman, Kurt Ganzl, John Griffin, Joe Harri…
Linked From Kritzerland at 10:22AMSaturday, May 21, 2016
So we hear Kurt Peterson tell the audience at the end of the newly released compact disc WHEN EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE. It’s the show he did with Victoria Mallory at City Center on April 29…
Linked From Kritzerland at 04:17PMFriday, May 13, 2016
The Puritans, as SOMETHING ROTTEN! has been reminding us for more than a year, hated the theater because they thought it Godless. Well, perhaps in was in those days, but you have to admit th…
Linked From Kritzerland at 07:09AMSaturday, May 7, 2016
Alas, the famous original production of LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT was before my theatergoing time. So although I can’t officially offer an eyewitness report that would verify all the…
Linked From Kritzerland at 10:22AMFriday, April 29, 2016
Do you think that when Benjamin Walker leaves AMERICAN PYSCHO (which I reviewed at www.broadwayselect.com) that The Naked Cowboy will take his place?
Linked From Kritzerland at 01:53PMFriday, April 22, 2016
Faithful readers may recall that last week I spoke about my discussion at Penn State with Scott Miller, the august author of wonderful musical theater books and the artistic director of New …
Linked From Kritzerland at 10:26AMFriday, April 15, 2016
Had a great time at Penn State last week, thanks to Richard Biever of Fuse Productions. He’s the one who invited Jennifer Ashley Tepper (the Director of Programming at Feinstein’s/54 Bel…
Linked From Kritzerland at 02:36PMFriday, April 8, 2016
“I don’t know why at five, I was already telling people that when I grew up that I wanted to be a dancer.”
And this from a kid who hailed from Rolla, Missouri, where role models for…
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I know, I know – you’ve already heard that the production of 1776 at Encores! is revolutionary for two distinct reasons.
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Don’t forget to celebrate World Theatre Day on Sunday, March 27. But here’s my question: was this day chosen because it was the day in 1964 that Barbra Streisand read all her raves for h…
Linked From Kritzerland at 11:28AMFriday, March 18, 2016
It was a good week for George Bernard Shaw.
TACT – meaning The Actors Company Theatre – and The Gingold Theatrical Group – which is now in its eleventh year of “Project Shaw,” w…
Linked From Kritzerland at 11:28AMFriday, March 11, 2016
“I like a Gershwin tune – how about you?”
That’s the first question I asked Nadia Natali last week in a sit-down in the Drama Book Shop’s Arthur Seelen Theater. And indeed Natal…
Linked From Kritzerland at 07:59PMFriday, March 4, 2016
His composer died, his lyricist died, and yet Granville Wyche Burgess will never say die.
The bookwriter of CONRACK knows the famous show business spin on General Douglas MacArthur’s mo…
Linked From Kritzerland at 07:58PMFriday, February 26, 2016
If you’d been at the Sunday, Feb. 21 matinee of PRODIGAL SON, would you have been outraged or tremendously impressed with what Timothée Chalamet did?
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All right, we all know that GREASE was the longest-running musical of the 1971-72 season and -- at least until A CHORUS LINE came along -- the longest-running Broadway show of all time.
Linked From Kritzerland at 10:05AMFriday, February 12, 2016
How nice that Encores! reminds us of its original mission with its current reading-slash-production of CABIN IN THE SKY.
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Well, the event was called BroadwayCon, so I took the “Con” to mean “Controversial.”
This happened on Saturday, Jan. 23, when I sat on a panel called “Why Didn’t It Run?” Fr…
Linked From Kritzerland at 10:04AMFriday, January 29, 2016
It was the month we lost Brian Bedford, David Bowie and Alan Rickman, all of whom might well have lights dimmed for them on Broadway marquees. Whether or not you’re in favor of one, some o…
Linked From Kritzerland at 06:43AMFriday, January 22, 2016
My hat’s off to Peter Alfano, Fred Abramowitz, AnyaToes, Susan Berlin, Brigadude, Tay and Saul Caplan, Charlene DeLucia, Jason Flum, Laura Frankos, Ingrid Gammerman, Don Horn, Alynne Amkra…
Linked From Kritzerland at 12:29PMFriday, January 15, 2016
As I mentioned in my column of Sept. 19, every now and then throughout this 2015-2016 season I’ll take a 50th anniversary look at Jack Gaver’s book SEASON IN SEASON OUT, which detailed t…
Linked From Kritzerland at 05:49AMFriday, January 8, 2016
Remember from our days in school when our English teachers tried to drum into our heads what a simile was?
Linked From Kritzerland at 07:57AMDecember's Leftovers and January's Brainteaser
Linked From Kritzerland at 07:57AMSaturday, December 26, 2015
So did you hear that Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, was named Time’s Person of the Year? The way she handled economic strife in the Eurozone and the continent’s ongoing migrant cr…
Linked From Kritzerland at 10:11AMFriday, December 18, 2015
One opened in 1922 and ran precisely two months; the other debuted in 1955 and managed to run twice as long. Both left many Broadway critics and theatergoers unimpressed.
Linked From Kritzerland at 01:45AMFriday, December 11, 2015
I’m ashamed to admit it, but an inordinate number of years had to pass before I realized one salient fact about Broadway.
The week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is the time whe…
Linked From Kritzerland at 03:57AMFriday, December 4, 2015
Have you heard “I Dreamed a Dream,” “Defying Gravity” and “The Impossible Dream” one time too many – or one hundred times too many?
Steven Gross knows the feeling. As a musi…
Linked From Kritzerland at 02:38AMFriday, November 27, 2015
Oh, how I wanted at least one of the characters in SHEAR MADNESS to mention Queen Latifah, XANADU and Zoosk. Because after hearing a few up-to-now contemporary references that either didn’…
Linked From Kritzerland at 02:59AMFriday, November 20, 2015
Yes, HAMILTON, the show that everyone’s raving about, is the unquestioned musical champ of the nation.
Linked From Kritzerland at 03:04AMFriday, November 13, 2015
Well, my heart is about to burst. My head is about to pop. I’m on my way to The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton, Florida. There I’ll see Lee Roy Reams take his next adventure with HELLO, DOLL…
Linked From Kritzerland at 03:05AMFriday, November 6, 2015
As I mentioned in my column of Sept. 19, every now and then throughout this 2015-2016 season I’ll take a 50th anniversary look at Jack Gaver’s book SEASON IN SEASON OUT, which detailed t…
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