Tuesday, November 19, 2024

TAMMY FAYE at THE PALACE – a true to life satire with plenty of heart by Oscar E Moore

I have never been a fan of Sunday.  Especially a Sunday when I am scheduled to review at 3pm a new musical – TAMMY FAYE – that has gotten less than stellar reviews and some bad word of …

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:31AM
Monday, November 18, 2024

THE NOT SO MERRY WIVES OF SATCHMO by Oscar E Moore

Attend the tale of Satchmo’s wives.  Four in all.   For all to see.  In this spotty, chaotic production of A WONDERFUL WORLD – the Louis Armstrong musical at STUDIO 54 where a road m…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:06AM
Monday, October 21, 2024

HOLD ON TO ME DARLING – Is that all there is? by Oscar E Moore

I don’t think that this review will sell many tickets.  But with Adam Driver as its star attraction – live and in person, close up and personal – does it matter?  I think not.  The …

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:54AM
Saturday, October 12, 2024

OUR TOWN REVISITED – SPECTACULAR IN ITS SIMPLICITY by Oscar E Moore

OUR TOWN has a new look.  Integrated. Dr. Gibbs and family are black.  And fit in just as natural as the white folks next door.  The Webbs.  Color doesn’t matter as we all share the sa…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:32PM
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

McNEAL – starring Artificial Intelligence by Oscar E Moore

The less said or written about this latest Lincoln Center catastrophe the better.  McNEAL, starring Artificial Intelligence and featuring Robert Downey Jr. making his Broadway debut.  Anyo…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:18AM
Sunday, September 29, 2024

SILAS – a vignette by Oscar E Moore

Did he say he was from New Canaan or New Haven?  I really can’t remember.  It’s been quite a long time that I cared to speak to someone while minding my own business sitting on a bench…

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Friday, August 16, 2024

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS – REVISITED by Oscar E Moore

  O woe is me!  Well…here goes. A mild mannered, mediocre, meandering musical.  Music by Mary Rodgers (daughter of Richard Rogers; mother of Adam Guettel – great musical genes inherit…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:48AM
Monday, April 29, 2024

“OH, MARY!” – AN OUTRAGEOUS OVER THE TOP COMPOUND FRACTURED FAIRY TALE by Oscar E Moore

Feeling blue?  Down in the dumps?  Have your tickle bones not been tickled lately?  The extremely talented and wonderfully funny Cole Escola as Mary Todd Lincoln and company might just be…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 05:12PM
Friday, April 26, 2024

THE GREAT GATSBY – RUNNING ON EMPTY by Oscar E Moore

As we bid a not so fond farewell to the most recent Broadway season with this car wreck of a musical THE GREAT GATSBY we ask ourselves why?  Why import a mediocre musical from New Jersey’…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:54AM
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

JASPER FINKELSTEEN’S DILEMMA by Oscar E Moore

    London, Elizabethan England, 1601 For some, forsooth, I am merely a vagabond – a worthless novelty.  I have been accused of wasting my time and the time of others – attempting to …

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

LEMPICKA – the unseen musical by Oscar E Moore

This a short somewhat strange take of a new and original musical titled LEMPICKA – not a review – that I had cancelled by the PR folks shortly before I was ready to head out to see it as…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:12PM
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

SIMI FARKEL HOLMES PRIVATE EYE – a cautionary tale by Oscar E Moore

In the land of anything can happen, which could be just about anywhere these days, we begin. Sunlight had started to disappear.  A dullness at first.  Then grayness.  Then little or no li…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:35AM
Friday, March 15, 2024

IBSEN’S GHOST – a disappointing drag PRIMARY STAGES by Oscar E Moore

To be perfectly clear this is not GHOSTS by Henrik Ibsen.  This is Ibsen’s Ghost by Charles Busch infamous Queen of drag who can sometimes, most times be a riot on stage in his many portr…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:18PM
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

MAVIS THE MOSQUITO – A FLIGHT OF FANTASY by Oscar E Moore

I have a cousin.  She’s a mosquito.  I am a fly.  A reincarnated fly.  Oh, the stories I could tell – this being one of them… Matthew by name.   Our families somehow, somewhere h…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:06PM
Thursday, December 21, 2023

THE AUDITION by Oscar E Moore

So what!  So I haven’t got any professional experience.  Just loads of school stuff.  Starring roles, by the way.  I keep telling myself over and over it doesn’t matter.  It doesn�…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:12AM
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

‘TIS THE SEASON by Oscar E Moore

There have been many a Christmas tree in my life.  Even a Hanukkah Bush.  But few were chosen.  And so, I take this time to reflect.  A very personal view. From the ridiculous – does a…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:48AM
Friday, August 18, 2023

THE SHARK IS BROKEN – or how JAWS was almost not made – sort of by Oscar E Moore

Disclaimer #1 I never saw JAWS the movie nor did I ever want to.  Disclaimer # 2 I read the script the night before I saw the production at The John Golden Theater on West 45th Street.  No…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:19PM
Friday, July 28, 2023

THE COTTAGE – at long last Broadway by Oscar E Moore

An overwrought, disappointing production.  Hardly worth all the effort that the participants are so forcefully putting forth to be quaint, amusing, sexy and unbelievably outrageous.  Unfor…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:33AM
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

New York, New York – a beautifully cobbled together newish musical by Oscar E Moore

Thank you Susan Stroman!  Thank you for keeping alive the musical theater traditions so dear to many.  For your dedication and artistic vision.  Your creativity.  For your honesty and fo…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:32AM
Friday, April 21, 2023

SHUCKED a new musical comedy – from Hellzapoppin! to Cornzapoppin! by Oscar E Moore

Go-o-o-ollee!  It’s been said that “laughter is the best medicine” – that is, second only to corn whiskey.  So perhaps it is, in such a lackluster theatrical season we get SHUCKED.…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:48AM
Monday, April 17, 2023

CAMELOT – Powerful, brave and moving. Seriously entertaining. Go. by Oscar E Moore

  In this impressive revival/revisal of Lerner & Loewe’s melodious and witty musical first produced in 1960, based on T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, director Bartlett Sher a…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:24AM
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

BAD CINDERELLA – a screw-ball, frantic, nonsensical, compound fractured fairy tale production led by producer NO GUARANTEES – says it all by Oscar E Moore

  Poor Cyndi!  Forced to being an outcast ‘cuz she doesn’t conform to the standards set forth in Belleville where “beauty is a duty” – just one of the not-so-nifty lyrics of Davi…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:32AM
Friday, March 17, 2023

A DOLL’S HOUSE – scenes from a marriage 1879/2023 by Oscar E Moore

Be prepared.  Jessica Chastain is spectacular as Nora Helmer.  As she sits seemingly spellbound in a chair on a bare stage, dressed in dark blue, alone with her striking profile and red ha…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:44AM
Monday, March 6, 2023

FALL RIVER FISHING – BEDLAM: POST MORTEM – So she dated an axe murderer by Oscar E Moore

This won’t take long.  Much shorter than the two act, two hour and forty minute excruciating exercise on view at The Connelly Theatre on East 4th Street co-authored by Zuzanna Szadkowski …

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:02AM
Friday, February 17, 2023

PICTURES FROM HOME – nothing to write home about by Oscar E Moore

Never leave dirty dishes in the sink.  Always make your bed.  And if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t!  But certain rules are made to be broken.  Right?  So here goes. PI…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:32AM
Thursday, December 15, 2022

SOME LIKE IT HOT by Oscar E Moore

This new musical adaptation of the classic Billy Wilder 1959 comedy starring Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe should be herewith subtitled – Thoroughly Modern Daphne or How Jerry…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:06PM
Friday, April 29, 2022

FUNNY GIRL – a mediocre, cut and paste patchwork quilt revisal by Oscar E Moore

For this we waited 58 years to see back on Broadway?!  Summer Stock is alive and faltering at the August Wilson Theatre where this extremely disappointing revisal of FUNNY GIRL has recently…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:54AM
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

PLAZA SUITE: BITTERSWEET AND SOUR – hold the anchovies by Oscar E Moore

There is a good reason why Neil Simon was known as The King of Comedy.  And one prime example is on view at the resplendent Hudson Theatre where a slew of his theatrical posters – plays a…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:48AM
Monday, March 21, 2022

EVERYBODY LOVES BERNIE by Oscar E Moore

As in Bernadette Peters who starred as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George in 1984 at the Booth Theatre.  We shared the same vocal coach.  I remember arriving at James Gregory’s studio…

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Friday, February 18, 2022

THE MUSIC MAN – As fresh and as sweet as new mown hay by Oscar E Moore

I’d like to propose a toast!  To celebrate!  Here’s to the entire cast, from superstars Hugh Jackman & Sutton Foster to ensemble players to understudies; to all those backstage hel…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:54AM
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

COMPANY – reinterpreted revival revisited – a mixed bag of tricks by Oscar E Moore

2021 is the year of SONDHEIM.  Broadway: COMPANY.  Off B’way: ASSASINS.  Film: WEST SIDE STORY.  And his untimely, sudden, unfortunate death. Flashback to 1970.  After an extremely su…

SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:12AM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic