29 stories by "Broadway Mouth Blog"
I saw this on Pinterest and couldn't think of a better place to share it. This is an animatic, which is a moving storyboard used in the creation of some animated films. This one …
When I was teaching eighth grade, the number one rule was that kids couldn't acknowledge they liked something. No one wanted to step out and be un-cool because he or she liked something tha…
I found Andrew Gans' Playbill interview with A Little Night Music's Leigh Ann Larkin to be insightful and inspirational.Andrew Gans: When did you get to New York?Leigh Ann Larkin: I got to N…
I was so excited to see the tour cast of In the Heights perform on So You Think You Can Dance. I loved that show so much, it was like a mini reunion with some beloved friends. A big "I Miss…
I hate country music. Let me say that again. I hate country music. I bought a Johnny Cash CD after seeing Walk the Line and never finished listening to it. This, however, impresses me. …
I forgot my flash drive at home and cannot work on my next query letter over lunch at work, so I'm on for a minute with an update.TwitterYou may have noticed that I have a Twitter account no…
I have to admit that I wanted to be the first to bring hip hop to Broadway. I own very little of anything that could be called hip hop, but when it's used as part of a song or with the righ…
Let me start with an update.I got my first request for a complete copy of my manuscript.That's very exciting! As many of my readers know, I have been working on getting a novel published, wh…
In the wake of seeing the tour of Mary Poppins, I thought I would share favorite songs from three of my favorite Sherman Brothers scores. "Are We Dancing"Here we have John Davidson wooing a…
The Mary Poppins tour is one of the few shows that came through town where a lot of people I know attended. I know people who want to see The Lion King or Wicked and aren't able to get tick…
Here's sweetie Fantasia talking about her time as Celie (with footage from The Color Purple):Embedded video from CNN Video
It was a surefire hit. Dolly Parton. Allison Janney. Joe Mantello. An adaptation of a well-known movie. It even had a music video for one of the songs.Oh, wait. I got that wrong. It s…
My 3 ½ year-old niece gets carsick. As evidence, she's gotten sick in my car twice. Recently, I was driving her about two hours from home to a family wedding party. She slept for the f…
There's a story Betty Buckley tells in the bonus features of Rick McKay's documentary Broadway: The Golden Age that is also told in Myrna Katz Frommer and Harvey Frommer's oral history It Ha…
I'm a 32 year old straight man. What the heck do I want with a cheap vinyl/plastic/whatever backpack with Legally Blonde: The Musical written on it? Honestly. What am I supposed to do wit…
I one time counseled someone in a Broadway chat room not to write off Hello, Dolly! after they had seen a community theatre production of it and thought it was only okay. Hello, Dolly! with…
Before embarking on a three-day drive to California several years ago, a friend said, "And you're bringing some audio books?""No.""You don't get audio books?" she said with astonishment. "I …
While I don't think there is anything revolutionary about how music is used in Legally Blonde, I've learned immensely from the show through repeated viewings of the MTV broadcast and the Ori…
As I mentioned in a previous column, the Legally Blonde Original Broadway Cast Recording is probably destined to be one of my most-played new Broadway scores. The biggest reason for that is…
Legally Blonde librettist Heather Hach has an almost annoying history. She was accepted into the Walt Disney Screenwriting Fellowship, parlayed that (courtesy of some sweat and talent, I'm …
Like, prior to seeing the tour of Legally Blonde, my experiences with the show were totally limited to the original movie (which I think I last saw in the theater), seeing "Omigod You Guys" …
To kick off Legally Blonde week, I share with you footage from the national tour. Look for more coverage of the show all this week!
Ken Davenport, producer of Blithe Spirit, Altar Boyz, 13, and a number of other Broadway and Off-Broadway shows.What makes Davenport amazing? It's not because he held a Broadway blogger soci…
I recently saw Grey Gardens for the first time, and its use of narration (or maybe a better term would be a character addressing the audience) for half the story had me intrigued. Here are s…
