72 stories by "Michael Musto"
Plus, camping out at Burlesque
​Someone posted on the ATC Broadway board that a high-profile visitor to Broadway's troubled Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, who is famous from American Idol, might have gone as a prec…
Talking with all-around Broadway fanatic Seth Rudetsky! Plus Charles Busch.
Chatting with the Post's Michael Riedel about the show he loves to hate
Mr. Grande, an ex-captive on 'Big Brother,' returns to his Broadway roots.
In what's expected to a very good year for movie musicals, it's important to glance back and remember the not so good, for the sake of contrast. As an aficionado of enjoyable stinkers, here …
Michael Musto talked with the actor in 2005 about taking on Truman Capote in the film Capote, bonding with murderers, and why he liked to play gay
Cyndi's having fun for more than a night; or why 'Kinky Boots' kicked the competition
It's a fitting farewell, and at the after party at the Maritime Hotel's Cabanas, Chiemi gave me some of the backstory. "Was anything off-limits for Stritchie as far as filming?" I wondered. …
Douglas Carter Beane and I were getting along pretty well--I did a nice interview with him, which was included in my last book--but when I didn't rave about Sister Act, calling it "rote but …
I'm basically bowing and scraping before your fabulous feet and saying "I'm so sorry".
"I march to my own drum," Alan Cumming told me last week, and though he was referring to his iconoclastic dancing style, it could have been about any aspect of his non-boring existence. The …
A well made play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from Henry James' 1880 novel Washington Square, The Heiress is back in a sturdy if not revelatory production.
The play was last on Broad…
I hear that Broadway producer Jordan Roth (who's President of Jujamcyn Theaters) is marrying agent/producer Richie Jackson (who produces Nurse Jackie) this Saturday onstage at one of Jordan'…
There are plenty of folks with the cash and the gumption and the taste for something great and white up on the Way.
But when I ask people who'd rather go to funerals than to a Broadway sh…
The last blog on this topic was an even bigger hit than Springtime For Hitler, so it's led to the inevitable sequel.
Here are the five most Tony-deserving types of annoyances that lurk on the show boards that I happen to spend half my life on:
She dazzles as Clarice in Silence!: The Musical, she startled as the Wicked Witch at Night of 1000 Judys, and she costars in a new movie called Gayby. And she was all mine for a tell-all Q&A…
I just performed a little conversational duet with myself and picked the best of the musical twosomes. We both agreed that these are the finest:
In 2007, Joel Vig--who played various roles in Hairspray--sued the show for $1.5 million, claiming they fired him after he had surgery on a knee he'd injured onstage.
I've seen almost everything this season except Magic/Bird--which to me sounds like a wildlife puppet show, and it's quite possible that's what it is--and I'm ready to tell you who will defin…
Twenty-two-year-old theater performer Jason Wise wasn't thrilled to read the New York Times piece lamenting the fact that Judy's greatness is lost on young gays (in the context of a discussi…
A couple of legends, some TV stars, a few Broadway types, and Giuliani's ex-wife -- all together in the original outing play.
It's as mixed a bag as it sounds.
