72 stories by "Michael Musto"
I love giving casting advice for free, especially when a movie like Barbra Streisand's Gypsy -- as it will forever be known -- seems to need it so badly.
​Every living being claims to have seen Carrie, the legendary 1988 Broadway flop musical based on the Stephen King novel about the small-town girl who gets revenge on the bullies via …
​"I'd love to direct one of the Olsen twins in the story of my life!" cracked the Tony and Emmy winning star at the Drama League tribute in her honor at the Pierre last night.
Chenow…
Because crap automatically gets a standing ovation, but the good stuff doesn't get one until the Times rave comes out. ... Too many jukebox musicals end with a mixtape medley that has you th…
​You might know her as the old lady in the Spider-Man movies, but theater aficionados have long treasured Rosemary Harris as the Tony winning presence from The Lion in Winter, Heartbr…
Shtick meets solemnity in the 1971 musical Godspell, conceived by John-Michael Tebelak, with a durably catchy score by Stephen Schwartz.
The 1971 flower-child musical Godspell -- a kooky rendering of the Scriptures as a sort of nouveau vaudeville show -- has started Broadway previews, and the kids on the boards are spilling a…
And if you had to say "Patti and Mandy who?" then you're not going to care anyway, so just go back to your football game.
Who would know better than me?
The 10 dissiest, wickedest, bitchiest sass-o-grams (whether in movies or in life) are as follows:
​I adore virtually anyone onstage because they're gamely trying to amuse, but there are two things they say that always make me want to pull out my eardrums:
As the lights were going down for tonight's Tribeca Film Festival screening of the doc Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, the entire theater heard a woman screaming "Security! Security! Come …
Run to the Golden Theatre if you want to be reminded of how alive you are.
You'll be moved, enraged, buzzed, and haunted.
You will feel.
​The new Olivier by way of John Belushi, Mark Rylance is willing to go to even darker places than an electrician in a power blackout.
​Kathleen Turner might be cursing and smoking up a storm in a play called High, but she's got nothing on the Sister Act gals.
A feisty nun and a fidgety priest battle it out over a teen with sexual problems.
Sound like the Pulitzer wining Doubt?
You wish.
The Broadway musical Wonderland takes a classic children's story (Alice in Wonderland) and tries to make it modern and urban while adding a nudge-nudge jokeyness and some self-help messages.
Watch out, Equus! Move over, Secretariat! There's a new horse in town and it's crossing the finish line.
At age 76, the theater vet is a real doll in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
The Broadway revival of Anything Goes hits a special fizzy high whenever Adam Godley turns up as Lord Evelyn Oakleigh, a quirkmeister who ends up singing and dancing into the heart of leadin…
Bono's Peter Parker isn't the only thing that's crashing and boring
​I'm quite certain that The Book of Mormon is the only current Broadway musical with the song lyric, "Fuck you, God, in your ass, mouth, and cunt--and the eye!" And I defy anyone to g…
