973 stories by "Michael Portantiere"
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Ghostlight) While Maybe Happy Ending's story revolves around two humanoids known as Helperbots, the score is anything but robotic. In fact, the music by Will Ar…
Studio Cast/Concept Album, 2010 (Nonesuch) No stars, not recommended. The controversial life of politician and former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos hardly seemed ripe for music…
Original Broadway Cast, 2013 (Ghostlight) Here is a unique example of American musical theater in the 21st century. With a score by Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green, and a book by Doug Wright…
Original Broadway Cast, 2014 (Universal Music Enterprises) The overture of Jason Robert Brown's Honeymoon in Vegas tells us everything we need to know about the score: It's full of showbiz r…
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2024 (Center Stage Records) Written by Neil Berg and Cary Gitter, this musical tells the story of an unlikely love match between Angie (Marilyn Caserta), an Itali…
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2013 (PS Classics) Parts of Scott Frankel's score for this musical, based on the 2002 film of the same title, are uncommonly intricate. The beginning of the album…
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Center Stage Records) Â It's difficult to criticize the cast recording of a show that is so representative in its diversity and so bold in its subject matter…
Original Broadway Cast, 2011 (Broadway Records) The cast recording of Doctor Zhivago reveals an uneven score for a musical with a rather complicated plot. The source material, Boris Pasterna…
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Alicia Keys Records/Interscope) Hell's Kitchen is one jukebox musical " in this case, celebrating the artistry of R&B singer-songwriter Alicia Keys through …
McKinley Belcher III made his New York City stage debut in 2013 as Benvolio in a totally gonzo Classic Stage Company production of Romeo and Juliet. With that experience under his belt, he w…
Original Broadway Cast, 2012 (Broadway Records) This musical based on the real-life story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, those infamous outlaws of the 1930s, has a book by Ivan Menchell,…
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Ghostlight) Under the direction of Jessica Stone, Water for Elephants boasted an inventive set and a variety of entertaining circus acts on stage at the Imperia…
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Masterworks Broadway) In the 2023-24 season, which saw the opening of 15 original musicals, Will Butler's songs for the play Stereophonic earned one of the five…
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2024 (Yellow Sound Label) Michael R. Jackson has quickly become the prince of telling unlikely stories on stage, so it shouldn't be a surprise that his unlikelies…
Original Broadway Cast Members and Radio Cast, 1985 (AEI Records) I Married an Angel is a gem from the collection of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Admittedly, it's a slight musical; the p…
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Sony Masterworks Broadway) As F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous and revered novel The Great Gatsby lapsed into the public domain, it was perhaps inevitable that stag…
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2024 (Concord Theatricals) Teaming with interesting ideas about ethics, journalism, the generation gap, and sexism, The Connector presents its listeners with one …
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Sony Masterworks Broadway) Â Fans hailed Eden Espinosa's return to Broadway in Lempicka and fawned over pre-released songs, such as "Woman Is,"' that showed …
Original Broadway Cast, 2016 (Broadway Records) As originally presented on the tiny stage of an intimate nightclub on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Disaster! was a hilariously funny, spo…
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Atlantic) Shaina Taub has previously shown skill in composing scores for The Public Theater's musical adaptations of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and As You Like…
Off-Broadway Cast, 2024 (Concord Theatricals) As staged Off-Broadway at The Shed in late 2023, Sondheim's final musical " which combines two experimental José Luis Buñuel films to create…
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Masterworks Broadway)Â The Outsiders followed the popular book-to-movie-to-musical path to Broadway in 2024. It started out as a novel written by teenage aut…
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2009 (PS Classics) Scott Brown and Anthony King developed this two-person comic gem about two composers writing a musical. The fictional writers have created …
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Atlantic) The Notebook wears its heart on its sleeve. And why wouldn't it? From Nicholas Sparks' novel to Nick Cassavetes' film to Ingrid Michaelson's Broadway …
Original Cast, 2010 (Ghostlight) Before Hamilton took the world by storm in 2016 with a musical style previously underrepresented on Broadway and a story featuring American historical figure…
