303 stories by "Ron Fassler"
Interview with Ron Fassler Jennifer Ashley Tepper is not only a knowledgeable theatre historian, Broadway producer, and director of programming at the 54 Below supper club, but also one of t…
Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera in "The Rink" (1984). Photo by Martha Swope.November 20, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
In 1984, Liza Minnelli co-starred with Chita …
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . The delightful Elf is a 2010 Broadway musical based faithfully on the 2003 film comedy of the same name. A perfect Will Farrell vehicle, Elf t…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . If you haven't heard by now, Maybe Happy Ending, a new meet-cute musical with two robots as its leading characters has just opened to excellent reviews…
Carol Channing and Sid Caesar in 1971's "Four on a Garden" (Photo by Martha Swope).November 18, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, By Ron Fassler
There used to be a certain subset of a…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . The name Jack Viertel is a somewhat legendary one in Broadway circles as both a former theatre critic, Tony Award-winning producer, and non-fiction author…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Of all the brassy Broadway musicals that blew through town in the 1960s, Skyscraper is one of the few to receive an original cast recording and …
Estelle Parsons as Violet Weston in "August: Osage Country" (2008).November 8, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
In New York City this week, an unseasonably warm Novemb…
The company of "Ragtime" at City Center (photo by Joan Marcus).November 4, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
Last June, as I exited the City Center Encores! production …
Review by Ron Fassler I'm a longtime fan of MasterVoices, a performing arts organization which continues to thrive after undergoing many changes in its long history. Founded in 1941, it has …
Review by Ron Fassler . . . Oscar Hammerstein II was a man of many accomplishments, though he will be best remembered for three indisputably monumental things: 1) He wrote Show Boat wi…
Advertising used throughout "Man of La Mancha's" six-year run (1965"1971).October 29, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
As a teenager and developing theatre nerd of the 19…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . Well, knock me over with a feather. I really liked Jamie Lloyd's sexually charged, visually exhilarating, and highly conceptualized Sunset Boulevard, n…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . Sponsored by the Mabel Mercer Foundation, the 35th annual New York Cabaret Convention was presented over a three-night period this past week at Rose Hall …
The incredibly photogenic Lee Remick (1935"91).October 24, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today by Ron Fassler
In 1982, when John Pielmeier's Agnes of God was trying out in Boston, the top b…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Actor and Playwright James Hindman's What Doesn't Kill You, which recently opened at the 59E59 Theaters complex in midtown, has just been extended thro…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . The lyric writers of popular song have never attracted nearly the spotlight the way composers do in receiving the lion's share of attention. As Ira Gershw…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . It's hard to believe it's been nearly twenty years since The 25th Annual Putnam Country Spelling Bee opened on Broadway. It arrived during one of th…
Richard Mulligan with his two leading ladies: Valerie Harper and Marlo Thomas in "Thieves" (1974).October 16, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler.
For those with a sense of …
Music Review By Ron Fassler . . . It's hard to believe that Kelli O'Hara, an ingenue's ingenue if there ever was one, first made her Broadway debut close to twenty-five years ago. Since then…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . All is right with the world when Marilyn Maye is in town and performing in a small room packed with her fans. And at ninety-six, she still has the c…
Theatre Review by Ron Fassler . . . Picture the surprise gasp from the audience as the curtain rose on Our Town at its premiere in 1938. The sight of there being no scenery must have sho…
Theater Review by Ron Fassler . . . David Cromer is one of the most in-demand directors in the theatre. With his choice of projects his for the asking, when a play arrives with his name atta…
Hunter Foster and Kerry Butler in "Little Shop of Horrors" (2003).October 9, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today, by Ron Fassler
Amongst the legendary stories of Broadway shows that have…
Cabaret Review by Ron Fassler . . . When I was a boy interested in musicals, the scores Anthony Newley wrote (with Leslie Bricusse) for Stop the World I Want to Get Off and The Roar…
