Tony winner Marc Shaiman might be best known to musical theater fans as the man to brought music to 1960′s Baltimore in Hairspray, or for his memorable score to Bombshell on NBC’…
It was a first class team that put together 2006′s ill-fated rock musical High Fidelity; including composer Tom Kitt (Next to Normal, Bring It On), Amanda Greene (Bring It On, Hands On…
One of the great musical theatre actresses of our time, Tony winner Betty Buckley (Pippin, Cats, Drood, Sunset Blvd, Dear World) is beginning the holiday run of her show The Vixen Of Broadwa…
The Sound of Music has been a mega-hit all over the world since it’s release in 1965; although not necessarily with that title. It was actually renamed for its release in certain forei…
For the first time in a Broadway musical, the writer didn’t struggle to figure out an appropriate ending for the show; he simply let the audience figure it out for themselves! The musi…
Things must be going well over at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre! Rarely do we see a Bway musical move UP their opening date. But they must have solidified things after it’s highly succ…
Ed Wilson has been an important fixture on Broadway for years now, designing hair/wigs for some of Broadway’s most ‘Unsung’ musicals of the last several years including 9 t…
It was the year 2000, and Menzel was just coming off her Tony Nominated turn as Maureen in Rent. Her next high profile job was in 2000, as a replacement in a big budget Broadway spectacular.…
Idina Menzel has been giving her fans small morsels her new musical If/Then to enjoy over the last several months. And now the new musical, penned by composers Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey (Nex…
It was a packed sold-out (two show), one-night only event at Catalina Grill in Los Angeles, and Ms. Hilty’s “best friends” in the room were her husband (in the band), and b…
It might be best known as the first act of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black’s Song and Dance (which won Bernadette Peters a Tony Award in 1986). But Tell Me On A Sunday came fir…
It was worth the trek to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California to see an extremely unique production of Jeanine Tesori’s Violet set on a moving bus, that ran November 14-17, 201…
Liza Minnelli gave half-sister Lorna Luft some Birthday love on social media today, posting on her official Facebook page: “Happy Birthday to my beautiful sister Lorna Luft OfficialÂ�…
USA Today first reported that Alabama has FINALLY decided grant posthumous pardons to the victims of the 1931 Scottsboro Boys case. The Scottsboro Boys musical on Broadway was the final coll…
With the many waves of “Reno Sweeneys” the U.S. and U.K. has experienced over the years (Patti, Elaine, Sutton, Caroline, Sally, Rita…the list goes on), it is easy to forge…
This morning, NBC’s The Sound of Music impresario Neil Meron tweeted an extended promo of the shows dress rehearsal process. Broadway favorites Audra McDonald, Laura Benanti, and Chris…
Long before we had the fabulous Mark Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can) composer and lyricist of SMASH’s fictional Marilyn Monroe bio, Bombshell; there was the …
They aren’t confirming it yet, but (heavy) word on the street suggests that The Roundabout Theatre Co. is clearing out The American Airlines Theater to make room for Sutton Foster in t…
The sets are new, the stars are new, and a few new/cut songs have been added in. But critics are still making the many of the same points about Side Show as they did in 1997. Essentially, it…
Sondheim’s Road Show had many incarnations (and titles) before it arrived at The Public Theater on November 18, 2008. The musical premiered at the NY Theater Workshop from October thro…
This is season could definitely use some musical revivals (if the Tonys rule it as one). As previously predicted by U.B., the success of Encores! summer concert staging of Violet has transla…
It was a truly desolate musical theater season on Broadway in 1994 when Andrew Lloyd-Webber pushed London’s Norma (Patti) aside in a sensational move to make room for Glenn Close’…
This is sad news for Broadway, as another beautiful new musical, Big Fish, bites the dust. Reviews were mostly good for this special show helmed by Broadway powerhouse Susan Stroman, who&…
American audiences tend to like their 'Sweeney' served Victorian period, with a bit of edge (no pun intended). But the press photos for Royal Exchange Theatre's current production of Sweeney…
It was the little musical that just couldn’t. Seven months after the opening of his Jekyll & Hyde, Frank Wildhorn opens his second Broadway show The Scarlett Pimpernel on November …