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To stage a musical number at Radio City, individual shows are required to foot most of the production costs. That can set a show back more than $200,000, a figure that has producers seeing r…
It plays quite well but, upon reading and closer reflection, feels a bit contrived and a mite improbable. But not, for all that, unable to hold our amused interest.
There are five musicals that are just about perfect. One is "Fiddler on the Roof." It has opened in a matchless production in London and deserves to run forever.
Next season's lineup includes "Happy Days," a new musical based on the television series that ran from 1974 to 1984.
Hottest of all may be the Lizzie of Audra McDonald. Not hitherto her fan, I was completely won over.
Neither the characters nor the main topic and its resolution grabbed me. Sadly, with this play, a very considerable playwright goes out not with a bang but a whimper.
As a lesson in acting (other than the annoying Joanna P. Adler as the female commentator), this is a boon to theatrical aspirants. For the rest of us, it is slim pickings.
In an unusually aggressive move, the producers hired five marketing firms to promote the show about an African-American businessman who wants to run for mayor of Pittsburgh.
If you're looking for a musical that leaves its recent and current competition miles, if not light years, behind, "LoveMusik" is it.
This trashily written but lavishly mounted commodity boasts any number of features for what the French call "epater les bourgeois," and I translate as "amazing the booboisie." As overproduce…
It will keep your interest, but is that tantamount to earning its keep?
There is no doubt that "Frost/Nixon," now imported from London to Broadway, is rattling good theater. What is open to question is how good it is as history.
