Come Fly With Her By Richard Zoglin
Tharp's Broadway shows feature tunes by artists from Billy Joel to Frank Sinatra.
Tharp's Broadway shows feature tunes by artists from Billy Joel to Frank Sinatra.
Richard Zoglin picks the best of the decade's new works for the stage
America is the land of second acts, but still, a gay former child actor who loves magic isn't supposed to return as an icon of cool masculinity.
The new Norman Conquests is pitch-perfect. Can't anyone in America pick up the tune?
The hit musical Billy Elliot leaps from London to Broadway, and loses only a little in the translation
Billy Elliot does almost everything a musical should do, and more. It's a diplomatic triumph.
The high school musical has graduated from Oklahoma! - and from High School Musical too
A 10-piece orchestra from the Broadway musical The Little Mermaid visited the class and orchestrator Danny Troob explained which instruments convey water, waves, swells of emotions and sparkling lights. Stephen Sondheim instructed the kids on how to make sounds scary and rhyme words.
To be honest, the new revival, though fluid and exceptionally well sung, isn't quite ideal.