"For me, this is where math becomes art"… explains Fiddler cellist Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf, when describing her experience playing the Broadway revival of Sondheim’s A Little Night …
This might be one of the rarest, and most special moments in musical theater history where we see a real-life subject who has bonded with the actor(s) who have both re-created, and heighted …
It is hard for most of us to believe that it has been almost two years since the death of our beloved Elaine Stritch. Born in 1925 in Detroit, Stritch eventually made her Broadway debut in L…
In honor of Fox’s Grease: Live!, we look back at the tradition of casting full-grown adults, and passing them off as high school students, in this American classic. Perhaps West Side S…
In the spring of 1963, one of Lucille Ball’s favorite performers, Broadway legend Ethel Merman, agreed to star in a Desilu pilot for a new television series, Maggie Brown. When the sit…
“Some People” gotta pay the bills…and Ethel is no exception. Merman recorded 14 songs for The Ethel Merman Disco Album, although only seven were released on the finished re…
We are all familiar with the stunning chandelier repilca of Paris’ famed opera house, Palais Garnier, featured prominently in the The Phantom of the Opera. But, how much do you know ab…
These days, it is easy to take for granted all of the media resources we have to preview new and upcoming Broadway shows. But way back when, you had to actually attend a show to see it. …
As nationwide audiences salivate in anticipation of the feathered hair maven coming to a city near them, Hedwig and the Angry Inch producers and casting directors are assembling their short …
Let's take a look back at Frank Wildhorn's Dracula on Broadway, which opened today in 2004. Dracula, the Musical is, of course, based on Bram Stoker's original Victorian novel. The show, wit…
Musical theatre classic A Chorus Line went on to win The Pulitzer Prize, Drama Critics Circle Award, and nine Tonys in 1975; and ran a record-setting 6,137 performances. Most theatre fans kn…
Welcome to Merman Mondays, where we look forward to starting your week with a blast! Join us in celebrating “The Merm” with Unsung videos, photos, stories, and little known f…
As diverse casting has quickly become the norm in US and UK theater, with revolutionary pieces like the mega-hit ‘Hamilton’ setting a new standard, audiences and critics alike ar…
Sometimes the holidays don’t exactly look like a Hallmark card. If you can relate, then maybe a Chistmas spent with Tony winner Alice Ripley, Aaron Tveit, J. Robert Spencer and Jennife…
The cast of A Christmas Story, currently in its holiday run at The Theater at Madison Square Garden, woke up early to perform on ABC’s Good Morning America. Dan Lauria will once ag…
It might be the oldest story in the book. Dames at Sea, the musical parody of flashy 1930s Busby Berkeley-style movie musicals, centers on a young understudy who suddenly steps into a role o…
Dreamgirls , which premiered on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre on December 20, 1981, was originally developed as a project for Broadway star Nell Carter. Playwright Tom Eyen and composer H…
In Part One of “A Conversation with Betty Buckley”, Unsung Broadway’s Founding Editor, Scott Kaufman sat down with the Broadway legend, discussing her childhood, ‘Car…
In a rare conversation, Unsung Broadway’s Founding Editor, Scott Kaufman sits down with Broadway legend, Betty Buckley. In Part One, Buckley discusses childhood; also ‘CarrieR…
Rarely is a Broadway star given their own retrospective musical on The Great White Way (especially while they are still around to sing and dance in them!); but few musical theatre actresses …
Now that the cat is officially out of the bag that Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s 1970′s classic Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is being fast-tracked into a big budget featu…
Before Broadway had really warmed up to the idea of screen-to-stage musical adaptations, My Favorite Year, with a charming score by Ahrens and Flaherty (Once On This Island, Suessical, Ragti…
Now that Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have secured their newest stage-to-screen project, Stephen Schwartz’s Pippin, with the (well-chosen) Weinstein Group, the big questions are: Who wil…
After ratings like this, there is no doubt that conversations at NBC are already underway in regards to next year’s live musical broadcast. Despite the varied reviews, producer Neil Me…
It was the stuff of legends. The Carrie of a new generation. It was a Broadway disaster that few could image was possible. How could someone, let alone a group of people, invest in such an i…