Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Original Broadway Cast, 1946 (Decca) When this album was made, cast recordings were still a fairly new concept. It's a major disappointment that the classic Irving Berlin score for Annie Get…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 21, 2014
Recordings by Original New York and London Cast Members, 1934 (various labels/Prism) While it wasn't Cole Porter's first success or biggest hit, Anything Goes has always seemed the quintesse…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:57PM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1993 (Angel) Everyone's favorite redheaded orphan sparkles once more in this Off-Broadway sequel to the Broadway mega-smash Annie. After a prolonged gestation per…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:23AM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2014
Original Broadway Cast, 1977 (Columbia/Sony) Ironically, Charles Strouse's biggest hit is one of his less interesting efforts. Thomas Meehan's book capably adapts the adventures of comic-str…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:24PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1955 (Decca) 0 Stars; not recommended.This is a four-alarm disgrace, even worse than its title implies. A tip-off is the description of the Guy Bolton-Eddie Davis lib…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:36AM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1991 (RCA) The songs of John Kander and Fred Ebb, never lacking in entertainment value or theatricality, were a natural for the revue showcaseformat. This is a sp…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:21AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 2003 (Ghostlight) The English version of Michel Legrand's French smash hit Le passe-muraille, based on Marcel Ayme's short story about a man who gains the ability to …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Original Broadway Cast, 1962 (Columbia/Sony) How many Joshua Logan flops can a person do in one year? Anita Gillette managed two in 1962, soubretting through Mr. President and this provincia…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:23PM[SHARE]Friday, December 5, 2014
Original Broadway Cast, 1947 (RCA) This recording presents only a small fraction of the score of Rodgers and Hammerstein's third collaboration, a show that was both directed and choreographe…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:29PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1978 (RCA, 2CDs) Manhattan Theatre Club presented Ain't Misbehavin' to rave reviews before its hugely successful transfer to Broadway. What this show had that other c…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:00PM[SHARE]Studio Cast, 1999 (PolyGram)Â Before the Broadway launch of Aida, composer Elton John recorded this studio set with a host of pop stars, including Sting, Tina Turner, Janet Jackson, Shani…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Original Broadway Cast, 1978 (DRG) The last word in star vehicles, The Act centers on Liza Minnelli as "Hollywood's own Michelle Craig," performing in Las Vegas. Between the numbers are …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:09AM[SHARE]Monday, November 3, 2014
Michael McKean would have an honored place in entertainment history if only as co-creator and co-star of one of the funniest, most creative films ever made: This Is Spinal Tap. (If you haven…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 10:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2014
The beloved Bob Merrill/Michael Stewart musical Carnival has opened in a Musicals Tonight! production at Theatre Row. Heading the cast are Ali Ewoldt at Lili, Scott Guthrie as Paul Berthalet…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:28AM[SHARE]Monday, September 15, 2014
The Mint Theater Company has gained a stellar reputation for researching, finding, and presenting plays that greatly entertained audiences back in the day but now are shrouded in obscurity -…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 22, 2014
The current issue of The Sondheim Review includes Michael Portantiere's recent interview with Mary Rodgers; the publication has given Talkin' Broadway permission to reprint the interview onl…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:24AM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2014
Some performers (and theatergoers) have mixed feelings about the "actors doubling as musicians" trend that seems to have grown stronger in musical theater over the past decade or s…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 11:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2014
The 2014 High School Musical Theater Awards showcased the best and brightest of young performers from throughout the country. Here are photos ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 29, 2014
One of America's greatest composer/lyricists, Frank Loesser in a sense had three careers -- as a writer of stand-alone songs during the Tin Pan Alley era, songs for Hollywood films, and scor…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:21AM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2014
Depending on one's point of view, it can be either depressing or strangely comforting to realize that human foibles and societal issues we think of as fairly recent are actually not.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2014
It's been a good couple of seasons for those of us who are such great fans of William Inge that we want to see even his most obscure works on stage. Last year, The Actors Company Theatre (TA…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 01:54PM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2014
A memorable phrase coined by Henry James to describe Washington, D.C. is an apt title for Anthony Giardina's The City of Conversation, now receiving its world premiere production by Lincoln …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 3, 2014
Malcolm Gets was most recently seen on stage as one of the witches (!!!), along with Byron Jennings and John Glover, in Macbeth, and before that opposite Will Chase in The Story of My Life. …
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 04:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 23, 2014
This year's East Bonnet competition was filled with delights, from a hilarious opening number with Rory O'Malley as an ambitious actor and Michael Riedel as Satan, to the roof-raising finale…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2014
I consider myself spoiled -- or maybe privileged is the better word -- to have seen and heard several performances of Frank Loesser's operatic musical The Most Happy Fella with full orchestr…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 25, 2014
The swift closing " after only 11 previews and 21 performances " of Christopher Durang's Beyond Therapy on Broadway in 1982 has always mystified me.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Little Mary Sunshine, that delightfully silly operetta spoof by Rick Besoyan, is currently being revived by Musicals Tonight! at Theatre Row's Lion Theatre, directed by Thomas Sabella-Mills.…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 06:07PM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2014
London Wall offers present-day American theatergoers a glimpse of office sexual politics that is twice-removed from our own culture and time.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:02PM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2014
It's not always easy to be funny and sexy on stage (or off) at the same time, but Rachel York managed that feat very well as Norma "Paris Makes Me Horny" Cassidy in Victor/Victoria…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 07:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 14, 2013
This year's "Gypsy of the Year" competition at the Minskoff Theatre began with a tribute to the star of the original production of Gypsy, the great Ethel Merman, channeled by the w…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Like most other songwriters, Alan and Marilyn Bergman are less well known by their own names than by the titles of the songs for which they have so beautifully written the lyrics: "The …
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