Tuesday, November 29, 2011
If you can’t see a musical on closing night, make sure you at least see it during closing week. Many of the show’s fans come out to say goodbye, to revisit the producti…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 07:09AM[SHARE]On the eve of Bye Bye Birdie’s return to Broadway, let’s check in with one of the original young residents of Sweet Apple, Ohio during the show’s original 607-performance r…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 07:09AM[SHARE]Conal Creedon’s one-act plays at the Irish Repertory Theatre are excellent. How I wish that the staging were as accomplished. Not the direction, but the staging. There is a difference.…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 07:09AM[SHARE]Monday, November 28, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
What musical gave its leading character the best opening song as well as the best closing song? For men, the answer is probably My Fair Lady, as Rex Harrison got to si…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:50PM[SHARE]Friday, November 25, 2011
So here’s the fourth official Broadway revival of the show that didn’t even finish second in the Best Musical Tony voting when it was originally produced. The Sound of Music and …
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 08:08PM[SHARE]Has any Broadway composer-lyricist had as varied a resume as Juno’s Marc Blitzstein?
In 1930, Blitzstein made his Great White Way debut with The Garrick Gaities, that mainstream show…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 08:08PM[SHARE]It was a month where rumors ran rife that Roundabout would mount a revival of High Spirits. If so, wonderful! This is a much underrated show, which I remember fondly, even though I saw it 44…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 08:08PM[SHARE]It was the month that John Neville died. Forty years ago, I saw him play Humbert Humbert in Lolita, My Love at the Shubert in Boston. My buddy Josh Ellis had already seen him do it at the Sh…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 06:15PM[SHARE]The composer's "Nutcracker" music is being used in a new, offbeat musical
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Last month, I was asked to judge a competition that the Speech & Theatre Association of New Jersey annually sponsors for high-schoolers. My, I can’t tell you how many teens chose t…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 12:22AM[SHARE]Good Lord, what a great number of would-be casting agents there are out there! I heard from so many of you when I asked on Feb. 6 whom you’d like to see in certain roles. I can see you…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 12:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Last month’s brainteaser: What do these musicals have in common? Baby, Bajour, Good Vibrations, The Most Happy Fella, My One and Only, 1776, Stop the World – I Want to Get Off an…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 04:23PM[SHARE]Got a nice e-mail from Dan Langan, who’d read my recent piece on the history of telephones in the theater. He was intrigued by my question, “Who was the first playwright to make …
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 04:23PM[SHARE]Did you see that article about Wikipedia in the New York Times last Friday? The fifth-largest website on the ‘net planned to hold “an editing marathon” at the New York Publ…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 04:23PM[SHARE]"Irving Berlin's White Christmas" may be best described by a line from another Irving Berlin show, "Annie Get Your Gun": "Everything about it is appealing."
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:36AM[SHARE]By Peter Filichia --
Forty-seven years ago this week, musical theater enthusiasts added a new word to their foreign-language vocabulary.
They'd already learned "L'chaim!" from Fiddler on…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:07AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 19, 2011
Anthony Zerbe is offering Hackettstown audiences a capital evening
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2011
Much has been made - and rightly so - that Stephen Schwartz now has musicals ensconced in both theaters at 1633 Broadway. But the pair of shows may have something else in common.
SOURCE: kritzerland.com at 05:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Should we print his name as anthony zerbe? That might be appropriate just this once " for in his latest endeavor, the actor is portraying that upper-case-phobic poet, e.e. cummings, in "It's…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:04AM[SHARE]Monday, November 14, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
The birth of any innovation makes for some growing pains. That too was the case with the so-called long-playing record when it came into existence in the late '40s.
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SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 13, 2011
I'm going to break the promise I made to Roy Miller. Last week, Miller, the producer who discovered The Drowsy Chaperone, asked if I'd come to Hershey, Pennsylvania between Nov. 8-13 to see …
SOURCE: kritzerland.com at 05:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2011
New play uses old ideas " amid confusing and tongue-twisting dialogue
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2011
By Peter Filichia "
It was to be The Big Show of the season. For decades, "The New Richard Rodgers musical" always was. But Two by Two was going to be The REALLY BIG Show of 1970-1971 becau…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 6, 2011
In 1948, there was a musical movie called Summer Holiday, and 11 years later, there was a Broadway musical called Take Me Along. Both came from the same source: Eugene O’Neill’s …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AM[SHARE]It was a month of up-and-down theatergoing. Betrayed was quite moving; Artfuckers wasn’t, and I’m very glad Come Back Little Sheba came back. The 39 Steps was an accomplished and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AM[SHARE]Passing Strange is the title. Is diarrhea the subject of this new musical?
Does that sound snarky? Well, really, is it any worse than a certain thing that Stew says from the stage of the B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AM[SHARE]Friday, November 4, 2011
It's the question that every theater critic gets asked by most every theatergoer he meets. It's often a hard question to answer. After all, I usually don't know the taste of the person askin…
SOURCE: kritzerland.com at 06:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 2, 2011
South Orange troupe's take onTony-nominated drama about a gay couple and their conservative parents does the Great White Way one better
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:20AM[SHARE]It started in 1981 in Laura Aden's basement. Back then, the idea of a consortium meant to help the five professional theaters in New Jersey seemed radical to some, unnecessary to others. But…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2011
With wit and humor " and a couple Neanderthals " new play looks at love, mortality
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:16AM[SHARE]There's that old expression, "You don't have to be Jewish to" " whatever. Well, I'll say that on this November 1, you don't have to be Catholic to celebrate All Saints Day. …
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