Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Tom Chapin Growing's pains Chalk up another setback to Hurricane Irene: It caused a postponement at the Growing Stage in Netcong. A planned Sept. 30 ribbon-cutting would have celebrated the …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:05AM[SHARE]Quick! What musicals have characters named Fortune Teller in Upright Coffin, Female Pirate, Patient, Rock Singer Holding Tray of Bread, Doctor with Most Hair, Little Girl, Shortest Male Doct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2011
It had to be more than just a homonym for him. In two decades of writing lyrics, Lorenz Hart used the word "heart" an inordinate number of times. That's readily apparent in "Ten Cents a Danc…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:08AM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
As we celebrate the 47th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof this week (on Sept. 22, to be precise), let's take a look at its most famous song -- and one of its least f…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:53PM[SHARE]Last week, I detailed 40 assets found in the current production of Follies. Would I be able to do the same with the production of Aspects of Love at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2011
I’m not going to do what every other long-time theatergoer does: tell you about the glories of the original 1971 Follies and detail how every other production has paled in comparison. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:36PM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2011
I’m not going to do what every other long-time theatergoer does: tell you about the glories of the original 1971 Follies and detail how every other production has paled in comparison. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2011
Andrea Gallo stars as the title character in Ian August’s “Donna Orbits the Moon†at New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch. Have you ever wondered …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2011
In Paul Rudnick’s wonderfully witty Regrets Only, he creates a scenario where gays are furious about a proposed amendment to the consitution that will deny them the right to marry. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08PM[SHARE]I certainly don’t share the musical taste of Rob Gordon, the owner of Championship Vinyl, or his employees Barry and Dick. Yet I was quite moved when they sang the opening number of Hi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08PM[SHARE]In Paul Rudnick’s wonderfully witty Regrets Only, he creates a scenario where gays are furious about a proposed amendment to the consitution that will deny them the right to marry. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:08PM[SHARE]Christine Lakin, left, and Beth Malone star onstage in "œThe Breakup Notebook." Everyone who's ever been dumped " and doesn't that include all of us? " is going to…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:58AM[SHARE]Scout's honor Remember Scout from "To Kill a Mockingbird"? Of course you do " be it from reading Harper Lee's classic novel or seeing the famed 1962 film version. In the latter, 10-year-old …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:53AM[SHARE]Do we have the Beatles to thank -- or blame-- for John Doyle’s concept of having actors play instruments in musicals? The director actually thought of the convention in the early &lsqu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
We might not have had Avenue Q, A Chorus Line, Nine, Once on This Island and Ragtime and plenty of other excellent musicals without him.
He was Lehman Engel, who was t…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:50PM[SHARE]At this time of year, I always think of Jeffrey Landman, an actor whom I’ve admired since he was a kid. We met in 1993, when he performed at a press event for Ahrens and Menken’s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2011
Roy GroethingLiz Wisan left, cradles Kayla Maisonet in the Premiere Stages production of the new drama, "Hannah." It's one of the most poignant moments that the New Jersey stage ha…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:50AM[SHARE]Michael Cumpsty will play Benedick at Two River Theater Company No, Michael Cumpsty didn't moan when he heard the news. Of course, he was thrilled when his life partner John Dias was named t…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:43AM[SHARE]A theater, a television special, a DVD and a book. There’s still plenty going on for a man who was born when Abie’s Irish Rose was Broadway’s longest-running show and Herbe…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:02AM[SHARE]“She was ahead of her time for nine decades,” wrote Rex Reed. “She was our Holden Caulfield,” said Marie Brenner. Liza Minnelli declared that she “conquered eve…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:02AM[SHARE]On Wednesday, I told about Sam Irvin’s magnificent new biography: Kay Thompson from Funny Face to Eloise. If you’re unaware of this terrific biographer -- and/or the dynamic comp…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:02AM[SHARE]Like so many of us, Mark Winkler doesn’t like jukebox musicals, either. So seven years ago, when his pal Larry Dean Harris offered to create a musical from his 10 albums worth of jazz …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Family members talk about Sept. 11, 10 years after the event, in the new play, “Sweet and Sad,†in New York. On Sept. 11, 2001, all theaters went dark in New Jersey a…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:13AM[SHARE]FILE PHOTOJane Krakowski Homecoming queen Jane Krakowski will return to her Jersey roots and do a concert: "An Evening With Jane Krakowski" plays Oct. 1 at Enlow Recital Hall, 215 North Ave.…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:58AM[SHARE]Siouxsie Suarez From left, Jen Ring, John P. Keller and Kiley Oram in the William Shakespeare comedy, "A Midsummer Night's Dream." People are always complaining about the price of …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:43AM[SHARE]So I just heard the closing number from Rebecca, and it's terrific. All right, it's not the finale of the musical version that's been promised for Broadway next spring. Instead, it's the ope…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The plastics are up at the Neil Simon Theatre, which always makes an incoming show seem more official: Ragtime begins previews Oct. 23, and officially opens on Nov. 15. And to think that the…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:02PM[SHARE]Marian Seldes made a good point on Monday night. Well, I’m sure Marian Seldes makes a good point every morning, noon, afternoon, and night -- but the one she made on September 21 at Sa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:02PM[SHARE]When I was speaking to a young musical theater enthusiast the other day, she suddenly mused, “You know, I’ve never heard that song that became ‘You’ll Never Get away …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:02PM[SHARE]It all started in rural Illinois when she was three. “My great aunt was a honky-tonk pianist,” says Marianne Challis. “And soon I was in front of people singing ‘Twen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:30AM[SHARE]When you watch a video or DVD at home, do you routinely press the subtitles button? I do – and not because I have any particular hearing deficiency. I just like to see how subtitlers i…
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