Monday, August 1, 2011
Congratulations to Fred Abramowitz, Val Addams, Peter Alfano, AnyaToes, John Atkins, Susan Berlin, Brigadude, Richard Brock, Jeremy Fassler, Lara Fodor, Laura Frankos, John Greene, John Grif…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]At the after-party at of The Little Dog Laughed at the Bickford Theatre in Morris Township, New Jersey, people were talking, and Liz McCartney's name came up. And I realized I never have iss…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Bashville. Not Nashvile. Bashville. Ever heard of it? It's a 1983 London musical that's based on The Admirable Bashville, a 1902 play by George Bernard Shaw.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]They did the first musical for money, and wrote the second one for the love and the fun of it.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]"New York is the center of New York," snarls Rose in Gypsy. Well, perhaps it is only that, but it's certainly the center of the Broadway musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]On Monday, we had the first part of the 2011 Broadway University Mid-Term. It was, as virtually all of my quizzes have been, a list of 50 lines and lyrics which you're to identify by song an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Too early to be thinking about Toronto in June? Not after you hear what's happening theatrically in the city that's often referred to as Broadway North. Actually, a more popular nickname…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[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 'Twenty Froggies Went to Scho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]89 years ago this week, Leonid Andreyev's He Who Gets Slapped opened on Broadway. Do you know this fascinating play?
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Have you ever noticed that the final line of The Importance of Being Earnest isn't quite the title of the play?
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]So La Bete is closing a little early, and will log in a mere 101 performances when it shutters this Sunday. It couldn't even fulfill its limited engagement and make it to February 13.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]It was the month that I had even greater respect for Jim Miller, Joe Miller, Paul Roberts, Thom Snode and Ed Weissman. They're the ones who knew the answer to my seemingly impossible Brainte…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Well, we made it to the New Year. The worst any of our tombstones will state as our death date is 2011.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Twelve-year old Bonnie Langford was in the wings waiting to perform at a benefit. Even at this tender age, she was already a seasoned stage veteran, having played Bonnie Butler in the 1970 m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Each December, they're as common as candy canes: the lists of the best and the worst productions of 2010.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]On Monday, I listed the nine best productions I saw all year, saying I'd save the 10th for today: a production I saw when I had one night in Paris.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]It started on Thursday, when "geof" on All That Chat noted that Dec. 16 was the 50th anniversary of the opening of Wildcat - the N. Richard Nash-Cy Coleman-Carolyn Leigh musical that starred…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Allen Neuner wrote, "I enjoyed reading your review of (Ken Bloom's) new Hollywood Musicals book. I was struck by the author's comment that he couldn't include High School Musical I and II be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Now that it's close to December 25, friends and relatives have been asking me what I want for Christmas.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Ken Bloom isn't at all worried about his first selection. When people see that his alphabetically arranged Hollywood Musicals: The 101 Greatest Song-and-Dance Movies of All-Time starts with …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]After I replicated Allen Neuner's e-mail on Wednesday, I got a lovely deluge of responses from his asking "So put the question to your loyal readers: which made-for-TV musicals would they se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]So I see that a delightful personal nemesis of mine has died. Hillard Elkins succumbed to a heart attack last week at the age of 81. Doing the math, I now see that he was only 38 when I met …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Most every December, I moderate a panel for the Drama League's Christmas Luncheon. In the past, I've interviewed the stars of Wonderful Town, Regrets Only, Cymbeline, The Woman in White and …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]When Jacob Shoesmith-Fox started going to the theater, it was Les Miserables, The Lion King and Aida (twice). "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat was a show I memorized every word …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Gotta get my old tuxedo pressed. Gotta sew a button on my vest. For on this Tuesday night Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m., I'll be at Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center (Broadway at 66th Street) to talk …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]It was the month that the unsinkable Sarah Palin, whose words are so well-received by so many, got her non-word "refudiate" named Word of the Year and placed in The Oxford English Dictionary.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Here comes a rash of closings. January 2 will see the expected end of Brief Encounter, Elf and The Pee-wee Herman Show. Two classic musicals -- Promises, Promises and West Side Story - will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]I liked to call him "the round-the-clock nurse of the fabulous invalid." He was John Willis, the editor of the Theatre World annuals and administrator of the Theatre World Awards. John died …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]To be sure, as we approach Thanksgiving we want to count all the blessings in our lives. Here's hoping that you have plenty in yours. I know I have plenty in mine - including the fact that y…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]So it's Black Friday -- not to mention equally Black Saturday and Black Sunday - where many of us will start Christmas shopping in earnest. But what to get the theater enthusiast? For those …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]I envy St. Martin de Porres. The 16th century Peruvian was said to have the ability to be in two places at one time. I, alas, cannot, and as a result, I'm missing two events between Friday a…
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