Monday, August 1, 2011
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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]After Faith Prince had her landmark success with Adelaide in Guys and Dolls in 1992, many musical theater enthusiasts were heard to say, "Wouldn't she make an ideal Ella Peterson in Bells Ar…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[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 composer-lyricis…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Who'd expect that Elf would contain one of the most significant pieces of dialogue in the history of the Broadway musical?
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]I once asked Charles Strouse if he expected that "Baby, Talk to Me" was going to be Bye Bye Birdie's big hit. After all, it was the first real song in the overture, placed and played with su…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[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 Herbert Hoover was in t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[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 everything and moved on." Jule St…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]The lights come up on a black woman just sitting. That's it: sitting. She's not talking to anyone or doing anything in particular. She's just sitting with a cake box on her lap. When Oklahom…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Many couples take a trip to the Caribbean or Europe to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary. Although the Dodges - Marcia Milgrom and Anthony - reached that august mark on Saturday, they…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]In the summer of 1963, I started what would be a Wednesday ritual: Getting Variety and immediately turning to "Legit." Oh! Dennis O'Keefe was being replaced as Mary Martin's leading man in J…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]It was the month that Damn Yankees' history repeated itself. 2010 was The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant to the Washington Senators - well, the team that started life as the Washington Se…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]We have a chance to see another vintage musical starting on Tuesday, as Three Wishes for Jamie gets an airing at Musicals Tonight! It originally opened on March 21, 1952 at the Hellinger, an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Had a nice time at Shine! the tuneful, emotional and very well directed musical. The man in front of me started a chat at intermission, and when I asked him what his first Broadway musical w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]A production of Abie's Irish Rose? I wouldn't miss it for all the tea in British drawing room comedies.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]La Bête, which in 1991 became one of my all-time favorite theater experiences, is now a severe let-down because it's low-down and dumbed-down.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Have you noticed the big bus sitting between the Marquis and Lunt-Fontanne Theaters - the one that says The Ride on its side? It's a "motor coach" that offers a tour around Bryant Park, the …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]We may not be living in a Renaissance, more's the pity, but we do have a Renaissance man in our midst.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Mama Morton and Velma Kelly have been wondering "Whatever happened to class?" for some time now. If they saw The Drunkard at the Metropolitan Playhouse, they'd really be scandalized by the g…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]If you've seen the 1942 movie of Panama Hattie, you haven't really seen Panama Hattie. And if you've seen the 1954 TV adaptation of Panama Hattie, you haven't really seen Panama Hattie, eith…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Next week, The Philhallmonic will do Bewitched: The Songs of Rodgers and Hart and before you write to accuse me of typing a typo, let me assure you I got it right.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Had a good time reading Mark Griffin's very well-written and researched A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli. How nice to know more about such films as Ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]The third-most acclaimed musical of 1965-66 keeps popping up. When it opened on January 29, 1966, the much-anticipated Sweet Charity had already been upstaged by Man of La Mancha, which had …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Twentieth Century Fox presents Timothy Hutton in SHINE! The Horatio Alger Musical. Also starring George Lee Andrews. Book by Richard Seff. Music by Roger Dean Anderson. Lyrics by Lee Goldsmi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]While there’s a famous song that urges us to “Take the A Train,” that conveyance isn’t the best way to get to In Transit at Primary Stages at 59 East 59th Street.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]All right, so my plane left three hours and forty-five minutes late, but once I’m on the streets of London, all is forgiven. Well, almost all. I wish that so many West End marquees did…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]So it’ll be Scott Davies, Sofia Escobar and Will Barratt by day and Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess and Joseph Millson by night. Yes, I’m at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]A Monday matinee? On Labor Day, sure, and other Monday holidays, too. But during the summer months, visitors to the Winnipesaukee Playhouse in Laconia, New Hampshire can see a show at 2 p.m.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Got up to Deertrees Theatre & Cultural Center in Harrison, Maine. There I caught a dress rehearsal of William Gibson’s Two for the Seesaw, which originally ran for 750 performances…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]It's the right time for Bob Sloan's Just in Time: The Judy Holliday Story. The bio-semi-musical did so well in the FringeNYC festival that it's going to be part of the Encore series starting…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]So I see that this December the Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton will be presenting 8-Track: The Sounds of the '70's. Wonder if there are any musical theater songs in the mix?
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:54AM[SHARE]Combine the schedule that Eva Peron had to follow on her Rainbow Tour as well as all the plans that Billy Liar had in his head, and you’ll get an idea of what Elaine Paige’s life…
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