Friday, July 19, 2013
Why must two-and-a-half hours pass before Ephraim Levi sends a sign to his widow Dolly that says he'll permit her remarriage? Now I finally understand. He doesn't need time to adjust to the …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 05:48AM[SHARE]There have been knock-knock jokes, ethnic jokes, and how many light-bulb jokes. But 50 years ago, the joke that was sweeping the country was the Tom Swifty.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 05:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2013
At the recent American Association of Community Theatre Festival in Carmel, Indiana, 12 companies ranging from Burlington, Massachusetts to Chula Vista, California came to show their wares. …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:25PM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2013
Decades ago, I vowed to obtain each and every original cast album. That meant searching second-hand dives and thrift shops and making many clandestine trips downstairs to dingy basements in …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2013
So on July tenth, we'll celebrate Jerry Herman's eighty-fourth birthday.
And what do we immediately think of when we think of Jerry Herman?
Title songs, of course.
Herman's first four Bro…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:49AM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2013
"My name is Evan Goldman" are the first words said by the leading man of 13. Here, at the Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska, the line is stated unequivocally by Erick Patrick of Olathe …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:29AM[SHARE]Friday, July 5, 2013
Back in 1998, I was on a Paper Mill Playhouse panel with Clive Barnes of the Post, Howard Kissel of the News and Gretchen van Benthuysen of the Asbury Park Press. One of the questions asked …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 2, 2013
We've often heard the expression variously attributed to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Aby Warburg and Gustave Flaubert. But whichever of these men was the first to say it had a point.
"God is …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:03AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 29, 2013
It's officially summertime, and the living is easy - unless you have kids home from school. Send them to Broadway Triple Threat 2013, the marvelous workshop for young performers.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:08AM[SHARE]Monday, June 24, 2013
A couple of weeks ago, I trumpeted the Tony-winning musicals that can be heard thanks to Masterworks Broadway.
And how about Tony-LOSERS in the Best Musicals category?
These have been on m…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:54PM[SHARE]Friday, June 21, 2013
I've met many writers of new musicals, and plenty of them have said the same thing: "When I saw (insert here the name of an awful musical), I said to myself 'I know I can do better than that…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:14AM[SHARE]Monday, June 17, 2013
"You're the one who chose Alan Alda's entrance music, aren't you?"
So said many people to me after I'd hosted The 69th Annual Theatre World Awards on June 3. Whenever a presenter or awardee…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:44PM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2013
They fly through the air with the greatest of ease: those daring young actors currently appearing in the Paper Mill Playhouse production of THE LITTLE MERMAID. Out in Millburn, New Jersey, p…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:40AM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2013
So the percentage just went from 56.92% to 57.58%.
I'm talking about the number of Tony-winning Best Musicals that can be found on recordings and downloads on Masterworks Broadway.
With Kin…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:45PM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2013
Congratulations to Fred Abramowitz, Peter Alfano, Brigadude, Susan Berlin, Josh Freilich, Ingrid Gammerman, Jack Lechner, Marc Miller, the Orts Family (Sheri, Daryl, Zach and Becca), Ira Rap…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Well, here's a reissue of a show album that many fanatically dedicated cast album collectors never owned.
ClownAround was originally recorded in 1972 by RCA Victor. But was it ever released…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:17AM[SHARE]Friday, May 31, 2013
We've seen plenty of teenagers in productions of THE BOY FRIEND, CHILDREN OF EDEN and GODSPELL. But LUCKY STIFF? Isabel Carrington, who runs the Warner Theatre Performance Lab for young perf…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 03:38PM[SHARE]"I'd like to make the laws," said Marie earlier this year when Encores! did Fiorello! I'd certainly like to make two as far as Encores! is concerned.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:49AM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2013
In October 1983, when Cyndi Lauper's pop career started taking off in earnest, the current Broadway musicals had music by Andrew Lloyd Webber (Cats), Jerry Herman (La Cage aux Folles), Maury…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:57PM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2013
Throughout your scholastic career, you were often asked to give one-word answers on tests. Well, for our 2013 Broadway University Final Exam, we instead will offer you one-word questions.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:28AM[SHARE]Monday, May 20, 2013
We're about to mark the 60th anniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein's most obscure musical.
True, Me and Juliet endured the longest of their three least-successful shows. The musical that o…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:35PM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2013
Can you find 19 talented performers to play all the roles in Into the Woods? That seems to be an order as tall as the second-act Giant. But if you take some tips from the most inaccurately n…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:36PM[SHARE]Monday, May 13, 2013
"Next week, on the twentieth of May, I proclaim Liza Doolittle Day!"
So sings Eliza Doolittle in her fantasy number "Just You Wait" in My Fair Lady. It's a line that hasn't been lost on many…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:22PM[SHARE]Friday, May 10, 2013
When Jeff Whitty, Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez created the "School Edition" of their Tony-winning AVENUE Q, they had high schools in mind. And yet, this abridged and expurgated edition was wha…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:16PM[SHARE]All musicals descend from The Black Crook, but On Your Toes is truly its great-great grandson.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:28AM[SHARE]Monday, May 6, 2013
You've heard it said about your town or one nearby.
"If you don't like the weather here, wait five minutes, and it'll change."
The same standard can apply to Stanley Silverman's music in …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:24PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 4, 2013
All right, so your theater company doesn't have a juggler who can keep a half-dozen knives in the air. You're also lacking a contortionist who can balance himself upside down on a board that…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:48PM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2013
It was the month in which the word "robbed" is used more around Broadway than any other month – for the Tony nominations were dispensed.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 05:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2013
One of the seminal recordings of the 1960s is now with us again via digital download: the first studio cast album of Lady in the Dark.
Until 1963, musical theater enthusiasts who'd been too…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:54AM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2013
When producers of American and British musicals book a theater in Amsterdam, Theatre Carre is their first choice. The three-balcony, eight-chandeliered house is where popular hits go to thri…
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