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…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 06:17AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2013
So you think that the first "so-bad-it's-good" musical was The Rocky Horror Show?
A case can be made for a very different property: Say, Darling.
Truth to tell, Say, Darling was less of a …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:36PM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2013
This winter, when I heard Barry Manilow sing "Can't Take My Eyes off of You" from the stage of the St. James, I realized that this song was now being performed in two Broadway theaters.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:08PM[SHARE]Is anyone on the Northeast Corridor planning to present JEKYLL & HYDE? If so, don’t hesitate to contact Donald J. Simon. The president of the International JEKYLL & …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:59AM[SHARE]Monday, April 15, 2013
My buddy Ingrid Gammerman has told me that she does it. So has my pal Donald Tesione. On occasion, I've done it, too.
That is, play a cast album on the precise night of an all-star concert …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 02:23PM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2013
I'm glad to be back in my hometown of Arlington, Massachusetts to see SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM at the local community theater. Granted, you may giggle a bit when you hear the official nam…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:10PM[SHARE]Things are coming along nicely for the Broadway revival of the 1975 musical Good Time Charley. And as you've certainly heard, for the last few weeks the production's powers-that-be have been…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2013
On Wednesday, April 8, 1964, Variety told me that Anyone Can Whistle had opened the previous Saturday to three raves and three pans. I'd never seen such an extreme split from the New York ne…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:04AM[SHARE]Friday, April 5, 2013
It only ran 63 days in 2002, but THE LAST FIVE YEARS has lasted far longer than the last 11 years. Jason Robert Brown's musical, which has had countless productions around the country, is no…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:40PM[SHARE]A bit more than 60 years ago, a musical called "Wish You Were Here" opened to mostly terrible reviews. The future looked bleak, but then director Josh Logan decided to return to the show and…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:44AM[SHARE]Monday, April 1, 2013
Were you among the many who'd planned to go see Betty Buckley do Dear World in London " only to find the show had shuttered earlier than expected?
"I'm not surprised," says my buddy Steven…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:44PM[SHARE]Friday, March 29, 2013
It was the month in which Breakfast at Tiffany's began performances on the 4th - which meant that by March 8th, after it had played five previews, it had already outrun the 1966 musical vers…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:56AM[SHARE]Audiences love when a character makes a fast costume change. If it happens with enough speed, they almost feel as if they're getting two characters for the price of one. That opportunity ari…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:15AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Have you been wondering why the National Collegiate Athletic Association nicknames its annual basketball tournament "March Madness" when the tournament heats up in April? Or why CBS calls it…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:03AM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2013
Wish I could remember the precise story I was telling my buddy Bob Burger at the opening night party of the York's Starting Here, Starting Now. The point of it was that I was in a situation …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:34PM[SHARE]When my New Jersey travels took me to Plays in the Park in Edison for Nunsense, I was overwhelmed by the power-packed performance of Susan Speidel " and told the director afterward. "Oh, yes…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2013
While basketball fans of Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland are moaning and mourning that their team didn't make the 68-team NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament " and adherents of the chosen Boise…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:28AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
Her name was Stella. She was a heavy-set girl who was a techie in the high school drama club for which I was an advisor. Between scenes of every show, you could see, if you looked carefully …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:39AM[SHARE]"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I'm Patti LuPone," says the lady to the packed house - with an as-if-you-didn't-know tone to her voice.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Next Sunday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association's "March Madness" will officially begin. We'll know which sixty-eight teams will play for the 2013 NCAA's men's basketball champions…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:07AM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2013
If you do PASSION correctly " meaning the way that Stephen Sondheim envisioned it " your audience will applaud only once the entire night. That will happen at the end of the show, after the …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:15PM[SHARE]March is coming in like a lion for Rodgers and Hammerstein. When most people think of Dick and Ockie, they recall their 11 musical properties (or at least five of them). Many may not know or…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:24AM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2013
As I wrote last week, if college basketball can have "March Madness," so can musical theater.
My column of February 26 stated that aficionados should spend March going delightfully mad. Eac…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:45PM[SHARE]Friday, March 1, 2013
It's never been produced on Broadway and its London production was short-lived. But these facts haven't kept one theater after another from doing CHILDREN OF EDEN. Here in Watertown, Massach…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:10PM[SHARE]It was the month that I attended The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for the seventh time - and I've still yet to be in the right place to catch any one of the Fritos, M&M's, Oreos, b…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:34AM[SHARE]Monday, February 25, 2013
And here it comes: that annual sporting event that's unashamedly come to be known as "March Madness."
Much of the country will be watching to see which college basketball teams will be part…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:45PM[SHARE]Friday, February 22, 2013
“Every moment in life is an audition,” writes Tim Federle in Better Nate Than Ever. If that's true, Federle's audition as a writer gets him the part as The Country's Most Promisi…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:18AM[SHARE]A movie becomes a Broadway musical? While we think of this as a recent phenomenon, Donnybrook! proves it isn't. Its source, The Quiet Man, hit film screens on Sept. 14, 1952. Fewer than nine…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:34AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 17, 2013
It's one of those Tony-winning musicals that doesn't get done very often " and certainly not enough.
But sharp director John Simpkins decided that his students at NYU Steinhardt could do Ci…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 08:36AM[SHARE]Congratulations to Fred Abramowitz, AnyaToes, Susan Berlin, Brigadude, Mark Canestraro, Laura Frankos, Ingrid Gammerman, John Griffin, Marc Grossberg, Jack Lechner, Paul Mendenhall, Brian Mu…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:25AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 16, 2013
Learn how Broadway and TV actor Bryan Batt, a New Orleans native, was among those who helped turn around the fortunes of the New Orleans community theatre Le Petit Theatre due Vieux Carre.
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