Friday, January 9, 2026
A PLEASING PAIR Standards stretched, teased, and joyfully reimagined The song "'S Wonderful" will be a century old next year, so it's not a new thing to wonder if its titular positive adject…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:21PM[SHARE]Monday, December 22, 2025
Reviews of tribute albums for Sondheim, Finke, the Gershwins, McHugh, Berlin.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Here are five cast albums; the first three have the spectre of death hanging over them, but the last two are cheerier.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 11, 2025
Floyd Collins and Elmer McCurdy were true-life figures (and, in the latter case, a true-death figure), born several years apart and both dying in their 30s. They captured public attention in…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 27, 2025
FUN & DRAMATIC: A MATTER OF LAUGH AND BETH With her fans bursting into fond applause as she entered, sang, joked, or mentioned in passing a couple of shows on The Great White Way in whic…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 21, 2025
REWIND FIVE DECADES AND STIR THE MEMORIES On an August night at a nightclub in Manhattan, in a concert focused on musicals from 1975, Robert Cuccioli revealed that "the seed was planted" in …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Let's begin with a recording of a compelling concert presenting low profile/high quality songs of Peter Foley. Moving from Peter to Peterson, it was Jon J Peterson who portrayed a Broadway a…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 12, 2025
13,000 SHOWS LATER, FILICHIA STILL DRAWS A CROWD: THIS TIME, THE STARS CAME OUT FOR THE GUY WHO'S SEEN IT ALL 13,000 Shows Later, Filichia Still Draws a Crowd The number in the next sentence…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:49AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 9, 2025
JOHN + SWING 7 = JAZZ HEAVEN Attend a set by John Pizzarelli and you're set for a satisfying songfest, whether it's a solo affair with just the mega-musical Mr. P. playing guitar and singing…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:22AM[SHARE]A LOOK BACK AT AN OLD MUSICAL ABOUT STRIKING OIL STRIKES IT RICH AS IT STRIKES ALL THE RIGHT NOTESÂ Â "Kid, when you need the crowd the tickets are hard to sell." That's a line from "He…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:32AM[SHARE]Friday, August 8, 2025
FLYING HIGH, CAROLE DEMAS'S FIREFLY LIGHTS UP THE ROOM "I could say life is just a bowl of Jello / And appear more intelligent and smart / But I'm stuck like a dope with a thing called hope …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]SONGS OF MR. STROUSE IN THE HOUSE One of the greats of The Great White Way's great golden age, Charles Strouse was the honoree in absentia in an especially splendid presentation on July 2…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:28AM[SHARE]Monday, August 4, 2025
THE HISTORY, HYSTERICAL HAPPENINGS & HAPPINESS THAT SPELL "BROADWAY" Broadway musicals feature a parade of talent which, like time, marches on. Sometimes it seems that parade of pizzazz …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]Friday, July 25, 2025
REED ALL ABOUT IT! SHAW BIZ WITH THE ANDERSON TWINS When jazz musicians of the current generation explore and embrace the repertoire of stars of the past, it can be an enjoyably educational …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 19, 2025
IN THE TRADITION OF THE GREAT JAZZ SINGERS When Ashley Pezzotti sings, it will only take a few notes for listeners new to her manner to gratefully discover that their ears will be caressed, …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 1, 2025
EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY (AND A DREAM) If you have time off this month and are feeling wanderlust for foreign travel"but your summer budget doesn't allow for an actual trip around the world"I w…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:00AM[SHARE]RADIO-ACTIVE SATIRE (WITH SONGS) And now for something completely different. Presented for your amusement is a skillful skewering of the approach to fundraising"or, to put it more plainly, b…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2025
Once Upon a Mattress, Dot and the Kangaroo cast recordings reviewed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:26PM[SHARE]FROM CASTLE HILL IN THE BRONX TO A DEBUT AT CARNEGIE HALL IN MANHATTAN, SAMARA JOY IN CONCERT AND IN THE GROOVE # # # Most jazz vocalists dream of rapid success: winning a major contest, daz…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:54AM[SHARE]A REVIEW OF A REVUE Whatever happened to the topical revue format? As differentiated from musical revues that recycle old, established songs by particular writers, the topical revue presente…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2025
MUSICAL ABOUT FASHION ICON COCO CHANEL STILL IN FASHION The scores of older Broadway musicals that don't get revivals include those that many theatre fans never got to experience beyond list…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 1, 2025
IT'S JAZZ. IT'S JOY. IT'S JUDY On the very rainy night May 14th, performing at that place called Pangea, the attractive venue on Second Avenue in Greenwich Village, vocalist Judy Wexler is t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:01PM[SHARE]Monday, May 19, 2025
ANY TIME IS A GOOD TIME TO GIVE MY REGARDS TO [THE MAN WHO OWNED] BROADWAY The tribute show is called George & Me. The only singer on the bill is a man named Bill: That's Bill Bartus, bo…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 11, 2025
HARNICK…HEARTFELT & HEARTWARMING Sheldon Harnick, who passed away in 2023 at age 99, is alphabetically in good company among the great Broadway writers. His name comes after E.Y. "Yip"…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 10, 2025
The "J2" in the name J2 Spotlight Theater Company of Manhattan doesn't refer to descriptions that start with the letter "J," like "joyful" and "joke-filled," but it might as well, because th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:44PM[SHARE]Friday, May 9, 2025
Don't look for anything very heartbreaking or groundbreaking in the familiar musical ground surveyed by the generally joyful Judy Whitmore. When she toasts love, it's with a glass she sees a…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:03PM[SHARE]Monday, May 5, 2025
THIS IS HOW GLORY FEELS Here's an especially poignant and powerful musical about a real episode from the past that finally gains the word "Broadway" to its history exactly 100 years after th…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2025
A FUN, LIVELY KANDER & EBB MUSICAL AND THE TICKET PRICE ISN'T EX-ZORBA-TANT Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: If a character in musical theatre is going to make a declaration …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]HOORAY FOR THIS BANQUET OF BLISS" ALL THOSE SENSATIONAL SONGS AND ENERGY" BEING ALIVE ON STAGE Words seem woefully inadequate to praise the wonderful, song-stuffed, dazzling and polished pro…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 24, 2025
BRAVURA BELTING, BONDING, AND BONHOMIE A double dose of old-school star power, show biz history, and charisma radiated through the showroom at 54 Below, fondly received and encouraged by a c…
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