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]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…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 04:34AM[SHARE]A BARE-BONES BOBBY IN BROOKLYN: A COMPANY THAT GHOSTS THE GOODS IS STILL ABOUT BEING ALIVE A revival of a show featuring the smart songs by the late Stephen Sondheim is sure to draw interest…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]DONNA MCKECHNIE TAKES US INTO SONDHEIM'S WORLD It may be impossible NOT to be charmed by the mega-vivacious, sunny-spirited, endearing veteran Donna McKechnie. Her smile and talent light up …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]TAKE ONE: J2 AND A TALE OF TWO SMILES: THE FINAL SCORE AND WHAT CAME BEFORE While some companies reviving musicals long after their time on the Great White White might restore one or more so…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]IT WON'T LAST FIVE YEARS, BUT IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO (THE RELATIONSHIP AND THE BROADWAY MUSICAL) Although the traditional wedding vow includes the pledge to stay together "'til death do you p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:50AM[SHARE]A REWARDING TIME SPENT SUSPENDED WITH THE ARTISTS OF SUSPENDED IN TIME Some musical performances"in concert or on recordings"while unquestionably or undemandingly enjoyable, may go in one ea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:00AM[SHARE]MAKING THE IMPLAUSABLE APPLAUSEABLE, SMASH IS A WILD, WACKY, WONDERFUL WOW "S" is for "splashy"; "M" is for "Marilyn Monroe"; "A" is for "audience-pleasing"; "S" is for "snarky"; "H" is for …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:55AM[SHARE]GRINS, GOWNS, AND GRIT: A WINNING SMILE SASHAYS BACK ONSTAGE In the year 1919, the Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway featured an ode to female finery as a bevy of beauties graced the stage to the…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:15AM[SHARE]THE NONPAREIL NONAGENARIAN REMAINS A NON-STOP WHIRLWIND OF TALENT There's a problem with singer Marilyn Maye's appearances. And it's this: For reviewers, all the positive adjectives have bee…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]MR. GREENSPAN, PARTY OF FOUR Here's a one-of-a-kind, one-person, one-act play in which one man plays four women"simultaneously"without ever leaving the stage. Three (sometimes all four) of t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]HERE'S THE SCOOP ON BOOP! ENDEARINGLY CUTE, ASTUTE AND A HOOT Some things are meant to last. Cartoon character Betty Boop has been around for 95 years and has been rejuvenated"as youthful, s…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:07PM[SHARE]QUITE A NIGHT WITH MISS WHITE The series of concerts by Lillias White at 54 Below"running nightly through March 29 (and live streamed on the 28)"is billed as Divine Sass: A Tribute to Sarah …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:51AM[SHARE]NOW HEAR THIS! Film may be first and foremost a visual medium, but where would it be without music to bring out the emotions, heighten the drama, quicken the heart, create tension, and tie t…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:40AM[SHARE]A GRANDLY GREASE-Y SPOOF! Poking fun, flinging a pun, prizing satirizing " that's the paradise that is parody and Vape!, blatantly billing itself as "The Grease Parody," aims its playfully p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:24PM[SHARE]Songs and gab at this swell cabaret Starting the party is Mame's "It's Today." Hear the cheer in the singer's voice With this merry Jerry Herman choice. The room has no gloom. There's joy. W…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:22PM[SHARE]AN AMAZING NIGHT OF STARS GALORE "AND IT'S COMING TO PBS Filmed to be shown on PBS stations later this year, the concert cavalcade called Broadway's Leading Ladies at The Town Hall on West 4…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:54AM[SHARE]Marital Mayhem and Matrimonial Mishaps: My First Ex-Husband's Second Cast Delivers Divorce Tales with Bite "Do you take this man " To have and to hold " from this day forward " for better, f…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:00AM[SHARE]TICK, TICK… ENCORE! LARSON'S TRUNK SONGS SHINE If you're a fan of potent post-Golden Age theatre music, you should check out a show that just officially opened downtown last night. There's…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:58AM[SHARE]WHEN CHILDREN'S THEATER IS A BEAUTIFUL THING Two "P" words""professional" and "pleasant""describe the stage production in Greenwich Village with two "B" words in its title: Beauty and the Be…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:00AM[SHARE]THINGS ARE O.K. WITH MR. K For decades, three words""by Barry Kleinbort""have often appeared in cabaret and theatre credits, typically preceded by "directed" or "written." At Birdland, The K…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:31AM[SHARE]A DATE WITH KATE She looks and sounds radiant, and the audience knows it. Tonight, March 6, she was greeted with some of the most enthusiastic and sustained cheers I've heard in a long time.…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:46PM[SHARE]HOW TO URN AUDIENCE SYMPATHY This one-man show is described as an "immersive" experience, and the immersiveness begins right at the entrance of the particularly fitting venue, the oh-so-appr…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:41PM[SHARE]BRIGHT, BROMIDIC BRYCE AND HIS FREEWHEELING FRABJOUS FRIVOLITY Take note, nightclub-goers: Attending an edition of the spiffy soiree The Bryce Edwards Frivolity Hour might just make you beli…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT, WILL EX-LOVERS REUNITE OR FIGHT? After decades apart, can the passion of once-young lovers sizzle again, like leftover pizza zapped in the microwave? Picking up an…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:32PM[SHARE]BACKSTAGE BABBLE AT STUDIO 54: TOPS WITH FLOPS Not every musical is a hit, and some barely get a chance to stumble before vanishing into obscurity. The midtown Manhattan nightclub 54 Below h…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:59AM[SHARE]DIANNE REEVES' WITH LOVE RECEIVED WITH LOVE If Grammy-winning singer Dianne Reeves' suitcase could talk (and I'm guessing that it can't), it would tell tales of trekking all over the world f…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:01AM[SHARE]EVERYTHING TO GAINES AND NOTHING TO LOSE No, he doesn't sing "My Funny Valentine" in his entertaining show called Love Is in the Air on the night before Valentine's Day at Green Room 42 (rep…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:41AM[SHARE]A COLORFUL, KINETIC AND PUPPET-FILLED POW Emilio's A Million Chameleons at Soho Playhouse offers family-friendly, fabulously frenzied fun. Like many offerings aimed at, or at least semi-targ…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 05:27PM[SHARE]Here are three releases that celebrate songwriters, each from a long-careered, stylish female singer. Karen Mason mines the oeuvre of the team of John Kander and Fred Ebb. Including selectio…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21AM[SHARE]If you walk through Manhattan's theatre district, you pass locations of theaters owned by a man who wrote many shows (music, lyrics, book) and directed, produced, and often performed in them…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34AM[SHARE]
