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…
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]Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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]Sunday, April 13, 2025
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]Saturday, April 12, 2025
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]Thursday, April 10, 2025
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]Tuesday, April 8, 2025
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]Sunday, April 6, 2025
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]Thursday, March 27, 2025
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]Monday, March 17, 2025
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]Sunday, March 16, 2025
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]Saturday, March 15, 2025
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]Friday, March 14, 2025
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…
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