Thursday, May 16, 2013
Can’t wait to hear the original Broadway cast recording of Kinky Boots, with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper? The Broadway Blog snagged this behind-the-scenes video of the cast in the…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 11:51AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Every third Wednesday of the month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer fills out contributor Tom Mizer’s nosey little questionnaire and offers a glimpse of what he looks like from a bit cl…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 01:25PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Contestants from The Broadway Beauty Pageant. (photo: Matthew Murphy) Thankfully Donald Trump has no part in the seventh annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, a benefit for New York’s Ali Forney…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 07:54AMMonday, May 13, 2013
Forget Gypsy Rose Lee… the men of the Great White Way were greased, sprayed, tanned and buffed last week for a special preview performance of Broadway Bares, the notorious burlesque-style …
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 05:32AMSunday, May 12, 2013
Our new West Coast correspondent, Heather Cassell, catches the premiere act at the new Feinstein’s at the Nikko. Sutton Foster (photo: Laura Marie Duncan) San Francisco doesn’t know …
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 03:08AMThursday, May 9, 2013
Leslie Kritzer and Catherine Cox in “The Memory Show.” (photo: Carol Rosegg) The opening of The Memory Show begins with a brittle and sharp-tongued Catherine Cox in a doctor̵…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 10:07AMMonday, May 6, 2013
Guest contributor Jason Mitchell reviews I’m a Stranger Here Myself. When the curtain speech finished with “All Aboard the S.S. Weimar” and the lights rose on an interest…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 04:56AMFriday, May 3, 2013
Michael Feinstein (photo: Karl Simone) I’ve had a crush on Michael Feinstein for 25 years. While most guys my age were listening to Sonic Youth and R.E.M. (it was the 80s after all), I was…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 07:53AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Left: Billy Porter in “Kinky Boots.” (photo: Matthew Murphy) / Right: Bailey Ryon, Milly Shapiro, Sophia Gennusa and Oona Laurence, who share the title role in “Matilda The…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 06:43AMMonday, April 29, 2013
I’m having a flashback. It’s my high school senior play (The Wizard of Oz… of course) and we all scramble out of homeroom to see the cast list. I was a shoe-in for the Scar…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 02:30PMSunday, April 28, 2013
The cast of “Pippin.” (photo: Joan Marcus) I can count on one hand the number of breath-catching moments I’ve had sitting in a Broadway theater (Cherry Jones’ leap of faith i…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 09:04AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
Guest contributor Lindsay B. Davis reviews a captivating interpretation of the most famous mother of them all (besides Joan Crawford). Theater is at its finest during The Testament of Mar…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 11:43AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
It’s high drama! The Drama League Award nominations have been announced. First awarded in 1922 and formalized in 1935, The Drama League Awards are the oldest theatrical honors in Ameri…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 09:23AMMonday, April 22, 2013
Guest contributor Scott Redman recaps the first two books in a trilogy by Ruby Preston about the high drama of Broadway. Looking for a page-turner that pays homage to Broadway? Cast your e…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 07:57AMSaturday, April 20, 2013
Kinky Boots is kicking up some dust on Broadway this season as the story of a meek inheritor of a shoe factory turns a dismal British production plant into a haven for stiletto thigh-highs. …
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 09:14AMFriday, April 19, 2013
Can we change the title of Jekyll & Hyde, Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse’s musical thriller, to “Jekyll & Hyde…& Lucy”? If there is one reason (and from my perspectiv…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 10:53AMThursday, April 18, 2013
When I was a young stagestruck lad, Faith Prince WAS the sound of musical theater to me. I’d been obsessed with the cast recording of William Finn’s Falsettoland, including Princ…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 05:24AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Every third Wednesday of the month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 07:00AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Stephen Schwartz’s 65th Birthday Celebration with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. (photo: Richard Termine) While most teen boys probably want to sneak a six-pack and get drunk behi…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 07:36AMFriday, April 12, 2013
Girl power has taken over the Shubert Theatre. Breezing into town with a record-breaking seven Olivier Awards including Best Musical, this adaptation of Roal Dahl’s story of an extraordina…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 12:14PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
It’s Tony time and many of this season’s major productions are raising the curtain (although most shows don’t even utilize a curtain anymore) on what producers hope will be the big hit…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 07:28AMMonday, April 8, 2013
The Broadway Blog sent contributor Lindsay B. Davis back in time and it appears she got lost trying to follow along Speakeasy Moderne, a hodgepodge review of Broadway, pop hits and standard…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 01:49PMThursday, April 4, 2013
I suppose it’s easier to win a battle when you feel the world is on your side. Such is the case inside the Al Hirschfeld Theatre where Kinky Boots, a new musical by Harvey Fierstein (book)…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 08:38PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
An untimely match made in heaven. The passing of Nora Ephron in 2012 from leukemia shocked Hollywood. The author and screenwriter was known for her prolific work as a screenwriter, au…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 09:02AMSaturday, March 30, 2013
What happens when you pit 10 Texans against each other in a contest of stamina and strategy in order to win a brand new truck? Apparently you get a pretty decent new Broadway musical accordi…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 07:31AMThursday, March 28, 2013
The entire Shakespeare canon. Nonstop. Let the madness begin. Facing Page Productions presents the debut of Company’s Marathon, a nonstop, back-to-back reading of all of Shakespeare’s pl…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 05:46AMMonday, March 25, 2013
Guest blogger Scott Redman gets an earful about the ups and down about life as an escort. Did he get bang for his buck or choose theatrical celibacy instead? The highs and lows of working …
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 10:41AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
I’m not a morning person. Breakfast at Tiffinay’s, which opened last night on Broadway at the Cort Theatre, hasn’t changed my mind. The debacled production attempts to adapt Truman Cap…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 08:58PMEvery third Wednesday of the month, a fabulous actor/singer/dancer will fill out my nosey little questionnaire and offer a glimpse of what they look like from a bit closer than the mezzanine…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 06:43AMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Have you ever been to a stink bomb of a show only to find yourself mesmerized by the glorious architecture and design of the theater that you have found yourself trapped in for three hours? …
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 12:26PMSaturday, March 16, 2013
Christopher Durang is at it again. The author of such absurdist hits (and acting school favorites) as The Marriage of Bette and Boo and Beyond Therapy is taking a jab at Chekhov — the mast…
Linked From thebroadwayblog.com at 06:17AM 
