Friday, March 2, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, March 2, 2018 As I sat watching Jerry Springer – The Opera unfold, I was struck by how much the content of the show helps to explain how w…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 04:29PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, February 27, 2018 Nobody wrote overtures like Jule Styne. I was reminded of that a few weeks back, when the Encores! presentation Hey, Look Me O…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 11:49AMThursday, February 15, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, February 15, 2018 First, let’s all acknowledge a deep debt of gratitude to the venerable York Theatre and their commitment both to fostering n…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 03:41PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, February 13, 2018 As any musical-theater devotee can tell you, Encores! is the annual series of performances at New York City Center of historic…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 12:22PMTuesday, January 30, 2018
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, January 30, 2018 You might think that winning the Tony Award for Best Musical would guarantee a show some kind of theatrical afterlife. You migh…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 03:50PMFriday, December 29, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, December 29, 2017 For critics, the end of the year represents a time to look back on the shows they’ve covered. We fondly reminisce about the …
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 12:09PMMonday, November 20, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, November 20, 2017 Whatever happened to Brigadoon? Not the place, the musical. Yeah, the place supposedly comes back every 100 years, but it was …
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 01:54PMMonday, October 30, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, October 30, 2017 Rags is one of those heartbreaking musical flops that theater fans continually lament as they wistfully imagine what could have…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 03:31PMWednesday, October 11, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, October 11, 2017 They don’t write ‘em like this any more. For good reason. As any Baby Boomer knows, “The Honeymooners” was a short-live…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 12:14PMWednesday, August 16, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, August 16, 2017 One of the best places to see top-quality theater outside of New York City has got to be the Berkshires. From the Williamstown T…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 03:06PMMonday, August 14, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, August 14, 2017 As I stood in the lobby of the Westside Theatre, a diminutive women of a certain age came up to me and my theatergoing companion…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 01:55PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, August 9, 2017 If we’ve learned one thing this Broadway theater season, it’s that Jerry Herman’s music retains its crowd-pleasing appeal. …
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 09:16AMThursday, July 13, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, July 13, 2017 Broadway productions don’t come timelier than 1984. Or, at least, that’s what the creators are hoping you will think. And, to …
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 01:00PMTuesday, July 11, 2017
By Chris Caggiano, Contributing Writer, July 11, 2017 Here’s some good news if you can’t get a ticket to see Bette Midler in Hello, Dolly! — or if you couldn’t afford that ticket eve…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 09:23PMMonday, July 10, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, July 10, 2017 One of the best things about summer is the opportunity to get out of the city and take in some quality regional theater. Fortunate…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 10:14AMTuesday, June 20, 2017
By Christopher Caggiano, Contributing Writer, June 20, 2017 There aren’t nearly enough women or African Americans writing musical theater. Not by a long shot. So when someone comes along w…
SOURCE: www.zealnyc.com at 04:00PMMonday, March 21, 2016
Hey, all. After eight years of blogging, I've moved up in the world and am now writing for About.com. You can check out my regular posts, reviews, and ramblings at theater.about.com. I won't…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:34PMMonday, December 22, 2014
Regular readers with note that most of my posts lately have been lists of links to my About.com posts. When I took on the About.com gig, I thought that I would be migrating some of my more e…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 06:49PMSaturday, November 29, 2014
So, the combination of yet another busy semester at The Boston Conservatory and my contract with About.com to supply them with two posts a week has meant that I haven't had any time to post …
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 07:40PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
The fall theater season in New York is is full swing. I'll be publishing a series of reviews over the next few weeks, some of them here on the blog, and some of them over on About.com. Here'…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:42PMSunday, September 14, 2014
So, the new semester at The Boston Conservatory has officially begun. Now I get to see how well I'm going to be able to keep up with my posts on About.com, my reviews of the new Broadway and…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:53PMSunday, August 31, 2014
As I mentioned a while back, I picked up a new gig writing for About.com as the Musical and Theater Expert. I was hoping that the gig wouldn't interfere with my blogging, and so far that has…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:09PMFriday, August 15, 2014
Quick quiz: 1. What musical is the following lyric from? 2. Which character is singing? 3. What is this character singing about? All that matters now Is where we go from here. There's an eas…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 05:18PMTuesday, August 5, 2014
John Waters writes in one of his books (I think it was Crackpot) that he wishes that someone would discover an unpublished Jean Genet novel. He's read everything extant by Genet, he says, an…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:06PMMonday, August 4, 2014
Most jukebox shows rely on the name-recognition factor to lure in the crowds. Well, here's a musical that has sort of the opposite goal: to bring our attention to a name that many of us have…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:13PMTuesday, July 29, 2014
Here's my final roundup of reviews from the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). I saw 19 shows over the course of three weekends. It was a bit grueling at times, but overall I fou…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 08:30PMSunday, July 27, 2014
Here's my third round of reviews, out of four, of shows from the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). Seeing so many shows in such a short time has been a really rewarding process,…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 11:27AMWednesday, July 23, 2014
You gotta admire the cojones on anyone who writes a musical called Atomic. I mean, theater critics and their editors can be mean enough with headlines even without such low-hanging fruit. OK…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 03:04PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
Here's my second installment of reviews from this year's New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF). I continue to be impressed at the overall higher caliber of shows at this year's festival. …
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:34PMTuesday, July 15, 2014
One of my favorite theatrical experiences of this past season was seeing the lustrous Audra McDonald in the play Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, so much so that I went back a second tim…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 04:17PMAh, summer. Looks like it's time for a little NYMF-ing. Well, maybe more than a little. I mean, faced with the prospect of 24 new musicals, 9 concerts, 10 development readings, and numerous …
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 03:21PM 
