Friday, 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John Waters writes in one of his books (I think it was Crackpot) that he wishes that someone would discover an unpublished Jean Genet novel.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 03:21PMWednesday, July 9, 2014
Hey, folks. Here are my latest posts for About.com. Lots of fun info here regarding what to see on Broadway this summer, which recent cast recordings to buy, whether you spell in "theater" o…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 03:07PMTuesday, July 8, 2014
I was in the Berkshires over the July Fourth weekend, and had no intention of seeing any theater. Honestly. But I wound up taking in two shows, one of which was The Servant of Two Masters at…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 04:52PMTuesday, July 1, 2014
Here's a roundup of my latest posts on About.com (theater.about.com). I'm supposed to post at least twice a week, which is a bit more frequent than I've been used to in my blogging, but so f…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 09:37PMSunday, June 29, 2014
I just got back from a three-show day in NYC. I hadn't planned on blogging about any of the shows -- I wanted to just sit back and enjoy on this trip -- but as I sat watching one of...
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 12:54PMFriday, June 27, 2014
I'm sure that some of you, like me, greeted the news of a prospective Tupac Shakur musical with at the very least a raised eyebrow. I think this is a vestige of our propensity of limiting ou…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:58PMSunday, June 22, 2014
I can't recall the last time I was so genuinely enchanted by the first act of a show, only to be so disenchanted by the final curtain. The new musical Fly By Night at Playwrights Horizons fe…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 06:10PMThursday, June 19, 2014
Here are my two most recent posts for About.com. One of them is about some A-list Hollywood types that will be playing on Broadway in the coming season (including Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenha…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 04:39PMTuesday, June 10, 2014
So, the Tonys are over, and another season has come and gone. I've caught up (mostly) on my reviews, but I wanted to alert y'all out there in EIKILFM land that I've picked up a companion wri…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:18PMSaturday, June 7, 2014
OK, I admit it. I was skeptical when the Roundabout Theatre Company announced its plans to bring its acclaimed 1998 revival of Cabaret back to Studio 54. It seemed like a cynical attempt to …
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:04PMRegular readers will recall that I occasionally attend "straight" plays. (I prefer to call them "non-musicals.) My attendance at these belting-deprived affairs is usually cont…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 09:20AMMonday, June 2, 2014
We can complain all we want about star casting, but the fact remains that it works. Not always, of course, as the producers of the recently canceled mega-tour of Jesus Christ Superstar disco…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 03:07PMTuesday, May 27, 2014
Wow. Just wow. I went into the Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch fully expecting to enjoy myself. What I didn't expect was that I would be so blown away, both by the power of the…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:23PMWednesday, May 21, 2014
If I had to sum up musical-theater history in just one word, that word would be "integration," which I define for my Boston Conservatory students as the extent to which a song or dance contr…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:31PMTuesday, May 20, 2014
Friday, May 16, 2014
If I were producing a musical version of the darkly comedic film "Heathers," there are two guys I would have turned to in a New York minute to write the show: Laurence O'Keefe (of Bat Boy an…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 11:30AMWednesday, May 14, 2014
OK, grades are in. Let the catch-up begin. I saw quite a few shows this spring, both on Broadway and off, but so far have only had a chance to blog about a handful of them. Now that school i…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:49PMMonday, May 5, 2014
Regular visitors to this blog may have noticed that things have been slightly awry with this blog for the past few weeks. (Or, as my dear friend Esther might say, things have been slightly &…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:33PMWednesday, April 9, 2014
I've seen a lot of boxing puns in the reviews of the new Broadway musical Rocky, based on the 1976 film of the same name. Rocky is a "contender," some contend. Others say Rocky "goes the dis…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 05:36PMI've seen a lot of boxing puns in the reviews of the new Broadway musical Rocky, based on the 1976 film of the same name. Rocky is a "contender," some contend. Others say Rocky &qu…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 05:36PMSaturday, April 5, 2014
The Walt Disney Company continues to comb its catalog for stage-musical candidates. You can hardly blame them: The Lion King has become a license to print money, Newsies is still going stron…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 01:21PMTuesday, March 25, 2014
I somehow made it through the '90s, the '00s, and nearly half of the '10s without reading The Bridges of Madison County. Nor have I seen the 1995 film of the same name, despite an abiding pa…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 05:52PMFriday, February 7, 2014
Here are three things that I learned from seeing Beautiful: The Carol King Musical: 1. Jukebox musicals don't automatically have to be atrocious 2. Pandering to baby boomers isn't necessaril…
SOURCE: Everything I Know I Learned From Musicals at 06:59PM 
