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Saturday, August 11, 2018

West Side Story: Reproducing a Classic With Sincerity, and Safety by Bob Verini

★★★★ 100th birthday tributes to Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins yield a familiar but affecting take on timeless material. The post West Side Story: Reproducing a Classic With Si…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:02PM
Friday, July 27, 2018

Lempicka: Art for Art’s Ache in the 20th Century by Bob Verini

★★ An ambitious but unfocused musical gives a great, underappreciated 20th century female artist too much of a brush-off The post Lempicka: Art for Art’s Ache in the 20th Century a…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:30AM
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

The Closet: A Gay Deceiver for a New Century by Bob Verini

★★★ Matthew Broderick shines in Douglas Carter Beane’s uneven comic vision of a post-bigotry, Freak Flags Flying modern America The post The Closet: A Gay Deceiver for a New Century …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 08:31PM
Monday, September 11, 2017

Book Review: "Sense of Occasion: Harold Prince" by Bob Verini

A rare photo among the plates in Harold Prince's Sense of Occasion features a smiling Richard Rodgers, Ethel Merman, and the director posing for an ultimately spiked TV Guide cover that was…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:34PM
Monday, December 12, 2016

Book Review: "The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals" by Dan Dietz by Bob Verini

Surveys of musicals, if they do nothing else, inevitably incite arguments between the author and the reader. There's plenty of grist for the argument mill in Dietz's tome.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:35AM
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