Wednesday, April 14, 2021
This month's Broadway Who's Who is someone with relatively new, but impressive, resume which includes roles in some of this millennium's biggest titles. Like most performers, Mandy Gonzalez…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 02:18PMTuesday, April 13, 2021
This Week in Broadway History:
April 13 - 19
🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭
April 13, 2000: Queenie was a blonde and her age stood still. Well for 68 performances, anyway. The Michael John LaCh…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:48AMMonday, April 12, 2021
Over the past months, we've been in search of the very best in Broadway musical logos, going back 40 years. And now, here we are starting a new tournament, looking for the very best logo of …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 09:54AMFriday, April 9, 2021
Last week's game proved to be quite popular! Seems all you show tunes fans enjoy a challenge. So here are 5 more (no repeats from last week, either!). Oh! And the answers to last week's game…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 11:24AMThursday, April 8, 2021
This month's column is really a tale of two theaters, a before and after, if you will. One of my all-time favorite shows played at the "before," and several shows I was underwhelmed by playe…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:54AMWednesday, April 7, 2021
As we all know, getting a new musical to Broadway is a long, arduous task, whether the show is a hit or a flop. Along the way, songs are written, re-written, moved around, and even cut altog…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 12:06PMTuesday, April 6, 2021
This Week in Broadway History:
March 30 - April 5
🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭
April 6, 2017: Titans of the cosmetics world faced off in the musical War Paint at the Nederlander Theatre …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:42AMMonday, April 5, 2021
Over the past months, we've been in search of the very best in Broadway musical logos, going back 40 years. And now, here we are starting a new tournament, looking for the very best logo of …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 11:54AMFriday, April 2, 2021
How well do you know your 21st century Broadway lyrics? Over the first 20+ years of the new millennium there have been dozens of new scores written, and this week's game will test your knowl…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:06AMThursday, April 1, 2021
At This Performance:
Andrew Call in American Idiot
When I started this new monthly column, several performances by terrific understudies leapt to mind right away. One of them I didn't even …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 11:18AMWednesday, March 31, 2021
One That Got Away:
The 39 Steps (2008)
I have often said that one of the things I like best about theater is that it can do so many things that film just can't do, despite all of the techn…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 11:12AMTuesday, March 30, 2021
This Week in Broadway History:
March 30 - April 5
🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭
March 30, 1898: The Ibsen classic Hedda Gabler premiered on Broadway.
March 30, 2000: The 2000 Tony-winning…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 10:06AMMonday, March 29, 2021
Over the past months, we've been in search of the very best in Broadway musical logos, going back 40 years. And now, here we are starting a new tournament, looking for the very best logo of …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 03:24PMFriday, March 26, 2021
For every Kinky Boots and Waitress, there's The Last Ship and Taboo. Being a successful pop songwriter like Cyndi Lauper or Sara Bareilles doesn't automatically translate to being a hit ma…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:12AMThursday, March 25, 2021
The Glass Menagerie may just be my favorite play of all. That love has set a very high bar for what an excellent production of it would be to me. I've seen probably a dozen productions at al…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:12AMWednesday, March 24, 2021
I really did enjoy Kinky Boots. It was spectacular, funny and touching. The performances across the board were excellent. A lot to appreciate and admire. And yet, I wasn't bowled over. Once …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:12AMTuesday, March 23, 2021
This Week in Broadway History:
March 23 - 29
🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭
March 23, 1995: The revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying! opened its 548 performance run at …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:18AMMonday, March 22, 2021
Over the past months, we've been in search of the very best in Broadway musical logos, going back 40 years. And now, here we are starting a new tournament, looking for the very best logo of …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:24PMFriday, March 19, 2021
For most of the 80's, this billboard enticed theater-goers in Times Square to "come and meet those dancing feet" in the smash hit musical 42nd Street. It must have worked - the show ran an i…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 09:03AMThursday, March 18, 2021
I'm old enough to remember looking forward to getting theater magazines in the mail. It was always a thrill when my Playbill Magazine and TheaterWeek would show up in the post box. I'd run u…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:42AMWednesday, March 17, 2021
Chances are you've seen his work, even if you don't recognize Paul Tazewell's name. With a Broadway career that began with 1996's Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk and continues through …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:42AMTuesday, March 16, 2021
This Week in Broadway History:
March 16 - 22
🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭
March 17, 2005: The Tony-winning Best Musical of 2005, Spamalot, opened at the Shubert Theatre, where it would cl…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:42AMMonday, March 15, 2021
Over the past months, we've been in search of the very best in Broadway musical logos, going back 40 years. And now, here we are starting a new tournament, looking for the very best logo of …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:42AMFriday, March 12, 2021
This game proved so popular, we just had to come back with even more Leading Ladies! Remember, you can only use each name once!
Broadway Games:
Which Leading Lady...?
A. Tonya Pinkins �…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:54AMThursday, March 11, 2021
Having been a legit theater for just over 92 years, it should not be a surprise that during its history the Ethel Barrymore Theatre has had some notorious tenants on its stage. Among them, t…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:48AMWednesday, March 10, 2021
They say characters in a musical sing when plain spoken words aren't enough. Emotions come out in a number of ways in musicals, to be sure. But one of my favorite things about such songs are…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:42AMTuesday, March 9, 2021
This Week in Broadway History:
March 9 - 16
🎭OPENING NIGHTS🎭
March 9, 2008: The first musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights, opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre, where…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:48AMMonday, March 8, 2021
Over the past months, we've been in search of the very best in Broadway musical logos, going back 40 years. And now, here we are starting a new tournament, looking for the very best logo of …
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 10:42AMFriday, March 5, 2021
Broadway Games:
Which Leading Man...?
(use each answer only once)
A. Ben Platt B. Steve Kazee C. Norbert Leo Butz
D. Aaron Tveit E. Danny Burstein
F. Matthew James Thom…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 07:06AMThursday, March 4, 2021
At This Performance:
Jordan Dobson & Mia Pinero in West Side Story
The last time I was in a Broadway theater, literally, was January 26, 2020. Ironically, it was the Broadway Theatre…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 08:12AMWednesday, March 3, 2021
One That Got Away:
Shuffle Along
(2016)
This month's One That Got Away didn't have to get away at all. You see, we went to the city specifically to see Shuffle Along, or the Making of the…
SOURCE: www.jkstheatrescene.com at 11:18AM 
