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Monday, March 25, 2013

Michael Schulman: An Australian comic translates Roald Dahl’s “Matilda” for Broadway. by Michael Schulman

Three years before Roald Dahl died, he was stumped by a five-year-old. Like many of his protagonists, Matilda Wormwood was a precocious youngster surrounded by monstrous adults and grotesque…

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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Bright Lights, Barney Frank by Michael Schulman

Frank had one last shot at the upper chamber: for one night only, he was making a cameo appearance as a Republican senator in the 1959 musical “Fiorello!”

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Friday, December 28, 2012

You Died, We Cried: Ranking “Les Miz” by Michael Schulman

Who fared the best in Tom Hooper’s, “Les Misérables,” and who was just plain misérable? A ranking, from best to worst, below.

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Monday, October 15, 2012

Michael Schulman: Bill Berloni, Broadway’s Animal Trainer. by Michael Schulman

There is a farm in Haddam, Connecticut, that you dreamed of as a child. Some twenty-six dogs run free on its ninety acres—working or retired show dogs, many of them former Totos, from …

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Monday, May 28, 2012

Michael Schulman: How Roger Rees and Rick Elice became partners. by Michael Schulman

For sixteen years, the actor Roger Rees and the playwright Rick Elice have lived in a book-crammed apartment in the Beresford, on Central Park West. Elice (New Yorker, garrulous) is the auth…

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Monday, March 26, 2012

Michael Schulman: Donna Hanover in “The Best Man,” on Broadway. by Michael Schulman

Until Mayor Bloomberg leaves office or marries his longtime partner, Diana Taylor, New York City will have to do without a proper First Lady, as it has, effectively, since 2000, when Rudolph…

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Monday, March 12, 2012

Michael Schulman: A day of recording for “Once,” on Broadway. by Michael Schulman

In 2006, the singer-songwriters Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová put out a tiny movie called “Once,” which went on to earn twenty million dollars and an Academy Award, …

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Monday, March 5, 2012

Michael Schulman: Testing ProBax seats in Broadway theatres. by Michael Schulman

Broadway, like New York City, is a place where petty comforts are fought for but rarely won. So when Jujamcyn Theatres, which owns five Broadway houses, recently announced a “revolutio…

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Culture Desk: Is "Carrie" the Worst Musical of All Time? by Michael Schulman

This week, an Off Broadway revival of "Carrie," the musical based on the Stephen King novel, starts performances at the Lucille Lortel, marking the semi-ironic return of what may be Broadway…

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Michael Schulman: Cathy Rigby, fit to play Peter Pan. by Michael Schulman

"I won’t grow up!" is the mantra of many a grad student and Botox injectee, but the line belongs to Peter Pan, and specifically to Cathy Rigby, the former Olympic gymnast who has played th…

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Friday, December 2, 2011