Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Thank you Susan Stroman! Thank you for keeping alive the musical theater traditions so dear to many. For your dedication and artistic vision. Your creativity. For your honesty and fo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:32AMFriday, April 21, 2023
Go-o-o-ollee! It’s been said that “laughter is the best medicine” – that is, second only to corn whiskey. So perhaps it is, in such a lackluster theatrical season we get SHUCKED.…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:48AMMonday, April 17, 2023
In this impressive revival/revisal of Lerner & Loewe’s melodious and witty musical first produced in 1960, based on T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, director Bartlett Sher a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:24AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
Poor Cyndi! Forced to being an outcast ‘cuz she doesn’t conform to the standards set forth in Belleville where “beauty is a duty” – just one of the not-so-nifty lyrics of Davi…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:32AMFriday, March 17, 2023
Be prepared. Jessica Chastain is spectacular as Nora Helmer. As she sits seemingly spellbound in a chair on a bare stage, dressed in dark blue, alone with her striking profile and red ha…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:44AMMonday, March 6, 2023
This won’t take long. Much shorter than the two act, two hour and forty minute excruciating exercise on view at The Connelly Theatre on East 4th Street co-authored by Zuzanna Szadkowski …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:02AMFriday, February 17, 2023
Never leave dirty dishes in the sink. Always make your bed. And if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t! But certain rules are made to be broken. Right? So here goes. PI…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 06:32AMThursday, December 15, 2022
This new musical adaptation of the classic Billy Wilder 1959 comedy starring Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe should be herewith subtitled – Thoroughly Modern Daphne or How Jerry…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:06PMFriday, April 29, 2022
For this we waited 58 years to see back on Broadway?! Summer Stock is alive and faltering at the August Wilson Theatre where this extremely disappointing revisal of FUNNY GIRL has recently…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:54AMTuesday, April 5, 2022
There is a good reason why Neil Simon was known as The King of Comedy. And one prime example is on view at the resplendent Hudson Theatre where a slew of his theatrical posters – plays a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:48AMMonday, March 21, 2022
As in Bernadette Peters who starred as Dot in Sunday in the Park with George in 1984 at the Booth Theatre. We shared the same vocal coach. I remember arriving at James Gregory’s studio…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 02:12PMFriday, February 18, 2022
I’d like to propose a toast! To celebrate! Here’s to the entire cast, from superstars Hugh Jackman & Sutton Foster to ensemble players to understudies; to all those backstage hel…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:54AMWednesday, December 15, 2021
2021 is the year of SONDHEIM. Broadway: COMPANY. Off B’way: ASSASINS. Film: WEST SIDE STORY. And his untimely, sudden, unfortunate death. Flashback to 1970. After an extremely su…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:12AMWednesday, December 8, 2021
Bringing the 1993 beloved film to Broadway now starring an equally incandescent Rob McClure as an out of work actor, facing divorce who loves his three kids so much that he manages to become…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:42AMSaturday, November 6, 2021
I wondered while watching this quite expensive extravaganza if those ten year old boys sitting on their make-me-higher cushions in the audience were wondering “what do I make of all this f…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 11:36AMTuesday, October 19, 2021
Seriously?! At the DR2 Theatre this “new musical in the making” is more like an amateur Fringe Festival workshop production. And in need of a doctor suffering from a weak plot and fo…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:36AMSunday, October 17, 2021
Was there anyone in your past who was instrumental in guiding you through your youth, teaching you how to treat others with respect and dignity and at the same time expecting you to be treat…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:48AMThursday, October 14, 2021
A somber, melancholy atmosphere is set as one enters the Belasco Theatre by the shadowy lighting and vacant musical instruments on a bare stage as the actors slowly enter to tell their stori…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:42AMMonday, October 11, 2021
Oh what a relief it is! Laughing out loud with a packed house on Broadway! And at a funeral no less! The dearly departed in question is Bernard Jenkins (unseen until his casket is rolled…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:36AMWednesday, September 29, 2021
Love won. Love lost. Love regained. In short, the main plot of PERSUASION. This exceedingly well put together, charming, theatrical, humorous, anachronistic, engaging bare bones prod…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:03AMTuesday, September 14, 2021
Going to see this production at the August Wilson Theatre on September 11 – a day of remembrance was eerily strange. It was a beautiful day. PASS OVER was to be my first show since my …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:06AMMonday, July 12, 2021
Welcome to THE TWILIGHT ZOOM. In this time travel panel experiment we meet its leader Mrs. Malaprop and her guests Dr. Faustus, Dr. Frankenstein, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Ruth as they discuss the…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:54AMTuesday, June 29, 2021
Fads come and go. Flavors of the month come and go. As do hairdos and hemlines and bust sizes. But the infamous, legendary Jayne Mansfield still fascinates. After all, she didn’t a…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 10:03AMWednesday, June 9, 2021
VITAGRAPH, may call to mind but should never be confused with Lucy Ricardo’s VITAMEATAVEGAMIN TV commercial. Nor should it be mistaken for VITAPHONE, a sound system or BIOGRAPH, a rival …
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:18AMMonday, April 5, 2021
Life lessons from the six wives of the infamous tyrant Henry VIII take center stage to vent their long held suppressed anger in this “unofficial survival guide for fans of the musical SIX�…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 01:54PMSaturday, October 24, 2020
It is the creation of Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, a married couple who spent the past two decades of their life scouring every flea market, estate sale, and online auction for these photog…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 07:18AMFriday, August 21, 2020
As the shutdown of Broadway – and all live theatre – continues due to the devastating effects of Covid-19 with no immediate date to reopen and the world is in disarray over that deplorab…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 12:02PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
WORKHOUSE (workhousepr.com) one of the country’s leading public relations and integrated creative firms, today announced that it has been selected as the Agency of Record for CHARLIE CHA…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:06PMFriday, April 24, 2020
April 19, 2020 11:48pm PT by Scott Feinberg HollywoodReporter.com ‘Sunset Blvd.’ Turns 70: Nancy Olson on Wilder, Holden and Why She Walked Away From Stardom The 91-year-old, who was Osc…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 09:12AMThursday, April 23, 2020
OPINION Before Coronavirus, Theater Was My Salvation. Where Do I Turn Now? The live-streamed performances and online group chats have been useful, but I miss the joy that comes with being in…
SOURCE: Oscar E. Moore at 08:42AMSunday, March 29, 2020
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