Thursday, October 6, 2011
'The Code Breaker' is a genuinely ambitious play aimed at teens but will impress many adults
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:20AMWednesday, October 5, 2011
It was a little revue of Fats Waller’s songs in a 66-seat cabaret space at the Manhattan Theatre Club. Meanwhile, on that theater’s mainstage was an Athol Fugard play that had received r…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:19AMShow-business veteran Tyne Daly is getting a break, relatively speaking, as she moves from her Broadway performance in âMaster Classâ to creating a role in the new musical âIt…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:12AMAh, the pre-show speech! Some directors come before us and state that tickets only pay for a quarter of a show’s expenses. Others say that a cast member has been ill, so we should now …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMMonday, October 3, 2011
Never mind that 36 years have already passed since A Chorus Line opened on Broadway. What’s really astonishing is that five years have already passed since the revival of A Chorus Line ope…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:42PMHave you heard? “Natasha’s shtupping Protopopov.” So says Chebutykin in Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, now at Yale Rep in New Haven. Ruhl&r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMSaturday, October 1, 2011
What had been a big flop in Millburn now looks better in Parsippany
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:50AMFriday, September 30, 2011
And so, at 11 p.m. on Sunday night, the 2006-2007 season came to an end. Let’s take a look at it from A-to-Z.
A is for Angela Lansbury, who wins the award for Receiving the Biggest B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMWhat a nice and pleasant young man Duncan Sheik is! We had a lovely time talking and drinking at Sardi’s. I enjoyed hearing how, in the third grade in Hilton Head, South Carolina, he w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMWell, now that the Tonys are over, I can let you know what’s been on some readers’ minds.
“Here’s to the authors who stretch,” wrote Doug Braverman, in respons…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:08PMAudra McDonald will perform songs by old and new composers in Princeton
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:20AMIt was the month that the New York Musical Theatre Festival began. Although Ghostlight turned out to be abysmal, we’re all glad the festival is here – partly because it offers ma…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMWednesday, September 28, 2011
I envy St. Martin de Porres. The 16th century Peruvian was said to have the ability to be in two places at one time. I, alas, cannot, and as a result, I’m missing two events between Fr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:36PMWho’d expect that Elf would contain one of the most significant pieces of dialogue in the history of the Broadway musical? But there it is midway through the first act. North Pole resi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:36PMAfter Faith Prince had her landmark success with Adelaide in Guys and Dolls in 1992, many musical theater enthusiasts were heard to say, “Wouldn’t she make an ideal Ella Peterson…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:36PMIt was a month that saw August: Osage County decide not only to offer student rush, but also senior rush. Well, why not? What’s good for the gosling is good for the goose and gander. S…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:57AMI swear – this will be the last column on The Most Clever Broadway Musical Moments. We’ve had five in the last two weeks, but I do believe I’ve saved the best for last: The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:57AMAs I mentioned on Monday, I’m the critic-in-residence at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, more chummily known as CCM, where recently I saw Aubrey Berg’s excellent production…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:57AMGuess who’s singing an album of Broadway songs. Sandi Patty. Some (especially pagans) may not know the name, but much of the country is quite aware that Sandi Patty is the doyenne of g…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMTuesday, September 27, 2011
Protest and the proletariat — but no punch
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:53AMMonday, September 26, 2011
By Peter Filichia –
We have two important anniversaries this week, both as the result of West Side Story. It’s celebrating its 54th year of never being out of the public consciousness s…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:44PMHe’s made a name for himself by doing “exploratory readings” of musicals from the ‘40s (Barefoot Boy with Cheek) and ‘50s (Arms and the Girl) – not to men…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMFriday, September 23, 2011
Carol RoseggFrom left, Harvey Fierstein, Jack Feldman and Alan Menken form the creative team behind the new musical "Newsies." Needless to say, relatives who baby-sit don�…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:39AMDown the hall from Steve Spiegel’s office at Theatri©al Rights Worldwide is the warehouse that’s filled with a great many boxes. They’re waiting to ship out scripts to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMWednesday, September 21, 2011
Joan Marcus From left, Aaron Clifton Moten, Steven Skybell and Michael Cumpsty in "Much Ado About Nothing." Of all Shakespeare’s plays, “Much Ado about Nothing” may have the …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:57AMTom Chapin Growing’s pains Chalk up another setback to Hurricane Irene: It caused a postponement at the Growing Stage in Netcong. A planned Sept. 30 ribbon-cutting would have celebrated th…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:05AMQuick! What musicals have characters named Fortune Teller in Upright Coffin, Female Pirate, Patient, Rock Singer Holding Tray of Bread, Doctor with Most Hair, Little Girl, Shortest Male Doct…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMTuesday, September 20, 2011
It had to be more than just a homonym for him. In two decades of writing lyrics, Lorenz Hart used the word “heart” an inordinate number of times. That’s readily apparent in “Ten Cent…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:08AMMonday, September 19, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
As we celebrate the 47th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof this week (on Sept. 22, to be precise), let’s take a look at its most famous song -- and one of its least…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:53PMLast week, I detailed 40 assets found in the current production of Follies. Would I be able to do the same with the production of Aspects of Love at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMSunday, September 18, 2011
I’m not going to do what every other long-time theatergoer does: tell you about the glories of the original 1971 Follies and detail how every other production has paled in comparison. …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:36PM 
