Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Sometimes it’s all about being impressed and/or amused that very few actors plays many roles in the play, switching gears (meaning accents, voices, costumes, energies, walks) in a flash, d…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:03AMIf you are a Fringe Festival Fanatic, things can get dramatic, traipsing from venue to venue, when you see what’s on the theatrical menu. The annual glut of shows to which one goes in down…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:02AMEach year in the summer marathon of theatre known as the New York International Fringe Festival of theatre pieces downtown (or Fringe Frenzy, as I have come to call it), there are shows that…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:00AMWednesday, August 15, 2012
When Michael Arden is in the driver's seat, you want to fasten your seat belt and go along for the ride ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:35AMThursday, August 9, 2012
The tale of a real-life show biz family troupe from the old days brings kids and kidding around back around for vaudeville cheer in a new cast album ... osh Young, a strong-voiced current B…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:21PMThursday, July 19, 2012
Her current Broadway role finds the captivating Nikki Renée Daniels singing the classic "Summertime" as the latest Clara ... The heart is on the sleeve, pounding and apparently resilient de…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:50PMThursday, July 12, 2012
For those multitudes who have been merrily rolling along their way through the years as Stephen-Sondheimaholics, I guess there is no such thing as too much Sondheim and there maybe can never…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:06PMThursday, July 5, 2012
British leading man Dave Willetts has quite the resumé at this point, as this recently released album makes us stop and take note of the quarter-century career retrospective (and his landma…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:46PMThursday, June 28, 2012
... the expansive score of Evita filling two CDs ... several of its songs are among those included on a double-disc multi-performer concert set surveying its composer's work ... and , a cab…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:47PMThursday, June 21, 2012
In one of the more unusual footnotes on history's pages becoming a musical, we have the real-life story of the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Then, over in California, no…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29AMThursday, June 14, 2012
Here for your listening pleasure: two albums with female vocalists, each with 17 tracks: one old, one new. We have a 1974 red-hot live recorded document by a super nova and a recently record…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:02PMThursday, May 31, 2012
Better late than never as the score of a 1924 Gershwin/DeSylva Broadway show finally gets recorded: "Sweet Little Devil" ... in "Sweeney Todd," the only warnings needed about the latest cas…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:52PMThursday, May 24, 2012
In various productions (and a film) over the years, with the original material shrinking or growing somewhat, the turbulent 1935 folk opera that grew from DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy is bac…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:50PMFriday, May 18, 2012
If you strolled down Broadway late in 1961, among the shows playing were How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (which opened that year), the previous year's late entry, Do Re Mi, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01AMThursday, May 3, 2012
Reviews of "One Man, Two Givnors" Original Cast Album, Julie Reiber's "Love Travels," Gay Marshall's Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night!" and Nancy Stearns' "Weather or Not."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:53PMThursday, April 26, 2012
Reviews of "Bonnie & Clyde" original cast recording, Sue Raney's "Listen Here," Sue Halloran and Ken Hitchcock "I Can Cook Too!
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:38PMTuesday, April 24, 2012
It's easy to feel at home with singer Roslyn Kind, as we chat about her life and career and her April 28 concert in Brooklyn, before May dates in New Jersey and Rhode Island.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:57AMThursday, April 19, 2012
Someone Else's Story is a debut solo CD from Meredith Braun ... Barb Jungr continues her association with the tales crafted and introduced by Bob Dylan.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:00PMFriday, March 30, 2012
Once upon a time it was easier to define and identify the typical "Broadway"/musical theatre sound and style.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:27AMFriday, March 23, 2012
"Godspell" Revival Cast Recording and candidates for MAC CD of the year.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:18AMTuesday, March 20, 2012
The concert series that takes an affectionate and informed look back at them, without being quite blinded by love, but rather the advantage of 20/20 hindsight, called If It Only Even Runs a …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:18PMFriday, March 16, 2012
One CD features a feisty fellow full of Fun named Robert Creighton (currently on Broadway). The other is a much, much more mellow man named Jerry Costanzo, with Can't We Be Friends?. Each Mr…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:31PMThursday, March 1, 2012
The two leading ladies leading off the column with their first solo albums are hardly newcomers to singing and theatre ... Dakaboom, upbeat up-and-comers, should have a booming caree
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:58PMThursday, February 2, 2012
There's a little overlap in our singers and musicians, in material by composer-lyricist-pianist-arranger-orchestrator-(co-)producer Michael Patrick Walker and then similarly multi-tasking Ge…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:12PMMonday, January 30, 2012
Her New York City engagement at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, running through February 4th, finds her in fine form, connecting strongly with her appreciative audience.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:27AMThursday, January 26, 2012
There's the outrageous and irreverent, profanity-peppered parody of the once-scary saga of "The Silence of the Lambs," plus "raindrops on roses," reverence, Reverend Mother, Rodgers & Hammer…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:20PMThursday, January 19, 2012
Which vocal albums impress mightily on first spin and have the lasting power, too, for frequent visits? It's time to sing the praises of such CDs released for the first time in 2011
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:09PMFriday, January 13, 2012
Rob's list of top ten (plus an honorable mention) cast albums of 2011.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:44PMThursday, January 5, 2012
"The People in the Picture" ... cast album, with its bits of dialogue and high drama feels like an old radio play meant to spark listeners to "see" the action ... Melodies composed, arranged…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:45PMMonday, December 19, 2011
To complain that "Elf" is too giddy and rollicking is almost like being surprised and ungrateful that the plateful of sugar-sprinkled gingerbread and chocolate is kinda sweet or that bearded…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:56PMMonday, December 12, 2011
Each season, new holiday-themed recordings emerge and, despite a zillion versions, it's the famously usual suspects that dominate, secular or sacred. Enter humming. But there's always a fres…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:38PM 
