Monday, 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 04:38PMTuesday, December 6, 2011
On West 30th Street, The Urban Stages eclectic festival Winter Rhythms continues through December 11 ... Susan Winter is one of this week's attractive attractions at the Metropolitan Room ..…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:11PMFriday, December 2, 2011
Wintertime is here in NYC in the time zone of cabaret. Over on West 30th Street, the first day of December saw the beginning of Urban Stages' 11-day festival of (mostly) cabaret events, many…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:45AMThursday, December 1, 2011
Here are three very different musicals which have in common the theatrical conceits and conventions of putting their often dramatic dramatis personae right in the spotlight's golden glow or …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:05PMThursday, November 17, 2011
These three singular singers, who came together not long ago on Broadway for "Sondheim on Sondheim," sound convincingly deep into their material.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:50PMThursday, November 10, 2011
Our ears and eyes are on a recently closed new British musical comedy ... and three tribute CDs.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:10PMSaturday, November 5, 2011
It's not that "far from the first of the year," so before composer-lyricist Jerry Herman's 80th birthday year ends (he turned 80 over the summer), the tributes are still coming, with autumn …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:03PMThursday, November 3, 2011
Satisfying looks at two "books" this week, with two energized female vocalists: one with the songbook of musical theatre hits (and a few appendixes of her own) and the other singing about th…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:14PMFriday, October 21, 2011
The Great American Songbook is in good hands as some familiar hands turn its pages and raise their celebrated (and celebrating) voices at the 22nd annual Cabaret Convention concerts, in the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:17PMThursday, October 20, 2011
It's the intriguing cast album from the recently-closed new musical "Death Takes a Holiday," which some may find surprisingly full of life. And then, an appealingly lively live album that is…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:01PMWednesday, October 19, 2011
The Equal Rights Amendment might itself be amended to include the trend-bucking Betty Buckley who doesn't just ask why a woman can't sing the songs of a man, but goes ahead and sings them an…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:06PMThursday, October 13, 2011
Here are three vocalists saluting their special favorites, major songwriters of standards, with tracks sampling many of those writers' numerous writing teammates.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:28PMThursday, October 6, 2011
Good music rules the day, thanks to that girl who is a self-appointed and plucky "Little Princess" who comes from literature, her story bringing us to Europe and Africa, with the latter cont…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:17PMThursday, September 29, 2011
If you're looking for high-energy musical romps both raucous and rosy, cozy cooing, happy harmonizing and dance breaks, this very bright and sunny Anything Goes goes a long way towards fitti…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:07AMThursday, September 22, 2011
It's one scoop of each flavor this time. We're going down a country road with the Kristin we know from Broadway (and TV), while another Kristin, new to these ears, takes the "standard" route…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:11PMThursday, September 15, 2011
The house lights dim and the band begins. We turn our attention to the singer that the nightclub "is very proud to present" taking a turn in the spotlight. A recorded souvenir may lose somet…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:25PMThursday, September 8, 2011
Jason Graae sounds a big "You I Like" hurrah for Jerry Herman ... melodies by Jason Robert Brown tell the tale of a determined young swan ... Phil Swann ("Play It Cool") takes the vocal spo…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:13PMThursday, September 1, 2011
... two thoughtful musicals that examine how male/female partners-in-life-and-love deal with each other and other compelling things that enter the picture ... The first is adapted from Georg…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:06PMMonday, August 29, 2011
Picture it: A 2pm matinee is about to start, the cast in costume: a drag queen, a guy whose get-up is fabric made to look like absurdly bulging muscles, a gaggle of gals in very high heels a…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:46PMWednesday, August 24, 2011
Among the numerous gay-themed plays in the almost 200 varied and varying-quality productions in the New York International Fringe Festival are a serious drama of deception and attraction and…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 08:07PMHere’s a heads-up about how violence hath reared its ugly head in shows at the currently-running NY International Fringe Festival with, head and shoulders above the others, the drama Sammy…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 08:06PMFour score and seven years ago, exactly, our forefathers brought forth a new national fascination: news headlines trumpeting reports about an elusive female robber dubbed “The Bobbed Hair …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 08:05PMThursday, August 11, 2011
Two male vocalists on board: a veteran and a newer voice, each capable of singing in hushed, romantic tones or letting loose with a big sound. Both have dipped their pens into ink a bit as c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:32PMSaturday, July 30, 2011
Same old/ same old story? Not quite. Alice and Rip! revisit the tales of wonder in Wonderland and the legend of Mr. Van Winkle, the sleepy man written by that Sleepy Hollow writer, respect…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:54AMHallelujah!Praise the Lord! There’s a musical in town briefly --- but, I suspect, ripe and ready for a long run delighting audiences, that is satisfying in the ways we want musicals to be.…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:52AMThursday, July 21, 2011
Let the games begin. Theatre festivals are always a game … of chance. We festival regulars know that you get the shows that are cheery and the ones that make you weary, the dreary and dr…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 08:40PMThursday, July 7, 2011
The Fourth of July holiday may be over, but the permanence of recordings makes it never too late to strike up the band and declare a knickerbocker or any kind of holiday to celebrate finally…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:21PMThursday, June 30, 2011
Two episodic, song-filled, leaving-home journeys this time, previously seen on the screen but first told in books�inspired by the imaginative real life of Frank Abagnale, Jr., and the imagin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:16PMWednesday, June 8, 2011
This week Rob reviews Show Some Beauty, which features songs by Steve Marzullo.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:43AMThursday, May 26, 2011
This week Rob reviews: Lynn DiMenna's Fun & Fancy Free: The Music of Dinah Shore; Jamie deRoy's Wish on the Moon; Susie Meissner's I'm Confessin'.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:09PMWednesday, May 18, 2011
What is more theatrical than an awards show? There’s that suspense of “Who will win?” There’s the dramatic pause between the rattling off of nominees’ names and the envelope-open…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:16AM 
