Sunday, August 6, 2017
What better message for a musical than, “Find and be your true self, despite pressures to be a clone, and you’ll be a happier true you.” Backbeard and Happily don’t have lyrics sayin…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 07:05AMFriday, August 4, 2017
Looking for musicals about teens and their troubles? See our Pick of the Week for info on Happily (August 3 & 4) at NYMF. And here are reviews at two that came by first: along first at the …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:08AMTuesday, August 1, 2017
Opening in NYC: Hal Prince saluted in The Prince of Broadway …..or do we mean Faith Prince who turns 60 this week (on Sunday)? Or The Student Prince, since that operetta’s composer, Sigm…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 10:06PMTuesday, July 25, 2017
This Friday, see a 3-man Little Shop of Horrors. Its composer, Alan Menken, who turned 68 this week, has more than a birthday to celebrate: the 35th anniversary of that musical’s off-
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SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:59AMMonday, July 24, 2017
Wow! At affordable prices, with top-notch stars, cabaret, class, and classic Cole come East for a feast: merry Mark Nadler launches a Cole Porter-centric series and his own custom brand of …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:35AMFriday, July 21, 2017
Living as the gender one sees oneself as or with same -gendered teammates (girl power)…NYMF shows cover both. Numbers Nerds is a likeable, sweet quite entertaining musical and The Body Pol…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 09:55PMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Two NYMF shows I bet will be back for extensions are colorful, rich, and inspired by pre-existing characters. But they couldn’t be more different than each other. Miss Blanche Tells It A…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:22AMSunday, July 16, 2017
Adapting a lengthy novel as a musical has its challenges — especially if, like The Time Machine and The Picture of Dorian Gray, the work is sprawling, classic, beloved… And you’re unli…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:53PMFriday, July 14, 2017
He IS where Broadway meets cabaret! Cheyenne Jackson, born this week in 1975, started his Broadway career as an understudy. He’d been doing theatre work just on the side back in Seattle, …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:19AMTuesday, June 20, 2017
Once (well, twice) upon a time or two, both Carole Demas and Sarah Rice played the sole female role in the original off-Broadway run of The Fantasticks. Now, many moons later, Carole (the or…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:07AMFriday, June 2, 2017
On June 8 &9 —hooray!—Michael Feinstein will honor Ella Fitzgerald as he did for Mel Tormé earlier (Review herein). Singers Nicole Henry, Jessie Mueller, and South African vocalist Vuy…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:38PMOne of the more interesting singers on the scene these days is the one with the lovely name of Sally Darling whose newest solo cabaret show Love, Lust & Longing I am longing to see. While M…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:37PMFriday, May 26, 2017
Guess who’s back in town and on Broadway? I don’t mean Dolly, it’s that group full of radiant harmony, Marquee Five, although you will hear something from Hello, Dolly! and other Broad…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:35PMThursday, May 11, 2017
What better message to deliver to kids than that happiness and friendship will come if you’ll “Just be who you really are”? A musical — endearingly entertaining — now playing, wit…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 03:13AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
The agenda on May 6, 7 and 8? Saluting some lyricists who rarely get their due. With insightful, delightful lyricist Sheldon Harnick hosting and narrating and singing a few times, Broadway…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:05AMSunday, May 7, 2017
Here’s a True or False Quiz on the iconic songwriter whose work is still heard today, though he was born 12 years before the 19th century ended. Here are 10 interesting facts (or lies) ab…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 07:33AMSaturday, April 29, 2017
Early on, when that iconic red door that has marked the gateway to Elizabeth Arden’s swank Fifth Avenue salon since 1910, rolls onto the stage, it’s clear we’re in good hands. This goo…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:51PMThink back to 2001. If you went to the art-house cinema at all that fall, chances are it was to catch Jean-Pierre Jeune’s wide-eyed ingénue Amélie. With its many super-tight shots of new…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:50PMThursday, April 20, 2017
In an uncertain world, one thing you can always count on is being uplifted and your cup of cheer will runneth over when entertainer extraordinaire Marilyn Maye is holding court in the spotli…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 05:35AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Chenoweth & McGovern's pretty inging plus Pretty Filthy, a cast recording.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:01AMTuesday, January 3, 2017
Taking their cues from the movies ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:41AMFriday, August 26, 2016
While not a typical or titanic type of musical theatre—it tends to musically glide more than soar with its more subtle persuasive attractions—the cast album is quite pleasing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:58AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
With the alarmingly large number of recent headline stories about gun violence and the ongoing debates about gun control, a sly and smart musical on the topic makes its points —and wins po…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 02:12PMFriday, June 24, 2016
Here are two contemporary musicals whose scores on disc are among Broadway Records' cluster of recent releases. Neither would be mistaken for a Rodgers & Hammerstein-style musical or a whole…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:10PMThursday, June 9, 2016
Love—or a reasonable facsimile. Or maybe just another shade of the red hot. Hearing their colorful ideas and hearing them perform in a private rehearsal increased my anticipation for ric…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 08:04AMFriday, March 25, 2016
This time, it's Amazing Grace, named for the stirring hymn and charting the journey of the man who wrote it. The second line of that song—"How sweet the sound!"—also describes the voices…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49AMMonday, March 21, 2016
... some whose memories go back a bit more than 50 Broadway seasons may be amazed that it's been that long since Fiddler on the Roof first came along, but it's back and there's another reviv…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:43AMFriday, January 29, 2016
. Each grabbed me right away, having surpassed my expectations based on prior familiarity with the artists and/or songs. They have lasting power, continuing to impress when I hear them again.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:33AMMonday, January 25, 2016
... here are the ones (submitted for review) that radiate with initial impact and staying power.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:10AMFriday, January 8, 2016
The Wiz and Finding Neverland:
Inspired by Baum, Barrie & Believing.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:53AMWednesday, December 30, 2015
