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Saturday, July 30, 2011

The Excellent Musical, "Children of God," Is a Theatre-Goer’s Prayer Answered; "Surviving Love" takes on gayness and loneliness and lamenting, recycling songs. by Rob Lester

Hallelujah!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 01:52AM

Thursday, July 21, 2011

3 Musicals from the Midtown Festival: "Peg O’ My Heart," "Between the Bricks" & "Boomers" by Rob Lester

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 08:40PM

Thursday, July 7, 2011

"Knickerbocker Holiday" and "Strike Up the Band" New Recordings by Rob Lester

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 02:21PM

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Sound Advice: "Catch Me If You Can" and "The Wizard of Oz" CD Reviews by Rob Lester

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 01:16PM

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Sound Advice: Melodies by Marzullo (lyrics and vocals: Various) by Rob Lester

This week Rob reviews Show Some Beauty, which features songs by Steve Marzullo.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:43AM

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Sound Advice: It's DiMenna, it's deRoy and Miss Meissner, too by Rob Lester

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 07:09PM

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Cabaret's MAC Awards Show in the Heart of Broadway Takes Cabaret History to It's Heart by Rob Lester

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

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Sound Advice: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Rob Lester

Rob reviews this original Broadway cast recording.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:57AM

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Sound Advice: Wonderland by Rob Lester

Rob reviews the Broadway cast recording of Wonderland.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:21PM

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Sound Advice: Singing the songs of ... Finn, Loesser, Landesman & Wallace by Rob Lester

This week Rob reviews: Lisa Howard: Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Music of William Finn; Karen Oberlin: Live at the Algonquin, The Songs of Frank Loesser; Shepley Metcalf: Something…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:01PM

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

"Wonderland" Lands on Broadway by Rob Lester

Yes, its kind of a mess. A classic messed around with, a misguided misfire, a critical mass of mistakes that some critics will massacre. All that. This mess is hit and miss, but not to be…

SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 09:59PM

Saturday, April 9, 2011

SOUND ADVICE: RICKY IAN GORDON by Rob Lester

This week Rob reviews two CDs in the Ricky Ian Gordon Sings Ricky Ian Gordon series: A Horse With Wings and Bric-A-Brac

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:16AM

Saturday, April 2, 2011

SOUND ADVICE: SONGWRITERS' CORNER by Rob Lester

This week Rob reviews: Our First Mistake: Kerrigan-Lowdermilk; Chasing the Day: The Music of Will Van Dyke; and Thirteen Stories Down: The Songs of Jonathan Reid Gault.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:49AM

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