Friday, 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
Monday, December 21, 2015
Two new releases concentrate on [the early] period—with gusto. Several titles appear on both albums, but with quite different stylings.
SOURCE: talkinbroadway.com at 12:43PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
A new recorded version of a score by George and Ira Gershwin is always good news ... [Annaleigh Ashford] bubbles over with excitement, a party gal eager to have you join her party ... [Barba…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:49AMFriday, October 23, 2015
This CD release marks the 40th anniversary of the original LP of the original cast, produced by Goddard Lieberson, a kind of "encore" task for the Columbia Records giant figure.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:30AMFriday, September 4, 2015
The case of the musical Doctor Zhivago is hardly the first time that a Broadway show shuttered quickly, despite a storied road of being a celebrated novel, movie, and having a globe-trotting…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18AMFriday, August 28, 2015
Wanna make a bet? The Fringe Festival’s deliciously ridiculous musical about the selection of a new Pope, Popesical, like the actual Pope’s upcoming visit, will attract big crowds. But i…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:44PMI just caught two new musicals about red-headed female scientists and their partners. One is in town for a brief stay in its world premiere in the Fringe Festival. One was never seen before …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:44PMIt’s rare to find a kids’ show that’s this good. Here are 2 that are new, written by Jamey Hood.
She scores with both, tho’ it’s her first time. And, in fact, non-distractingly, s…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:43PMFriday, July 31, 2015
A 2014 Off-Broadway musical called Fly by Night has key moments with its people seeking solace in the stars of the nighttime sky and being plunged into darkness because of a power failure. N…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:52AMSaturday, July 18, 2015
Summer means the annual summer musical theatre festival, and this summer, Summer Valley Fair is one of the highlights and a uniquely creative style and approach make it compelling. It’s p…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:40PMFellow outsiders, come inside PTC Performance Space and hug a buffalo who’s feeling low. For those of us who like musicals, the annual NYMF series of new ones for three weeks in July feels…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:40PMIn the swirling whirlwind of musical offerings busy invading Manhattan through July 27 comes that increasingly endangered species: the old-fashioned revue. A mix of songs and skits and bits …
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 11:40PMFriday, July 17, 2015
Their roads to the Broadway season were long, but their runs were short. Here are two recently closed musicals whose action takes place in Europe, with scores written by major league songwri…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:35AMThursday, July 2, 2015
Musical theatre's Marin Mazzie does double duty in this spring's CD releases: serving in the title role of a long-gestating/morphing musical's premiere recording with Misia featuring melodie…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27AMFriday, June 19, 2015
The missing slices from the juicy score to 1954's The Golden Apple are on disc at last. So there is reason to rejoice for lovers of adventurous musical theatre scores ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:20AMFriday, June 12, 2015
Our mix this time contains the high-profile big Broadway hit, a low-profile 2012 show, and a fellow profiling some Sinatra standbys.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:00AMFriday, May 29, 2015
It's a treat to listen to these recordings, made from the 1950s to the 1980s, either with the hindsight of history or wondering how it must have been to perform them or hear them fresh, with…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:48AMMonday, May 25, 2015
