Monday, March 21, 2016
Hey, all. After eight years of blogging, I've moved up in the world and am now writing for About.com. You can check out my regular posts, reviews, and ramblings at theater.about.com. I won't…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:34PMMonday, December 22, 2014
Regular readers with note that most of my posts lately have been lists of links to my About.com posts. When I took on the About.com gig, I thought that I would be migrating some of my more e…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 06:49PMSaturday, November 29, 2014
So, the combination of yet another busy semester at The Boston Conservatory and my contract with About.com to supply them with two posts a week has meant that I haven't had any time to post …
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 07:40PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
The fall theater season in New York is is full swing. I'll be publishing a series of reviews over the next few weeks, some of them here on the blog, and some of them over on About.com. Here'…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:42PMSunday, September 14, 2014
So, the new semester at The Boston Conservatory has officially begun. Now I get to see how well I'm going to be able to keep up with my posts on About.com, my reviews of the new Broadway and…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:53PMSunday, August 31, 2014
As I mentioned a while back, I picked up a new gig writing for About.com as the Musical and Theater Expert. I was hoping that the gig wouldn't interfere with my blogging, and so far that has…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:09PMFriday, August 15, 2014
Quick quiz: 1. What musical is the following lyric from? 2. Which character is singing? 3. What is this character singing about? All that matters now Is where we go from here. There's an eas…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 05:18PMTuesday, August 5, 2014
John Waters writes in one of his books (I think it was Crackpot) that he wishes that someone would discover an unpublished Jean Genet novel. He's read everything extant by Genet, he says, an…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:06PMMonday, August 4, 2014
Most jukebox shows rely on the name-recognition factor to lure in the crowds. Well, here's a musical that has sort of the opposite goal: to bring our attention to a name that many of us have…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:13PMTuesday, July 29, 2014
Here's my final roundup of reviews from the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). I saw 19 shows over the course of three weekends. It was a bit grueling at times, but overall I fou…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 08:30PMSunday, July 27, 2014
Here's my third round of reviews, out of four, of shows from the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF). Seeing so many shows in such a short time has been a really rewarding process,…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 11:27AMWednesday, July 23, 2014
You gotta admire the cojones on anyone who writes a musical called Atomic. I mean, theater critics and their editors can be mean enough with headlines even without such low-hanging fruit. OK…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 03:04PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
Here's my second installment of reviews from this year's New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF). I continue to be impressed at the overall higher caliber of shows at this year's festival. …
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:34PMTuesday, July 15, 2014
One of my favorite theatrical experiences of this past season was seeing the lustrous Audra McDonald in the play Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, so much so that I went back a second tim…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 04:17PMAh, summer. Looks like it's time for a little NYMF-ing. Well, maybe more than a little. I mean, faced with the prospect of 24 new musicals, 9 concerts, 10 development readings, and numerous …
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 03:21PMWednesday, July 9, 2014
Hey, folks. Here are my latest posts for About.com. Lots of fun info here regarding what to see on Broadway this summer, which recent cast recordings to buy, whether you spell in "theater" o…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 03:07PMTuesday, July 8, 2014
I was in the Berkshires over the July Fourth weekend, and had no intention of seeing any theater. Honestly. But I wound up taking in two shows, one of which was The Servant of Two Masters at…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 04:52PMTuesday, July 1, 2014
Here's a roundup of my latest posts on About.com (theater.about.com). I'm supposed to post at least twice a week, which is a bit more frequent than I've been used to in my blogging, but so f…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 09:37PMSunday, June 29, 2014
I just got back from a three-show day in NYC. I hadn't planned on blogging about any of the shows -- I wanted to just sit back and enjoy on this trip -- but as I sat watching one of...
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 12:54PMFriday, June 27, 2014
I'm sure that some of you, like me, greeted the news of a prospective Tupac Shakur musical with at the very least a raised eyebrow. I think this is a vestige of our propensity of limiting ou…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:58PMSunday, June 22, 2014
I can't recall the last time I was so genuinely enchanted by the first act of a show, only to be so disenchanted by the final curtain. The new musical Fly By Night at Playwrights Horizons fe…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 06:10PMThursday, June 19, 2014
Here are my two most recent posts for About.com. One of them is about some A-list Hollywood types that will be playing on Broadway in the coming season (including Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenha…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 04:39PMTuesday, June 10, 2014
So, the Tonys are over, and another season has come and gone. I've caught up (mostly) on my reviews, but I wanted to alert y'all out there in EIKILFM land that I've picked up a companion wri…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:18PMSaturday, June 7, 2014
OK, I admit it. I was skeptical when the Roundabout Theatre Company announced its plans to bring its acclaimed 1998 revival of Cabaret back to Studio 54. It seemed like a cynical attempt to …
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:04PMRegular readers will recall that I occasionally attend "straight" plays. (I prefer to call them "non-musicals.) My attendance at these belting-deprived affairs is usually cont…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 09:20AMMonday, June 2, 2014
We can complain all we want about star casting, but the fact remains that it works. Not always, of course, as the producers of the recently canceled mega-tour of Jesus Christ Superstar disco…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 03:07PMTuesday, May 27, 2014
Wow. Just wow. I went into the Broadway revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch fully expecting to enjoy myself. What I didn't expect was that I would be so blown away, both by the power of the…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:23PMWednesday, May 21, 2014
If I had to sum up musical-theater history in just one word, that word would be "integration," which I define for my Boston Conservatory students as the extent to which a song or dance contr…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 01:31PMTuesday, May 20, 2014
Friday, May 16, 2014
If I were producing a musical version of the darkly comedic film "Heathers," there are two guys I would have turned to in a New York minute to write the show: Laurence O'Keefe (of Bat Boy an…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 11:30AMWednesday, May 14, 2014
OK, grades are in. Let the catch-up begin. I saw quite a few shows this spring, both on Broadway and off, but so far have only had a chance to blog about a handful of them. Now that school i…
SOURCE: Christopher Caggiano at 02:49PM 
