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CD Review: Bullets Over Broadway
This may the shortest review I've ever written. Why? Because Bullets Over Broadway is as disappointing as a cast recording as it is as a show. (My review of the show HERE.) It is amazing, too, just how...
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The 2013 - 2014 Box Office Final Summary
#1The numbers are in, and the 2013 - 2014 Broadway season showed gains in all three indicators (attendance, grosses and playing weeks) For more about the record books, click HERE. All is not sunny,...
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MUSIC REVIEW: Marriage Type Love! Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy
Marriage Type Love! the new re-release of an album by Shirley Jonesand the late Jack Cassidy takes all of us back to that time theatre fans always seem to wax nostalgic for - when show tunes were...
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Broadway Ladies: Ms. June 2014: Jessie Mueller
Ms. June 2014Jessie MuellerWHY SHE'S MS. BROADWAY: DUH! It's been a long time coming... after a very successful career in Chicago, she made her Broadway debut (and earned her first Tony nomination) in...
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LOGOS: Holler If Ya Hear Me
I haven't seen the show yet, so I can only give my impressions based on what I see, which is probably the most honest and exactly the experience most theatre consumers should have with a new logo. It...
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Broadway's Summer Cleaning
The "Circle of Life"Well, we're now nearly three weeks post-Tony Awards, and the annual purge of shows is fully under way. Summer, like the dead of winter, can be a slow time on Broadway, and...
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TBT: Brief Encounter and The Normal Heart
In my very first Throwback Thursday blog, I thought I'd take a look back to five seasons ago (2010-2011) at the two plays that really wowed me and continue to be standard setters. One started the...
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CD Review: Aherns and Flaherty: Nice Fighting You (Live at 54 Below)
Broadway has had famous composing teams throughout is long history - Rodgers and Hammerstein, Rodgers and Hart, Lerner and Loewe, Bock and Harnick, Kander and Ebb... For the last twenty-four years,...
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CONTEST! Win Your Own Copies of Plays by Martin McDonagh!
It's hard to believe, but the critically-acclaimed Tony-nominated revival of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan (show website HERE) is nearing the end of its limited run in just two weeks!...
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REVIEW: Side Show
Review of the Saturday, July 5 performance at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Eisenhower Theatre in Washington, DC. Starring Emily Padgett, Erin Davie, Ryan Silverman, Matthew Hydzik,...
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CD REVIEW: Fun Home
It has been called "exciting,""ground-breaking," and I, myself, called Fun Home "brilliant" and "monumental." (Review HERE) This beautiful collection only serves to solidify my opinion of the show,...
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TBT: Xanadu
It was seven years ago today that Xanadu opened on Broadway. Given the pre-show buzz, it is truly AMAZING that it had a year plus run (49 previews, 512 performances at the Helen Hayes Theatre),...
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How to Market a Show: On The Town
These days for a new Broadway show to be heard above the din of Times Square, the buzz and squawking of social media, and the one-upsmanship (for the good and bad) of critical notices and pull quotes....
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REVIEW: If/Then (Re-visit)
Re-visit review of the Wednesday, July 2nd matinee performance at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City. Starring Idina Menzel, LaChanze, Curtis Holbrook, James Snyder, Jenn Colella, Tamika...
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Killer Theatre: Dream-Casting DEXTER: The Musical
With yesterday's announcement that American Psychowould be coming to New York. This won't be the first time a killer gets to sing - Assassins had a rogue's gallery of one-time killers, and the merry...
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Broadway Things That Make Me Happy: July Edition
IT COULD BE WORSE SEASON 2 STARTS TOMORROW!Love, love, loved Season 1!!! Can't wait to see what happens to Jacob (Wesley Taylor), Ben (Adam Chanler-Berat) and Sam (Mitchell Jarvis) when they head to...
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TBT: Follies (2011)
I am ashamed to admit that as a Sondheim fan, I had never seen Follies until the revival that opened at the Marquis Theatre on September 12, 2011. Even more, I am ashamed to admit that prior to seeing...
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FAREWELL: Elaine Stritch
Like many a young theatre novice, I was introduced to the classic scores by listening to the original Broadway cast recordings since the shows were long gone. That was how I was first introduced to...
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TBT: The Winter Garden Theatre
The recent announcement that Rocky will be closing soon got me to thinking about the huge billboard that adorns the front of the Winter Garden Theatre. It is hard to believe that only three shows have...
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REVIEW: Driving Miss Daisy (Film)
Review of the filmed Australian production of Driving Miss Daisy as presented nationwide, June 4 - 10. Starring Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones and Boyd Gaines. A play by Alfred Uhry. Directed by...
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