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Broadway Games: Which Came First?
Congratulations, reader! You made it to Friday! Now, here's a little diversion to help satisfy your hunger for Broadway. Which came first? (The answers to last week's game are below, too.)Broadway...
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1980s Broadway Musical Logos Madness! The Championship!
We are obsessed with show logos and window cards! We just LOVE them. So we thought it'd be fun to have a show logo tournament, you know, like March Madness. We poured over the archives and decided to...
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Book Review: Broadway Misfires
Review of Broadway Misfires: Three Decades of Broadway Musical Heartbreak by Mark A. Robinson and Thomas S. Hischak. BookBaby, Publishers. © 2020. 757 pages, including sections of production...
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Musical of the Month: Grease! The 1994 Revival Cast
The long running revival of the Musical of the Month, Grease!(1994Â - 1998) was a neon-colored hyper fantasy version of the original. It was a crazy spectacle, and it was a lot of fun. While the show...
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Standing @ Zero: Mrs. Doubtfire's Casey Garvin
We have been fans of this month's Standing @ Zero hero since his days in the off-Broadway revival of Bare. Since then, his career has really taken off, with regional theater credits including MUNY's...
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Broadway Games: Six More Degrees of Broadway Separation
Can you figure out how these shows connect to each other in order? Are they connected by an actor? A director? The theater they played in? Or something else altogether? Remember, you are figuring out...
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1990s Broadway Musical Logos Madness! Round 1 Mufasa Division
You know we are obsessed with show logos and window cards! We just LOVE them. Over the summer, you really embraced our very first bracket, the 1980s Broadway Musical Logo Tournament. Ultimately, you...
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Are There "Hit Songs" in Broadway Misfires?
We love it when we hear from you, especially when you come up with some great ideas that add to the Broadway discourse. Well, following our list of favorite flops of the past decade, and again after we...
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Musical of the Month: Grease: The 2007 Broadway Revival
Over the past weeks, we've taken a look at the long and starry road the Musical of the Month, Grease has taken. The original production made stars, the 1994 revival made stars and celebrated...
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Mr. Broadway September 2020: Dear Evan Hansen's Jordan Fisher
One of my post-COVID goals is to see Jordan Fisherperform live. I've been a fan of this multi-talented guy since his Disney Channel days, and more recently during is championship-winning run on Dancing...
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Broadway Games: Word Search: The 2019-2020 Season
Who doesn't love a word search? How about one that is all about Broadway? It's the best of both worlds this week, readers! True, it covers this crazy past season, but still... Standard rules apply....
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1990s Broadway Musical Logos Madness! Round 1: Jelly Roll Division
You know we are obsessed with show logos and window cards! We just LOVE them. Now, it's time to find out your top logo for the closing ten seasons of the 20th century. To get things started, we poured...
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Ms. Broadway September 2020: Diana's Jeanna de Waal
In what has generally been a nightmare scenario for Broadway, one of the first bright spots of the pandemic has been the news that the new musical Diana was being filmed for a Netflix release prior to...
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Musical of the Month: Grease: The Best Songs
    I should preface this article by saying two things. First, I find the score of Grease wholly entertaining, in a sing-along, fun kind of way. (Let's face it, you don't listen to Grease the same...
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The Late Great Howell Binkley
Chances are pretty good that if you've been to a Broadway show over the past three decades, you've had the privilege of seeing the work of Howell Binkley. You may not have even known you did. And...
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Broadway Games: Word Search: The Women of Broadway
Last week's word search was so popular, we decided to give you another one to work on. This week, we focus on the women who make the Great Bright Way shine. Yes, there are the divas, but also the...
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1990s Broadway Musical Logos Madness! Round 1 - Aurora Division
You know we are obsessed with show logos and window cards! We just LOVE them. Now, it's time to find out your top logo for the closing ten seasons of the 20th century. To get things started, we poured...
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LOGOS: The Music Man (2021)
Like most of us that are into the theater scene, we, too, are craving anything that could possibly count as new content. Which brings us to the installation of a new marquee for a new Broadway show -...
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Musical of the Month: Hairspray
As we live in another age of civil unrest and protests for equality, racial justice, it seems more than appropriate to celebrate Hairsprayas Musical of the Month. This week, we'll take a look at the...
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One That Got Away: Parade
With the recent passing of Brent Carver, I've been thinking a great deal about how fortunate I was to have seen his Tony-winning turn in Kiss of the Spider Woman three times. So natural, so intense, so...
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