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So did my column last Friday convince you that you should do DISNEY'S MY SON PINOCCHIO?If you read what I wrote, you saw that I certainly admire this tender and moving story from David I. Stern - and that I also took great pleasure from the ...
Every actor loves when a call comes in out of the blue offering him a job.When the invitation is the leading role in a world-famous musical, that's all the sweeter."Not necessarily," says Michael Bernardi."The call came from Ron Fassler," he ...
At a recent dinner with like-minded Broadway enthusiasts, one told of a director whose vision hadn't worked for what could have otherwise been a really good musical. Soon after, another spoke of a different director who had taken a musical that many ...
Honor thy great-great-grandfather and great-great-grandmother. Not by visiting their graves, although that would be nice. Not by commissioning a plaque and attaching it to the wall of the still-standing building that was their first residence in ...
So why would the new musical Loving Repeating - called "a play within a lecture" - make me think of the slam-bang, razz-ma-tazz musical Mame?Well, for one thing, in Jerry Herman's 1966 smash-hit, he had Vera Charles tell Mame Dennis Burnside ...
Perhaps you've been debating whether or not to stage Billy Elliot at your theater. After all, how will a British musical set almost a third of a century ago in Northeast England play in your neck of the woods? Can your average theatergoer whose ...
When the term "family show" is used, it's usually a euphemism.What it more often means is a show that little kids will like or love. Mom and Dad, however, won't be as enthralled, but will get their enjoyment from seeing their tykes' beaming smiles ...
It happens at many a performance attended by critics. An actor says a line that resonates with the aisle-sitters, and suddenly these men and women are reaching for their notebooks to precisely take down what they’d just heard.The line they’re ...
The response to Irving Berlin’s White Christmas at the Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska was good but not great. The kids watching the Lincoln Southwest High production seemed more impressed with the many dance numbers choreographed by ...