Peter Pan at Centenary StageWhether you loved or loathed Peter Pan Live! on Dec. 4, you may well have been reminded of all the pleasures that the 1954 musical has to offer. As a result, you’ve decided to give the vintage musical a serious look ...
Of course we all wish that Adolph Green were here to celebrate his 100th birthday on Dec. 2, 2014, but we’ll have to do it for him.Green did live to be 87, until Oct. 23, 2002 -- a sad day for musical theater. Betty Comden, his now-and-forever ...
Here’s a story about “The Three B’s” that has nothing to do with Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.Instead, this trio of young men can be called The Three Little Pigs who deserve three “F’s” for their behavior.But three writers – ...
Once a musical is cast and its performers know what they have to do, you’ll find they’ll split up into two camps.Some will listen intently to the original cast album.Some will completely avoid it, lest they be swayed by the ...
You’re the drama director at an all-boys’ school who’s looking for a musical that requires far more young men than young women. Oh, a show with a few female roles is fine, for you can borrow bodies from a nearby all-girls’ school. But still, ...
More and more I continue to value Legally Blonde as a significant musical.Yes, significant. Not just fun: significant, with many positive messages. Granted, many originated in Amanda Brown’s 2000 novel as well as the 2001 screenplay by Karen ...
The ads proclaimed “She Loves Me in Concert,” but as we’ve all learned, “in concert” can mean many different things.Would this presentation at 4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield, New Jersey offer us some or all of the songs that composer ...
The most enduring song from Fiddler On The Roof is, of course, "Sunrise, Sunset." Since late 1964, has there ever been a wedding reception, bar or bat mitzvah where it hasn't been played? Its theme is how "swiftly go the days." Indeed they do, ...
The laughs were long, hard and genuine guffaws after most jokes. The applause was strong and hard after all songs. The opening night crowd couldn’t contain its enthusiasm -- and had no desire to.And the show was BIG.Eighteen years ago, BIG had ...
Too bad there isn’t a meter to measure civic pride.If there were, Mason City, Iowa – the real River City that bookwriter-composer-lyricist Meredith Willson fictionalized in his Tony-winning 1957-58 musical THE MUSIC MAN – would score ...
