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 ...
Shirley Jones as Mrs. Paroo and son Patrick Cassidy as Harold Hill in a 50th anniversary production of "The Music Man" at the Bushnell Theatre in Hartford, Ct. (Ben Gancsos)It all started from a casual, off-the-cuff story.“About a ...
Fifty years ago this week, Fiddler On The Roof opened at the Imperial Theatre and wound up becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history. Granted, now that we’re in an era of much longer runs thanks to New York tourism and fewer ...
He'd called and said he'd be a little late for the 10 a.m. rehearsal, so even when the clock struck 10:15 and Bernie Yvon hadn't yet arrived, no one gave it much of a thought.By 10:30, a few started to worry.By 10:45, most everyone was ...
It was an inspired notion. Ten years after Sandy Wilson had struck gold as the bookwriter, composer and lyricist of The Boy Friend, he decided to revisit those “perfect young ladies from finishing school” that he’d created. Now he’d imagine ...
