Most assume that it’s nothing more than a feel-good, happy-go-lucky, fun-filled musical comedy. That novelist Amanda Brown even played on the expression “legally blind” to come up with her title – LEGALLY BLONDE – would suggest that any ...
Doesn’t the first word in the title Children of Eden imply that it’s the ideal musical for a Jr. edition?Not so fast. True, children are the ones for whom Jr. editions are made. They’re custom-tailored to what kids can do, with music ...
At the recent American Association of Community Theatre Festival in Carmel, Indiana, 12 companies ranging from Burlington, Massachusetts to Chula Vista, California came to show their wares.professional essay writersBut only one company dared to ...
How busy Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was last week! The first four cars I saw while walking around had license plates from Indiana, South Dakota, Kentucky and Wisconsin. Of course, the reason for the congestion was the 150th anniversary of the famed ...
“My name is Evan Goldman” are the first words said by the leading man of 13. Here, at the Thespian Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska, the line is stated unequivocally by Erick Patrick of Olathe South High School in Olathe, Kansas.function ...
Yes, Katrina Ploof was brilliant in the title role of Golda’s Balcony and Neilson R. Jones was an ominous professor and Vivian Hwang an eager student in Ionesco’s The Lesson. But now comes another highlight of the American Association of ...
Whenever composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director Harold Prince set out to do a musical, they were always on the lookout for ingredients that would be new, fresh or even groundbreaking. For A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, their elegant 1973 Tony-winner, ...
“Wait..Gypsy didn’t win the Tony for Best Musical?”
That’s a question that gets asked over and over again, every time a new Rose takes to the runway in the Broadway classic “Gypsy”. In "Strippers, Showgirls and Sharks", the popular ...
They fly through the air with the greatest of ease: those daring young actors currently appearing in the Paper Mill Playhouse production of The Little Mermaid. Out in Millburn, New Jersey, plenty of performers have been hooked to wires and ...
Thirty is usually the first birthday that any of us dreads. Twenty-nine year-old Jonathan Larson did as well in 1990 – especially because he’d been trying to get a foothold on Broadway for years and he seemed to be getting nowhere. “I’m older ...
