I was sorry to learn that Richard Adler died on June 21. Ninety is a ripe old age, of course, but seeing another stalwart of The Golden Age of Musical Theatre leave us is never easy.What Adler accomplished in the '50s will never be accomplished ...
If this article’s title -- “The Sorry/Grateful Musical” – grabbed you, you are well within your rights to assume that it refers to COMPANY. After all, that’s the show in which Stephen Sondheim stated that marriage can make someone sorry ...
Just because they didn’t applaud Parade doesn’t mean that they didn’t like it.online loansAt the opening night performance of the 1998 musical at 4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield, New Jersey, silence often greeted singers after they’d ...
Precisely 506 months to the day after I saw the very first performance of the pre-Broadway tryout of Company at the Shubert Theatre in Boston, I saw it again -- at the GeVa Theatre Center in Rochester.I was sure that this audience wouldn’t react ...
Good thing that assistant stage manager Lindsay Weiner led the audience in breathing lessons before the show officially began.Our breath might have otherwise been taken away for good by all we saw at The Shubert Foundation/MTI Broadway Junior ...
Like Mrs. Lovett, “Sometimes ideas just pop into me head.” Only mine are more benign than hers, thank the Lord.With Encores! announcing its 2012-2013 season this week – Fiorello followed by It’s a Bird …It’s a Plane … It’s Superman ...
Sometimes you can tell you’re going to have a good time at a show just from the set.
In front of us on the second floor of the 14th Street Y is a sunny-looking playground. Center stage is a small slide, and surrounding it are bald automobile tires ...
No last row of the second balcony for these kids.The students in the Shubert Foundation/MTI Broadway Junior/New York City Department of Education program get first-class seats. At a Wednesday matinee of How to Succeed in Business without Really ...
Sports fans mark May 3 as the day Joltin’ Joe Di Maggio (and future Mr. Marilyn Monroe) made his major league debut with the New York Yankees in 1936. Historians will tell you that May 3 was the day that Washington, D.C. became incorporated as a ...
Last week, we talked about I Do! I Do! – a sweet musical about a marriage that lasted 50 years.But Michael and Agnes were married circa 1900 – more than 100 years ago. I Do! I Do! opened in 1966 – almost 50 years ago. Both of those eras saw ...
