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 ...
Living to be 90 represents a generous life span. Most of us, if we could, would sign a contract today if we were assured we’d be able to last that long. And yet, even after we see someone has attained nonagenarian status, we’re still saddened ...
The thought occurs to me while I’m driving to Cranford, New Jersey, to see The Theatre Project Jr.’s production of BUGSY MALONE, JR.This was minutes after I’d finished watching Alan Parker’s 1976 film, a spoof of Prohibition-era ...
They’re still talking about your wildly successful production of The Music Man, aren’t they? Oh, that dynamic actor who played Harold Hill! Ah, that equally potent actress as Marian Paroo!Why not pair them again in LEAP OF FAITH?LEAP OF ...
VIOLET -- the 1997 off-Broadway hit that became this year’s Tony-nominated revival – just closed on Broadway this past weekend.But the tuneful and heart-rending show will continue to affect the country at large, as long as there are ...
Saisha Wesley, Kiana Carbone, Liana Zaino, Maginnis Buckley, Aneesah Abdur-Razzaq. Photo by: RAY LITTERIO PHOTOGRAPHYAugust is the month when kids who have been enrolled in summer theater arts programs show what they have learned in June and ...
