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Author Archives: David Fick
Forgotten Musicals Friday: When the APPLAUSE Fades Away…
Some musicals are forgotten because they failed. Others are forgotten because time quietly moved on without them. APPLAUSE falls squarely into the latter category, which makes it one of the more curious entries in our Forgotten Musicals Friday canon. Continue reading
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Tagged Adolph Green, All About Eve, Anne Baxter, Applause, Betty Comden, Bonnie Franklin, Bye Bye Birdie, Charles Strouse, Christine Ebersole, Larry Hagman, Lauren Bacall, Lee Adams, Lee Roy Reams, Len Cariou, On the Town, Penny Fuller, The Wisdom of Eve, Wonderful Town
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Musical Theatre Hot Takes
Hot takes are all over the Internet these days – and hot takes on musicals are no exception. Here’s my attempt at a few. Continue reading
Posted in Monday Missive
Tagged A Chorus Line, Aida, Alan Jay Lerner, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Audra McDonald, Benjamin Britten, Cats, David Yazbek, Follies, Frederick Loewe, George Bernard Shaw, Gypsy, Harold Prince, Jamie Lloyd, Legally Blonde, Marie Christine, Merrily We Roll Along, Michael John LaChiusa, My Fair Lady, Nicole Scherzinger, Stephen Sondheim, Sunset Boulevard, The Colour Purple, The Wild Party, The Woman in White
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The Saturday List: Ranking Sondheim’s Post-Prince Shows
In the four decades since Merrily We Roll Along flopped on Broadway, effectively bringing Stephen Sondheim’s prolific collaboration with director-producer Harold Prince to a painful end, Sondheim wrote only six new musicals for the stage: Sunday in the Park with … Continue reading
Posted in The Saturday List
Tagged A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Addison Mizner, Ariana Grande, Assassins, Bounce, Brandon Uranowitz, Company, David Ives, Ettore Scola, Follies, Georges Seurat, Harold Prince, Here We Are, Into the Woods, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Lapine, Joan Marcus, Joe Mantello, John Weidman, Jonathan Bailey, Luis Buñuel, Marc Brenner, Maria Friedman, Martha Swope, Merrily We Roll Along, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Ball, Moisés Kaufman, New York City Center, Passion, Passione d’Amore, Raúl Esparza, Road Show, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park With George, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Exterminating Angel, Tristram Kenton, Wilson Mizner
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: When Broadway Went ANIMAL CRACKERS
Some musicals are “forgotten” in the loosest sense of the word, not because they vanished entirely, but because we remember them for one thing and quietly overlook the rest. Animal Crackers is one such show. More often thought of as … Continue reading
The Magic of Musical Theatre Moments
What makes musicals so magical? Here are some thoughts about why so many of us fall in love with it so young and stay in love with it for life. Continue reading
Forgotten Musicals Friday: Broadway Meets Britain in ANDRÉ CHARLOT’S REVUE OF 1924
Broadway has often looked across the Atlantic for creative renewal, and just over a century ago, it found something of the kind in ANDRÉ CHARLOT’S REVUE OF 1924, a sophisticated import refreshingly unlike anything American audiences were used to seeing. Continue reading
“Hal, It’s About Cats”: Who Decides What Musicals Mean?
Who decides what a musical really means? This Musical Cyberspace Monday Missive reflects on the question of who ultimately determines meaning in musical theatre: the writers, the directors, the performers – or the audience. Continue reading
Posted in Monday Missive
Tagged Andrew Lloyd Webber, Avenue Q, Cameron Mackintosh, Cats, Damon Daunno, Daniel Fish, Emma Brockes, Evita, Harold Prince, Into the Woods, John Gay, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma!, Oscar Hammerstein II, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Rebecca Naomi JonesDamon Daunno, Stephen Sondheim, T.S. Eliot
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The Saturday List: Five Best Musical Tony Winners That Have Aged the Worst
Although the Tony Awards represent the pinnacle of each Broadway season’s theatrical presentations, some recipients of the award for Best Musical haven’t stood the test of time. Sometimes, an undeserving musical edges out a show that is otherwise recognised as being absolutely brilliant; at other times, an older show is out of step with the way we see the world today. Continue reading
Posted in The Saturday List
Tagged Adolph Green, Alan Weeks, Alexander Borodin, Alfred Drake, American Theatre Wing, Arabian Nights, Arthur Laurents, Ben Brantley, Betty Comden, Can-Can, Chad Kimball, Clifton Davis, Contact, David Bryan, Elvis Presley, Follies, Galt MacDermot, George C. Wolfe, George Forrest, Grease, Hallelujah Baby, Joan Diener, Joe DiPietro, John Guare, José Ferrer, Joseph Moncure March, Jule Styne, Kismet, Lemuel Ayers, Leslie Uggams, Mel Shapiro, Memphis, Michael John LaChiusa, Montego Glover, Raúl Juliá, Robert Wright, The Book of Mormon, The Scottsboro Boys, The Wild Party, Tony Awards, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton, Winston DeWitt Hemsley
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