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The Saturday List: In Good Faith
It’s Faith Prince’s 65th birthday today, and there’s no better time to celebrate her fabulous Broadway appearances than today. Continue reading
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Tagged A Catered Affair, A Leap of Faith, Adolph Green, Annie, Bells are Ringing, Betty Comden, Carolyn Leigh, Cy Coleman, Disaster!, Faith Prince, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, Harvey Fierstein, High Button Shoes, Jason Alexander, John Bucchino, Jule Styne, Little Me, Mame, Martin Short, Neil Simon, Nick & Nora, The King and I, The Little Mermaid, Tony Awards
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The Saturday List: Five Bees-Knees Musicals of the 1920s
How’s tricks, everyone? Today’s “Saturday List” takes a look at my top five musicals from the 1920s. Continue reading
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Tagged Bea Arthur, Bertolt Brecht, Bitter Sweet, Clifford Grey, Dearest Enemy, Dorothy Donnelly, Edmund Purdom, Edna Ferber, Fifty Million Frenchmen, Funny Face, George Gershwin, Gertrude Lawrence, Greatrex Newman, Guy Bolton, Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Jo Sullivan, Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Mario Lanza, Miles Kreuger, Mr Cinders, National Theatre, Nicholas Brodzsky, No No Nanette, NT Live, Oh Kay!, Oklahoma!, Oscar Hammerstein II, P. G. Wodehouse, Paul Francis Webster, Richard Myers, Rufus Norris, Show Boat, SIgmund Romberg, Simon Stephens, Strike Up the Band, The Desert Song, The Girl Friend, The Musicals Collection, The New Moon, The Student Prince, The Threepenny Opera, Vivian Ellis
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: The Legacy of THE JUNGLE BOOK
Our final Forgotten Musicals Friday column for July brings us full circle in our journey through THE JUNGLE BOOK. As mentioned in our first column, we are looking at the show’s legacy. Continue reading
The Saturday List: Krysta with a “Y” on Broadway
Before she was “Liza with a Z” in television’s HALSTON, Krysta with a “Y” was making a name for herself on Broadway – and we’re ranking five of Krysta Rodriguez’s Broadway appearances in today’s Saturday List to celebrate her birthday. Continue reading
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Tagged A Chorus Line, Alan Zachary, and Steven Sater, Andrew Lippa, Austin Winsberg, ChemoCouture, Cosmopolitan, Deaf West Theatre, Duncan Sheik, First Date, Good Vibrations, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, Halston, Hercules, In the Heights, Kathryn Gallagher, Krysta Rodriguez, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Liza Minnelli, Mame, Marshall Brickman, Michael Weiner, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Richard Dresser, Rick Elice, Spring Awakening, The Addams Family, The Beach Boys, Treshelle Edmond, Zachary Levi
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: THE JUNGLE BOOK Look
We’re almost through THE JUNGLE BOOK for Forgotten Musicals Friday. This week, we’re taking a look at how the show came to life through its scenic design and costumes Continue reading
The Saturday List: The Crown Julies
In today’s Saturday List, we’re looking at “The Crown Julies,” the five Broadway and off-Broadway stage appearances of Julie Andrews. Continue reading
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Tagged A Little Night Music, Alan Jay Lerner, Blake Edwards, Camelot, Cinderella, Follies, Frank Wildhorn, Frederick Loewe, Henry Mancini, Julie Andrews, Leslie Bricusse, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, Oscar Hammerstein II, Putting It Together, Richard Burton, Richard Rodgers, Rob Marshall, Robert Goulet, Sandy Wilson, Stephen Sondheim, The Boy Friend, Tony Awards, Victor/Victoria
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: THE JUNGLE BOOK’s Jungle Rhythm
This July, the focus of our Forgotten Musicals Friday series is THE JUNGLE BOOK. This column looks at the staging of the show, with a particular focus on its choreography. Continue reading
Forgotten Musicals Friday: Adapting Disney’s THE JUNGLE BOOK
Join as us we jump into July’s Forgotten Musical: THE JUNGLE BOOK! Today we look at Mary Zimmerman’s book for the show and the way that Doug Peck reinvented the well-known and much-loved songs from the Disney film. Continue reading
The Saturday List: SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN and Other Screen-to-Stage Floparoos
If it was a smash on screen, why wouldn’t it be a smash on stage? The answer to this question seems to have evaded many a musical theatre producer – so let’s take a look at some of the greatest screen-to-stage flops! Continue reading
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Tagged 42nd Street, Adolph Green, Arthur Freed, Betty Comden, Debby Boone, Don Correin, Frank Rich, Hugh Martin, Hugh Wheeler, Judy Garland, Mary D'Arcy, Meet Me in St Louis, Nacio Herb Brown, Peter Slutsker, Ralph Blane, Roger Edens, Singin' in the Rain, Twyla Tharp
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