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Author Archives: David Fick
OPENING NIGHT: Moisés Kaufman Goes INTO THE WOODS
The new Kansas City Repertory Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods, directed by venezuelan director Moisés Kaufman, best known for writing The Laramie Project with other members of Tectonic Theater Project, opens tonight for a … Continue reading
Posted in James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim
Tagged Brandon Sollenberger, Brynn O'Malley, Claybourne Elder, Dana Steingold, Daniel Pelzig, Euan Morton, Into the Woods, James Lapine, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Katie Kalahurka, Katie Karel, KC Comeaux, Kip Niven, Lauren Braton, Lauren Worsham, Melinda MacDonald, Michele Ragusa, Moisés Kaufman, Patrick DuLaney, Paul Mesner, Stephen Sondheim, Tectonic Theater Project, The Laramie Project, Tina Stafford, Zachary Prince, Zackary Hoar
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AMERICAN IDIOT Review Roundup
Time for a review roundup of the San Francisco run of American Idiot: Positive Jay Barmann at SFist: The music is urgent, driving, and loud. Whatever you feel about Green Day, there’s a theatricality and consistent narrative element to their … Continue reading
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BYE BYE BIRDIE on MAD MEN
A sequence based on the film version of Bye Bye Birdie has appeared in Episode 3/02 of Mad Men. Check it out here: In the sequence, the title song from the film is reproduced with new lyrics as the basis … Continue reading
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Tagged Bye Bye Birdie, Mad Men, Television, YouTube
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Interpolations for the BYE BYE BIRDIE Revival
The wealth of material created for the film and television adaptations of the 1960 Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie won’t be heard in the new Broadway revival, with one exception: the title tune written for the film, which will be … Continue reading
LOVE NEVER DIES teaser/trailer
View the teaser trailer for LOVE NEVER DIES here! Continue reading
Posted in General News, YouTube
Tagged Love Never Dies, The Addams Family, The Phantom of the Opera, Trailers, YouTube
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NEWSFLASH: Mel C Adds Spice to BLOOD BROTHERS
Hot on the heels of our May Madness poll about “The Spice Girls in Musicals”, BroadwayWorld is reporting that Mel C will be in Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers: Melanie Chisholm, the Spice Girl formerly known as Sporty, is set to … Continue reading
EMPIRE: the Empire State Building Musical
Nick Wyman, Nancy Anderson and Kevyn Morrow will appear in a reading of a musical based on the creation of the Empire State Building. The original musical, for which Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull share the credit for book, music … Continue reading
Posted in Broadway, General News, Musicals, Readings, West End
Tagged Aaron Simon Gross, Becca Ayers, Bill Evans Jeremy Davis, Brian O'Brien, Broadway, Brooke Shields, Caroline Sherman, Christina DeCicco, David F M Vaughn, Dawn Timm, Empire, Empire State Building, Eric Michael Gillett, Jeff Williams, Jessica Phillips, Karen Ziemba, Katherine Tokarz, Kevyn Morrow, Matt Cavenaugh, Michael McCormick, Nancy Anderson, Nick Wyman, Readings, Robert Hull, Robert Rokicki, Ryan Bauer-Walsh, Ryan Silverman, Stacie Bono, West End
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Broadway Revival of PROMISES, PROMISES
Variety has reported that following the LA production of Parade, Rob Ashford will begin prepping the Broadway revival of Promises, Promises that has been rumoured ever since Ashford staged a reading of the Burt Bacharach musical in March 2008: (Rob … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Hathaway, Broadway, Burt Bacharach, Musicals, Parade, Promises Promises, Rob Ashford, Sean Hayes
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BYE BYE BIRDIE: Changes in the Revival
Playbill has a new article about the revival and how the director-choreographer Robert Longbottom will honour the original show while giving it a new spin. This is a bit quotation heavy, I know, but it’s interesting stuff: Kenneth Jones wrote: … Continue reading
Posted in Broadway, Musicals, Theatremaking
Tagged Abby Lane, Allie Trimm, Ann-Margret, Bye Bye Birdie, Charles Strouse, David Chase, Ed Sullican, Gower Champion, Jayne Houdyshell, Lee Adams, Matt Doyle, Oscar Hammersteinn II, Revisals, Robert Longbottom, Roundabout, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Watson
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PARADISE FOUND at the Menier Chocolate Factory
Harold Prince has announced that Paradise Found, the musical he is to co-direct with Susan Stroman, will have its debut at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory – so says Variety‘s Richard Ouzounian, who got the news straight from the horse’s mouth … Continue reading →