Category Archives: Broadway

The Saturday List: Lloyd Webber – Act II

Posted on January 20, 2024 by David Fick

Hold onto your top hats and chandeliers, musical theatre enthusiasts, because we’re about to embark on a musical journey through the second act of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s illustrious career. Continue reading →

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The Saturday List: A Little Gwen Verdon, A Lotta Talent

Posted on January 13, 2024 by David Fick

Grab your jazz shoes and get ready to dance into the unparalleled brilliance of Broadway’s own dynamo, Gwen Verdon! Continue reading →

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The Saturday List: The Best OLIVER! on Record

Posted on January 6, 2024 by David Fick

Step right up, ladies and gents, for a musical journey through the Dickensian alleyways of Lionel Bart’s timeless creation, OLIVER! Musical Cyberspace takes a look at which cast recording of the show leaves us asking for more! Continue reading →

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The Saturday List: The Best WEST SIDE STORY on Record

Posted on January 1, 2022 by David Fick

To mark the release of Steven Spielberg’s new film and its accompanying motion picture soundtrack, Musical Cyberspace is revisiting a favourite topic: just which recording of West Side Story is ‘the gold-medal kid with the heavyweight crown? Continue reading →

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New PORGY AND BESS Musical Adaptation (with Audra!)

Posted on February 11, 2011 by David Fick

Which part is the real news here? That Diane Paulus, Suzan-Lori Parks and Diedre Murray are adapting the classic George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward opera, Porgy and Bess, as a contemporary-styled musical theatre piece? That the producers are Hair alumni … Continue reading →

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JUMBO: the SPIDER-MAN of 1935

Posted on January 24, 2011 by David Fick

I just read a rather interesting article by Michael Sommers of the New Jersey Newsroom comparing the follies of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s Jumbo with those of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the show that has caused such a … Continue reading →

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Musical Theatre Advent Calendar: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

Posted on December 9, 2010 by David Fick

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum really has nothing to do with Christmas. Well, I suppose certain aspects of Christmas could be described as jolly and this is a very jolly musical. There we go. Tenuous … Continue reading →

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Musical Theatre Advent Calendar: MARTIN GUERRE

Posted on December 8, 2010 by David Fick

Is Martin Guerre a candidate for the show with the most revisions without ever yet fulfilling its potential? Perhaps not, but there was a time during the late 1990s where there always seemed to be a new version of the … Continue reading →

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Musical Theatre Advent Calendar: A CHORUS LINE

Posted on December 7, 2010 by David Fick

Michael Bennett’s work on the musical A Chorus Line might just be one of the greatest pieces of musical theatre staging ever. Take the number in the clip, for example: “At the Ballet”. It seems pretty simple, doesn’t it? Just … Continue reading →

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Musical Theatre Advent Calendar: THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS

Posted on December 6, 2010 by David Fick

Today’s musical is something of a Christmas event. It is playing on Broadway now and it will be gone in January. Nope, it’s not Elf. It is The Scottsboro Boys, the new John Kander and Fred Ebb musical, that transferred … Continue reading →

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