Category Archives: Broadway

LOVE NEVER DIES Rehearsal Photographs

Posted on February 20, 2010 by David Fick

Playbill has published three photographs from the rehearsals of Love Never Dies. Here’s just one, featuring Sierra Boggess and Ramin Karimloo with director, Jack O’Brien: None is particularly enlightening. I wish there’d been a greater range of shots available. Purchases … Continue reading →

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WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

Posted on February 19, 2010 by David Fick

David Yazbek’s latest adaptation of a movie for the musical theatre stage – he’s previously been responsible for the score of The Full Monty and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels – will be a reworking of the 1988 Pedro Almodóvar film, Women … Continue reading →

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RIP Kathryn Grayson

Posted on February 18, 2010 by David Fick

Kathryn Grayson was an American actress, best known for her work in film musicals during the 1950s and on stage, mainly in opera, in the 1960s, although she certainly had a career in film and on television on either side … Continue reading →

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Menier’s PARADISE FOUND Dates – a confirmation?

Posted on February 13, 2010 by David Fick

It’s not exactly the newest news – dates aside, all else is pretty much the same news we’ve been hearing about Paradise Found since last September – but Baz Bamigboye is reporting it in The Daily Mail anyway: Broadway star … Continue reading →

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One Week Until BROADWAY BEARS!

Posted on February 7, 2010 by David Fick

There’s just one more week until The Broadway Bears XIII Auction, the annual fundraiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS in order to support men, women and children living with HIV/AIDS and other illnesses. The online portion of the event has … Continue reading →

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Reviews for FANNY at Encores!

Posted on February 6, 2010 by David Fick

Here’s a roundup of reviews for the current Encores! production of Fanny. Raves Andy Propst at Theatremania: From the moment it begins, there’s a palpable sense of gentleness and delicacy…. [I]t’s essentially impossible to not be entranced by this delectable … Continue reading →

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National Tour for WEST SIDE STORY

Posted on February 5, 2010 by David Fick

There will be a tour of Broadway’s current incarnation of West Side Story starting in October this year. This production, which features the classic score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, was directed by its librettist, Arthur Laurents. Much of … Continue reading →

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“Love Never Dies” – and neither does this song…

Posted on February 2, 2010 by David Fick

So here it is, the titular tune from the sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies: Hang on a second you say – that sounds familiar! Well, of course it does. The song was … Continue reading →

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THE NUTTY PROFESSOR for Broadway

Posted on February 2, 2010 by David Fick

In an interview with the Las Vegas Review Journal, Jerry Lewis said that he was hoping that the stage musical adaptation of The Nutty Professor, with book and lyrics by Rupert Holmes and music by Marvin Hamlisch, is aiming for … Continue reading →

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WEST SIDE STORY wins the Grammy Award

Posted on February 1, 2010 by David Fick

The Grammy Awards were presented last night and West Side Story, the classic Broadway musical by Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, took home the awards for “Best Musical Show Album”, winning over Ain’t Misbehavin’, Hair, 9 to 5 … Continue reading →

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