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Category Archives: The Saturday List
The Saturday List: A Jerome Robbins Countdown!
Today is the anniversary of the opening of JEROME ROBBINS’ BROADWAY. To commemorate this anniversary, this week’s Saturday List takes a look at the five best Robbins shows, all of which were featured in this iconic production. Continue reading
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Tagged A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Adolph Green, Arthur Laurents, Bells are Ringing, Betty Comden, Billion Dollar Baby, Bob Fosse, Call Me Madam, Ethel Merman, Fiddler on the Roof, George Abbout, Gypsy, High Button Shoes, Jerome Robbins, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Jerry Bock, Joseph Stein, Jule Styne, Leonard Bernstein, Look Ma I'm Dancin'!, On the Town, Oscar Hammerstein II, Peter Pan, Richard Rodgers, Sheldon Harnick, Stephen Sondheim, The King and I, The Pajama Game, Tony Awards, West Sides Story
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The Saturday List: Ten Best Anti-Love Songs
Nobody I know enjoys dating. But experience tells us that there are good dates to be had. And so do musicals. So let’s take a look at ten great musical theatre dates – just in time for Valentine’s Day! Continue reading
The Saturday List: Ten Great Musical Theatre Dates
Nobody I know enjoys dating. But experience tells us that there are good dates to be had. And so do musicals. So let’s take a look at ten great musical theatre dates – just in time for Valentine’s Day! Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Menken, Beauty and the Beast, Benj Pasek, Carousel, Dogfight, Frank Loesser, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, Harvey Schmidt, Howard Ashman, Jonathan Larson, Jule Stye, Justin Paul, Leonard Bernstein, Oscar Hammerstein II, RENT, Richard Rodgers, South Pacific, Stephen Sondheim, The Fantasticks, The King and I, Tim Jones, West Side Story
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The Saturday List: Ten Love Songs by Lerner and Loewe
February is the month of love and this Saturday has caught me in a romantic mood. There’s simply no better time to compile a list of ten great love songs by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Jay Lerner, Brigadoon, Camelot, Frederick Loewe, Gigi, My Fair Lady, Oscar Hammerstein II, Paint Your Wagon, Stephen Sondheim, Tim Rice
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The Saturday List: Broadway’s 10 Longest-Running Musicals Ranked!
One way of measuring success in musical theatre is the length of a musical’s Broadway run. Of course, that’s just one measure of success and it certainly doesn’t always take craft and artistry into account. Continue reading
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Tagged A Chorus Line, ABBA, Alain Boublil, Alan Menken, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Beauty and the Beast, Bob Fosse, Catherine Johnson, Cats, Charles Hart, Cher, Chicago, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Edward Kleban, Elton John, Fred Ebb, Gregory Maguire, Hans Zimmer, Harold Pinter, Harold Prince, How Musicals Work, Howard Ashman, Jacques Levy, James Kirkwood, John Kander, Jules Feiffer, Julian Woolford, Julie Taymor, Kenneth Tynan, Lebo M, Linda Woolverton, Mamma Mia!, Marvin Hamlisch, Nicholas Dante, Oh! Calcutta!, Peter Schickele, Richard Stilgoe, Robert Dennis, Stanley Walden, Stephen Schwartz, T. S. Eliot, The Lion King, The Phantom of the Opera, Tim Rice, Wicked, Winnie Holzman
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The Saturday List: 10 Times the Musical Challenged Its Dismissal as a Relevant Art Form
Although many people dismiss the musical as a relevant form of artistic expression, the musical can easily hold its own alongside any form of theatre you might care to mention. So I thought that today, I might put together a Saturday list of just ten times musicals have been completely in step with the world around them. Continue reading
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Tagged Adolph Green, Andrew Lippa, Betty Comden, Blood Brothers, Camp David, David Kramer, District Six, Dreamgirls, Edward Said, Elliot Norton, Follies, Fun Home, George C. Wolfe, Gone With the Wind, Harvey Milk, Henry Krieger, Idi Amin, James Goldman, James Michener, Jeanine Tesori, Jerome Kern, John Weidman, Kat and the Kings, Leonard Bernstein, Lisa Kron, Michael John LaChiusa, Musical Theatre, Oklahoma!, On the Town, Oscar Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein II, Pacific Overtures, Richard Rodgers, Show Boat, Sono Osato, South Pacific, Stephen Sondheim, Taliep Petersen, The Wild Party, Tom Eyen, Trevor Nunn, Watergate, Willy Russell
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The Saturday List: Multiple Best Actress in a Musical Tony Winners
Today, there is something of a diva-off at Musical Cyberspace. For this week’s Saturday list, we’re going to rank the multiple-Tony Award winners in the Best Actress in a Musical category, mentioning and sharing video clips of some favourite performances. Continue reading
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Tagged 42nd Street, Angela Lansbury, Annie, Bella Spewack, Bernadette Peters, Blythe Danner, Camelot, Charles Strouse, Chita Rivera, Christine Ebersole, Cole Porter, Donna Murphy, Faith Prince, Fred Ebb, Grease, Grey Gardens, Gwen Verdon, Harrigan and Hart, I Do! I Do!, John Kander, Kelli O'Hara, LaChanze, Lauren Bacall, Leave it To Me, Lee Adams, Les Misérables, Little Women, Liza Minnelli, Love Thy Neighbor, Marla Schaffel, Mary Martin, Oklahoma!, On the Twentieth Century, Patti LuPone, Peter Pan, Randy Graff, Sam Spewack, Shrek, South Pacific, Sutton Fost, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Producers, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Sound of Music, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Tony Awards, Violet, Young Frankenstein
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The Saturday List: The Best WEST SIDE STORY on Record
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
Posted in Broadway, Cast Recording Reviews, The Saturday List
Tagged Ansell Elgort, Ariana DeBose, Arthur Laurents, Broadway, Carol Lawrence, Caroline O'Connor, Cast Recordings, Chita Rivera, David Newman, Gustavo Dudamel, Jerome Robbins, Jim Bryant, Larry Kert, Leonard Bernstein, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marni Nixon, Mike Faist, Rachel Ziegler, Rita Moreno, Stephen Sondheim, Tony Kushner, West Side Story
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THE SATURDAY LIST: Five Favourite “Small Cast” Shows
For today’s Saturday List, I thought it might be fun to take a look at some “small cast” shows. By their very nature, these shows are more intimate than the big musicals that play the biggest houses on Broadway, in the West End and internationally. Some are introspective, others are side-splittingly funny – but many are just as moving as their classic, big, blockbuster counterparts. Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Story, A Grand NIght for Singing, Adam Gwon, Benj Pasek, Craig Lucas, Dear Evan Hansen, Dogfight, Edges, Gregg Edelman, Jason Robert Brown, Justin Paul, Marry Me a Little, Martin Vidnovic, Mrs Dalloway, Norman René, Ordinary Days, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, The Greatest Showman, The Last Five Years, Virginia Woolf, Walter Bobbie
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