To purchase the 1999 Broadway Revival Cast Recording of YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN, click on the image above.
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Youth represents age
Bald heads, glee clubs and baseball
Comical truths told
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To purchase the Original Broadway Cast Recording of SPRING AWAKENING, click on the image above.
Spring Awakening
It’s your fault, Mama.
Colours of my existence:
Silver, blue, purple.
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To purchase the Original Cast Recording of THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS, click on the image above.
The Scottsboro Boys
The truth of the past
Revealed by Bones and Tambo;
The future unclear
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To purchase SOUTH PACIFIC on Blu-ray, click on the image above.
South Pacific
One magical night,
Matching thoughts sing in the stars:
Love checks prejudice.
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Above: ANNIE in its original Broadway production
The latest news on the Annie reboot is that Emma Thompson will write the screenplay and that Jay-Z is very keen on setting it in Detroit. Also – and this can only count in the film’s favour – Ryan Murphy, who was attached to the project, has stepped down from the film.
Word on the street is that it will be based on the comic strip, rather than Charles Strouse, Martin Charnin and Thomas Meehan’s musical, and that Jay-Z will be writing original songs for Willow Smith to belt out as Annie. Apparently everything has to be on track by November, or Smith might get too old.
To purchase the Blu-ray/DVD Combo of THE LION KING, click on the image above.
The Lion King
Listen: the grass sings
Shakespeare for a younger crew.
Zoo puppets go wild!
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To purchase the Broadway Revival Cast Recording of PROMISES, PROMISES, click on the image above.
Promises, Promises
Office girl meets boy
An only, lonely Christmas
Germ-bred pneumonia
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To purchase an MP3 download of the 1995 Encores! Cast Recording of PAL JOEY, click on the image above.
Pal Joey
Bewitched by his horn,
Women chase him gladly –
Still he is alone
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To purchase the Original London Cast Recording of GHOST, click on the image above.
So after decidedly mixed reviews in London and a complete slate from Ben Brantley in The New York Times, who says that Dave Stewart and Glen Ballard’s score is the ‘aural equivalent of a Stairmaster’, the producers of Ghost are looking to bring the show to New York, which might be a smart move – says Michael Riedel – for a show like this in what has proved to be a weak season for new musicals thus far.
I have no concrete feelings about the show (which features a book by Bruce Joel Rubin, the screenwriter of the film upon which it is based) either way at this point, but the things I’ve read about the show make it seem as though it still needs a fair amount of work to be as good as it is popular. At least, I hope the tap-dancing ghosts are gone by the time the show transfers to the Great White Way…
To purchase the Original Broadway Cast Recording of MAN OF LA MANCHA, click on the image above.
Man of La Mancha
Impossible Dreams?
It’s all the same to a knight!
Let the quest begin…
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