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Tag Archives: Harold Prince
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: Favourite Songs from 1980s Musicals
Choosing ten favourite songs from 1980s musicals was considerably easier than choosing songs for similar lists from the 1960s and 1970s. There just weren’t as many great shows with great scores in the 1980s. Ranking the songs is another story. Continue reading
Posted in The Saturday List
Tagged Alain Boublil, Alan Menken, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Arthur Laurents, Aspects of Love, Baby, Cats, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Dreamgirls, Elaine Paige, George Hearn, Griffith Frank, Harold Prince, Howard Ashman, Into the Woods, Jerry Herman, John Kander. Fred Ebb, Julia Murney, La Cage aux Folles, Lea Salonga, Les Misérables, Little Shop of Horrors, Liza Minnelli, Merrily We Roll Along, Miss Saigon, Nine, Raul Julia, Starlight Express, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park With George, The Fantasticks, The Phantom of the Opera, The Rink, Woman of the Year, YouTube
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1 to 5 Musical Theatre Month: Sondheim’s Post-Prince Shows
Even though it has been more than 30 years since Merrily We Roll Along flopped on Broadway and put an end to his fruitful collaboration with director-producer Harold Prince, Stephen Sondheim has only written five complete and completely new musicals … Continue reading
A Chain of Musicals: SWEENEY TODD
In January, Musical Cyberspace is going to work through a chain of musicals. This is how it works: each day I will discuss, in brief, a musical linked to the previous day’s musical by some kind of common ground. It … Continue reading
May Madness: Favourite Musical Theatre Directors on Broadway
May is a mad month. A month of random musings about various topics related to musical theatre. Feel free to share your thoughts on each topic in the comment box below. Who is Your Favourite Musical Theatre Director on Broadway? … Continue reading
Posted in Fun Stuff
Tagged Bob Fosse, Gower Champion, Harold Prince, Jerome Robbins, Jerry Zaks, Joshua Logan, Michael Bennett, Rob Ashford, Trevor Nunn
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30 Musicals in 30 Days: Musicals Made Into Movies
Post a song from a musical you wish was (never) made into a movie. The brackets make this one wide open. Perhaps I’ll pick something from somewhere in the middle, namely ‘a musical that I wish was never made into … Continue reading
Posted in Hugh Wheeler, Stephen Sondheim, YouTube
Tagged A Little Night Music, Harold Prince, Hugh Wheeler, Stephen Sondheim, YouTube
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30 Musicals in 30 Days: Long Time No See
Post a song from a musical that you haven’t listened to (or seen) in a while. There are many of these. Which should I choose? I think I’ll go with Merrily We Roll Along, the musical flop that basically ended … Continue reading
Posted in Fun Stuff, George Furth, Stephen Sondheim, YouTube
Tagged George Furth, Harold Prince, Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim, YouTube
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Musical Notes: 19 May 2010
Index Paradise Found at the Menier Chocolate Factory … p.2 Charles Strouse in Hospital … p.3 Reading of Alyss Cancelled … p.3 New Mamma Mia! Website Launched … p.3
Posted in Broadway, Classical Music, General News, Musicals, Off Broadway, Readings, Tours, West End
Tagged A.J. Shively, Adam Gwon, Alice in Wonderland, Alma Cuervo, Alyss, Amanda Kloots-Larsen, Annie, Autumn Hurlbert, Bailey Hanks, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Blair Ross, Blake Whyte, Brian O'Brien, Broadway, Bye Bye Birdie, Cady Huffman, Carey Anderson, Casey Tuma, Charles Strouse, Daniel Marcus, Demi Fragale, Don Stephenson, Eamon Foley, Ellen Fitzhugh, Emily Loesser, Erin Mackey, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George Lee Andrews, Harold Prince, Henry Stram, Herndon Lackey, Irish Repertory Theatre, Jennifer Piech, Jim Poulos, Joe Calarco, Johann Strauss II, John Hickok, John Jellison, John McMartin, Jonathan Tunick, Judy Kaye, Julia Jordan, Kate Baldwin, Kevin Carolan, Lacey Kohl, Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Mamma Mia!, Mandy Patinkin, Marilyn Michaels, Mark Wilk, Martin Moran, Martin van Treuren, Matthew Hamel, Maury Yeston, Menier Chocolate Factory, Michael Mulheren, Morgan Karr, Musicals, Nancy Opel, Olli Haaskivi, Pamela Winslow Kashani, Paradise Found, Patrick Wetzel, Peter Stone, Phoebe Strole, Readings, Richard Nelson, Rick Hilsabeck, Robert Petkoff, Shuler Hensley, Susan Stroman, Tim Jerome, Titanic, West End, Zachary Prince
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EVITA: the “Montage”
Is the “Montage” that takes us from Eva’s final collapse through to her deathbed “Lament” is really a satisfying moment dramatically. Continue reading →