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Tag Archives: Mamma Mia!
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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Monday Meditation: I’m Over Being Concerned About What Musicals I Should Like
Have you ever read one of those polls on a musical theatre forum asking what your guilty pleasures are? I always struggle to participate in threads like those because I really do find worth in even the worst musicals. Continue reading
Musical Theatre Sunday School: THE BOY FRIEND Readathon Part 1
Sundays at Musical Cyberspace are a time to have a look at musicals in more depth. This month, we are going to have a readathon of the libretto of THE BOY FRIEND by Sandy Wilson. Continue reading
Posted in Musical Theatre Sunday School
Tagged A Little Night Music, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Carousel, Catch Me If You Can, Dogfight, Follies, Journey's End, La Cage aux Folles, Mamma Mia!, Noël Coward, Oklahoma!, Readathon, Sandy Wilson, Stephen Sondheim, The Boy Friend, The Drowsy Chaperone, Vida Hope, We Will Rock You, YouTube
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May Madness: Musicals That Didn’t Win Tony Awards
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. Musicals That Didn’t Win Tony Awards What do Gypsy, … Continue reading
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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Longest Running Broadway Musicals
This is the list as it stands at present, with the shows that have moved up the list since last October in green. 1. The Phantom of the Opera – 9179 performances, still running 2. Cats – 7485 performances 3. … Continue reading
Posted in Broadway, Musicals
Tagged 42nd Street, A Chorus Line, Avenue Q, Beauty and the Beast, Broadway, Cats, Chicago, Fiddler on the Roof, Grease, Hairspray, Hello Dolly!, Les Misérables, Mamma Mia!, Miss Saigon, Musicals, My Fair Lady, Oh! Calcutta!, RENT, The Lion King, The Phantom of the Opera, The Producers, Wicked
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Michael John LaChiusa and the “Faux Musical”
Opera News published a super article by Michael John Lachiusa about the state of musical theatre. Entitled “The Great Grey Way”, the article is essential reading for anyone interested in musicals and how they are developing in this new century. … Continue reading
Posted in Broadway, Commentary, Dance, Musicals, Theatremaking, Theory and Practice
Tagged ABBA, Adam Guettel, Avenue Q, Beach Boys, Ben Brantley, Billy Joel, Broadway: The American Musical, Brooklyn, Caroline or Change, Contact, Dance of the Vampires, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dracula, Elton John, Ever After, George C. Wolfe, Good Vibrations, Hairspray, Jeanine Tesori, John Weidman, Jonathan Larson, Jule Styne, Little Women, Mamma Mia!, Michael John LaChiusa, Movin’ Out, Of Thee I Sing, Plato, Polly Pen, RENT, simulacra, Spamalot, Sunday in the Park With George, Susan Stroman, Sweeney Todd, The Happiest Corpse I’ve Ever Seen, The Light in the Piazza, The Lion King, The Phantom of the Opera, The Producers, The Sopranos, Tony Kushner, Twyla Tharp, Urinetown, West Side Story, Wicked
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Genres of Musical Theatre Redux: the 2010 edition
In a discussion around different kinds of musical theatre, I think the first step is to define the terrain of musical theatre. Musical theatre does not include all theatre that uses music. Musical theatre excludes – for example – opera, … Continue reading →