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The Saturday List: A Fine, Fine Life for I’D DO ANYTHING’s Nancies

Posted on March 12, 2022 by David Fick

Where are they now? A look at where the 12 musical theatre performers who competed for the role of Nancy in I’D DO ANYTHING, the 2008 BBC talent show cum reality series that searched for performers to play Oliver and Nancy in the 2009 London revival of the show, are today. Continue reading →

Posted in The Saturday List | Tagged A Little Night Music, A Taste of Honey, Academy Awards, Alice Playten, Amélie, Amy Booth-Steel, Andrew Lippa, Ashley J Russell, Barry Manilow, Bend it Like Beckham, Betty Blue Eyes, Boy George, Bruce Prochnik, Bugsy Malone, Cabaret, Can't Smile Without You, Caroline or Change, Chernobyl, Chicago, City of Angels, Cleo Royer, Come From Away, Davy Jones, Dick Whittington, Dirty Dancing, Dreamboats and Petticoats, Eddie Redmayne, Fargo, Footloose, Francesca Jackson, From Here to Eternity, Frozen, Georgia Brown, Hugh Wheeler, I'd Do Anything, Jessie Buckley, Jodie Prenger, john & jen, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Judy, Keisha Amponsa-Banson, Les Misérables, Lionel Bart, Little Shop of Horrors, Love Never Dies, Mamma Mia!, Million Dollar Quartet, Monty Python's Spamalot, Musical Theatre, Niamh Perry, Oliver!, Once, Oscars, Pobol Y Cwm, Pretty Woman, Rachel Tucker, Rhonda Graam, Robin Hood, Samantha Barker, Sarah Lark, School of Rock, Shakespeare, Shirley Valentine, Shrek, Sister Act, Snow White, Stand Tall: A Rock Musical, Stephen Sondheim, Sting, Sunday in the Park With George, Sweeney Todd, Taboo, Tara Bethen, The Beautiful Game, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Last Ship, The Light Princess, The Lion King, The Little Prince, The Lost Daughter, The Pajama Game, The Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music, The Woman in White, Tina the Musical, Tina Turner, Tom Greenwald, Tori Amos, We Will Rock You, Wicked, Women's Month | 2 Comments

The Saturday List: Broadway’s 10 Longest-Running Musicals Ranked!

Posted on January 29, 2022 by David Fick

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 →

Posted in The Saturday List | 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 | Leave a comment

Monday Meditation: I’m Over the Closing Night Blues

Posted on June 15, 2015 by David Fick

Some thoughts on closing nights, following the shuttering of THE VISIT. Continue reading →

Posted in Monday Meditation | Tagged Follies, Fred Ebb, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Graciela Daniele, Jerome Robbins, John Kander, La Cage aux Folles, Peter Gennaro, Revisals, Revivals, Shirley MacLaine, Terrence McNally, The Color Purple, The Phantom of the Opera, The Visit, Tony Awards, West Side Story, Wicked | Leave a comment

Musical Theatre Sunday School: Divine Integration

Posted on August 31, 2014 by David Fick

There are three separate elements of divine integration in musical theatre: the book, the music and the lyrics. Continue reading →

Posted in Musical Theatre Sunday School, Theatremaking, Theory and Practice | Tagged A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, Fiddler on the Roof, Follies, George Gershwin, Gypsy, Ira Gershwin, Lady Be Good, Lorenz Hart, lyrics, Musical Theatre, musical theatre technique, Oh Kay!, Pal Joey, Richard Rodgers, South Pacific, Stephen Schwartz, The Wild Party, Wicked | Leave a comment

30 Musicals in 30 Days: An Overrated Musical

Posted on April 4, 2011 by David Fick

Post a song demonstrating how overrated you think a musical is. Wicked has its moments. Sure, the book lacks focus and the second act is a complete mess-up story-wise, but part of the score is on the right track. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Fun Stuff, Stephen Schwartz, YouTube | Tagged Adam Lambert, Rachel Gonzalez, Stephen Schwartz, Wicked, YouTube | Leave a comment

30 Musicals in 30 Days: An Underrated Musical

Posted on April 3, 2011 by David Fick

Post a song demonstrating how underrated you think a musical is. The choice today is an easy one: Michael John LaChiusa’s The Wild Party. That this brilliant, devastating show lost the Tony Award for Best Score to Aida is unforgivable. … Continue reading →

Posted in Andrew Lippa, Fun Stuff, Michael John LaChiusa | Tagged Andrew Lippa, Eartha Kitt, Mandy Patinkin, Michael John LaChiusa, The Wild Party, Toni Collette, Wicked, YouTube | Leave a comment

NEWSFLASH: ANNIE Remake: Will + Willow + Jay-Z

Posted on January 20, 2011 by David Fick

Will Smith is discussing the possibility of producing a remake of ANNIE with Sony. Continue reading →

Posted in Newsflash | Tagged Anika Noni Rose, Annie, Audra McDonald, Barack Obama, Beyoncé, Beyonce Knowles, blaxploitation, Charles Strouse, Gulf War, Guys and Dolls, Hello Dolly!, Jamie Foxx, Jay-Z, Martin Charnin, Pearl Bailey, Queen Latifah, Raymond Williams, The Phantom of the Opera, Thomas Meehan, Ving Rhames, Wicked, Will Smith, Willow, Willow Smith | Leave a comment

Musical Theatre Advent Calendar: THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS

Posted on December 6, 2010 by David Fick

Today’s musical is something of a Christmas event. It is playing on Broadway now and it will be gone in January. Nope, it’s not Elf. It is The Scottsboro Boys, the new John Kander and Fred Ebb musical, that transferred … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadway, Fun Stuff, Musicals, Off Broadway, Theory and Practice | Tagged Elf, Fred Ebb, John Kander, Michael John LaChiusa, The Scottsboro Boys, Wicked | 1 Comment

A TANGLED Song

Posted on November 1, 2010 by David Fick

We’re now able to hear one of the Alan Menken/Glenn Slater songs from Disney’s Tangled Rapunzel project: I’m not really sure what to make of it. It’s a sweet song, but I don’t get the stylistic link between the song … Continue reading →

Posted in Animation, Commentary, Movies, Musicals | Tagged Alan Menken, Commentary, Disney, Glenn Slater, Movies, Musicals, Rapunzel, Shrek, Tangled, Wicked, YouTube | Leave a comment

Photos: WICKED’s New Elphaba

Posted on April 9, 2010 by David Fick

There’s a new witch in Wicked now that Mandy Gonzalez has taken over the role of Elphaba on Broadway and thanks to some photographs by Joan Marcus of the current New York cast of Wicked, we get to see what … Continue reading →

Posted in Broadway, Musicals, Photo Calls | Tagged Alex Brightman, Andy Karl, Broadway, Gregory Maguire, Jenny Fellner, Joan Marcus, Joe Mantello, Katie Rose Clarke, Mandy Gonzalez, Musicals, P.J. Benjamin, Photographs, Rondi Reed, Stephen Schwartz, Timothy Britten Parker, Wayne Cilento, Wicked, Winnie Holzman | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Wicked

The Saturday List: A Fine, Fine Life for I’D DO ANYTHING’s Nancies

The Saturday List: Broadway’s 10 Longest-Running Musicals Ranked!

Monday Meditation: I’m Over the Closing Night Blues

Musical Theatre Sunday School: Divine Integration

30 Musicals in 30 Days: An Overrated Musical

30 Musicals in 30 Days: An Underrated Musical

NEWSFLASH: ANNIE Remake: Will + Willow + Jay-Z

Musical Theatre Advent Calendar: THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS

A TANGLED Song

Photos: WICKED’s New Elphaba

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