“Fifty years from now, they'll still be arguing about the grassy knoll, the Mafia, some Cuban crouched behind a stockade fence.”So says Lee Harvey Oswald's role model in Assassins. And as of this week, the 49th anniversary of the assassination ...
I’ve talked about many a musical in the last year, but now I’ll talk about a play I saw on Broadway last week: The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz.Not simply because Moisés Kaufman’s production is wonderful, or because Jessica Chastain, ...
At the York Theatre Company, Closer Than Ever closed last week, but after a much longer-than-ever expected run.The revival of the 1989 Richard Maltby, Jr.-David Shire revue that had opened on June 20 was originally scheduled to run merely through ...
While watching I DO! I DO! at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts in Cincinnati, I thought of an advertising slogan that should be used when promoting the Tom Jones-Harvey Schmidt classic.“Marriage -- the way it used to be ... and the ...
So can the musical version of BIG work as a TYA production?Michael J. Bobbitt, the producing artistic director of the Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo, Maryland, thought so. To be sure, he was well aware of the potential dangers of putting John ...
The hearty applause started the moment after the first-act blackout. When the lights came up for intermission, however, a quick silence pervaded the NEXT TO NORMAL audience at the 4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield, New Jersey.It’s the type of ...
It was one of the quickest journeys from page to screen. Only 305 days after Erich Segal’s Love Story was published on Valentine’s Day, 1970, its film version debuted on Dec. 16, 1970. In between and beyond, the story of doomed Jennifer Cavilleri ...
As has been the case with thousands of musicals before it, Marry Me A Little starts with an overture.Or does it?Our program tells us that this new Keen Company production with recycled Stephen Sondheim songs is a two-character musical. ...
You’ve produced every one of the musicals that Stephen Sondheim has written. As a result, you’ve educated your audiences to know what to expect from the 20th century’s greatest musical theater composer-lyricist: the unexpected.You're Gonna ...
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The MTI Broadway Junior Collection® features condensed author-approved versions of classic musicals custom tailored to the needs of young people and schools. Shows range from Disney ...
