There’s a lot of life in the New Girl yet.New Girl in Town, that is, the 1957 musical of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie. It was a hit in its day and ran over a year, and yet, we don’t see many productions of it.So we must take our hats ...

Attend the tale of Benjamin Barker.Well, that’s Sweeney Todd’s real name, isn’t it? Or so Mrs. Lovett tells us three songs into the 1978-1979 Tony-winning musical.But if you’re considering presenting the Stephen Sondheim - Hugh Wheeler ...

literary essay definitionNobody’s dressed in a tux or a gown, but it’s a world premiere nevertheless.We’re not quite on Broadway, either, but on Tenth Avenue at The 52nd Street Project Theater. But you can feel from the chatter among ...

You can have Dolly Parton in your next musical.Well, in a manner of speaking. Dolly won’t show up to do eight a week, but she will appear in 9 to 5 – at least in a video that comes with the show’s rental materials.After the musical had ...

THE BURNT PART BOYS, book by Mariana Elder, lyrics by Nathan Tysen, and music by Chris Miller, is the newest addition to MTI’s Theatre on the Edge collection. Theatre on The Edge shows are marked by the fact that they have garnered a ...

I was sorry to learn that Richard Adler died on June 21. Ninety is a ripe old age, of course, but seeing another stalwart of The Golden Age of Musical Theatre leave us is never easy.What Adler accomplished in the '50s will never be accomplished ...

If this article’s title -- “The Sorry/Grateful Musical” – grabbed you, you are well within your rights to assume that it refers to COMPANY. After all, that’s the show in which Stephen Sondheim stated that marriage can make someone sorry ...

Just because they didn’t applaud Parade doesn’t mean that they didn’t like it.online loansAt the opening night performance of the 1998 musical at 4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield, New Jersey, silence often greeted singers after they’d ...

Precisely 506 months to the day after I saw the very first performance of the pre-Broadway tryout of Company at the Shubert Theatre in Boston, I saw it again -- at the GeVa Theatre Center in Rochester.I was sure that this audience wouldn’t react ...

Good thing that assistant stage manager Lindsay Weiner led the audience in breathing lessons before the show officially began.Our breath might have otherwise been taken away for good by all we saw at The Shubert Foundation/MTI Broadway Junior ...