The lights of Broadway will dim for one minute this evening (Wednesday January 16) to mark the passing of Carol Channing, an outsized persona and outsized talent for whom the nomenclature “Broadway legend” could have been invented. She died Tuesday (15 January) at the age of 97 at her home in Rancho Mirage, California. Her […]
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Dolly says Hello, Bette!… again
So, who will replace Bernadette Peters when she leaves the smash revival of Hello, Dolly!, as scheduled, on 15 July 2018? Why, none other than Bette Midler. Yes, the very same Bette Midler that Bernadette Peters replaced when she became Dolly Gallagher Levi this past January. And Midler will be with the show from 17 […]
Follies in Concert – Royal Albert Hall
Follies in Concert was performed at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ London has had a surprisingly – and tragically – short history with Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies. The original full-scale West End production opened in 1987 (which, admittedly, remains the show’s longest ever run, anywhere in the world). […]
Betty Buckley and Lorna Luft join cast for Follies in Concert at Royal Albert Hall
Betty Buckley, Lorna Luft, Charlotte Page, Peter Polycarpou, Amy Ellen Richardson and Jos Slovick complete the cast of Follies in Concert, with The City of London Philharmonic Orchestra, at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall on Tuesday 28 April 2015, alongside ensemble members Sarah Bakker, CJ Field, Jennifer Davison, Emily Warner, Lucy James and Luke Fetherstone. They join the previously announced Christine Baranski, playing Phyllis Stone (Into the Woods, The Good Wife, Mamma Mia!), Alistair Brammer, playing Young Ben (Miss Saigon, War Horse, Les Misérables), Anita Dobson, playing […]
Seth Rudetsky – Deconstructing Broadway
Performed at the Leicester Square Theatre, London. “I am obsessed with the small moments,” Seth Rudetsky admits during his one-man show Deconstructing Broadway. And how: his show is all about the small moments in various Broadway and other musical theatre shows. The moments that turn a great performance into one that is, as Rudetsky puts it, “Ah-MAH-zing”– or turn […]
