Broadway closings continue apace, with Shuffle Along unexpectedly joining the farewell parade. The show, whose full title is the rather cumbersome Shuffle Along, or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, posted a 24 July closing notice. That’s the same date that its leading lady, six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald, […]
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Hamilton receives a record-breaking 16 Tony nominations
Why don’t they just call them the Hamiltons? The Tony Award nominations for the 2015-16 Broadway season were announced today (Tuesday) and a record-breaking 16 of them went to the blockbuster Hamilton, which delivers a hip-hop look at Alexander Hamilton and the other founding fathers of the United States. The count beats the previous record […]
Bright Star – Cort Theatre, New York
Bright Star continues at the Cort Theatre, New York. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Another week, another bluegrass musical comes to New York theatre. The third and latest arrival in this minor epidemic is Bright Star, an astoundingly uneven stew which has opened on Broadway carrying the imprimatur of one of the […]
Broadway Preview 2016 – from Disaster! to Paramour
Broadway Preview – Ron Cohen reflects on the musical theatre openings during the first half of 2016. While nothing on the immediate horizon seems ready to challenge the primacy of Hamilton as the champion of the 2015/2016 Broadway season, musical theatre gourmands nevertheless can still look forward to a promising buffet of late winter-into-spring openings. […]
