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CD Review: Little Shop Of Horrors – New Cast Album
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS – New Cast Album (Ghostlight Records – CD and digital album) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Ashman and Menken’s musical Little Shop of Horrors is a classic and the original cast recording from 1982 with Ellen Greene and Lee Wilkof is one of those ‘must-have’ recordings for […]
A Strange Loop voted Outstanding Musical in New York’s Drama Desk Awards.
A Strange Loop capped its winning streak in the 2019/2020 New York theatre season, as it grabbed the Outstanding Musical Award from the Drama Desk. The 65th Annual Drama Desk Awards were announced on 13 June 2020 in a special pre-recorded presentation on a local television news channel. The awards are usually handed out with […]
Peter Pan Live starring Christopher Walken to be aired on The Shows Must Go On channel
The 2014 US live TV production of the 1954 Broadway musical Peter Pan will be the next show available free of charge on The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel. Featuring a typically eccentric performance from Christopher Walken opposite Allison Williams (Girls, Get Out) as Peter Pan and Taylor Louderman (Tony-nominee for Mean Girls) as Wendy, […]
The Sound of Music Live! TV film is this week’s offering on Shows Must Go On channel
The NBC TV production of The Sound of Music Live! starring country music superstar Carrie Underwood will be the next show available free of charge on The Shows Must Go On YouTube channel. First shown in the US in the run-up to Christmas 2013, the filmed version of the original 1959 Broadway production proved an […]
Me and My Girl – New York City Center
Me and My Girl, an Encores! production, played New York City Center. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “Everyone knows Joan of Arc was married to Noah.” Get the audience in the right mood, and a line like that can bring down the house. And that’s exactly what happened as the Encores! series […]
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory continues at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Whatever changes were wrought in the recipe for Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in its trip across the Atlantic, it remains a family-sized, mouth-watering mélange of eccentric perversity and tender-hearted […]
Broadway Musical Theatre Preview – a starry first half to 2017
Don’t forget sunglasses if you’re headed for New York. Broadway musical marquees will be freshly and blindingly ablaze with a constellation of star names during the first half of the New Year. New productions headed for the Main Stem boast such legendary luminaries as Bette Midler, Glenn Close, Patti LuPone and – yes, even a […]
Falsettos – Walter Kerr Theatre, New York
Falsettos continues at the Walter Kerr Theatre, New York until 8 January. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There’s been a lot of chatter as to how this revival of Falsettos, the Broadway musical that premiered in 1992, would resonate today. Would this once envelope-pushing show, with its in-the-face depiction of gay relationships as well […]
Tony Awards 2015 – victories for Kelli O’Hara and Fun Home
The big news at the Tony Awards on Sunday night in New York was that Broadway’s adored songbird Kelli O’Hara finally won one after a string of six nominations. The recognition came for her lead role as English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens making her way in 19th Century Siam in Lincoln Center Theater’s mounting of Rodgers and […]
Something Rotten! – St James Theatre, New York
Something Rotten! continues at the St James Theatre, New York. Star rating: 5 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Who would have thought that an off-hand reference to Chess – a 30-year-old musical, beloved by some but forgotten by many – would get a resounding laugh from a Broadway audience in 2015? Well, it did the other night, and […]
Little Me – Encores! – New York City Center
Little Me, presented by Encores!, continues at New York City Center until 9 February. Little Me, with its book by Neil Simon and its score by lyricist Carolyn Leigh and composer Cy Coleman, captures the joy-giving essence of those two oft-maligned words: musical comedy. This show from 1962 has plenty of great comedy and plenty […]
