Flop Musicals of the Twenty-First Century: How They Happened, When They Happened (And What We’ve Learned) – Stephen Purdy Routledge Books – ISBN: 978-0-367-17331-9 (hbk); ISBN: 978-0-367-17332-6 (pbk); ISBN: 978-0-429-05622-2 (ebk) Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ What is our morbid fascination with shows that don’t make it! Either due to lack of good […]
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Escape to Margaritaville – Marquis Theatre, New York
Escape to Margaritaville continues at the Marquis Theatre, New York. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ From the eponymous cocktails offered for sale in the lobby to the beach balls that come cascading into the audience at the finish, Escape to Margaritaville is a Broadway musical that works hard – really hard […]
Broadway Musical Theatre Preview 2018 – from Frozen to Summer
With heroines including a queen who can freeze you, a guttersnipe who can charm you, and a diva who’ll make you want to dance, a half-dozen new musical productions are slated for the last half of the 2017-2018 Broadway season, writes Ron Cohen. The openings include the usual crowding up in April, as new shows […]
