This fall, New York offered musical theatre enthusiasts a diverse line-up, spanning from revivals of cult musicals to Broadway spectacles and intimate cabaret. Patrick Honoré reports on all of these projects plus a pre-Broadway run in Washington, D.C. Bat Boy: The Musical – New York City Center Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ City […]
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New York cabaret and Off-Broadway round-up
Cabaret is back, alive and well in New York, as is Off-Broadway, writes Patrick Honoré. Karen Mason: Kander & Ebb and All That Jazz – Birdland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Directed by Barry Kleinbort and expertly accompanied on the piano by her longtime musical director Christopher Denny, with Ritt Henn on bass, Broadway veteran […]
Musical Theatre Review contributors pick their top shows of 2022
A selection of Musical Theatre Review critics were asked to choose their ‘show of the year’ although, as you can see, some struggled to pick just one.
Evita – New York City Center
Evita continues at New York City Center until 24 November 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
Bat Out of Hell: The Musical – New York City Center
Bat Out of Hell: The Musical continues at New York City Center until 8 September 2019. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Bat Out of Hell: The Musical has enjoyed the sweet smell of success (its Manchester world premiere in 2017, repeat engagements in London and Toronto) and the slings and arrows […]
Sunday in the Park With George starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford opens at the Savoy Theatre in June 2020
Tickets have gone on sale today for a strictly limited season of Sunday in the Park With George starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford and directed by Sarna Lapine, at the Savoy Theatre. Preview performances will begin on 11 June 2020, with the final performance taking place on 5 September 2020. Official opening night to […]
A Chorus Line – New York City Center
A Chorus Line was performed at New York City Center. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Just a year after the spectacular production reinventing Brigadoon, just released on CD, the New York City Center Annual Gala presented this year another landmark musical, one that doesn’t need to be reinvented. The immortal A Chorus Line via Baayork Lee and Bob Avian was just as Michael Bennett originally conceived, directed and choreographed […]
Grand Hotel the Musical – Encores! – New York City Center
Grand Hotel the Musical, an Encores! production, played New York City Center. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Things don’t go too grandly for the inhabitants of Grand Hotel the Musical. They’re variously faced with heavy debt, murderous threats from creditors, fading and imperiled careers, and fatal disease. Nevertheless, the opulent six-performance revival of this […]
Brigadoon – New York City Center
Brigadoon at New York City Center. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Brigadoon, the mythical Scottish village that awakens out of the Highland mists for only one day every 100 years, departed from its routine by coming to glorious life for seven consecutive performances at New York City Center. This gala presentation […]
The New Yorkers – Encores! – New York City Center
The New Yorkers, an Encores! production, was performed at New York City Center. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “What kind of a show is this, I ask you?” Thus inquires a character in the midst of Act II of the Encores! re-creation of Cole Porter’s 1930 musical The New Yorkers. And […]
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – New York City Center
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, an Encores! Off-Center production at New York City Center, continues until 30 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is hardly a well-known title in the musical theatre canon, but it turns out to be a terrifically entertaining gem that’s spookily relevant […]
Do I Hear a Waltz? – New York City Center
Do I Hear a Waltz?, an Encores! production at New York City Center. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Richard Rodgers, composing toward the end of his illustrious career, emerges as the real star of the Encores! mounting of Do I Hear a Waltz?, the 1965 musical which also features lyrics by […]
Lady, Be Good! – Encores! – New York City Center
Lady, Be Good!, an Encores! production, continues at New York City Center until 8 February. Star rating: 4 stars **** It’s almost worth the price of admission just to hear the orchestra of some 30 musicians romp through the overture of Lady, Be Good!, the 1924 musical that’s being joyfully resurrected as the first offering in the […]
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 […]
