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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CD Review: Mrs Doubtfire The Musical
MRS DOUBTFIRE THE MUSICAL – Original Broadway Cast (Ghostlight Records – download) Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Mrs Doubtfire, that vehicle for Robin Williams back in the 90s, was an entertaining film and should really have been left as such. But Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick (music and lyrics) and book by Karey […]
A Tony Awards Newsletter From New York
Mark Shenton offers a Broadway round-up of Tony-nominated musicals… The nominations for this year’s Tony Awards – due to be presented at Radio City Music Hall on 12 June 2022, hosted by West Side Story Oscar winner Ariana DeBose – were delayed this year. Usually they are announced a few days after the eligibility deadline […]
West End stars sign up for online coaching
West End stars are among the leading industry professionals contributing to a new digital platform offering personal one-to-one masterclasses. With all profits going to Acting for Others, SLOCOACH ARTS provides access to world-class vocal coaches, leading dancers from international dance companies and tuition from experts in a range of disciplines including ‘Fosse’, accents and improvisation. […]
CD Review: Beetlejuice – Original Broadway Cast
BEETLEJUICE – Original Broadway Cast (Ghostlight Records) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ As with a lot of musical adaptations of films, plays, etc you often wonder if it is going to be successful or an utter flop. Well, I haven’t actually seen Beetlejuice on stage but I have the next best thing […]
Honeymoon in Vegas – Nederlander Theatre, New York
Honeymoon in Vegas continues at the Nederlander Theatre, New York. 4 stars **** There’s nothing to take serious about Honeymoon in Vegas, except for the craft of putting together a highly entertaining happy-go-lucky musical. That craft is on serious display in this new Broadway offering. Jason Robert Brown’s delectable score, Andrew Bergman’s gag-filled book and Gary […]
Broadway stream of openings kick off with Honeymoon in Vegas
Looking to the first half of 2015 on Broadway, let’s hope that musical first-nighters have a good supply of umbrellas on hand. As Al Jolson liked to tells us, April is celebrated for its showers, and in the last-minute crunch for Tony Award eligibility for the 2014-15 season (23 April is the cut-off date), an […]
Broadway and Off-Broadway season – we preview what’s ahead
Ron Cohen writes: It’s almost autumn in New York but the thrill of first-nighting (as Vernon Duke expressed it in his classic song) won’t be felt on Broadway – at least as far as musicals are concerned – until mid-October when the first one of the fall opens, a revival of the enduring 1944 landmark On the Town. […]
Irma La Douce – Encores! – New York City Center
Irma La Douce, an Encores! Production, continues at New York City Center until 11 May. The Encores! series at New York City Center winds up its three-show season with a sprightly rendering of a Broadway hit from 1960, Irma La Douce. This tale of a Parisian streetwalker and the poor law student who becomes her […]
