SOME LOVERS – Various Artists (Broadway Records – DIG20821 – Digital Download) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Burt Bacharach is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning composers/songwriters. His music is as diverse as his audiences, spanning generations and continents, as he is celebrated both as a pop culture icon and […]
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CD Review: My Marcello – Studio Cast
MY MARCELLO – Studio Cast (Broadway Records – BR-DIG20321) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Based on the film Roseanna’s Grave by Saul Turteltaub, My Marcello is a new musical with music by Rosabella Gregory, lyrics by Dina Gregory and book by Corey Brunish. The musical is set in a small southern […]
Ten times Crazy Ex-Girlfriend parodied musicals, hilariously
Among the many tragedies of this Coronavirus pandemic, last month we lost beloved Fountains of Wayne rock star turned composer, Adam Schlesinger. Schlesinger won countless awards for his stage and screen work and was in the process of writing a musical based on The Nanny before the virus struck. He also served as executive music […]
CD Review: Tootsie – Original Broadway Cast
TOOTSIE – Original Broadway Cast (DECCA BROADWAY: 602577821660) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ How refreshing – a traditional musical comedy with no angst or depressing maudlin moments. This is escapism at its best. And I loved every second. Of course, I haven’t seen Tootsie (the musical that is, I have of course seen […]
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 […]
Zorba! – New York City Center
Zorba!, an Encores! production, at New York City Center. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Encores!, the series of fully staged concert revivals of musicals from the past, is winding up its 2015 season with a well-crafted mounting of Zorba!, a Kander and Ebb work that premiered on Broadway in 1968. The production makes a case for the […]
