The 2022 Tony Awards nominations, recognising the best and brightest of the 2021-22 Broadway theatre season, have been announced by Adrienne Warren and Joshua Henry and British talents are celebrating. American shows A Strange Loop (11 nominations), MJ (10) and Paradise Square (10) may lead the pack but they are closely followed by Marianne Elliott’s production of Company […]
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A Strange Loop leads 2022 Tony Awards nominations but the Queens of Six The Musical are close behind
The Music Man – Winter Garden Theatre, New York
The Music Man continues at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York, currently booking to 6 November 2022. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Playing the title role in The Music Man may only be Hugh Jackman’s fifth Broadway appearance in the last 20 years – two of which were in limited-run plays – but he […]
Broadway stays shuttered until the end of 2020
The Broadway League announced on 29 June 2020 that the Great White Way will stay dark until the end of the year. This extends the closure that went into effect on 12 March, caused by the mounting Coronavirus pandemic. This hardly means, though, that Broadway will be ablaze again come the New Year. Rather it […]
Remembering Barbara Cook (1927-2017) – ‘the world’s greatest and unbeatable voice’
The lights were dimmed on Broadway on 9 August, now that one of the greatest interpreters of the standard song repertoire has finally left us, just a few months after she announced her official retirement and a mere few weeks short of her 90th birthday. This performer was indeed a legend in her own lifetime, […]
Theatre world mourns the loss of actress and singer Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook, whose nonpareil career stretched from dazzling portrayals in classic Broadway musicals to iconic performances in concert halls and cabarets, died on 8 August at the age of 89. The cause was reported to be respiratory failure. Cook made her Broadway debut in 1951 as the ingenue lead in the short-lived musical Flahooley, then […]
Miracle On 34th Street – Aylesbury and Touring
Miracle On 34th Street continues at Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury until 5 November, then tours until 6 December. Broadway composer Meredith Willson is best known for musicals The Music Man and The Unsinkable Molly Brown. His third, 1963’s Here’s Love, is now revived under the name of the Christmas film upon which it is based – […]
