John Bolton and the company of “A Christmas Story: The Musical!” Photo by Carol Rosegg What is it about the 1983 movie, A Christmas Story, that captures our hearts? I know whenever I turn on TBS and see it playing, I can only help but nostalgically linger on the channel and watch some of my… Read More ‘A Christmas Story: The Musical!’ is ‘a major award’ for the holidays
When musical theatre icon (and recent Chicago Tribune Literary Prize honoree) Stephen Sondheim gets raged up, he knows exactly what to do: fire out a feisty letter to The New York Times. Such is the case with his reaction to a recent New York Times article previewing the upcoming revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and… Read More Sondheim gets his rant on in response to revamped ‘Porgy and Bess’
The Broadway revival of Chicago has been packing houses for 15 years. While much of that has to do with producers Barry and Fran Weissler keeping an ever-rotating cast of C- and B-list celebrities in the lead roles (currently, Christie Brinkley is playing Roxie in the Broadway production), a lot of it lies in the… Read More ‘Chicago’ keeps razzle-dazzlin’ ’em, even if the chemistry’s a bit off
Pop-aganda: The cast of “White Noise” rocks out. “Everyone’s a little bit racist,” sang those edgy puppets in another musical. That catchy five-minute tune manages to capture more revealing insights about racism in America than the entire 1 hour, 50 minute rock musical White Noise does. Racism is bad. We know this. Even the self-identified… Read More ‘White Noise’ is loud and flashy, but needs to turn up the volume
A scene from “Musical of the Living Dead” Here is where my review was supposed to go of the new “zombie com” (zombie comedy) musical, Musical of the Living Dead. However, life got in the way at the last minute yesterday evening, and I had to forgo the show. Bummer, as I was really looking… Read More Musicalized gorefest: ‘Musical of the Living Dead’
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