It’s a new year, which we’re all hoping will be the best we’ve ever had.One way to make that happen is to make good New Year’s Resolutions.And keep them.This year, don’t merely make vows to lose weight, drink less and smoke not at ...
"You saw some of it on TV. Now see all of it on stage."That's one way you could advertise your production of Elf during the 2015 holiday season. After all, the recent animated NBC special -- although funny, charming and touching -- was a mere hour ...
Photo by: Lauren AdlerWhen parents come to the school where their child is enrolled, they’re usually prepared to hear bad news.What’s she done now? How badly has he behaved? Am I about to meet teachers who’ll list multiple breaches of ...
Peter Pan at Centenary StageWhether you loved or loathed Peter Pan Live! on Dec. 4, you may well have been reminded of all the pleasures that the 1954 musical has to offer. As a result, you’ve decided to give the vintage musical a serious look ...
Of course we all wish that Adolph Green were here to celebrate his 100th birthday on Dec. 2, 2014, but we’ll have to do it for him.Green did live to be 87, until Oct. 23, 2002 -- a sad day for musical theater. Betty Comden, his now-and-forever ...
Here’s a story about “The Three B’s” that has nothing to do with Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.Instead, this trio of young men can be called The Three Little Pigs who deserve three “F’s” for their behavior.But three writers – ...
Once a musical is cast and its performers know what they have to do, you’ll find they’ll split up into two camps.Some will listen intently to the original cast album.Some will completely avoid it, lest they be swayed by the ...
You’re the drama director at an all-boys’ school who’s looking for a musical that requires far more young men than young women. Oh, a show with a few female roles is fine, for you can borrow bodies from a nearby all-girls’ school. But still, ...
More and more I continue to value Legally Blonde as a significant musical.Yes, significant. Not just fun: significant, with many positive messages. Granted, many originated in Amanda Brown’s 2000 novel as well as the 2001 screenplay by Karen ...
The ads proclaimed “She Loves Me in Concert,” but as we’ve all learned, “in concert” can mean many different things.Would this presentation at 4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield, New Jersey offer us some or all of the songs that composer ...
