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THE SATURDAY LIST: Five Favourite “Small Cast” Shows
For today’s Saturday List, I thought it might be fun to take a look at some “small cast” shows. By their very nature, these shows are more intimate than the big musicals that play the biggest houses on Broadway, in the West End and internationally. Some are introspective, others are side-splittingly funny – but many are just as moving as their classic, big, blockbuster counterparts. Continue reading
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Tagged A Christmas Story, A Grand NIght for Singing, Adam Gwon, Benj Pasek, Craig Lucas, Dear Evan Hansen, Dogfight, Edges, Gregg Edelman, Jason Robert Brown, Justin Paul, Marry Me a Little, Martin Vidnovic, Mrs Dalloway, Norman René, Ordinary Days, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, The Greatest Showman, The Last Five Years, Virginia Woolf, Walter Bobbie
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THE SATURDAY LIST: Open a New Window on MAME!
The legendary Jerry Herman, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee musical Mame opened for the first time on Broadway in May 1966. Who could lead a revival as the show heads towards its diamond anniversary? Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Adams, Angela Lansbury, Audra McDonald, Carmen Cusack, James Lapine, Jerome Lawrence, Jerry Herman, Katrina Lenk, Mame, Michael John LaChiusa, Michael Korie, Oscars, Robert Edwin Lee, Scott Rudin, Stephanie J. Block, Sutton Foster, The Wild Party, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Tom Kitt, Toni Collette, Tony Awards
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THE SATURDAY LIST: Annie by Annie Gettin’ Her Gun
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN is 74 years old today! This grand old dame of musical theatre premiered on this day in 1946 – celebrate it in today’s Saturday list from Musical Cyberspace. Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, Andrea McArdle, Annie Get Your Gun, Delores Grey, Dorothy Fields, Ethel Merman, George Hearn, Herbert Fields, Irving Berlin, Jane Horrocks, Lonny Price, Patrick Cassidy, Patti LuPone, Reba McEntire, Susan Lucci, Suzi Quatro, Tom Wopat, Tony Awards, Winston Churchill
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THE SATURDAY LIST: Happy Birthday, “Sunday”!
Does anyone still finish a hat? Come and celebrate the Broadway birthday of SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE at Musical Cyberspace. Continue reading
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Tagged James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park With George
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: MR CINDERS
Last weekend’s post about my favourite 1920s musicals reminded me about the simply smashing MR CINDERS (1928), prompting me to give the London revival cast album a listen, with the view of featuring in this week’s Forgotten Musicals Friday column. Continue reading
Monday Meditation: I am Over Being Polite about Homophobia
The controversy surrounding Seyi Omooba’s comments about homosexuality and her casting as Celie in The THE COLOR PURPLE has been big news in theatre communities worldwide the past two weeks or so. David Fick reflects on the situation. Continue reading
The Saturday List: Five Bees-Knees Musicals of the 1920s
How’s tricks, everyone? Today’s “Saturday List” takes a look at my top five musicals from the 1920s. Continue reading
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Tagged Bea Arthur, Bertolt Brecht, Circle on the Square, Clifford Grey, Dearest Enemy, Dorothy Donnelly, Edmund Purdom, Edna Ferber, Funny Face, George Gershwin, Gertrude Lawrence, Greatrex Newman, Guy Bolton, Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Jo Sullivan, Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Mario Lanza, Miles Kreuger, Mr Cinders, National Theatre, No No Nanette, NT Live, Oh Kay!, Oklahoma!, Oscar Hammerstein II, P. G. Wodehouse, Richard Myers, Rufus Norris, Show Boat, SIgmund Romberg, Simon Stephens, Strike Up the Band, The Desert Song, The Musicals Collection, The Student Prince, The Threepenny Opera, Vivian Ellis
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Forgotten Musicals Friday: I REMEMBER MAMA
It’s been almost thirty years since the opening of the last musical that Richard Rodgers composed, I REMEMBER MAMA. What are your memories or thoughts – good or bad – of this show? Continue reading
#ThursdayThoughts: Musical Theatre Revivals
Today’s discussion is about revivals of classic musicals on either side of the pond. Head on down to the comments and sound off on what Michael Billington had to say on the issue in his review of the 2011 West End transfer of the Lincoln Center’s production of SOUTH PACIFIC. Continue reading
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Tagged #ThursdayThoughts, Lincoln Center, Michael Billington, Revivals, South Pacific
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