‘Catch Me’: a tasty collection of 1960s-style tunes
The backlash to “The Book of Mormon” began right after it received the best set of notices given to a musical since “The Producers” opened in 2001, and the chorus of disapproval will probably grow...
View Article‘The Book of Mormon’: first top 10 cast album since 1969 (!)
Business on Broadway has been fine for the past several years — the just-ended 2010-2011 season set an all-time ticket sales record — but the music of Broadway disconnected from the mass audience a few...
View ArticleLast call for Broadway’s sexiest and funniest benefit
Tonight at 9:30 p.m. and midnight, thousands will gather at Manhattan’s Roseland Ballroom to watch the best dancers and actors on Broadway do a series of bawdy and hilarious routines at the 21st annual...
View ArticleBroadway as the biggest high school on earth
“The Playbill Broadway Yearbook” is a wonderful browsing volume that very quickly turns into an indispensable theater reference book. Volume 7 has just appeared which covers just about everything that...
View Article‘Shadows’: finding memorable theater at bargain prices
Few things annoy me more than smart people who say they don’t go to the theater anymore because it’s too expensive. Generally, they’re talking about Broadway, which indeed can be very pricey when you...
View ArticleFinding good New York theater on the cheap
Whenever I hear people complaining about the high cost of theater in New York City I know that they aren’t very adventurous folk. Yes, a good seat this weekend for “The Book of Mormon” or “It’s Only a...
View Article‘Carols for a Cure’: mixing Broadway & Christmas
At the risk of rushing the Christmas season, I have an early suggestion to add to your music collection — the just-released “Carols for a Cure” which is produced every year to benefit Broadway...
View Article‘Sideshow’: a cult musical gets another chance
Touching and more than slightly weird, but with plenty of show biz razzle dazzle, “Sideshow” has defined the notion of a “cult musical” ever since it closed after only a few months in 1997. The New...
View ArticleSeeing theater on the cheap
Kvetching about the price of New York City theater tickets seems to have reached a fever pitch – thanks in part, perhaps, to the astronomical cost of “Hamilton” resale seats in the lead up to the exit...
View Article‘War Paint’: return of the star vehicle
The cost of doing Broadway musicals has gotten so high that it has more or less killed the old-fashioned star vehicle. Producers bemoan the absence of ticket-selling powerhouses like Ethel Merman or...
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