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Friday Geek Out: Chess

Major geeky excitement next week as PBS’ Great Performances airs Chess: In Concert. Well before Mamma Mia became a worldwide musical smash, ABBA’s Benny Anderson and Björn Ulvaeus wrote an original musical with lyrics from Tim Rice (Evita, Jesus Christ...

Friday Geek Out: 2009 Tony Awards #4 – Predicitions

I’ve made Tony Award predictions for years now, always trying to give my best shot at figuring out what the voters will go for in a given year. Some years I do great and some not so great, but I always come back for another round. It’s part of the geeky...

Friday Geek Out: 2009 Tony Awards #3 – Next to Normal

I’ve devoted a fair amount of space to Next to Normal over the past couple of months because it is one superb show. The Tony voters agreed with the audiences and the critics giving the show 11 nominations, making it the second most nominated show of the year....

Friday Geek Out: 2009 Tony Awards #2 – Hair

The revival of Hair has been a long time coming to Broadway. In the decade we’ve lived in New York, this show has tried to come back a number of times: In 2001, City Center Encores! did the show and there was considerable talk about it going to Broadway (I saw...

Friday Geek Out: 2009 Tony Awards #1 – Billy Elliot

It’s Tony Awards season and that always puts me into a geeky mood since theatre is one of my very favorite things. This season has been a particularly good one too with some stunning productions on stage. It’s been quite a few years since I’ve seen,...

Friday Geek Out: Alanis Morissette “Uninvited”

I like Alanis Morissette, even back into her You Can’t Do That On Television days. But this song his her crowning achievement. “Uninvited” was the first song she released after the mammoth success of the Jagged Little Pill album and it was written by...