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Friday Geek Out: Carrie The Musical

How do you spell Broadway flop? C-A-R-R-I-E! We continue this month’s series of “scary” Geek Out’s with one of the most delicious musical disasters ever. After a run in England, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, in February and March...

Friday Geek Out: Dance of the Vampires

It October, Halloween month, so I decided to focus on some “scary” things for Geek Out this month. We will visit scary Broadway twice this month and we start with the gigantic flop called Dance of the Vampires. Now, this may have been a huge flop, loosing...

Friday Geek Out: Star Trek: The Next Generation

September 28, 1987…Trekkies around the world huddled in front of their TVs to see if Star Trek: The Next Generation would live up to their expectations. Almost uniformly, that initial answer was no. That first episode, “Encounter at Farpoint” was a...

Friday Geek Out: Hair

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the world premiere of Hair at New York’s Public Theater. And Geek Out is celebrating because this weekend the Public is doing special anniversary concert stagings of the musical at its theater is Central Park. (I’m...

Friday Geek Out: “Simply Irresistible” from Contact

Back in the spring of 2000, Contact opened to rave reviews on Broadway. It was an interesting mix of music, dance and story rolled into one three part show. The first part took place in 1767 in a forest glade. Called “Swinging” this segment had virtually...

Friday Geek Out: Camp

Since this is the unofficial last weekend of summer, I decided to geek out on something that has some summertime built into it. The film Camp hit movie theaters in January 2003 and gave a blast of summer in the middle of winter. The film centers around Camp Ovation, a...