Our American Ballet Theatre season continued Tuesday night with a mixed repertory program featuring Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, the company premiere of A Month in the Country and Symphony in C. It was a wonderful evening featuring many of ABT’s principal dancers. The program opened with Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes, which featured [...]
We started our third season of American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House yesterday afternoon with the beautiful and tragic Onegin. Onegin was presented at the Met for the first time in its new ABT production last season. It became one of my favorites when we saw it because of it’s dramatic plot and [...]
13May13
Far From Heaven
Yesterday, we went to the fifth preview performance of the new musical Far From Heaven, which is based on the 2002 film of the same name. Between the good buzz the production had following its preview run at the Williamstown Theatre Festival last summer and its creative team–composer Scott Frankel, lyricist Michael Korie (both collaborated on Grey [...]
30Apr13
Kinky Boots
While I’ve never seen the 2005 film version of Kinky Boots, I’ve been interested in seeing the musical version since its got a book from Harvey Fierstein and a score from Cyndi Lauper. From the reviews that came out when the show opened on April 4, I knew the show was going to be good, [...]
28Apr13
The Last Five Years
We were among the lucky who saw Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years when it made its New York debut in the spring of 2002. The two person musical starred a then relatively unknown Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott. It was an incredible work. Eleven years later The Last Five Years is back and [...]
22Apr13
The Big Knife
Our diverse season with the Roundabout Theatre Company, which also included The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Picnic, wrapped up yesterday afternoon with the revival of Clifford Odets’ The Big Knife. This drama, set in 1948, focuses on Hollywood star Charlie Castle, a stage actor who became a major film star. Castle’s contract with the [...]
Nearly 40 years before Spiderman took flight at the Foxwoods Theatre, Superman had already become the first superhero musical. Back in 1966, the songwriting team that brought everyone the classic Bye Bye Birdie and the duo who would go on to write the screenplay for Christopher Reeve’s first two Superman movies, landed the hero on Broadway. [...]
