In the Heights
It was a fantastic afternoon seeing In the Heights, a new-to-Broadway show that just began previews Thursday night. The show, which played a critically acclaimed off-Broadway run last summer, vibrates with a fantastic energy from start to finish and is infused with great Latin rhythms and dance. The show takes place on a street corner [...]
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Friday Geek Out: Newsies
Long before High School Musical there was another Disney musical directed by Kenny Ortega (it was his feature film directorial debut coming off his stint as choreographer on Dirty Dancing) that featured teens singing, dancing… and staging a strike against New York’s newspapers. Newsies, from 1992, was based on a real 1899 [...]
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Another Show Weekend…
Two shows in two weeks. We’re off to see In The Heights on Saturday afternoon. The show was a hit off-Broadway and it begins previews on Broadway tomorrow before it officially opens March 8.
Check out its TV commercial below.
This is also a good time to repost this hilarious HSM2 paradoy/In The Heights promo.
Come [...]
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Applause
We had an early Valentine’s Day date yesterday afternoon as we went to New York City Center for the Encores! production of Applause, the 1970 Tony Winning Best Musical. Applause is a musical version of the classic 1950 Bette Davis movie All About Eve.
The show’s plot, like the movie, revolves around [...]
It’s Timeless…
New poster… new TV commercial… pure fun indeed!
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Friday Geek Out: Roundhouse
Zip back in time 16 years to August 1992 and you’d find Nickelodeon’s debut of SNICK (Saturday Night Nick), which was geared to a teen audience featuring shows like Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Clarissa Explains It All, Pete & Pete, and my favorite of them all—Roundhouse.
Roundhouse was a musical, comedy, educational show that [...]
Friday Geek Out: The Last 5 Years
Category: Theatre | tagged Jason Robert Brown, musical, off-Broadway
The Last 5 Years made its off-Broadway debut in March 2002 and played a limited run for a couple of months, during which time I saw it twice. Despite it’s short time in New York, it became one of my favorite musicals because of it’s superb music and cast along with it’s unique storytelling method.
The [...]
Eviction Notice
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Friday Geek Out: Cop Rock
I was one of four, maybe five, people that actually watched Steven Bochco’s 1990 series Cop Rock. And I suspect I was one of even a fewer number that made it through all 13 episodes, and I have the video tapes to prove it. The show, as probably everyone knows, was Hill Street Blues done [...]
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Sweeney Todd
Up front, let me say I don’t have a lot of baggage with Sweeney Todd. I saw the Broadway production when it aired on PBS in 1982, featuring Angela Landsbury and George Hearn and I liked it well enough though. In 2006, I saw, in person, the Broadway revival with Patti LuPone and Michael Cerveris [...]
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