2008 Tony Predicitions

It’s been a great Broadway season. We’ve saw more shows this season than in the past couple because there was so much great stuff to see. Tonight’s Tony Awards should be very exciting to watch.
Yes, there are production numbers from the eight nominated musicals: Passing Strange, In the Heights, Xanadu, Cry-Baby, Grease, Gypsy, South Pacific [...]

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Single Frames of One Magic Night…

…forever flicker in close up on the 3D IMAX of my mind. - Mark Cohen, Rent, Act II

Since Rent announced its June closing I’ve been considering whether or not to go back one last time. When I saw the show back in August it had the original Mark (Anthony Rapp) and Roger (Adam Pascal) back [...]

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Eviction Notice

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Friday Geek Out: Tick, Tick… Boom!

Before Jonathan Larson wrote Rent, he had written other works that had been tried out off- off-Broadway, including a one man show that chronicled his efforts to actually write a show. In 2001, David Auburn (writer of the Pulitzer Prize winning play Proof) adapted the one man show, turning it into a three-person play called [...]

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Make a Scrapbook Out of the Web

I know some pretty cool people. I met Ilio when he was working at The Princeton Review a few years ago and he’s one of the few people I’ve stayed in touch with after they’ve left the company. These days he’s working for Oxygen, yup.. the TV network. But he’s doing some decidedly non-TV stuff [...]

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Friday Geek Out: Rent

Tuesday night this week was fantastic. I saw Rent for the first time in nearly three years (it was my 11th time to see the show). The last time I was at the Nederlander Theater was Thanksgiving 2004 when Drew Lachey was playing Mark (and he was pretty good too). This week I was compelled [...]

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Saturday Stuff

J.J.’s Trek: A bit of news came out this week about the casting for the reboot of the Star Trek movie franchise. It’s been known for a while now that J.J. Abrams, mastermind behind Alias and the best of the Mission: Impossible movies, is taking over the series with his eye on a December 2008 [...]

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Saturday Morning Bloggin’ Time

Writing Ins and Outs: The new issue of The Project for a New Mythology arrived in my mailbox this week, featuring my story “Mindgames.” That was exciting to get. Meanwhile, I found out the story I submitted for the Touched anthology was rejected, so I’ll start looking for a new home for that story.
Potter-mania: Sometime [...]

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