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This Grandma's Probably Way Cooler Than Yours

By SANDY MACDONALD

Tuesday, May 08, 2018 • Musicals • 1 comment Share This

Tue May 8, 2018 • Musicals • 1 comment Share This

Luba Mason shatters ageist notions in the musical Unexpected Joy --- The amazingly youthful-looking Luba Mason isn't a grandmother in real life, but she doesn't mind playing one onstage -- so long as the character's not a stereotype. That's why she's embracing her role as Joy, a sexually fluid hippie at the center of Unexpected Joy at the York Theatre...

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She Makes the 'Mean Girls' Sound Fetch

By RAVEN SNOOK

Friday, April 20, 2018 • Musicals • 0 comments Share This

Fri Apr 20, 2018 • Musicals • 0 comments Share This

Meet Broadway musical director Mary-Mitchell Campbell, one of the show's unsung sheroes --- Much has been written about the girl power of Broadway's Mean Girls. After all, the female-focused musical comedy about a naïve new student learning to navigate the high school hierarchy is the brainchild of feminist funnywoman Tina Fey, based on her hit...

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The Triangle at the Heart of 'My Fair Lady'

By RAVEN SNOOK

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 • Musicals • 1 comment Share This

Wed Apr 18, 2018 • Musicals • 1 comment Share This

Allan Corduner on playing Pickering in the Broadway revival --- Pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins and his Cockney flower girl protégé Eliza Doolittle may have a will-they-or-won't-they relationship in My Fair Lady, but his pal Colonel Pickering is really his soul mate. Their bromance in on enchanting display in Bartlett Sher's...

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WATCH: Chita Rivera Sing "Somewhere" at the Olivier Awards

Thursday, April 12, 2018 • Musicals • 0 comments Share This

Thu Apr 12, 2018 • Musicals • 0 comments Share This

ICYMI London's annual Olivier Awards, aka the British Tonys, took place last Sunday. The ceremony at Royal Albert Hall featured lots of live performances, including the opening number of the West End incarnation of Hamilton and a tribute to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. But two-time Tony winner Chita Rivera belting out "Somewhere" from...

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How Can You Be a Mom When Deportation Looms?

By HOWARD SHERMAN

Tuesday, April 10, 2018 • Musicals • 0 comments Share This

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Tony nominee Daphne Rubin-Vega plays an undocumented immigrant in the new musical Miss You Like Hell --- Mother-daughter relationships in musicals -- as in life -- are often complex and combative (see Gypsy). But the interactions between the mother and daughter at the center of Miss You Like Hell, currently playing at the Public Theater, are particularly...

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Rapping About Smashing the Patriarchy

By JOSE SOLÍS

Monday, April 09, 2018 • Musicals • 0 comments Share This

Mon Apr 9, 2018 • Musicals • 0 comments Share This

The Q Brothers give Lysistrata a feminist hip-hop makeover --- Lots of theatre-makers update the classics but only the Chicago-based Q Brothers specialize in "add-rap-tations:" contemporary hip-hop reimaginings of iconic texts. Their playful and inventive takes on The Comedy of Errors, rechristened The Bomb-itty of Errors, and Othello: the Remix both...

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Is It Rock? Is It Classical? Forget Labels, It's All Music

By LINDA BUCHWALD

Tuesday, April 03, 2018 • Musicals • 0 comments Share This

Tue Apr 3, 2018 • Musicals • 0 comments Share This

How Rocktopia brings rock, classical, and Broadway musicians together --- Henry Aronson is a keyboardist and musical director with 30 years of Broadway credits. Tony Bruno is a guitarist and songwriter who has worked with Grammy Award-winning artists such as Enrique Iglesias, Rihanna, and Joan Jett. Although they usually inhabit different scenes,...

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