Last January, I wrote a post about the in development stage version of Once. The Academy Award-winning film of Guy and Girl working together to fulfill their musical needs in modern Dublin featured a strong score and touching story. The…
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Bizarre, but True: I Dreamed a Dream: The Susan Boyle Musical
by Robert • 3 January 2012 • 2 Comments
On this edition of Bizarre, but True, we look at perhaps the strangest, musical inspired by reality TV. No, not Jersey Shore: The Musical. Susan Boyle became an international sensation thanks to her run on the British reality TV show…
What’s Happening: The Mother– with the Hat Regional Casting
by Robert • 12 December 2011 • 0 Comments
Last season on Broadway, Stephen Adly Guirgis opened a high energy comedy play on Broadway abbreviated to The Mother with the Hat. Starring Chris Rock, Bobby Canavale, Yul Vasquez, and Elizabeth Rodriguez, the production went on to be nominated for…
Watch: Follies at Gypsy of the Year
by Robert • 9 December 2011 • 0 Comments
Gypsy of the Year is an annual fundraising event for Broadway Cares: Equity Fights Aids. Broadway companies are invited to put on performances for a paying audience. They don’t do selections from the show they’re in, though; they write new…
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Frank Wildhorn?
by Robert • 7 December 2011 • 1 Comment
Frank Wildhorn’s new Broadway musical Bonnie & Clyde opened last week to enthusiastic panning by critics. Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal, for example, seemed to take great pride in tearing the show apart by mentioning all of Frank…
Coming Soon: Matilda, A Musical
by Robert • 28 November 2011 • 0 Comments
Remember how back in March everyone was raving about The Book of Mormon? It was called one of the best shows in ages. The performances, staging, costumes, sets, lighting, book, score, direction–everything–was praised. What seemed like hyperbole was thrown out…
Everything You Need to Know about the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Lawsuit
by Robert • 9 November 2011 • 0 Comments
Here we go again. The troubled production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, currently taking in over $1million a week on Broadway but now assumed to have cost $75million to produce is in the headlines again. This time, Julie Taymor…
On Theater: It’s OK to Not Like Something
by Robert • 24 October 2011 • 0 Comments
This is an idea that’s been floating in my head for quite some time. What pushed it back to the forefront was the Godspell preview thread over at BroadwayWorld. One user wrote a particularly scathing review of the new Broadway…
Theater Review: Speakeasy Dollhouse (NYC)
by Robert • 20 October 2011 • 1 Comment
You are in downtown NYC. You walk up to a man on a poorly lit street standing in front of a short metal gate. You whisper “cannolis” into his ear and are led down a staircase into an alleyway filled…
How Everyone Except the Actors is Responsible for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Ver. 2.0
by Robert • 17 October 2011 • 0 Comments
Yesterday at New York Comic Con, I saw a very eye opening panel about what really happened behind the scenes at Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. The panel consisted of original Julie Taymor collaborator Glen Berger, Julie Taymor replacement writer…
The Culture of Fan at NYCC
by Robert • 13 October 2011 • 1 Comment
There I stood, five minutes to the first opening of the floor at New York Comic Con 2011. Hundreds of people surrounded me. Some were fans, others bloggers, still others big time media content creators or and writers. We were…
New York Comic Con: A Primer
by Robert • 13 October 2011 • 0 Comments
What is Comic Con? New York Comic Con is the largest fan convention in NYC and one of (if not the largest) fan conventions on the east coast. The title says “comic,” but the real focus is fandom. People from…
Coming Soon: Nightfall on Miranga Island
by Robert • 7 October 2011 • 0 Comments
Nightfall on Miranga Island is the new musical by Justin Moran and Jon Roufaeal. This is the duo that created The Spidey Project, the quickly gestated and now viral unlicensed Spider Man musical. Their goal was to be the first…
The Broadway Shuffle: 2011/12 Edition
by Robert • 5 October 2011 • 0 Comments
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