Category: Broadway
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#Broadway’s Max von Essen’s Plea to a #Romney Supporter
Broadway’s Max von Essen (currently in Evita) took to Facebook today to ask “why” an old friend had “liked” Mitt Romney’s Facebook page. His full letter is below and it is a heartbreaking read. It is also very dear to me because of my 406 “friends”, four of them like Mitt Romney’s official Facebook page…
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Sarah McLachlan Composing a Broadway-Aimed King Kong Musical
If the following Broadway.com story is true I am terrified I’ll feel this intense need to adopt King Kong by the end of the show. Click the story to redirect to the full article. After posting this story to Facebook some friends and I had a little fun imagining the show with her current discography…
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“Green Acres” is the Broadway place to be!
I just saw this news in Variety and, bless my gooseberry pie, I think it might be magic in the making! Ladies, gentlemen and hogs, Green Acres may be coming to Broadway. As a kid, I was completely in love with Green Acres. I’d tune in on Nick at Night every evening after school and…
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The 2012 Tony Awards now on iTunes & Amazon!
Moments ago I received this exciting email from The Tony Awards. For the first time ever, Broadway fans (U.S. only) can own the entire Tony Awards® telecast, as well as individual musical performances. Thanks to iTunes and Amazon, you can purchase and watch this year’s exciting telecast whenever or wherever you like including on your…
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Christ Just Can’t Get a Break on Broadway
I’m sure it is nothing. Maybe just happenstance… an unexpected alignment in the universe… if anything, but this year’s confluence of Christian influenced (I’d be pressed to say “themed”) Broadway musicals have had a rough few days. First (June 12), Godspell announced it was closing after it’s June 24th performance. Next (June 19) came word…
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Book Review: Peter and the Starcatchers
After seeing the Broadway adaptation I was hungry to check out the source material. Happily, I was as pleased as pirates plundering a’plenty with both. The book, Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson, supposes what might have been the origins of the mythic boy and other favorite characters from J. M. Barrie’s classic…
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“The Clifton Monroe Chronicles” is a rousing success!
During my extended absence from writing on the blog, we successfully opened The Clifton Monroe Chronicles: Episode 1 – The Case of the Scarlet G. I was in New Orleans for the opening weekend (and helped by running the light board while working with the press) and enjoyed watching this co-creation get standing ovations each night.…
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Musical Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious-Star Robert Sherman passed away at 86
The Associated Press is reporting that Robert Sherman, one half of the legendary Sherman Brothers, passed away Monday in his home in London. The Sherman Brothers were “unknown heroes” to me as a child. I knew their songs by heart, sang them relentlessly, and wore new grooves in my Disney LPs, listening to their music over…
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The Sixth Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant – Meet the Boys!
The Sixth Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant will take place on Monday, March 19, 2012 at 8PM at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street, NYC). If you’ve never been, GO. If you’ve been, GO AGAIN! It’s an incredible night filled with stellar performances and stunning physiques. And, by attending, you are helping out the Ali Forney Center whose mission…
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The Night My Mother Got Peed on at the Theatre
In 1998 I was enjoying a two-week run of Cabaret at the Clarence Brown Theatre. This was a University production (not to be confused with the professional company on the campus of UTK) and I was excited for my mom and stepdad to see this sort of naughty, sort of sexual, very-much-in-the-vein-of the Roundabout’s Broadway revival that I was…
Tommy Karr 