“Finding Neverland” Attempts To Wrestle Musical Fun From J M Barrie’s Writer’s Block
Producer Harvey Weinstein is determined that his new musical about J M Barrie, the playwright who wrote Peter Pan, will
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Dumbed Down For Modern Sensibilities? “Gigi” Returns To Broadway
With High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens the unlikely-on-paper lead, and advance word that Colette’s story about a young girl
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Cowboy Season In New York: “Paint Your Wagon” Back On Broadway
Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe’s Paint Your Wagon (1951) is seldom produced these days, and Encores’ one-week staged concert
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Zany Operetta: “On The 20th Century” Returns To Broadway
A revival of the 1978 musical – based on plays by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur and Bruce Millholland – was
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Discovering The Joys Of The Orient
I have never seen Kismet, the 1953 musical, although like everyone else of a certain age, I know some of
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A New “Kismet” In Loveland, Colorado
Peggy and I caught the last performance of Loveland Opera Theater’s Kismet on March 1. This certainly had to have
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Cyrano de Bergerac: Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live!
Director Alyce Mott resurrected her streamlined version of Victor Herbert’s 1899 operetta based on Edmund Rostand’s classic with the same
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“Porn – The Musical.” Or Will It Be An Operetta After All?
The German actor Florian Klein became famous in Hollywood as porn star “Hans Berlin.” After years in the Adult Industry
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INTO THE WOODS Musical in 2 acts by James Lapine & Stephen Sondheim
A piece in the vein of the fairytale burlesques of Victorian times, Into the Woods brought together some familiar nursery
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Is There An Ideal “La Belle Hélène” Recording – With Sex Appeal?
In early 2015, the Komische Oper presented their very first Operetta Symposium, dealing with the “kinky” side of the genre
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“The Auto Race” And Other Tuned-Up Operettas From Early Broadway Days
If you wish to experience operetta off the beaten track, then look no further than this brand new CD with
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4 For 45: Operetta Movie Classics On Sale At Warner
It is not quite an “indecent proposal,” as in the 1993 Robert Redford movie. But still, it’s a stunning offer:
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Serkan Kaya Redefines Operetta As Kalman’s Cowboy Hero in “Arizona Lady”
Truth be told: the performance of Turkish musical comedy star Serkan Kaya as a swaggering cowboy hero in Kalman’s Arizona
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Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Allegro” Returns to New York
As this Off-Broadway revival of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s 1947 failure Allegro is directed by John Doyle – he
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“The Golden Apple”: Reclaiming A Classic In Texas
The Golden Apple (1954) is widely acknowledged by musical theatre scholars as a much-neglected gem, and it is presently receiving
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Gypsies and Barons and Heirs. Or: The Merry Widow’s Cousins
The title of this flavorsome concert mounted by LOONY on a seriously rainy Wednesday at the fabled Players Club was
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Vanessa Williams and Julian Ovenden Star In New York’s New “Show Boat”
In November, the New York Philharmonic will present a semi-staged concert version of Show Boat: one of the classic shows
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Broadway Meets Operetta: Susan Stroman Directs “Merry Widow”
You can certainly call this operetta debut ‘special’: stage director Susan Stroman (The Producers, The Scottsboro Boys) will direct a
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SHOW BOAT: Musical Play in 2 Acts
One of the most successful romantic musical plays of the 1920s, Show Boat (Ziegfeld Theater, New York, 27 December 1927)
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The Victor Herbert Renaissance Project LIVE!
The title alone is worth a headline: “Victor Herbert Renaissance Project LIVE!” It is the world’s only production company uniquely
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“On the Town”: Leonard Bernstein’s Classic A Must-See On Broadway
In December 1944, composer Leonard Bernstein, choreographer Jerome Robbins, and librettists Betty Comden and Adolph Green all made their Broadway
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“The Desert Song”: A Glorious Technicolor Version on DVD for the First Time
Sigmund Romberg’s North Africa spectacle The Desert Song “is arguably the best of the group of romantic operettas that found
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The Tin Pan Alley Rag
First things first. Playwright Mark Saltzman’s imagined early 20th century meeting between composers Irving Berlin and Scott Joplin on the
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“One Touch of Venus” from 1955
In the latest newsletter from the Kurt Weill Foundation, there’s a review of the new One Touch of Venus recording,
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Disney’s “Aladdin” a Big, Family Friendly Spectacle
Yes, the magic carpet does really fly! Just how those Disney wizards manage it without visible wires, we’ll never know.
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Reviving Cole Porter’s “The Ambassador Revue”
Last Friday at New York’s Town Hall marked a major event for historians of musical theatre. For one night only,
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Uli Scherbel Talks Operetta
At the 18th edition of the Schönebecker Operettensommer there’s a brand new Maske in Blau to be seen. While the
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Kálmán’s Voodoo Magic: “Golden Dawn” (1927)
Fern von Europa und vom europäischen Markt vollkommen unbeachtet, kommt am 29. Juli 1930 in den USA die Verfilmung von
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Essays On Kurt Weill’s Broadway Operetta
Here it is, fresh off the press: A German language collection of texts dealing with Kurt Weill’s only “operetta”, The
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Cheyenne Jackson: A New Kind of Operetta Hero?
It doesn’t happy very often that a recording takes my breath away. But the new West Side Story from San Francisco—of
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Neil Patrick Harris as a Transgender Entertainer
Neil Patrick Harris is at the very top of his considerable game in an electrifying turn as playwright John Cameron
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“Orange Blossoms”: Performed by Light Opera of New York
LOONY (Light Opera of New York) raised its own bar by several notches with their latest production. For starters, although
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“The New Moon”: Romberg Performed By LOONY
This isn’t the first time this fearless little company has attempted a great big operetta that, by all rights, should
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Victor Herbert’s Fabulous “Lohengrin” Spoof
LOONY’s real season doesn’t get underway till 2014 when they’ll be doing full productions of Sigmund Romberg’s The New Moon
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Maybe Art Imitates Arabs: “The Road to Qatar”
It all began with an email. “We want you write musical … how much?” Was my Spam blocker set on
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THE STUDENT PRINCE Musical play in 2 acts
The Student Prince was not the first musical to be based on Meyer-Förster’s 1901 Studentenstück Alt Heidelberg (Berliner Theater 22
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