Victor Herbert Renaissance Project Live: “The Serenade”
Inasmuch as anyone revives Victor Herbert’s melodious operettas any longer, it is likely to be one of the biggies such
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Victor Herbert’s “The Fortune Teller” At VHRP Live!
Yes, some music was missing, but what remained of Victor Herbert’s classic score in VHRP Live’s semi-staged concert reading was
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“The Golden Bride” At The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene
This meticulous reconstruction of composer Joseph Rumshinsky’s 1923 operetta Di Goldene Kale (“The Golden Bride”) may well be the most
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Meet Rothschilds & Sons: The Bock/Harnick Show Returns Rewritten
Though Broadway’s The Rothschilds in 1970 was far from a megahit on the scale of Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s
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“Spring Awakening” With Deaf Actors
I must confess that I admired more than loved Spring Awakening in its 2007 Broadway premiere, and really didn’t care
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“Amazing Grace”: A Slave Trader Musical
This is a reasonably compelling, resourcefully staged, and certainly richly designed story of slave trader John Newton and how he
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The 2015 Ohio Light Opera Season. Or: Operetta Delights in Wooster
Though an unfortunate scheduling conflict prevented my attending this delightful company’s second annual symposium as I did last year, I
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A New Tap-Dancing Musical About James Cagney
An unlikely subject for a musical perhaps – though, of course, he starred in several – Hollywood tough guy James
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Something Rotten! New Shakespeare-Spectacle On Broadway
This very clever new musical is a rib-tickling winner across the board, a hilarious riff on Shakespeare and his times.
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“Doctor Zhivago”: Laughably Derivative?
Not only does this overblown musical of Boris Pasternak’s classic novel not measure up to the sweep and majesty of
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“Shall We Dance?” Kelli O’Hara As Anna Leonowens
This opulent revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s enduring 1951 classic certainly has much to commend it. For starters, theatergoers have
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Kander & Ebb: “The Visit” Starring Chita Rivera
Broadway at last! The John Kander and Fred Ebb musical, originally conceived as a vehicle for Angela Lansbury, who withdrew
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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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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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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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Art Is Calling For Me: Reviving Victor Herbert In 2014
The Artistic Director of the Victor Herbert Renaissance Project (VHRP), Alyce Mott, has already had a major triumph this year
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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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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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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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Operetta Delights in Wooster
Lovers of operetta and musicals had the rare opportunity for a week-long wallow in their favorite sport during the Ohio
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“Natoma”: Victor Herbert’s Grand Opera Live
Victor Herbert’s 1911 grand opera Natoma – not performed in its original form for over a century – was accorded
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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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“Song of Norway,” or: Edvard Grieg’s Return to Broadway
The operetta fashioned by Robert Wright and George Forrest from the melodies of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg – hugely popular
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The Nance (Lincoln Center Theater)
Nathan Lane gives a polished, multifaceted performance as a fictitious 1930s burlesque performer named Chauncey Miles. He plays what was
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The Judy Garland Show: Volume 5
If anyone really wants to sample the full power of Judy Garland at her mature, late period best – a
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