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Passing Strange

2008-06-15T17:04:11Z

It's hard to believe but the last new musical I saw before the Tony Awards turned out to be the best new musical I saw this season. While I adored Xanadu and had a lot of fun, Passing Strange moved me emotionally, made me laugh, made my rhythm co...

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Glory Days

2008-05-03T20:54:41Z

The tag line for this musical is "What do you get when two twenty-three year olds write a musical about four twenty year olds?" Apparently, you get a musical about high school which I found odd since most people graduate high school before the...

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LIVE BRAVE

2008-04-20T00:20:53Z

Eli Stone is one of my latest, must-see television shows. It's a show that has a lot to do with faith, whatever that may be. I don't really know but I'm beginning to believe that it's a subject which I'll be exploring more of in these pages. An...

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Broadway Boys - Singing Tenor Group

2008-04-05T17:28:36Z

I really like the idea of this group. From what I have found on the net, they tend to do Broadway show covers. For the most part I like the musical arrangements although I find the vocal arrangements a little grating at times. Too many songs (...

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The Homecoming

2008-03-29T20:30:04Z

This is a ferocious play by Harold Pinter currently being divinely revived on Broadway. It's going to be running for a few more weeks so you don't have much more time to see it. After CJ, it stars my other favorite Broadway musical star, Rau...

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Xanadu - A dreadful Olivia Newton-John Movie has been transformed into a Fab Broadway Musical

2008-03-29T19:50:21Z

Olivia Newton-John was probably my number one favorite recording artist when I was growing up. Starting with "If You Love Me Let Me Know" and "I Honestly Love You" which sported lyrics by Peter Allen and won the Grammy Award for Record of the Yea...

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Of Moppets, Jambalaya and Petting Zoos...Old Essay #1

2008-03-29T16:29:50Z

(Old Essay #1 - Read this before Born In the USA which follows immediately after. Originally written in July 1999.) It was with great excitement that I had been anticipating last night’s by invitation only event. When the planning began in the...

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Born In The USA - Old Essay #2

2008-03-29T02:04:44Z

(This is an old essay from July 1999.) I spent three hours in Chinatown, Jack, I connected to the Internet and I never went back... I opened up to ten browser windows at once one Saturday morning in April, in order to buy a spot with 20,53...

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Will It Go Round in Circles?

2007-10-01T00:19:56Z

Carousel is the very first musical I ever saw. I was a toddler and my parents took me to the revival at the New York State Theatre. I remember riding up and down escalator after escalator. I remember the death scene. Closing the circle, the re...

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A Trafe Camelot

2007-09-30T23:19:24Z

This has got to be one of the most stomach clutching musical comedies to come along in recent memory. This show is tons of fun. The original lady of the lake featured in the video below is on Grey's Anatomy and she won the Tony Award for Feature...

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