I was planning to do a history of musical theater (an honest one, rather than the nostalgia-blinded laments for a supposedly dead Broadway you generally get in published histories of the form). However, I realized that to start with the beginning of … [Continue reading]
“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” by Iron Butterfly
If all you've ever heard is the single edit of this song, it sounds like a classic: one of the earliest pioneers of Heavy Metal, with one of the great Rock guitar riffs of the Sixties, and a lyric that, say what you will about it, is just enigmatic … [Continue reading]
Escape from Margaritaville
I can’t exactly say I’m surprised Escape from Margaritaville is closing, and not only because the theater was three-fourths empty when I saw it. It’s been a while since we’ve had a genuine disaster on Broadway (they’re getting few and far between … [Continue reading]
Tangled
Tangled, a loose adaptation of the Grimm’s fairy tale Rapunzel, was a significant milestone in the second Disney renaissance. Enchanted had been largely live-action and The Princess and the Frog a traditional hand-drawn animated film; this is the … [Continue reading]
The Princess and the Frog
This was Disney’s next attempt to recapture the magic of its renaissance era after Enchanted set the new template, and if it fails to match the sheer splendor of such later efforts as Frozen and Moana, it is still on the whole a delightful and … [Continue reading]
Enchanted
This is the movie that serves as the real genesis for the second Disney renaissance. Granted, the film is about 80% live action, but all of the fundamental tropes that formed the basis for the modern Disney model were essentially pioneered here: the … [Continue reading]
Spongebob Squarepants: The Musical
Apparently the naysayers were wrong; it is in fact possible to spin shit into gold. This musical, for those who have been living under a rock, is based on an intolerably ubiquitous children’s cartoon that started out as another inane Ren and Stimpy … [Continue reading]
“Lukas Graham (Blue Album)” by Lukas Graham
Lukas Graham were a Danish Soul-Pop band (named after their frontman, Lukas Graham Forchammer), falling more or less within the Adult Alternative genre umbrella, who had a handful of hits from their second album on the U.S. charts in 2016. From a … [Continue reading]
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