This was yet one more odd off-Broadway transfer, this time with perhaps the weirdest one-sentence description up to that point—Andrew Jackson as an Emo rock star. No-one really took much notice of this show, except as a minor theatrical curiosity, … [Continue reading]
Beauty and the Beast
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, probably the most classic of all animated musicals and later adapted into a smash-hit, long-running Broadway musical, seems to have attracted two kinds of fans…the animation fans, who universally prefer the original … [Continue reading]
The Little Mermaid
I feel kind of bad for this show, actually. It seemed to have so much potential: the original film, so often dismissed as kiddie fare in comparison with the rest of the Disney Renaissance, is a brilliant metaphor for adolescence and coming of age. … [Continue reading]
Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit
Alessandrini’s last entry in this series was already excessively mean-spirited and pessimistic, but this is nothing more than a show-length, scream-down-the-house rant about how much he hates modern Broadway. Seriously, if you set Ethan Mordden’s The … [Continue reading]
Falsettos
This musical is actually two one-act musicals written a decade apart that deal with the same set of characters, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland. They were originally the second and third parts of a trilogy, but the first installment, In … [Continue reading]
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