Barbara Cook is a legend of the theater, and although this was her second one-woman show at Lincoln Center in just three years, there’s no such thing as too much Barbara Cook. Given that she was in her late seventies at this point, the vocal sound … [Continue reading]
The Beautiful Game
For those who haven’t heard of it, this is an Andrew Lloyd-Webber road-closer with a London cast album. Of all Webber’s late-career failures, this one came the closest to actually working. The book, by famed British television writer Ben Elton, tells … [Continue reading]
Golf: The Musical
This show is much better and funnier than it sounds from its description, mainly because it has a sense of humor about its odd choice of subject matter. The opening song acknowledges that a musical about golf seems like an unexciting prospect, then … [Continue reading]
Children’s Letters To God
Maybe I’m just a bad person, but I didn’t find anything about this ultra-wholesome, ‘inspirational’ piece of childlike philosophy remotely entertaining. In fact, I found it tedious, cutesy, and tooth-rottingly saccharine. I haven’t read the book it’s … [Continue reading]
Assassins
This show was classified as a ‘Revival’ at the Tony Awards that year, but it was quite clearly a ‘new’ show by the awards’ traditional standards, and it was this production that really catapulted the show into the public eye. This show is probably … [Continue reading]
The Boy From Oz
Of the decade’s five jukebox musicals hits, this one probably has the most substance as a show, and you could make a serious case that it’s the best of the five: at any rate, it is far more substantial and powerful than the critics, who largely write … [Continue reading]
A Man of No Importance
Flaherty and Ahrens have done a lot of good work over the course of their career, but three of their shows stand above all the others…Once On This Island, Ragtime, and this one. It wasn’t exactly a hit when it came out, but of all the Lincoln Center … [Continue reading]
Urban Cowboy
This musical was based on a powerfully honest film that perfectly captured the feel of its setting and featured a slate of classic songs like “Lookin’ For Love”, “Could I Have This Dance?”, “Lyin’ Eyes” and “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”. The … [Continue reading]
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