Well, I finally saw Bat Out of Hell, right at the end of its New York run. I know there have been some conflicting reports as to its quality, so let me set the record straight. This show is campy and cheesy and raucous and vulgar and insanely … [Continue reading]
Frozen (stage version)
When I heard they were adapting Disney’s hit film Frozen to the Broadway stage, I had high expectations. After all, most Disney stage adaptations significantly expand the scope and complexity of their sources, and given that Frozen was already … [Continue reading]
The Prom
This show faced some challenges from day one because a better musical with the exact same base premise (a gay teenager being banned from their school’s prom) opened in London a year before The Prom ever made it to a major venue. As it happened, The … [Continue reading]
Lady in the Dark
The ‘revolution’ that the Musical experienced in the 1940s is generally credited almost entirely to Oklahoma, but can really be traced to the innovations of a string of genre-busting stage and film musicals, of which Oklahoma is but one. Perhaps the … [Continue reading]
Kiss Me, Kate
One of the side effects of Rodgers and Hammerstein's invention of the Musical Play in the Forties with such works as Carousel and South Pacific was the make the Operetta genre (which was already falling out of favor by that point) almost completely … [Continue reading]
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