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]
Mamma Mia
Mamma Mia is one of those shows that really shouldn’t work, yet somehow does. One can point out a thousand things wrong with it as a composition, but for some reason it plays extremely well and is undeniably an effective piece of theater in its own … [Continue reading]
School of Rock
Andrew Lloyd-Webber has had it rough these last twenty years, with five clear failures in a row (six if you count that idiotic idea of adding original songs to a revival of The Wizard of Oz), but as a longtime supporter and devotee, I always argued … [Continue reading]
Brigadoon (a preview of the upcoming book “An Honest History of Musical Theater”)
For the loyal readers of KnightsofBroadway, I offer a preview of a passage from my upcoming book, which goes by the working title of An Honest History of Musical Theater. This particular passage concerns the musical Brigadoon, which just finished … [Continue reading]
Big Fish
Chronologically, this was the first of the beautiful flops of the 2013-2014 season to close down, and it might well be the best of all of them. The critics pretty much lifted their leg on this show, but audience word of mouth was almost unanimously … [Continue reading]
Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking
Well, Alessandrini’s vow of retirement lasted as long as a slug in salt, so here we are again, God help us. He tries to paint his chronic inability to shut up as some kind of triumphant return, but I have to take issue with his ceaselessly repeated … [Continue reading]
Newsies
When I heard they were doing a stage version of Newsies, my friends and I laughed and scoffed and waited for the surely inevitable failure. After all, the movie it was based on, cult following or no cult following, was still a truly notorious flop. … [Continue reading]
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (stage musical)
Just as people tend to underrate Disney's Pocahontas, they tend to overrate the Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame film, despite its spectacularly bad choice of source material. In particular, people of the generation that grew up watching these films … [Continue reading]
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