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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