Michael Dale - Page 161

Michael Dale After 20-odd years singing, dancing and acting in dinner theatres, summer stocks and the ever-popular audience participation murder mysteries (try improvising with audiences after they?ve had two hours of open bar), Michael Dale segued his theatrical ambitions into playwriting. The buildings which once housed the 5 Off-Off Broadway plays he penned have all been destroyed or turned into a Starbucks, but his name remains the answer to the trivia question, "Who wrote the official play of Babe Ruth's 100th Birthday?" He served as Artistic Director for The Play's The Thing Theatre Company, helping to bring free live theatre to underserved communities, and dabbled a bit in stage managing and in directing cabaret shows before answering the call (it was an email, actually) to become BroadwayWorld.com's first Chief Theatre Critic. While not attending shows Michael can be seen at Citi Field pleading for the Mets to stop imploding. Likes: Strong book musicals and ambitious new works. Dislikes: Unprepared celebrities making their stage acting debuts by starring on Broadway and weak bullpens.




Horton Foote's The Day Emily Married: Unnerving and Exhilarating
August 7, 2004

Estelle Parsons' fascinating portrayal is only one highlight of Michael Wilson's top-notch production

Squeeze Box: Laughs from an Unlikely Source
July 31, 2004

Ann Randolph's funny and eccentric solo show...

Forever Tango Returns to Heat Up Another New York Summer
July 24, 2004

Luis Bravo's dance and music review features Argentina's most provocative export

From Russia, With Love (42nd Street Plays Moscow)
July 13, 2004

Joshua Scheer's one-man show safely guides us through the misadventures of Moscow's first Broadway musical

Animal Haven exposes Fans! A Sally Rand Centennial Celebration and Burlesque is Back!
July 6, 2004

A one-night benefit for Animal Haven celebrated the exotic artist who popularized fan dancing

Tammy Faye Starlite's La Passion du Christ: Menage a Trois Spoofs Evangelical Hypocricy
July 2, 2004

Country-western 'musicianary' saves souls through sex, song and satire

'Almost Obscene' Explores Censorship from Biblical Times to the Present
June 28, 2004

MAD Magazine Senior Editor Joe Raiola's monologue asks how the line between acceptable and obscene is drawn.

'George S. Irving - Still Carrying On' celebrates 60 years in Musical Theatre
June 16, 2004

From a chorus boy in the original cast of 'Oklahoma!' to a one-man show off-Broadway and a Tony Award in between, George S. Irving has been one of Broadway's most endearing and enduring character men

The Broadway Fake Book: Producer Promises: 'Bobbi Boland' is ready to tour!
June 13, 2004

Having recently learned her lines, Farrah Fawcett offers an alternative to dissapointed road producers who were expecting to present Avenue Q.

Paper Mill's Guys and Dolls is Fast, Rowdy Romantic Fun
June 10, 2004

Karen Ziemba, Robert Cuccioli, Kate Baldwin and Michael Mastro star in a faithful production of one of musical comedy's most perfect creations

The Broadway Fake Book: 'Big River' Cast Members to Host 2005 Academy Awards
May 31, 2004

Co-hosts Tyrone Giordano, Dan Jenkins and Michael McElroy will be joined by Brian Stokes Mitchell and Dance of the Vampires cast in Oscar telecast that will emphasize Broadway stars

The Broadway Fake Book: Tension at 'Avenue Q' as Snubbed Puppets Protest Tony Nods
May 14, 2004

Princeton, Kate Monster and other puppets interrupt Thursday night's curtain call with angry speech damning nominations.

Breaking News: Musicals Tonight! presents Avenue Q Unplugged
April 30, 2004

One-night-only event will feature puppeteers going solo, without their hand-held friends. Avenue Q Unplugged will present cast members of this season's puppet powered satire performing in a 'hands free' environment; as themselves, without their colorful alter-egos.

The Broadway Fake Book: Broadway's Music Box Theatre to be renamed for Jason Robert Brown
April 26, 2004

The historic home of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revues will soon spell out in lights 'The Jason Robert Brown Theatre'

bare: Viva la Vie Upper Middle Class!
April 19, 2004

Let's just recognize that enormous elephant in the room right from the top, shall we? Because as soon as the flood of praise for bare began to trickle its way to New York from Los Angeles, where its scheduled 32 performance run received such raves that it was extended to four months, the comparisons to Rent came pouring out as quickly as the comparisons to Hair saturated the word-of-mouth at Rent's Off-Off Broadway opening...

'Baby' Matures at The Paper Mill
April 14, 2004

Carolee Carmello, Chad Kimball, LaChanze, Norm Lewis, Moeisha McGill and Michael Rupert star in a well-revised version of the 1983-84 parenthood musical

Julie Wilson declares 'I'm Still Here' to Unveil Helen's Hideaway Room
April 7, 2004

Beloved 79-year-old star is premiere attraction at New York's newest cabaret room

'Pride's Crossing' Celebrates 20th Century Women Who Swam Against the Current
April 6, 2004

Tina Howe's 1998 award-winning drama of an English Channel swimmer receives first New York revival at T. Schreiber Studio.

The Broadway Fake Book: 'Bounce'-ing Back!
April 1, 2004

Sondheim, Prince announce newly revised version of Bounce, with assistance from Andrew Lloyd Webber, to premiere May 9

'Sweeney Todd' is a Musical! No, it's an Opera! Or Maybe it's a Ballet?
March 6, 2004

Use these simple guidelines to determine what exactly you're seeing at the New York State Theatre



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