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Michael Rabice has over 40 years of experience attending plays, musicals and opera all over the world. He is a frequent performer in opera and has appeared with the Glimmerglass Opera, Artpark Opera, Greater Buffalo Opera and Nickel City Opera. Michael has extensively studied the history of the American musical theatre throughout the past century. In addition, he has written many essays on the impact of musical theatre on American culture, as well as how musical styles of a specific era impacted the Broadway stage and it's orchestrations. He regularly attends theatre in Buffalo, Toronto , Niagara-on-the-Lake, and New York City. Michael serves on the Board of Directors of STARRING BUFFALO. He has been a Contributing Editor at Broadwayworld since 2014.

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First Show

Woman of the Year with Lauren Bacall

Favorite Show

Mame -Revival with Angela Lansbury

Favorite Stories

BWW Review: OKLAHOMA! at Shea's Buffalo - I spent 2 years studying Oklahoma, it's effects on American culture, Musical Theatre and it's importance influencing the future of the American Musical Comedy. This production was controversial and I felt passionate about my view.
BWW Review: THE BAND'S VISIT at Shea's Buffalo - This show is unorthodox in it's simplicity and quiet method of story telling, not often seen in Musical Theatre. I found it beautifully crafted, written, acted and directed
Review: THE COLOR PURPLE at Shea's 710 Theatre - Every once and a while a production surprises me with how perfect the cast and direction is. This show was made up of local Buffalo actors who could hold their own on any professional stage
Review: SIX at Shea's Buffalo Theatre -
Review: GASLIGHT at Shaw Festival -

Review: Celebrating Sondheim with The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra at Kleinhans Musical Hall

October 24, 2022

What did our critic think of Celebrating Sondheim with The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra at Kleinhans Musical Hall?

Review: THE SECRET GARDEN: SPRING VERSION CAPTIVATES at Shea's Smith Theatre

October 15, 2022

When a big musical takes to a small space there may be cause for concern.

Review: THE PROM at Shea's Buffalo Theatre

September 28, 2022

THE PROM concludes it's National tour in Buffalo this week as the big show with lots of heart took to the Shea's Buffalo stage.

Review: DOUBT, A PARABLE at Irish Classical Theatre

September 25, 2022

Storytelling for the sake of enlightenment and teaching is what many think of when they hear of parables.

Review: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND at Shea's 710 Theatre

September 16, 2022

Shea's 710 Theatre was reborn last night as it solely produced it's first ever musical on the former Studio Arena stage.

Review: JERKER at The Provincetown Theater

August 31, 2022

What at first sounds like an evening of gratuitous nudity for the pleasure of gay men actually turns into quite the opposite.

Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST at Shaw Festival

July 14, 2022

A breezy comedy of manners, as only Oscar Wilde could pen, is a welcome way to return to Niagara-on-the Lake's SHAW FESTIVAL.

Review: GASLIGHT at Shaw Festival

June 20, 2022

A Victorian thriller melded with a dash of 21st century female fortitude makes up the fabric of the Shaw Festival's gripping new production of GASLIGHT.

Review: THE ONION GAME at Irish Classical Theatre

June 16, 2022

Another wholly dysfunctional family has entered the literary realm in a new play by Bryan Delaney and Buffalo's Irish Classical Theatre gets to show them off in all of their wretchedness.

BWW Review: DAMN YANKEES is a Winner at Shaw Festival

May 23, 2022

Americana and the Golden Age of the Broadway musical has happily landed at the Shaw Festival in their knock it out of the park production of DAMN YANKEES.

BWW Review: AIN'T TOO PROUD at Shea's Buffalo Theatre

May 11, 2022

The evolution of the American musical has morphed from operetta to Vaudevillian musical revue to the classic integrated musical comedy.

BWW Review: ANASTASIA at Shea's Buffalo Theatre

April 20, 2022

Romance, Russian espionage and a bad case of amnesia in short order sum up the plot of the latest Broadway tour to land in Buffalo as ANASTASIA took to the stage at Shea's last night.

BWW Review: STAGE KISS at Irish Classical Theatre

April 9, 2022

A modern day farce is unfolding, and I'm not speaking of the 2022 political scene or a worldwide pandemic.

BWW Review: TRIBES IS A COMPELLING DRAMA at Road Less Traveled Productions

March 11, 2022

In typical form, Road Less Traveled Productions in Buffalo presents a play to challenge and stimulate the senses in it's gripping production of TRIBES by Nina Raines.

BWW Review: A Sumptuous MY FAIR LADY at Shea's Buffalo

March 2, 2022

How to turn a classic play into a classic musical? Find the best of the best, of course.

BWW Review: OKLAHOMA! at Shea's Buffalo

February 16, 2022

In March of 1943, the audience that poured into New York’s St.

BWW Review: WAITING FOR GODOT at Irish Classical Theatre

January 27, 2022

After a near two year absence, live audiences have returned to Irish Classical Theatre.

December 28, 2021

BWW Review: HAMILTON at Shea's Buffalo

December 16, 2021

HAMILTON and it's brilliant company have taken up residence at Shea's Buffalo Theatre through January 2nd and the phenomenon deserves to be seen by one and all.

BWW Review: PRETTY WOMAN-THE MUSICAL at Shea's Buffalo

December 1, 2021

Welcome to the 1980's where acid wash jeans, big hair, shoulder pads and the music of Bryan Adams pervades the air.

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