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Tony Award winner Victoria Clark (the Light in the Piazza), will team up with Broadway vets John Hillner (La Cage) and Andy Karl (9 to 5) for a staged reading of the 1983 Maltby and Shire musical Baby on November 16 at The Shop at CAP 21. The reading is part of CAP 21's regular Monday night Classic Concert Series.
Lighting designer R. Lee Kennedy has a planetarium's worth of stars flooding the Connolly Theatre's stage at the outset of Transport Group's production of Nancy Shayne's new musical, Marcy In The Galaxy. But gleaming through the clusters is the face of Donna Lynne Champlin, shining with hopefulness and wonder. The galaxy her title character occupies is actually the Galaxy Diner of Hell's Kitchen but Marcy is also one of the countless number of barely distinguishable stars that form the spiraling galaxy of Manhattan. The musical's story of a struggling artist nearing 40 and wondering for how long she can continue the struggle is a familiar one, but though Shayne's material offers no unique spin, her chamber musical is an inviting and sincere charmer mounted by Jack Cummings III with a light and whistful touch.
In case this is your first time reading one of my reviews of a Broadway revival of a classic musical, allow me introduce you to my personal prejudice. I completely abhor the now very common practice of revising the book and messing with the score of any musical theatre piece after the authors are deceased. If a composer, bookwriter or lyricist is around to approve of changes, that's swell, but all too often their estates will allow anything from the sparse, but significant, tweaks to South Pacific to the wholesale revisions of The Pajama Game and The Music Man. Even more deplorable is the practice of letting these changes go uncredited, as was done in the three examples just cited, giving audiences no clue that what they are watching is not wholly the musical the original authors wrote.
Eloquence without the elegance is how I'd describe Michael Stuhlbarg's scruffy, hyperactive and somewhat nerdy take on the title role in director Oskar Eustis' amusing hodgepodge of a production of Hamlet. Though perfectly placid for the first several minutes of his performance, silently contemplating his father's death and his uncle's marriage to his newly widowed mother at a downstage eternal flame that perpetually flickers its symbolism throughout the evening, he's soon wildly wringing his hands with nervous excitement, flailing his arms about in range and stomping his feet to the floor like the kind of actor he'll later be warning his players not to be. In fact, it's not until the prince starts feigning madness that he begins resembling a grown-up. It's not an interpretation that will tug at your soul, but it'll damn well get your attention without taxing your brain.
Took An Axe Productions proudly presents a special limited 6-week engagement of the rock musical LIZZIE BORDEN.
Took An Axe Productions proudly presents a special limited 6-week engagement of the rock musical LIZZIE BORDEN. Written by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Tim Maner with Alan Stevens Hewitt and directed by Tim Maner, this production will play Thursday, September 10 through Saturday, October 17 at The Living Theatre.
Took An Axe Productions proudly presents a special limited 6-week engagement of the rock musical LIZZIE BORDEN.
Took An Axe Productions proudly presents a special limited 6-week engagement of the rock musical LIZZIE BORDEN. Written by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Tim Maner with Alan Stevens Hewitt and directed by Tim Maner, this production will play Thursday, September 10 through Saturday, October 17 at The Living Theatre.
THE TIN PAN ALLEY RAG written by Mark Saltzman with Music & Lyrics by Irving Berlin & Scott Joplin and Directed by Stafford Arima concludes its limited engagement Sunday, September 6th, 2009 Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre.
Took An Axe Productions proudly presents a special limited 6-week engagement of the rock musical LIZZIE BORDEN.
THE TIN PAN ALLEY RAG written by Mark Saltzman with Music & Lyrics by Irving Berlin & Scott Joplin and Directed by Stafford Arima concludes its limited engagement Sunday, September 6th, 2009 Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre.
Took An Axe Productions proudly presents a special limited 6-week engagement of the rock musical LIZZIE BORDEN. Written by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer and Tim Maner with Alan Stevens Hewitt and directed by Tim Maner, this production will play Thursday, September 10 through Saturday, October 17 at The Living Theatre.
This weekend, The Tin Pan Alley Rag's Michael Boatman and Michael Therriault, will appear on NY1's 'On Stage' beginning Saturday, July 25th on channel 1 and WCBS 2 News on Sunday, July 26th between 8:30AM-9AM on channel 2. Boatman and Therriault sit down with NY1 & WCBS to discuss their roles as the legendary musicians Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin.
This weekend, The Tin Pan Alley Rag's Michael Boatman and Michael Therriault, will appear on NY1's 'On Stage' beginning Saturday, July 25th on channel 1 and WCBS 2 News on Sunday, July 26th between 8:30AM-9AM on channel 2. Boatman and Therriault sit down with NY1 & WCBS to discuss their roles as the legendary musicians Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin.
Actor Michael Boatman and musical director Michael Patrick Walker, will be featured on WNYC's 'The Leonard Lopate Show' on Tuesday, July 21st from 12:40PM-1:00PM on 93.9FM and AM 820.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the New York premiere of the new musical The Tin Pan Alley Rag, written by Mark Saltzman, with Music & Lyrics byIrving Berlin & Scott Joplin, directed by Stafford Arima.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the New York premiere of the new musical The Tin Pan Alley Rag, written by Mark Saltzman, with Music & Lyrics byIrving Berlin & Scott Joplin, directed by Stafford Arima.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the New York premiere of the new musical The Tin Pan Alley Rag, written by Mark Saltzman, with Music & Lyrics byIrving Berlin & Scott Joplin, directed by Stafford Arima.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) presents the New York premiere of the new musical The Tin Pan Alley Rag, written by Mark Saltzman, with Music & Lyrics by Irving Berlin & Scott Joplin, directed by Stafford Arima.
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the full cast for the New York premiere of the new musical The Tin Pan Alley Rag, written by Mark Saltzman, with Music & Lyrics by Irving Berlin & Scott Joplin, directed by Stafford Arima.
