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Maria Bilbao (as Gloria Estefan) Photos by John Vecchiolla On Your Feet By Edward Lieberman For its summer production WBT is cranking up the heat! Its 211th production is On Your Feet, the sizzling musical retelling of the career of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Cuban emigres who became the first crossover artists to hit…
Newsies By Ed Lieberman At a time when the youth of the world are taking leadership roles in calling attention to issues such as climate change and gun control, Westchester Broadway Theatre is presenting Newsies, an exuberant musical adaptation of the 1992 Disney movie of the same name that starred Christian Bale. Although…
The Bodyguard, The Musical By Edward Lieberman The White Plains Performing Arts Center (WPPAC) is hosting the regional premiere of The Bodyguard, the Musical, based upon the hit movie, “The Bodyguard,” which starred Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. The…
Clockwise from center: Megan Cavanagh, Roberta B. Wall, Donna J. Huntley and Debby Rosenthal (Photos by John Vecchiolla) Menopause The Musical By Edward Lieberman Not much mystery here: the title says it all! The show revolves around four characters, purportedly portraying four different female personality types: a “Professional Woman,” played by Donna J….
By Edward and Jeanne Lieberman The Armonk Players’ current production of The Foreigner features an outstanding cast in a madcap comedy that is arguably more timely today than when it was first written in 1984. The play was written by Larry Shue and won Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Off-Broadway Play and Outstanding…
Matthew Billman photos Credit: John Vecchiolla By Edward Lieberman WBT’s 207th production is Phantom, by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit. At the outset it must be stated that this is NOT Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, although it shares its provenance with that show, both having been sourced from Gaston Leroux’s 1910…
google Oliver! By Edward Lieberman At first blush, there is nothing about Charles Dickens’ famous novel that one would think lends itself to musical treatment: unlike Annie (which coincidentally originated at the Goodspeed), wherein the heroine is an orphan adopted by a kindhearted billionaire and all is rosy (“The Sun Will Come Out…
Zuri Washington and Company Photos by John Vecchiolla By Ed Lieberman Those in need of spiritual uplift should come to the newest church in Town: the Chapel of Soul, otherwise known as the Westchester Broadway Theatre For its 205th production, WBT is mounting a rousing and joyous production of Sister Act, based on the popular…
The Cast of A Chorus Line Photos by John Vecchiolla By Ed Lieberman For its 208th production, WBT is presenting one of the most celebrated shows of the Broadway canon: A Chorus Line, the ode to those unsung actors without whom no musical could survive: the gypsies. A Chorus Line opened off-Broadway at the…
Devon Perry as Annie Oakley Photos by John Vecchiolla By Ed Lieberman Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show has settled in Elmsford for Westchester Broadway Theatre’s year-end production, Annie Get Your Gun. Familiar real life characters, including Frank Butler, Buffalo Bill Cody, Pawnee Bill, Sitting Bull and the title character, Annie Oakley, inhabit the stage…