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Marc Miller has been going to the theater since seeing I Married an Angel with Don Ameche and Margaret Whiting at Shady Grove Music Fair in 1964. When not theatergoing, he bikes, works out, writes songs, and binges on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Johanna Day as Tracey and Michelle Wilson as Cynthia photos by Joan Marcus. By Marc Miller If, like 65 million other Americans, you woke up last November 9 bewildered, aghast, and wondering how, how could this have happened, you are urged to make your way to Studio 54, where Lynn Nottage’s Sweat provides some…
Omar Metwally as Paul, Marisa Tomei as George, Lena Hall as Pip, Austin Smith as David and David McElwee as Freddie photos by Kyle Froman By Marc Miller A succinct verdict on How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, was offered up by a much-loved theater critic: “Well, it’s my favorite Sarah Ruhl play so…
Emily Padgett, Sutton Foster, Asmeret Ghebremichael PHOTO CREDIT: Monique Carboni by Marc Miller One can revel in the sturdy construction of this fine example of late-golden-era musical making, which continued Gwen Verdon’s unbroken string of hits. Masterminded by her then-husband, Bob Fosse, it adapted—and, many argued at the time, took some of the…
Sheldon Harnick, Margery Gray Harnick, Penny Fuller, Charles Strouse, Anita Gillette Photos by Maryann Lopinto By Marc Miller Want to know why the finale to the 27th New York Cabaret Convention (that’s right, it’s been around since 1990) was a can’t-miss? Simply glance at the subtitle: A Salute to Sheldon Harnick and…
Patrick Graver and Jessica Ernest; photos by Michael Portantiere. By Marc Miller If you know “Funny Face” at all, it’s probably from the classic 1957 film version, which shares with its 1927 stage counterpart 1) Fred Astaire, 2) a handful of George and Ira Gershwin standards, and 3) little else. For a look at…
Andy Striph and Mary Adams Photos by Michael Blase By Marc Miller Folk music is not at the forefront of American popular culture these days. There was the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis a couple of years back, and Christopher Guest and the Second City bunch’s hilarious A Mighty Wind some years before…
Photo by Lou Montesano.. by Marc Miller Vivian Reed’s set at the Metropolitan Room runs about an hour twenty, and how she gets through it is anyone’s guess. A hard-working, old-school cabaret veteran with Broadway experience (a Tony nomination for Bubbling Brown Sugar), she displays an amazing, rangy voice, dances, growls, exhibits effusive…
Erin Beirnard and Kelly King photo: Svetlana Didorenko by Marc Miller While the Tyrones suffer familial accusations, mistrust, and destructive love in the wrenching revival of Long Day’s Journey into Night at the American Airlines Theatre, a Eugene O’Neill of a very different sort is on display at the Metropolitan Playhouse.O’Neill (Unexpected) consists of two early one-acts, Recklessness from 1913 andNow I…
Kathy Biehl & Noah Diamond By Marc Miller Those who revere the Marx Brothers—there are still quite a few of us, thank you—have always been curious about I’ll Say She Is. The first Marx musical, written by no one you ever heard of (book and lyrics, Will B. Johnstone; music, Tom Johnstone), landed on…
By Marc Miller At 88, Marilyn Maye’s voice is showing signs of age, and that’s a good thing. The upper ends of the diva’s belt range are getting a little raspy, a little throatier. It makes for less lovely, but more expressive, tones. Not that Maye’s powers of expression were ever muted. But now,…