Jasmine Forsberg, Beth Leavel, Bernadette Peters, Kate Jennings Grant, Bonnie Langford, Lea Salonga, Maria Wirries, Joanna Riding (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends By Matthew Roland Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends is a heartfelt farewell love letter to the legendary Stephen Sondheim. The show brings together the finest talents from Broadway and the West End…
Andrew Durand, Jeb Brown and Band (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Dead Outlaw By Matthew Roland Sneaking in at the end of April as one of the final musicals to transfer from off-Broadway and open on Broadway this season, Dead Outlaw tells the thrilling true story of a notorious criminal whose corpse was turned into a carnival…
Jeremy Jordan (Photo: Joan Marcus) Floyd Collins By Fern Siegel Floyd Collins, the revived musical now at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater, is based on a true story. In 1925, a Kentucky cave explorer (Jeremy Jordan) searches Sand Cave, hoping to capitalize on tourist interest. Squeezing through tight spaces that would terrify others, Floyd Collins’…
Jonathan Groff (Photo: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman) Just In Time By Marc Miller When Jonathan Groff finishes a big number in Just in Time—and there are quite a few—he’s a mess. Bent over, breathing heavily from holding that long last note, wet hair in his face, sweating so profusely that the authors slipped a…
Florencia Cuenca and Company (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Real Women Have Curves By Julia Polinsky Charming, tuneful, heartwarming, eye-filling, and predictable (but it doesn’t matter), Real Women Have Curves proves that everything old can be new again. And that’s just fine, thank you! This musical version of Real Women Have Curves has had a couple of…
Ramlin Kamloo and the Company (Photo: Joan Marcus) Pirates! The Penzance Musical By Carol Rocamora Attention Gilbert & Sullivan purists: though you may be passionate about the original, you won’t be able to resist the current giddy reinvention of The Pirates of Penzance, their immortal operetta that premiered in New York in 1879 to protect…
Robyn Hurder (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Smash By Fern Siegel First, this Smash is a departure from the NBC series. The theatrical focus is on the making of Bombshell: The Marilyn Monroe Musical, not the who-will-play-Marilyn frenzy that accompanied the maligned TV show or what New York termed “appointment hate-watch.” That’s a plus — as this…
Jasmine Amy Rogers and Company (Photo: Matthew Murphy-Evan Zimmerman) Boop! The Musical By Fern Siegel Betty Boop was a Jazz Age creation, known for her sexy body, high-pitched voice and flirty charm. Inspired, in part, by two 1920s jazz singers, Helen Kane and Baby Esther, she made her debut in 1930 in the Fleischer Studios’…
The Company (Photo: Matthew Murphy) Buena Vista Social Club By Julia Polinsky The best anti-depressant in the world is playing now at the Schoenfeld on 45th Street. Forget your Prozac, your Xanax, your anti-anxiety meds. Run, don’t walk, to see Buena Vista Social Club and let its magic blend of song, story, music, and dance…
Zoë Roberts, Jak Malone, Natasha Hodgson, David Cumming, Claire-Marie Hall (Photo: Julieta Cervantes) Operation Mincemeat By Fern Siegel The Greeks used a Trojan Horse to deceive their enemies. The British used a Trojan Corpse to fool the Nazis in WWII. The plot, dubbed “Operation Mincemeat,” was so successful, it played a key role in the…