By Marc Miller So: Some New York show-biz sophisticates descend on a Midwestern town and interfere with the locals, in the process unsettling the high school student body and stirring up parent-child issues, while learning a few lessons about themselves. Bye Bye Birdie, right? Yes, and now it’s also The Prom, a new…
Todd Almond (center) and company Photo: Joan Marcus By Fern Siegel For many, Bob Dylan is the poet laureate of American longing. His lyrical expressions of yearning, heartbreak and loss have been recast as a moving new musical — Girl From The North Country — at The Public Theater. Set in 1934 in Duluth,…
Bonnie Milligan as Pamela (center) with Tanya Haglund, Samantha Pollino, Ari Groover and Amber Ardolino photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan You don’t have to know a lick about Elizabethan times or the American rock band the Go Go’s to enjoy the new jukebox musical Head Over Heels, which opened at the…
Denzel Washington and the Company of ‘The Iceman Cometh’ PHOTO: JULIETA CERVANTES By Ron Cohen You wouldn’t want to stay overnight at Harry Hope’s Saloon and flophouse in Greenwich Village, circa 1912. It’s a place inhabited by down-and-outers, has-beens and never-beens. But for nearly four hours, these folks as portrayed in this George C….
Courtesy of Joan Marcus by Julia Polinsky Des McAnuff, who ably demonstrated with Jersey Boys that he knows how to do a really good jukebox musical, directs Summer: The Donna Summer Musical at breakneck speed and with all the depth of a Wikipedia entry. The show can’t make up its mind…
Erika Henningsen, Ashley Park, Taylor Louderman, Kate Rockwell photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan The morphing of the 2004 hit film Mean Girls to a musical is drawing a lot of young millennials to the August Wilson Theatre nowadays. But if you think that only scrub-faced teens are in the audience, think again. …
Caissie Levy, Patti Muran by Julia Polinsky Speaking as the one and only American who never saw Frozen: The Movie, it was good to come on Frozen: The Broadway Musical from cold, so to speak. Surprise! No surprises! Basic, fantastically successful Disney format. Simple-ish story (absent parents, child who masters obstacles, grows up,…
Máiréad Nesbitt and Rob Evan By Eugene Paul Rocktopia, which originated in Budapest eight years ago bills itself as a classical revolution, its logo a bust of Beethoven overlaid with an electric guitar, its stars Rob Evan, Chloe Lowery, Tony Vincent, Kimberly Nichole, Alyson Cambridge and Pat Monahan. That bust transforming electric…
Tammy (Lisa Howard) clicks with barkeep Brick (Eric Petersen) (© MATTHEW MURPHY) By Eugene Paul Director Christopher Ashley will be reveling in having two hits on Broadway at the same time, one from the heart, Come From Away, and one from Margaritaville. a great big confection,- make that an alcoholic confection – so…
Ethan Slater photos by Joan Marcus by Deirdre Donovan The first ripples of delight from the audience at the Palace Theatre, where the musical SpongeBob SquarePants has just washed up, is prompted by David Zinn’s jaw-dropping nautical set: an imaginative replica of what life beneath the waves would look like. The second…