The Other Anyone Can Whistle
On Wednesday, April 8, 1964, Variety told me that Anyone Can Whistle had opened the previous Saturday to three raves and three pans. I’d never seen such an extreme split from the New York newspaper critics. When I read that the Stephen Sondheim-Arthur Laurents musical would close on Saturday, I wasn’t all that surprised; the […]
Jerry Herman’s Most Delicate Score
Were you among the many who’d planned to go see Betty Buckley do Dear World in London – only to find the show had shuttered earlier than expected? “I’m not surprised,” says my buddy Steven Brinberg. “I know where that little theater is in London, but not many people do. It is impossible to find.” […]
As We Conclude March Madness
Have you been wondering why the National Collegiate Athletic Association nicknames its annual basketball tournament “March Madness” when the tournament heats up in April? Or why CBS calls its broadcast “The Road to the Final Four” even after the final four teams have been narrowed down to the final two teams? Never mind. These are, […]
March Madness: Week Four
While basketball fans of Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland are moaning and mourning that their team didn’t make the 68-team NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament – and adherents of the chosen Boise State, LaSalle and Oklahoma couldn’t be more pleased – we’re concentrating on a different kind of March Madness: one in which musical theater fans spend […]
Week Three of March Madness
Next Sunday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s “March Madness” will officially begin. We’ll know which sixty-eight teams will play for the 2013 NCAA’s men’s basketball championship. As for musical theater, we got a head start on “March Madness” a couple of weeks ago. That’s when I started making suggestions on how to go delightfully mad […]
