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So what does this sentence remind you of? “She spread out her arms and spun in circle after circle, her face toward the sun, her short hair ruffling in the light breeze, a radiant smile plastered on her face.” Julie Andrews in THE SOUND OF MUSIC, right? Yes – but these specific words come from […]

You’ve either been enjoying the original cast album of 42nd STREET for a while – or you still have that pleasure in your future. Whatever the case, you’ll now have a chance to enhance your 42nd STREET experience by catching The Broadway HD broadcast of the recent London revival. You can stream it (as well […]

The performer who’s played June for more than twenty Junes decided to leave this June. On the third of the month, Donna Marie Asbury abdicated her role in the Broadway production of CHICAGO. She’d spent most of the last two decades as June, the accused killer in “Cell Block Tango” who insists her husband was […]

It’s now becoming a badge of honor for any Broadway musical. And THE PROM has received it. No, we’re not talking about Tony nominations, although the show now at the Longacre Theatre recently received seven of them. Of course they’ve been more than welcomed by the show’s performers, staff and crew. However, these days a […]

“A musical.”  “A new musical.” Hundreds if not thousands of Broadway shows have used these terms to define themselves. But sixty years ago this week, Broadway received one of its greatest properties with an atypical description after its title: “GYPSY: A musical fable.” That disclaimer took the pressure off librettist Arthur Laurents to tell the […]