One fantastic perk of working the Broadway scene is the opportunity to randomly meet an entertainment legend. Today’s star power doesn’t come anywhere near that of stage and screen greats like Frank Sinatra, Ethel Merman or Judy Garland. …
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Backstage at Broadway’s Next to Normal
Of all the shows on Broadway this season, “Next to Normal” packs the biggest punch. It’s a heavy dramatic story line following a family’s downward spiral as it deals with a crisis. Best of all is the score.…
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American Idol Goes Rock of Ages
Adam Lambert hit rock bottom last week, or at least the bottom three, as America proved it is still incapable of voting with any sense of logic, mostly. It’s about as big of an accident as the one Ryan Seacrest… Broadway’s Norman Conquests, Painfully Funny
My knees are quite sore. I might just have a permanent crick in my neck. And I couldn’t be more pleased. No, it’s not a latent masochistic side of my personality surfacing. Although I’m sure something like that lurks deep… Regis and Kelly Take on Broadway
I had a chance to stop by ABC Studios earlier this week to produce a video feature with “Live with Regis and Kelly” as the show is in the middle of airing “On Broadway Week.” Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa…
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Rock of Ages Shakes Up Broadway
Not everyone will find the huge serving of 80s nostalgia and rock anthems appealing, but those tired of yet another revival might just discover their own golden ticket to the Broadway experience. In a time when theatre producers are checking pay phones for loose change, a guilty pleasure like "Rock of Ages" has potential to draw in the untraditional theatergoer, a patron that reads Perez Hilton rather than the New York Times...
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Villains of Broadway’s ‘Little Mermaid’ (Video)
I recently went down to the quite spacious Disney Theatricals office at the New Amsterdam Theatre on 42nd Street to interview the three leading villains of Broadway's "The Little Mermaid."...
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Michael Riedel Does it Best
Yet, it is Michael Riedel's column in the New York Post that is both my guilty pleasure and border-line addiction. I find myself yearning for his often biting commentary on Broadway happenings...
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Op-Ed: Death of a Theatre Critic
It was with great dismay that I read a recent notice in the Los Angeles Times of layoffs amongst the theatre critic and arts coverage world at publications including the LA Weekly, Daily Variety and the L.A. Daily News...
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John Denver Comes Home at Rubicon
Pull out the fiddle and rosin up the bow, because we all might just be able to go home and discover we are a country boy, or girl, at heart after seeing Back Home Again: A John Denver Holiday Concert, making its world premiere at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, Calif.
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