It's fair to mention that PIPPIN is not my favorite musical. I also happened to be sick as a dog as I sat in the audience on opening night. BUT, that said, I enjoyed this production so much more than I did the A.R.T.'s pre-broadway update of the 1972 Tony-Award winning musical onstage in Cambridge. That adaptation did go on to Broadway and another Tony [...]
Attention foot fetishists and dessert freaks! There are two shows on stage right now that you MUST see: KINKY BOOTS, the 2013 Tony-winning, high-kicking, cross-dressing Best Musical scored by Grammy winner Cyndi Lauper and Tony winner Harvey Fierstein, and WAITRESS the world premiere, Broadway-bound musical composed by Grammy-nominated artist Sara Bareilles and directed by the A.R.T.'s Tony award-winning artistic director Diane Paulus. Start [...]
STOP THE PRESSES: NEWSIES is a smash! The voices! The dancing! The sets! If you're looking for some rip-roaring entertainment to add to the fireworks this 4rth of July week, head to Boston's Opera House for a terrific production of the Tony Award-winning Boston premiere of Disney's NEWSIES! It's an industrial strength musical about all-American pluck and ingenuity and [...]
The two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway smash AMERICAN IDIOT is not a groundbreaking musical-- unless you're 16. So bring your teenagers and leave grandma home-- she'll either be bored or blow out her hearing aids. For us inter-generational types, AMERICAN IDIOT is an entertaining if not inspiring musical; after all, we've seen HAIR, TOMMY, RENT. But [...]
