THIS JUST IN: BEAUTIFUL, MATILDA THE MUSICAL, IF/THEN, PIPPIN and Rodgers + Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA headline the 2015-2016 Broadway In Boston Season! A new production of THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST returns and back by popular demand - THE BOOK OF MORMON!! Broadway In Boston revealed today its 2015-2016 Lexus Broadway Season which will feature [...]
Two nights ago at Boston's Opera House MOTOWN The Musical moved everything-- except me. Sets, settings, singers, dancers, plot lines: race, romance, business, music, internal politics-- it's all up there onstage. Here come the Supremes! What's goin' on with Marvin? Who are these Jackson kids? Smokey is a daily miracle. They're dancing in the streets--Martha and her Vandellas, Gladys and her PIPS! Look out-- [...]
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET--is worth maybe $100,000. Now onstage at the Colonial (the video above features a different cast) the show speculates on what actually happened the night of Dec. 4, 1956 when Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis met at producer Sam Phillips studio and improvised an historic jam session, later dubbed [...]
I'm feeling WICKED. I mean, really feeling it. I saw the Tony Award-winning musical again, at Boston's Opera House, and again, found myself caught up and trembling at this smart, moving, goose-bump-inducing production of a brilliant show that deserves to be as "popular" as it is. What is it about this show? About me? Yes, [...]
Mark Evans & Christopher John O'Neill It was a bad week for missionaries and mad men in Boston. First, THE BOOK OF MORMON blew into town on the strength of its nine Tony Awards and buzz born of NY Times Ben Brantley's boast that the show was "the best musical of this century." [...]
There's a thrilling moment near the beginning of WAR HORSE, where a young colt disappears from the stage, and in its place, suddenly blazing into view, is a magnificent full-sized thoroughbred. I swear it's flesh and blood, heaving its flanks, flashing its tail, breathing. I held my breath too, as the stable boys on either [...]
Christie Brinkley, Jack Kerouac, Andrew Jackson, and a beloved "war horse"-- all trod the boards this Fall! Here's what I'm looking forward to: WAR HORSE* I saw “the horse” in preview and I still can’t believe that three men, some sticks, and a bunch of metal and fabric brought the animal to life before my [...]
I'm raffling myself off at the Arsenal Center for the Arts!! You could be the lucky winner that joins me at a Broadway Across America show in Boston! We'll share a champagne toast at the performance, and you'll come stylin' with a new Broadway Playbill Purse and a blowout and style at SalonCapri on Newbury [...]
LOVE LOVE LOVE this show!!! Last night, I saw BILLY ELLIOT the Tony Award-winning best musical at The Opera House and walked out utterly elated-- and surprised! I had seen BILLY ELLIOT when it opened in London years ago--and wasn't impressed, though I remember loving the exhilarating 2000 Universal Pictures movie about ballet and coal [...]
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 [...]
