You guys. Remember when I told you the greatest musical of all time (imo) is coming back? Well, in honor of Cats‘ upcoming West End revival this December, PBS re-aired it’s glorious 1998 film of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s best work (also imo) on Friday night. (If you missed it, consider adding the DVD to your […]
You guys, Thanksgiving is only 10 days away. #Yaaaaas. We are so amped for turkey, pumpkin pie, family time and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! As per usual, the Radio City Rockettes will give this year’s parade a kick start. (Photo courtesy Macy’s, Inc.) Our favorite part of the event is NBC’s Best of Broadway […]
Think classic Broadway, and the tune “New York, New York” from On the Town probably comes to mind. Based on Jerome Robbins’ ballet Fancy Free, On the Town, with music by Leonard Bernstein, hit the Great White Way in 1944 and was later made into a movie starring Gene Kelly. This fall, On the Town […]
Question: Could the utterly hilarious and gorgeous actress Emma Stone get any more likeable? The answer, my friends, is yes. Yes she can. Why? Because this star is headed for Broooaaadway! Stone will take over the lead in the revival of Cabaret, replacing Michelle Williams as Sally Bowles this November. It’s Stone’s first Broadway role, […]
Around here, we can’t get enough of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off” video. And as if we needed another reason to keep the song on repeat, the Broadway cast of Mamma Mia! just gave us one. Not only are the Mamma Mia! triple-threats super-hilarious, the video gives us an exclusive backstage tour of the show’s […]
Can you think of anything you’ve done 7,000 times? OK, maybe brushing your teeth—if you do it twice a day for 10 years, you get roughly 7,000 cleanings. But my point is that 7,000 is a lot. And on Wednesday, September 3, The Lion King on Broadway will mark its 7,000th performance. Also a ginormous […]
Well, the moment we’ve been dreading has arrived: Yesterday, Newsies ended its Broadway run, after its 1,005th show. Of course, this isn’t the show’s true ending(!), Newsies kicks off its national tour this October. Still, the closing was an incredible event. I was fortunate enough to be in the audience at the Nederlander Theater, and […]
It’s truly been a year of “Happy.” I mean, we’ve raved about rendition after rendition after rendition of dances to the Pharrell Williams hit. And we’ll admit it: We’ve tried to resist over the past couple of months. But then, this came along… Christopher Rice (photo by David Parks) You guys, today we’re getting #Tappy. […]