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Why must there be an expiration date on something so important? February 10th through the 16th is the official “Random Acts of Kindness Week.” But why stop there, when we could have a “Random Acts of Kindness Month, Year, Decade, Century and Millennium”? And why limit it to “Kindness”? There are plenty of synonyms that […]

Let’s take a look at the first 10 years of Best Musical Tony winners and see how many Broadway revivals they’ve had: All right, KISMET is a bit of a cheat, for when it was returned in 1978, it was retitled TIMBUKTU. But, despite the title change, it was pretty much business (and KISMET) as […]

That lyric from FOLLIES – “Thank-you-for-the-present-but-what’s-wrong-with-it-stuff?” – will never be heard in the home of Cheryl Solimini and Martin Farawell. For Cheryl’s birthday in 2017, Martin bought two tickets to GROUNDHOG DAY: THE MUSICAL. Both had seen the original film and liked it. However, since 2009, they had been great fans of songwriter Tim Minchin’s […]

Stewart F. Lane will bring back memories to many, as well as important history to others. His It Happened at the Palace is a coffee table book that will keep you up even if you don’t drink any coffee. Lane is celebrating the theater that he’s co-owned since 1980 – nearly seven decades after it […]

Elvis famously sang “Oh, well, a-bless my soul, but what’s wrong with me?” but I’ll instead say, “Oh, well, a-bless my soul, but what’s wrong with them?” Two weeks ago at Graceland, a celebration was held for what would have been – gulp! – Presley’s 90th birthday. Concerts as well as conversations with some of […]