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Returning to the original cast album of REDWOOD had me recalling a column that was once a go-to feature in Ladies’ Home Journal. Starting in 1954 and continuing for several decades, this magazine would ask an expert counselor and its readership, “Can This Marriage Be Saved?” And that became the question I had for REDWOOD’s […]

Congratulations to Rocco Landesman, Kenny Leon, Kathleen Marshall, Paul Tazewell, Richard Thomas, Tom Viola and – posthumously – Rebecca Luker. Earlier this month, they were voted into The American Theater Hall of Fame. Soon their names will be emblazoned on a wall in the Gershwin Theatre lobby. And while we’re congratulating, let’s give shoutouts to […]

Let’s go back to November 15, 1956, when two very different events occurred in entertainment history. And yet, in one strange way, they were related. On this date, Elvis Presley’s recording of “Love Me Tender” was released. Meanwhile on Broadway, LI’L ABNER opened at the St. James Theatre. So, what could possibly be the commonality? […]

There aren’t all that many documentaries that bring back actual memories, but Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story was one that did for me. I first encountered Ms. Minnelli when I sat in my first-row orchestra seat (my favorite place in a theater) during the Boston tryout of FLORA THE RED MENACE. I could […]

Sometimes, scattering those postcards around town does pay off. That’s how I discovered a play called Thank You, Don Ameche. Lawrence A. Heman’s new comedy runs this week at The Sargent Theatre on West 54th Street. The title was enough to spur me to play the three cast albums on which Ameche can be heard: […]