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So where were all of you 42 years ago? MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG certainly could have used you then. All right, many of you who are reading this weren’t yet born, or you hadn’t yet reached theatergoing age. Perhaps you were living too far from New York City, between October 8 and November 28, 1981, […]

Faithful readers will recall that last week I gave some selections from my new book BRAINTEASERS FOR BROADWAY GENIUSES – now available, as they say, “in fine bookstores everywhere.” If you can find a fine bookstore anywhere … The questions came from the podcast that I’ve been doing most Sunday mornings for the last 14 […]

For the last 14 years, I’ve spent most of my Sunday mornings on www.broadwayradio.com. It’s James Marino’s podcast that also features eminent critic Michael Portantiere. One of the segments on the show that receives a good deal of attention is the brainteaser I give at the end of each broadcast. Dozens of regular listeners try […]

I vehemently disagree with Little Red Riding Hood. In INTO THE WOODS, the sadder-but-wiser girl decides that “Nice is different than good.” I not only take issue with her grammar – “different from” is the proper term – but also with her philosophy. At the very least, nice must be some part of good. And […]

Looking over my two recent pieces on Tom Jones, I saw that I addressed one issue but neglected to take on another. When citing that Agnes” in I DO! I DO! wore “an eighty-five-dollar hat,” I also noted that an inflation calculator said that in 2023 dollars, that chapeau wouldn’t come cheap. It’d be more […]