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In 1977, when Stephen Schwartz had the idea of musicalizing Studs Terkel’s WORKING – subtitled “People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do” – he eventually decided not to take a business-as-usual approach. Because the series of oral histories dealt with so many varied occupations – mason, […]

I’m not saying that I was a major contributor of the $753,321 that was raised, but I was responsible for some of it. This happened on Sunday, October 3 at The 35th annual Broadway Flea Market & Grand Auction. It’s produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, so all monies go to a worthwhile cause. I […]

Last week, we discussed Cyril Ritchard, who won the 1954-55 Donaldson Award for both Best Actor in a Musical and Best Featured Actor in a Musical. (Don’t ask. Who can explain it? Who can tell you why?) That said, I did more research on the Donaldsons, which were administered by Billboard. Quite a few Masterworks […]

So did you remember to talk like a pirate on “International Talk like a Pirate Day”? No? Did you even know there was such a thing? Well, there is, and has been for more than a quarter-century. Back in 1995, two Oregonians deemed September 19th as the day when people should greet each other with […]

Turning a motion picture into a Broadway musical is a pretty ordinary occurrence now, but it wasn’t in 1953 when HAZEL FLAGG opened. This was the song-and-dance adaptation of NOTHING SACRED, the 1937 film in which Hazel, a young woman living in Vermont, is diagnosed with a fatal illness. Wally Cook, a reporter for a […]