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When we discuss musicals that have had the longest runs, we shouldn’t just limit ourselves to THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and THE FANTASTICKS. How about ANNE OF GREEN GABLES? Aside from the last two years when COVID stopped performances, it’s been running since 1965. Admittedly, this didn’t happen either on Broadway or off; the closest this musical has […]

“Look what I found in the laundry room!” So exclaimed my girlfriend when I went to her apartment last week. It was a copy of THEATER WEEK Magazine, the periodical for which I wrote a weekly column for much of its nine-year existence, from summer 1987 to winter 1996. This was one from August 19, […]

Would we see a picture of Abraham Lincoln in a casket? Rumor had it that such a photograph was enclosed in a time capsule that was 134 years old. In 1887, it had been placed in the pedestal that supported the statue of General Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia. After the statue had been […]

So here we are in 2022, which will mark a number of significant anniversaries for certain Broadway musicals. This new year will celebrate them for CHAPLIN (ten years), THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (twenty), CRAZY FOR YOU (thirty), NINE (forty), GREASE (fifty), I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE (sixty) and NEW FACES OF 1952 (seventy). Most […]

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through my house you could hear the album I’ve played each holiday season since 2007. That’s when DR. SEUSS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS received its world premiere recording. A few members of the original Broadway cast came to the studio: Patrick Page was The Grinch as Rusty […]