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Luckily, we don’t have to wait 100 years for the next episodes of SCHMIGADOON! What’s more, the soundtrack from Episodes Two through Six are now readily available. Cinco Paul’s tribute/spoof of Golden Age musicals will have you hear a song that will drive you bananas as you try to place the song that inspired it. […]

Of course it starts with “There’s No Business Like Show Business.” What other song would you use to celebrate a look-back at Broadway? But when you think of it, Irving Berlin’s classic anthem really isn’t the right song for Rick McKay’s BROADWAY: BEYOND THE GOLDEN AGE. Berlin wrote the song in the forties, and this […]

Well, here’s a rarity. In an entire book devoted to musical theater, there’s only one reference to Stephen Sondheim. This must be a first in the last half-century. Since the seventies, every book on our favorite art form has doted on Broadway’s greatest composer-lyricist. But the index of PICK A POCKET OR TWO, Ethan Mordden’s […]

As much fun as SCHMIGADOON! is – and as great as some of our favorite theater performers are performing in it — you’ll enjoy it even more if you know what’s being parodied. Let’s start at the very beginning of the now-available soundtrack album of Episode One. All those busy violinists fiddling away in the […]

Although a number of musicals have exclamation points, one surprisingly doesn’t. HERE’S LOVE If you know the title song from Meredith Willson’s 1963 musical – a jaunty tune in which the title is mentioned many, many times – you’d hear Laurence Naismith as well as a chorus of adults and kids vocally put exclamation points […]