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Before we say goodbye to May, let’s remember Richard Adler, who liked to say, “May is my favorite month.” Adler wrote six musicals for Broadway, but the two that became household-name hits opened in what were very merry months of May for him. Better still, they opened in successive years, within 357 days of each […]

Did you know that May 19 is National Devil’s Food Cake Day? I did, thanks to someone I met at a party some years ago. I never learned his name, but ran into him as be simultaneously rushed to the table that offered almost as much chocolate as Willy Wonka’s factory. He lunged for the […]

Well-deserved congratulations are still pouring in to Raúl Esparza, Mary-Mitchell Campbell and Paul Wontorek. Triumvirates rarely succeed, but this one did (despite some early technical difficulties) with TAKE ME TO THE WORLD: A SONDHEIM 90TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. It was a benefit for ASTEP – the acronym for Artists Striving to End Poverty. Lord knows that this […]

For reasons that you well know, SING STREET didn’t open on Broadway on April 19. At least there was a livestreamed-at-home concert on April 30 that raised over $300,000 in a single broadcast. So successful was it that it ran an extra four days. This allowed thousands to see this musical that’s full of joy. […]

Two weeks ago, I gave some questions that I took from my Sunday podcasts on www.broadwayradio.com. I promised the answers in two weeks’ time, and I’ll stay true to my word. 1—The song from a ‘60s musical that mentions all five of New York City’s boroughs – but refers to Staten Island as Richmond, its […]