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Adults agree on very little. They take opposite sides on politics, religion, sexuality, movies and even pizza. However, there’s one thing on which all adults agree. Time goes fast. (Last year I made a New Year’s resolution and wound up keeping it. I’d never managed to do that before. And how did I achieve it […]

Extra! Extra! Hey, look at the headline that just might be on the front page of The Daily Prophet. “HARRY POTTER” SCORE NOW ON VINYL! We’re talking about THE MUSIC OF HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (PARTS ONE AND TWO). Imogen Heap’s much-acclaimed score won her the 2017-2018 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music […]

It’s often been said that the first sign of truly growing up occurs when people ask your age and you stop adding “and a half” to the figure. Adrian Mole hadn’t yet reached that point, as you can tell from the title of the British musical THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE, AGED 13 ¾. […]

Broadway will never forget Martin Charnin, for he had the idea of making a musical about Little Orphan Annie. When recruiting a librettist, he believed a humor writer who’d never had experience with musicals could do it. Thomas Meehan not only won a Tony for the book of ANNIE, but also eventually captured the same […]

Here’s a musical that Moliere and Eugene Ionesco might have loved. It’s also one that Kurt Weill could have written had he lived nineteen years longer and had moved off-Broadway. Its song “The Clothes Make the Man” is a title worthy of Weill’s longtime collaborator Bertolt Brecht. Such is the world of PROMENADE, which is […]