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I’ve often felt bad for musical theater aficionados who were born after 1991. Ditto to the ones who only became interested in this art form after that year came and went. For I’ve assumed that if these young‘uns have the goal of seeing a production of every Tony-winning musical — and which of us does […]

I won’t tell you how old she is, but I will tell you that July 24th is Kristin Chenoweth’s birthday. An ideal way to celebrate tonight is by playing “Tonight” via the recording that she made with Hugh Panaro. It’s on A PLACE FOR US – A TRIBUTE TO 50 YEARS OF WEST SIDE STORY. […]

Manhattan theaters have played host to THE THREE SISTERS in Russian, RUGANTINO in Italian and PACIFIC OVERTURES in Japanese. So with New York City as home to more Jews than Tel Aviv has, is it any wonder of wonders that we should now have a production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF in Yiddish? The National […]

People said it about HOUSE OF FLOWERS after it had closed, and about CANDIDE soon after it had shuttered, too. Add ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER to the list of original cast albums that makes a listener say “How could a musical with a score as rich and varied as this ever […]

Perhaps the situation didn’t play out this way, but I’d like to think it did. Daisy Prince meets a young songwriter named Jason Robert Brown. She hears what he has to offer, is greatly impressed with his work – but is most taken with one song: “Just One Step.” She tells him “My father has […]