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As I post this, it’s January 3, 2017, which means that in the past forty-eight hours you’ve broken your New Year’s Resolutions. Still, at nearly two days, that diet lasted longer many others you’ve attempted, didn’t it? Well, there’s still time to make some musical theater resolutions. If you’ve been saying “soundtrack” when you’re referring […]

One of the most delightful songs in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is “Little Known Facts,” in which Lucy explains to Linus that a fir tree gives fur; elms grow into oaks; clouds make the wind blow and seven other pieces of mis-information. I hope I’m more accurate than Lucy in detailing what I […]

Who’d expect that a contemporary Dutch playwright would take time in one of her plays to cite a song from Candide? While I watched The Origin Theatre Company’s production of Lot Vekemans’ arduous but moving Poison, I was astonished to hear “It Must Be So” mentioned. Still, a reference to that excellent short song was […]

Did you see what Newsweek’s Joe Westerfield had to say about Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened? We’re talking about Lonny Price’s extraordinary documentary about the original 1981 Broadway production of Merrily We Roll Along. That Price did a fine job as a historian isn’t surprising, for he was there from the first-ever […]

They’ve arguably done more than anyone else to get kids interested in musicals. We’re talking about lyricist Lynn Ahrens and composer Alan Menken who for decades have delighted children (and, when you come to think of it, plenty of adults, too). Ahrens is a Tony-winner lyricist whose credits include the child-centric Seussical, Anastasia and many […]