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There are very few musicals that become so illustrious that they are soon referred to and recognized by their initials alone. ACL is one and POTO is another, but long before they came on the scene, there was MFL: My Fair Lady. (Get the new vinyl pressing here). Although the Soothsayer in Julius Caesar warned […]

Can’t get to the York Theatre Company between March 12-20 to see Starting Here, Starting Now? That’s a shame – but there’s always the original cast album of the show originally known as The Theatre Songs of Maltby & Shire. That’s Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire. In the late ‘50s they met at Yale, […]

If you’re reading this on March 1, you’re undoubtedly well-aware that this is Super Tuesday. Fourteen states will make some serious decisions that could well determine who’ll be our next president. If you’re in any of these states – or even in American Samoa — make sure you vote. Your reading this column can certainly […]

Masterworks Broadway has found an excellent way to celebrate the recent 50th anniversary of Sweet Charity’s opening. It’s re-released another fine recording of the Cy Coleman-Dorothy Fields score. The 1967 London cast album offers Juliet Prowse in the role that in 1966 brought Gwen Verdon her fifth straight Tony nomination (and her first loss — […]

So how are we celebrating the hundredth anniversary of Robinson Crusoe, Jr.? The musical that opened at the Winter Garden on Feb. 17, 1916 was a riff on Daniel Defoe’s famous 1719 novel. Although Defoe’s work would ultimately become simply known as Robinson Crusoe, its actual title was substantially longer. Take a deep breath now: […]