Musical Theater
Gun and Powder: The Legend of the Sisters Clarke
NEW YORK – Gun and Powder: The Legend of the Sisters Clarke, captivating before an eruption of deafening applause!
Victoria L. Dammer
NEW YORK – Gun and Powder: The Legend of the Sisters Clarke, captivating before an eruption of deafening applause!
NEW YORK – The Who’s Tommy at the Nederlander Theatre is a careful, loving explosion gift wrapped in music and movement.
NEW YORK – Bliss Street at City Winery was a night of rockin’ celebration for the music of Charlie Sub’s youth, his dad’s tenacity, and what dreaming big can produce.
NEW YORK – Jelly’s Last Jam at City Center is a gorgeous and stunning music and dance production about the life and career of Jelly Roll Morton.
NEW YORK – Sweeney Todd at the Lunt Fontanne Theater is a whopper of a tale, and the charm of this musical the last two times I saw it was that it pulled me into this preposterous story.
Encores! Once Upon A Mattress – A Ton and a Half of Pure Joy with Sutton Foster is at the center, using her crystal voice. lungs of iron, comedic timing. Foster is a combination of Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Burnett and Lucille Ball. In addition, her physical prowess might qualify her for any number of Olympic Events, starting with Moat Swimming.
‘Pieces’ performed by Santina Umbach exemplified Richard C. Walter’s finest sonic expressions of elegiac, passionate, and metaphysical delights.
There are so many beautiful songs in the first and second acts, too many to list. Still, song after song and with mindboggling dance presentations, the theatergoers waited in anticipation to hear Grizabella’s full performance of Memory, and it didn’t disappoint. It was so powerful that everyone in the theater held their breath momentarily.
Who can forget the critically acclaimed 1997 Disney animated musical comedy film Hercules? The outstanding and award-winning movie is currently attracting full-house crowds in an unforgettable production, thanks to the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey.
Seth Rudesky hosted an event at Café Carlyle that, in the annals of theater, shall remain a night of incredible music, cherished remembrances, personal anecdotes, and Broadway history told by the artists who live it. It was indeed a biographical sojourn of epic artistic proportions.
