An 89-year-old Broadway producer complaining about Broadway ticket costs was the preferred submit but once more on my NewYorkTheater.me weblog in 2023, though the submit is from Could, 2022. It simply retains on getting rediscovered.
One among this 12 months’s ten best-read posts under dates again a decade (about performs that return a century.) The latest went up final month. Most of the posts that received essentially the most site visitors have been latest theater critiques; I discover it attention-grabbing that, of the three Sondheims this 12 months, solely my assessment of the brand new Off-Broadway one, “Right here We Are,” was within the high ten. (My assessment of “Sweeney Todd” was quantity 16; my assessment of the Broadway manufacturing of “Merrily We Roll Alongside” wasn’t even within the high 50; I suppose folks had made up their minds by the point it transferred from Off-Broadway.)
.Every title is linked to the complete piece; I additionally excerpt the primary paragraph, and provides the date of publication.
After I was a child within the Bronx, I went to the theater for $1.10,” says Emanuel Azenberg. Granted that was some time in the past; he’s 88. However he’s additionally a Broadway producer and basic supervisor with 9 Tony Awards, together with one for Lifetime Achievement, and 6 many years of expertise with some hundred performs and musicals proper as much as the current. And his evaluation, which he defined in a TEDx Broadway discuss this week, is that Broadway has misplaced its method, and never simply due to ticket costs – however positively due to them…(Could 22, 2022)
Close to the top of his inspiring 15-minute handle to the 118th Congress earlier than the formal handing-over of the gavel to the newly elected Speaker of the Home early Saturday morning, Minority Chief Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) spelled out the values of Democrats, in alphabetical order… (January 7, 2023)
The Primary play of the previous 100 years is Arthur Miller’s 1949 play “Demise of A Salesman,” in accordance with Leisure Weekly’s challenge of July 5/12, 2013. Quantity 50 is Conor McPherson’s 1997 play “The Weir.” In-between are 48 different performs (the scripts, actually, not any particular productions) that EW’s critics have chosen…(June 27, 2013)
Within the video under, dozens of Broadway performers have recorded the tune from “Les Miserables” with a barely altered title on behalf of the greater than 2 hundred individuals who have been kidnapped in Israel on October seventh. The names and ages of the victims run alongside the underside of the video, which concludes with a collage of the victims’ faces. Among the many performers’ faces I acknowledged within the video: Annaleigh Ashford, Julie Benko, Sierra Boggess, Carolee Carmello, Victoria Clark, Micaela Diamond, Tovah Feldshuh, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jeremy Jordan, Derek Klena, Linda Lavin, Raymond J. Lee, Caissie Levy, Jose Llana, Terrence Mann, Debra Messing, Jessie Mueller, Alex Newell, Kelli O’Hara, Benjamin Pajak, Billy Porter, Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley….(November 10, 2023)
Some Like It Scorching Broadway Assessment
“Some Like It Scorching” is glitzy, extreme, frenetic and humorous, with hyperactive choreography, a recreation, gifted forged, and a jazzy rating with a number of 11 o’clock numbers. A lot of this jogged my memory of the present Broadway revival of “The Music Man,” in that it amps up the leisure in hopes of blasting us into submission. Whether or not you allow feeling entertained or overwhelmed in all probability relies on how keen you might be for a enjoyable time….(December 11, 2022)
Broadway 2023-2024 Season Preview Information
Under is my preview information of Broadway openings within the 2023-2024 season. The exhibits are listed chronologically by opening date* (not by first preview), with the title linked to the present’s official web site.
It solely contains exhibits that as of now have an official opening date and a theater. Extra is to come back; a lot can be modified. This information is up to date.
Right here We Are Assessment. Sondheim the Surrealist
“O, isn’t this excellent?!” Marianne Brink (Rachel Bay Jones) exclaims upon seeing her outdated pals at her door. It’s the first line in Stephen Sondheim’s first new musical in 20 years, produced two years after his loss of life. Lengthy-gestating, long-awaited, “Right here We Are” can itself be thought of fantastic only for present, like an surprising go to from an outdated good friend….(October 22, 2023)
Blackface on Stage: The Difficult Historical past of Minstrel Exhibits
The unusual doings in Virginia have introduced blackface again within the information. Response to the unearthing of {a photograph} on the 1984 medical college yearbook web page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam attests to the peculiar place of the apply in American tradition and the particular outrage it provokes: Way more commentators condemned the character in blackface within the {photograph} than even talked about the determine subsequent to him within the white gown and hood of the Ku Klux Klan….It’s in all probability not a coincidence that the majority these newly confessed incidents concerned the impersonation of entertainers. Consciously or not, they have been plugging into an outdated custom of blackface as one of many important options of what was for a lot of many years the preferred type of stage leisure in America: the minstrel present…. (February 7, 2019)
There are shiny shining moments aplenty within the newest Broadway revival of “Camelot,” the 1960 Lerner and Loewe musical in regards to the legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Spherical Desk. These are largely discovered within the tuneful rating, which is performed by a luxurious 30-piece orchestra (with three trumpets — sufficient for a fanfare!) and sung by a gifted forged led by three interesting younger stars, who’re the principle draw after the rating: Andrew Burnap (Tony winner for The Inheritance) as King Arthur; Phillipa Soo (who made a splash in Hamilton and has confirmed herself certainly one of New York theater’s go-to main girls within the decade since) as Guenevere, Arthur’s at first reluctant Queen; and Jordan Donica (who sang the swoon-worthy “On The Road The place You Stay” within the final revival of “My Honest Girl”) as Lancelot du Lac, a knight who reveres Arthur however falls in love with Guenevere, singing the swoon-worthy “If Ever I Ought to Go away You” to her.
However, as entertaining because the musical numbers are, it’s arduous to not be upset by this manufacturing. That’s largely as a result of it’s too simple to anticipate an excessive amount of from it…(April 16, 2023)
Lifetime of Pi Broadway Assessment
Whether or not or not his fantastical story of sharing a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger for 227 days on the open seas will “make you imagine in God,” because the 17-year-old shipwreck survivor named Pi Patel guarantees, the stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel “Lifetime of Pi” will provide you with religion within the energy of puppetry and within the magic of stagecraft….(March 30, 2023)
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