The trend this season has been to employ mega movie and television stars to insure that the receipts of the box office overflow with profits and to bolster up the production, just in case the production doesn’t come up to snuff, so that the paying public gets its money’s worth. And so it is with […]
Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury star in A Little Night Music
December 16th, 2009 Comments Off on Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury star in A Little Night Music
Tags: Aaron Lazar · Alexander Hanson · Angela Lansbury · Catherine Zeta-Jones · Hugh Wheeler · Stephen Sondheim · Trevor Nunn
HAPPY 100th POST! Hail Britannia, et al!
May 23rd, 2009 1 Comment
As this is my 100th post, I thought it extremely appropriate that I cover the very green (Shrek the Musical and The Toxic Avenger – Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical ) and the very British 59th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Party, giving you a behind the scenes glance at what transpired in the Eugenia Room, […]
Tags: Angela Lansbury · Billy Elliot · Outer Critics Circle · Shrek
Angela Lansbury at 83 – Lithe spirit stars in Blithe Spirit
April 17th, 2009 Comments Off on Angela Lansbury at 83 – Lithe spirit stars in Blithe Spirit
Make no mistake. Michael Blakemore’s brilliant production of Blithe Spirit at the Shubert Theatre is one of the most elegant, funniest and honest representations of the battle of the sexes on Broadway today, refusing to go the route of foul language depending rather on the wit of Noel Coward to get his humorous barbs across. […]
Tags: Angela Lansbury · Christine Ebersole · Jayne Atkinson · Michael Blakemore · Rupert Everett · Susan Louise O'Connor