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ACT ONE PROLOGUE: 1815, DIGNE After 19 years on the chain gang, Jean Valjean finds that the ticket of leave he must display condemns him to be an outcast. Only the Bishop of Digne treats him kindly and Valjean, embittered by years of hardship, repays him by stealing some of the church’s silver. Valjean is... Continue Reading →
Emphasizing friendship, Jersey Boys crosses generations and wins new fans By David Freeland Jersey Boys, the Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning Broadway musical about the spectacular rise of pop icons Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, has been seen worldwide by over 24 million people, all of them captivated by the dazzling recreations of classic 1960s... Continue Reading →
Forget about show-stopping finales. In Jersey Boys, the smash-hit musical about the rise and fall of The Four Seasons, the pinnacle of excitement comes about 45 minutes into the first act. That’s when back-to-back presentations of three of the group’s biggest hits — “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry” and “Walk Like a Man” — are... Continue Reading →
By Gerard Raymond “So many millions of people have a love affair with this show; I feel it is important to give them what they remember,” says Andy Blankenbuehler, who choreographed the first Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, the musical phenomenon that has captivated audiences since the 1980s. Blankenbuehler, one of the preeminent Broadway choreographers working... Continue Reading →
The creators of Miss Saigon describe the photo that inspired a Broadway classic “This photograph was, for Alain and I, the start of everything…” – Claude-Michel Schönberg The composer of Miss Saigon, Claude-Michel Schönberg, traces his inspiration for the development of the musical to a 1975 photograph he found of a Vietnamese mother seeing her... Continue Reading →
By Sheryl Flatow In one of the seminal scenes in On Your Feet!, Gloria Fajardo and Emilio Estefan are trying to persuade a record label executive to help them cross over to the English-speaking market. The executive’s response is dismissive, insisting that there’s no audience for the Latin rhythms of Miami Sound Machine in the... Continue Reading →
By Ryan Lee Gilbert, national editor of broadway.com Alex Lacamoire is the music supervisor for the Broadway, Chicago, and touring productions of Hamilton, as well as the co-arranger—along with Lin-Manuel Miranda—of the show’s score. In 2016, Lacamoire won the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for Hamilton. He’s been involved in the show’s conception and success... Continue Reading →
A conversation with FIDDLER ON THE ROOF lyricist Sheldon Harnick How did your upbringing influence your writing? The starting point for Fiddler on the Roof was several stories from Sholem Aleichem’s major work, Tevye’s Daughters. That was the basis for the show. Once we started to work on it, I was reminded of the way... Continue Reading →
Broadway in Cincinnati and RENT are asking you to help us keep local kids and families warm this winter. During each performance of RENT, we’ll be collecting gloves, hats and scarves in kids’ and adult sizes in designated bins in the Aronoff lobby. All winter wear collected will go to two local organizations doing incredible... Continue Reading →