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 →
Love and Family in ON YOUR FEET!: The Emilio and Gloria Estefan Musical
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 →
An Interview With Alex Lacamoire
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 →
Universal Struggles and Heartfelt Refrains
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 →
RENT Continues to Inspire
Twenty years later, RENT still celebrates the power of youth, diversity, and love On April 29, 1996, a musical opened on Broadway that looked and sounded unlike anything that had come before it. It told a powerful, moving, heartbreaking and ultimately uplifting story of young, impoverished New York artists who were seeking to make their... Continue Reading →
The Joy in Watching Things Go ‘Wrong’
Imagine you’ve sat down in the audience of an amateur British theater company’s murder mystery production, “The Murder at Haversham Manor.” The show starts off well enough but then things start to go, well, wrong. The set may not be entirely secure. There may not be any trained understudies. The actors may not be fully... Continue Reading →
A World of Pure Imagination for a New Generation
by Genevieve Miller Holt For more than 50 years, readers and movie audiences have been fascinated with the peculiar and delightful characters Roald Dahl created in his book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the subsequent iterations on film in the 1971 and 2005 adaptations. A few years ago, the classic story about a boy... Continue Reading →
Broadway in Cincinnati announces 18/19 season lineup
HAMILTON AND DEAR EVAN HANSEN HEADLINE BROADWAY IN CINCINNATI’S 18/19 SEASON Cincinnati, OH (February 10, 2018) – Fifth Third Bank Broadway in Cincinnati presented by TriHealth announces a highly-anticipated season lineup of shows including HAMILTON and six time 2017 Tony and 2018 Grammy Award-winning Best Musical DEAR EVAN HANSEN. These will be joined by Roald... Continue Reading →