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December 3, 2017

Natural, distinctively human: SUNDAY cast recording with Gyllenhaal

REVIEW BY RICK PENDER

There was a significant buzz around the New York City Center’s Gala in October 2016 when movie star Jake Gyllenhaal took on the leading role of Georges Seurat in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sunday in the Park with George. He had performed as Seymour for City Center’s Encores! presentation of Little Shop of Horrors […]

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Filed Under: Review Tagged With: Annaleigh Ashford, Chris Fenwick, Encores!, Hudson Theatre, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Lapine, New York City Center, Sarna Lapine, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George

November 11, 2017

Grand Finale: The End of Pretend – Elaine Stritch (Chapter Five)

BY JOHN BELL

It was six weeks later in 2014 before I was able to make my final visit with Elaine. I had called every couple of weeks to check in and each time she urged me to visit. Her excitement pleased me because it made me feel she was still engaged and seeking interaction and stimulation. After […]

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Filed Under: Interview, Sample Contents Tagged With: Elaine Stritch, John Bell

October 20, 2017

FORUM: Energy and Anarchy in Philadelphia

REVIEW BY ANDREW MILNER

Burt Shevelove informally referred to A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, the 1962 Stephen Sondheim musical he co-authored with Larry Gelbart, as “A Scenario for Vaudevillians.” It’s only fitting that an internationally known impersonator of legendary vaudevillian Groucho Marx, Frank Ferrante, would essay the role of Pseudolus for Walnut Street Theatre […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Burt Shevelove, Forum, Frank Ferrante, Larry Gelbart, Philadelphia, Stephen Sondheim, Walnut Street Theatre

October 19, 2017

London’s MERRILY came to Boston

REVIEW BY DIANE NOTTLE

In keeping with the reverse-chronology concept of Merrily We Roll Along, let’s start with the ending. It was gorgeous in Maria Friedman’s production at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston (Sept. 8-Oct. 15, 2017). A sky just this side of black was studded with stars, but even brighter were the ones in the eyes of […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: Boston, Damian Humbley, Huntington Theatre Company, Maria Friedman, Mark Umbers, Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim

October 9, 2017

Church had a real good time in GYPSY

INTERVIEW BY BRAD HATHAWAY

See a full gallery of Gypsy photographs here. At age 22, Sandra Church originated the role of Louise in Jule Styne, Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim’s Gypsy staged by Jerome Robbins. She retired from the theater in the 1960s to pursue a career in the visual arts. She now lives in California. She sat down […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Interview, Sample Contents Tagged With: Gypsy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Hal Prince, Klugman, Merman, Robbins, Sandra Church, Stephen Sondheim

October 6, 2017

More Stritch: End of Pretend (Chapter Four)

INTERVIEW BY JOHN BELL

In 2014 when I arrived at The Dakota in Detroit for my second-to-last visit with Elaine Stritch, she was sitting up in her bed. Her arms and legs were noticeably thin. Those endless gams of hers had begun to look twig-like. For the first time, she looked frail and vulnerable. As I entered, her hair […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Interview, Sample Contents Tagged With: Elaine Stritch

October 6, 2017

Maria & Lenny & Steve

REVIEW BY DIANE NOTTLE

Does Maria Friedman remind you a little of Barbara Cook? Though her blond hair is a short bob rather than a flowing mane, Friedman seems to be reinventing herself in mid-career just as Cook did in her 50s, and Stephen Sondheim’s music is playing a big part. From Sept. 19 to 23, 2017, she brought […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: 54 Below, Leonard Bernstein, Maria Friedman, Stephen Sondheim

October 5, 2017

Assassins in Sydney

REVIEW BY PETER KHOURY

The Hayes Theatre Company in Sydney delivers a riveting, high energy and highly accomplished production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s 1990 musical Assassins (Sept. 15-Oct. 22, 2017). The political backdrop of the production strongly evokes a Trumpesque universe that is divisive, bizarre, threatening and unpredictable. On the show’s September opening night the Sydney audience […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents, Uncategorized

October 1, 2017

(Hal) Prince of Broadway

REVIEW BY DIANE NOTTLE

Stephen Sondheim once joked that an album of his chart-topping songs would have to be titled Sondheim’s Greatest Hit, since he had only one, “Send In the Clowns.” Hal Prince, the legendary producer and director, has had a few more. Prince of Broadway, the revue that finally had its Broadway opening (Aug. 24, 2017) after […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: Hal Prince, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Stroman

August 26, 2017

The Aussie Assassin

BY BILL STEPHENS, O.A.M.

“He was a superstar. He was a pin-up,” David Campbell says enthusiastically when asked about John Wilkes Booth. “As a Confederate, he hated the Civil War and was very much a dissenter of Lincoln’s presidency. He wasn’t a crazy man, and the funny thing is, the rhetoric he styles himself in is scarily very much […]

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Filed Under: Interview, Sample Contents Tagged With: Assassins, Australia, Company, David Campbell, John Wilkes Booth, Saturday Night, Stephen Sondheim

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