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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 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

May 5, 2017

MERRILY and otherwise

REVIEW BY DONALD ROSENBERG

  No show in the annals of the American musical theater has risen so promisingly, crashed so quickly and become such an iconic work as Merrily We Roll Along — Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s 1981 show directed by Harold Prince. How did the team of Sondheim and Prince, collaborators on five groundbreaking musicals in […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: Best Worst Thing, Hal Prince, Lonny Price, Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim

February 19, 2017

Brilliant Stuff: Interview with Len Cariou, the original Sweeney Todd

INTERVIEW BY MICHAEL PORTANTIERE

  Len Cariou’s brilliant career has had at least three acts. His first act was onstage in his native Canada and at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, primarily in classical roles. In his third act, he’s a television star as NYPD family patriarch Henry Reagan on the CBS series Blue Bloods (2010-present). But many of […]

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Filed Under: Interview, Sample Contents Tagged With: A Little Night Music, Fredrik Egerman, Hal Prince, Len Cariou, Sweeney Todd

February 19, 2017

Boris Aronson: Vision and Execution

BY CHRISTOPHER WEIMER

In an extraordinary six-year period, Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince brought four landmark musicals to Broadway: Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973) and Pacific Overtures (1976). All four iconic productions of these remarkably disparate shows featured scenic designs by the same man: Boris Aronson. A son of the Grand Rabbi of Kiev, […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Premium Tagged With: A Little Night Music, Boris Aronson, cabaret, Company, Follies, Hal Prince, Pacific Overtures, Stephen Sondheim

October 4, 2016

Gift That Keeps On Giving: Jim Walton talks about Merrily’s original production

INTERVIEW BY BOB NEU

  At the age of 25, Jim Walton originated the role of Franklin Shepard in Merrily We Roll Along on Broadway. Walton talks about the highs and lows of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that came his way after being a New York actor for only two years. Walton has gone on to appear in any number […]

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Filed Under: Feature, Interview, Premium Tagged With: Best Worse Thing, documentary, Hal Prince, Jim Walton, Lonny Price, Merrily We Roll Along, Stephen Sondheim

June 7, 2016

Concert Recording: WHEN EVERYTHING WAS POSSIBLE, performed by Victoria Mallory and Kurt Peterson

REVIEW BY RICK PENDER

  When Kurt Peterson and Victoria Mallory walked onstage at New York City Center on Sunday, April 29, 2012, it was a joyous reconnection to present a concert they called When Everything Was Possible. After more than four decades they were together again, singing and reminiscing about the early years of their careers when they […]

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Filed Under: Review, Sample Contents Tagged With: A Little Night Music, Anne Egerman, Follies, Hal Prince, Kurt Peterson, Mark Lambert, Ramona Mallory, Stephen Sondheim, Victoria Mallory

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