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Why 'Hercules' Needs Puppets of Mythic Proportions
By RAVEN SNOOK
Thursday, August 22, 2019  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
Thu Aug 22, 2019  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
How Obie winner James Ortiz is helping to bring Disney's animated movie to the stage --- When The Public Theater hired James Ortiz to design puppets for its Public Works' adaptation of Hercules, the first thing he did was rewatch the source material. It had been years since he'd seen Disney's 1997 animated movie, and he wanted to get a sense of which...
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Why Alan Ariano Is Overjoyed to Finally Play a Filipino on Stage
By DIEP TRAN
Wednesday, August 21, 2019  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
Wed Aug 21, 2019  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
Ma-Yi Theater Company presents the first musical created by Filipino Americans in NYC --- Throughout his three-decade career, Filipino-American actor Alan Ariano has played a wide variety of roles, notably Broadway stints in the original productions of M. Butterfly and Miss Saigon, and the most recent revival of The King and I. But there's one thing...
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How Hal Prince Changed My Life as an Audience Member and an Artist
By CHRISTOPHER MASSIMINE
Tuesday, August 20, 2019  •   Musicals  •    2 comments Share This
Tue Aug 20, 2019  •   Musicals  •    2 comments Share This
Editor's note: In the summer of 2021, the author of this piece, Christopher Massimine, was exposed as a fabulist with a résumé riddled with lies. He subsequently resigned from his position at Arizona's Pioneer Theatre, citing mental illness. When editing this essay in 2019, I removed multiple "facts" that I could not verify regarding his...
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Swarovski Crystals Are a Girl's Best Friend in 'Moulin Rouge!'
By RAVEN SNOOK
Thursday, August 15, 2019  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
Thu Aug 15, 2019  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
How Tony-winning costume designer Catherine Zuber helps make this spectacular spectacular --- One of the most heartbreaking moments in Moulin Rouge! The Musical comes in Act II, when the villainous Duke of Monroth (Tam Mutu) forces his conflicted courtesan Satine (Karen Olivo) to change out of a lush maroon gown that fits her like a second skin. In...
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Why Lena Hall Had to Do 'Bat Out of Hell – The Musical'
By ELIZA BENT
Thursday, August 08, 2019  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
Thu Aug 8, 2019  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
The Tony winner returns to the New York stage and her first love: rock and roll --- When asked how she's been prepping for her part in Jim Steinman's over-the-top fantasy Bat Out of Hell – The Musical, Lena Hall gets all revved up. "I have been preparing my whole life!" she exclaims, and she means it. Although the 38-year-old actress-singer-songwriter...
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Annie Golden Graduates to Leading Lady
By RAVEN SNOOK
Tuesday, July 30, 2019  •   Musicals  •    2 comments Share This
Tue Jul 30, 2019  •   Musicals  •    2 comments Share This
After decades as a character actress, the sexagenarian gets her golden ticket with Broadway Bounty Hunter --- Even though Annie Golden is a woman of a certain age, she has no plans to retire. Why would she when writers are penning parts just for her? The 67 year old is currently starring in the exuberant meta-musical comedy Broadway Bounty Hunter...
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Rita Rudner Returns to Her Musical Theatre Roots
By SANDY MACDONALD
Monday, July 22, 2019  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
Mon Jul 22, 2019  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
Why the beloved stand-up comic co-wrote herself a starring role in the Off-Broadway tuner Two's a Crowd --- Over the past four decades, Rita Rudner has held her own in the upper echelons of comedy, mostly by being herself: a very funny but thoroughly nice person with a quirky perspective on life. But the sexagenarian didn't start out wanting to be...
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Why Mitchell Jarvis Will 'Rock' Till He Drops
By CAREY PURCELL
Tuesday, July 16, 2019  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
Tue Jul 16, 2019  •   Musicals  •    0 comments Share This
The actor on reprising his role as Lonny in Rock of Ages --- Mitchell Jarvis credits Shakespeare with inspiring him to revisit his best-known stage role, Lonny, the cheeky narrator of Rock of Ages for the show's 10th anniversary run at New World Stages. While there's seemingly more of Bon Jovi than the Bard in the jukebox musical comedy, which uses...
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