Popping back from my self-imposed exile for a moment to babble about the Tonys! Can we just have Hugh Jackman host every year? Seriously, who doesn't love this man? (But what was up with all that hopping? Am I missing some reference, because all that made exactly zero sense to me ( Read more... )

So my birthday was yesterday, and I celebrated by going to see a musical! The local children's theatre company was putting on Anne of Green Gables, so I was curious, given that I loved the book as much as every other kid, but then I found out that Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford had written it, and I knew I had to go ( Read more... )

Saw Oklahoma! at Lyric Opera in Chicago, it was unbelieveably amazing!!!! Everything so beautifully done, I can't rave enough! I'm so glad I splurged on a front row seat, because seeing the actors up close makes it so much more real and personal, and it's so thrilling to feel the vibration of the dancers' feet when they hit the stage and the ( Read more... )

I have tickets for Oklahoma! at the Lyric Opera in Chicago in May!!! WOOHOO!!! I'm super, super excited; it looks like a pretty awesome production, they're using the original orchestrations and Agnes deMille choreography, and real ballet dancers for the Dream Ballet, and the cast is amazing: Ashley Brown is playing Laurey, and Curly is played by ( Read more... )

The latest cast recording I've discovered and fallen in love with is Death Takes A Holiday. A magical, touching, romantic show, full of both joy and melancholy in turn, with a beautiful score by the wonderful Maury Yeston. And the cast is just an embarrasment of riches: Rebecca Luker, Michael Siberry, Jill Paice, Max von Essen, Don Stephenson, Matt ( Read more... )

Well, I don't know how it took me so long to discover http://www.broadwayworld.com but I finally did, and found several juicy tidbits of super exciting news: The Roundabout Theatre Company is putting on a revival of one of my all time favorite musicals, The Mystery of Edwin Drood!!! I've ( Read more... )

Watched a DVD of the 1980 New York Shakespeare Festival production of The Pirates of Penzance, and it was totally great! The rather crappy picture quality didn't matter at all, the production was so fun and energetic that that's all you noticed, and quite honestly it's a miracle to have it at all! It was much better than the movie version of the ( Read more... )

Ugh. Heat wave still making life miserable. Didn't even go to see any 4th of July fireworks this year because it's just too hot to be worth it. Over 100 degrees today! When you only have air conditioning in one room in your house, that's not good ( Read more... )

I guess it's lucky my car chose to break down in the middle of a heat wave, since it's too hot to leave the house anyway! So in the air-conditioning I stay, and it's given me a chance to listen to a lot of music and movies over the past week.

My musical theater kick still being in full force, I watched a DVD of the London production of the 2000 ( Read more... )

Here we go, the plot of Love Never Dies. I would call it an analysis, but at this point it's more a catalogue of it's crimes! ( Read it and weep! Contains spoilers, obviously! )