More period film icons.

Oh, and Neil Patrick Harris' song from the Tonys.

Michael John LaChiusa is a musical composer who wrote an essay a couple of years ago about how the musical is dead, and broadway was full of crap, blah blah blah. I don't know if I disagree exactly, but I don't know if broadway would be good either if it just had the kind of musicals LaChiusa likes to write. He'd be a prime candidate to write " ( Read more... )

Tony nominations!

I want West Side Story to win but I have a feeling Hair might get it.

The first post made me giggle.

Also, we can say that Andrew Lloyd Webber has officially gone crazy now, right?

( West Side Story Revival )

Can someone remind me to stay away from friggin broadayworld dot com? angeepang and I got tickets to West Side Story and in an effort to obsessively obtain as many facts about the production as I can, I've been reading reviews from people who have already seen it, and of course it's all blah blah it sucked, which makes me nervous and cranky. The ( Read more... )

Ah-hah! Now I know what was nagging me about these pictures for a production of Les Mis: it looks like Darren Nichols got a hold of it. It still looks interesting though.

"Phantom of the Opera" is one of those crazy fandoms I know I shouldn't poke around in, because of the inevitable blood pressure spike, but sometimes I do and the question that always comes up is "why didn't Christine choose the Phantom? He loved her ( Read more... )

Also, light years after everyone else, I've finally listened to "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog". Cute. My favorite song is "My Eyes", which leads me to believe the songs that Whedon writes best are the ones where everyone sings at the same time, or whatever it's called in technical terms, because I thought "Walk Through the Fire" and Giles and ( Read more... )

This apparently is going to be the plot of the "Phantom" sequal:

As for "Phantom . . . Once Upon Another Time": It's set in 1906 in Coney Island. The Phantom, aka Erik, having fled Paris, is running a freak show. At night, he crawls into his lair and makes love to an automaton that looks like Christine ( Read more... )