No, this is not some weird new musical, this is exactly what I’m saying it is: sex workers in western Maharashtra, India, have spent over a month taking acting lessons and then putting together a play about their lives.
Entitled My Mother, the Gharwali, Her Maalak, His Wife, the play has the avowed message that “We […]
Monday night is when the magic happened: Dancing With the Stars kicked off another season. I missed the premiere, but thanks to Dancewatcher I can catch the highlights. Even more detail is over at TVGrapevine, including profiles of the dancers.
Straight from the Dancer’s Foot
Why settle for second-hand reviews, though? Kristi Yamaguchi is blogging about the […]
It is perhaps a sign of just how unimpressed the world was with the first reality casting (resulting in the disastrous restaging of GREASE: You’re the One! ) that the second attempt, to replace Elle on the Broadway production of Legally Blonde, is reaching its finale and looking to fill seats.
For that reason, Playbill has […]
Over the weekend I traveled to and from Minnesota, about a 5 hour drive, with a friend to attend a lecture on performance art. For those of you lucky coasties, the land of northern Wisconsin this time of year is less than exciting - sort of a gray slushy mess.
However, we had my iPod, and […]
When I was waxing rhapsodic about Raul Esparza’s lead in the PBS special of Stephen Sondheim’s Company, I neglected to really focus on the fact that he was also supported by a stellar cast.
Thankfully, BroadwayWorld.com has made up for it, with a fantastic interview with Barbara Walsh. A true gypsy who started in the kind […]
Just a note of admiration: in spite of what must have been crushing news (their founder, Gus Giordano, died on Sunday) the Giordano Dance troupe got rave reviews from Hedy Weiss in the Chicago Sun-Times. It’s a tribute to the professionalism of the performers and the ethics he instilled in them that they kick off […]
In the realm of “Broadway Cast Albums I’d Like to Own” is the chance to hear crooner Harry Connick Jr. playing the role of Jimmy in the remake of Gershwin’s Oh, Kay! You may not have heard of the musical, but it was the source of perennial torch song favorite Someone to Watch Over Me.
The […]
Dancer, Choreographer, Former U.S. Marine, and founder of the Giordano Dance Company of Chicago died yesterday morning of pneumonia. He was 84. One of the great pioneers of jazz dance in this country, he studied with Hanya Holm, Katherine Dunham and Alwin Nikolais, as well as appearing on Broadway in Wish You Were Here and […]
or, : From Broadway to Virginia to Melbourne to Hometown, USA in search of a Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
I had expected to write, today, about the revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, featuring Tony-award winning actors such as Phylicia Rashad, James Earl Jones, and Anika Noni Rose (all of whom are […]
I’m indebted to Paul Thompson of the Broadway blog for his series on “My Times Square“. A Chicago native, his documentation of wandering around the Big Apple brings back the same kind of memories that this midwesterner has.
They’re Showing WHAT, WHERE?
He comments on the amazing fact that Studio 54 is now a theatre, something that […]
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