Target Margin Theater proudly boasts that Show/Boat: A River, its small-scale and bare-bones staging of Show Boat (at the Skirball Center on Washington Square through the 26th), is a “bold reimagining” of the classic Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein show, a “new adaptation that explores America’s transformation from the Jim Crow 1880s to the Chicago of the Great Migration to the challenges of today,” but I don’t see it.
On this day in 1953 the Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a new production of Gounod’s Faust.
Steve adored puzzles, solving them and creating them, so it makes you wonder that this one continued to fester—was that so few of his songs attained the rank of “standard.”
After the break the ladies stepped up their game so much that it elevated the night into legendary status: definitely one for the books!
The flawless, classical singing style of Perry Como. Perry Como?
I often think of Boys in the Band as the gay play equivalent of Kern and Hammerstein’s Show Boat—it’s hugely important in theater history, but the politics have become extremely problematic.
Director Casey Hushion attempts to spice up Call Me Madam in ways that make it feel more than ever like an out-of-touch relic.
The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players (NYGASP to its friends) is giving Sullivan’s most operatic score a dusting off (or should one say dusting-up?) at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College.
In the final installment of this interview, the star discusses the enduring appeal of Carousel.
In the third part of this interview with John Raitt, the singer speaks in great detail how he was cast in his breakthrough role of Billy Bigelow in Carousel.
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I would be having lengthy telephone conversations with John Raitt.
Carousel is receiving a Broadway revival in a simple, cautious production that still manages to pack an emotional wallop.
“Operatic” generally refers to sung drama, but there is another meaning of that term: grandiose, outsize, hysterical.
You might be surprised, though, when that title turns out to be Show Boat.
“Who will dare dance with me the ancient Dagger-Dance of the Californians?”
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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