David Fox: Before we get into the weeds, maybe we should explain the set-up here. We’re two gay men, with 30-plus years between us, who went together to see the Broadway adaptation of Buz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! (That exclamation mark is part of the title, rather than a reflection of how excited we were to be there.) Read more »
The response of my friends and colleagues to director Daniel Fish’s cause célèbre reworking of Oklahoma! reminds me of the show’s proverbial Farmers and Cowmen: opinions are loud, confident, and largely polarized. I’ve heard it passionately praised (“I was an emotional puddle; I wept and couldn’t stop!”) and bitterly denounced (“I couldn’t bear to listen to it!”), but not much in-between. Read more »
The sexiest moment on Broadway this season features a 73-year-old man and a single button. Read more »
Grand Prix winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, soprano Hibla Gerzmava returns to Carnegie Hall, with pianist Ekaterina Ganelina, for a recital in Stern Auditorium/Perlman Stage on Friday, November 1, 2019, at 8:00 pm. Her program will feature art songs by such Russian masters as Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov and Prokofiev coupled with those by Hahn and Fauré set against a backdrop of arias by Verdi and Donizetti.
Kiss Me Kate is a sophisticated soufflé of a show: a comedy of manners, requiring effortless verve and elegance in the playing.
She makes it into a mash-up of Cours-la-Reine and “A Great Lady Has An Interview.”
Broadway’s new Head Over Heels is anything but under committed; it’s a show with an irresistibly fun spirit and an infallibly good heart.
Dapper countertenor Ray Chenez is temporarily putting aside the turbans of his operatic career for, well, the turbans of a Broadway diva as he appeals via Indiegogo for funding to record a CD of show tunes.
While America’s Diva is off singing gala concerts from Mobile to East Lansing, who will take over the role of Nettie Fowler?
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