September Is Back 2 Broadway Month

Not only is September back to school month (three cheers for Kindergarten!), it’s also Back 2 Broadway Month.  So let’s get to it!
Lots of great activities going on so grab your calendar, book the babysitter/dogsitter whatever, and get your bootie to Times Square! 
 
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th at 11:30am
Broadway on Broadway ® free concert presented by HUE [...]

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Sunny Silly Days of Summer Stock

 
Aaaahh, it’s August.  Time to light the corners of my sleep-deprived mind with something other than the return of  the delightful train wreck that is “Jersey Shore.”  Yes, these corners of my mind’s sky are lit with memories of summer stock adventures. The New York Times recently shared a photo roll of reader photos and commentary [...]

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Newsweek & Mr. Setoodeh, This Mama’s PI%&#D Off

An open letter to Ramen Setoodeh, Newsweek reporter who wrote a poisonous missive entitled “Straight Jacket” asserting homosexual actors are unable to play heterosexual characters well, and blasting StageMama’s boys Sean Hayes and Jonathan Groff in the process.
 
 
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Dear Mr. Setoodeh,
I am so thoroughly annoyed with you as is, most know by now, actress Kristin Chenoweth whose passionate and [...]

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Awards Season ‘10: Theatre Mania Takes Manhattan

   
There are so many theatre award events in the next eight weeks, Manhattan’s a virtual Jiffy Pop explosion of nominees for shows long closed (miss you “Ragtime“), shows with mixed feelings attached (“ba, da, ba, dum – snap, snap“ as I “Say a Little Prayer for You“) and the gems Off Broadway that will be graduating to the Great White [...]

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Can Video Save The Musical Star?

 
James Sims, one of the more forward thinking voices in the theatrical blogosphere, quite recently wrote a post for The Huffington Post in support of the conceit that music videos can quite possibly save the Broadway musical.  I am enthusiastic about this concept, have been ever since I got to watch the kids from Spring Awakening jump around on the stage [...]

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