I thought the film version of Big Fish was fairly mediocre. It wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t as great as I wanted it to be either. I was interested in the stage musical because I’m a huge fan of both Norbert Leo Butz and Bobby Steggert. Combine them...
Back on Tuesday,we took in part of American Ballet Theatre’s fall season at the David H. Koch Theatre at Lincoln Center (the first time we’ve attended the company’s fall season). The program was three one acts: Clear, Bach Partita and the company...
I’m a huge fan of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake and when I heard the last of his Tchaikovsky trilogy was playing in NYC for a week I jumped at the chance to buy tickets. That he was taking Sleeping Beauty and morphing it into a gothic romance made it even...
The current Broadway revival is apparently my third time to see Tennessee Williams’ classic The Glass Menagerie. The first was in Eureka, California in a community theater presentation. The second, and the one I don’t quite remember, is the 2005 Broadway...
Over the six years that I worked on Hat Trick there are some key bits of music that either kept me moving on the project or worked their way into my thoughts about Simon and Alex, the main characters. Here’s a look at some of that music (each of the individual...
The revival of Pippin has been on the to-see list for months. We did it today, even buying full price tickets (which we rarely do), because we wanted to see the production before Andrea Martin departs later this month. I’m happy we finally took the plunge to see...