RAPTUROUS! TUCK STARTLES WITH ITS EMOTIONAL RESONANCE AND THEATRICAL FORCE!– The New York TimesSMART, MAGICAL AND WONDERFULLY CRAFTED -LONG MAY IT LIVE!– The Associated PressHelmed by Tony winner Casey Nicholaw and featuring a score by Nathan Tyson and Chris Miller, Tuck Everlasting began performances on March 31, 2016 and officially open on April 26, 2016 at the Broadhurst …
Misty Mountains: Songs Inspired by The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
Peter Hollens is an American pop singer and producer best known for his work on YouTube as an a cappella artist. Hollens is a one man Pentatonix he sings ALL parts of every song then layers and blends them together. With over 1.2 million YouTube subscribers, his videos have over 140 million views and his creativity is prolific, …
Gloria Estefan has sold over 100 million records and sold out stadiums around the world. Emilio and Gloria Estefan together have won 26 Grammy Awards® but their music is only half the story. From the heart of Havana to the streets of Miami came a cultural phenomenon unlike anything the music industry had ever seen. On Your Feet! …
Michael Bennett’s 1975 valentine to “gypsies,” the dancers who are often treated as so much mobile scenery in Broadway musicals, is sometimes considered to have broken new ground with it’s frank portraits of talented but frustrated performers. The score by Marvin Hamlisch and Edward Kleban is a favorite of “theater people” everywhere, but was designed to showcase the …
The cynical, frank tale of a second-rate Chicago singer and the women who lust after him, Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey stood in stark contrast to most other Broadway shows of 1940. Watered down by Hollywood in 1957, the show was restored to its original frank, raunchy splendor by the team of New York’s Encores! series. The stellar …
Ask a hundred or more devotees of Bing Crosby to compile a list of their fifty best recordings and you would have a hundred or more different ideas about what should be chosen from the many hundreds of songs he committed to disc. His twenty plus million sellers might serve as a basis on which to build the …
Mary Martin created Broadway’s most famous “trousers” role in the original 1954 cast of Peter Pan, but former Olympic gymnast Cathy Rigby has proven to be a worthy successor. She earned a Tony nomination for the 1991 revival, has toured extensively, and starred in the 2000 video production. While the classic J.M. Barrie story of the boy …
Vocalist who played the role of Christine for 5 years in the San Francisco production of The Phantom Of The Opera; director Harold Prince believes she may have sung the role better than any person, and it is evident on this 16 track debut album that she posseses an exquisite voice with clarity & range. This music collection …
The wide range of show tunes included on 1995’s On Broadway makes it feel somewhat like an audition tape. After all, its star, Andrea McArdle, hadn’t headlined a new show since the age of 12, and this seems to be an effort to show that she can handle a number of different roles. Does that mean it’s bad listening? …
Before he achieved his tremendous success as a ballad singer, Nat “King” Cole was already a great jazz pianist, with the effervescent swing of Earl Hines and the grace of Teddy Wilson. The trio that he led through the ’40s was a unique musical group, a perfect forum for Cole’s talents as both a swing pianist and a …