Tag Archives: Idina Menzel

2020 Tony Award Winners

Posted on September 27, 2021 by boz

The long-awaited ceremony for the 2020 Tony Awards not only celebrated the 2019-20 Broadway season but also the return of live stage performances after 18 months of pandemic lockdown. In a bifurcated broadcast, the majority of awards were presented during … Continue reading →

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Cinderella Film Review Roundup

Posted on September 2, 2021 by boz

The Amazon Prime musical adaptation of Cinderella that begins streaming September 3 has received mixed reviews from critics. A modern take on the traditional fairy tale by Charles Perrault, the film is written and directed by Kay Cannon, based on an … Continue reading →

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Cinderella Preview

Posted on July 1, 2021 by boz

Amazon Prime Video has released the first official teaser for its upcoming musical Cinderella. A modern take on the traditional fairy tale by Charles Perrault, the film follows a young Cinderella who lives with her not-so-evil stepmother and stepsisters. Principal photography … Continue reading →

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Broadway Birthday: Robert Lopez

Posted on February 23, 2021 by boz

Happy Birthday to double EGOT writer Robert Lopez, born Feb. 23, 1975, in Manhattan. At age 6, he started piano lessons at Greenwich House Music School, before attending Hunter College H.S. He studied English at Yale University, where he wrote … Continue reading →

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Billboard 2020 Year-End Charts

Posted on December 5, 2020 by boz

Billboard magazine has released its year-end charts. For 2020, the magazine teamed up with Google to debut a new chart that tracked the most popular songs searched for in Google’s “Hum to Search” feature on its new app. Among the 100 … Continue reading →

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Today in Musical History: Wicked

Posted on October 30, 2020 by boz

The Broadway production of the mega-musical Wicked opened at the Gershwin Theatre on Oct. 30, 2003, after its world premiere at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre. The idea for the show began when Stephen Schwartz read Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked. … Continue reading →

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Essential Film Musicals: Frozen

Posted on June 4, 2020 by boz

In 1937, Walt Disney had an idea for a biographical film about Hans Christian Andersen. In 1940, he arranged a co-production with Samuel Goldwyn, who would shoot live-action sequences to accompany Disney’s animated sequences, but World War II brought an … Continue reading →

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