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Tag Archives: West Side Story
2020 Drama Desk Winners
Last night, Frank DiLella of NY1’s On Stage hosted the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards (watch here), originally scheduled for May 31. Leading the nominations were the musicals Soft Power (11), The Wrong Man (9), and Octet (8), but only … Continue reading
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Tagged A Strange Loop, Adrienne Warren, Christian Borle, Dave Malloy, Drama Desk Awards, for colored girls, Harold Prince, Jagged Little Pill, Larry Owens, Lauren Patten, Little Shop of Horrors, Martha Redbone, Michael R. Jackson, Moulin Rouge!, Octet, Sonya Tayeh, Stephen Brackett, Tina, Tom Kitt, West Side Story
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2020 Outer Critics Circle Honorees
Yesterday by video feed, Kristin Chenoweth, Bryan Cranston, Patti LuPone, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Patrick Stewart announced the 70th annual Outer Critics Circle Award honorees for the 2019-20 Broadway and Off-Broadway season. In lieu of selecting traditional nominees and one winner in each category, this … Continue reading
Essential Musicals: West Side Story
When West Side Story premiered in 1957, it marked a turning point in American musical theater — “a provocative and artful blend of music, dance, and plot,” as one critic noted — but getting the work to Broadway had not … Continue reading
2020 Drama League Nominees
During the Gratitude Awards livestream ceremony on April 30, actors Alex Brightman and Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer announced the nominees for the 86th annual Drama League Awards. The winners of this year’s special awards include James Lapine (Distinguished Achievement in Musical … Continue reading
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Tagged A Strange Loop, Drama League Awards, Enter Laughing, Girl from the North Country, Jagged Little Pill, James Lapine, Little Shop of Horrors, Moulin Rouge!, Octet, Rock of Ages, Sing Street, Six, Soft Power, Terrence McNally, The Secret Life of Bees, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, Tina, West Side Story
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2020 Drama Desk Nominees
Today, Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley announced the nominations for the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards on the afternoon edition of their Stars in the House livestream. The 2020 awards will be presented remotely in a virtual ceremony on May … Continue reading
Making Musicals: Organizing Your Rhymes
Organizing your rhymes is like organizing your stanzas. The first rhyme you hear is “a,” the second is “b,” the third is “c,” and so on. If you repeat a stanza of music, you should use the same pattern of rhymes. … Continue reading
Summer Reading List
If you’re like me, you spent most of June catching up with this past season’s New York productions of musicals. Over a frenzied Memorial Day holiday in New York, I saw six shows in four days! As New York (and … Continue reading