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Category Archives: Reference
Essential Musicals: Oklahoma!
I called Show Boat the most influential American musical, but historian Thomas Hischak argues, “Not only is Oklahoma! the most important of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, it is also the single most influential work in the American musical theater.” … Continue reading
Essential Musicals: Show Boat
To learn the functional basics about any subject and to accumulate a working vocabulary of that field, you should know something about its history. Even artistic revolutionaries like Picasso studied the Old Masters. You wouldn’t drive forward into moving traffic … Continue reading
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Tagged Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein, Porgy and Bess, Show Boat, The Mikado
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Best of 2012: Top 10 New Musicals
Musical theater was “alive and kicking” this year, with debuts from new writers and comebacks from veteran scribes. Below is my list of the Top Ten new pieces of musical theater that debuted in the past 12 months – with … Continue reading
Posted in Best of the Year, Reference
Tagged Bring It On, Broadway musical, Christmas Story, Civil War Christmas, Dogfight, Forbidden Broadway, Giant, Hunchback Variations, Natasha Pierre & the Great Comet, Newsies, Off-Broadway musical, Off-Off-Broadway musical, Old Man & the Old Moon, Pasek & Paul
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Best of 2012: Top 10 Musical Revivals
New York saw a bevy of musical revivals this year, including a large pack of shows from the Eighties. There were also two prominent “revivals” of shows from the past five years, both presented at the Hirschfeld – though “remount” … Continue reading
Best of 2012: Top 10 Musical Films
It wasn’t a banner year for musical films, but there were more than enough to compose a list of the top ten movies that told their stories through fully realized song and dance moments – both the non-diegetic (musicalized dialogue) … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, Carol Channing, Dolly Parton, film musical, Hank Williams, Hugh Jackman, Joyful Noise, Larger Than Life, Last Ride, Les Miserables, Lorax, Pitch Perfect, Rock of Ages, Sparkle, Step Up Revolution, Whitney Houston
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Best of 2012: Top 5 Musical TV Moments
This week, I’ll be sharing my Best of 2012 lists. Today, it’s my countdown of musical TV moments during the calendar year, including a trio of songs in series about making music (from Broadway to high school and Nashville) to … Continue reading
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Tagged 30 Rock, Glee, Mad Men, Nashville, Smash, TV musical
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Playlist: iPod Favorites
Every year after the Tony Awards, I review and update my MP3 list of favorites. The following are the show tunes that have earned the highest play counts on my iPod over the past year. Each of these songs hits … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahrens & Flaherty, Altar Boyz, Ben Vereen, Bernadette Peters, Chicago, Chita Rivera, Chorus Line, City of Angels, Craig Carnelia, Cy Coleman, Diamonds, Dreamgirls, Ellen Greene, Forbidden Broadway, Galt MacDermot, Gary Adler, Gerard Alessandrini, Hair, Into the Woods, Is There Life After High School, Jason Robert Brown, Jennifer Holliday, Jerry Herman, Juilliard, Kander & Ebb, Len Cariou, Les Miserables, Little Night Music, Little Shop of Horrors, Lonny Price, Mack and Mabel, Marin Mazzie, Marvin Hamlisch, Menken & Ashman, Merrily We Roll Along, Pippin, Priscilla Lopez, Ragtime, Randy Graff, Schonberg & Boublil, Stephen Schwartz, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, Tyler Maynard, Wall to Wall Sondheim, Working
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Playlist: Top 10 Pop Interpolations
In the Golden Age of Broadway, theater songs often topped the pop charts. It wasn’t even unfamiliar for competing versions to rank in the Top 40. Theater songs continue to show up on the pop charts today – and not … Continue reading
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Tagged Billboard charts, cover songs, mashups, music sampling, pop songs
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