Is Broadway history happening in Manhattan this season?
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Category: Boogaloo Down BROADWAY
The Satire is Coming from Outside the House
A production is not confined to the confines of its stage.
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P.S. In the Beginning…
Revisiting A Christmas Carol on Broadway made me realize a detail I missed regarding its generational stagecraft:
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Between Truth and Artifice
While we’re on the topic of actorly attributes that contribute to a thoroughly-embodied performance:
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Samuel L. Parsons
While we’re on the topic of looking as acting, and acting as looking:
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Ghosts of Stagecraft PastPresentFuture
The current Broadway production of A Christmas Carol utilizes different generations of stagecraft to bring this centuries-old tale back to life.
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WWTD
Sometimes, a movie adaptation of a play makes you realize new dimensions to a seemingly straightforward moment of stagecraft in the original production.
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Rituals
Stagecraft is a physical ritual of gesture and word.
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Mueller?… Mueller?… Mueller?
There’s a noble tradition throughout the annals of musical theater history that I like to call the “Now, Ulla belt!”
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Revitalizing the Canon
One of the foremost pleasures of religiously following the theater world is being able to track generational canonization in real time.
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