I’ve always loved the word stagecraft.
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Tag: New York City Serenades
What Does It Mean to Belong
Intentionally is impossible to deduce conclusively on a stage.
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No NY No NY No
It’s a cliche to say that setting a story in New York turns the city into an important character within the movie’s firmament.
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Lyle, Lyle, Dramaturgy
A musical’s primary dramaturgy is rooted in which parts of the story the composers decide to set to music.
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The Innuendo Is for Porn
Taking an adult stroll down Sesame Street — courtesy of The Musical!, now at Theatre Row — had the unexpected effect of making me realize anew both the extent and the nature of how Avenue Q riffs on the original series.
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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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Topdog/Underselling
I try to avoid shilling for individual pieces of art.
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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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Make It a Quadrilogy
Why have I been so drawn to unconventional uses of curtain calls lately?
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Culpability
Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge is at least the third example in six months of artists using their latest work to stage explicit self-castigations of their own past work.
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