Why are musical composers obsessed with the phrase “love is love”?
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Tag: New York City Serenades
Ignore Victorious to be Victorious
Slick producing can entail tricking ticket buyers.
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Semantics Matter
What do you call the bar that separates adjacent seats in a theater?
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AAA
Big Money is flooding into New York theater.
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Second Stage, Three Patterns
After 45 years, Carole Rothman plans to step down from her perch atop Second Stage.
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I’m Rick James,
Next spring’s Broadway production of Mary Jane will be a double rarity.
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Escaped
Escape to Margaritaville is my platonic ideal of a single-artist, non-biographical jukebox musical.
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A Little Legacy
Ivo van Hove’s A Little Life and the new movie Cobweb share an ending.
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Overture as Remix(es)
Here Lies Love’s pre-show is electronic music’s version of an overture.
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Broadway 2022-2023
While I’m in a ranking mood, here’s my complete recap of the 2022-2023 Broadway season, in order of personal preference.
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