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Memphis the musical – on Broadway

September 8, 2011
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Memphis: The Musical Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro Music and Lyrics by David Bryan This show is very, very popular.  A multiple Tony-award winner: for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score, Best Orchestration….and people love, love, love this show.  It’s set in – you guessed it – Memphis in the 50’s – at the […]

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A Little Night Music – on Broadway

November 4, 2010
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A Little Night Music Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler It was the “Send in the Clowns” that did it.  Tipped the scales in this cast’s favor, that is.  A Little Night Music opened in the fall of 2009 starring the incomparable Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta Jones.    And I saw […]

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Spirit Control – Off-Broadway

October 19, 2010
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Spirit Control by Beau Willimon This is a short one.  Skip it.  Just skip it.  This show is just not worth seeing. The synopsis tells us this is the story of Adam Wyatt, an air traffic controller who, when a pilot has a heart attack in mid-air, must talk a terrified passenger through an emergency […]

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The Language Archive – Off-Broadway

October 4, 2010
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The Language Archive By Julia Cho I really enjoyed this sweet little play!  The Roundabout Theatre Company commissioned this piece – a comedy about a man studies languages, most notably those that are on the brink of extinction, yet one who struggles to communicate with the people closest to him. It’s a comedy and the […]

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Fela! – On Broadway

September 24, 2010
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Fela! Book by Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones Music by Fela Anikulapo-Kuti If  you’re like me, you had no idea who or what “Fela” was when you heard the title of this Broadway show.  (And if you’re one of the people who did know who Fela was, well, then this review probably does not […]

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