Excitement is mounting for the movie version of Hairspray, which opens July 20. I know several people who have seen early screenings of the movie and they LOVE it, so push all thoughts of lousy Broadway-to-movie musicals aside (hit the skids Rent, back to the basement Phantom, off to summer stock Producers). First up is [...]
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`Hairspray’ clips
Posted by Chad Jones on 28 Jun 07 - 0 Comments
Vegas query: Broads or Broadway?
Archived in the category: Cirque du Soleil, Elvis Presley, Jubilee!, Las Vegas, Phantom The Las Vegas Spectacular, Spamalot, The Producers, backstage, musicals, nudity, theater news, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Jun 07 - 0 Comments
REPORT FROM LAS VEGAS Calling Las Vegas the Broadway of the West is really pushing it. Sure, Mama Mia! has blossomed into a hit, and it looks like Spamalot and The Phantom of the Opera have a chance of success of long runs in the hot desert, but Chicago, Avenue Q and Hairspray didn’t live [...]
Go, Jennifer! Go, Jennifer!
Posted by Chad Jones on 27 Jun 07 - 0 Comments
It ahd to happen: the battle of the Dreamgirls JHs — Jennifer Holliday (Broadway’s original Effie) and Jennifer Hudson (Hollywood’s Oscar-winning Effie). It’s from the BET Awards earlier this week.
So many Cirques
Archived in the category: Cirque du Soleil, Ka, Las Vegas, Love, O, Zumanity, backstage, nudity, theater news, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Jun 07 - 0 Comments
REPORT FROM LAS VEGAS The celebrated Montreal-based circus re-inventors Cirque du Soleil currently has five shows in Vegas (with two more on the way — one, an Elvis-themed show, the other built around magician Criss Angel). The only Cirque show I missed this trip was Mystere, the first one (at Treasure Island), but I saw [...]
Loving or leaving Las Vegas
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Jun 07 - 1 Comment
Ah, Las Vegas, where even the excess is excessively excessive. Sound redundant and overblown? Welcome to Sin City, baby. I spent last week in the overheated climes of Southern Nevada for the annual American Theatre Critics Association conference. We saw 10 shows in five days, walked through every towering casino/resort/mall complex, and, while strolling the [...]
Another Cirque in SF
Posted by Chad Jones on 25 Jun 07 - 0 Comments
The big yellow-and-blue-striped tent — the Grand Chapiteau — is heading back to the Bay Area. Cirque du Soleil’s latest touring show, KOOZA, will have its U.S. premiere Nov. 16 in the parking lot behind San Francisco’s AT&T Park. The show then moves to San Jose Jan. 31. You can never tell with the quirky [...]
Viva, viva, Las Vegaaaaaaas!
Posted by Chad Jones on 15 Jun 07 - 2 Comments
Theater Dogs is off to the desert. I’ll be in Las Vegas for a week with the American Theatre Critics Association conference seeing all the shows (Spamalot, Phantom and all the Cirque du Soleils). If the opportunities arise, I’ll blog from Sin City, but check back in about a week for a full report on [...]
Triumph at the Tonys
Archived in the category: backstage
Posted by Chad Jones on 14 Jun 07 - 4 Comments
Not for the squeamish or the easily offended.
Theater review: `The Imaginary Invalid’
Archived in the category: American Conservatory Theater, backstage, local theater, plays, theater news, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 14 Jun 07 - 0 Comments
ACT’s Imaginary Invalid suffers comedy ills Two stars Broken funny bone There was abundant laughter in the house when American Conservatory Theater opened a new adaptation of Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid. Unfortunately for me, the laughs were not mine. This kind of period comedy – part 17th-century commedia, part contemporary romp – has become an [...]
`Spring Awakening’ in San Francisco
Archived in the category: Broadway, Duncan Sheik, SHN/Best of Broadway, Spring Awakening, Steven Sater, Tony Awards, backstage, local theater, musicals, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 14 Jun 07 - 2 Comments
The musical gods are smiling on the Bay Area. It was announced today that the national tour of Spring Awakening – winner of eight 2007 Tony Awards including best musical — will indeed launch in San Francisco as part of the SHN/Best of Broadway 2007-2008 season. “When I saw Spring Awakening, I was instantly struck [...]
