Everything wonderful about the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical In the Heights is captured in the new PBS documentary “In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams.” (The show airs at 8 p.m., Wednesday, May 27 on KQED Channel 9) The program, part of the “Great Performances” showcase, is only an hour, but in exploring why the musical [...]
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Watch it: `In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams’
Archived in the category: Broadway, In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Paul Bozymowski, TV, musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 May 09 - 0 Comments
Delighted by `Ruined,’ Nottage nabs Pulitzer
Archived in the category: Bertolt Brecht, David Henry Hwang, Gina Gionfriddo, In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Lynn Nottage, Pulitzer Prize, San Jose Rep, TheatreWorks, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 21 Apr 09 - 1 Comment
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage. Photo by the LA Times Lynn Nottage’s play Ruined, inspired by Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama. The play, about a Congolese brothel run by a woman named Mama Nadi, is about a country torn apart by civil war and about a woman [...]
Video heaven! [title of show], Beautiful People, Legally Brown
Archived in the category: Beautiful People, Broadway, In the Heights, Seth Rudetsky, TV, [title of show]
Posted by Chad Jones on 20 Oct 08 - 0 Comments
Oh, so many things to watch in this YouTube world of ours. Let’s get started with a tribute to the now-closed Broadway show [title of show], which had an incredibly devoted and active fan base, as you’ll see in this version of “Nine People’s Favorite Thing.” Now here’s a taste of the BBC series “Beautiful [...]
Odds & ends: Legally Brown, `Spring’ cast blog
Posted by Chad Jones on 09 Sep 08 - 0 Comments
You’ve gotta see this hilarious spoof of MTV’s terrible “Legally Blonde the Musical: The Search for the Next Elle Woods.” It’s related to In the Heights, and it’s called “Legally Brown: The Search for the Next Piragua Guy.” Matthew Morrison, Cheyenne Jackson, Hunter Bell and other Broadway folks show up. Also, now that the Spring [...]
A Broadway blast: `South Pacific,’ `Gypsy,’ `In the Heights’
Archived in the category: Boyd Gaines, Broadway, Gypsy, In the Heights, Laura Benanti, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, South Pacific, musicals, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 01 Sep 08 - 1 Comment
A quick Labor Day trip to New York allowed me a little long overdue catching up on some Broadway shows. I had three slots available, and I filled them all with musicals. Yes, I could have seen August: Osage County and any number of plays. Yes, I could have seen my dearly beloved [title of [...]
Helping Broadway musicals go (sh-k-) Boom!
Archived in the category: Adam Pascal, Bailey Hanks, Broadway, CDs, Ghostlight Records, In the Heights, Kurt Deutsch, Legally Blonde, Orfeh, Passing Strange, Patti LuPone, Sh-K-Boom Records, Sherie Rene Scott, The Drowsy Chaperone, [title of show], bare, musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 16 Aug 08 - 1 Comment
Kurt Deutsch didn’t mean to get into the record business. The self-described “total theater guy” grew up in St. Louis going to theater whenever possible (usually at The Muny) and then studied directing and acting in college. His big break came when Evan Handler had to leave the Broadway production of Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound [...]
Great American musical roundup
Archived in the category: A Catered Affair, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Broadway, CDs, Faith Prince, Harry Connick Jr., Harvey Fierstein, In the Heights, John Bucchino, Kelli O'Hara, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Passing Strange, Rodgers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, Stew, musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 03 Jul 08 - 1 Comment
We have a tradition here at Theater Dogs, and that is to commemorate the Fourth of July by celebrating the greatest American art form: the musical. It was an interesting year on Broadway for new musicals. Below are reviews of cast albums for three of them (I passed on Little Mermaid because I love [...]
Tony ratings up!(sort of)
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Posted by Chad Jones on 17 Jun 08 - 0 Comments
Before we get to the news, here’s a clip from the Tony Awards broadcast featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning best musical In the Heights. OK. Now the news. Like gas prices, the Tony Awards broadcast ratings were higher this year. Official word from CBS is that “The 62nd Annual Tony Awards” was up 5 percent [...]
Missing the Tonys
Archived in the category: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, In the Heights, Passing Strange, Patti LuPone, Rodgers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, Stephen Sondheim, Steppenwolf Theatre, Stew, Tony Awards, Tracy Letts, Uncategorized, musicals, plays, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 16 Jun 08 - 1 Comment
For the last four days I’ve been in Ashland, Ore., reviewing shows at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for the San Francisco Chronicle (more on that later), and while the Tonys were on Sunday night, I was at the opening of a new musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. Of course I’ll watch the [...]
Ramping up to the Tony Awards
Archived in the category: A Chorus Line, Broadway, Disney, In the Heights, Laurie Metcalf, Mario Lopez, Mel Brooks, Passing Strange, Patrick Stewart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Little Mermaid, The View, Tony Awards, Tracy Letts, Whoopi Goldberg, Xanadu, Young Frankenstein, awards, musicals, plays, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 11 Jun 08 - 1 Comment
This Sunday, the Tony Awards will be handed out. Here’s what you need to know (and get busy organizing your Tony party — we’ve got to get those dismal ratings out of the basement so CBS will continue broadcasting the darn things). For the first time, there will be pre-ceremony Tony Concert chock full of [...]
