The new Broadway cast recording of West Side Story is out today in all the usual outlets (in three dimensions on CD, digitally via iTunes, etc.).
To celebrate the classic work of Leonard Berstein, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents and Jerome Robbins, let’s take a peek at the music video for “Tonight” from the new recording as [...]
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New side of `West Side Story’
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Posted by Chad Jones on 02 Jun 09 - 1 Comment
Watch it: `In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams’
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Posted by Chad Jones on 26 May 09 - 0 Comments
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 is [...]
Delighted by `Ruined,’ Nottage nabs Pulitzer
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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 who is [...]
A Broadway blast: `South Pacific,’ `Gypsy,’ `In the Heights’
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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 show], [...]
Great American musical roundup
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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 the movie [...]
