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After three months on hiatus, Theater Dogs is once again back in action!
I was in Sacramento working for an excellent newspaper, but now I’m back in San Francisco and happily on the theater beat once again. At the risk of sounding sappy, can I just say how much I missed it?
Oh, I saw some good [...]
Some members of the Los Angeles company of Wicked (seen above) will be hopping the broomstick north when the production lands at San Francisco’s Orpheum Theatre in January. Photo by Joan Marcus
The Wicked Witch is coming, so keep an eye on your little dog, too.
SHN/Best of Broadway is bringing the hit Broadway musical Wicked back [...]
Not that we’re getting political, but this is just too funny: a mix of presidential politics and show tunes — an unlikely combo.
And the thing is that whoever is singing this re-written ditty from Wicked certainly knows what she’s doing.
Green-faced fans of all kinds swarmed San Francisco’s Union Square on Friday, Sept. 26 – Wicked Day in San Francisco, according to a proclamation from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom – at a party celebrating Wicked’s return to the city that gave it birth next January. Photos by J. Lynne McVey
San Francisco has often been [...]
Wicked, the hit musical positively rolling in green, had its world premiere at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre before heading to Broadway ’s Gershwin Theatre, where it has broken the house record 18 times and regularly grosses more than $1.4 million each week.
Now one of the most successful shows in Broadway history (3.6 million people have [...]
There’s no getting around the fact that for more than 40 years now, Dolly Parton has been a bright light of show business. She quickly transcended her beginnings on country radio and corny country TV shows to become a pop icon, movie star and savvy businesswoman.
She’s one of the most recognizable women in the world, [...]
Tony Award-winning singer/actress Idina Menzel once was Wicked.
Now she’s going viral.
Menzel, who is on a concert tour promoting her most recent solo album, “I Stand,” received a fan video as a birthday present inspired by the title song from her new album.
Now Menzel has her own channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Idinamenzel?ob=1
And there’s a site on [...]
A Tony Award-winner for Wicked (and we all know it isn’t easy being green), Idina Menzel is bringing her concert tour to the Bay Area.
The former Rent star, who just released a major label album called I Stand, will play the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre on Aug. 14.
Though touring to support her new disc, [...]
In terms of Broadway composers, Stephen Schwartz is up there with Sondheim and Lloyd Webber as one of the latter-day saviors of modern musical theater.
From his first show, Godspell, right up through his most recent hit, Wicked, Schwartz has been up, down and in between, but his work has been constant. Some of that work [...]
Megan Hilty (left) as Glinda and Eden Espinosa as Elphaba from the original LA company of Wicked. Photo by Joan Marcus
Old friends, new winners mark 30th anniversary season
Carole Shorenstein Hays and Robert Nederlander’s new SHN/Best of Broadway season marks a milestone: 30 years of bringing Broadway to the Bay Area.
The new season, announced [...]
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