With 50 million records sold on her resume I guess no one should be surprised that Nigerian-English recording artist Sade is # 1 on the Billboard 200. Her new release, Soldier of Love, combines a modern R&B sound with a mystical world music feel. The release is her sixth album and first in ten years […]
Simba, Mufasa, Timon, and Pumbaa have been entertaining audiences long after Disney’s 1994 The Lion King became the highest grossing traditionally animated film of all time. In 1997 a musical version of The Lion King hit Broadway and was a instant success. The music of Elton John, Tim Rice, Hans Zimmer, and South African composer […]
All around the theater world, there are problems getting the necessary funding to get the job done. Grant money has dried up for the moment and shows just don’t have much in the way of resources. So many of them are turning creative to get the job done in a way that’s still interesting and […]
When the musical Show Boat first appeared in 1927, it quickly became a favorite of musical theater fans. In some ways it set the standard for many subsequent Broadway productions, in terms of its style and the kinds of numbers that it puts onstage. In the intervening time, we have seen a sea change on […]
There is a new production of Young Frankenstein being put on. Now, the last time that we heard from this story, it was on Broadway with a reportedly subpar musical score that distracted from the actual plot. It was generally regarded as less entertaining than expected. Then again, people who are fans of the movie […]
Jude Law’s Hamlet has come to Elsinore Castle finally, after a rather long run in London. The idea was originally to bring in young people to the shows with Law’s dapper looks, and this has worked well. Hamlet is a great part to play and Law is one of the best actors around to play […]
Bonnie Tyler tunes are some of the most famous in the world. There are a lot of different pieces that people will remember when you hum it. But perhaps her most important is “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, which was her main number one chart topper. It was very popular in the US, UK, France […]
Rob Thomas, the former lead singer of Matchbox Twenty, has been one of the most successful musicians in the pop-rock scene over the last couple decades. I have been reading this week about the fact that Rob Thomas concert tickets are on sale. My response was: “he’s still touring??” I hadn’t known that at all! […]
In the West End, there are lots of different kinds of musicals to see. But unlike in the older days, when the shows would be epic and the music beautiful, the style now seems to be more into the overdone, wacky style of musicals. Rather than a beautiful Christine singing “Think of Me”, they’ll get […]
One of the new playwrights on the New York scene is Zakiyya Alexander, the author of “10 Things to Do Before I Die”. According to this reviewer, the show isn’t all that great, because the characters just like to talk about themselves and it’s not completely consistent with the difficulties that they are having in […]
