We are often very surprised about how and where composers chose their subject matters when creating a new musical. So far it’s been The First Lady of Argentina, a TS Elliot poetry book about cats, and Tim Rice even based one of his on a game of Chess. Now Joel Goodman & Jan Osborne … Continue reading
Don’t feel bad if you have never never heard of Kate Fox aka The Fabulist Fox Sister, because we haven’t either. But thanks to Brit writer/performer Michael Conley that could be all about to change with what he calls ‘ a musical lie.” Loosely inspired by the loosely true story of Kate Fox, who in … Continue reading
Over the years we’ve got used to composers really stretching their imagination for ideas to create new musicals. Who would thought that a 90-minute show about felines and even one about the wife of a South American dictator would be big smash hits? BUT even so, we think that the latest idea could be … Continue reading
Armistead Maupin’s beloved Tales Of The City started out as a newspaper column over 40 years ago. They morphed into 9 novels, two television mini-series, and then in 2011 into a musical. With a score by Jake Shears (the lead singer of Scissor Sisters, and John “JJ” Garden, and book by Tony Award winner … Continue reading
Twenty four years after she first starred in the Sunset Boulevard, first in L.A. then on Broadway where she won a Tony Award for her performance as Norma Desmond, Glen Close is back in a new revival of the show. This new production originated in London last year when the English National Opera (ENO) presented … Continue reading