If there is one thing we all need this summer it is an exhilarating feel-good movie to lift our spirits and take us out of our post-Covid doom. Lin Manuel-Miranda’s “In the Heights” is just that and so much more. Director Jon M Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) gives us this exuberant block party in … Continue reading
Dear Evan Hansen may have a sad underlining theme about societal pressures on queer teenagers but this multi-Tony Award-winning musical is such a sheer joy to experience. It started out with its origins in an incident that took place during writer Benj Pasek’s high school years and it takes the notion of “teenage Evan Hansen … Continue reading
Now that the Lockdown restrictions are being lifted across the US at least, theaters are beginning to open up again. Including the Epiphinay Theater in Fort Lauderdale who are about to mount a new production of Nunsense Amen. When the original version opened on Off-Broadway in 1985 for four days at Manhattan‘s Duplex and remained … 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
The singer and Tony nominated Broadway actor Sam Harris wrote a memoir, which he parlayed into a one man stage show picking up Ovation Awards in LA, and now its a full blooded film. Most people know of Harris from when he won TV’s first ever talent show Star Search back in 1987 but … Continue reading