musical
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Has Andrew LLoyd Webber finally come out of the (musical) closet?
No the picture above is not taken from some gay porn movie, but is actually a production shot taken of Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber’s new musical. There are no prizes for guessing its name, simply because that would prove too difficult for most of us. This is the new Cinderella. Not the squeaky clean version…
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Armistead Maupin’s Tales of The City Musical : now streaming online
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…
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In The Heights : the feel good Block Party of the Summer
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…
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First look at Dear Evan Hansen heading for movie theaters (and Oscars?)
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…
