musical
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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…
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Its time for NUNSENSE AMEN!
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…
