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Next Sunday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s “March Madness” will officially begin. We’ll know which sixty-eight teams will play for the 2013 NCAA’s men’s basketball championship. As for musical theater, we got a head start on “March Madness” a couple of weeks ago. That’s when I started making suggestions on how to go delightfully mad […]

As I wrote last week, if college basketball can have “March Madness,” so can musical theater. My column of February 26 stated that aficionados should spend March going delightfully mad. Each day of the month, they could play as few as one song or as many as found on a cast album that celebrates a […]

And here it comes: that annual sporting event that’s unashamedly come to be known as “March Madness.” Much of the country will be watching to see which college basketball teams will be part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s 65-team tournament. Then fans will watch almost non-stop to see which “Cinderella teams” will do well […]

It’s one of those Tony-winning musicals that doesn’t get done very often – and certainly not enough. But sharp director John Simpkins decided that his students at NYU Steinhardt could do City of Angels – and he was right. If you didn’t catch this production between February 7 and 11, you missed hearing Cy Coleman’s […]

Here’s hoping that you can make it to New York this month and next to see the York Theatre Company’s four “Musicals in Mufti.” Starting this weekend, Mufti – which does readings of musicals without benefit of costumes – will do Two by Two (February 15-17). It will be followed by Hollywood Pinafore (March 1-3), […]