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Last week, we discussed Cyril Ritchard, who won the 1954-55 Donaldson Award for both Best Actor in a Musical and Best Featured Actor in a Musical. (Don’t ask. Who can explain it? Who can tell you why?) That said, I did more research on the Donaldsons, which were administered by Billboard. Quite a few Masterworks […]

So did you remember to talk like a pirate on “International Talk like a Pirate Day”? No? Did you even know there was such a thing? Well, there is, and has been for more than a quarter-century. Back in 1995, two Oregonians deemed September 19th as the day when people should greet each other with […]

Turning a motion picture into a Broadway musical is a pretty ordinary occurrence now, but it wasn’t in 1953 when HAZEL FLAGG opened. This was the song-and-dance adaptation of NOTHING SACRED, the 1937 film in which Hazel, a young woman living in Vermont, is diagnosed with a fatal illness. Wally Cook, a reporter for a […]

Some, of course, have suffered more than others have during the pandemic. In addition, while millions have certainly endured substantially greater tragedies than Tom Kitt, these past many months haven’t been easy for him. You’ve heard people under difficult circumstances use the expression “I was hit with a one-two punch”? Kitt has experienced many more […]

Luckily, we don’t have to wait 100 years for the next episodes of SCHMIGADOON! What’s more, the soundtrack from Episodes Two through Six are now readily available. Cinco Paul’s tribute/spoof of Golden Age musicals will have you hear a song that will drive you bananas as you try to place the song that inspired it. […]