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Now that we’re approaching Pride Week, let’s listen to the musical theater songs that will keep it gay. Including, of course, “Keep It Gay” from THE PRODUCERS, where we meet flamboyant Roger De Bris and Carmen Ghia. That was in 2001, by which point full out-of-the-closet gays were routinely seen on the Broadway stage. But […]

Although it closed 100 years ago this week, its logo is on the front cover of a brand-new book. Dan Dietz’ THE COMPLETE BOOK OF 1910s BROADWAY MUSICALS details 312 book shows from that decade. Thus, any one of them could have been pictured on its cover: HOP O’ MY THUMB, THE MELTING OF MOLLY, […]

NINETEEN WONDERFUL GUYS would be a more apt title. Yet Eddie Shapiro, author of A WONDERFUL GUY, used the singular when naming his 358-page tome of “conversations with the great men of musical theater.” Actually, after you read his new book from Oxford University Press, you might up that nineteen to twenty. For Shapiro – […]

Mark Horowitz has been thoroughly enjoying himself. The Senior Music Specialist at the Library of Congress has been reading the letters that Oscar Hammerstein II had received and sent that suggested what his next musical should be. Although Hammerstein said no to many, other collaborators wound up writing their own musicals on the subjects. Offers […]

Did you miss it on Dec. 11, 1966? Whether you were busy that night or unborn, you probably did (as did I). But on this May 16 – nearly fifty-five years after it had aired for the first and only time on CBS – Buzzr let us catch up to that Sunday’s episode of the […]