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Well-deserved congratulations are still pouring in to Raúl Esparza, Mary-Mitchell Campbell and Paul Wontorek. Triumvirates rarely succeed, but this one did (despite some early technical difficulties) with TAKE ME TO THE WORLD: A SONDHEIM 90TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION. It was a benefit for ASTEP – the acronym for Artists Striving to End Poverty. Lord knows that this […]

For reasons that you well know, SING STREET didn’t open on Broadway on April 19. At least there was a livestreamed-at-home concert on April 30 that raised over $300,000 in a single broadcast. So successful was it that it ran an extra four days. This allowed thousands to see this musical that’s full of joy. […]

Two weeks ago, I gave some questions that I took from my Sunday podcasts on www.broadwayradio.com. I promised the answers in two weeks’ time, and I’ll stay true to my word. 1—The song from a ‘60s musical that mentions all five of New York City’s boroughs – but refers to Staten Island as Richmond, its […]

Thanks to so many of you who wrote to say that you liked my article of two weeks ago. It urged you, in these arduous times, to stay at home and safely travel by way of your cast albums: Paris through SILK STOCKINGS, England via DARLING OF THE DAY, Greece courtesy of THE HAPPIEST GIRL […]

Most Sundays of the year, I can be heard on www.broadwayradio.com. James Marino, Michael Portantiere and I discuss what we’ve seen on stage (which lately hasn’t been easy to do). The culmination of each episode has me giving a brainteaser about musicals and/or plays. It’s become a rather popular feature, thanks to such scholars as […]