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The Saturday List: Favourite Songs from 1980s Musicals
To purchase the Broadway Revival Cast Recording of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, click on the image above. Choosing ten favourite songs from 1980s musicals was considerably easier than choosing songs for simila… more →
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Movie Quote of the Day - Bonjour tristesse, 1958 (dir. Otto Preminger)
wrote 1 week ago: Cecile: It’s getting out of control. I just wish I were a lot older or a lot younger. 41.48711 … more →
Pre-Order Links for the Book: MAMA ROSE'S TURN: The True Story of America's Most Notorious Stage Mother
wrote 1 week ago: What a surprise I just got today! My friend and fellow Gypsy Rose Lee historian, Chuck Mosberger, le … more →
The Saturday List: Favourite Songs from 1980s Musicals
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wrote 1 month ago: To purchase the Broadway Revival Cast Recording of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, click on the image above. Cho … more →
Gypsy @RHCPA: Steppin' Out for Live Theatre
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wrote 1 month ago: Jule Styne (music), Arthur Laurents (book) and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics) debuted Gypsy in May 1959. … more →
The "Mama Roses," Part 5: Patti LuPone
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wrote 3 months ago: Patti LuPone – City Center Gypsy Playbill (Photo credit: Spin Cycle NYC) It’s great to b … more →
Whose West Side Story?
wrote 3 months ago: In 1957, Arthur Laurents created what rightfully can be called theatrical history. Along with compos … more →
The Way We Were
wrote 4 months ago: They say that finding your one true love is finding your match. The one who pushes you into doing be … more →
Drive-In Cacophony- The Way We Were
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wrote 4 months ago: The Way We Were starring Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford never ceases to amaze me each time I wa … more →
Recording of West Side Story Event Discussion
wrote 4 months ago: Onstage and Backstage podcast from Hal Leonard is available on iTunes and Libsyn. Each episode auth … more →
MOVIE MADNESS #138: ROPE (1948)
wrote 5 months ago: In the opening seconds of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1948 film “Rope”, two college friends … more →
Gypsy:A musical fable (1959)--widely agreed to be the best musical
wrote 6 months ago: With a poignant, richly layered plot by Arthur Laurents that also has its many comedic moments, a vi … more →
LGBT History Month: Arthur Laurents
wrote 6 months ago: Playwright/Director, July 14, 1917- May 5, 2011 “Entertainment is dessert. It needs to be balanced b … more →
THEATER REVIEW: West Side Story at the Fox
wrote 8 months ago: Originally published in Belleville News-Democrat after Feb. 15 What It’s About: An iconic love … more →
'West Side Story,' An American Classic
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wrote 9 months ago: I have been fortunate enough to interview several film legends and with this story I landed a biggie … more →
Coming Soon from University Press of Mississippi: My Biography of Rose Thompson Hovick
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wrote 10 months ago: Gypsy Rose Lee, three-quarter length portrait, seated at typewriter, facing right / World Telegram … more →
"Rope" - Death as dinner theater
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wrote 11 months ago: Dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1948, PG, 80 min) I’ve long been a subscriber to Alfred Hitchcock … more →
Review: Everything's Not Coming Up Roses for Gypsy
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wrote 11 months ago: After my delightful evening at Front Row Centre’s Assassins in January, I was really looking f … more →
A Picture's Worth A Thousand Words....
wrote 1 year ago: ….a journey through my adventures on the 1st Broadway National Tour of West Side Story. I had … more →
I am what I am
wrote 1 year ago: Christopher Sieber as Zaza and George Hamilton as Georges in the touring production of "La Cage … more →
