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Book News/Preview: Elysa Gardner’s “Magic to Do” Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of “Pippin” Opening (Releases in November 2022)

October 4, 2022 | book review, Broadway, do this one thing for me, hamilton, News, Previews > | "Magic to Do", Bob Fosse, David Roberts, Elysa Gardner, Pippin, Stephen Schwartz, Theatre Reviews Limited

Applause Books is proud to announce the November 2022 release of Magic to Do (192 pages • 978-1-4930-6435-9• Hardback) by Elysa Gardner. In Magic to Do, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of Pippin’s opening, two-time Pulitzer Prize jury member Elysa Gardner turns her attention to this innovative show, the musical retelling of the story of Prince Pippin, son of Charlemagne,…

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Broadway Review: “Cost of Living” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre (Closed Sunday, November 6, 2022)

“Cost of living indexes are meant to compare the expenses an average person can expect to incur to acquire food, shelter, transportation, energy, clothing, education, healthcare, childcare, and entertainment in different regions.” – Investopedia The folks in Martyna Majok’s “Cost of Living,” currently running at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, are not “average people” and they experience the…

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Regional Review: “Evita” at Bucks County Playhouse (Closed Sunday, October 30, 2022)

September 26, 2022 | News, Previews, Regional (Pennsylvania) > | "Evita", Amanda Rivera-Torres, Andrés Acosta, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bucks County Playhouse, Casting is by Paul Hardt CSA, Choreographed by Marcos Santana, Costume Design: Michael McDonald, David Roberts, Devin Cortez, Directed by Will Pomerantz., Edgar Cavazos, Edgar Lopez, Edlyn Gonzalez, Gabriella Enriquez, Hair and Wig Design: Bobbie Ziotnik, Jimena Flores Sanchez, Juan Guillen, Lighting Design: Mike Billings, Lyrics by Tim Rice, Madeline Serrano, Maria Bilbao, Marissa Barragán, Michelle Alves, Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Music Director: Aaron Jodoin, Pablo Torres, Scenic Design: Anna Louizos, Sean Francis Patrick is production stage manager., Sophia Viscuse, Sound Design: Charles Coe, Theatre Reviews Limited, Tim Rice, Zach Bravo

Anyone who might enjoy an evening at the theater and resides within a reasonable distance to New Hope, Pa., should definitely set aside some time to enjoy the current production of “Evita” at Buck’s County Playhouse. Director Will Pomeranz has transferred his production of this show from Bay Street Theater in New York, which is reimagined, placing dance front and…

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Off-Broadway Review: OHenry Productions “This Beautiful Future” at the Cherry Lane Theatre (Closed Sunday, October 30, 2022)

Elodie (Francesca Carpanini) and Otto (Uly Schlesinger) reunite in a bedroom after they meet in a town square in Chartres, France in August 1944. Crazy things happened in the square including Elodie having what seems an epileptic seizure. A woman laughed at Elodie, and Otto wanted to spit on her. Before Elodie arrives, she has visited the bombed out Gornall’s…

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Broadway News/Previews: “Kimberly Akimbo” Opens on Broadway at the Booth Theatre on Thursday, November 10, 2022

The box office for the critically lauded and wildly popular new musical, Kimberly Akimbo, will open on Wednesday, September 7 at 10 a.m. at the Booth Theatre (222 West 45th Street). The Booth Theatre box office will be open Monday through Saturday from 10am to 6pm. After opening to rave reviews last fall, Kimberly Akimbo will begin previews on Broadway…

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Broadway News/Previews: “Sweeney Todd” Begins Performances at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on February 26, 2023

Tony and Grammy-nominated multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban and Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford will both return to Broadway this spring in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Thomas Kail. Featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Hugh Wheeler, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street will begin performances on February…

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Off-Broadway Review: Primary Stages’ “On That Day in Amsterdam at 59E59 Theaters (Through Sunday, September 4, 2022)

Promising a touching love story following a one-nightstand encounter in Amsterdam, Clarence Coo’s “On That Day in Amsterdam” (currently on at 59E59 Theaters) delivers instead a convoluted story of risk, disenfranchisement, immigration policy, art history, and duplicity that has little to do with the narrative’s main characters. This is unfortunate given the actors are outstanding, the direction first-rate, and the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Butcher Boy” at Irish Repertory Theatre (Through Sunday, September 11, 2022)

August 22, 2022 | butcher boy, Off-Broadway > | "The Butcher Boy", Amanda Quaid is the Dialect Coach, Andrea Lynn Green, April Ann Kline is the Production Stage Manager, Asher Muldoon, Barry McNabb, Carey Rebecca Brown, Carol Rosegg, Casting is by JZ Casting, Christian Strange, Ciarán O’Reilly, costume design by Orla Long, Dan Macke, Daniel Marconi, David Baida, David Hancock Turner, David Roberts, Emma Camp, Emma Camp is the Assistant Choreographer, Irish Repertory Theatre, Jade Doina is the Assistant Stage Manager, Joe Cassidy, Kerry Conte, Liam Prendergast is the Assistant Director, lighting design by Kat Zhou, Mask Design is by Stanley Allan Sherman Mask Arts Company, Michele Ragusa, Nicholas Barasch, orchestrations by Muldoon and Sammy Grob, Patrick McCabe, Polly McKie, projection design by Dan Scully, Properties are by Brandy Hoang Collier, Rick Sordelet is the Fight Director, Sam Hartley, scenic design by Charlie Corcoran, Scott Stangland, sound design by M. Florian Staab, Teddy Trice, Theatre Reviews Limited

As children fishing together and hanging out at the hide they had built in the chicken house, Francie Brady (an emotive and troubled Nicholas Barasch) and Joe Purcell (the effervescent and spirited understudy Dan Macke at this performance) know they could “live this way forever.” But both boys live in Ireland’s troubling neocolonial times. The political violence and the economic…

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Off-Broadway Preview: “Four Saints in Three Acts” at The Doxsee at Target Margin Theater (Through Sunday, October 9, 2022)

August 12, 2022 | News, Off-Broadway, Previews > | "Four Saints in Three Acts", Aaron Epstein, David Greenspan, David Roberts, Gertrude Stein, Ken Rus Schmoll, Target Margin Theater, Theatre Reviews Limited, Virgil Thomson

The Lucille Lortel Theatre presents a solo play presentation of Four Saints in Three Acts, starring renowned actor David Greenspan (The Patsy, Strange Interlude) interpreting 66 unique roles. Four Saints in Three Acts is a culmination of Greenspan’s more than decade long journey into creating a tour de force trilogy of solo interpretations of plays from the 1920’s. These previous…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” at The Theater at St. Clements (Closed Sunday, August 14, 2022)

“Skipper and me had a clean, true thing between us!–had a clean friendship, practically all our lives, till Maggie got the idea you’re talking about. Normal? No!–It was too rare to be normal, any true thing between two people is too rare to be normal.” – Brick in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” It is Big Daddy’s (a scrappy…

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