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Angela Tricarico September 21, 2016

  Hello, Dolly! Lines up an all star cast! As previously announced, Bette Midler will take on the iconic role of Dolly Gallagher Levi in the revival of Hello, Dolly!. Acting opposite is  David...

A Look at the World Cup of Hockey

A Look at the World Cup of Hockey

Angela Tricarico September 14, 2016

While some NHL rivalries are being swept aside in the name of national pride, others are being renewed for the first time since the 2014 Sochi Olympics as the World Cup of Hockey begining in Toronto on...

Jersey Boys on Broadway 

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This Week in Theater

Angela Tricarico September 14, 2016

An era has ended! The 2006 Tony Award winning Best Musical Jersey Boys announced that they will close on January 15, 2017 after over 11 years and 4,000 performances at Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre....

What’s on Broadway

Angela Tricarico September 7, 2016

Once On This Island will return to Broadway! The 1990 Tony award nominee for best musical will be given its first revival, directed by Michael Arden (the Tony award nominated director behind Deaf West...

Cast Albums You Should Listen To

Angela Tricarico April 27, 2016

Next to Normal, Original Broadway Cast – 2009 This rock musical, by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey is absolutely haunting. It is Tony nominated and Pulitzer Prize winning. Next To Normal tells the story...

To Life! Fiddler on the Roof releases a New Cast Album

Angela Tricarico April 6, 2016

Traditions are coming to life again on the stage of the Broadway Theater eight times a week. In December, the sixth revival of Fiddler on the Roof, the timeless musical by Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock and...

Swinging in Hamilton

Angela Tricarico March 2, 2016

Hamilton is currently the most talked about show on Broadway. Everyone seems to be trying to get those coveted tickets to end up in “the room where it happens.” Brandon Hudson is a swing in the show;...

Broadway Can’t WAITress

Angela Tricarico February 24, 2016

“Sugar, Butter, Flour… “ This is the first line from Sara Bareilles’s most recent release from this past November: What’s Inside: Songs from Waitress. If you didn’t know that What’s Inside...

Show Spotlight

Angela Tricarico February 24, 2016

What: An American in Paris is a musical based on the 1951 movie of the same name. The musical and film are based off George and Ira Gershwin’s music. An American soldier, Jerry, decides to stay in Paris...

Grease: Live! Sets the Bar for Live Television Musicals

Angela Tricarico February 17, 2016

The bar for live television musicals has officially been raised by FOX’s live production of the 1971 stage musical and 1978 movie Grease. Seen by over 12.8 million viewers nationwide, it became...

Chris Rice Swings from Part to Part in The Book of Mormon

Angela Tricarico February 10, 2016

Recently, I got the chance to talk to Christopher Rice via email. Rice is a swing on Broadway’s The Book Of Mormon.  A swing is a non-performing member of the chorus who goes on when a member of the...

The Bells of Notre Dame

Angela Tricarico February 3, 2016

For fans of Disney’s animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the studio cast recording of the new musical is a real treat. You may be thinking: I didn’t know that Hunchback had been rewritten...

Show Spotlight

Angela Tricarico February 3, 2016

What: Noises Off is essentially a play about a play. The characters are all mediocre actors in a play titled Nothing On, and the play shows three different disastrous performances of Nothing On. There...

An Interview with Spring Awakening’s Kathryn Gallagher

Angela Tricarico December 9, 2015

In two previous articles, I’ve written about Deaf West’s Spring Awakening, and as the semester winds down here, so does their Broadway run. The extremely limited run ends in January. It’s been great...

Interview with Sean Grandillo: A Broadway Triple Threat

Angela Tricarico November 18, 2015

Deaf West’s revival of Shiek and Sater’s Spring Awakening, is one of the hottest revivals on Broadway, and recently swept the Los Angeles Stage Alliance’s Ovation Awards. The entire company was just...

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