The Bob Dylan Broadway musical Girl From The North Country may have had the misfortune of opening just days before the pandemic shut down the live entertainment business in March 2020, but the cast album is coming on August 20th, and the show returns to New York’s Belasco Theater on …
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It was never a question that Andy Señor Jr. was going to be the one to put up Rent in Havana, the first Broadway production to be performed on the island in decades. But first thing’s first: Figure out how he was going to explain to his family why he …
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On Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday, May 24th, the producers of the musical Girl From the North Country, announced that the jukebox musical would resume performances on Broadway on October 13th. To accompany the announcement, the cast of Girl From the North Country shared a video in which they perform Dylan’s …
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If we’re being honest, West Side Story has seemed a little out of date for quite a while. Rather than having the rebellious teenagers of the 1950s represented through rock & roll, the musical about Puerto Ricans newly arrived to New York City being targeted by earlier immigrants (Irish, Poles, …
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Like Baz Luhrmann’s groundbreaking 2001 romantic-tragedy movie before it, Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a poptastic spectacle with a grab bag of famous pop songs. For the stage production, music supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator Justin Levine expanded its sonic landscape, using more than 70 pop songs (credited to 161 writers) …
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“You know, I never thought I’d be doing this,” composer David Yazbek admits. “The fact that I’ve been translating cinematic works to the stage has just been a coincidence. … I’m still surprised. I used to feel like an outsider, like a recording artist who has a day job, but …
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Over 40 years ago, Harvey Fierstein did something that seemed impossible. He shared a story of a gay man, a drag queen, who was looking for love and a “normal” life. His three plays, originally called Torch Song Trilogy, ended up being produced on Broadway and earned him Tonys for …
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