In “The Wiz,” the all-Black version of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” that debuted on Broadway in the 1970s, Dorothy never sang “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” nor wore ruby red slippe...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/17/the-wiz-broadway-review/
A woman is pictured as a machine several times in “Lempicka,” a musical about Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), an artist whose heyday was in the 1930s, painting Art Deco-style portraits of ri...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/14/lempicka-broadway-review/
With Tax Day approaching, here are seven times that characters have sung or talked about taxes in Broadway musicals, from “I’ll Put a Tax on That” in Casino Girl 1910 to “My Shot” and �...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/13/taxes-in-broadway-musicals/
In “The Outsiders,” opening on Broadway tonight, an exciting cast of gifted young performers, a lovely if little-varied folk and country score, and some thrillingly muscular, almost cinematic...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/11/the-outsiders-broadway-review/
Since the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel of the Jazz Age – on April 10, 1925, 99 years ago today — “The Great Gatsby” has been turned into an opera, a ballet, several m...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/04/10/the-great-gatsby-the-1926-broadway-script/
There is a core of irresistibly tuneful songs in “The Who’s Tommy” that have drawn in fans for more than half a century, first with the rock band’s pioneering 1969 double album, then th...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/03/28/the-whos-tommy-broadway-review/
When at the start of “Water for Elephants,” Jacob jumps a train during the Depression, he lucks out – and so do we.“You didn’t jump just any old train, son,” a character named Camel t...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/03/21/water-for-elephants-broadway-review/
Jeremy Strong as a righteous scientist? Michael Imperioli as his pompous, persnickety brother? One might initially question this casting. Strong is best known for his recent role as Kendall Roy i...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/03/18/enemy-of-the-people-broadway-review/
A look at the final stretch of the Broadway 2023-2024 season:: The sixteen Broadway shows opening over the next six weeks, starting tomorrow and ending April 25th, the cut-off date for Tony eligi...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/03/17/broadway-spring-2024-previews-the-final-16/
They’re selling a little box of tissues branded with the logo of “The Notebook: The Musical” at Broadway’sGerald Schoenfeld Theater, where it’s opening tonight – perhaps the produ...
https://newyorktheater.me/2024/03/14/the-notebook-broadway-review/