Oscar E Moore

In the land of anything can happen, which could be just about anywhere these days, we begin. Sunlight had started to disappear.  A dullness at first.  Then grayness.  Then little or no light t...

http://oscaremoore.com/simi-farkel-holmes-private-eye-a-cautionary-tale

To be perfectly clear this is not GHOSTS by Henrik Ibsen.  This is Ibsen’s Ghost by Charles Busch infamous Queen of drag who can sometimes, most times be a riot on stage in his many portrayals...

http://oscaremoore.com/ibsens-ghost-a-disappointing-drag-primary-stages

I have a cousin.  She’s a mosquito.  I am a fly.  A reincarnated fly.  Oh, the stories I could tell – this being one of them… Matthew by name.   Our families somehow, somewhere had so...

http://oscaremoore.com/mavis-the-mosquito-a-flight-of-fantasy

So what!  So I haven’t got any professional experience.  Just loads of school stuff.  Starring roles, by the way.  I keep telling myself over and over it doesn’t matter.  It doesn’t ma...

http://oscaremoore.com/the-audition

There have been many a Christmas tree in my life.  Even a Hanukkah Bush.  But few were chosen.  And so, I take this time to reflect.  A very personal view. From the ridiculous – does anyone...

http://oscaremoore.com/tis-the-season

Disclaimer #1 I never saw JAWS the movie nor did I ever want to.  Disclaimer # 2 I read the script the night before I saw the production at The John Golden Theater on West 45th Street.  Not at ...

http://oscaremoore.com/the-shark-is-broken-or-how-jaws-was-almost-not-made-sort-of

An overwrought, disappointing production.  Hardly worth all the effort that the participants are so forcefully putting forth to be quaint, amusing, sexy and unbelievably outrageous.  Unfortunat...

http://oscaremoore.com/the-cottage-at-long-last-broadway

Thank you Susan Stroman!  Thank you for keeping alive the musical theater traditions so dear to many.  For your dedication and artistic vision.  Your creativity.  For your honesty and for doi...

http://oscaremoore.com/new-york-new-york-a-beautifully-cobbled-together-newish-musical

Go-o-o-ollee!  It’s been said that “laughter is the best medicine” – that is, second only to corn whiskey.  So perhaps it is, in such a lackluster theatrical season we get SHUCKED.  An...

http://oscaremoore.com/shucked-a-new-musical-comedy-from-hellzapoppin-to-cornzapoppin

  In this impressive revival/revisal of Lerner & Loewe’s melodious and witty musical first produced in 1960, based on T.H. White’s The Once and Future King, director Bartlett Sher and Aaron ...

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