As we drove along US Route 1 in Maine last week, we passed the Ogunquit Playhouse, a regional theater that hosts bus-and-truck touring companies of shows like “Jersey Boys,” “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” and “An American In Paris.” The marquee outside said the current offering was “Grumpy Old Men: The Musical,” with Sally Struthers and Hal […]
I was only familiar with Terry Fator from clips of him winning “America’s Got Talent” eleven years ago. He parlayed that into a regular gig (and a theater named after him) in Las Vegas, where he’s played for the last decade. Several of my friends have seen and raved about him, so I thought I’d […]
My wife and I have seen Penn & Teller many times since they made their off-Broadway debut in the mid-1980s, but haven’t gone back for seven years or so until this weekend. I’m glad we did. Unlike other Vegas acts, who have been doing the same tricks over and over, year after year, P&T regularly […]
Why would I buy tickets to see Steve Martin and Martin Short at The Fox Theatre later this year when I just watched their entire show on Netflix? Even if I had only seen bits and pieces of it, I still wouldn’t go because they didn’t make me smile, let alone laugh. The show’s subtitle, […]
NBC has announced that the next musical it will turn into a live television event is “Hair” (“The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical”). The first Broadway show with a rock and roll score, it debuted fifty years ago (after four months off-Broadway), right smack dab in the middle of the generation gap, the anti-war movement, the […]
I see that Eric Idle has made a deal to turn his hit Broadway musical “Spamalot” into a movie. It won’t be a filmed version of a stage production, but a revision made specifically for the screen. As much as I loved the show, I wish everyone involved would pause long enough to watch the […]