Tag Archives: Broadway

Burt Bacharach — champion of an elegant but inviting pop sophistication — joins WFUV Music Director Rita Houston for a performance and interview on her The Whole Wide World show over the airwaves in the NYC area and worldwide via the Internet on Friday, November 18 at 8:00 PM. Bacharach, …

The American Theatre Wing’s 59th Annual Tony Awards show, from NYC’s Radio City Music Hall, will be aired on CBS from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. (ET/PT), Sunday, June 5, 2005. Stage and screen star Hugh Jackman, a Tony winner himself for The Boy From Oz, will host for the third …

The value of Rod Stewart’s third entry in his Great American Songbook series is purely a function of how you look at it, or, technically, listen to it. The point of a renowned, veteran singer taking on the Great American Songbook — the loose canon of 20th century standards recorded …

The big brassy strut begins – everyone knows this means the end. I wore out three copies of the single (bigger sound, brighter mastering) of Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York,” putting the final exclamation point on literally thousands of parties in ’80s and ’90s. When Frank came in, the …

This is a very profound and philosophical debate touching upon where our priorities lie as a culture. It sounds like just another turf war between jobs and technology – between Paul Bunyan and the power saw – but it is also about our means of valuation of entertainment and art. …

Grease was a great movie not – the 1978 film version of the wildly popular stage musical starring John Tavolta and Olivia Newton-John squeezed a faux-’50s worldview and musical sensibility through a 20-year filter of wishful thinking that made Happy Days look authentic. This bizarre, mildly bawdy pastiche actually had …

I find myself inexplicably in the company of Elvis Costello cultists – you know who you are. Now please don’t get me wrong (a nice Pretenders song, by the way), Elvis is a major talent in every category, belongs absolutely in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and will …

Thoughts on Hairspray's big Tony sweep. . .

Broadway musician’s strike ends – ten more years of live music on the Great White Way: Broadway’s producers and striking musicians — immediately responding to a request from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to meet with a mediator Monday — bargained through the night, reaching a tentative new four-year contract …

Barbra Streisand has been in the news a fair amount lately, including this flap over political statements made on her website. I still don’t get why anyone gives a fig about what entertainers have to say about politics: I don’t care what politicians have to say about entertainment either. Returning …