With PSAT scores through the roof, 15-year-old high school student Emma Dorfman has become a hot commodity. In the world of Monetizing Emma, Felipe Ossa’s inventive off-off-Broadway play now running (once again) at the FringeNYC Festival, she is not just a smart teenager; she’s an investment. In 2013, the Jane Austen-loving teen is part of [...]
I will be honest: I can’t understand why The Addams Family got slammed by so many critics. For a show that provides such a quintessential Broadway experience – spectacular art direction, big-name stars, laugh-out-loud comedy, and crowd-pleasing musical numbers – judging it on anything other than its fun-spirited energy seems beside the point. Forgive me [...]
With the 64th Tony season underway, Best Musical nominee Million Dollar Quartet just might be the dark horse come awards night June 13. On the surface, it looks like a musical that grandparents would like — a soundtrack of early rock ‘n’ roll hits by legends Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee [...]
Before Angelina and Brad, Lucy and Desi, Marilyn and Joe, there were Zelda and Scott. The Fitzgeralds were the “it” couple of the Roaring Twenties: young and beautiful, impulsive and idealistic, glamorous and hopelessly restless for a life that even the Great Gatsby might not have dreamed of. Their story, from their passionate love affair [...]
When I first learned Green Day’s American Idiot was opening on Broadway April 20, 2010, I was ecstatic. The rock musical, about young people coming of age in post-9/11 America, looked like it had the potential to be the next Spring Awakening – winner of 2007’s Tony Award for Best Musical. And it certainly seemed [...]
As Act I stretched on, a daunting reality set in: These people are never really going to talk, are they? Sure, the choreography to Come Fly Away, Twyla Tharp’s new jukebox “musical” based on the Frank Sinatra songbook, was undeniably high-caliber, and the romantic moonlit stage atmosphere transported audiences to the magic of a bygone [...]
It wasn’t enough for Andrew W.K. to sing about parties — he needed to create them. Larry Getlen talks to New York’s newest nightlife king to find out what drives him to Party Hard. When singer Andrew Wilkes-Krier — better known as Andrew W.K. — hit it big in 2001 with his debut album “I Get [...]
Coaches are great in baseball and acting, but do they work in life? Diana Spechler takes the plunge and finds out. I recently learned that Jayson Blair is now a life coach in Virginia. If you’re wondering why that name sounds familiar, it’s because he was famous once, for about five minutes, when he got caught [...]
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