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Tonight’s feature “Is that a young Mrs. Doubtfire on her way out to San Francisco?” - My brother, encountering Marjorie Main for the first time apparently Brother: She’s so young

Fifty years ago tonight at the Winter Garden Theatre, Follies opened on Broadway. 12 previews, 522 performances. A mixed reception. The winner of 7 Tony Awards but—infamously—NOT Best Musical. The

One of the many reasons I call it the most American of musicalshttps://twitter.com/t_ruggeri/status/1310387717792956419 A con man shows up to the most bigoted, anti-immigrant, anti-progress, anti-Catholic town in Iowa and accidentally

Tonight’s feature.My brother has never seen this. *Stockard Channing speaks*My brother: Barbara Stanwyck and her used to take the trolley. My brother: Is *anyone* in this movie under 30?? My

It is remarkable to hear how different Muriel Smith sang "Bali Ha'i" when she played Bloody Mary in London vs when she dubbed Juanita Hall in the South Pacific film.

The audacity of "A Weekend in the Country" to accomplish everything it does. I have never rooted for someone to break up a marriage more in my LIFE. It is

Let's celebrate Company, which opened on Broadway 50 years ago today, and "Another Hundred People"https://soundcloud.com/theatreaficionado/another-hundred-people No celebration of Company is complete without the definitive rendition of

I don't know who needs to hear this but here's Scarlett Strallen and Katherine Kingsley singing "I Don't Know His Name" in the SUBLIME Menier revival of She Loves Me.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Vmpp1cwMQ

I saw August: Osage County on its Broadway opening night. Amy Morton's button for the Dinner Scene got the *wildest* ovation I have ever heard at a non-musical play—and it

When Broadway is able to be back up and running eight times a week, we're gonna need a mindless tap-happy and tap-heavy musical comedy revival. (Crazy for You? My One

Happy 60th anniversary to 'The Music Man,' that most American of musicals, and the hero of its story, Marian Paroo.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN2dWOkvH8A The act one finale of ‘The Music Man’ never fails

For the @NTLive crowd, I saw the original London/Broadway cast of One Man, Two Guvnors three times: opening night on Broadway, the night after @JKCorden won the Tony, and the