Opera Theater of Pittsburgh is an American opera business based in Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. It is among 2 opera business in the city, the other being Pittsburgh Opera. Opera Theater of Pittsburgh carries out at The Twentieth Century Club in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh and at non-traditional locations around the city. Opera Theater of…
Chicago The Musical (Atlanta Edition) featured a lovely Roxie Hart and a feisty Velma Kelly with an obviously experienced Billy Flynn. A production that served as a nice showcase for their locales to lead the musical, everyone had fun at the Atlanta Lyric Theater since it made them rediscover their locales in another light. But…
Welcome to our analysis of Chicago the Musical. I just realized how several versions of “All That Jazz”, “Funny Honey” and “Razzle Dazzle” sung outside the Hollywood really got me thinking about this hit musical. Who would have thought the minimalist presentation of a musical would experience as many revivals as it is now? It’s…
Ballet Philippines presents on its 45th Anniversary Season “Manhid: The Pinoy Superhero Musical”. Just in time for the EDSA People Power Anniversary which usually falls on the last week of February, the story is based on the premise of “What if the People Power failed?” Sounds like a dystopian musical to me. Written and composed…
Chicago the Musical’s Australian ensemble once granted Dance Life Australia an exclusive interview since apart from the singing, most of the memorable numbers in this hit musical involved dancing – a lot of dancing. And we often forget the rigorous level of preparation involved in putting up a production such as this. Dance Life Australia…
It’s on! Chicago The Musical, Albuquerque leg was done weeks ago but the sensation it brought to the one of the top cities in New Mexico today can still be felt knowing how this hit musical just made a parody of the American justice, just in case you think that it’s not yet a parody…
Frozen in Broadway! Um, no, I’m not referring to the blizzards. You can tell your kids to resume singing “Let It Go” now that a live musical version of the Academy Award-winning animated musical “Frozen” is in the works. TheaterMania reports that Frozen producer, Peter Del Vecho, has confirmed said news. Unfortunately, no timeline is…
“Phantom of the Opera” musical vs movie adaptation is an interesting focal point of discussion. We just need to acknowledge some differences, both nuanced and glaring, that are evident in either version. The challenge that we see though is picking which version of the musical to compare to the movie. I will go with the…
A case study regarding “The Phantom of the Opera: Musical vs Book” in unavoidable. Some hit musicals are based on classic best sellers like this. Usually it starts as a play adapted from the book which in turn gets adapted into a musical. In this case though, the version that used less music was the…
For folks like me constantly scouring the internet for teasers, trailers and interviews about musicals, the best shortcut is often YouTube. The next thing you realize, you find a channel with that checkmark signifying that the channel you stumbled upon is a verified account of “The Phantom of the Opera” It has most of the…