10 Christmas Gifts for Musical Theater Geeks! It is already September. Some of you may be shopping for gifts already. Because November would be rush hour for shoppers. Beyond that would be pandemonium for the best deals. Also Black Friday jitters away please? Some of you may have musical theater geeks for friends. Whether you are far geekier than your friend…
Hamilton The American Musical on Broadway is often viewed as a ground-breaking piece of work. Presenting American history in a way that portrays the multi-racial community that America is today. It all started as a concept album. This was a tidbit shared by Lin Manuel Miranda the night he was invited by the White House….
Fiddler on the Roof The Musical in Broadway. One of the longest running musicals ever staged in Broadway history is back. Tevye and his daughters will enthrall musical theater fans anew this fall. The songs you once fell in love with will hit the airwaves again. Songs that depicted a story between tradition and following…
Dames at Sea in Broadway! Because fun meant expressing it with your feet too. Teasers for the upcoming hit musical did not hesitate from this fact. Tap dancing is one of the main attractions of Dames at Sea The Musical. It also happened to be the main motivation for the main character, Ruby. Ruby collected…
Kiss Me Kate by Opera North in Leeds promises a colorful battle of the sexes. With hits like “Too Darn Hot”, “Wunderbar” and the almost anthemic “I Hate Men”. The audience in Leeds would be treated to a hilarious romp to relationships. The fact that it featured theater performers as characters added color to the…
Jersey Boys in Broadway The Musical is still raking in the bucks. You can even check Broadway.com’s Top 20 list of musicals. Why, oh, why? It involved a piece of American pop culture that everyone can relate to. It’s one of the stories we’ve heard about before. And set to music. Because it is basically…
The Fall of the House of Usher in San Francisco is a double bill production. San Francisco Opera’s final offering for the 2015 Fall season. It presented 2 versions of the same Gothic tale written by Edgar Allan Poe. The two versions are presented in English and French with different composers too. But the haunting…
Billy Porter, through his role as Lola on Kinky Boots in Broadway, has become one of the poster boys for gender equality. Months before the Kim Davis brouhaha about marriage equality, the producers of Kinky Boots in Broadway asked him to deliver a short speech. This was in lieu of the US Supreme Court ruling…
Saul by Handel in Canterbury for a limited time only. While David was hailed as one of the greatest kings the Israelites ever had according to the Bible. Such reputation slowly slipped away from his predecessor, Saul. A work of theatrical art that. It is often compared with William Shakespeare’s King Lear. A king driven to madness may be…
Hairspray The Musical in Canterbury is one of the pit stops for the Hairspray UK Tour. Rarely does a light-hearted musical tackle a rather edgy subject through relatable characters. No other musical the way that Hairspray did. The best way to explain it is music. Music transcends generations and races. It makes harmonies easier for open-minded societies. And it…