I love theater and have been covering it for over 15 years, and in my lifetime I have never seen Hello, Dolly on Broadway until last night. I never saw the original as I was not born, so I watched the movie last week for the first time to prepare for the musical currently starring with the divine Bette Midler as Dolly Gallagher Levi....
I grew up watching WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY the film with the brilliant Gene Wilder. The movie happens to be one of my childhood favorites and to this day when it is on I watch it. I must have seen it 50 or more times. The show playing on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre is a must for the child that grew up with the...
Friday, April 14, 2017, 7:30 pm Sutton Foster With “the voice of a trumpet and a big, gleaming presence that floods the house” (New York Times), two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster is a giant of Broadway. She has also garnered television celebrity, having formerly starred in the fiercely loved ABC Family series Bunheads and in TV...
The afternoon started with thunder and lightning storms so terrible it looked like the World as we knew it was coming to an end. Just as it was time to travel to the theater, the sun came out and the skies cleared.
Unlike the weather, this play went terribly wrong. A good farce is one of my favorite ways to spend an evening. This...
Corine Cohen: How did you come up with IT GIRL? It is one of my favorite songs and my favorite of your hit show BETTY RULES.
Elizabeth Ziff: I originally wrote this song for a huge, very chic queer party that was happening in the west village years ago that my girlfriend at the time, Maggie Moore, produced. All the IT GIRLS of the...
