SPAMALOT , also known at  MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT: A MUSICAL (LOVINGLY) RIPPED OFF FROM THE MOTION PICTURE MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL...

Normally, juke-box musicals, which are scripts created from pre-conceived music, have songs shoe-horned into what is generally an acceptable...

  Well-written, directed, acted and emotionally-wrenching  THE NOTEBOOK THE MUSICAL  starts national tour in Cleveland   Roy Berko   THE NOT...

  Offerings of the musical theater cover a vast array of topics.  There is the tale of the young prince who wants to find his “Corner of the...

Yann Martel is noted for his ability to write tales filled with adventure, survival and spirituality.  His novel,  LIFE OF PI , sold more th...

  BYE BYE BIRDIE, HAIR, GREASE, CARRIE, 13 (MUSICAL), DEAR EVAN HANSEN, MEAN GIRLS .  What do all these Broadway musicals have in common?  T...

  David Greene, in his program notes for The Neil Diamond Musical  A BEAUTIFUL NOISE , states, “Great songwriters have a distinct voice and ...

Stephen Sondheim is generally considered the most important composer/lyricist of the 20 th  century American musical theater.  Many consider...

    Fania Borch was one of early 20 th  century vaudeville’s greatest stars.  Fania??  Oh, Fanny Brice, as she was known on the Ziegfeld Fol...

  Every once in a while a theater-goer sees a production in which it becomes apparent that the lead actor was born to play a role.  Julie An...

  The farcical, yet message-loaded  HAIRSPRAY,  is the type of musical that in a bad production falls flat, but in a good production the aud...