It’s a rare all-Aussie musical, thanks to America via Soviet Russia. So is the highly-anticipated Anthony Warlow vehicle Doctor Zhivago any good? Lloyd Bradford Syke has the first review.
Musicals
Daily Proposition: Take a spoonful of sugar in Melbourne
It’ll cost you over $130 for a good seat at Mary Poppins. But unlike other musical theatre experiences, you’ll skip out feeling you got your money’s worth.
Theatre review: Mary Poppins — a most delightful musical
It’ll cost you over $130 for a good seat at Mary Poppins. But unlike other musical theatre experiences, you’ll skip out feeling you got your money’s worth, says Jason Whittaker on theatre blog Curtain Call.
We’re selling performers short by skimping on previews
A Broadway show will run preview performances for a month before opening itself up to critics. Australian shows are rushed to opening night, leaving unrehearsed performers exposed, says Les Solomon.
Crikey Competition: What public figure needs their own musical?
Crikey competition time. Tell us an Australian public figure that deserves their own musical tribute, along the lines of Keating! The Musical. Who gets your vote?
Enron: The Musical
Wall St isn’t the only street full of stories of the GFC, dodgy business deals and shonky accounting, now that Enron — a musical about the rise and fall of the US giant — has hit Broadway.
Daily Proposition: Fly high, the Fame-seeking kids are all right
They’re going to live forever (like the song embedded in your head, a tumour out of remission). They’re going to learn how to fly (high!). They feel it coming together. Fame is back.
Daily Proposition: Sing Happy Birthday to Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim, the man who was taught how to craft a musical by Oscar Hammerstein II, turned 80 recently. So why not revisit some of his classic material — or get to know the man for the first time.
Daily Proposition: Visit a snarky alternate universe
Crikey cinema buff Luke Buckmaster makes the decision of what to see/what not to see tonight at the movies pretty clear-cut. It’s a sad day for musical fans.
Video of the Day: Public Option Annie: an impromptu insurance industry musical
Protestors from Billionaires for Wealthcare interrupt a meeting of insurance lobbyists America’s Health Insurance Plans, which is doing its darndest to stop health care reform — in song!
Video of the Day: Web Site Story — I’m on Twitter, I’m on Twitter!
Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic revisited for the 21st Century. You’ll click your mouse along from start to finish.
Is the Broadway musical in trouble?
The creators of musicals used to embrace life as a series of nutty, uncontrollable happenstance. What happened? asks Stefany Anne Golberg
We’re mad about the Boyle
Her rendition of ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ from Les Misérables has had way more air time than Barack Obama’s inauguration speech. Here are the 10 craziest things said about Susan Boyle.
Hello, Dolly
Making a stage musical of 9 to 5 was not her idea, but the opportunity to create a line extension for her worldwide brand, combined with the creative challenge of writing songs for Broadway, piqued Dolly Parton’s interest.
Video of the Day: Prop 8 — The Musical
“Prop 8 - The Musical” starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more… from Jack Black
