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Steppin' Out: FRANK VIGNOLA'S "GUITAR NIGHT" at BIRDLAND
There is so much great music still being made nocturnally in NYC. I fell into Birdland recently for one hell of a moonstruck gig: the inimitable Frank…
Jul 16
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Here and Gone: "UNCLE VANYA"
Lincoln Center Theater’s recent production of Uncle Vanya, a sellout from the get-go, with a celebrity-strewn cast led by Steve Carrell, closed out its…
Jul 2
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Here and Gone: "UNCLE VANYA"
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June 2024
I Wanna Go Back: "THE NOTEBOOK"
I love a quiet start to a musical. I love the guts it takes, particularly in our confetti-canon-blasting musical theater moment, to begin a musical in…
Jun 16
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Up From the Neighborhood: "HELL'S KITCHEN"
Hell’s Kitchen hit me right where my friends used to live. Almost everyone I knew in the theater was living in and around Hell’s Kitchen in the early…
Jun 11
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May 2024
Just Dance Me: "ILLINOISE"
Illinoise, the new dance-musical choreographed and directed by NYC Ballet master Justin Peck, that recently came to Broadway for a limited run (and…
May 31
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Just Dance Me: "ILLINOISE"
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Give Me Back My Book: "THE GREAT GATSBY"
This Broadway season has made musicals out of my two favorite books as a kid: S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby…
May 20
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GIVE WKCR A PRIZE
At the height of the “Free Palestine” tent un-settlement at Columbia University (just up the block from my apartment), when the helicopters multiplied…
May 7
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April 2024
"THE GRAPES OF WRATH:" Ricky Ian Gordon's Opera
If you’re going to reconnect with a composer you admire but have lately lost, you might as well reconnect at Carnegie Hall. That’s what I did with Ricky…
Apr 29
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"WATER FOR ELEPHANTS:" Very Old Circus Stories
I have some history with circuses. From age 16, throughout high school, I worked the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey circus as a Madison Square Garden…
Apr 9
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"DOUBT" FREE
The name of the play is Doubt for a reason. It isn’t about certainty, though the subject would seem unequivocal: Child sexual abuse in a religious…
Apr 4
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March 2024
"JELLY'S LAST JAM:" Sweet Substitute
The superlative revival of Jelly’s Last Jam that recently closed at Encores! (and urgently deserves to reopen soon on Broadway) was something I never…
Mar 17
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February 2024
"ONCE UPON A MATTRESS" & "DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES:" Mother and Son
I first met Mary Rodgers 26 years ago this month in the conference room at some theatrically-connected law firm where we’d assembled to hash out…
Feb 14
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