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Liner Note #1: "MARIAN McPARTLAND AT THE PENINSULA LIBRARY 1972"
It’s rare that I get to write a liner note anymore, but recently I found myself with two such assignments — one for an actual LP!
Jul 1
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Liner Note #1: "MARIAN McPARTLAND AT THE PENINSULA LIBRARY 1972"
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June 2025
"LUNAR ECLIPSE:" A Rarified Moment
This year’s showy Tony nominees included actors who juggle multiple roles in a play; every role in a play; ensemble roles in very large ensemble plays…
Jun 13
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"LUNAR ECLIPSE:" A Rarified Moment
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"DEAD OUTLAW:" Whoopee! We're All Gonna Die
Dead Outlaw is the second best musical about a dead body in Broadway history.
Jun 8
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"DEAD OUTLAW:" Whoopee! We're All Gonna Die
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"WONDERFUL TOWN:" Resonances
Encores!
Jun 5
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"WONDERFUL TOWN:" Resonances
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May 2025
"FLOYD COLLINS:" How Glory Goes & Comes Again
On an April evening in 1991 I ventured out to Brooklyn to see my friend Karen Trott in a show I knew nothing about.
May 30
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"FLOYD COLLINS:" How Glory Goes & Comes Again
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"SMASH:" Two Musicals in None
If Smash on TV was about anything at all, it was about believing, with ruthless faith, in your bad idea for a musical.
May 16
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"SMASH:" Two Musicals in None
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More 'Mincemeat': FELIX HAGAN at 54Below (& After)
Underlying my admiration for Operation Mincemeat, the new musical from London that this past week became a multi-Tony-nominee, was one unanswered…
May 6
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More 'Mincemeat': FELIX HAGAN at 54Below (& After)
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April 2025
"TAPPING INTO THE TWENTIES" On A Sunday Afternoon with The American Symphony Orchestra
I rarely get to Sunday afternoon concerts anymore, but it’s a lovely time to hear music.
Apr 22
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"TAPPING INTO THE TWENTIES" On A Sunday Afternoon with The American Symphony Orchestra
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"LOVE LIFE:" S.S. ECHOES AT 'ENCORES!'
I don’t remember ever discussing Love Life with Stephen Sondheim but I do remember him talking about Alan Jay Lerner from time to time, the revered My…
Apr 8
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"LOVE LIFE:" S.S. ECHOES AT 'ENCORES!'
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"MINCEMEAT" & CHURCHILL
I’ve already written glowingly (HERE, almost two years ago) about Operation Mincemeat, the wonderfully unlikely new musical from London that just opened…
Apr 2
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"MINCEMEAT" & CHURCHILL
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March 2025
"GHOSTS" at LCT: All About Parentage
I can’t remember the last time I saw Ibsen’s Ghosts live onstage, but it must have affected me deeply because I don’t usually draw such a blank about my…
Mar 28
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"GHOSTS" at LCT: All About Parentage
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L&L's "Louder Than Words: The Songs and Legacy of Jonathan Larson"
Jonathan Larson was one hell of a lyricist, as he told me not infrequently; sometimes while he was writing a lyric.
Mar 20
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L&L's "Louder Than Words: The Songs and Legacy of Jonathan Larson"
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