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Stage Perfection: A Little Night Music

August 13, 2010
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Everyone has a film, television show, book, or play that they should have seen or read but for, whatever reason, never got around to doing.  I am a huge Stephen Sondheim fan.  I have multiple cast albums of every one of his shows, as well as DVDs of every shows of his to have been [...]

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“Don’t Stop…”: Glee: The 10 Best Performances of Season 1

June 16, 2010
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Note: The following list contains spoilers for the entire first season of Glee. In order to help us transition into our next few Glee-less months, I thought a nice place to start might be to look back at the just-finished Season 1 and discuss my top ten favorite performances from the first season.  One thing to [...]

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Glee 1.22: “Journey”

June 9, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Journey.” “Journey” is really the perfect title for Glee‘s first season finale, and what is so wonderful about the episode itself is how beautifully it captures the journey that we’ve taken with New Directions so far, since that long ago [...]

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Glee 1.21: “Funk”

June 1, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Funk.” “Funk” may very well be the most disappointing episode of Glee to date.  Sure, it has its moments, such as the peek at Sue’s trophy-ridden apartment, the sweet scene between Quinn and Mercedes, and the hilarious news footage of [...]

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Glee 1.20: “Theatricality”

May 26, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Theatricality.” It’s funny.  I had been anticipating the Neil Patrick Harris/Joss Whedon episode of Glee to such a fever pitch that it never occurred to me that the next episode might sneak up on us and be even better, but [...]

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“Ah, But Underneath”: Sondheim on Sondheim

May 23, 2010
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In theory, Sondheim on Sondheim should be a rather fascinating evening of theatre–a combination of master class and revue of Stephen Sondheim, arguably the greatest American musical theatre composer who ever lived.  A cast of eight–including three relatively big names, Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams, and Tom Wopat–perform Sondheim songs while HD screens play clips of Sondheim [...]

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Glee 1.19: “Dream On”

May 19, 2010
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Note: The following review contains spoilers for all aired episodes of Glee, including the most recent, “Dream On.” Directed by Buffy/Angel/Firefly mastermind Joss Whedon and guest-starring the one and only Neil Patrick Harris, “Dream On” was arguably the most anticipated episode of Glee to date, with the possible exception of “The Power of Madonna”.  And did it [...]

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Nuclear Family: Next to Normal

May 18, 2010
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Next to Normal is a different sort of rock opera.  It isn’t about young artists struggling to survive in the East Village in a plot borrowed from La Boheme.  It isn’t about messiahs or Argentinian dictators or pinball wizards or rebellious youth.  Instead, it is an intimate, unepic, yet still revelatory tale about an American [...]

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Finding Bliss: Sherie Rene Scott’s Everyday Rapture

May 15, 2010
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Self-professed “Broadway semi-star,” Sherie Rene Scott has one of the most distinctive voices in theatre today–a unique combination of brass and sweetness, it is a smooth, polished instrument with an alluringly husky undercurrent.  Her new show, Everyday Rapture, is so wonderful because it shines the spotlight not only on the voice that her devoted fans [...]

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Pure Broadway Gold: Promises, Promises

May 14, 2010
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Now, I don’t agree with the mixed-to-negative reaction the majority of the Broadway critical community has had to The Addams Family, but I get it, I really do.  It is a show built on silly gags and recreations of famous cartoon/television/film characters, and there are many critics either immune to fun or who seem to [...]

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