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The Reviews for Fela! are In …
Fela! opened on Broadway to fairly positive reviews yesterday, the show’s producers, Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, have brought some name recognition to a largely unknown and lively group of artists, most of whom transferred over from the Off-Broadway version of the show.
The critics all agree that Fela! offers up something new – though whether those audiences will love the offering or not is up for debate. Here’s what they said:
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The reviews for Ragtime are in …
The last time Ragtime appeared on Broadway, a whole new theater was built to house the gigantic production. This time, the show comes from a much humbler place and the critics couldn’t be more complimentary – its fresh, relavant and powerful.
Here are what the major publications had to say:
NEW YORK TIMES
The judiciously pared-down production that opened Sunday night at the Neil Simon Theater is a sprinting sylph compared to the opulence-bloated show that went under the same name a decade ago. ̷
It was all a publicity stunt – Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein are appearing together in All About
If you’ve been following the wonderfully ridiculous banter between Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein, you may have had the sneaking suspicion that some sort of publicity stunt was in the works. If so, congratulations. You were so right.
Feinstein announced on the Today Show on Nov 12 that he and Dame Edna would be appearing side by side in a show titled All About Me to be penned by none other than Christopher Durang.
Something about the over-the-top Dame Edna, dubbed AustraliaR
Mid-November Broadway Musical News Roundup
Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark is gearing up again this time with a lead actor and producer
It’s official – Reeve Carney, the lead singer of the band Carney, will be playing Peter Parker (ie. Spideman) in the upcoming Broadway mega-spender Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark.
Why cast such an unknown in the lead role? Director Julie Taymor said they wanted a “Peter Parker who could really act and sing, but
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