THE HANGOVER REPORT – The pedestrian musical adaptation of PRETTY WOMAN squanders its shot at Broadway glory

Earlier this week, the anticipated musical adaptation of Pretty Woman opened on Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre. Long story short, the pedestrian musical adaptation is unmemorable in almost every way … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Unfortunately, GETTIN’ THE BAND BACK TOGETHER is a totally new musical that isn’t

This week, the second of three new musicals – and certainly one of the dark horses – of the lead-in summer of the 2018-2019 Broadway season opened, Mark Allen and Ken … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – HEAD OVER HEELS is a really smart, mostly irresistible jukebox musical featuring songs by The Go-Go’s

One of the dark horses of the brand new 2018-2019 Broadway season is Head Over Heels, a jukebox musical set to the songs of the 1980s all girl band The Go-Go’s, … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Young Jean Lee’s STRAIGHT WHITE MEN is a precise, deeply sympathetic portrait of a certain demographic

Second Stage Theatre has another winner on its hands with its Broadway mounting of Young Jean Lee’s Straight White Men, which opened last night at the Hayes Theatre (its other excellent … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – David vs. Goliath: Revisiting WICKED and AVENUE Q 15 years on

I recently had a chance to relive one of the most exciting Broadway musical face-offs of the last two decades. That is, the unlikely but memorable race for the Tony … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – The superb 50th anniversary revival of THE BOYS IN THE BAND proves that the seminal play remains relevant

Last night, the first Broadway show of the 2018-2019 season opened at the Booth Theatre. Regardless of which season it falls in, Joe Mantello’s superb 50th anniversary revival of Mart Crowley’s … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – City Ballet concludes a ravishingly varied retrospective for Jerome Robbins’ centennial

This May at the David H. Koch Theater, New York City Ballet pulled out all the stops to celebrate Jerome Robbins’ centennial. All-in-all, the revered ballet company performed six different … Continue Reading →

VIEWPOINTS – HAMILTON inspires and engages 1,300 public high school students, in various ways

This week, 1,300 students from New York-area public high schools were invited to spend the day partaking in a workshop at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. That’s right, it’s the venue … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – George C. Wolfe’s entertaining, high voltage revival of O’Neill’s THE ICEMAN COMETH, headlined by a magnetic Denzel Washington, closes out the Broadway season

The 2017-2018 Broadway season came to a close last night with the opening of George C. Wolfe’s revival of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, headlined by charismatic movie star Denzel … Continue Reading →

THE HANGOVER REPORT – Shaw’s SAINT JOAN is revived on Broadway, solidly if a bit on the tepid side

So the Shawfest continues, and I’m not talking about the one in Niagara-on-the-Lake. On the heels of Bedlam’s penetrating pseudo-revisionist Off-Broadway production of Pygmalion and Lincoln Center Theater’s major, meticulous … Continue Reading →