Josh Prince looks back to the ’60s for inspiration. Carole King is most famous for the gentle, contemplative songs on her 1971 smash album Tapestry. It transformed her from a composer to a performer, dreamily accompanying herself onstage at the piano. So when Josh Prince learned that the producers of Beautiful: The Carole […]
Encores! expands into the steamy season to showcase off-Broadway revivals. Encores! revivals like Finian’s Rainbow, above, have transferred to Broadway. Photo: Joan Marcus, Courtesy Encores! It reads like an honor roll of contemporary Broadway choreographers: Rob Ashford, Andy Blankenbuehler, Warren Carlyle, Kathleen Marshall, Casey Nicholaw, Sergio Trujillo. But it’s a list—a partial one at […]
“Well, I’m 8 years old, and I’m a theater kid. That means I like to sing, dance, and act.” Make sure you’re reading that quote with a high-pitched, adorable voice—the voice of Emily Rosenfeld, who plays Molly in the revival of Annie, and who walks with a miniature stuffed beagle, Riley, down the streets of […]
I get frustrated when dancing is used to pump audiences up, but the actual award in choreography is given off camera. The Tonys began with a big show of dancing last night. After all, that’s what gets people jazzed. But if you wanted to know who won Best Choreography, you only saw it in flashback, […]
Training in Fosse-style jazz can help deepen performances. A still of Fosse’s “Rich Man’s Frug,” from the 1969 film Sweet Charity. DM Archives. Like George Balanchine and Martha Graham, Bob Fosse is one of the rare choreographers who not only created a large body of spectacular work, but also engendered an entire stylistic cannon. His slinky, […]
There’s been a delightful influx of little tykes in Broadway musicals. Both Annie and Matilda get their oomph from children. These kids are highly professional. They don’t elicit sighs of “Awww, isn’t she cute” but a wholly more substantial kind of admiration. Lilla Crawford, now 12, stars in Annie, carrying a load of acting, singing, […]
Annie’s moppet-moves mop up. Ready to wipe the floor: the orphans with Annie (Lilla Crawford, top left), photo: Joan Marcus, Courtesy Annie Chances are pretty good that when you hear the rollicking opening notes of “It’s the Hard-Knock Life,” the second song in the insidious score Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin […]
In addition to our cover feature on the amazing Andy Blankenbuehler (see how much fun our photo shoot was in this video), we’ve got so much great stuff in our October issue: a profile of Heather McGinley, the stunning new dancer in Paul Taylor who is clearly “On the Rise;” an article about D. Sabela […]
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