Michael Bennett's 1975 valentine to gypsies, the dancers who are often treated as so much
mobile scenery in Broadway musicals, is sometimes considered to have broken new ground with its frank portraits of talented but frustrated performers. The score by ...
Arriving 20 years after the animated musical film it was based on, the stage version
of Anastasia, about the Russian Grand Duchess, opened on Broadway in April 2017. This original Broadway cast recording was released two months later and features ...
Avenue Q, the thoroughly entertaining and outrageous new hit musical, is the freshest breeze to
blow down the Great White Way in too many seasons. Disguised as a wry, adult send-up of Sesame Street -- complete with furry, singing puppets ...
Among the most successful and celebrated pop songwriters of the '60s and '70s, Carole King
started her career pitching tunes to publishers and producers in New York's celebrated Brill Building; by 1971, she had become a successful performer who released ...
Camelot, a musical based on the Arthurian legend, reunited most of the creative talent that
produced My Fair Lady, including lyricist/librettist Alan Jay Lerner, composer Frederick Loewe, and leading lady Julie Andrews. Lerner had once again found a story that ...
The 1989 Broadway musical City of Angels, with a book by veteran comedy writer Larry
Gelbart and songs by another veteran, composer Cy Coleman, and first-time lyricist David Zippel, is a send-up of hard-boiled detective fiction and the Hollywood movies ...
Come From Away is the breathtaking new Broadway musical with a propulsive score by Irene
Sankoff and David Hein, and direction by Tony nominee Christopher Ashley, in a cast recording co-produced by Grammy winner David Lai. In September 2001, 38 ...
What a score! Tradition, If I Were a Rich Man, To Life, Sunrise, Sunset, and
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, not to mention such gems as “Far from the Home I Love,” “Do You Love Me,” and “Now I Have Everything” testify to ...