The Playbill site has the following entry for July 9, 1930 in its highlights of show business music history: In today’s Variety, a review of a new...
Category - Musical Theater
I am not trying to minimize ebola, the enterovirus and ISIS. These are serious issues, three diseases that must be wiped out. That said, nothing compares to...
The Lower East Side of Manhattan produced a prodigious amount of talent, including the Gershwins, Irving Berlin, The Marx Brothers and the now largely...
About a year ago, I mentioned Noel Coward’s “Mad Dogs and Englishmen” in a post about Joe Cocker and Leon Russell and the tour and album...
Acoustic Guitar Masters John Fahey: On the Sunny Side of the Ocean Bert Jansch: Reynardine/Angie Leo Kottke: Vaseline Machine Gun/Last Steam Engine Adrian...
Great version of Master of the House from Les Misérables from the tenth anniversary concert, which was taped in October, 1995 at the Royal Albert Hall in...
This is from a 1934 Broadway show of the same name. It is old — very old — but brilliant. The contemporary references certainly are lost on most of...
Eubie Blake was 98 when this recording was made of him playing his Charleston Rag. The audio is only passable. Blake composed I’m Just While About...
Fiorello!, a show about New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, is fabulous. Check it out, even if you are not interested in musical theater. Two of the best...
