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...It’s been 50 years since the first major staging of a musical by Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice, Jesus Christ Superstar, on Broadway....
...In normal times the commercial success of Stomp, which has toured the world and spent 26 years off Broadway in New York, subsidises the Old Market, providing a platform for fresh talent....
...Although ticket sales held steady for the season, Broadway as a whole grossed nearly $1.7bn this year, a 12 per cent increase from the previous season....
...Donna Trinkoff, artistic producer of Amas, an off-Broadway company devoted to promoting diversity in musical theatre, similarly recalls being told by a producer back in the 1990s that “black theatre doesn...
...She savours genuine prima donna manners and mannerisms. She strides upon the stage with equal parts grandeur and grandiosity....
...Sienna Miller A landmark year for Miller, who starred in two Oscar-nominated films, smeared on the greasepaint as Sally Bowles in Cabaret on Broadway, and performed her official duties as a Cannes juror...
...It served as a twilight vehicle for a glam veteran, Renée Fleming, en route to Broadway fame and, perhaps, fortune....
...Some of the finest prima donnas of recent times, including Kiri Te Kanawa, Felicity Lott and Renée Fleming, have made it their own....
...Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. 13....
...Otherwise, Donna Drake’s staging was resourceful. Elizabeth Hastings served the score appreciatively from a piano at shadowy stage-right....
...Plug your ears and this could be Broadway. The story, too, could hardly be more western....
...In such environs, you cannot help but feel the prima donna. And then there are the flashbulbs....
...Donna Murphy juggled passion and innocence. Marin Mazzie sustained quixotic, ultimately torchy zest. Nearly everyone, it seemed, sang something from Follies....
...Later this month it opens on Broadway. Enron is a bold, challenging piece of stylised, physical theatre....
...Still, this sprawling, oddly focused show lasted only 43 performances on Broadway in 1945....
...Still, it outlasted an extravagant 1988 musical adaptation of a Stephen King novel, which managed three nights on Broadway before flopping. What was it called? 35....
...The scale of the production, for Manhattan Theatre Club, is, for Broadway, on a lovely, modest scale....
...What Babes in Arms should be remembered for is one of the greatest musical scores, and a light-hearted youthful exuberance that was casually discarded when the Broadway musical went serious a few years later...
...Garber, Michael McGrath and Donna Murphy plus top theatre talents of earlier years such as JoAnne Worley and opera diva Lucine Amara, were all available....
...LoveMusik, which begins at the Biltmore on April 12, covers the relationship between the composer Kurt Weill and his wife Lotte Lenya, and features not only Weill’s incomparable music but also Donna Murphy...
...Donna Steele’s Cinderella is wholesome enough, but she sings through her nose. Steven Cree is radically miscast as Prince Charming: more like a Clydeside welder....
...Further commissions included an upbeat red-, green- and ochre-chequerboard floor in a brownstone off Broadway, a saffron-coloured floor with an energetic orange and green filigree design in a Park Avenue...
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