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Stu on Broadway: Review of "Finding Neverland"
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Stuart Brown, host of the Broadway music radio program "On Broadway," reviews NYC and CT stage offerings as well as ruminating about other theatrical matters. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Review of "Finding Neverland". There is a song in the middle of Act II of the new musical, Finding Neverland,. The story of how playwright J.M. Barrie created Peter Pan. Simply entitled “Play.”. I only wish the creative team of Finding Neverland. Would have taken their own advice. Barrie, who’s life is anything but ...
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The StudentAffairs.com Writing Project: June 2012
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012. Random Thoughts, Part I - Entry #11. Into the second month of the Writing Project, a number of random thoughts:. Handwritten correspondence is tiring. 8211; Not physically (I haven’t fallen asleep at my desk yet while composing). It’s my wrists. I cannot just write out a whole note or letter without lifting pen from paper. I was tested a few months ago and that was negative. Probably I’m out of shape or, more probably, out of practice. I have taken this to heart. The ink seems to ...
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Stu on Broadway: Review of "Fun Home"
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Stuart Brown, host of the Broadway music radio program "On Broadway," reviews NYC and CT stage offerings as well as ruminating about other theatrical matters. Tuesday, May 5, 2015. Review of "Fun Home". Is a musical about a dysfunctional family with a unique twist. The father, we learn, is gay, and the daughter, in her words, grows up to become a lesbian cartoonist. The show, based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, is primarily a coming of age story for the daughter. The cast of Fun Home. Michael C...
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Stu on Broadway: Review of "Amazing Grace"
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Stuart Brown, host of the Broadway music radio program "On Broadway," reviews NYC and CT stage offerings as well as ruminating about other theatrical matters. Monday, July 27, 2015. Review of "Amazing Grace". The first musical of the new Broadway season, is a fascinating and impassioned, yet not wholly satisfying, look at a key point in the abolitionist movement in England. The focus is on John Newton (Josh Young), who wrote the venerable hymn of the show’s title. With, for example, Hamilton. This is not...
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Stu on Broadway: Review of "Shows for Days"
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Stuart Brown, host of the Broadway music radio program "On Broadway," reviews NYC and CT stage offerings as well as ruminating about other theatrical matters. Monday, July 13, 2015. Review of "Shows for Days". Welcome to the theatre, to the magic, to the fun. Where painted trees and flowers grow, and laughter rings fortissimo. And treachery's neatly done. Now you've entered the asylum, this profession unique. Actors are children playing hide-and-ego-seek.”. Ms Lupone is superb. On a bare stage, with mini...
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Stu on Broadway: Review of "The King and I"
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Stuart Brown, host of the Broadway music radio program "On Broadway," reviews NYC and CT stage offerings as well as ruminating about other theatrical matters. Sunday, May 17, 2015. Review of "The King and I". Lincoln Center has done it again. First, there was the Theater’s ambitious revival of the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein musical South Pacific. Now, the organization has revived another of the duo’s iconic works, The King and I. And it is a sumptuous and majestic production. We are also intro...
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Stu on Broadway: Review of "Hand to God"
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Stuart Brown, host of the Broadway music radio program "On Broadway," reviews NYC and CT stage offerings as well as ruminating about other theatrical matters. Tuesday, May 12, 2015. Review of "Hand to God". A boy’s despondency over his father’s untimely death forms the catalyst for the new offbeat and raucous Broadway play, Hands to God. Jason (Steven Boyer) has almost shut down over the anguish he feels. The world is suffocating him. Two other adolescents populate the class. Askins has produced a lot of...
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Stu on Broadway: Review of "Beautiful - the Carole King Musical"
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Stuart Brown, host of the Broadway music radio program "On Broadway," reviews NYC and CT stage offerings as well as ruminating about other theatrical matters. Monday, January 13, 2014. Review of "Beautiful - the Carole King Musical". Beautiful – The Carole King Musical. Is an entertaining blend of charm, nostalgia, and showmanship. The show’s overall feel and musicality will resonate greatly with a generation of baby boomers (as well as younger audiences). The story of Beautiful. They include their first...
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Stu on Broadway: Review of "I'll Eat You Last"
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Stuart Brown, host of the Broadway music radio program "On Broadway," reviews NYC and CT stage offerings as well as ruminating about other theatrical matters. Sunday, August 2, 2015. Review of "I'll Eat You Last". Sue Mengers was the Hollywood “superagent” to the stars. In her long career she represented such A-List talent as Barbra Streisand, Gene Hackman, Burt Reynolds, Faye Dunaway and many more. Her reminisces are the substance for the wisp of a show, I’ll Eat You Last. Sue Mengers was a larger-than-...
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