musical
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I saw Schmigadoon! on Broadway last night, and it was an absolutely delightful evening from beginning to end. Bright, funny, romantic, and bursting with theatrical energy, the production feels like both a loving celebration of classic musicals and a wonderfully clever comedy in its own right. It captures everything that makes musical theater so joyful – the…
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There is a peculiar kind of theatrical magic that happens when a show fully embraces its own absurdity. It stops trying to convince you that what you’re watching is realistic and instead dares you to believe that the ridiculous is, somehow, the most honest thing on stage. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has been…
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There are Broadway musicals that tell you a story. There are Broadway musicals that let you hear a catalogue of familiar songs. And then there are the rare productions that dissolve the invisible wall between stage and audience until you forget you’re watching a performance at all. Just in Time belongs firmly in that last category.…
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There is a particular electricity to a closing performance, a sense that the work has settled into itself and is now ready to take a final, confident breath. That was unmistakably present on April 18 at Pace University’s Sands College of the Performing Arts, where Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street concluded its run with…
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There are two kinds of leaders in the world:those who float around in a bubble and those who get shoved out a tower window, discover gravity is optional, and decide to rewrite the laws of physics on the way down. If you’ve seen the new Wicked movie, you know exactly which is which. Glinda is the sparkle-tinged…
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Seen November 16, featuring the Trisha Paytas casting that broke the internet and possibly the underworld. Broadway has always been a little haunted. Some theatres claim ghosts; others merely host them. But Beetlejuice doesn’t wait for spirits to wander in – it drags them onstage, shoves them under a strobe light, and hands them a mic. On…
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The night I attended The Book of Mormon was not just another show on Broadway. It was a milestone, a celebration, and a farewell. This particular performance marked the final bows for Cody Jamison Strand, Keziah John-Paul, PJ Adzima, and Lewis Cleale – with Cleale closing an incredible fourteen-year chapter as an original cast member in the role of Joseph Smith…
Brian Brijbag 