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One sunny afternoon in 1984, Andrew Lloyd Webber (not yet “Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber” or “Baron Lloyd-Webber of Sydmonton” as he is known today) paid 50 cents for a used copy of Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera that he found at a bookstall on Fifth Avenue. That purchase would prove fateful – for […]
In his stirring autobiography A Body of Work: Dancing to the Edge and Back, David Hallberg – a Principal Dancer with the American Ballet Theatre and the first American Principal Dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet – traces the trajectory of his life and career with heartfelt openness and soul-baring honesty. Using exquisite flourishes of expressive […]
Michael Riedel, the theatre columnist for the New York Post and the co-host of the long running PBS show Theater Talk, sat with me for an hour on November 2nd, to discuss his valuable and readable new book Razzle Dazzle. It may sound like a treatise on musical theatre, but not if you include its […]