Saturday: The Little Dog Laughed and Company

On Saturday, apart from seeing Philip’s friend Kim, we had brunch with his former student Holly and attended two shows: a play by one of Philip and Kim’s classmates Douglas Carter Beane, The Little Dog Laughed, and Sondheim’s Company.
I’m going to write about the play, and Philip’s written about Company.
Plays have been few and far [...]

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Welcome to New York (or Newark, as the case may be)

Well. Last night, just about 24 hours ago, we were preparing to watch Caroline, or Change. This morning we were up at five British time (midnight EST) and caught British Airways across to New Jersey. Everything was uneventful. We were warned to expect bumps on the flight but there was very [...]

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Friday: Les Misérables (Revival)

Our third revival on this trip, was Les Misérables, which we saw last night back here in New York. This show comes back to Broadway without having been closed the amount of time that it would usually take for a revival to happen, but the producer, Cameron McKintosh, decided to have it mounted for a [...]

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Thursday: Caroline, or Change

On Thursday night, we attended Caroline, or Change, the Tony Kushner musical (yes, I said Tony Kushner musical —, yes, Angels in America, that Tony Kushner) at the Royal National Theatre in London. We left that production with stars in our eyes — almost literally, there were stars in the show, and a Moon, and [...]

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Wednesday: Evita

So tonight was the revival of Evita. This a show that I had seen on Broadway a couple of time with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, who both won Tony Awards for their performances. Bob Gunton played Peron in that production. I have listened to the Original Broadway Cast Recording so many times that I [...]

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Monday: Touring London & Billy Elliott

Well.
We got up today with little jet lag. Well, Philip got up without jet lag. I, who have not changed the computer time, spent some time awake last night, trying to catch up on my writing (and succeeded). We got up this morning and went down to breakfast, which is included in [...]

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London!

First, apologies for not having brought the postings up to date.  Just to give you, gentle reader, an idea of what we have seen since the last account:
Friday:  Jersey Boys, a musical about The Four Seasons (Frankie Valli et al).  Verdict:  good.  Very good, when you consider that “jukebox” musicals are all the rage and [...]

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Saturday: Butley and The Color Purple

Now, on Saturday we saw two shows — our second play of the visit, the revival of Simon Gray’s Butley, starring Nathan Lane, and The Color Purple: the Musical.
Now. This has been a remarkable trip in many ways, in that nothing that we’d seen so far had disappointed us. In some cases (Losing [...]

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Friday: Jersey Boys (by Philip)

There is a phenomenon on Broadway called the Juke Box Musical. It’s basically a show that is put together form a collection of songs by a particular artist or group. A story-line is put together to fit their songs and create a Broadway show. More often than not, the author fails.
There have been successful Juke [...]

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Thursday: The Drowsy Chaperone

The Drowsy Chaperone gives what a number of people would like to get from musical theatre, it gives them an escape. It’s not your Les Mis, Sweeney Todd or Grey Gardens type of show with drama and thought provoking stories, it’s just an evening of escapist fun and I’ve not laughed so much in a [...]

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