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Clumsy look at Jewish Broadway history is toe-tapping nostalgia

Posted on September 5, 2015 by mkmswain

Lacking the shrewd lampooning instincts of Spamalot, from which it takes its name, revue You Won’t Succeed On Broadway If You Don’t Have Any Jews is a muddle: too solemn for satire, too grandiloquent for cabaret, and too fractured for musical … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Theatre | Tagged be our guest, broadway, cabaret, composer, dance, dancing, disney, dorothy, drama, gershwin, glee, gypsy, ham and high, irving berlin, jew, jewish, les miserables, lloyd webber, london, mama rose, monty python, musical, newspaper, over the rainbow, revue, sing, smash, sondheim, song, spamalot, st james theatre, the lady is a tramp, the wizard of oz, theatre, west end, You Won't Succeed On Broadway If You Don't Have Any Jews | Leave a comment

theartsdesk Q&A: Choreographer Stephen Mear

Posted on April 11, 2015 by mkmswain

From Singin’ in the Rain and Anything Goes to Hello, Dolly! and Mary Poppins, Olivier Award winner Stephen Mear has done more than any other British choreographer to usher classic musicals into the modern era. But adept as he is … Continue reading →

Posted in Dance, Theatre | Tagged 42nd Street, acorn antiques, adam garcia, anything goes, arlene phillips, ballet, betty blue eyes, bob avian, broadway, busby berkeley, cats, chicago, chichester festival theatre, choreographer, city of angels, crazy for you, dance, dancing, disney, donmar warehouse, drama, english national opera, eno, evita, gershwin, gillian lynne, gypsy, gypsy rose lee, hello dolly, imelda staunton, interview, jerome robbins, jonathan kent, josie rourke, julie walters, kiss me kate, lara pulver, london, mama rose, mary poppins, matthew bourne, musical, national theatre, new york, Oklahoma, old vic, olivier awards, on the town, play, regents park open air, richard eyre, rob marshall, sadlers wells, singin in the rain, steam heat, stephen mear, stephen ward, strictly come dancing, strip, stripper, stripping, striptease, susan stroman, tap, the little mermaid, the pajama game, the producers, theatre, trevor nunn, victoria wood, west end | Leave a comment

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Clumsy look at Jewish Broadway history is toe-tapping nostalgia

theartsdesk Q&A: Choreographer Stephen Mear

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