On Transmigration

It's taken a long time to get this play to the screen. Anticipation : Sondheim, Rob Marshall, Musical Score. Apprehension : Disn...

This is what I woke up humming this morning. I must say I could play this score all day and not tire of it.  The brilliant Michael Ball ...

Don’t know how I missed this news from the BBC, Singin’ in the Rain being my favorite musical of all time with An American in Paris comi...

New York theater goers guffawed when word got out that Katharine Hepburn was to star in a broadway musical about Coco Chanel.  They roared ...

One of the very best has left us. I first saw her in Sail Away, then, of course, in Company (3 times!) She was everything and all that ...

Very sad news, indeed.  Not something I wanted to read or hear about today.   A legend, genius, and consummate hollywood star dead at 9...

Mitch Leigh, composer of Man of La Mancha has passed away. One cannot imagine the speed with which the show and his score took the theat...

I've had a lot of down time to listen to some of my favorite music over the past week and it's bringing back delicious memories, goi...

That's self-diagnosis…I'm Not Dead Yet! Been keeping myself quiet and resting, or trying to, to hold the nausea at bay.  So...

And this is how I know. A funny compilation of videos from Sondheim shows.  Although there is a video tribute in the story to the song below...

Looks like there is hope for us elder-gay folks.  Maybe. But will this also make me gay?  Oh, never mind. Now, where did I park the car?  ...

The man in the image here is Clayton Coots and you'll read more about him in this powerful story by Frank Rich in New York Magazine. Th...

A great, talented lady. Jean Stapleton, who played Archie Bunker's wife Edith in the TV series "All in the Family," died ...

I first became aware of and fell in love with Elaine Stritch when she starred in Noel Coward's "Sail Away" - a short lived Br...

 If this number doesn't lift your spirits after a bad day you may want to crawl into a hole and die. I saw her introduce this at Carne...

Christmas is a week away and I just ain't got no Merry Ho-Ho in me. I even found a channel on Sirius XM playing the golden oldies of ho...

There is no holiday spirit, and certainly no Christmas spirit in me this year. Daily visuals of the elderly in our midst draw me in as n...

In most movie musicals the songs are recorded in advance of shooting - in the studio with part of or most of the intended orchestra.  Not th...

Great talents seem to be dropping like flies. His lyrics (with Bacharach's music) were a big part of my life soundtrack. LOS ANGELES...

This is magnificent and not connected to any campaign or party. If you know Les Miz you'll recognize the music.  The important thing her...