Category: A to Z Challenge

Good morning friends! I’m chugging along with my A to Z Challenge. Q was sure to be a tough one but I fudged and found a song (Que veulent les femme) that started with Q. Que Veulent les Femme is Rhett Butler’s number from Autant En Emporte Le Vent (Gone With the Wind) when he…

Hi guys and a special shout out to my brother on his birthday! Brad Little, Lisa Vroman. Photo by Joan Marcus. For today’s A to Z Challenge I chose “The Phantom of the Opera” which was in fact the first professional musical I saw in 1997 with my family at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. I…

Hello. Have you heard of Mary Rodgers’ Once Upon a Mattress? It premiered on Broadway in 1959 starring Carol Burnett as Princess Winifred. The musical is a popular choice for high school productions and is a delicious comedy with some great comedic numbers including “Shy”, “Sensitivity”, Happily Ever After” and “Man to Man Talk”. Carol…

Bonjour! When I was in university I struck a random friendship with my ex boyfriend’s ex girlfriend who happened to be a musical fan and had even seen James Barbour in Beauty and the Beast (Sigh! I Wish!). Long story short she introduced me to my first European musical – Notre Dame de Paris –…

Mozart! is a German language rock opera musical that tells the story of the struggles of composer Mozart. It is not to be mistaken for the French language musical Mozart, l’opéra rock. I first decided to get the album because of the great German talent including Thomas Borchert, Mark Siebert (“Elisabeth”), Carin Filipcic, Uwe Kroger.

Les Mis, 3rd US National Tour. Photo by Joan Marcus. Ah yes. Les Misérables, my all time favourite musical that I religiously followed through high school and college spending my pocket money on seeing the 3rd National Tour numerous times. At one point I could have quoted the entire musical to you. In fact I…

Originally conceived as an outdoor oratorio to commemorate the 3,000th anniversary of Jerusalem, KING DAVID made its debut on Broadway in 1997.

Ah yes. We come to one of my family’s favourite feel good musicals, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyrics by Tim Rice. In fact it recently was put on by 5-Star Theatricals in Thousand Oaks starring Patrick Cassidy and Adam Hollick. The musical is based on the…

I fell in love with IMAGINE THIS and thought it was realistic, had dignity, heart and beautiful musical numbers.