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Finding a musical that starts with “X” is a tough one! So I fudged. X is for XIV (aka Louis XIV: Le Roi Soleil). It was thanks to this beautiful musical I first learned of Louis XIV’s first love, Marie Mancini. Marie Mancini Marie did not consummate her relationship with the Sun King. His love…
The Woman in White made its premiere in London in 2004 starring Michael Crawford, Maria Friedman, Jill Paice and Angela Christian. Adapted from the book by Wilkie Collins (considered to be among the first mystery novels and widely regarded as one of the first in the genre of “sensation novels”), the musical had music by…
We’re almost all the way through this year’s A to Z Challenge. Woot. Woot. Since I’ve been talking a lot about my favourite international musicals, I thought today I’d talk about two famous theaters in Wien/Vienna where many of these musicals have taken place. Raimund Theater Named after the Austrian dramatist Ferdinand Raimund, the theatre…
Uwe Kröger was born in West Germany, educated at Hochschule der Künste, and had his breakthrough performance in 1992 as Tod (“Death”) in Elisabeth. He went on to star in the German premieres of many famous English speaking roles such as Chris in Miss Saigon, Beast in The Beauty and The Beast and Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard.
It’s a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done. It’s a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known. – Sydney. Good day, friends. I hope you have had the pleasure of reading or seeing A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. The book is full…
Happy Monday. I hope everyone had a good Easter and Passover over the weekend? Today I want to share with you my all time favourite visits to the theatre. I usually prefer musicals but a good play will always win me over and that’s what happened when I got a ticket to see STRANGERS ON…
My 2019 #AtoZChallenge continues with the letter “R”. I’m excited to share 3 of my favorite musicals that coincidentally happen to be in foreign languages (German, French): Rebecca, Rudolf, Romeo et Juliette.
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…