September 2011

Anything Goes on Broadway

September 22, 2011

Anything Goes Book by Bolton, Lindsay et al Music & Lyrics by Cole Porter   This is one of those classic American musicals.  The kind of thing my parents would see when they came into the city back in the day – that would be the 1950’s and 1960’s – and see things like “Oklahoma” […]

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Million Dollar Quartet – now Off-Broadway

September 21, 2011

  Million Dollar Quartet by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux I had seen it a while ago and quite frankly, while enjoyable, it just didn’t seem to me like a “Broadway” show.  But a Broadway show it was for a little more than a year… So when I heard they had moved to the New World […]

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Roasted Corned Beef Dinner

September 17, 2011

I have to say, though it makes a *much* prettier picture, Roasted Corned Beef doesn’t hold up to the flavor in a nicely boiled one.  Maybe it’s that the boiling gets more of those lovely spices into the meat…maybe it’s that growing up we always had “New England Boiled Dinner” so I’m more used to […]

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Memphis the musical – on Broadway

September 8, 2011

Memphis: The Musical Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro Music and Lyrics by David Bryan This show is very, very popular.  A multiple Tony-award winner: for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score, Best Orchestration….and people love, love, love this show.  It’s set in – you guessed it – Memphis in the 50’s – at the […]

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