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...soul of the stage may be the grand tragedy or its modern cousin, the middle-class problem play, but the essence of Broadway is the musical. Spectacular song-and-dance numbers lure the tourists from Topeka and Tokyo and wave the American flag in London's West End. Every kind of straight play can be developed in the cozy environment of a regional theater, but only on Broadway can the big, brassy musical be consistently nourished with enough cash and applause. Throughout the past season, which many have judged among the worst in a decade or more, the prime barometer...
...Broadway approaches the May 1 cutoff of eligibility for its Tony Awards, serious attention is being given to suspending the musical categories. The only obvious alternative is to nominate a string of flops. Of the seven musicals that have made it to Broadway so far this season, four closed after runs of three weeks or less; last week's ingratiating revival of a 1959 hit, Take Me Along, folded the day after it opened. The survivors are the umpteenth revival of The King and I and two April entries, both pummeled by reviewers: Leader of the Pack, a rock nostalgia...
Whatever that show's fate, Broadway ticket buyers will have to depend a while longer on such holdovers as A Chorus Line, which opened in 1975, 42nd Street (1980), Dreamgirls (1981), Cats (1982), La Cage aux Folles (1983), and last year's The Tap Dance Kid and Sunday in the Park with George...
...been on Broadway but is going back to the boy, er, man band for a reunion tour...
...there is something undeniably appealing about hearing a playwright speak for himself. What, you wonder, will he even sound like? The two-part Angels in America, which arrived on Broadway in 1993, is explosive theater; it belongs in the category of plays Kushner calls “huge sloppy messes...