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  • 3 weeks ago | nystagereview.com | Michael Sommers

    Who’s feeling nostalgic for the early 2000s? Who loves social media? Who enjoys a silly musical? Answer all of these queries affirmatively, and The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse could well be a new Off Broadway show for you. Or maybe not. In 2006, a tabloid famously printed a paparazzi snap of Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton inside a car.

  • 1 month ago | nystagereview.com | Michael Sommers

    Caitlin Saylor Stephens titles her new play Five Models in Ruins, 1981. It precisely describes the situation of Stephens’ rueful comedy regarding glamour that premiered on Monday at Lincoln Center Theater’s Claire Tow space: High-fashion models participate in an overnight photo shoot for a Vogue cover that is being staged in a derelict country mansion in England in 1981. Not revealed by the title is that they are modeling ultra-couture wedding gowns rejected by newlywed Princess Diana.

  • 1 month ago | nystagereview.com | Michael Sommers

    Dead Outlaw is a Broadway musical for people who don’t like Broadway musicals. A major awards-winning success at the Minetta Lane Theater a year ago, Dead Outlaw has now moved uptown to Broadway. Geographically, anyway: Opening on Sunday at the Longacre Theatre, the musical’s raucous sounds and sardonic sensibilities remain far off the beaten Broadway track.

  • 1 month ago | nystagereview.com | Michael Sommers

    Did you know The Pirates of Penzance was first seen in New York City? The soon to become legendary British team of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan premiered their fifth operetta here in 1879 to establish an American copyright, so their latest work would not be pirated like dozens of unauthorized H.M.S. Pinafore troupes then playing around the country and paying them no royalties.

  • 1 month ago | nystagereview.com | Michael Sommers

    It is good to hear and see Floyd Collins again. The musical about a man who is trapped in a Kentucky cavern – and what happens 200 feet above his head over the next three weeks – is a challenging work to produce successfully. Few companies have the resources to fulfill the beautiful, yet demanding score created by Adam Guettel and the dark, real-life saga crafted by Tina Landau.

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