Frank Wildhorn Is Working on a 'Frankenstein' Musical, But It's Not What You Imagine
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Playbill - Composer Frank Wildhorn and librettist-director Gregory Boyd are working on a new musical called Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with James Barbour attached as the famed creature of the tale, Playbill On-Line has learned.
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A look inside the increasingly popular yet challenging business of writing a jukebox musical.
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For entirely different reasons, these were the two most original and intriguing shows of the year. Neither one is an innovation exactly, but both are ingenious riffs on a classic genre.
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The author of Frankenstein: A Cultural History also collects monster memorabilia. Why are we so fascinated with Mary Shelley's nightmare vision?
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During a performance of âPeter and the Wolf,â with Kevin Kline, it seemed as if a storyteller and his musical accomplice were re- enacting a favorite bedtime story.
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In an extremely rare exception, âThe New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankensteinâ will not be included in the report of weekly grosses for Broadway shows.
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Hershey Felder doesn't just perform classical music, he gets into character as the composers.
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Doug Varone, commissioned by Summerscape Festival at Bard College with Susan Marshall to create works set to Edward Elgarâs music, goes against the grain of our expectations.
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There's the Weird Al way of making funny music: steal a melody, add zany high-concept lyrics, and rock on.
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Mike Leighâs play âTwo Thousands Yearsâ is enjoyable, but oddly conceived and structured.
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The musicals that have played at the Hilton Theater, including Mel Brooks's forthcoming âYoung Frankenstein," should give pause even to a producer confident of his showâs superiority.
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A documentary peeks behind Broadway's curtains, a sci-fi blockbuster pits man against machine to entertaining effect.
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New York critics are taking a bite out of &quot;Dracula, the Musical,&quot; the Des McAnuff-directed, La Jolla Playhouse-sprung musical that opened last night at Broadway&#39;s Belasco Theatre.
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A musical about the life and music of the late Johnny Cash called Ring of Fire is being created in the US.
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The hit Broadway show may now be filmed.
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A shaggy dog story needs a captivating storyteller if it's not to founder, and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" is the shaggiest. With book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart and music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, it's a knockabout farce in the vaudeville tradition verging on British panto.
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âVince Vaughnâs Wild West Comedy Showâ imagines itself a contemporary equivalent of rootinâ- tootinâ traveling entertainments like Buffalo Billâs Wild West Show. Thatâs a tall comparison to draw.