TV Review: the American Musical
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"Broadway! It's the street of dreams," says Julie Andrews breathlessly, as though the phrase had just been coined. There follows a river of reality, grim and otherwise, but usually fun.
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If youâre not an âAmerican Mastersâ person, you might envision this venerable series â now nearly a quarter-century old â as a gilded slide show pedantically narrated by Alastair Cooke. You would be wrong, and for proof you might check out âOrozco: Man of Fireâ tonight on PBS.
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Arts & entertainment: America is in mourning for the show that has seeped its way into the nation's consciousness.
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The new season of ÂNip/TuckÂ tries to restore the showÂs balance of farce and melodrama, charting the full range of human vanities to produce humor and pathos in equal measure, not merely a freak show.
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A few group shows have jumped the gun with a splash of stylish fizz, a knotty theme, a soak in strangeness, something special to catch the eye at seasonâs end.
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Attention television watchers. Put down those remotes and salute. David Hyde Pierce is a genuine Broadway musical-comedy star.
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Can using a TV reality show to pick two stars for a musical revival really be bad for Broadway? Hardly
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A look inside the increasingly popular yet challenging business of writing a jukebox musical.
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&quot;Broadway: The American Musical&quot; starts like an infomercial and ends with a big, wet kiss for Disney. In between are six hours of song and dance guided by that lesser-known muse, Hyperbole.
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Finally, beleaguered NBC has something to sing about.
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âSweeney Toddâ is as much a horror film as a musical. It is also something close to a masterpiece.
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Memory is a twisting knife in âFollies,â Stephen Sondheim and James Goldmanâs beautiful, broken-hearted musical from 1971.
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The Broadway show sees its first significant cast change.
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The verdict on Aaja Nachle is uncomplicated. When someone as special as Madhuri Dixit makes a comeback, you expect nothing short of extraordinary. The soundtrack of Yash Raj's latest musical is fairly decent. Still, extraordinary, it's not.
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Tommy Tune, right, will direct âTurn of the Century,â a new musical comedy written by Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman, the writers of âJersey Boys,â at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, The Associated Press reported. âThe basic premise involves a young songwriter-piano player and his girl singer who find themselves through mysterious, supernatural, âTwilight Zoneâ-ish activities thrown back to the turn of the century, the 20th century,â said Robert Falls, artistic director of the Goodman. The score will consist of standards by Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein and others, Mr. Tune said. The show is scheduled to open in September or October. The Goodmanâs 2008-9 season will also feature Brian Dennehy in a revival of Eugene OâNeillâs âDesire Under the Elms.â.
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Christopher Breen  takes us on a tour of Apple TV that begins with downloading the software update and ends with the big questionââHowâs it look?â To which Breen responds, âDarned good.â After renting Live Free or Die Hard. Breen reports that â the picture is great on my 42-inch Panasonic plasma display. With a digital audio cable connected to my AV receiver the movie caused the receiverâs 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio light to glow and the resulting sound was bigger than anything Iâve heard come out of the box previously.â
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For three nights, succumb to the lullaby of Broadway, as PBS devotes six buoyantly entertaining hours to Broadway: The American Musical.