Tag Archives: Stephen Sondheim

R.I.P. Angela Lansbury: The Missus & I Loved You on Broadway

Posted on October 19, 2022 by Campaign Outsider

As the Missus said last week, thank God Angela Lansbury didn’t pass away during – and I’m paraphrasing here – England’s Long Goodbye to QE II. Then again, Angela Lansbury’s timing was always impeccable. It allowed, for example, Daniel Lewis’s lovely … Continue reading →

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The Arts Seen in NYC (New! Improved? MoMA Edition)

Posted on December 30, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Big Town to go a-museuming for a few days and say, it was swell. Just our luck, we arrived on an official Gridlock Alert Day, which meant it took us fully … Continue reading →

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Dead Blogging Sondheim’s ‘Pacific Overtures’ at Lyric Stage

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled down to the Lyric Stage Company to catch Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures (music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman) and say, it was . . . subarashi. This startling, entertaining, and thrilling masterpiece … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Assassins, Commodore Matthew Perry, Gary Thomas Ng, John Weidman, Karina Wen, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Pacific Overtures, Please Hello, Spiro Veloudos, Stephen Sondheim | 2 Comments

New York Times Gives Boston’s ‘Moulin Rouge’ Big Thumbs Up

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Campaign Outsider

Turns out it’s not just the Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout who’s smitten with Boston theater productions. New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley likes them too. Songs to Sin By in a Smashing ‘Moulin Rouge!’ Its pieces zoom through … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alan Jay Lerner, Alfred P. Doolittle, Amanda Dehnert, Baz Luhrmann, Ben Brantley, Christopher Chew, Colonel Pickering, Company, Eliza Doolittle, Emerson Colonial Theater, Frederick Loewe, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Higgins, J.T. Turner, Jennifer Ellis, Light Up the Sky, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Melissa Errico, Moulin Rouge, My Fair Lady, New York Times, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playbill, playgoing staff, Pygmalion, Rafael Jaen, Remo Airaldi, Richard Chamberlain, Spiro Veloudos, Stephen Sondheim, Terry Teachout, TKTS booth, Wall Street Journal | Leave a comment

WSJ’s Terry Teachout Totally Loves Boston’s Lyric Stage

Posted on September 12, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

As the playgoing staff has previously noted, Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout has a thing for Boston’s Lyric Stage Company. Start with this rave for Light Up the Sky last year: “[F]luffy, funny and performed with limitless panache … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alan Jay Lerner, Alfred P. Doolittle, Amanda Dehnert, Christopher Chew, Colonel Pickering, Company, Eliza Doolittle, Frederick Loewe, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Higgins, J.T. Turner, Jennifer Ellis, Light Up the Sky, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Melissa Errico, My Fair Lady, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playbill, playgoing staff, Pygmalion, Rafael Jaen, Remo Airaldi, Richard Chamberlain, Spiro Veloudos, Stephen Sondheim, Terry Teachout, TKTS booth, Wall Street Journal | 1 Comment

Dead Blogging WAM, ‘Sondheim,’ and ‘Disgraced’

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled hither and yon this past weekend to catch one thing and another and say, it was swell. On Friday we spent a lovely afternoon at the Worcester Art Museum, mostly to see Flora in Winter, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alvin Theatre, Anna Atkins, Cyanotypes: Photography's Blue Period, Disgraced, Flora in Winter, Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars, Higgins Armory Museum, Huntington Theatre Company, Knights!, Lyric Stage, Merrily We Roll Along, My Rock Stars Experimental Volume 1, Rajesh Bose, Sir John Herschel, Sondheim on Sondheim, Stephen Sondheim, WAM, Worcester Art Museum | Leave a comment

Dead Blogging ‘West Side Story’ at the Strand Theatre

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Campaign Outsider

Well the Missus and I trundled over to Uphams Corner to catch the Fiddlehead Theatre Company production of West Side Story and say, it felt pretty . . . swell. The Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim retelling of Romeo and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Fiddlehead Theatre Company, Jeffrey Zicker, Kim Corbett, Leonard Bernstein, Pamela Turpen, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, Romeo and Juliet, Stacey Stephens, Stephen Sondheim, Strand Theatre, Theo Lencicki, Waldemar Quinones-Villanueva, Wendy Hall, West Side Story | Leave a comment