Before there was Be More Chill,before there wasSpring Awakening,before teens were swiping on purple eyeliner and lipsynching to Beetlejuice’s “Dead Mom” on TikTok, there was Rent. The iconic rock musical was a multicultural paean to the lives of impoverished musicians, filmmakers, philosopher-poets, kinksters, runaways, and junkies struggling to survive in …
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Moulin Rouge! the Musical: 3/5 Stars There was a show. A very strange, enchanted show. Entering the red light-coated Al Hirschfeld Theatre, with the stage flanked on either side with a giant red windmill and a large elephant’s head, you’re immediately asked to immerse yourself in the dreamlike, fantastical world …
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Neil Simon, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning playwright behind more than 30 plays including The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park and Biloxi Blues, died Sunday at the age of 91. Simon’s family confirmed his death in a statement, adding that Simon died of complications from pneumonia at a Manhattan …
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“Fearless is a story of how we begin again when fear and our experience begins to wear us down, and how we find strength amidst the struggle,” singer and actress Mandy Gonzalez says about her new album. She’s currently starring in the Broadway musical Hamilton as Angelica Schuyler, and her …
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