Hot on the heels of this rainy performance, I have more watery news. Friends, Derek Hough is slated to take on the role of Don Lockwood—Gene Kelly’s iconic character from one of the greatest movie musicals of all time, Singin’ in the Rain. I’m cautiously optimistic about this. The musical will appear on Broadway next […]
Do you still sing along to the Frozen soundtrack every morning? Is Elsa’s ice-princess dress featured prominently on your prom Pinterest board? Would you maybe consider naming your first-born son Kristoff? Do you get excited when the Weather Channel gives a winter storm a scary-sounding name, because that means you’ll probably be able to BUILD […]
Thanksgiving is a bad day to be a turkey, but a GREAT day to be a Broadway baby: The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will feature numbers from no fewer than eight musicals this year. And that’s something for which we’re truly thankful. We’ll see the cast of On Your Feet! kick off the whole shebang, […]
That’s right folks—everyone’s favorite circus extravaganza is coming to the Great White Way. The New York Times reports that Cirque du Soleil is planning on producing a show at the Lyric Theater , which is currently home to On the Town, called Paramour. It will combine musical theater and acrobatics, and is set to […]
Hamilton, which had its first run at NYC’s Public Theater earlier this year, is an unlikely success story. Who would’ve guessed that a musical based on the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton would be such a hit? But thanks to the show’s creative dream team, which includes writer and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda and choreographer […]
The big screen gets the Oscars; the small screen has the Emmys; the world’s top singers duke it out every year at the Grammys. And while Broadway already has the Tony Awards, we wanted to take it one step further. Welcome to The Jazz Hand Awards (aka the Jazzies), honoring the best, brightest and—above all—danciest […]
Melanie Moore bursts onto the Finding Neverland stage with a gigantic center-split leap the moment the curtain rises. She’s dressed as Peter Pan—yet over the course of the two-and-a-half hour Broadway retelling of J.M. Barrie’s path to creating Peter Pan, Moore dons nine costumes, six pairs of shoes and four wigs. In fact, her backstage […]
These jazz class looks are inspired by iconic NYC landmarks!