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Reviews, Stage Reviews

New York City Center Encores! 2024 Review: Titanic

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   So, quite a few thoughts before reviewing this moving revival of the Peter Stone (story and book) and Maury Yeston (music and lyrics) “Titanic.” One is, well…having seen the piece during its original Tony award-winning run, I was more than thrilled to see it being revived. It is, and was, a wonder capturing the humanity and the disaster of {…}

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MasterVoices To Open Its Season With ‘Let ‘Em Eat Cake’

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MasterVoices will open its 2019-20 season next month with a concert version of George and Ira Gershwin’s “Let ‘Em Eat Cake,” a “musical take on a presidential re-election gone haywire.” The 1933 sequel to “Of Thee I Sing” continues the story of populist U.S. President John P. Wintergreen, who is voted out of office and stages a coup in an {…}

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MasterVoices Announces Its 2019-20 Season

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New York-based ensemble MasterVoices has announced its 2019-20 season. Music Director Ted Sperling will lead a concert staging of George and Ira Gershwin’s musical “Let ‘Em Eat Cake.” Bryce Pinkham stars as President Wintergreen, alongside Christopher Fitzgerald, Solea Pfeiffer, Chuck Cooper, Fred Applegate, and Kevin Chamberlin. The performance, to be held at Carnegie Hall, will feature choreography by Andrew Palermo, {…}

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Famed Baritone Dwayne Croft Reflects on the Importance of The Glimmerglass Festival

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Earlier this summer, I returned to Cooperstown to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Glimmerglass Festival, a place that, quite simply, changed the course of my life. Standing once again on their majestic campus, I was inspired to reflect on my own journey as a performer and as a person, as well as the impact the Festival has had {…}