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Backstage Babble
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The only blog that focuses on the national Broadway tours, providing the most up-to-date tour schedules on the web. Written by a professional theatre critic, Backstage Babble also features reviews, humor and just plain theatre talk.
- Added on: Jun 24th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Todd Wallinger
- Listed in: Entertainment Arts
- Tags: theatre theater musicals broadway musical theatre musical theater
Recent Posts
Quote of the Week
Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.P. G. Wodehouse, English author (1881-1975)...
Musical Songs Answers #1
It was difficult finding ten questions for this quiz as very few well-known Christmas songs originated on Broadway. Most were created as standalone pop songs. Others were written for films.A couple of the songs had two answers, but I'll give you full...
Musical Songs Quiz #1
In recognition of the all-too-swiftly approaching holidays is this quiz about some popular and not-so-popular Christmas songs. Not all of them originated in a Broadway musical, but they were all eventually featured in one. Can you name the musical th...
A New Direction for Theatre Critics?
There's been a lot of blogosphere buzz about The Broadway League's recently released report The Demographics of the Broadway Audience 2008-2009 (see press release here). And since most of the findings have been discussed to death elsewhere, I'm not g...
REVIEW: The Wedding Singer Tour
Who's got my hairpick?Two-dimensional characters and lack of humor deaden this musical retelling of the 1998 Adam Sandler-Drew Barrymore flick. Grade: C+Screen-to-stage adaptations are all the rage on Broadway these days. It takes a lot of money to m...
To Mike or Not to Mike
The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on the increasing use of amplification in the theatre last week:Many theatergoers have come to expect the miking effect. Microphones on stage allow actors to speak more naturally, emulating the more ...
