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The Broadway Musical Blog
http://broadwaymusicalblog.com
Dishing out daily (or almost daily) Broadway musical news and gossip. The companion site to The Broadway Musical Home (www.broadwaymusicalhome.com), a directory of Broadway musicals with the story, songs, merchandise, video clips, lyrics, tickets, rights & awards for almost 200 shows.
Recent Posts
The Reviews for Fela! are In …
Fela! opened on Broadway to fairly positive reviews yesterday, the show’s producers, Jay-Z, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, have brought some name recognition to a largely unknown and lively group of artists, most of whom transferred over f...
American Idiot: Rock Music Video, Theatricalized (A guest review by BroadwayGirlNYC)
As I write this, I’m blasting Green Day’s 2004 “American Idiot” CD only because the cast album of their theatrical adaptation hasn’t yet been recorded. In both incarnations, the music is at once hummable and subversive, driving and spellbi...
The reviews for Ragtime are in …
The last time Ragtime appeared on Broadway, a whole new theater was built to house the gigantic production. This time, the show comes from a much humbler place and the critics couldn’t be more complimentary – its fresh, relavant and powe...
It was all a publicity stunt – Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein are appearing together in All About Me
If you’ve been following the wonderfully ridiculous banter between Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein, you may have had the sneaking suspicion that some sort of publicity stunt was in the works. If so, congratulations. You were so right. Feinstei...
Mid-November Broadway Musical News Roundup
Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark is gearing up again this time with a lead actor and producer It’s official – Reeve Carney, the lead singer of the band Carney, will be playing Peter Parker (ie. Spideman) in the upcoming Broadway mega-spende...
Two new Billys for Broadway
Billy Elliot The Musical will welcome two new boys into the rotation of the title role! The lucky two are Dayton Tavare, who played Billy in Sydney and Melbourne, and Liam Redhead, straight out of Canada’s National Ballet School. Both boys were ch...

