Bob May has 50 years experience in the performing arts and business in Southern California. He has been a stage and film actor and director. He has also been a producer, business consultant, ...
A cast of 67, an orchestra of 54, and a children's choir -- what is this, the Ziegfeld Follies? Well, almost. It was Florenz Ziegfeld who in 1927 temporarily forsook presenting scantily clad chorines ...
Show Boat, based on the 1926 novel by Edna Ferber, is both a powerful narrative and a historical reflection, revealing a legacy marked by violent racism while striving for a more just America. The ...
Through intelligent handling of its racial themes, Daniel Evans’s revival has steered this much-loved 1927 show smoothly into the modern age What is it about Show Boat? Why is it that a musical ...
2 Video: Karl Josef Co sings 'Finishing the Hat' from Sunday in the Park with George at 54 Below! 3 Video: Jon-Michael Reese sings 'Last Midnight' from Into the Woods at 54 Below! David Herskovits ...
The scaled-down version of Kern and Hammerstein’s musical is still a big beast and Daniel Evans’ final festive show laudably refuses to beautify an ugly subject Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s ...
At a rehearsal for the New York Philharmonic’s production of “Show Boat,” Alice Hammerstein Mathias spoke to the cast about a controversy as old as the musical itself: The choices her father, and ...
A musical comedy behaved like a comic opera last week. It came back to Broadway just as if it had been written by Gilbert & Sullivan or Franz Lehar or Victor Herbert. It set people to singing again ...