It’s SUNDAY SHOWSTOPPER SNIPPET time, once again! At the beginning of this month, I promised that, in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, every Sunday Showstopper would be dedicated to those who have been touched by this disease – the patients, the survivors, and those…
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On this day, October 28, in 1886, The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland. On the pedestal was inscribed a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus – a statement that would become as much of a symbol of…
It’s SUNDAY SHOWSTOPPER SNIPPET time! Breast Cancer Awareness month continues, but, for those currently receiving treatment, and those who have completed treatment, ‘awareness’ will not just be for a month – it will be for the rest of our lives. Our mantra has became “I…
As promised, today will be another SUNDAY SHOWSTOPPER SNIPPET dedicated to my Pink Sisters – those who are survivors who have completed their treatment and are in process of adding ‘life to their years,’ those still in the midst of their treatment, and those who…
It’s Autumn! The time of year that invokes visions of a million shades of green morphing into gold and bronze, red and vermilion. Where I live, we don’t get much in the way of “fall foliage,” so my mind jumps to photographs and paintings. Although…
It’s a Frozen Sunday Showstopper! If you haven’t heard, “Frozen, the musical” opened its out-of-towner in Denver on Friday, and the reviews are pouring in! Variety remarks that the “aim was to age up the demographic of the animated blockbuster’s stage adaptation, they’ve succeeded. In…
If we’re always starting over every brand new morning, then we’re always starting out with the end in doubt. We can leave life for tomorrow or grieve all that we thought we’d do or make each moment new! – Brian Yorkey (If/Then, the musical) This…
For today’s SUNDAY SHOWSTOPPER SNIPPET, I was looking for a song of resilience – of getting back up and LIVING, even after you’ve been broken. Of finding the strength and hope to start over. If/Then opened on Broadway as “a new musical” in March 2014,…
It’s Sunday Showstopper Snippet Day!!! As summer rolls along, many parts of the country are in the midst of a major heatwave, it’s just ‘too darn hot!’ Such was the case during the play-within-the-play of Cole Porter’s KISS ME KATE. Based on Shakespeare’s ‘Taming of…
If you know me, or have been reading my blog, you’ll know, without a shadow of a doubt, that I’m a Broadway theatre junky. It should come to no surprise to anyone that, with scrupulous attention to Broadway happenings, and careful planning, I was able…