For Easter … Yes, tonight is the “all-star” live musical/concert, “Jesus Christ Superstar,” and, it should NOT be missed. But, in the meantime, here is who I feel was the best actor/performer to have played the role, so far – Steve Balsamo.
Category: SUNDAY SHOWSTOPPERS
The last Sunday Showstopper Snippet of 2017. As many anxiously await the turning of the page in hopes of a healthier, happier and kinder 2018, one song immediately came to mind. Although it is not yet a “Broadway” showstopper, it certainly was a cinematic showstopper…
In case you missed it, I created a YouTube playlist with the Kennedy Center Honors tribute to Carmen De Lavallade. Absolutely breathtaking.
Merry Christmas (almost)!! Today’s Sunday Showstopper Snippet is dedicated to those of you who wait until the very last minute to do your shopping. Most recently revived in 2016, SHE LOVES ME is a wonderful musical that was adapted from a 1937 play by Hungarian…
WARNING: Today’s Sunday Showstopper Snippet will most certainly bring a smile to the face of anyone going through the ‘holiday blues!’ If this showstopper doesn’t shake your blues away, NOTHING will! In 2016, the classic 1942 Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire masterpiece, HOLIDAY INN, featuring…
December 10, 2014 – AN AMERICAN IN PARIS opens their out-of-town pre-Broadway engagement, appropriately, at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, France. The Broadway production was nominated for 11 Tony Awards, and won 4, including Best Choreography, in a VERY crowded year for monumentally wonderful new…
It’s SUNDAY SHOWSTOPPER SNIPPET time, and I’ve got a cold, so it’s gonna be a quick one! The obvious selection would have been ‘Adelaide’s Lament,’ from GUYS AND DOLLS, but that would have been too easy! Instead, I’m featuring a song made famous in a…
We are smack dab in the middle of yet another holiday season. With it comes anticipation, love, laughter, family, traditions, friendship, memories, romance, and, for many, sadness and depression. DEAR EVAN HANSEN is the reigning Tony Award winning Best Musical (along with 5 other Tonys)…
Be transported by emotionally raw, riveting dance and the true expression of a woman adding “life” to her years. Last night on DWTS, Julianne Hough and Alexander Jean performed a contemporary dance choreographed by Marinda Davis as an expression of her own experience and love…
It’s Thanksgiving week!!! When searching for an appropriate Sunday Showstopper Snippet, I first explored the turkey-day specific references (“Turkey-Lurkey Time,” “Plenty to be Thankful For”), then jumped over the the cooking and food category (“What Baking Can Do,” “Be Our Guest,” even “A Little Priest”),…
