May 2009

The other day a friend of mine went to see Sessions.  I asked her how she liked it and she said, “I didn’t expect it to be so heavy.  I guess when I saw “musical” I expected “light”.  Huh.   As a life long devotee to Sondheim, who’s every musical (even the deceptively named Follies) is [...]

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  I don’t think I took a breath for a full five minutes as I watched the first scene of The Gallery Player’s production of

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So off I go to UNDER St. Marks to see No Tea Production’s new show, LIARS directed by Lindsey Moore, when on my way there I’m handed a lottery ticket by a man who’s slumped over a mail box.  ”It’s … the winning … ticket ….,” he gasps to me, his arm outstretched, “… take [...]

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Bea Flies Home – Remembering A Broadway Legend

by Karen Tortora-Lee May 7, 2009 Broadway

My first encounter with Bea Arthur wasn’t in her role as Dorothy Zbornak on Golden Girls, or even as Maude Findlay in Maude.  I was first introduced to Bea Arthur’s disembodied baritone as it came seeping through my bedroom floor boards. Picture it – Brooklyn, early seventies.  A young six year old is trying to get her beauty [...]

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