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Off-Broadway Review: “Insomnia” at the Midtown International Theatre Festival at WorkShop Theater’s Main Stage

August 8, 2016 | LGBTQ+, NY Musical Theatre, Off-Broadway > | LGBTQ, New York Musical Festival

The new musical “Insomnia” played as part of the Midtown International Theater Festival. It is complicated, enjoyable and derivative, some of which might contribute to a possible successful future. The music and lyrics by Charles Bloom are like a collision between Sondheim and Finn, a beneficial “marriage” contributing to the progress of the production at this developmental stage. Screenwriter Brad…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Dust Can’t Kill Me” Strikes a Redemptive Chord at the New York Musical Festival at the June Havoc Theatre

August 8, 2016 | a delicate, june havoc theatre, LGBTQ+, NY Musical Theatre, Off-Broadway, to kill > | June Havoc Theatre, LGBTQ, New York Musical Festival

“By the sweat of your face You will eat bread, Till you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:19 On its first return to New York City since it was featured in FringeNYC 2014, “Dust Can’t Kill Me” is a powerful and delightfully complicated trope…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Men on Boats” at Playwrights Horizons Peter J. Sharp Theater

August 1, 2016 | LGBTQ+, long lost john, Off-Broadway, rescue rue > | Clubbed Thumb, LGBTQ, Playwrights Horizons

“On the 24th of May, 1869, we started down the Green River with provisions for eight or ten months, according to Major Powell. Our provisions got wet and were lost in different ways, and finally the largest boatload was lost in Diamond Falls on the Green River. All this reduced our rations. Though we had plenty of fish on Green…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Last Word” at the New York Musical Festival at the Duke on 42nd Street

July 31, 2016 | 42nd street, asi wind, last stand city center, LGBTQ+, NY Musical Theatre, Off-Broadway > | Duke on 42nd, LGBTQ, New York Musical Festival

Brett Sullivan’s “The Last Word” is a delightful new musical with a great deal to offer. Mr. Sullivan and his creative team have carefully thought through a musical that features an outstanding cast, a fully developed story with a clear dramatic arc, and an engaging theme that readily connects to the audience. “The Last Word” is one of the few…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Lisa and Leonardo” Goes into a Tailspin at the New York Musical Festival at the Duke on 42nd Street

July 29, 2016 | 42nd street, LGBTQ+, NY Musical Theatre, Off-Broadway > | Duke on 42nd, LGBTQ, New York Musical Festival

Never has a musical been so at war with itself than is “Lisa and Leonardo,” the new musical that finished its run at the New York Musical Festival on Thursday July 28, 2016. It is difficult to know how a talented and experienced creative team could create a musical that in almost two and a half hours’ time fails to…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Mr. Toole” at the Midtown International Theatre Festival at WorkShop Theater’s Main Stage Theater

July 25, 2016 | LGBTQ+, Midtown International Theatre, mr. toole, Off-Broadway > | LGBTQ, Midtown International Theatre

“Do I dare/Disturb the universe?/In a minute there is time/For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.” T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” After a successful run at the Huntington Theatre in Boston, “A Confederacy of Dunces” is possibly heading to Broadway. John Kennedy Toole’s picaresque novel was published in 1980 eleven years after his…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Children of Salt” Lacks Flavor at the New York Musical Festival at the Pearl Theatre

July 24, 2016 | asi wind, LGBTQ+, NY Musical Theatre, Off-Broadway > | LGBTQ, New York Musical Festival

Jaime Lozano’s and Lauren Epsenhart’s new musical from Mexico follows successful entrepreneur Raul’s (Mauricio Martinez) return to his childhood seaside home to visit his ailing grandmother Marina (April Ortiz). The musical begins in the present and, through a series of flashbacks introduces the characters, their conflicts, and how those conflicts brought them and Raul to the present. After seeing his…

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