musicals

Movie Review: Little Shop of Horrors

There are some movies I just assume everyone has seen, because I’ve seen them myself so many times. But then I talk to people and mention the movies in casual conversation, and I’m reminded that just isn’t the case. So even though it feels redundant to me to review such an excellent movie musical as Little Shop of Horrors . . . I’m going to do it anyway. Because everyone should watch this movie. It’s just so much fun, and so unique. And never mind the fact that when I had Tomas and DC watch it with Denisa and me […]

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A Tale of Two Sweeneys

I still have my month subscription to BroadwayHD, so two nights ago I decided to watch Sweeney Todd in Concert with Denisa. Nothing the kids would be interested in, so I picked a time when they were already on their way to bed. Except TRC came in and asked what we were watching. I told him it was a musical, thinking that would turn him off, and he decided to stay. Okay, I thought, He’s 12. He’s up for a bit of a darkness in a musical. And he probably won’t last through it. And then DC stopped by to

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Watch Broadway Shows at Home

A week or two ago, I heard that they were going to stream a performance of a current Broadway musical live. The musical in question? She Loves Me, a revival of a production that’s based off the same play You’ve Got Mail and The Shop around the Corner were based on. It was one of the shows I’d been thinking about going to this summer, and I had been sad to hear it was closing July 10th, so I wouldn’t be able to see it. Given the chance to stream it at home for $10? Yes, please. I wasn’t sure

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A Belated Review of Grease: Live!

Yup. That’s how far behind the times I am. Denisa and I took a few weeks to watch Fox’s entry into the live musical trend, going with Grease this time. I turned it on, apprehensive. I watched The Sound of Music, which I thought was pretty much a train wreck, and because of that experience, I stayed away from Peter Pan and The Wiz. But while I heard middling things about Pan, I heard good vibes coming from the Wiz, and Grease is a musical I’ve always enjoyed, so I thought . . . why not? What could it hurt?

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Into the Woods: The Hollywood Version

I finally got around to watching the new version of Into the Woods the other night. It had been a movie I’d thought about seeing in the theaters, just because I love the musical so much, but that never came together, and so I missed it. I’ve seen the filmed Broadway version many times, and it was actually the first musical I saw on Broadway back during its original run with Burnadette Peters, so it’s one I have a fair bit of history with. How would it fare in the adaptation process? In some ways, it fared very well. In

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