Phantom Goes Over 9000!

Sep 18th, 2009 by talfonso | read more

All right, Vegeta, calculate how many times The Phantom of the Opera has been performing since January 26, 1988.
Looks like my personal web friend Andrew Lloyd Webber hit a new high when his said musical reached its 9000th performance on Broadway, beating out his preceding show, Cats, as the longest-running musical in Broadway history. The [...]

Topics: musical theater, Musicals, phantom

Autism in Song and Dance

Sep 16th, 2009 by talfonso | read more

I am a fan of musical theater and it’s like a positive drug, but there are needs for inclusion for “special” individuals and for expansion in the subject matter, especially when it comes to the rapidly-growing developmental disorder in the US – autism.
Elaine Hall, an acting coach and mother of an adopted autistic son, addressed [...]

Topics: autism, musical theater, musical writers, Musicals

Musicals Proposed and In-Progress

Sep 14th, 2009 by talfonso | read more

I am now working on my rough draft of my musical number, Meltdown, which tells the story of a mother of an autistic who is confused about quelling her son’s meltdown in the grocery store. The music has to wait until I’m richer, but I am in the exposition and rising action phrases. The cast [...]

Topics: autism, libretto, lyrics, music, musical theater, Musicals

Theater Composer Scoops Up Emmy

Sep 14th, 2009 by talfonso | read more

I’m always a fan of Howard Goodall, and he has been my role model since the age of 10. I’m liking him more now because he recently won an Emmy for his score of the HBO TV film, Into the Storm! That was a really big win for my new Internet friend and multifaceted composer [...]

Topics: musical theater, musical writers, Musicals

Searching Over the Rainbow

Sep 12th, 2009 by talfonso | read more

Looks like my Internet pen pal Andrew Lloyd Webber is at it again – he found the perfect Maria, Joseph, and Nancy in the respective BBC reality series How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, Any Dream Will Do, and I’d Do Anything.
This time, he searches for the perfect heroine in the movie musical [...]

Topics: dorothy, musical theater, Musicals, toto, wizard of oz

Musical Theater is RIGHT in Your Face!

Sep 12th, 2009 by talfonso | read more

I love shows – I love it when people go onstage and break into song and/or dance and amaze the audience. This formed the basis that is called Musical Theater in the Face, a blog on what is internationally and locally happening in the utopia called “musical theater,” and things that are so intriguing in [...]

Topics: broadway, musical theater, musical writers, Musicals, west end

Jade Goody: The MUSICAL??

Apr 24th, 2009 by Chuck Hinson | read more

Before we start, let me make a quick announcement, okay??
Because many of you are fans of the dynamite UK band, The Fore, you now have a chance to vote for one of their songs on the Unsigned Charts Show! The goal, naturally, is to get their hit rocker, Little Louisa, to the #1 position [...]

Topics: Jade Goody, Musicals, The Fore, Unsigned Bands

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