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BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The New York City Center Encores! series, previously devoted to reviving vintage American musicals, now gives a smart if rather low-wattage concert staging ...
... concert production by Encores! that is currently glowing at the New York City Center this weekend. An atypical 1956 work entirely written by Frank Loesser, who is best known for brassy musical comedies ...
BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM A tuneful smorgasbord of gags, yocks and generally silly business, “Little Me” gets an easygoing concert revival by the New York City Center Encores! series.  ...
BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Nearly 30 songs by Stephen Sondheim have been smartly recycled as “A Bed and a Chair,” a very special new event by Encores! in league with Jazz at Lincoln Center ...
... book and lyrics), Betty Buckley and Phyllis Newman. They all remain cherished theater memories. So watching the Encores! Off Center summertime series’ revival at New York City Center blinds me a bit ...
BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Revived through Saturday by Encores!, Marc Blitzstein’s agitprop musical from 1937, “The Cradle Will Rock,” is not a show for casual theatergoers seeking a ...
... dished up with plenty of dancing in the Encores! staged concert revival of “On Your Toes” at New York City Center. The 1936 musical comedy (which enjoyed a successful Broadway revival in 1983) regards ...
BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The Encores! concert series presents a snazzy revival of a really obscure Broadway musical in its delightful staging of “It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman,” ...
BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM New York City Center’s Encores! series was inaugurated in 1994 with a concert revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Fiorello!” which just popped up ...
10. REVIEW: ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’ gets an Encore
(Entertainment/New York Theater)
... Lorelei in the later screen version of this 1949 musical comedy, Hilty’s presence here as the titular blonde is a sweet piece of casting. Pleasantly revived in a staged concert format by Encores! at ...
... Center Encores! is in business to give neglected American musicals another hearing. Their nifty concert staging of “Pipe Dream” bowed on Wednesday and continues through Sunday at New York City Center. ...
12. REVIEW: ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ rolls along again
(Entertainment/New York Theater)
Stephen Sondheim musical about the reversals of friendship returns via Encores! BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW The short-lived Broadway production of “Merrily We ...
Jazz at Lincoln Center and Encores! join forces to celebrate a legendary Harlem hot spot BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW A sleek song-and-dance revue, “Cotton Club ...
... debut. With any luck, the nifty Encores! concert version of “Where’s Charley?” that bowed Thursday for a weekend stint at New York City Center will be recorded. Loesser’s score is charming and so is ...
... by the invaluable Encores! series tend to be cheerful entertainments that reflect Broadway at its diversionary best. Not so the 1949 musical tragedy "Lost in the Stars," which opened Thursday at New York ...
... a splendid Encores! concert staging of his short-lived 1964 "Anyone Can Whistle" that once again proved Donna Murphy is a marvel. Roundabout's "Sondheim on Sondheim" retrospective turned out to be more ...
... neglected Broadway musicals in concert productions, New York City Center's Encores! series begins its three-show season agreeably with "Bells Are Ringing," which runs through Sunday at City Center. Crafted ...
18. Lynn Redgrave: Creature of the theater
(Entertainment/Movies)
... over the years, my especially favorite Redgrave moment was one that relatively few people saw — and of all things, in a musical. A dozen years ago, popping up in an Encores! concert staging of the screwball ...
... for anybody else, the great composer's legendary and rarely performed "Anyone Can Whistle" was brought back to spirited life on Thursday thanks to New York City Center's Encores! series of American musicals ...
Encores! series revives a 1954 hit by neglected songwriter Harold Rome BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Frank Loesser are celebrated for ...
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