Signature Theatre is tackling “Sweeney Todd” for the third time in the company’s history, and I enjoyed getting a sneak peek at the production for a new Weekend article. Break a leg, all! Or cut off a leg, or something like that…

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The Orlando production of “The Blue Lagoon: A Musical” opens Saturday, Jan. 9, at the Footlight Theatre at the Parliament House Resort. Jane Horwitz mentions the show in today’s Backstage column in The Post, which also features a nice photo of exceptional New York talents Shayna Albertson and Anthony Johnson, who are reprising their CringeFest […]

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Actor Todd Alan Johnson and director-choreographer Stephen Nachamie spoke eloquently about “Camelot” for my new OnStage article in Weekend. The show opens Nov. 18 at Olney. Break a leg, all!

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I enjoyed chatting with Jim Brochu, the creator and star of “Zero Hour,” and Piper Laurie, the show’s director, for an OnStage article in Weekend. “Zero Hour,” about the colorful and complex life of Zero Mostel, opens today at Theater J, and the play is New York-bound in the fall. Break a leg, all!

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Anthony Johnson and Shayna Albertson in “The Blue Lagoon: A Musical,” opening July 22 at the Producers’ Club Grand Theater in New York.

Photo by Tony Spinosa

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“The Blue Lagoon: A Musical,” a subversively funny take on the classic tale of shipwrecked teen cousins in lust, will open on July 22 at the Producers’ Club Grand Theater in Manhattan. The show is slated for four performances as part of International CringeFest, a three-week celebration of naughtily bad plays, musicals and films.
“The Blue […]

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In anticipation of the New York premiere of “The Blue Lagoon: A Musical,” I’ve replaced complete footage on YouTube with a three-minute compilation of highlights from the original production in Washington. Check it out, and if you’ll be in Manhattan during CringeFest, July 20-Aug. 9, I hope you’ll see the show!

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I’m terribly tickled that “The Blue Lagoon: A Musical” will be produced in New York this summer as part of International CringeFest, a celebration of bad plays, musicals and films, with “bad” defined by the festival as “irreverent, politically incorrect, naughty and utterly zany.” I somehow suspected that a musical about incestuous teen lovers and […]

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Well. Would you look at that? If it isn’t July already… You might say that I’ve been closed for renovations. Yes, I know — the site looks the same. But, if we were to run into each other for the first time since December, you might notice that I’m 87 pounds lighter. That little project […]

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