By AARON KRAUSE Their music has become so well-known and popular that a song barely begins before thunderous clapping fills the auditorium. During a recent performance, the audience’ clapping was so loud and sustained at various points that hands, no doubt, turned as red as roses offered with love on Valentine’s Day. Roughly 13 years […]
By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out”) It would be tantamount to treason to suggest that the amazing Whitney Houston, with her long string of hits from the 1980s and 1990s, was anything less than a pop superstar. Indeed, the musical horizon was shaped by platinum- and gold-certified charted songs such as”Saving All My […]
By ALAN SMASON, Theatre critic, WYES-TV (“Steppin’ Out“) In 2014 when “Beautiful: The Carole King Musical” opened at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York, critics and pundits were applauding Jessie Mueller for what seemed an impossible role to fill. Not only did the actress have to emulate the singing style of an iconic American […]