Come From Away. Book, music & lyrics by Irene Sankoff & David Hein. Schoenfeld Theatre, New York City, March 2017.
A hit musical has opened on Broadway and it’s about…..9/11? Really? Seems like an odd topic for song and dance.
Actually, Come From Away is more of a 9/12 musical, telling us what happened in the days following …
Tomfoolery. Tony Braithwaite directed at Act II Playhouse, March-April 2017
To young people of a certain generation, Tom Lehrer was the pied piper. In the conformist 1950s he wrote songs that poked fun at sacred institutions such as motherhood, religious tolerance, small towns, and American militarism. His wicked lyrics were paired with catchy melodies, some of them similar …