The Modern Age

I’m kinda gonna cry. After 12 years of being on Broadway, the hit musical RENT will CLOSE. The last performance perform at the Nederlander Theater in NYC will be on June 1. RENT will be the seventh-longest running show in Broadway history.
As longtime readers of the site will know, I was a HUGE RENThead [...]

Idina sang the National Anthem during the Giants/Patriots game last night. Unlike so many stars that attempt to sing the song, Idina sang it perfectly and beautifully. No off-key warbling for her–she’s a real pro.
In case you missed:

Thanks to Deb for the heads.
PS- Anyone else disturbed by Tom Brady looking kinda hot? Y/N?

Hooooraayy!!!! Duncan Sheik is the proud winner of 2 Tony Awards!! I saw it last November in previews and LOOOVED it. The original cast recording was one of my top albums of 2006.
UPDATE: Here are some videos of the performances/wins incase you missed them:
Medley performance:

John Gallagher Jr’s win:

Best Musical win:

Ok, so here it goes. I’ve put on my armor. I’m ready for your biggest and best pot shots…
The point of this list is to single out the albums *I* enjoyed the most this year–this is not a list of what is cool in any way possible. It’s not an indication of what was the [...]

As you may remember, in August of this year I totally had a hissy-fit that Will Chase didn’t know what Other Music was DESPITE being the lead in the Broadway musical adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel, High Fidelity.
Well my hex upon the musical came to fruition: after only 14 performances, High Fidelity on Broadway is [...]

Time Out New York’s latest issue takes New York critics to task by dissecting their knowledge, style, taste, and influence and ranking them.
For music critics, The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones comes out on top, with a 4.98, and New York Times critic (and favorite TMA villian–yup, still pissed about that Strokes review like 3 years [...]

For anyone who ever loved Les Miserables, Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segal doing “Confrontation” on the Megan Mullally show. AMAZING, although I have to say a little part of me got embarrassed for EVERYONE who watched that. Link from Gawker.

I have no other explanation as to why on EARTH the beloved pocket-sized Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth would wear over-the-knee WHITE hooker boots for a New York Times photoshoot other than the reasoning that it must be subliminal marketing tactic for a musical adaptation of Pretty Woman that she MUST be working on in secret. [...]

Right before the holidays hit last week, I saw a new Broadway musical called Spring Awakening. I was excited to see the show for a number of reasons, namely because I haven’t seen a Broadway musical in YEARS and also because the music was written by my very first pop star crush, Duncan Sheik.
Freshly transplanted [...]

As much as I love to support Broadway theater, and as much as I love the fact that Will Chase is a former cast member of RENT, I found his interview with New York magazine to be…well…upsetting. Will is going to be the lead role in the musical theater adaptation of Nick Hornby’s uber-music geek [...]