Tag: Dames at Sea on Broadway
Dames at Sea~article from Thefrontrowcenter.com
Deconstruct a Sam Peckinpah western for the stage and you get a tight piece of absurdism like Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love. Deconstruct a Busby Berkeley movie musical and you have the loose two hours of light-heartedness that is Dames…
Dames at Sea: All Aboard~article from Huffingtonpost.com
Is there anything Broadway shows love more than to make a show within a show? Before you roll your eyes at yet another in this genre, know that Dames at Sea was ahead of its time in identifying this culture…
‘Dames at Sea’ at The Helen Hayes Theatre in New York City~DCMetrotheaterarts.com
Way back in the dark ages (circa early 1930s) when musicals were musical comedies (if you don’t know what I mean, listen to “Musicals,” the showstopper in the light-hearted hit Something Rotten!), the writers and composers’ aim was simply to…
Broadway Review: ‘Dames at Sea’ at Helen Hayes Theater~article from NYTheatreguide.com
In 1966 the country was still reeling from the deaths of JFK, and we are soon to lose MLK, Malcolm X and RFK. We were sitting in what seemed to be an unending war. It was a very despondent time…
Gloria Estefan, Dames at Sea Stars, and More Honor Bernadette Peters~article by Theatermania.com
The Drama League honored Tony Award winner Bernadette Peters at its annual gala, held November 2 at the Plaza Hotel. The lineup for the evening’s musical tribute included Gloria Estefan (On Your Feet!), Joel Grey (Anything Goes), Norm Lewis (The…