Crazy thought. What if… what if a pregnant playwright some day in the future read through all the correspondence between you and Robert, those occasionally booze-fueled postcards, those heartfelt letters, those beautifully introspective bits.
That I had goose bumps yet again after a Janelle Monáe performance probably tells me everything I need to know.
In a strange twist of vodka and make-up, the tables are turned and the interviewer becomes Joan Crawford while the woman behind the icon asks the really hard questions as she struggles to understand the truth behind her career and life.
This injection of contradictory elements is unmistakably Sondheim; it leaves the audience feeling that they’re watching something particularly smart.
Full cast announced for limited, pre-Broadway run of Harold Pinter’s play this August
Janelle Monáe’s duet with the band Fun (“We Are Young”) was a smash hit last year reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
SHN season line-up includes Book of Mormon, Beautiful, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Once, and a sixth show to be revealed.
The edgy intensity that Brancoveanu brought to Orphée two years ago has grown exponentially with the passage of time, bursting forth to bring an explosive Sam, priapically strutting the stage.
The fifth Broadway San Jose season will start in October of 2013 with the Bay Area exclusive engagement of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, followed by a new revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic Evita.
