Broadway’s ‘Funny Girl’ Revival Rains on Its Own Parade
Streisand’s “My Man,” which closes the film, gives the plot its proper, hardened-diva closure and is the better choice of song. However, “Don’t Rain on My Parade” is the traditional closer for the stage musical and is belted and applauded and cheered wildly as expected, but it also—sadly like a lot in Funny Girl 2022—rings hollow.
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The “Hangmen” Martin McDonagh Wrote Lack Accountability, but Should the Play Get Away with the Same?
Hangmen, by Martin McDonagh and directed by Matthew Dunster begins on the day the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act was passed in England in 1965. Harry (David Threlfall), a former hangman who runs a pub in Northern England, is suddenly sought after by the press who want to know his thoughts on the historic […]
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‘for colored girls’ Is a Timeless Movement in Compassion
After playwright Ntozake Shange’s death in 2018, her sister—the playwright Ifa Bayeza—said, “I don’t think there’s a day on the planet when there’s not a young woman who discovers herself through the words of my sister.” As I watched the revival of Shange’s “choreopoem” for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow […]
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