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‘Aladdin’ Brings Spectacle, Disney Charm to the Cadillac Palace
by Peter Thomas Ricci ‘Disney’s Aladdin,’ which opened a limited run at the Cadillac Palace Theatre this week, is among the most spectacularly staged musicals I have ever seen. With […]
By Peter Thomas Ricci Charlie Parker was no mere jazz saxophonist. One of the founders of jazz’s bebop movement, he brought a virtuosity to the American art form that had […]
by Peter Thomas Ricci ‘The Most Happy Fella,’ the 1956 musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser – who also wrote ‘Guys and Dolls’ and ‘How to Succeed in […]
By Peter Thomas Ricci In a short essay accompanying the show’s playbill, Lili-Anne Brown – the director of Kokandy Production’s staging of ‘The Wiz’ at Theater Wit – writes of […]