Thursday evening, August 3, saw the opening of the new musical comedy Curvy Widow at the Westside Theatre. With Book by Bobby Goldman, Music  & Lyrics by Drew Brody and directed by Peter Flynn, the production stars Nancy Opel (Broadway: Honeymoon In Vegas, Urinetown, The Toxic...

        by Samuel L. Leiter   Judging by the piece about Curvy Widow in the current issue of Playbill, which notes that it “has been on the express track, taking just eight months from its launch in Asheville, North Carolina, to a New York premiere,” you’d never know...

                            by: Magda Katz The press event was for a special launch of Gershwin’s Tony Award-winning musical comedy, Crazy for You in advance of a sneak peek concert performance that will take place on...

        by Brian Scott Lipton     Like a number of City Center Encores! productions, Evan Cabnet’s staging of Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ 1965 “flop” musical Do I Hear A Waltz? simultaneously makes the best case possible for reviving...