Here is a look at a handful of shows from Broadway’s spring season, in a run-up to the Tony Awards, which will be broadcast June 8. Real Women Have Curves: Although based on Josefina Lopez’s 1990 play and the subsequent HBO movie starring America Ferrera from 2002, the newly arrived musical, Real Women Have Curves, seems extremely timely in the current days of … [Read more...]
Postcard from Broadway No. 4: ‘Boop!’ a delightful throwback, led by a rising star
Do you remember the Max Fleischer hand-drawn black-and-white animated shorts from the 1930s? Director-choreographer Jerry Mitchell is hoping you do and are interested in his new musical, Boop!, centered on that spit-curled spitfire kewpie doll, Betty Boop. Besides harkening back to a Depression-era cartoon celebrity, Boop! takes us back to the days when musicals … [Read more...]