Contests like this week’s are my faves, because once again it proves that I’ve got the most creative readers in the worldwide blogosphere.
Just look at some of your suggestions for names of Barbershop Quarter groups:
The Four Hoarsemen of the Acappellapocalips The Relief Pitch-ers The Ken Dolls (he-he-he)
But my favorite of all, and [...]
Back when I was an actor, I appeared in four productions of Forever Plaid. Oh man, there was nothing sweeter than singing those four-part harmonies.
Doing Plaid was one of the reasons I conceived Altar Boyz, with fellow Plaidite, Marc Kessler. We saw how audiences reacted to [...]
If there’s one thing that this giveaway proved, is that there’s a lot of drama in the theater, onstage and off.
You all came up with lots of great ideas for potential future adventures for Scarlet, the heroine of Showbiz. Not surprisingly, the story that people want to read the most about is [...]
When I was a kid and discovered baseball, I devoured everything I could on the subject . . . including every movie, and every book about the subject, especially those Matt Christopher jems. (Remember those?)
When fans today discover Broadway, they probably do the same . . . except that there aren’t [...]
Unfortunately, for the Producers, Breakfast at Tiffany’s got more positive press from the nudity, then for the actual play itself . . . and the show announced it would be closing, gulp, tomorrow.
So sex may sell . . . but it doesn’t always recoup. :-)
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