Something Old, Nothing New

He settled Hoti 's business--let it be!--        Properly based Oun -- Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De ,         Dea...

I was just watching this clip from the movie Sis Hopkins , starring Judy Canova, and was reminded that Jule Styne claimed (in Max Wilk's...

In 1970, Life magazine sent its reporter Richard Meryman to cover the tryouts of Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady , and I recently rea...

People often complain that too many musicals are based on popular movies. I don't really agree with the complaint -- a movie is, in many...

This one is less obscure than some of the other shows I've written about on this site. It had a run that normally qualifies a musical as...

I just got back from seeing Hugo , a charming and frustrating experience in equal measure, though I suspect that the charm will stay with me...

One of the few sitcoms I watched at the time and then never revisited again (that I recall) was Dear John , the 1988 adaptation of a BBC sit...