How Grease Live Finally Got It Right
Oliver February 3, 2016“Grease Live” was my favorite live musical telecast to date. We look at what Grease Live’s success can tell us about making these telecasts successful in the future.
“Grease Live” was my favorite live musical telecast to date. We look at what Grease Live’s success can tell us about making these telecasts successful in the future.
It’s almost New Years, and that means people around the world will be setting New Years resolutions to stay more healthy and fit in 2016. I’m no doctor, but I’ve come up with a list of four shows I would prescribe to keep you in tip-top shape in the new year.
There are a lot of theater lovers in the world, and a lot of animal lovers as well. If you need to get your theater and animal fix at the same time, take a look at these productions running on Broadway this season.
Last year, we correctly predicted 22 of the 24 Tony Award winners, more than any other theater publication. This year, we are starting our Tony Awards analysis early. While the awards won’t be announced until June 5th, we are going to go through each show we have had the pleasure of seeing, and indicate which awards we feel they might be nominated for in April. We will continue to update this page as we see new shows.
Hamilton, the new, hip-hop musical about Alexander Hamilton from In The Heights composer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, seems to be the only show getting press notice recently. However, the summer mega-hit is about to meet some new neighbors, as seventeen productions have announced opening nights between September and December. To kick off the start of the fall 2015 Broadway season, I’ve highlighted four productions (one from each category) which I consider “must sees.”
Just like that, the Tony Race is over. We are pleased to announce that our predictions were the most accurate of any theater publication! We review the Tony predictions of theater experts, and rank them according to how well they did.
For the past six weeks, we have been tracking the Tony nominees as they vied for their chance to hear their name called this evening. Now, we place our bets on who we think will walk away with the medallion.
Who stands the best chance to take home the hardware? We go through each category, setting the final odds for each nominee. Where would you place your bet?
Before we make our final predictions, we go over those Tony nominees who have near locks on the win.
Over the last two weeks, we have assessed the starting positions of the nominees in each of Tony Award categories. This is an analysis of some of the biggest shifts in favor that we have seen in the last two weeks.