The official YouTube channel of The Ed Sullivan Show has crossed more than 250 million views. The long-running variety show expanded its reach exponentially via a global digital rights agreement between UMe and SOFA Entertainment Inc. with more than 200 million views since June 2020. The library encompasses the show’s historic 23-year primetime run on CBS. Scores of rarities … Continue reading
How do you know that musical theater in New York City is going to be just fine? Take a listen to just one of the projects currently simmering — just waiting to be fully realized. For instance, this track (“Wake Up New York”) just released from the creators of a musical-in-progress titled Goodbye New … Continue reading
Stephen Sondheim, the respected, admired, and, let’s face it — worshipped — composer-lyricist behind some of Broadway’s most beloved and celebrated shows, died today at 91. Mr. Sondheim was the Shakespeare of musical theater. Now we know for certain that “there are giants in the sky.” Even more than the melodies, Sondheim’s lyrics stand alone as … Continue reading
“Let’s Do The Time Warp Agaaaaaaaaain” to the soundtrack of cinema’s all-time favorite cult film This goes out to all of my old best friends on Saturday nights at midnight at the UA6 Cinema in Santa Rosa, California in 1980-82… and my old best friends on Saturday nights at midnight at the 8th Street Playhouse … Continue reading
Radio stations across Europe including the BBC have joined forces to simultaneously play Gerry & The Pacemakers’ ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ in a show of solidarity against coronavirus. The stirring 1963 song was played at 7:45am GMT this morning on BBC Radio 1’s weekend breakfast show with Matt Edmondson and Mollie King, Zoe Ball’s Radio … Continue reading
West Side Story is back on Broadway with a radical, new production that will divide audiences. That’s a refreshing thing, since West Side Story could all too easily be seen as irrelevant, given productions like the last Broadway revival (directed by Arthur Laurents in 2009). That staging took place in the usual two acts and … Continue reading
George Strait — Honky Tonk Time Machine Are you a country music fan, listening to country radio all day, but still nostalgic for actual country music? Fear not, your prayers have been answered. As he croons in one of the many satisfying tracks, “God and Country Music,” you find ’em when you need ’em. Although … Continue reading
The Venice Biennale has released the names of the artists who will participate in its show [“May You Live in Interesting Times,” which is being organized by Ralph Rugoff] this year. The exhibition runs, at the Giardini and the Arsenale, as well as around other venues in Venice, from May 11 through November 24 [Preview … Continue reading
In Going Our Way, Becky Perry Brown offers an intimate look at her life up to today. The wife of country music legend Jim Ed Brown, brings the reader along on a journey thorough the heyday of Nashville’s golden age and writes with such observant insights that you’d swear you are really there too. To … Continue reading
Obama unveiled his official portrait at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington today… George Washington, by Charles Willson Peale, 1776 Abraham Lincoln, by William F Cogswell, 1869 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by Elizabeth Shoumatoff, 1966 Harry S Truman, by Martha Greta Kempton, 1947 Dwight David Eisenhower, by Thomas Edgar … Continue reading
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