Annie Get Your Gun

Liza's The One Who Made Cabaret Much Gayer

Last night, Warner Brothers Home Entertainment and TCM presented an amazing 40th anniversary restoration of Cabaret at the Ziegfeld--where it originally premiered--and every gay of a certain age was there, and then some. The film held up beautifully in all its dark commentary, brilliant staging, an ... More >>

Live: Squeeze Turn Lemons Into Lemonade At The NYCB Theater

Squeeze / The B-52's NYCB Theater at Westbury Sunday, July 15 Better than: Writing in a diary. Last night the British pop band Squeeze took the slowly rotating stage at Long Island's NYCB Theater at Westbury (a.k.a. Westbury Music Fair) to their debut single "Take Me I'm Yours," a grand proclamat ... More >>

Ernest Borgnine's Weirdest Movie

No, it wasn't Marty, From Here To Eternity, or even Johnny Guitar. It was a wacky little 1972 alleged comedy called Bunny O'Hare, in which he and Bette Davis were a plumber and a widow who dressed up as hippies and robbed banks, funkily escaping on a motorcycle. Those two old coots were no threat ... More >>

The 10 Best Theater Duets In History

I just performed a little conversational duet with myself and picked the best of the musical twosomes. We both agreed that these are the finest: (10) "Bosom Buddies" from Mame Such a zippy campfest between two drag queens! I mean two women! The fun of this Jerry Herman number is that in pretendi ... More >>

In Praise Of Dinner Theater

I used to look down on dinner theater in my uptight city slicker way, but nowadays I'm givin' in! After all, it brings stagecraft to the midland masses, and to coerce them to come and enjoy a show, it provides dinner too. And the food serving stops well before showtime, so the performers aren't hi ... More >>

'The Broadway Musicals of 1946'