John Kenrick's Theatre Journal Archive
May 2004: The 2004 Tony Nominations
Oct 2003: The American
Musical on PBS - a fact
check points out some sloppy research.
June 2003: The 2003 Tonys - boys night
out!
May 2003: Tony
Nominations 2003 - Surprising sanity
Mar. 2003: When Showtunes Aren't
- recycled music on stage
Feb 2003: Forgotten Lessons, Lost Lives
- There's no excuse for deadly club fires
June 2002: 2002 Tonys - Millie and
Elaine have their night.
May 2002: Tony Nominations
2002 - The Annual Outrages
Mar. 2002: The Best Musical Theater
Writers - some of my favorite columnists and
historians.
Feb. 2002: Top Musical Theater Writers - My
favorite historians and columnists.
Jan. 2002: 2001: New Perspectives - Talk
about a year that no one could have predicted!
Dec. 2001: When You Find a Fool - why not
charge $485 a seat?
Nov. 2001: Broadway: An Easy Target - with so
little security, our theaters are a disaster waiting to happen.
Oct. 2001: Take Two Showtunes And Call Me In the
Morning - the healing power of musicals.
Oct. 2001: Bouncing Back - the show goes
on, but oh so differently.
Sept. 2001: My Wounded Hometown - some thoughts
on New York in the wake of Sept. 11th.
August 2001: Greedy Church Evicts Ziegfeld
Girls - so much for Christian kindness.
June 2001: The Revenge of Musical Comedy
- who said it was dead?
June 2001: The 2001 Awards - the joyous crowning
of King Mel.
May 2001: The 2001 Tony Nominations -
less outrageous than usual.
March 2001: Can Musical Buffs Go Too Far?
November 2000: Blackface and Old Wounds -
the film Bamboozled reawakens an old controversy.
August 2000: Cats - The Last
Meow - putting the prancing pussies to their long overdue rest.
June 2000: The Tony Awards - pandering to the TV
networks leaves no one happy.
May 2000: The Tony Nominations - the annual
outrage
May 2000: TKTS Memories - days spent on that
endless line.
April 2000: Curtain Calls for Alexander Cohen & David
Merrick - two great musical producers bid Broadway farewell.
March 2000: Stay Away from The Stage & Screen Book
Club - Let my bad experience with these thieves be your warning!
January 2000: Memories
of a Gentle Giant - a brief memorial to legendary producer and
manager Norman Rothstein.
December 1999: The Century
of the Musical - Among other things, the 20th Century saw the rise of the
musical as a vibrant art form.
October 1999: Crazy for
Musical Comedy - The PBS broadcast of Crazy for You was a reminder
of the kind of musical many of us fell in love with years ago.
September 1999: Return of
the King - 15,000 cheered Yul Brynner on a summer night in midtown Manhattan.
Talk about being in a time warp!
August 1999: Cyber Thieves
- Why Musicals101.com moved from Yahoo.
July 1999: Internet
Nastiness - Is it okay to be abusive with people just because you can't
see them?
June 1999: The Tony Awards
- Some reactions to the 1999 awards and ceremony.
May 1999: The 1999 Tony
Nominations - Celebration or funeral? Includes a complete nominee list.
April 1999: Time for a
Change at the Tony Awards - It's time to stop pretending the picture is so
"Rosie."
Feb 1999: Musicals in the
Headlines - Thoughts on Julie Andrews, Footloose and Mame.
Jan 1999: Star Quality
- Seeing a great performer in a great role is always a treat, but its on an entirely
different plane when you see a performer with real star quality.
Dec 1998: Easter Parade
- The stage version of this MGM classic has been postponed, which raises a question: does
Broadway need yet another film musical adaptation?
Sept 1998: Are
Revivals Killing The Musical Theatre? - from the
New York Times on September 13th, 1998 with some sentences the
editors omitted.
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