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Monthly Archives: April 2024

SETLIST: WAY DOWN IN TEXAS WITH SALLY MAYES (HOUSTON, TX, 4/12/24)

4/24/24

Often in these pages I have spoken about seeing Closer Than Ever at the Cherry Lane Theater in 1989 and the powerful effect it had on me. Among the many repercussions of that evening was my total devotion to Sally Mayes, who took New York by storm in that show and has had a glorious career in theater and cabaret ever since. Two years later, after I had settled into my first apartment in the city so I could begin whatever my career was going to be, I was asked to write a song for a benefit concert and toldRead More »

HONEYMOON IN TOKYO (AND ICE CREAM)

4/23/24

Some things involving Hal Prince really only make sense in the context of Hal Prince, so I won’t take up your time attempting to explain why we did our first production of Prince of Broadway in Tokyo, but it’s true, we did, in 2015. (Here’s a photo of Reon Yuzuki coming down the steps for the Follies sequence.) I’d never heard of a theater on the top floor of a department store before, but that’s what the Theater Orb was, an enormous facility with 2000 seats and a stage the size of the Metropolitan Opera (and an orchestra pit toRead More »