Theatre
Reading Time: 6 minutesHISTORY OF PETER PAN Podcast version All of this has happened before, And it will all happen again. o begins my favorite Walt Disney animated movie, Peter Pan, which debuted on February 5, 1953. The original movie poster said: “It will live in your heart forever” …and indeed it has. Why was…
Reading Time: 6 minutesHISTORY OF MOZART olfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, but he was baptized under the name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart. What’s In A Name As an adult, he referred to himself as “Wolfgang Amadè Mozart,” signing his marriage certificate that way. His baptismal name was Latinized, as was common in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesHISTORY OF THE NUTCRACKER: THE BALLET THAT’S A CHRISTMAS TRADITION n December 18, 1892, The Nutcracker premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, a week before Christmas. How did a ballet that doesn’t mention the Nativity become a Christmas favorite?
Reading Time: 4 minutesHISTORY OF HAMILTON – THE MUSICAL Part of the series on America 250, the US Semiquincentennial Hamilton – The Musical is based on the 2004 biography of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow, but does Hamilton – The Musical compare favorably to the actual history? How historically accurate is the recent Broadway blockbuster?
Reading Time: 4 minutesTheatre Review: The Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic in London Sometimes you meet famous people when you attend the theatre in London — I did at a recent performance in early June. I attended the new London version of The Philadelphia Story, which though most people know by the Katharine Hepburn-Cary Grant movie, was…