Before it was the name of a musical, Pump Boys and Dinettes was a band.  More specifically, it was a performance group that evolved in the early eighties beginning with a two-man act at a restaurant in New York. The four guys and two girls who developed the project together wrote the book, wrote the […]

By the mid-60’s, even though dancer, director and choreographer Bob Fosse already had several big shows on his resume, it was his 1966 production of Sweet Charity that truly brought him back into the public eye, reinstating him on the theatrical pedestal from which he had temporarily fallen. Troubles began in 1961 when he was […]

“First, we need to get something straight,” actor Toby Yatso tells us the moment he enters the stage at Phoenix Theatre.  “This is a work of fiction.” The work is Buyer & Cellar, an acclaimed Off-Broadway, one-man comedy by Jonathan Tolins that presents a realistic setting then creates a fictional account of what might have […]

Despite a healthy run on Broadway in 2006, the musical version of The Wedding Singer has found the majority of its audience in regional productions.  Name recognition of the popular 1998 movie goes a long way. Fans of the film will notice a number of differences between screen and stage, but generally the arc of […]