Broadway Bridge and Tunnel Test

The Broadway Bridge and Tunnel Test is our personal and highly opinionated Commuter's Guide to New York theater and cultural events, with an emphasis on Broadway and Off-Broadway theatrical productions. The test is simple: is an event worth the always expensive, time consuming, and too often horrendous struggle to commute to New York City from New Jersey, Long Island, Upstate New York or Connecticut? Only truly great or near-great performances and productions may meet this stiff challenge!

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James Camner is an antiquarian dealer of autographs, manuscripts and printed music and books of Opera, Classical Music, Theater, Dance, and Film, as well as a published author of more than 10 books on the performing arts including "How to Enjoy Opera" (Simon and Schuster), "The Great Opera Stars in Historic Photographs" (Dover), "Stars of American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs" (Dover - with Stanley Appelbaum); was for over 20 years a reviewer for Fanfare Magazine and has written feature articles and reviews for Opera News.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Anything Goes, a musical by Cole Porter at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. Starring Sutton Foster, Joel Grey, Jessica Walter, John McMartin, Laura Osnes, Colin Donnell, Adam Godley, directed by Kathleen Marshall. Although in previews for a just a week, this new revival of a classic looks positively smashing. The cast is very strong with Joel Grey a delight and the hugely talented Sutton Foster in what is probably the role of her life. After a week of dreadful news, this once and future Depression era hit really proved an antidote, a happy two and a half hours of sheer bliss. Because there will probably be changes it isn't fair to give details except to give advance notice that this is likely to be a huge hit on the Pajama Game or South Pacific level and that tickets will be scarce and expensive, so be warned! Broadway Bridge and Tunnel Test Grade A+

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