Today we are shifting our focus from the stages of Broadway and beyond to the stages of the previous 84 Academy Awards telecasts that have transpired to date, in anticipation of Sunday night’s big, big, big show – Hollywood’s hugest night. After all, this year’s Academy Awards is of particular interest and excitement to […]
The Racketeer by John Grisham (Doubleday, $32)
By Stuart Nulman Malcolm Bannister is a lawyer from a small Virginia town who got a raw deal. Because he inadvertently got himself involved in a land transaction deal on behalf of his firm with a client of questionable repute, he became one of the 14 defendants in a federal money laundering case. He was […]
The triumphant Montreal homecoming of soprano Marie-Josée Lord
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up! @bugsburnett Everyone knew they were witnessing a historic concert when 36-year-old Italian tenor Salvatore Licitra, hailed by The New York Times as the successor to Pavarotti, took the stage at L’Opéra de Montréal’s Signature Event back in 2004. Licitra’s first-ever concert in Canada was made more memorable when he […]
LES MISERABLES Hit Status Leading To WICKED At Universal?
The worldwide $380+ gross of the feature film adaptation of the international stage hit LES MISERABLES at the box office has put a movie musical take on the hit Oz-themed WICKED closer to becoming a reality. In a recent interview, Universal chairman Adam Fogelson stated that the success of one has influenced the expediancy by […]
‘Truffling’ her feathers…one woman’s adventures in a macho culinary world
By Tracey Hill for Curtains Up PARIS, France “Find a woman from the countryside to cook for me!” lamented French President François Mitterrand in 1988, after his first 7-year term. The aging head of state had just fired his personal chef and he’d grown weary of the fussy, urban-chic cuisine that arose daily from his […]
Curtains up on….Weekend Viewing. Overlooked by the Oscars. By Joseph Rossi
On February 24th Hollywood will vote for who they think gives the best performances of the year. But every so often there are a few that never even make it to the ceremony. They give amazing performances that somehow never register. Here are three movies that are available for home viewing that contain three amazing […]
The Exciting Flavours of Vietnamese Coffee !
By Chef Michael Minorgan for Curtains Up Recently we have heard a lot about the effects of “globalization“ in all aspects of our lives and how we all are all globally intertwined as never before. Advances in communications and travel have made even the most remote areas […]
BREAKING NEWS: Cameron Mackintosh Bringing Re-Imagined LES MISERABLES to Broadway in Spring 2014!
Cameron Mackintosh‘s production of Les Miserables is written by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer and original French text by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, original adaption by Trevor Nunn and John Caird and additional material by […]
Broadway Grosses: Feb. 11-17
Broadway got a boost – with attendance up from previous week. As I thought, Rogers & Hammerstein`s “Cinderella“ officially opened March 3, 2013 at the Broadway Theatre ( 1681 Broadway ) and sold to capacity – 100 %
Folk-rock icons Indigo Girls reflect on storied career on eve of Montreal concert
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett Amy Ray remembers the day she and her Indigo Girls musical partner Emily Saliers opened up for the Grateful Dead in front of tens of thousands of Deadheads. “We’ve been touring for [nearly] 30 years and that really remains the most memorable concert for me,” Ray says. “I […]