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Rachel Hartmann | Friday, January 14, 2022
Directed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Tick, Tick… Boom!” is a new movie musical ode to Broadway musicals and a love letter to all the songwriters and playwrights in Broadway. The production is an homage to the late Johnathan Larson — the writer who created the original “Tick, Tick… Boom!” stageplay and Tony Award-winning “Rent.” In “Tick,
Maggie Klaers | Wednesday, September 29, 2021
“An Evening with Matthew Morrison.” That’s all I knew, and it was enough to get me to the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC) last Friday night. If you aren’t familiar with Matthew Morrison, he’s a Broadway star, turned Glee teacher, turned cyber-bullying victim. I only knew him from his star role as Mr. Scheuster on
Alexandra Lowery | Thursday, February 11, 2016
The 2002 Tony-winning musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie” gained commercial success and popular praise throughout its 903-show run by giving Broadway audiences what they had been yearning for years: the glitz of the 1920s, show-stopping show tunes and tap. The Pasquerilla East Musical Company (PEMCo) tackles the Broadway giant this weekend in Washington Hall, proving that
Emilie Kefalas | Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Though it’s not as simple as “Cats,” one could certainly try to make the case that Andrew Lloyd Webber is, in fact, not a god. We’re talking as mortal, as English and as prone to illness as the next bloke. However, God owes Sir Webber some thanks for giving His Son and His Word an
Erin Thomassen | Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Even though temperatures were below freezing over break, “Frozen” continued to attract and delight Notre Dame students. Lauded in a trailer as “the greatest Disney movie since ‘The Lion King,’” many students, like sophomore Annemarie Coman, flocked to theatres with a mix of “high expectations and skepticism.” Few were disappointed, however. Junior Ashley Towne said