Happy March, the month of aquamarines, daffodils, and robins – oh, and quite a few musicals opening in New York, some of which we’ll be featuring on this week’s Dress Circle (3/2 7:00 p.m.). We’ve chosen fourteen musicals for our playlist that spans 125 years of Broadway history this time.
As usual, we’re beginning with our earliest opening, one of the fifteen times that “The Bohemian Girl” by Michael Balfe and Alfred Bunn, this one opening in 1900. Our most recent opening is one that is actually opening this year. The musical is a transfer from London’s West End where it won the Olivier Award last year for “Best New Musical.”
True to form, “The Bohemian Girl” is about a lost love, a count trying to regain his title, and a crazed gypsy queen to boot. We’ll be hearing a lovely waltz from this gorgeous score.
Created by the comedy team SplitLip, “Operation Mincemeat” is a wildly imaginative musical based on a true story during World War II when a dead body was dressed as a British airman and left floating off the coast of Italy to fool the Germans into believing that there was a movement afoot to liberate Italy, and it worked. The cast now in New York is made up of the four creators of the musical: David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson, and Zoë Roberts.
To fill the “gap,” we’ll once again have songs from some recent and fairly popular works.
The recent shows include “The Notebook,” “Water for Elephants,” and “Come from Away.” Some of the older, well-loved musicals include “Brigadoon,” “Sweeney Todd,” “She Loves Me,” and “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”
There’s more, but as always, you’ll have to tune in this Sunday evening to find out what they are, and we can promise a wonderfully diverse and entertaining hour.
