TDF: There are only three new musicals opening on Broadway this fall. Thankfully, there are more than six times (!!) as many bowing beyond Broadway! Highlights include a transfer of the London hit The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, John Legend and Lynn Nottage’s adaptation of Imitation of Life, the controversial satire Slam Frank, Todrick Hall’s ambitious MIDNIGHT and newly minted Tony winner Joshua Henry in a new two-person tuner he cowrote.
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Okay, first of all, I really want to see Slam Frank because I've seen a lot of promo for it, and our alumni are working on the show. I see that it opened a little over a week ago, and beyond that, I haven't heard anything about it, but I would love to see it. There are a lot of really good new works mentioned in this article, but I'm also super interested in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. I vividly remember watching this movie when I was younger, so I would be curious to watch the movie again and see it as a staged production. The last show that really draws my attention on this list is Spandex the Musical. With a name like that, I'm very intrigued. It appears to be a comedy, which checks out. This is a show that I definitely want to keep on my radar for when I go back to the city for fall break in a few weeks.
This article is how I found out that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was a short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Oddly enough I think things like that may be my favorite part about seeing or being involved in theatre. When I pick books to read, I do so after taking a very critical look at the blurb on the back. If a book doesn't interest me, I don't pick it up. However, I am willing to see just about anything on stage, and often don't look into the show much before I do. Due to this, I often find myself immersed in stories that on paper I wouldn't have otherwise been interested in. As I read through the shows on this list, it is interesting to see the range of topics and stories being told. For instance, The York Theatre’s Killigan, I wouldn't have thought to make a show out of the life of a mid-20th century journalist. I have no background knowledge of the woman, or the general scope of women journalists back then. Honestly I've never really given it a thought. This is what I'm talking about though, there's such a wide range to theatre, which often delves into different niches of history, that it ends up not just being a show, but a foundation for education.
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