The Theatre Enthusiast

photo by Jeremy Daniel  Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Kennedy Center's newest Broadway Center Stage production. For those of you unaware of the series, Broadway Center Stage puts on strictly limited engagement, semi-staged concerts featuring the best performers Broadway has to offer at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. Since their inaugural season last year, the Kennedy Center has put on some fabulous BCS performances, including Chess, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,  and Little Shop of Horrors , starring well-known Broadway veterans such as Ramin Karimloo, Raul Esparza, Karen Olivo, Betsy Wolfe, Josh Radnor, Megan Hilty, and more! To kick off the 2019 BCS season, The Kennedy Center presented The Music Man , starring Broadway royalty Norm Lewis and Jessie Mueller. I attended the final performance of  The Music Man  on February 11th (a performance date that was added due to popular demand), and the ene

Hi everyone! I am BACK! I want to start off my revival of this blog with a short rant regarding one of my Broadway pet peeves.  I am an avid Playbill collector. I have four Playbill binders plus a few shoeboxes of Playbills from Broadway, National Tour, and regional productions stashed under my bed. I know, I know... NERD ALERT!!! I love and am very proud of my Playbill collection.  What I can't stand, however, is walking into a Broadway show and being handed a black & white Playbill.  It REALLY shouldn't be a big deal. In the grand scheme of life, it's not a big deal. This is for sure classified as a first-world problem. I just think that when Broadway ticket prices are higher than they've ever been, can't the theatre spring the extra cash to print the cover design in color? The Playbill banner at the top is always yellow (or rainbow in June for Pride Month), so why can't the rest of the cover be?  To drive my point home, let's