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Leonid Vorobyev and his talented mob take another great hit tune and recreate it with their special enhancements. They're touring the U.S. and they'll be in my neck o' the woods this November. I may just go see them and if you want to maybe just go see them, here's a link to thei...

It was another exhausting but fun day in New York City for the Old Blogmeister. I had time to take in one Broadway show this trip and so my pal/editor Charlie Kochman and I went to see Hadestown. I liked it a lot but it’ll have to wait ‘til I’m back home and somewhat recovered from the pace of things before I can tell you why. There is more to be said about yesterday...

From The Ed Sullivan Show for March 30, 1969: Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme sing the title song from the Jerry Herman musical, Dear World. The show had opened a few weeks earlier at the Mark Hellinger Theatre and it wasn't a hit. It lasted 45 previews and 132 performances and I've never heard of it being revived anywhere. Steve and Eydie weren't in it. It s...

What an amazing day. What an amazing day. I am so glad I was there to be part of the formal nicknaming of a street corner on the lower east side of New York. It was where a twelve-year-old kid named Jacob Kurtzberg once peddled newspapers and fruit to bring home a few dimes to help his family eat. That kid became Jack Kirby and a little after noon yesterday, t...

Our friend Shelly Goldstein writes a love letter to the soon-to-not-be-on-late Mr. Colbert…