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Bobby Patrick

Heigh Ho Friends & “Family”! Bobby Patrick your RAINBOW Reviewer here, bringing you all the fresh TEA on the freshest releases in the musical world. Little Bobby's a queer reviewer, specializing in the recording industry's contributions to our musical theatre/cabaret lives with our own Queer Rainbow's Eye View of it all. After studying theatre in college we wound up following a career in entertainment/theatrical advertising for nearly 2 decades.  Now a freelance contributor who's ready to bring you all our Sunshine, Rainbows, & Rants for Broadway World's New Releases section, and fill you in on what's up in the Recording Studios and virtual "Record Stores" (Yes, Bobby Still insists they are record stores!!) of our musical entertainment community. That aside, check out Bobby's shout-out on THE SHERRI SHEPHERD SHOW




LEARN MORE ABOUT Bobby Patrick

First Show:

The National Tour Of 1776, OCtober 1970

Favorite Show:

Into the Woods

Favorite Stories:



Album Review: 13 THE MUSICAL Soundtrack Represents Melodic Musical Theatre Teenage Angst
Album Review: 13 THE MUSICAL Soundtrack Represents Melodic Musical Theatre Teenage Angst
August 13, 2022

Teenage angst and musical theater make for a very specific buying demographic.

Review: Melissa Errico & Billy Stritch Are So Cool Down In the Basement Giving Us SWING LESSONS At 54 Below
Review: Melissa Errico & Billy Stritch Are So Cool Down In the Basement Giving Us SWING LESSONS At 54 Below
August 5, 2022

Truthfully, Bobby does not know what Errico & Stritch got paid for these SWING LESSONS, but whatever it was, it was not enough!

Review: T. Oliver Reid Is BOFFO At Below in THAT SUNDAY, THAT SUMMER At 54 Below
Review: T. Oliver Reid Is BOFFO At Below in THAT SUNDAY, THAT SUMMER At 54 Below
July 26, 2022

THAT SUNDAY, THAT SUMMER is well worth the price and so we give T. Oliver Reid our highest compliment when we tell you to BUY A TICKET next time he plays

Review: 2 Brothers From Other Mothers Star In JAIME LOZANO & MAURICIO MARTÍNEZ: HERMANOS Y FAMILIA At 54 Below
Review: 2 Brothers From Other Mothers Star In JAIME LOZANO & MAURICIO MARTÍNEZ: HERMANOS Y FAMILIA At 54 Below
July 21, 2022

Pimentel was giggly, pretty, and fun, and then WHAMMO - that voice. Mauricio was handsome, charming, funny & serious, and then WHAMMO as well.

Review: Did Somebody Say They Needed Some Cole? SONGBOOK SUNDAYS: ANYTHING GOES! COLE PORTER & MORE COLE PORTER At Jazz At Lincoln Center/Dizzy's Club
Review: Did Somebody Say They Needed Some Cole? SONGBOOK SUNDAYS: ANYTHING GOES! COLE PORTER & MORE COLE PORTER At Jazz At Lincoln Center/Dizzy's Club
July 19, 2022

SONGBOOK SUNDAYS will return in September with its tribute to Duke Ellington and, my little loves, take this hint from your Auntie Mayhem - don’t miss it.

Review: Somebody Said “Make Them Hear You” & They Did In MAKE THEM HEAR YOU: AN ODE TO BLACK MUSICALS, VOLUME 2 At 54 Below
Review: Somebody Said “Make Them Hear You” & They Did In MAKE THEM HEAR YOU: AN ODE TO BLACK MUSICALS, VOLUME 2 At 54 Below
July 14, 2022

One of the best shows of the season, MAKE THEM HEAR YOU leaves a lasting impression.

Photos: Jamie deRoy Brought Her Friends Back To Birdland For Some Songs & Some Laughs In JAMIE deROY & FRIENDS
Photos: Jamie deRoy Brought Her Friends Back To Birdland For Some Songs & Some Laughs In JAMIE deROY & FRIENDS
July 13, 2022

Monday night’s installment of JAMIE deROY & FRIENDS at Birdland raised the roof and brought the house down with her guests Ben Jones, Daisy Jopling, Robert Klein, Lianne Marie Dobbs, and Grammy-winning songwriter Julie Gold. Check out the photos!

Review: Axelrod's Airs Are Treasures For The Ears In ARI'S ARIAS at The Birdland Theatre
Review: Axelrod's Airs Are Treasures For The Ears In ARI'S ARIAS at The Birdland Theatre
July 2, 2022

ARI’S ARIAS is a show that has been tailored to fit AA like a fine silk tuxedo that he then has the courage to drape on casually for comfort's sake - bow tie untied, cumberbund loosened jacket slung over the shoulder.

Review: Saucy Song Cycles Send Out Sassy Shade For Pride In LEAVES: SONGS OF OURSELVES FOR PRIDE MONTH at Feinstein's/54 Below
Review: Saucy Song Cycles Send Out Sassy Shade For Pride In LEAVES: SONGS OF OURSELVES FOR PRIDE MONTH at Feinstein's/54 Below
June 30, 2022

In all, our final event for pride was a perfect evening that reminded one that Walt Whitman was a super gay voice in a time you might think would not have allowed his candor, but that saw him hailed as America’s poet.

Review: Internet Sensation Debbie Wileman Conjures What Might Have Been In HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY JUDY GARLAND! At Carnegie Hall
Review: Internet Sensation Debbie Wileman Conjures What Might Have Been In HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY JUDY GARLAND! At Carnegie Hall
June 26, 2022

Debbie Wileman transcended the arts of impression, imitation or recreation and elevated it all to an illusion so complete and full that it brought tears and cheers and all of them well deserved.

Photos: Marilyn Maye Can Still Slay & That's What She Did When THE MARILYN MAYE TRIO played Birdland
Photos: Marilyn Maye Can Still Slay & That's What She Did When THE MARILYN MAYE TRIO played Birdland
June 25, 2022

Thursday night’s near-capacity house got a musical experience to remember forever from the lady and THE MARILYN MAYE TRIO - Ted Furth, Tom Hubbard, & Mark Mclean. 

Review: Oso Is SoSo & NotSo Fabuloso At JoeJoe's In OSO FABULOSO AND THE BEAR BACKS At Joe's Pub
Review: Oso Is SoSo & NotSo Fabuloso At JoeJoe's In OSO FABULOSO AND THE BEAR BACKS At Joe's Pub
June 25, 2022

The one reason to have seen OSO FABULOSO AND THE BEAR BACKS was and will remain C. Julian Jiménez, and while that might be a very good reason, given his talent, we hope our next experience of this Beary gifted performer will have more heft.

Review: Deborah Stone Sings In Elegant Tones And Shades Of Light And Dark In Her CHIAROSCURO At Pangea
Review: Deborah Stone Sings In Elegant Tones And Shades Of Light And Dark In Her CHIAROSCURO At Pangea
June 19, 2022

Directed by the incomparable Lina Koutrakos, Stone began with a medley combining works by Coleman, Schmidt, Leosser, and Sondheim, and mixing them in her bright, pointed tone that automatically gives a level of dramatic tension to the work.

BWW Review: Liam Forde Brought Singing & Chatting & Chatting & Singing To Tell All That It's GREAT TO BE HERE At The Birdland Theater
BWW Review: Liam Forde Brought Singing & Chatting & Chatting & Singing To Tell All That It's GREAT TO BE HERE At The Birdland Theater
June 15, 2022

The music heard on Monday night in the Birdland Theater was of the highest caliber, sung and played by Forde and his instrumental cohorts in ways that were such real jazz magic making this young man one to watch for, as we predict a bright, BRIGHT future is headed his way.

BWW Review: 50 YEARS Later - It's Still Greased Lightning In TELL ME MORE, TELL ME MORE: THE GREASE 50TH REUNION At 54 Below
BWW Review: MargOH! Channing Brought Her Boozy Story With Everything But The Bloodhounds Snappin' At Her Rear End In SIMPLY MARGOH! To Pangea
BWW Review: MargOH! Channing Brought Her Boozy Story With Everything But The Bloodhounds Snappin' At Her Rear End In SIMPLY MARGOH! To Pangea
June 7, 2022

Well, my lambs, it has to be gay heaven and I must be dead if a drag queen named MargOH! Channing brings her Boozy Chanteusey act to Pangea - and on a Saturday night no less.

BWW Review: TikTok-lebrity Scott Evan Davis Brings Friends, Music & His Brand Of Snarkness in CONNECTION UNSTABLE At The Triad
BWW Review: TikTok-lebrity Scott Evan Davis Brings Friends, Music & His Brand Of Snarkness in CONNECTION UNSTABLE At The Triad
May 24, 2022

While the talent line-up for the show was incredible people with fabulous voices, Scott could very well have performed his show singing all by himself and it would have been a fine night of cabaret.

BWW Review: DeAnne Stewart Celebrates Duality & Humanity In TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY At The Green Room 42
BWW Review: DeAnne Stewart Celebrates Duality & Humanity In TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY At The Green Room 42
May 17, 2022

There are those performers who are so proficient that they continually must live up to their own standard while always raising their personal bar. Then there are those who are born to perform.

BWW Review: Ry Armstrong Conveys The Gender Queer Aesthetic With A Few Friends, Some Fab Tunes, & A Whole Lot Of Pronouns In (THEY // SHE // HE) At The Green Room 42
BWW Review: Ry Armstrong Conveys The Gender Queer Aesthetic With A Few Friends, Some Fab Tunes, & A Whole Lot Of Pronouns In (THEY // SHE // HE) At The Green Room 42
May 10, 2022

Led by Ry Armstrong, they and their friends come together to gender-bend and recreate songs from Broadway and beyond through arrangements never heard before, in a non-binary celebration of live.

BWW Review: Mx. Justin Vivian Bond Brings In The Spring With More Marys Than You Can Shake A Mary At, With  OH MARY, IT'S SPRING! At Joe's Pub
BWW Review: Mx. Justin Vivian Bond Brings In The Spring With More Marys Than You Can Shake A Mary At, With OH MARY, IT'S SPRING! At Joe's Pub
May 9, 2022

On a whim, this statuesque trans-warrior goddess decided to concoct a show all about MARY. Mary who? We hear you ask, well just about ANY Mary that would sit still long enough for Bond to grab the song with their name in it, or one that was written by someone named Mary, or by a composer from the lady’s home state of MARYland - who knows really...



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