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Michael Dale After 20-odd years singing, dancing and acting in dinner theatres, summer stocks and the ever-popular audience participation murder mysteries (try improvising with audiences after they?ve had two hours of open bar), Michael Dale segued his theatrical ambitions into playwriting. The buildings which once housed the 5 Off-Off Broadway plays he penned have all been destroyed or turned into a Starbucks, but his name remains the answer to the trivia question, "Who wrote the official play of Babe Ruth's 100th Birthday?" He served as Artistic Director for The Play's The Thing Theatre Company, helping to bring free live theatre to underserved communities, and dabbled a bit in stage managing and in directing cabaret shows before answering the call (it was an email, actually) to become BroadwayWorld.com's first Chief Theatre Critic. While not attending shows Michael can be seen at Citi Field pleading for the Mets to stop imploding. Likes: Strong book musicals and ambitious new works. Dislikes: Unprepared celebrities making their stage acting debuts by starring on Broadway and weak bullpens.




My Fair Spamalot or I've Grown Accustomed to the Movie
April 5, 2005

Despite some grumbles, Spamalot has more in common with Broadway musical traditions than you might think

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Is it George and Martha or Will and Grace?
April 2, 2005

Why does the current edition of Edward Albee's classic seem so much like a popular sitcom?

A New Man: Who Says Guys Can't Have It All?
March 30, 2005

Peter Yawitz has a wife, 2 kids, a corporate job and a hilarious cabaret act about balancing them all

Eyewitness Blues: Playing It Cool
March 28, 2005

Jazz, flamenco, blues, hip-hop and slam poetry flavor Mildred Ruiz and Steven Sapp's story of a musician and his muse

Jewish Thighs on Broadway: Super Trouper
March 22, 2005

Penny Orloff's solo play of a life in theatre recalls horny leading men, a major Broadway flop and thirty years of dieting

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: A Musical For Guys Who Like To Smash Beer Cans On Their Foreheads
March 20, 2005

David Yazbek may be one of the great hopes for bringing in a whole new audience for the Broadway musical; the beer drinkin', butt scratchin', football and pro wrestlin' watchin' American male

Woman Before A Glass: Dripping With Class
March 11, 2005

Mercedes Ruehl stars as Peggy Guggenheim, modern art collector and collecter of modern artists

The Drawer Boy: Finally, Only 45 Minutes From Broadway
March 9, 2005

The Paper Mill presents John Mahoney in a heartwarming drama that's played all over the country, except for New York

Altar Boyz: What Would Jesus Shout-Out?
March 3, 2005

A giddy new musical spoofs Christian rock and teenage boy bands

LingoLand: Word to the Word-Wise
March 2, 2005

The York's new revue of Kenward Elmslie's lyrics, poetry and verse bubbles over with the eccentricities of American English

How To Be Perfect: Relationship Advice From Lesser Known Showtunes
February 27, 2005

Brian Tom O'Connor and Paula Vogel spoof self-help gurus in a musical comedy cabaret

The Frankenstein Summer: She's Created a Monster
February 24, 2005

Catherine Bush's light romance draws from a historic meeting of literary minds

Shockheaded Peter: Thumb-Sucking Goodness
February 23, 2005

'Sometimes we have to be cruel to be kind. And sometimes we have to be cruel... well, you know... for recreational purposes'

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: A Score to Savour
February 22, 2005

More than 50 years after moderate Broadway success, Encores! gives this bountiful Dorothy Fields/ Arthur Schwartz score a much-needed return to Manhattan

The Musical of Musicals - The Musicals!: The Comedy's High as an Elephant's Eye
February 15, 2005

You don't have to be a musical theatre expert to love this spoof of Broadway's most famous hits

Brooklyn Boy: Escape From The Old Neighborhood
February 14, 2005

Adam Arkin stars in a new Donald Margulies comedy/drama of dealing with the unavoidable past

Sabina: Freud, Jung and the Woman Who Came Between Them
February 11, 2005

Marin Ireland is fascinating in Willy Holtzman's sensual pschological drama

Trent and Trudy Lee in A Touch of Vegas: Awfully Funny
February 9, 2005

A hilarious spoof of tacky nightclub lounge singers

Counsellor-At-Law: A Supreme Revival
February 7, 2005

John Rubinstein stars in The Peccadillo Theater's outstanding production of Elmer Rice's 1931 drama

Good Vibrations: Better Luck at Toys In Babeland
February 3, 2005

The cast is bitchin but the show is totally bogus, dude



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