The posters have the awesome/awesomely bad slogan "The Tough Guy of Tap."

I feel bad for Guettel. He worked for almost a decade on his follow-up to "The Light in the Piazza," only for William Goldman to pull the rights to "The Princess Bride" when his score was almost done, deciding he didn't like the direction it was headed.

Ariel dies, and a narrator steps onstage:

And me? Well, I'm the damn hook that caught him.

Every ten years, Disney picks up one of the biggest Broadway writers of the decade to join their in-house stable. The 80s gave us the Menken/Ashman/Rice team; the 90s gave us Randy Newman (who had just premiered the stage musical "Faust"); the 2000s gave us Bobby Lopez and Kristin Anderson-Lopez; and the 2010s gave us…

I always listen to "A Motown Christmas" on Black Friday, because I'm a sucker for puns, and also for Motown.

Counterpoint- it sounds great if you're already into weird Kurt Weill-influenced stuff. It's no more or less melodic than the weirder David Ackles cuts or "Urinetown."

If you're willing to dig deep, and I am, you get quite a lot of Halloween or Halloween-appropriate music. Thanksgiving, though, gets nothing. It's Christmas, Jr.

Was it the Stage Right version?

I've done the live stage show for thirteen years. It's evolved to become symbiotic with the audience. Audience tries to make the cast break by coming up with genuinely clever call-backs as opposed to parroting the old stuff, and cast tries to keep the audience on their toes by doing new and clever things, as opposed…

Okay, here we go: A brief run through of the six essential Rocky Horror albums.

What does that spell do?

No spoiler here, but the Cursed Child indicates that adult Hermione is not supposed to eat sweets (but sneaks them). I couldn't help wondering if this was J. K. alluding to the higher predisposition for diabetes in black females, since she wants to include evidence rather than confirmation of such things (case in…

A good corn maze has two objectives: first beat the maze (by finding a certain number of improbably placed checkpoints and punching your card/ticket), then escape the maze (by finding the exit). It's more of a game and less of a getting lost simulator.

Which one of them sings for AC/DC?

I'll buy it tonight. It looks like it'll hit the sweet spot that "Evelyn Evelyn" left behind.

Watch out for my upcoming project, which (with the help of ThouShaltNot and Seeming's Alex Reed) will distill an entire lifetime's worth of spooky-kid influences into one ludicrous stage show.

"Beaches" is Ricky Coogin's Crazy Puerto Rican Friend, when told to describe the cast of "Orange is the New Black" in one word.

Also, she'll bare her breasts at least twice but not more than five times.

Don't breathe
I know what you're thinkin'