Musical Musings

It’s a lot of fun to head to New York and catch a Broadway show. But with the average cost of a single tickets going for about $120, add in travel and food and things can add up quickly. Luckily, you don’t have to go to NYC for a Broadway caliber show. You can see one here without paying top prices and traveling very far.  Here are five great theaters to see a play in New Jersey. 1.     State Theatre New Jersey (New Brunswick, NJ) This old vaudeville theater located in Central Jersey,   has   an array of programming (this reads a bit like a press release. A little boring) including Broadway shows. Built in 1921 by the theater and cinema designer Thomas W. Lamb, it was revitalized into a performing arts center in the 1980s. Each year, State Theatre presents their Broadway Series, which features touring productions of hit musicals like Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and Fiddler on the Roof . You can see concert and stand up at the 1800-seat-venue. ...

Hi. Have you listened to The Prom yet? That's ok if you haven't. Just go listen to it first and then come back here. It's on Spotify. It's even better if you have! Go put it on anyway. Don't worry, I'll wait. Now, at this point, you may have figured out that I am a bit of a theatre fan. It's true. I love listening to so many musicals. Yet very rarely there comes along a musical that is so incredible that I want to completely submerge myself into it. I listen to it nonstop, I read all the information about it, I watch cast videos on Youtube, and, of course, I beg everyone around me to go with me to see it. I think the last musical that I felt this way about was...Fun Home, in 2015. Then I listened to The Prom. This musical is amazing. It's loosely based on a real story of a prom being canceled because a teenage girl wanted to bring her girlfriend as her date. But in this version, a group of aging Broadway stars come from NYC all the way to Indiana to...