A Blog of Bosh

Seussical
Seussical, the Musical, , produced here in Boston, but warming up to open at the Richard Rodgers Oct. 15th in NYC, is currently something like what hatches from the egg that moon-faced Kevin Chamberlin (Horton) keeps warm through most of the show; it looks something like an elephant, but has wings. The show is a [...]

Seussical The Musical
The official home page for the musical discussed in the NY Times Review below.

Is There a Dr. in the House for ‘Seussical’?
How the charmed musical that could do no wrong turned into the “troubled Suessical” that could do no right has become a parable about how much Broadway has changed. What in the past might have gone unremarked as a new show’s routinely bumpy road to Broadway instead [...]

Thurber’s world and welcome to it
Thurber’s comic hero, who came to be known as Thurber Man, is a squinty, skewed kind of guy; a digression blinking at a wife, a boss, an errand that wants him straight, and on time. He knows human nature, but not what can possibly be done about it. He is [...]

Webs of weeds
The Gormenghast trilogy, together with the dazzling drawings he produced in the 1940s and 1950s, have no parallel in English art or fiction. But he paid a terrible price. This biography tells the story of his inexorable decline into premature senility in competent detail, but adds disappointingly little to previous accounts by Peake�s [...]

‘Oz’ Expert: If Ever Oh Ever a Wiz There Was
There’s no yellow brick road to find the way, but starting Friday the Los Angeles Central Library is transforming itself into the wonderful land of Oz. Through Feb. 24 the Library’s Getty Gallery will be home to “A Century of Oz,” an exhibition featuring more than [...]

Observer review: Hans Christian Andersen by Jackie Wullschlager
Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy-tales won him fame and wealth - but he probably died a virgin. Jackie Wullschlager tells the story of the life of the great storyteller.Books Unlimited

The sorrows of a great Dane
THE LIFE OF Hans Christian Andersen, told with thoroughness and sympathy in this new biography, was as peculiar, fascinating and painful as any of his celebrated fairy tales. This big-boned, gawky, lanky egotist was the ugly duckling, meeting snobbery and ridicule, particularly in his stuffy homeland, for several years before [...]