Don't Tell Mama... but London's "Cabaret" rocked

London show report (includes Pretty Woman and The Lion King)

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• This Weekly Blast contains:

A) an ESSAY reporting on my recent London trip and the three West End shows I saw (Cabaret, Pretty Woman, and The Lion King);

B) PETER FILICHIA on Annie: Peter talks about why Andrea McArdle was the best Annie, the show’s surprises, and the use of “Leapin’ Lizards”;

C) a REVIEW of Broadway’s The Thanksgiving Play, a comedy in which: four white liberals try to organize a culturally sensitive Thanksgiving Play. Hilarity ensues…;

D) a Broadway Maven YouTube GEM that’s a ten-minute version of Newsies;

E) a GAME related to Broadway song titles in foreign languages; and

F) a LAST BLAST about Sweeney Todd.

NOTE: Peter Filichia’s Broadway is a new feature of …