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‘La Cage Aux Folles’ Graces Arizona Broadway Theatre

January 29, 2020 YabYum Arts & Culture Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

La Cage Aux Folles is an endearing staple in the Broadway lexicon. With a book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman. It had its first run on the Great White Way in 1983-1987, winning 6 Tony Awards including Best Book, Best Score and Best Musical. Its subsequent Broadway revivals in 2004 and 2010 won several Tony Awards, including a Best Revival Tony for both…

Critic’s Picks: Best of Local Theatre 2019

January 10, 2020 YabYum 2019 Awards Arts & Culture Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

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The decade ascends into history, and we enter 2020 anew. Another year of incredible local theatre comes to a close…

Celebrate the Holidays with ‘Elf: The Musical’ at Arizona Broadway Theatre

December 18, 2019 YabYum Arts & Culture Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

Elf: The Musical is a stage adaptation of the family classic about Buddy the elf, who ventures out from the North Pole to The Big Apple to find his real father. It is a recreation of the iconic Will Farrell comedy known and beloved by so many. Inspired by, but not a duplication thereof. The same story told through the eyes and voices of different storytellers, using different methods, including really catchy songs. Thankfully maintaining most of the film’s best jokes, and all of the heart that makes the original so compelling…

‘Sweeney Todd’ Strikes True at Arizona Broadway Theatre

October 15, 2019 YabYum Arts & Culture Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

A fantastic production of the musical is an ideal way to start the Halloween season. And that is exactly what Arizona Broadway Theatre is delivering. A witty yet horrifying, gorgeous yet grotesque, incredibly impressive version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street…

‘Titanic: The Musical’ Offers Mesmerizing Glimpse of History at Arizona Broadway Theatre

October 30, 2018 YabYum Arts & Culture Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

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Titanic: The Musical has a somewhat tumultuous history.

The grandeur of the original set prevented out of town tryouts, so kinks had to be worked out in the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre where it ran on Broadway in 1997-1999…

Altar Boyz Parodies 90s Pop in Arizona Broadway Theatre Production

September 4, 2018 YabYum Arts & Culture Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

Upon walking into the mainstage space at Arizona Broadway Theatre (ABT) for Altar Boyz, there is a sense of poppy nostalgia. As a young girl, I fell in love with a boy for the first time watching New Kids On The Block music videos on VHS. I came of age witnessing friends arguing over the epic NSYNC versus Backstreet Boys debate. So I was taken back to my youth walking into a beautiful venue with those songs providing the background music….

‘Catch Me If You Can’ Sets a Mod Mood at Arizona Broadway Theatre

July 25, 2018 YabYum Arts & Culture Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

Rebecca catches ‘Catch Me If You Can’ at the Arizona Broadway Theatre and has this review…

Mary Poppins Delights Entire Family at Arizona Broadway Theatre

June 24, 2018 YabYum Arts & Culture Featured Articles Rebecca Rudnyk

Mary Poppins Delights Entire Family at Arizona Broadway Theatre by Rebecca Rudnyk | YabYum Music + Arts, the Arizona media outlet with new content daily.