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Giant a Musical of Epic Proportions: weeping episodic anthems reminiscent of Aaron Copeland with glorious voices fill the Newman stage at The Public Theatre.
The Public Theater presents the New York premiere production of Giant, an epic love story with book by Sybille Pearson, music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa and directed by Michael Grei…
Texas is on the minds of many Americans as of late. A petition for the state to secede from the union was submitted last week, requesting the White House “Peacefully grant the State of…
Are critics feeling expansive about "Giant"?
Edna Ferber's 1952 novel Giant, capturing a moment in American history as the landscape of Texas changed from open cattle country to a skyline studded with oil derricks, is transformed i…
The stars were most certainly big and bright deep in the heart of the sweeping new musical Giant, which tells the panoramic tale of a cattleranching couple (Brian d'Arcy James and Kate B…
With Thanksgiving, and all its attendant preparations, coming up next week, the New York theatre got a handful of openings out of the way this week. And, yes, some of them were turkeys. (Sor…
The circle of life isn’t just a lyric sung while Julie Taymor puppets circle The Lion King; it’s the natural progression on Broadway. In this theater news round-up, we celebrate …
Based on the classic novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber, Giant is a new American musical that spans generations in an epic chronicle of the state thats like no place else on …
Giant runs through Sunday, December 2. BroadwayWorld brings you coverage of the opening night party below
A marriage lasting twenty seven years - not without problems. Set against the background of The Lone Star State - TEXAS.  He, Jordan “Bick” Benedict (Brian D’Arcy Ja…
- In a season dominated by musical revivals, a new musical that more than lives up to its title, has finally opened . . . Read More
Legit Reviews||Off Broadway:
While not yet quite ready for the presumably hoped-for jump uptown, this engrossing musical is already pretty swell.
There are moments of pure joy and moments of sadness. Of excitement and of stillness set against the panoramic skies of Texas
As befits its title, the new musical "Giant" doesn't lack for ambition. Based on Edna Ferber's Texas saga " which inspired a classic 1956 movie with James Dean " this isn't the intimate tune…
The news out of Texas the night I saw the musical "Giant" was that a Texas school district had \canceled a play about two gay penguins; that  a third George Bush " George P. Bush " was th…
"Giant." 4 stars. Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St. Through Dec. 2. Tickets: $85-$95; (212) 967-7555.
Gazing out at their vast Texas spread, cattle …
NEW YORK (AP) " Beware of allowing tradition to blind you to the benefits of progress. That's one message from the aptly-titled "Giant," the robust, polished, three-hour new musical that ope…
For all the fuss that's made during it about endless tracts of earth unfolding beneath infinite horizons, Giant . . . is strangely cramped and cluttered ...
Long before the nighttime drama of the Ewings on Dallas came the sprawling tale of the Texan Benedict clan in Edna Ferber's 1952 novel, Giant. The book, of course, went on to become a class…
Brian D'Arcy James and Kate Baldwin star in "Giant," a musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's multigenerational novel of a Texas family, with a soaring score by Michael John LaChiusa.
The authors of the new musical “Giant” possess the same soaring ambition that motivates their larger-than-life characters. Book writer Sybille Pearson and composer-lyricist Micha…
The authors of the new musical “Giant” possess the same soaring ambition that motivates their larger-than-life characters. Book writer Sybille Pearson and composer-lyricist Micha…
Brian d'Arcy James, Kate Baldwin and PJ Griffith star with Katie Thompson and Michele Pawk in the new musical Giant, adapted by Michael John LaChiusa (music and lyrics) and Sybille Pearson…
Sweet Smell of Success, Shrek and "Smash" star Brian d'Arcy James steps into the cowboy boots of Texas rancher Bick Benedict in the new musical Giant at the Public Theater.
