'Gigi' review: Vanessa Hudgens debuts on Broadway
Vanessa Hudgens stars in a shrill revival of Lerner and Loewe's "Gigi."
Vanessa Hudgens stars in a shrill revival of Lerner and Loewe's "Gigi."
The musical is not Lerner and Loewe's best. But it's lovingly updated by Eric Schaeffer, with magnificent visuals of Belle Époque Paris, arresting choreography and, yes, a charming perfo…
A note in the Playbill for the new production of Gigi explains that the title character "first burst upon the world" in a novella by "French authoress" Colette. Authoress? It says everything…
Champagne, as Gigi reminds us, "is not actually a force of nature, but the result of industrial chemistry!" Neither natural force nor chemistry, alas, is much in evidence at this fizzless to…
Prudish American audiences can relax. There’s nothing to offend their tender sensibilities in this antiseptic version of “Gigi,” Lerner and Loewe’s enchanting 1958 fi…
Gigi, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning musical comedy, celebrates its opening tonight, April 8, at the Neil Simon Theatre 250 West 52nd Street. Let'…
How do you solve a problem like "Gigi"?
Vanessa Hudgens goes gamine in her Broadway debut as the title character in the Lerner and Loewe musical about a Parisian tomboy's path to love and womanhood.read more
Gigi, an imitation French confection of a musical starring High School Musical sweetheart Vanessa Hudgens, is based on a novella by Colette about two aging prostitutes grooming their illegit…
The current stage revival on Broadway of Lerner and Loewe’s film Gigi is lovely to look at. It’s filled with principal performers in supporting roles, who have played leads on Br…
Vanessa Hudgens made her Broadway debut in the revival of Gigi, a coming-of-age story set in Paris at the turn of the 20th century, which officially opened April 8 at the Ne…
The reference to the release from Arthur Freed's incomparable MGM unit is recorded here as preamble to the unhappy news that a woefully cheap travesty of the gloriously romantic film has now…
The new production of Gigi, which just opened at the Neil Simon, is a fascinating exercise in exploring just how far a revival can go " and how far it shouldn't.
Gigi, an imitation French confection of a musical starring High School Musical sweetheart Vanessa Hudgens, is based on a novella by Colette about two aging prostitutes grooming their illegit…
While “I Remember It Well” may be one of the best known songs from the hit musical Gigi, not many remember the musical’s debut outing on Broadway in the 1970’s. Howev…
Musicals Tonight! will continue its ongoing salute to Broadway and Off-Broadway standbys, understudies and alternates 7 PM April 13 at The Lion Theatre with the latest edition of At This…
Gigi, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning musical comedy, celebrates its opening tonight, April 8, at the Neil Simon Theatre 250 West 52nd Street. Scro…
The new Broadway production of Gigi, which began previews Thursday March 19, will open tonight, Wednesday, April 8 at the Neil Simon Theatre (250 West 52nd Street). Gigi stars Vanessa Hudgen…
For 11-year-old girls, "Gigi" is very pretty and nice. For much of the rest of us, this disconcertingly wholesome new version of the 1958 Oscar-winning movie about raising a French courtesan…
Good morning, BroadwayWorld Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it Today's big news GIGI opens on Broadway, BUZZER starts …
Gigi, starring Vanessa Hudgens, officially opens tonight on Broadway. The musical revival casts Hudgens as Gigi, a young woman coming of age in glamorous Belle Epoque Paris. Based on the nov…
Gigi, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning musical comedy, celebrates its opening tonight, April 8, at the Neil Simon Theatre 250 West 52nd Street.
The Lerner and Loewe revival, starring Vanessa Hudgens, opens tonight at the Neil Simon Theatre.
Where the cast and creators of the Broadway musical revival Gigi pursued their college studies.
Vanessa Hudgens makes her Broadway debut in the revival of Gigi, a coming-of-age story set in Paris at the turn of the 20th century, which officially opens April 8 at the Ne…