Leslie Beauchamp
Whatzup Features Writer
Articles
Find comfort in iconic ‘Hello, Dolly!’
Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway in January 1964 while our country was still grieving from President John Kennedy’s assassination and nervous about the worsening situation in Vietnam. The Beatles invasion […]
Musical about obsession makes the cut at Civic
The opening words, “Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd…,” began a love affair I have had with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street since I first became aware […]
Disney’s Newsies
On a hot, steamy, New York summer night in July 1899, with the symbolic act of overturning a distribution wagon, thousands of corner newsboys and newsgirls went on strike against […]