{"id":207986,"date":"2026-04-24T02:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207986\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T02:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T02:27:42","slug":"titanique-rocky-horror-and-schmigadoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207986\/","title":{"rendered":"Titanique, Rocky Horror and Schmigadoon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-grad-6-gradient-background has-background\">Michael Musto continues his W42ST I\u2019ll Take Manhattan column, and this month turns his attention to Broadway \u2014 taking in a run of new openings and offering his clear-eyed verdicts, with a bonus second column (<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/michael-musto-cats-dog-days-giant-reviews\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">read his first set of reviews here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_9016-Michael-Musto-Titanique.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Musto Titanique\" class=\"wp-image-140464\"\/>Michael Musto is reviewing a campy trio of shows, including Titanique. Photo: Phil O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p>Cultural events seem to happen in threes these days, probably so it\u2019s easier for the New York Times to do a trend piece about it. And so, Broadway is under siege all at once by a trio of campy shows that seem aimed for the gay guy in all of us. (In my case, that guy shouldn\u2019t be that hard to find.) Here are my reviews:<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/michael-musto\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cropped-Michael-Musto-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manhattan-born entertainment journalist Michael Musto cemented his role as a nightlife fixture with his irreverent Village Voice gossip column La Dolce Musto, launched in 1984. For decades he chronicled celebrity scandals and club culture with sharp wit, later authoring books and freelancing widely. Follow him on W42ST as he launches his new column, \u201cI\u2019ll Take Manhattan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/michael-musto\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Michael Musto\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Musto continues his W42ST I\u2019ll Take Manhattan column, and this month turns his attention to Broadway \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[207,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-207986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-broadway","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-manhattan-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}