NBC's search for a pompous, arrogant morning show host is over.
The network has cast actor Matt Letscher to fill the role of Gavin Stone, the aforementioned host on its new comedy series, "Good Morning Miami." The actor who played Stone in the pilot episode, Burke Moses, has left the show. Portions of the pilot will be reshot to reflect the change.
Sad news for Burke Moses fans like us. Still, it should be noted that Matt Letscher is a University of Michigan grad with plenty of stage credits, including a role on Broadway in Neil Simon's "Proposals" five seasons ago.
Linked From tv.zap2it.com at 12:00AMAlthough no official casting has been announced for the production, Broadway.com has learned that Alice Ripley is expected to take on the role of Audrey in the popular tuner which will open on Broadway in July 2003.
Woo-hoo!
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AM"Queen needs makeup!" Harvey Fierstein said. It was late afternoon on Monday, August 5, and Mr. Fierstein, primed to return to Broadway in heels upon a hot pink, giddy steamrollerthe musical version of John Waters Hairspraysat before a mirror in a windowless white studio in the West Village, his face under construction for yet another magazine photo shoot. Dressed in a flowered orange smock and sandals, his skin rosy and deprived of eyebrows, chest hair, armpit hair and leg hair, he resembled a pretty pot roast.
Thanks to davei2000 on TB for the link.
I've seen HAIRSPRAY twice and I LOVE this show. It's fun, makes you feel good, and puts a smile on your face all night long. Mailing the CD sampler out earlier this summer was a great idea. It worked for me, I listened to it way before seeing the show and liked the songs immediately. Since I happen to be the one who orders group tickets for my real job, it also worked, I ordered them and after seeing the show called back and ordered even more.
Linked From The New York Observer at 12:00AMTHE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (Miramax Home Entertainment)
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMThe third in a series on the production of The Boys from Syracuse.
Linked From USA Today at 12:00AMHe also wrote several plays, including the off-Broadway production "The Confessions of Stepin Fetchit."
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMThese days, you don't need to be an insider to have an insider's view of a developing Broadway show.
Linked From mv.newsday.com at 12:00AMTHEY don't call it the Fringe for nothing. With shows like "The Joys of Sex," "Deviant," "Spanking" and "Pissing in the Wind," the theater fest that begat "Urinetown" is nothing if not edgy.
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMProducers of the New York International Fringe Festival have revealed a taste of wild things to come at the city's increasingly popular performance and theater arts event.
Linked From Backstage at 12:00AMThree genial works, based on short stories from the '50s, are grouped in 'Past, Present and Future'
Linked From events.calendarlive.com at 12:00AMTony-winner Leslie Uggams will play the lead in "Blue," Charles Randolph-Wright's off-Broadway hit that comes to the Paper Mill Playhouse this winter.
Plus an item on Jessica Molaskey.
Linked From NJ.com at 12:00AMSTRATFORD, Ont. On Tuesday night, Brian Bedford strode onto the stage of the Tom Patterson Theatre looking like a corporate executive.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:00AMThe jewel of the Kennedy Center's summer-long Sondheim festival is a transfixingly clear revival of "Passion," the Tony-winning musical from 1994.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMMARISSA Jaret Winokur has lost weight - enough to send a frantic theater crew bringing candy and chocolate shakes to her dressing room.As the chunky star of "Hairspray," the red-hot, yet-to-…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMSECOND casts, like second thoughts, are usually not for the better. So it is with Jane Curtin and the rest of the completely new crew of Michael Frayn's "Noises Off" at the Brooks Atkinson T…
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMWhen Jennifer Ehle won a Tony Award in 2000 for her work in Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing," she got a congratulatory telegram from Prime Minister Tony Blair. It was a nice thought, only Ehl…
Linked From New York Daily News at 12:00AMFifteen Broadway shows will be dark on Sept. 11, when the city commemorates the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Linked From New York Daily News at 12:00AMOur "Town," your "Town," whose "Town" is coming to town this Broadway season? Adrian Bryan-Brown, spokesman for the Roundabout Theater Co., confirmed the legit org would not be staging the T…
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