Mr. Beatty engaged in a candid assessment of his co-stars. He said he very much liked his glamorous colleagues personally: Mr. Patric, best known for the film "After Dark, My Sweet," and Ms. Judd, who starred in "Ruby in Paradise." He simply thinks, he said, that they are ill equipped for their parts.
Hoo boy...
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMPutting a Nicole or Melanie on Broadway was once a sure bet. This season, it’s curtains.
Linked From www.newyorkmetro.com at 12:00AMAs charmingly neurotic Pikesville-born playwright Cherie Vogelstein prepares a new play for broadway, the pressure is on, and so is the procrastination.
Linked From www.sunspot.net at 12:00AMThe call came inviting me to a Plaza Hotel tea party hosted by Dame Julie Andrews to promote the TV movie Eloise at Christmastime, and before they could even say when, I started running ther…
Linked From Village Voice at 12:00AMWicked leading man Norbert Leo Butz is out of the hit musical for at least a week. Butz's absence is due to a recent aggravation of a previously existing back injury.
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AM"I've been around the theater a long time," Mr. Seidelman said, "and I've never seen a climate as negative and destructive to new works as it is now."
"Six Dance Lessons" may have another life; the film rights have been sold to Universal. "The play will go on," Mr. Seidelman said.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMTotal receipts came to a record-setting $15,1 mil
Did anyone really expect "Bobbi Boland," "Laughing Room Only," "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" and "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks" to make it past Thanksgiving, much less New Year's Day? They were orphans on paper, and their rapid demise says much about some producers' dream life but remarkably little about the theater's health.
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMTHE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1939 (Bayview)
JEEPERS CREEPERS (Red Circle)
MAUREEN McGOVERN: OUT OF THIS WORLD (Fynsworth Alley)
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMTheaterMania's Joseph Marzullo is there as Wonderful Town and Henry IV open, and as the Oldest Living Confederate Widow opens and closes.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMSis, Today the Village, Tomorrow the World by BEN BRANTLEY
The perfectly amiable show at the Al Hirschfeld Theater about sisters from Ohio determined to conquer Manhattan turns ecstatic only when Donna Murphy is onstage.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMAmong its other distinctions, the new revival of "Wonderful Town" reduces "Thoroughly Modern Millie," a musical that works from a similar premise, to a heap of tinsel.
Linked From daily.nysun.com at 12:00AMFor a brisk little joyride, Wonderful Town can be pretty heavy going.
Linked From USA Today at 12:00AMIt's brash, bright, fresh, funny, touching, tuneful, heartfelt and hilarious.
Linked From Toronto Star at 12:00AMThis Wonderful Town is a decidedly mild frolic. Still, there are those songs, that band, and a formidable leading lady.
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:00AMDonna Murphy makes revival of Bernstein's 1953 musical a delight
Linked From Newsday Subscription at 12:00AMKathleen Marshall's inventive choreography and direction perfectly convey the infectious spirits of this eternally fresh show.
Linked From New York Daily News at 12:00AMReviewed By: David Finkle
Donna Murphy is doing a marvelous star turn in a part that was expressly tailored for another star, and it fits her like a Gucci glove.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMReview by Matthew Murray
Wonderful Town is exactly the type of substantial, tuneful, and hilarious musical comedy Broadway needs right now.
Linked From TalkinBroadway at 12:00AMFun-House Proportions Turn Dominance Upside Down by MARGO JEFFERSON
Wizard-director Lee Breuer blends ideas, genres, styles and technologies to make a new version of Henry Ibsen's play as seen at at St. Ann's Warehouse.
Henry?
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMIt sounds gimmicky, and maybe a little exploitative. "Mabou Mines DollHouse," an adaptation of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" from the experimental theater troupe Mabou Mines, has a cast that incl…
Linked From Newsday Subscription at 12:00AMLaughing on the Links? That's Par for the Course by NEIL GENZLINGER
This hilarious, well-timed slapdash of a musical by Michael Roberts turns mindlessness and predictability into art forms.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMDeft George Street production proves timely despite fall of Soviet Union
Linked From NJ.com at 12:00AMPASSION collides with the realities of life in a bleak western Massachusetts town in "Where We're Born," Lucy Thurber's gripping new play.
Linked From The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AMLove's Labour's Lost or Won? Filichia takes his search to Harvard Yard and reports the results.
Linked From TheaterMania at 12:00AMUnder that makeup is the young Scottish actor Euan Morton.
Linked From Boston Globe at 12:00AMSchwartz, Shubert coin troubles helped close tuner
Linked From Variety at 12:00AMSo... who is this Peter DuBois that everyone is talking about? Lets see...
Linked From at 12:00AMCould be that there is a changing of the guard happening downtown?
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