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Thursday, August 28, 2008

    [ HC ]  Julie Harris Returns To Stage; 'Spamalot' Cuts Shows
    Frank Rizzo | TICKER

    [ P ]  First Preview of 9 to 5: The Musical Delayed

    [ B ]  First Preview of Broadway-Bound 9 to 5 Delayed in Los Angeles

    [ TM ]  9 to 5 Delays First L.A. Preview

    [ NYT ]  Pop Singer Drops Plan to Compose for the Met By DANIEL J. WAKIN

    The singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright has dropped plans to compose a work for the Metropolitan Opera in a dispute over the language of the libretto.

    [ NYP ]  PAGE SIX

    THE Delacorte Theater is doing damage control after Obie-winner ElizabethMarvel said the Central Park venue is crawling with vermin.

    [ V ]  'Funk It' wins Edinburgh festival

    Hip-hop Shakespeare nabs Dress Circle prize

    Time Out's Fall Preview:

    [ TONY ]  Watched man By Allison Williams

    Patrick Wilson leads the acting heavyweights-plus one infamous newbie-in All My Sons on Broadway.

    [ TONY ]  Brave new worlds By Adam Feldman

    Craig Lucas isn't content to stay in his place.

    [ TONY ]  Vice Squad By Helen Shaw

    Experimental theater outfit Radiohole is growing up, but not too much-the group is still getting wasted and naked onstage.

    [ TONY ]  British Intelligence By David Cote

    With this cheat sheet, you won't miss a thing.

    Other Features:

    [ TDF ]  "HAIR" LESSONS

    Broadway maven Seth Rudetsky tells tales out of school on the tribal love-rock musical.

    [ P ]  ASK PLAYBILL.COM: Equity Cards

    [ NYT ]  Shopping for Vanities With Joey Arias By ELAINE LOUIE

    Joey Arias, the 49-year-old star of the production, "Arias With a Twist," knows about vanity and vanities: he has nine mirrors in his 14-by-6-foot bathroom.

    [ TONY ]  A most happy Fela! By Rob Weinert-Kendt

    Bill T. Jones takes on the life and music of an Afrobeat giant.

    [ B ]  FRESH FACE: Hunter Parrish Is Spring Awakening's Smoldering New Melchior

    [ B ]  VIDEO: Meet a New Spring Awakening Star Every Day. Get to Know: Emma Hunton

    [ BE ]  On a bare stage, new plays take first steps By Jeffrey Borak

    Four actresses - Tony Award winners Frances Sternhagen and Elizabeth Franz, and Ylfa Edelstein and Andrea Cirie - sat around the large table listening to their director, Joe Cacaci, go over a few notes before resuming rehearsal after a lunch break.

    [ NY ]  The 'Times' Helps Us Keep Up With the Riches

    [ TE ]  THE FABULOUS KANE SISTERS RETURN by OSCAR E MOORE

    As part of the Fringe Festival NYC this leave-all-logic-behind comedy starring Marc Geller and Bill Roulet returns to the Barrow Street Theatre. Lana Kane shares some intimate thoughts.

    [ HC ]  A New 'Midsummer': One Fevered Fifties Dream By FRANK RIZZO

    [ INQ ]  Live Arts/Fringe Festival starts Friday By Howard Shapiro

    [ INQ ]  Highly personal theater from a dream By Toby Zinman

    A self-confessed perfectionist, Sebastienne Mundheim built the dome for Sea of Birds three times.

    Reviews:

    [ NYT ]  Here the Gift of Speech Becomes a Bitter Curse By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

    "The New Electric Ballroom" affirms Enda Walsh's growing reputation as a contender to take his place in the long, distinguished line of great Irish playwrights.

    [ LAT ]  Review: "Beethoven, as I Knew Him" By David Ng

    One-man biography of Beethoven is thin on details, uneven in narrative and at times unintentionally funny.

    [ B ]  ETCETERA: John Simon Embraces the New Recording of Gypsy with Patti LuPone

    [ TONY ]  The First Breeze of Summer
    Review by Helen Shaw

    Concealed under its soapy surface, Breeze roils with both hypocrisy and the costs of human sexuality. After another few weeks on the stove, the company may yet bring that to a boil.

    [ TONY ]  Noon Day Sun

    Deftly layering melodrama over a headier look at the invention of identity, Noon Day Sun shines brightly

    News:

    [ B ]  Ghostlight Readies Cast Album of Jason Robert Brown's 13 for Early Digital Release

    [ TM ]  Original Broadway Cast Recording of 13 Set for Digital Release September 30

    [ P ]  Ghostlight Records to Release Jason Robert Brown's 13

    [ B ]  Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi to Play Limited Run at Rattlestick

    [ P ]  McNally's Corpus Christi to Play Limited Engagement at the Rattlestick

    [ TM ]  Corpus Christi to Play Rattlestick in October

    [ TM ]  Bullock, Cavenaugh, Creel, Gets, Laws, Mason, et al. to Participte in NYMF Events

    [ P ]  Champlin, Cohen, Doran and Yaukey Set for NYMF's Love Jerry

    [ P ]  O'Connor Will Return to NY Stage in NYMF's Hatpin

    [ P ]  Casting Announced for NYMF's Castronauts, or How I Killed Fidel

    [ TM ]  39 Steps Cast Members to Appear at Borders September 22

    [ P ]  Series of 39 Steps Events Will Punctuate September

    [ NJ ]  Marlo Thomas Returns to George Street by Peter Filichia

    [ BG ]  Sponsor drops Bard on Common By Geoff Edgers

    Shakespeare company says shows will go on

    [ P ]  Dench, Irons, Moore, Pike, Richardson, Stewart, Suchet and More Set for Ian Fleming Tribute

    [ P ]  London's Billy Elliot to Welcome Two New Billys in September

    [ TM ]  Full Cast, Creative Team Announced for EST's Close Ties

    [ P ]  Complete Casting Announced for New York Premiere of Close Ties

    [ P ]  Old Globe Cast Set for Back Back Back, New Baseball Play by Itamar Moses

    [ TM ]  Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Back, Back, Back at the Old Globe Theatre

    [ TM ]  Charles Strouse to Embark on UK Tour in September

    [ P ]  Charles Strouse to Make Two Appearances at London's Dress Circle; BBC Concert, Too

    [ P ]  Reynolds, Brown, Dixon, Bolton to Navigate Goodspeed's Big River This Fall

    [ TM ]  Bolton, Brown, Dixon, Reynolds, et al. Set for Goodspeed's Big River

    [ TM ]  Full Cast, Creative Team Set for This Beautiful City at Kirk Douglas Theatre

    [ TM ]  Demián Bichir and Shannon Cochran to Star in Geffen's By the Waters of Babylon

    [ P ]  Whalen to Mourn Wee Thomas in St. Louis Lieutenant of Inishmore

    [ P ]  Bichir and Cochran Will Star in Schenkkan's Babylon at L.A.'s Geffen

    [ P ]  Stritch Will Be At Liberty at the Austin Cabaret Theatre in September

    [ P ]  MTG's Seesaw to Feature Alyson, Cartwright, Bolero, MacDonald and More

    [ P ]  Small Craft Warnings to Play Limited New York Engagement

    [ P ]  Former Larson Classmate/Collaborator Armstrong to Direct Rent in September

    [ P ]  The Factory's Hamlet to Play the Globe Sept. 6

    [ P ]  Arcelus, Gabler, Koplin, Holmes and Weisman Featured in Man of the People Web Series

    [ P ]  International Performers Will Find Home in Pittsburgh Festival of Firsts Oct. 10-25

    [ P ]  Eurydice to Descend at Seattle's A.C.T. Beginning Sept. 5

    [ P ]  Tickets to Final Rent Performance Auctioned to Benefit BC/EFA

    [ P ]  Matt Sax's Hip-Hop Musical Clay Plays KC Prior to NYC

    [ P ]  "The After Party" to Welcome Next to Normal's Ripley Aug. 29

    [ TM ]  Beach, Brown, Lawrence, Linden, Panaro, Pastore, et al. Set for Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra's Guys and Dolls

    [ P ]  McKechnie, Fiorello!, As Thousands Cheer and King and I Set for Lyric Season

    [ P ]  Naples, Detroit, Lexington, Los Angeles and More Will See LuPone and Patinkin in 2009

    [ P ]  Grief Fuels a Tale of Mom and Daughter in World Premiere, Scratch, Featuring Playwright

    [ P ]  Spring Tony Winner Gallagher to Play Highline Ballroom

    [ P ]  A Chorus Line Documentary, "Every Little Step," to Premiere in Toronto

    [ P ]  Sarah Brightman to Release Holiday Recording

    [ P ]  John Pizzarelli Interprets Richard Rodgers on New CD

    [ P ]  Sh-K-Boom Records to Release Recording of Off-Broadway's Frankenstein in September

    [ P ]  ANMT Launches Interstate Musical Theatre Project

    [ P ]  Kostroff and Wylie Are the Producers Beginning Aug. 27 at the Gateway Playhouse

    [ P ]  Lillias White to Play Mondays in September at the Triad

    [ P ]  Brief Encounter Extends West End Run; National Tour to Follow

    [ P ]  Casting Complete for London Debut of August Wilson's Radio Golf

    [ P ]  Young Frankenstein Star to Head to the Chatterbox Aug. 28

    [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 28

    [ P ]  Wright's Lady Arrives at Off-Broadway's Rattlestick Aug. 28

    [ P ]  Pacheco Leads Q&A with Gypsy's LuPone, Gaines and Benanti Aug. 28 at Barnes & Noble

    [ P ]  Rain Man Arrives on the London Stage Aug. 28

    [ P ]  A Midsummer Night's Dream Awakens Hartford Stage Season Aug. 28

    [ P ]  Premiere of Rapp's Rock Memoir Without You Begins Aug. 28 in Pittsburgh

    [ P ]  Midtown International Theatre Festival Announces Award Nominees

    [ P ]  Tad Mosel, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of All the Way Home, Dies at 86

    [ TM ]  Graham Rowat to Star in Stages St. Louis' Music Man

    [ P ]  Hollywood Media Corp. Sells Hollywood.com

  • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 4:14 PM | Item Link


      • [ V ]  Hollywood.com goes private by DIANE GARRETT

      Hollywood Media toppers Mitchell Rubenstein and Laurie Silvers have spun Hollywood.com into a private company as the showbiz site prepares for a relaunch.

      Hollywood Media [NASD: HOLL] is the parent company of Broadway.com. There was once a time when Broadway.com was the ugly step child of Hollywood Media -- now it is the goose / golden egg thing.

    • Posted by James Marino at 3:36 AM | Item Link


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