While everybody with a dog in the fight on Broadway was at the Tony Awards on Sunday — the “Kinky Boots” team dancing and cheering, the “Matilda” team scowling and cursing — anot…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PMIt's time to overhaul the Tony Awards. Tonight’s telecast, to be broadcast on CBS at 8, will look like, well, last year’s telecast. And like the one the year before. Neil Patrick Harris,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:14AMAnd the winner is . . . Those four words will set off butterflies in plenty of stomachs at the Tony Awards. A few key races have tightened up in the past week, so there should be a decent am…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:36PMI’m going to let you in on a Broadway secret. It’s supposed to be a surprise for Sunday’s telecast, so I’m asking you to keep it between ourselves. A special Tony honor will be pres…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:09AMWho’s on first at the Tony Award telecast? Everybody! Details are starting to leak out about the show, which CBS will broadcast June 9 from Radio City Music Hall. The opening act is always…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:51AMHello, Bette! Although the Tony nominators gave her a poke in the eye, most of Broadway loves Bette Midler in “I’ll Eat You Last” and is delighted she’s back on the legitimate stage …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:52AMHold your breath. Make a wish. Now count to three. Come with me, and you’ll be at the first preview of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”! I have a spy who went under cover as an Oomp…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:59PMTony madness continues to sweep through Shubert Alley. The races are tightening. The campaigns are in full swing. Rivals are quietly trying to do in one another. Everyone’s tense. Everyone…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:13AMBroadway is in the grip of Tony fever — which means everybody’s behaving as if they were in that great Alexander Payne movie “Election.” This year, the role of Tracy Flick is being p…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:35AMSting and his wife, Trudie Styler, have become fixtures on the Broadway red carpet, attending the openings of “Lucky Guy,” “Motown” and “I’ll Eat You Last.” What’s the old po…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:35AMWith the Tony nominations out, and the big winners predictable — “Matilda,” “Pippin,” “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — Broadwa…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:14PMJon Wilner, the former Broadway advertising executive, liked to say that you can slip anything into The New York Times — if you know how to massage the system. Producer Scott Rudin certain…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:14AMProducer Scott Rudin certainly “massaged the system” Saturday with an ad for “The Testament of Mary” that included a little poke at Times theater reporter Patrick Healy.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 06:11AMWhat would the Tonys be without a little controversy — a little tempest in tap shoes? And I don’t mean the fact that the infantile “Bring It On” was nominated as Best Musical. No, th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:29PMLast week in this column, I wondered whether Bette Midler would win a Tony for her delicious comic turn as Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers. But as one of my readers — Chris Galka — thou…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 02:04AMCan the “Divine Miss M” win a “Divine Miss T?” That is, can Bette Midler win a Tony Award (which is named after Antoinette Perry)? Midler returns to Broadway tonight for the first ti…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:24AM‘mamma Mia!” is on the move. After 12 years and 5,000 performances, “Mamma Mia!” is decamping from the Winter Garden to the Broadhurst in the fall. The move is a tacit acknowledgment…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:07PM‘A night off, a night off, my house seats for a night off!” is the refrain heard round Shubert Alley as openings come fast and furious before the Tony deadline. But just when you thought…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:13PMI’ve been a little sniff-sniffy about “Motown, the Musical,” which opens Sunday at the Lunt-Fontanne. Its script, by Motown mogul Berry Gordy (with an assist from Dick Scanlan), isn’…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:50PMMargaret Thatcher was, like her good friend Ronald Reagan, a politician with theatrical flair. She gave one of the best performances I’ve ever seen — in the House of Commons right before…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:30AMBond is coming back to Broadway, this time with his better half. And I don’t mean Blofeld! Daniel Craig, the reigning 007, will star opposite his wife, Rachel Weisz, in a revival of Harol…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:22AMRichard Griffiths was an actor from the old school. And by that I mean he liked a little nip before going onstage. I met him a couple of times at Angus McIndoe’s, a bar across the street f…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:21AMBroadway is about to be gripped by spring fever, with 15 openings scheduled between now and the cutoff date for Tony Award nominations at the end of April. Shia LaBeouf’s “Orphans” mel…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:34PMThirteen years after his death, Roald Dahl is enjoying a theatrical comeback. In London, the “Hairspray” team of MarcShaiman and Scott Wittman areworking on “Charlie and the Chocolate …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:17AMI’ll always have a soft spot in my heart for “Annie.” It was my very first Broadway show, and I saw it from the last row of the balcony of the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon). And …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:58PMChristine Quinn may be the Democratic front-runner for mayor, but there’s one patch of New York where she’d face some formidable competition: Broadway, an area that would handily be won …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:05AMAs loyal readers of this column know — hi, Mom! hi, Dad! — I’ve taken to dispensing advice about how to improve the new crop of Broadway shows. And the results, I must say, have been p…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:18AMWe’re on the cusp of what’s shaping up to be a busy spring on Broadway — 19 productions are on the way — and producers are already playing the Tony sweepstakes. As they survey the co…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:12PM* A few quick hits today: THE Nederlanders recently announced that they’ve teamed up with Gloria Estefan and her husband, Emilio, to bring the couple’s life story to Broadway. The Estef…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:21PMEver since Feinstein’s shut down at the Regency, Michael Feinstein has been on the hunt for a new place to tickle his ivories. I hear he may make a bid on 54 Below, that fine new cabaret a…
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