Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Audra McDonald can make history on Sunday by winning her sixth Tony Award, the most ever in acting, for her performance as Billie Holliday in “Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill.”
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Monday, June 2, 2014
Ticket sales for “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” have been strong since it was nominated for 10 Tonys.
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Thursday, May 29, 2014
The press agent Rick Miramontez is thick in the campaign for all four nominees for best musical in this year’s Tony Awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:20PMProducers aim to get Ms. Moss to play Heidi in a Broadway revival of Wendy Wasserstein play, which won a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize.
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Atlantic Theater Company’s season includes “Posterity” by Mr. Wright, while Second Stage will feature Mr. LaBute’s dark comedy “The Way We Get By.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:00PMBroadway shows grossed $30.9 million last week on sales from 299,090 audience members, the highest dollar amount – and best attendance – ever recorded for the week leading into Memorial …
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Gideon Glick, starring in the Off Broadway drama “The Few,” believes in bringing a lot of himself to his characters, even his physical tics.
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Mr. Corden would star as Pseudolus, a role that netted best actor Tonys for three previous performers: Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane.
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Revivals of Beckett, Shakespeare and Pinter, as well as established shows from last season like “Kinky Boots,” helped lift Broadway’s box office this season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:39PMThe revival of the 1997 musical “Titanic” has been postponed because the producers could not secure a theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:19PMAfter decades of fighting against AIDS and for Hollywood’s attention in that fight, Larry Kramer is about to reach his largest audience with a film version of his play “The Normal Heart.…
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“On Your Feet!,” about Ms. Estefan and her husband, Emilio, will open on Broadway in fall 2015 under the direction of Jerry Mitchell, the producers announced.
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Johanna Day, star of “Appropriate,” and Chris Myers, star of “An Octoroon,” were among the winners of the awards for Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway theater productions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn its closing week, “The Bridges of Madison County” had the highest box-office totals of its four-month run, with gross revenues of $590,791.
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The producer Cameron Mackintosh is considering bringing his production to Broadway next year if the reviews are strong and a suitable theater becomes available.
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A leading theater organization is developing proposals to stop selling the medallion-topped Tony Awards each year to investors who help finance Tony-winning Broadway shows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PMMs. Chenoweth will return to Broadway in February to portray the Hollywood diva Lily Garland in a revival of the 1978 musical comedy.
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More tickets are being sold, and at higher prices, for a musical that had struggled to fill seats earlier in the season.
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Hugh Jackman’s next Broadway play, Jez Butterworth’s “The River,” will begin performances on Oct. 31 at Circle in the Square Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:57PM“Violet,” “The Cripple of Inishmaan” and “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” are just a few of the shows that took the long road to Broadway to increase their chances of success.
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Kelli O’Hara, Sutton Foster, Idina Menzel, Mary Bridget Davies and Jessie Mueller, the 2014 Tony nominees for best actress in a musical, discuss their lives in the theater.
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The New York Drama Critics’ Circle honored “Fun Home” as best musical and “The Night Alive” as best play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:09PM“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” had one of its best weeks yet after receiving 10 Tony nods; other nominees did well.
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There were months of modest ticket sales, and the four Tony Award nominations for the show on Tuesday were of little help at the box office.
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The major races for Broadway’s Tony Awards will be unusually wide-open this spring, with the nominations showing more love for Shakespeare than for Hollywood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMEstelle Parsons was nominated for a Tony for her role, but Eric Coble’s drama is to close on Sunday after 22 previews and 16 regular performances.
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