Sunday, September 30, 2012
An executive involved with the musical said the show would be postponed because lead producers were unable to close a $4.5 million gap in a $12 million budget.
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The $100,000 award, recognizing a play or musical inspired by American history, is being established at Columbia University in honor of Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
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Three actors in the $12-million musical confirm the start date, though there’s no decisive word yet on whether all the funding has been secured.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:59PMThe coming Broadway revival of “Annie” has found its leading orphan: the 11-year-old veteran actress Lilla Crawford.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:07PMTuesday, September 25, 2012
Stephen C. Byrd, a Broadway producer, says he has seen the film at least 25 times and is developing a stage musical based on it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:57AMA major investor for the $12 million musical “Rebecca,” a mystery man named Paul Abrams, seems to have died before raising $4.5 million for the show, leading to questions about whether h…
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Ben Sprecher, the lead producer, would not identify the new investors in the show, one of the most troubled in Broadway history.
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The message about the $12-million musical, which recently announced a delay in the start of rehearsals, came in an email to the show's cast and crew.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06PMExperienced with Shakespeare’s antagonists, Patrick Page also brings to his current bad guy, in “Cyrano de Bergerac,” personal insight into unhappiness and depression.
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The acclaimed production from the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven is scheduled to open at the Westside Theater in November.
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The hit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be the first production at St. Ann's temporary new home in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
After the success of "War Horse" and "One Man, Two Guvnors," the theater plans to take a more active role developing productions for a North American audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:22PMDecades after a youth spent on New York stages, Diane Lane is in Chicago, taking on the lead in the Tennessee Williams classic “Sweet Bird of Youth.”
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Brian d'Arcy James, Kate Baldwin, and P.J. Griffith will play the lead roles in the musical adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel.
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The producers of one of the most expensive, and troubled, musicals of the fall season are in talks with the investor's estate to secure the promised money.
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Three musicals about heroic girls facing down crises — “Annie,” “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” and “Matilda the Musical” — are joining the coming Broadway season.
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Constantine Maroulis will star in the revival of the show, which played four years on Broadway beginning in 1997.
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As their Broadway runs near their conclusion, both plays announce they have recouped the cost of their budgets.
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The lead producer of the show is looking at Circle in the Square, on Broadway, or Off Broadway's New World Stages, where it would be less costly to mount.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:40PMThe critically-acclaimed play about wrongfully convicted inmates on death row will return to the theater where it ran 10 years ago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:11PMSony has purchased a 20 percent equity stake in Scott Sanders Theatrical Productions as it seeks to mount stage versions of the studio's films, with their first project being a musical adapt…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:15PMJake Gyllenhaal is making his New York stage debut with Roundabout Theater Company’s production of “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet.”
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The Steinberg award, the most generous prize in theater, will allow the creator of "Chinglish" and "M. Butterfly" to decline film and television work and concentrate on writing plays.
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The actress will play one of the richest female roles in New York theater this fall when the critically acclaimed British play about family alienation and the limits of loyalty comes to Off-…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:15PMIn Ian Rickson's forthcoming production, Kristin Scott Thomas and Lia Williams will alternate in the lead femaile roles, opposite Rufus Sewell.
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