Thursday, March 30, 2017
Any doubts Danny Rubin had about his dream project were vanquished by Stephen Sondheim, who said "Groundhog Day" would make a good musical. That was in 2003. By then, Rubin and Harold Ramis'…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:24PM[SHARE]Friday, March 24, 2017
Loved the movie? See the show! Broadway hopes you'll do just that this spring, when the curtains rise on "Groundhog Day," "Anastasia," "Amélie" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" " the…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:30PM[SHARE]Friday, March 10, 2017
In 1974, Reed Birney dropped out of Boston University and came to New York at 19, to become an actor. "I was ambitious and I wanted to get going," he tells BARBARA HOFFMAN. "I've been here e…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:27PM[SHARE]Friday, February 10, 2017
He was born in Georgia and lives in Pennsylvania, but Justin Guarini's spiritual home is Broadway. "I was probably 11 when I saw 'Les Miz,' " the first "American Idol" runner-up tells…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:03PM[SHARE]Nazis, adultery, betrayal. The story behind Solomon Guggenheim's first museum touches on all three " and the paintings are pretty good, too. You'll find the art at Chelsea's Leila Heller Gal…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2017
No matter how big you are in Hollywood, you don't get a trailer when you play Broadway. Heck, you're lucky if you have your own bathroom. Ask Jake Gyllenhaal. He and his "Sunday in the Park …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 2, 2017
Whether stealing the show from under Richard Burton's nose or entertaining at home with his pet mountain lion, George Rose always seemed bigger than life. Perhaps the only thing more sensati…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:36PM[SHARE]Friday, January 13, 2017
Chazz Palminteri is living proof that you can take the boy outta The Bronx, but you can't take The Bronx outta the boy. His autobiographical play "A Bronx Tale" morphed into a movie and is n…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 5, 2017
Oh, to be young, on Broadway and getting notes from Robert De Niro. In other words, how nice to be Hudson Loverro, who plays the kid in "A Bronx Tale," the hit musical directed by De Niro an…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 29, 2016
This was the year "Hamilton" and "The Humans" got what they deserved " multiple Tonys, including those for, respectively, Best Musical and Best Play. So let's put them aside for this list an…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 24, 2016
Yes, Virginia, there are people who work Christmas Day without kicking up a fuss. Like the Rockettes " who kick, period. Since Radio City Music Hall's "Christmas Spectacular" began in 1933, …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:21PM[SHARE]Friday, December 16, 2016
She’s a slut, he's a cad " and you can't take your eyes off them. They're Hélène and Anatole, the hot couple of "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812." Those who go to see J…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 15, 2016
What has more than 700 MetroCards but can't get you on the subway? That would be the dress Moya Angela wears in Broadway's "In Transit," opening Sunday night. When she sashays onstage in it …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Three hundred kicks per show, four shows a day, six days a week. You don't need a calculator to imagine the toll that might take on anyone, even someone as athletic as a Rockette. But that b…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:42AM[SHARE]Friday, December 9, 2016
It started as a sketch. But Michael Urie believed Drew Droege's riff on gay weddings was more than stand-up shtick. "I thought, 'This is a full play with an idea, and it's hilarious!'â€�…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:33AM[SHARE]Decades before he made J. Peterman an urban-sombrero legend on "Seinfeld," John O'Hurley starred in "The Fantasticks." The year was 1974, and O'Hurley, a junior at Rhode Island's Providence …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:33AM[SHARE]Monday, December 5, 2016
Most of us know him as an actor, stand-up comedian and playwright, but off-Broadway's new "Othello: The Remix" boasts the talents of John Leguizamo, producer. Born in Colombia, raised in Que…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 3, 2016
They were the It girls of their day: fabulous, famous, well-educated and wealthy. No wonder the Schuyler sisters turn heads in "Hamilton" " they're as revolutionary as their male counterpart…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:12PM[SHARE]She’s sometimes called Clara, other times Marie. But by any name, she's still the sweetheart of that great holiday classic "The Nutcracker." No matter what form it's taken over time " …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:31AM[SHARE]Friday, December 2, 2016
Call him "the reindeer whisperer." That pretty much sums up Jimmy Smagula's work on the Theater at Madison Square Garden's "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Based on the 1964 animated TV cl…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:24AM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2016
In the heart of Lincoln Center, "A Chorus Line" is still kicking, its sequined top hats just a stone's throw from Rafiki, "The Lion King" sage, and clips of a pre-"Hamilton" Lin-Manuel Miran…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 19, 2016
He was born in Miami, raised in Brooklyn and says he currently lives "in a suitcase" " but Ben Vereen seems most at home on Broadway. The Tony-winning star of "Pippin" is back in town, perfo…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:56AM[SHARE]Friday, November 18, 2016
“That’s me," says Robert Morse, smiling at his caricature in Sardi's. "It's like I'm looking in a mirror!" Well, not quite. Sketched some 55 years ago, when "How To Succeed in Bu…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:56AM[SHARE]After giving Alexander Hamilton the gift of rap, Lin-Manuel Miranda's written a song for The Rock. Disney's "Moana," out Wednesday, features original music by Miranda and the vocal stylings …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 1, 2016
In off-Broadway's "A Life," David Hyde Pierce's 54-year-old character realizes he's forgotten what he was talking about. That's no big deal, says Pierce, 57: "It's the kind of forgetting we …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:11AM[SHARE]Monday, October 31, 2016
Kurt Vonnegut once wrote about a dystopian world that mandated mediocrity, so that beautiful people had to mask themselves, while brilliant ones donned headsets to scatter their thoughts. I …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:06AM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2016
Some musicals leave you wanting to sing and dance. One musical helped me leave my husband. And yes, that was a good thing. The show was "March of the Falsettos," William Finn's 1981, sung-th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:54PM[SHARE]Friday, October 21, 2016
He played Hemingway in "Midnight in Paris," a doomed congressman in "House of Cards," and a gay heartbreaker in "Girls." And while he's got one more season to fight zombies on "The Strain," …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 8, 2016
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney lead double lives: Their 70-something alta-kocker alter egos " Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, respectively " say they met during the Columbia University stud…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:53AM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2016
Put on your headset " Simon McBurney wants to take you into the Amazon. His one-man show, "The Encounter," which opened Thursday night, is the most immersive show Broadway's ever heard. The …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:06AM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2016
Dan Rosales was waiting tables at Isabella's three years ago when a man and a pregnant woman sat down in his section. It didn't take long for the Boston Conservatory grad to recognize the ma…
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