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 Ra…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:24PMLoved 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 Chocolat…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:30PMIn 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 bee…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:27PMHe 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…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:03PMNazis, 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 He…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:47PMNo 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…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:12PMWhether 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 sensa…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:36PMChazz 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 an…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:03PMOh, 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 Nir…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:06PMThis 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 …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:41PMYes, 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 i…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:21PMShe’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…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:48AMWhat 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 onstag…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:29PMThree 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…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:42AMIt 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!…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:33AMDecades 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�…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:33AMMost 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 …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:12PMThey 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 cou…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:12PMShe’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…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:31AMCall 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 an…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:24AMIn 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” Li…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:00AMHe 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 t…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:56AM“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…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:56AMAfter 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 s…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:48AMIn 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 o…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:11AMKurt 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 11:06AMSome 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, s…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:54PMHe 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 …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:06AMNick 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 …
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:53AMPut 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 hea…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:06AMDan 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 th…
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