Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Whenever I’m in need of a laugh, I read my old columns — or watch Carly Sakolove’s “Send in the Clowns” video. Who, you might be wondering? A few years...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:22PMThursday, August 13, 2015
“Mack and Mabel” is one of those heartbreak flops — great score by Jerry Herman, problematic book by Michael Stewart. The 1974 musical told the story of the troubled love...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:42PMTuesday, August 11, 2015
One of my favorite musicals of the past 10 years is “Here Lies Love,” David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim’s clubby ’80s take on the life of Imelda Marcos. Staged...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:10PMThursday, August 6, 2015
Talk about the dog days of August … The producers of “Sylvia,” A.R. Gurney’s comedy about a man and his attachment to a dog, are offering potential investors the chance...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:44PMTuesday, August 4, 2015
Steven Soderbergh (director of “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Traffic”) has been working on a film version of John Kennedy Toole’s great comic novel, “A Confederacy of Dunces,” for ov…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:11PMFriday, July 31, 2015
So confident they’ve got the Tony Award in the bag, the producers of “Hamilton” are restricting tickets to Tony voters, much to the voters’ chagrin. A letter went out this...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:14AMThursday, July 23, 2015
When it was announced that Jason Alexander would take over the lead in “Fish in the Dark” from Larry David, David told the cast, “You finally have the chance to...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:21PMTuesday, July 21, 2015
Believe it or not, there’s more going on these days besides “Hamilton.” If I read one more puff piece about how Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop history lesson is a “game changer,”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:41PMSaturday, July 18, 2015
In 1922, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, new parents and pinched for cash, gave up their suite at the Plaza Hotel and rented a house on Long Island in Great Neck....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:01AMThursday, July 16, 2015
It’s hard to believe, but there isn’t a lively, thorough biography of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, their shows and their era. Ethan Mordden wrote a good coffee-table book a…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:58PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Few actors went from journeyman to star as fast as Roger Rees did. In September 1981, Rees — who died last week, at 71 — came to New York with...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:55PMThursday, July 9, 2015
When I read that James Bond was going to be turned into a musical, my heart sank. I’m a huge fan, but the idea of “Mame” Bond is absurd. Even...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:25PMTuesday, June 30, 2015
My favorite producer, Garth Drabinsky — that real-life Max Bialystock who defrauded investors of his production company Livent — is out of jail and plotting his comeback. He’s acquired…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:40PMTuesday, June 23, 2015
I’m a big fan of Tyne Daly’s. She was a ferocious Mama Rose in the 1989 revival of “Gypsy,” a tough but vulnerable Maria Callas in “Master Class,” and she...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:27PMThursday, June 18, 2015
Here’s a tip to producers chasing Tony Awards: Don’t send earnest letters to Tony voters begging for their support. You look desperate, and voters recoil in disgust. “How many time…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:39PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
Whenever he had a show that didn’t work, Jule Styne shouted, “Next!” Rather than lick his wounds after a flop, he went straight to the piano and started writing a...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:03PMSaturday, June 13, 2015
Florida has Disney World, but New York has Gangland. The history of the mob in America begins here, at Ellis Island. Between 1899 and 1910, nearly 2 million southern Italians...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:55AMThursday, June 11, 2015
Two new Broadway-bound shows had tryouts this week — one openly, the other top-secret. For years, Andrew Lloyd Webber presented staged readings of his latest show in Sydmonton, England, at…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:14PMMonday, June 8, 2015
Once again the Tony Awards have made those of us with black, cynical hearts look ridiculous. “Fun Home,” a small musical about a teenage lesbian and her secretly gay father,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:34AMSunday, June 7, 2015
An appreciation of musical theater and good fashion sense don’t always go hand in hand. I’m pretty snappy with a Jerry Herman tune, but when it comes to clothes, I...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:24PMThursday, June 4, 2015
I have an excellent track record when it comes to predicting the Tonys. I picked “Wicked” over “Avenue Q,” “Fela!” over “Memphis,” “Matilda” over “Kinky Boots” and �…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:42PMWednesday, June 3, 2015
Here’s the gossip drifting out of Radio City about Sunday night’s Tony telecast. First, the bad news: CBS’s Les Moonves apparently passed on my idea of saluting Tommy Tune, this...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:54AMSaturday, May 30, 2015
Helen Mirren is up for a Tony Award on June 7 for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in “The Audience.” Mirren won an Oscar wearing the same crown in...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:00AMFriday, May 29, 2015
I’m not one to drop a name, but I was at lunch Thursday with Tina Brown (thump) and Helen Mirren (thump, thump) when it occurred to me how glamorous the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:50AMTuesday, May 26, 2015
Anne Meara, who died on Saturday at 85, was best known as a comedian, half of Stiller and Meara, her husband being Jerry Stiller. She was also a trained actress,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:34PMMonday, May 25, 2015
Everybody in the theater who'd heard about John Logan's script for the new HBO series The Miraculous Year knew that the main character was based on Stephen Sondheim. Everybody, that is, but…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAlec Baldwin, who rivals the late, great Jack Cassidy in his ability to play smug and arrogant, is in the hunt for a Broadway show.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMVanessa Redgrave is arguably the greatest living stage actress of her generation. What's inarguable is that "V," as friends call her, is the most eccentric of the lot. Anybody who's worked…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMInsiders who attended the workshop of The Last Dance are still scratching their heads trying to figure out what the hell happened.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe $15 million London production of the Phantom of the Opera sequel, Love Never Dies, will not be seen in New York. Ever.
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMHilarious, audacious—and guaranteed to offend just about everybody. That's how theater insiders are describing The Book of Mormon, the much-anticipated new Broadway musical from South …
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