Monday, May 25, 2015
My friends at The Broadway League, the bloated and useless organization that runs the Tonys into the ground, are in crisis mode. The reason? All the bad press about Broadway falling apart b…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAbout 4 a.m. on Dec. 12, 1976, Jack Cassidy, the suave, handsome char acter actor, poured himself a scotch and soda and settled down on the couch in his West Hollywood pent house. He probab…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMNathan Lane's missivesAnd Fiona Shaw's britches Kelsey's French kisses And Spider-Man's glitches . . .Those were four of my favorite things in the theater this year, and before the hook come…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMBono is one of the world's great philanthropists, speaking out for the oppressed, the sick and the poor. But where's Mr. Humanitarian when it comes to the disaster that's "Spider-Man: Turn O…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe management of the Foxwoods Theatre, home to the be leaguered "Spider- Man: Turn Off the Dark," has admitted that at least some sections of the orchestra are unsafe. And to whom did manag…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMBroadway lost some great theater people in 2010. I went hunting in The Post's archive for in terviews with some of them. Raise a glass and enjoy. * LENA HORNEIn 1981, her movie and nightclu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe role of Mama Rose in "Gypsy" has always attracted great divas, from Ethel Merman to Angela Lansbury, Tyne Daly to Patti LuPone. And now comes word that the greatest diva of them all -- B…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe final performances of "Dracula" last weekend played less like a Gothic thriller and more like the backstage farce "Noises Off."The antics -- which Tony-win ning costume designer Willa Ki…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMGet ready for the Jersey Girls. A jukebox musical about the Shi relles called, naturally, "Baby, It's You" will open in the spring at the Broadhurst. The nostalgia-dripping show is aimed sq…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMOn Jan. 31, the New York Drama Critics Circle has one last chance to check its slide into irrelevancy when it comes to "Spider-Man, We're Postponing Again." The critics meet that day, and o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAfter Hugh Jack man, Broadway's go- to leading man is Harry Connick Jr. He gave a winning performance a few years ago in the revival of "The Pajama Game," and last summer played a sold-out,…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMI'm sick of "Spider-Man." So let's talk about something that's supposed to be good -- "Matilda," a new musical that opened last month in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Bill Shakespeare's hometown. Th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWith the success of "Glee," Broadway musicals are a hot subject for television. HBO tried to produce a series called "The Miraculous Year," about a brilliant but nasty composer modeled on S…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMMormons! Catholic Leaguers! Freedom Partiers! The time has come to get out the signs and rev up the protesters. "The Book of Mormon" starts previews at the Eugene O'Neill on Feb. 24, and fr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMWhich comes first -- the music or the lyrics? That question is always asked of songwriters, and their standard answer is that it's impossible to say because songwriting is such a collaborat…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMI rest my case.“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is no longer an out-of-control curiosity in which somebody might get killed.Now, buried under an avalanche of mostly negative revie…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe elephant gun I trained on "Spider- Man: Turn Off the Dark" seems a little excessive for today's target -- Frank Wildhorn's "Wonderland." A popgun should do. The musical, which begins pr…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMOn the strength of terrific reviews last week for her per formance in "The Children's Hour" in London, the lovely Keira Knightley is likely to be the leading box-office draw on Broadway in …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMLinda Lavin knows how to make an en trance. As Silda, a sharp- tongued, recovering alcoholic in Jon Robin Baitz's hit play "Other Desert Cities" at Lincoln Center, she doesn't appear until a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMProducers of the beleaguered $65 million musical, "Spider-Man:Turn Off the Dark," appear to be losing faith in their director Julie Taymor, creator of the "Lion King," and are looking to hir…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMAs we head toward March, Broadway's beginning to perk up. The Duke Studios on West 42nd Street are a hive of activity, with half a dozen shows in various states of rehearsal. Walk around th…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThere's trouble in St. Tropez. The delightful Tony-winning re vival of "La Cage aux Folles" has two new romantic leads -- Harvey Fierstein, as Albin, the high-strung drag queen, and Jeffrey…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe cast and crew of "Spider-Man: Please Go Away" are awaiting an announcement that the March 15 opening will likely be scrapped for a date in June -- though the year has yet to be determin…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMIt may be small consolation, but Jeffrey Tambor should know he wasn't the first TV actor to come a cropper as Georges, the dapper nightclub owner in "La Cage aux Folles." (Tambor quit the s…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMThe Lion Queen is being dethroned. As I reported last week, the producers of "Spider-Man: We Are Lost in the Dark" are indeed throwing Julie Taymor under a bus. The new director is likely t…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMBono is now captain of the Titanic. After keeping a low pro file for months while director Julie Taymor was steering "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" into the iceberg, Bono is spearheading a…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PMSpidey's leading lady has untangled herself from his troubled Broadway web -- and other actors are also eyeing the exits, sources told The Post.
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