Thursday, June 26, 2014
Let’s have some more fun today with those letters to Arthur Laurents that Stephen Sondheim doesn’t want you to see. Laurents, you’ll recall, left his papers to the Library of...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:10PMTuesday, June 24, 2014
Looks like some prime Broadway real estate is about to become available. “Holler if Ya Hear Me,” the Tupac Shakur musical that opened Thursday at the Palace, may throw in...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:41PMFriday, June 13, 2014
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Poor old Roger Bart was forced to walk the plank last week on “Finding Neverland,” the new musical about J.M. Barrie and...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:15AMTuesday, June 10, 2014
My crystal ball has a few cracks in it. As some people happily pointed out after Sunday’s Tony Awards, I called several categories wrong, including Best Musical and Best Play....
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:12AMMonday, June 9, 2014
“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love a Murder,” an underdog Broadway show struggling at the box office, pulled off an upset at the Tony Awards Sunday night, winning the crucial award...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:02AMSaturday, June 7, 2014
Hugh Jackman has been in training for three months — and not for another stint as the super-ripped Wolverine in another “X-Men” movie. This time, he’s keeping fit for the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:46PMFriday, June 6, 2014
They say only a fool is sure. Well, here’s one fool’s take-it-to-the-bank predictions for Sunday’s Tony Awards. Best Play: It’s a tight race between “Act One,” the Moss Hart bio,…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:41AMWednesday, June 4, 2014
What would the Tony Awards be without some backroom politicking? Harvey Weinstein muscled his way onto Sunday’s telecast with a number from his “Finding Neverland,” about J.M. Barrie a…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:37AMFriday, May 30, 2014
You know what the D in “Broadway 4D” stands for? Dead. The plug’s been pulled on this ambitious project, conceived by such prominent showbiz figures as “X-Men” director Bryan Singe…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:42AMWednesday, May 28, 2014
I’m here to relay a message from the Queen of Soul to the producers of the Tony-nominated “After Midnight.” Aretha Franklin is interested in appearing in your show. She told...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:31AMFriday, May 23, 2014
The Tony telecast is shaping up and the big winner could well be — “After Midnight.” No, it’s not going to make off with the award for Best Musical. That,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:30AMWednesday, May 21, 2014
Heeeere’s Johnny! Two shows are in the works about the king of late-night talk, Johnny Carson. One is being developed by the Carson Entertainment Group, a production company that owns...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:12AMFriday, May 16, 2014
It’s been a swirl of cocktail parties, lunches and celebrity shoulder-rubbing this week for road presenters — the hundred or so people who present Broadway shows in cities across the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:43AMTuesday, May 13, 2014
I’m a little late in wishing Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber happy birthday. The giants of the musical theater were both born on March 22 — Steve in 1930,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:51PMThursday, May 8, 2014
Every producer on Broadway wants Hugh Jackman to star in a show. The Shuberts pursued him for years to play Littlechap (Littlechap!) in “Stop the World — I Want to...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:49PMThursday, May 1, 2014
Bialystock and Bloom are coming back to Broadway. Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, who helped make “The Producers” one of the best musical comedies of all time, are reuniting in...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:05PMWednesday, April 30, 2014
The Tony nominators are forbidden to speak to me or anyone else in the press under pain of being forced to sit through Will Eno’s “The Realistic Joneses” again. But...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:43AMFriday, April 25, 2014
The Tony nominations are out Tuesday, but let me get a jump on things with my nomination for trouper of the year — LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who jumped in at...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:07AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
David Javerbaum, the former head writer on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” — he co-wrote the musical “Cry- Baby,” too — collaborated with God on His memoir last year,...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:42PMThursday, April 17, 2014
Today, every Broadway cast member is given a tutorial on social media. Press agents drill into actors’ heads what they can and, more importantly, can’t say on Facebook, Twitter, Instagra…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:25PMTuesday, April 15, 2014
Well, well, well — everything’s up for grabs! The mixed reviews last week for Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” — once touted by pundits as the show to beat this...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:06PMFriday, April 11, 2014
Last week, Stephen Sondheim e-mailed me to say that his letters to his collaborator Arthur Laurents are available to anyone who “cares enough to go down to the Library of...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:47AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Alan Wasser was a young company manager in New York when he got an assignment: Go to San Francisco and manage some new show at the Curran Theater that was...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:28PMFriday, April 4, 2014
It isn’t often you pick up some juicy gossip coming out of the Library of Congress. But here’s the dish: Arthur Laurents, who wrote “West Side Story” and “Gypsy,” left...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:11AMTuesday, April 1, 2014
The big “get” this year isn’t the Tony Award. It’s the first spot on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” And the winner is … “Cabaret.” Alan Cumming and the...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:53PMThursday, March 20, 2014
Spring is here — time to rev up Tony Award fever. A major issue facing the Tony eligibility committee is what to do with the Roundabout’s revival of the Roundabout’s...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:01PMWednesday, March 19, 2014
Before Andrew Lloyd Webber came to town with “Cats,” the richest composer on Broadway may well have been Mitch Leigh. Leigh, who died Sunday at 86, wrote one hit, “Man...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:15PMFriday, March 14, 2014
RAT-a-tat-tat! That machine-gun fire you hear coming from the St. James Theatre is the sound of a hit. “Bullets Over Broadway” has been in previews just three days, and already...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:39AMWednesday, March 12, 2014
Here’s a good idea for a musical: A girl is struggling to make ends meet. She’s selling all that she has. A man comes along and is willing to buy...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:48AMFriday, March 7, 2014
On Broadway, the oldies are still the goodies. As the spring season swings into view, the two shows selling the most tickets are revivals. On the musical front, “Les Misérables,”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:00AMWednesday, March 5, 2014
James Earl Jones shot to fame as boxer Jack Jefferson in Howard Sackler’s 1967 play “The Great White Hope.” Jones won the Tony and, two years later, was nominated for...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:52AM 
