Thursday, February 28, 2013
Ever since Feinstein’s shut down at the Regency, Michael Feinstein has been on the hunt for a new place to tickle his ivories.
I hear he may make a bid on 54 Below, that fine new cabaret a…
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Former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton will make his Broadway debut in “Lucky Guy,” the new Nora Ephron play about newspaper columnist Mike McAlary, starring Tom Hanks.
Th…
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And the Jeremy Piven Award for Best Meltdown by a Performer Who Will Never Work Again on Broadway goes to . . . Shia LaBeouf, who was fired this week from “Orphans.”
LaBeouf has been twe…
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One of my favorite plays of the past 10 years is “Frost/Nixon,” Peter Morgan’s riveting historical drama about the clash between the disgraced Richard Nixon and the British television …
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Maybe she should sing.
Tickets went on sale last week for “I’ll Eat You Last,” a one-woman play starring Bette Midler, but there were no fireworks at the box office.
Backers were confi…
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What better song for Simon Cowell to sing than “Falling in Love With Myself”?
That’s the big second-act number in “The X Factor Musical,” which had an invitation-only workshop two …
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‘Motown: The Musical” was loading into the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre yesterday, but there was one thing I couldn’t find amid the trucks, trolleys and crates: a script.
The $12 million mus…
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In the matter of “Rebecca: The Broadway Scandal,” we learned this week that it was the press agent — Marc Thibodeau — who sent the poison-pen e-mail to an “angel investor” about …
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TOOT, toot — we have our “Rebecca” whistle-blower!The man who brought the curtain down on Broadway’s biggest fiasco in years is none other than the show’s very own press agent, Mar…
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The first inkling of trouble came Tuesday night, right after Barry Manilow finished the first performance of his Broadway concert at the St. James.
The curtain came down, the house lights we…
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‘Viva Forever!”?
If producer Judy Craymer has anything to say about it, it’ll be “Viva, at Least for a While!”
“Viva Forever!,” the much-ballyhooed Spice Girls musical, opened …
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My theatrical consulting business is taking off faster than even I could have imagined!
At the rate I’m going, I’ll soon be floating stock on the NASDAQ exchange. I haven’t settled on …
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Almost a year ago, when I was attending the Holders Festival in Barbados — one of the Caribbean’s leading performing arts festivals — I had a nice chat with Andrew Lloyd Webber, who ha…
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What do you do when you have a star who should be selling like hot cakes selling like lukewarm cakes?
Scream at the people who designed the poster!
I’m told there’s been some shouting ma…
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It’s follow-up Wednesday, so here’s the latest on a couple of my Shubert Alley-shattering scoops.
Our old football buddy, Ghost Skipper, is still, I regret to say, “haunting” directo…
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Happy New Year!
Now let’s attack!
It’s only January, but the 2013 booby prize for silliest bit of direction on Broadway goes to — drum roll, please! — Rob Ashford, for adding “Ghos…
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Ever since his Tony-winning performance in the hit revival of August Wilson’s “Fences” two years ago, Denzel Washington has been on the hunt for another Broadway play.
He and Kenny Leo…
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Ever since he starred on Broadway in “The Boy From Oz,” Hugh Jackman has been the musical theater’s most sought-after leading man. Now he’s taken his act to the big screen, starring …
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Five hundred million dollars. That’s the magic number.
If the movie version of “Les Misérables” pulls in $500 million or more at the box office, producer Cameron Mackintosh and Univer…
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If you’ve got $40 million lying around, you, too, can be a Broadway theater owner.
That, I’m told, is the asking price for the Foxwoods Theatre, that white elephant on West 42nd Street, …
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When the gorgeous Heather Headley entered the ballroom of 8 Northumberland Avenue, a swanky London nightclub, Nick Scandalios, vice president of the powerful Nederlander Organization, fell t…
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It’s a jolly holiday all over the city — except on Broadway, where many of the theaters are stuffed with coal.What a dreadful fall theater season!The flops are piling up faster than wrap…
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At last Broadway has a hit!
The only trouble is, you won’t find it on the stage.
The theater world’s buzzing about Cameron Mackintosh’s “Les Misérables” movie. Not since “Chicag…
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Broadway’s twinkling lights lost some of their sparkle this week with the death of Marty Richards, one of the street’s last, larger-than-life impresarios.
Eccentric doesn’t begin to de…
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The late, great Peter Stone, who wrote such shows as “1776” and “The Will Rogers Follies,” loved a good anecdote, and one of his favorites was about the 1983 Tony Awards.
Stone had b…
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The Mercer Williams House is to Savannah what Broadway is to New York — one of the city’s premier tourist attractions.
For it was in this house, one night in 1981, that an antiques deale…
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With the opening last night of the Roundabout’s revival of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” it seems fitting to recall a wonderful actor who was once a staple of the New York stage — an…
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‘Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane fancies himself a crooner of the old school — a Frank Sinatra wannabe.
And so the New York Pops was thrilled when MacFarlane, who’s hosting next …
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Hurricane Sandy can come in handy when your star’s not dandy.
The producers of “Glengarry Glen Ross” announced this week that they’re pushing back opening night nearly a month becaus…
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After a couple of false starts — and a dilettante producer who couldn’t get his act together — it looks as if “Prince of Broadway” is, happily, on its way.
A retrospective of the c…
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The show must go on.
Unless Sandy comes to town.
Broadway, which grosses more than $1 billion a year and pumps about $30 million a week into New York’s economy, went dark Monday and Tuesda…
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