Thursday, August 4, 2011
The new musicals this season aren't exactly blockbuster central.
Douglas Carter Beane's "Lysistrata Jones" is campy and fun, but it's not going to topple "The Book of Mormon."
"Nice Wor…
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The Broadway musical "Carrie" is remarka bly durable.
It opened -- and closed -- in May 1988.
All these years later, it remains the gold standard of Broadway fiascos, despite the best …
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The Royal Shake speare Company's in town -- performing five shows in reper tory at the Park Ave nue Armory -- so it seemed a fine time to talk with Roger Rees about the 22 years he spent the…
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Paula Wagner, a Holly wood big wig who ran Tom Cruise's production company for years, is headed to Broadway. She's got the rights to William Inge's "Bus Stop" and is putting up a staged read…
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Is this perfect casting or what? Nicolas Cage -- who's al most as celebrated for his nutty outbursts as he is for his string of lousy movies ("The Wicker Man") -- playing Randle Patrick McMu…
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Strolling through the West Village the other night, I ran into Duncan Sheik, who, with lyricist Steven Sater, wrote the Tony-winning "Spring Awakening."
He'd just come from Poughkeepsie, …
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Hugh Jackman's one-man show opened in Toronto this week -- and boy, is it hot.
I wrote about "Hugh Jackman in Concert" in May, when it opened in San Francisco, and while the reviews were …
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Critics may snigger all they want to at Andrew Lloyd Webber's music, but the great songwriter Cy Coleman ("Witchcraft," "Hey, Big Spender") once told me, "There isn't a Broadway composer al…
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Judging from his salary demands, Harry Connick Jr. must think he's Nathan Lane.
The crooner from New Orleans, who got his start in New York playing the piano at Chez Josephine, could pu…
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Everybody knows Col umbo from television.
But in fact, the beloved disheveled detective made his first appearance in a stage play called "Prescription: Murder," by the now-legendary writi…
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Oh, you're going places, Alice. You're going -- straight to Broadway!
Though it sounds like one of Ralph Kramden's cockamamie schemes to get out of Brooklyn, there is, in fact, an invitat…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:44PMLast night’s sold-out performance of the hit Broadway revival of “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” was abruptly canceled when a stagehand was found dead just before cu…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 07:05AMThe 29-year-old worker, who authorities believe died of an accidental drug overdose, was found in an out-of-the-way room. His name was withheld pending family notification.
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Playwright Douglas Carter Beane -- who, with director Jerry Zaks, turned "Sister Act" into an unexpected treat -- always makes me laugh.
On the eve of the Tonys, I wrote that you could te…
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'Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark" pulled off a miracle this week: It opened.
But for all the hoopla surrounding the show's troubled preview period (which began in the Pleistocene Epoch) and…
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It's casting from heaven.
Kristin Chenoweth, the only Christian fundamental ist I know of on Broadway, played the mascara-en crusted Tammy Faye Bakker last week in an invitation-only readin…
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Mitt Rommey should take a page out of "The Book of Mormon."
Because if he can sweep the Republican primaries next year the way "Mormon" swept the Tonys last night, he'll be the first Morm…
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The Tony Awards are tonight, and approximately 12 people will be watching.
Broadway’s big award show on CBS is always ratings challenged, lagging far behind sporting events and reruns of …
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Never mind the straw polls, the crystal balls and the off-the-record chats with voters. If you want to know who's going to win a Tony, look at seat locations.
Tickets to Sunday night's te…
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There is, I regret to re port, very little agita surrounding this year's Tonys.
That's because the winners -- "The Book of Mormon" and "War Horse" -- are as certain as the sun rising in t…
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Never mind Bono and The Edge.
The real ratings booster for this year's Tony Awards could have been the No. 1 Mormon in American politics -- Mitt Romney.
On the "Today" show earlier th…
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Bono and The Edge popped up on the "American Idol" finale the other night and performed "Rise Above," the big tune from "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." Their appearance helped lure 29.3 mil…
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There aren't many great broads left on Broadway -- wise cracking gals with strong opinions and well-aimed zingers.
Elaine Stritch reigns supreme, of course, as does producer Elizabeth I. Mc…
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Quick hits and gossip today:
* Hello, Julie!
The wacky (and whacked) Julie Taymor has resurfaced on Broadway.
Taymor attended last week's New Dramatists luncheon, her first public a…
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Take a look at the songlist from "Baby It's You," the new Broadway musical about the Shirelles, and you'll notice a startling omission: "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," the song that launched th…
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Give Hugh Jackman some handcuffs and a pair of ripped pants and he'll have an audience of middle-aged ladies reaching for the smelling salts.
In a Vegas-y show that just wrapped up a two-…
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Thursday, May 12, 2011
'The Book of Mormon" is going to sweep the Tonys next month.
But is there a song from the show that can be performed on national television?
The producers of the musical and the produc…
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Arthur Laurents, who wrote "Gypsy" and "West Side Story," called his gossipy, score-settling 2000 memoir "Original Story By."
He might also have called it "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll …
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It's a role that can make -- or break -- a career.
But it's almost impossible to cast.
Auditions are being held in New York and Los Angeles for the part of Fanny Brice in the upcoming …
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'The Book of Mormon" is much more than the hit of the season.
It's the hit Broadway's been looking for -- the hit Broadway's been desperate for -- since "Jer sey Boys" shook up the town i…
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