Monday, May 25, 2015
Someone posted on the ATC Broadway board that a high-profile visitor to Broadway's troubled Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, who is famous from American Idol, might have gone as a precursor…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 05:58PMWednesday, November 12, 2014
Monday, June 2, 2014
In what’s expected to a very good year for movie musicals, it’s important to glance back and remember the not so good, for the sake of contrast. As an aficionado of enjoyable stinkers, h…
SOURCE: theblot.com at 06:33PMSunday, February 2, 2014
Michael Musto talked with the actor in 2005 about taking on Truman Capote in the film Capote, bonding with murderers, and why he liked to play gay
SOURCE: Out at 06:48PMTuesday, June 11, 2013
Cyndi's having fun for more than a night; or why 'Kinky Boots' kicked the competition
SOURCE: Out at 12:06AMMonday, April 22, 2013
It's a fitting farewell, and at the after party at the Maritime Hotel's Cabanas, Chiemi gave me some of the backstory. "Was anything off-limits for Stritchie as far as filming?" I wondered. …
SOURCE: Village Voice at 11:10AMTuesday, March 12, 2013
Douglas Carter Beane and I were getting along pretty well--I did a nice interview with him, which was included in my last book--but when I didn't rave about Sister Act, calling it "rote but …
SOURCE: Village Voice at 11:39AMThursday, December 27, 2012
I'm basically bowing and scraping before your fabulous feet and saying "I'm so sorry".
SOURCE: Village Voice at 01:04PMTuesday, December 11, 2012
"I march to my own drum," Alan Cumming told me last week, and though he was referring to his iconoclastic dancing style, it could have been about any aspect of his non-boring existence. The …
SOURCE: Village Voice at 06:28PMFriday, November 2, 2012
A well made play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from Henry James' 1880 novel Washington Square, The Heiress is back in a sturdy if not revelatory production.
The play was last on Broad…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 04:30PMWednesday, September 5, 2012
I hear that Broadway producer Jordan Roth (who's President of Jujamcyn Theaters) is marrying agent/producer Richie Jackson (who produces Nurse Jackie) this Saturday onstage at one of Jordan'…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 10:28PMThursday, August 23, 2012
There are plenty of folks with the cash and the gumption and the taste for something great and white up on the Way.
But when I ask people who'd rather go to funerals than to a Broadway sh…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 09:36PMMonday, August 13, 2012
The last blog on this topic was an even bigger hit than Springtime For Hitler, so it's led to the inevitable sequel.
SOURCE: Village Voice at 11:11AMFriday, August 3, 2012
Here are the five most Tony-deserving types of annoyances that lurk on the show boards that I happen to spend half my life on:
SOURCE: Village Voice at 05:20PMFriday, June 29, 2012
She dazzles as Clarice in Silence!: The Musical, she startled as the Wicked Witch at Night of 1000 Judys, and she costars in a new movie called Gayby. And she was all mine for a tell-all Q&A…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 06:30PMThursday, June 21, 2012
I just performed a little conversational duet with myself and picked the best of the musical twosomes. We both agreed that these are the finest:
SOURCE: Village Voice at 07:27AMFriday, June 8, 2012
In 2007, Joel Vig--who played various roles in Hairspray--sued the show for $1.5 million, claiming they fired him after he had surgery on a knee he'd injured onstage.
SOURCE: Village Voice at 09:59PMMonday, April 30, 2012
I've seen almost everything this season except Magic/Bird--which to me sounds like a wildlife puppet show, and it's quite possible that's what it is--and I'm ready to tell you who will defin…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 10:42PMTuesday, April 17, 2012
Twenty-two-year-old theater performer Jason Wise wasn't thrilled to read the New York Times piece lamenting the fact that Judy's greatness is lost on young gays (in the context of a discussi…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 10:35PMMonday, April 2, 2012
A couple of legends, some TV stars, a few Broadway types, and Giuliani's ex-wife -- all together in the original outing play.
It's as mixed a bag as it sounds.
SOURCE: Village Voice at 07:24AMThursday, March 29, 2012
I love giving casting advice for free, especially when a movie like Barbra Streisand's Gypsy -- as it will forever be known -- seems to need it so badly.
SOURCE: Village Voice at 10:34AMThursday, March 1, 2012
Every living being claims to have seen Carrie, the legendary 1988 Broadway flop musical based on the Stephen King novel about the small-town girl who gets revenge on the bullies via blood…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 11:17PMTuesday, February 7, 2012
"I'd love to direct one of the Olsen twins in the story of my life!" cracked the Tony and Emmy winning star at the Drama League tribute in her honor at the Pierre last night.
Chenoweth h…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 06:12PMWednesday, February 1, 2012
Because crap automatically gets a standing ovation, but the good stuff doesn't get one until the Times rave comes out. ... Too many jukebox musicals end with a mixtape medley that has you th…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 08:27AMWednesday, January 18, 2012
You might know her as the old lady in the Spider-Man movies, but theater aficionados have long treasured Rosemary Harris as the Tony winning presence from The Lion in Winter, Heartbreak H…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 09:27AMTuesday, November 8, 2011
Shtick meets solemnity in the 1971 musical Godspell, conceived by John-Michael Tebelak, with a durably catchy score by Stephen Schwartz.
SOURCE: Village Voice at 10:25AMFriday, October 21, 2011
The 1971 flower-child musical Godspell -- a kooky rendering of the Scriptures as a sort of nouveau vaudeville show -- has started Broadway previews, and the kids on the boards are spilling a…
SOURCE: Village Voice at 04:43PMThursday, July 28, 2011
And if you had to say "Patti and Mandy who?" then you're not going to care anyway, so just go back to your football game.
SOURCE: Village Voice at 05:39PMTuesday, July 12, 2011
Who would know better than me?
The 10 dissiest, wickedest, bitchiest sass-o-grams (whether in movies or in life) are as follows:
SOURCE: Village Voice at 12:53PMTuesday, July 5, 2011
I adore virtually anyone onstage because they're gamely trying to amuse, but there are two things they say that always make me want to pull out my eardrums:
SOURCE: Village Voice at 03:46PMSaturday, April 30, 2011
As the lights were going down for tonight's Tribeca Film Festival screening of the doc Carol Channing: Larger Than Life, the entire theater heard a woman screaming "Security! Security! Come …
SOURCE: Village Voice at 07:40AM 
