Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Because I’m a black-belt in martial arts — I break boards the way “Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark” breaks actors — one of my favorite songs is “Kung Fu Fighting”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:25AMSunday, October 20, 2013
On Oct. 19, 2010, a group of Broadway ticketing agents gathered at the Foxwoods Theatre for a sneak peek at some of the flying stunts in the upcoming Broadway musical...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:49AMThursday, October 17, 2013
Name your favorite diva, and it’s a good bet she’s gone after the plum role of the season: Helen Sinclair, the boozing leading lady of Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway.”...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:24PMFriday, October 11, 2013
It’s been a tough week to be a Broadway leading man Norbert Leo Butz, the star of “Big Fish,” left the show midway through Wednesday’s matinee. I like to think...
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:59AMTuesday, October 8, 2013
“Big Fish,” little splash.
I don’t want to sink the hook in any deeper, but “Big Fish,” the $12 million musical that opened Sunday, looks destined to become an early casual…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:35PMFriday, October 4, 2013
Suddenly, after all these years of trying to kill it, I’m interested in the resilient “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” again.
Why?
Because Alice Cooper is in negotiations to play the Gr…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:27AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
If the most powerful position in the English-speaking theater world is chairman of the board of the Shubert Organization (currently held by Philip J. Smith), then I’d say the top job at th…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:38AMFriday, September 6, 2013
“The Two-Character Play” has been troubled from the start. The director, Gene David Kirk, was let go during technical rehearsals after reportedly clashing with the stage manager. His pic…
SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:26PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
The name is Pinter. Harold Pinter.
Though he’s been dead five years, the master of the unsettling remains a Broadway box office powerhouse, as you can see from the $6 million advance sale …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:55PMThursday, August 29, 2013
Judas speaks!
In my hot little hands is the manuscript of “The Song of Spider-Man,” Glen Berger’s forthcoming tell-all (from Simon & Schuster, Nov. 5) about “Spider-Man: Turn Off the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:09PMThursday, August 22, 2013
There was a fun rumor going around that the opening-night party of “Soul Doctor,” a new musical about a singing rabbi, was so Orthodox, the men were separated from the women by a sheet.
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SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:11PMWednesday, August 21, 2013
My item last week about Broadway’s failure to dim its lights in honor of the press agent Shirley Herz touched a nerve.
I received dozens of e-mails from people in theater who have noticed …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:10AMThursday, August 15, 2013
A very powerful theater person summed up Broadway’s latest offerings this way: “I saw ‘Let It Be,’ and last week I sat through ‘First Date’ and ‘Soul Doctor.’ The highlight o…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:44PMTuesday, August 13, 2013
Oskar Eustis, the head of the Public Theater, is on the move!
His not-for-profit complex down on Lafayette Street — as well as the Delacorte in Central Park — just isn’t big enough to …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:39PMFriday, August 9, 2013
One of my favorite shows is “Titanic,” that ambitious, almost operatic musical by composer Maury Yeston and book writer Peter Stone.
I was an early champion of this 1997 show despite roc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:26AMWednesday, August 7, 2013
Hello, Kristin!
Kristin Chenoweth has said she’d love to play Dolly Levi in “Hello, Dolly!” in about 10 years.
But her wish may come true a lot sooner.
I hear she’s in discussions to…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AMThursday, August 1, 2013
It’s tough being a movie star these days.
Unless you’re in one of those franchises — “Spider-Man 12,” for instance — work in Hollywood is spotty.
And if this summer is any indica…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:39PMWednesday, July 31, 2013
The most enjoyable evening I’ve spent in the theater recently was at the Encores! production of “I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road,” which wrapped up a brief run …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:38AMThursday, July 25, 2013
Here’s a fruit fight for you: Liberace versus Liberace!
My report the other week about Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub’s upcoming stage version of the hit HBO movie “Behind the Cand…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:20PMWednesday, July 24, 2013
I have to report some sad news today.
Miller Wright, a veteran theater and nightclub publicist and a real gentleman, died last week. The circumstances were grisly, sparking rumors about suic…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:17AMThursday, July 18, 2013
The Burt Bacharach/Hal David song collection is one of the few baby-boomer-era catalogs that have yet to be exploited onstage.
There have been a couple of attempts, both misfires. Back in 19…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:59PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
It’s only summer, but we can already crown this season’s box- office champ.
Cue the gun barrel and the surf-rock guitar riff: 007’s the man with the golden box office.
Tickets for the …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:10PMThursday, July 11, 2013
‘Peter and the Starcatcher,”
Rick Elice’s charming and inventive spin on the Peter Pan story, is still doing a brisk business at off-Broadway’s New World Stages.
It moved there aft…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:44PMWednesday, July 10, 2013
I recently ran into Bill Russell, who writes musicals, and he told me he’s knee-deep in revising “Side Show,” the cult Broadway musical he created with composer Henry Krieger in 1997.
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SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:26AMI recently ran into Bill Russell, who writes musicals, and he told me he’s knee-deep in revising “Side Show,” the cult Broadway musical he created with composer Henry Krieger in 1997.
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SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:11AMTuesday, July 2, 2013
Summer doldrums have set in along much of Broadway, but over at the Nederlander Organization, which owns nine theaters in Times Square, the midnight oil is burning.
The Nederlanders are plan…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:38PMFriday, June 28, 2013
It was my good fortune to see all of Tommy Tune’s musicals while the Broadway legend was at the height of his powers.
The elegant, sensual “Nine,” starring Raul Julia and 15 of the mo…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:23AMTuesday, June 25, 2013
Hbo scored one of its highest ratings ever with “Behind the Candelabra,” the compelling — and creepy — movie about Liberace and his boy toy, Scott Thorson.
Now I’m hearing that the…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:19PMThursday, June 20, 2013
Nobody ever pegged James Gandolfini for a leading man. Least of all James Gandolfini.
The actor, who died suddenly this week at age 51, thought of himself as a supporting player. And before …
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 11:36PMTuesday, June 18, 2013
Last fall in London, when I dropped by Cameron Mackintosh’s elegant Bedford Square headquarters, located in two adjoining Georgian mansions, the place was buzzing.Composer Claude-Michel Sc…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 10:46PMThursday, June 13, 2013
While everybody with a dog in the fight on Broadway was at the Tony Awards on Sunday — the “Kinky Boots” team dancing and cheering, the “Matilda” team scowling and cursing — anot…
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