Wednesday, October 31, 2012
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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TONY-winning playwright John Logan is at work on a onewoman show about Hollywood super-agent Sue Mengers, who died last year.
And he wants Bette Midler to play her.
Midler hasn’t done a Br…
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Al Pacino is Broadway’s $6 million man.
At a time when every producer is looking for money, when the desperate, pathetic producers of “Rebecca” have sold their souls to the devil to b…
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The “Rebecca” scandal has made me nostalgic for the Broadway of the ’70s and ’80s, when the street had a colorful selection of rascals and rogues and ticky-tacky productions that clo…
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The “Rebecca” scandal has made me nostalgic for the Broadway of the ’70s and ’80s, when the street had a colorful selection of rascals and rogues and ticky-tacky productions that clo…
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When news of the “Rebecca” scandal first broke, the sense around Broadway was that lead producer Ben Sprecher was either a criminal mastermind or a fool.
Well, the verdict’s in, and it…
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You gotta love that Arthur Laurents. Broadway’s King Cobra is still spewing venom — from the grave!His posthumous memoir, “The Rest of the Story,” has just been published by Applause…
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The cast of “Finding Neverland,” Harvey Weinstein’s lavish new musical that’s trying out in Leicester, England, looked out into the audience during the first preview and saw a man hu…
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Manderley has been torched.
"Rebecca," the foundering $12 million Broadway musical slated to open next month at the Broadhurst, has been cancelled due to lack of financing, theater sources s…
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It may be cold comfort, but Ben Sprecher, the beleaguered lead producer of “Rebecca,” isn’t the only Broadway type out there on the street with his tin cup.
The producers of the upcomi…
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I go away for a couple of weeks, and what happens?“Rebecca” is out of money!Plus ca change . . .The “Rebecca” marquee at the Broadhurst is looking pretty forlorn these days, especial…
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Page Six’s favorite movie mogul — Harvey Weinstein — is in England trying to become David Merrick.
Weinstein’s pulling out all the stops in an effort to become a big-time theatrical …
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LONDON — Is Broadway big enough for two little girls?
A juicy rivalry is shaping up this season between “Annie,” which begins previews next month at The Palace, and “Matilda,” a We…
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Feb. 22, 1983: A night that will live in Broadway infamy.
It was the night a 28-year-old writer named Arthur Bicknell opened his first (and last) Broadway play, a mystery-farce called “Moo…
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The fall season is technically under way, but since the first musical was “Bring It On,” which opened over the summer, I’m calling for a do-over.
Just when you thought Broadway musical…
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Go, “Tootsie,” go!
Well, not so fast, my dear.
Sony Pictures announced last week that it has struck a deal with Broadway producer Scott Sanders (“The Color Purple”) to turn some of i…
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‘Wall Street” meets “Good-fellas” — that’s how they’re describing Chazz Palminteri’s new play “Human,” which is slated to open on Broadway in the spring.
Palminteri, who …
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I can’t say much for Ricky Martin’s performance as Ché in the revival of “Evita” at the Marquis. With his jaunty cap and peppy demeanor, he looks more like a newsboy in Disney’s…
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To the tune of Stephen Sondheim’s “No One Is Alone” — or, if you don’t know it, “The Candy Man” (they’re practically interchangeable) — let’s all sing an ode to the Publi…
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It’s always fun, this time of year, to scan the credits of upcoming musicals to learn the names of the latest crop of suckers — I mean, investors! — about to try their luck on the Grea…
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Marvin Hamlisch wrote the musical that saved Broadway.
The year was 1973, and Hamlisch, New York-born, Juilliard-trained, was out in Hollywood, collecting Oscars. He won three for movies tha…
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Though best known for his novels and essays, Gore Vidal, who died this week at 86, had a decent run on Broadway. Between 1957 and 1972, he wrote five plays, including two hits, “A Visit to…
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The American Theatre Wing, one of Broadway’s longest-running institutions, has a dapper new chairman — William Ivey Long, the celebrated costume designer of such shows as “Chicago,” …
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SUMMERTIME — and the gossip is sparse.
So thank heavens for the first preview this week of “Into the Woods” in Central Park.
At last, something to swing my ax at.
“Disaster.”
“Tr…
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Friday, July 20, 2012
Now that she’s ditched Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes is going to reinvent herself on the Great White Way. The actress will appear at the Music Box Theatre this fall in a new comedy…
SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 01:02AMThe Village People, the biggest boy band of the disco era, are the subject of a new Broadway musical.
The only trouble is, the first draft is like Ethel Merman’s infamous disco album — a…
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Ask anybody who works in show business to name his favorite book about the theater, and I’ll lay you 10-to-1 the answer will be Moss Hart’s autobiography, “Act One.”
Woody Allen, NEA…
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If Berry Gordy Jr. can hit Broadway, why not Don Cornelius?
Gordy, as The Post reported last month, is developing a Broadway show based on his life and the story of Motown.
Now I hear throug…
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The hype — much of it generated by this very column! — is already building for “Matilda,” the London hit that will land at the Shubert Theatre in the spring.
Rave reviews, Tony Award…
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It’s polished, witty, tuneful and, if you’ve hit middle age, unsettling.In the 23 years since it debuted at off-Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre, “Closer Than Ever,” Richard Maltby J…
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