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Friday, May 2, 2014

Broadway: “Kinky Boots” Taking a Vacation as Univision Buys Out Theater for One Week by Roger Friedman

The Tony winning musical “Kinky Boots” is so hot that it finishes fourth every week at the box office after “Wicked,” “The Categories: Featured Theater(Read …

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:58AM

Talking Heads Leader David Byrne’s Brilliant “Here Lies Love” Re-Opens off Broadway by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:25AM

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Tony Nominations 2014: After Midnight, Aladdin, Beautiful, Gentleman’s Guide– Movie Stars Snubbed by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:49AM

Friday, April 25, 2014

Tony Awards Judges Pit 2 “Les Miz” Actors Against Each Other, Make Audra McDonald Musical a Play by Roger Friedman

Broadway: the Tony Awards committee, a mysterious group that will decide who is nominated for what next week, has made a couple Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:57PM

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Broadway: Neil Patrick Harris Will Get The Tony Award Everyone Wants to Give Him by Roger Friedman

The Tony Awards and the Broadway cognoscenti want to give Neil Patrick Harris a Tony Award so badly you actually hear it Categories: Celebrity Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:44PM

Broadway: Hollywood Stars Denzel, Franco, Radcliffe Snubbed by Outer Critics Circle Awards by Roger Friedman

Denzel Washington, James Franco, and Daniel Radcliffe came to Broadway looking for love. But the Outer Critics Circle, the first group to Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:07PM

Monday, April 21, 2014

Broadway Shows Post Huge Easter Week Numbers, “Rocky” Finally Takes Off by Roger Friedman

Broadway shows really benefited from the Passover-Easter holiday. All the shows got big numbers at the box office. The big news is Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:32PM

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Review: “Of Mice and Men” Brings Broadway Debuts for Franco, O’Dowd and Meester by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:15AM

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

“Soul Train” is Coming to Broadway: Get out the Afro Wigs and Platform Shoes by Roger Friedman

Broadway continues to revisit pop music of the recent past. “Motown” is a big hit, and “Rock of Ages” keeps chugging along. Categories: Featured Theater(Read more.…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:05PM

Monday, April 14, 2014

Word: Annette Bening Coming Back to New York Theatre This Summer by Roger Friedman

Is Annette Bening returning to New York theater at last? I am told– still unconfirmed–that Bening has agreed to play Goneril in Categories: Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:34PM

Friday, April 11, 2014

New York Theatre Scoops: James Earl Jones, Dianne Wiest Coming This Fall by Roger Friedman

These are EXCLUSIVES (sorry, have to do that because some people just don’t learn): James Earl Jones may be heading back to Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:40PM

Woody Allen’s Smash Broadway Opening: Film’s Oscar Winner Dianne Wiest “Loved It” by Roger Friedman

Dianne Wiest won the second of her two Oscars (so far) for Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” in 1995. (The first was Categories: Broadway Reviews Featured Reviews …

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:47AM

Thursday, April 10, 2014

NYDaily News Does Mia Farrow’s Dirty Work: Bullets Over Broadway is Not About the Cotton Club by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:28PM

Monday, April 7, 2014

Broadway: “Joneses” is a Bust, “Bridges” Burning, “Mother” Failing, “If/Then” Iffy by Roger Friedman

Broadway was not hot last week. It was cold, as a nasty breeze whipped through Shubert Alley. “The Realistic Joneses” finally opened Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:01PM

Friday, April 4, 2014

Theater Review: Denzel Opens “Raisin,” Plus News About “Batman and Superman” by Roger Friedman

So here’s the long and short of it: a lot of celebs turned out to see Denzel Washington open last night in Categories: Celebrity Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:27AM

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Rosie O’Donnell to Get Much Deserved Honorary Tony Award by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:22AM

Sunday, March 30, 2014

Theater: James Earl Jones, Mike Nichols See The Best Play of the Season– in Brooklyn by Roger Friedman

I’d like to take almost everyone involved in a new Broadway show and bus them out to St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:59PM

WTF? Idina Menzel Musical “If/Then” Littered with F Word, Song Called “What the F—” by Roger Friedman

I thought I’d say that “If/Then,” the musical starring Idina Menzel (Adele Dazeem to John Travolta) should be called “Sliding Doors: The Categories: Featured Theat…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:26PM

Friday, March 28, 2014

Broadway: “Rocky” Getting Three Days Next Week on “Today” Show by Roger Friedman

More and more people are yakking about the hit Broadway musical, its star Andy Karl, and the amazing sets including the now Categories: Celebrity Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:27PM

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Broadway: An Old Fashioned Sardi’s Night for Tyne Daly in “Mothers and Sons” by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:00AM

Monday, March 24, 2014

Broadway: “Bridges” May Be Burning, “Rocky” Getting Sucker Punched by Roger Friedman

The Tony Awards are on June 8th– which looks like a date far away in the future to some people on Broadway. Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:08PM

Broadway: New Jean Valjean of “Les Miz” Says TSA Searches His Luggage “All the Time” by Roger Friedman

“Les Miz” is back on Broadway, better than ever. Last night the overstuffed Imperial Theater was rocking as Ramin Karimloo– a big Categories: Broadway Reviews Celebrit…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:06AM

Friday, March 21, 2014

Radio City Scraps Big Budget Rockettes Show That Was Supposed to Launch Next Week by Roger Friedman

Whoops! Radio City Music Hall will not be hosting “Hearts and Lights” starting next week as planned. The big budget Rockettes show Categories: Featured Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:33PM

Broadway: Disney’s “Aladdin” Is A Surprise Throwback Hit by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:30AM

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Great Mark Ruffalo-Keira Knightley Film Gets Strange Name Change, to Close Tribeca by Roger Friedman

The best film seen at last fall’s Toronto Film Fest was John Carney’s “Can a Song Save Your Life?” Now for some Categories: Featured Theater Uncategorized(Read mo…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:27PM

Friday, March 14, 2014

“Rocky” Delivers a Knock Out Punch on Broadway, And Wins the Match by Roger Friedman

Sylvester Stallone’s “Rocky” is now a Broadway musical. Listen, it’s a hit. There’s no way around it. “Rocky” is a huge entertaining Categories: F…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:44AM

Monday, March 10, 2014

Oscar Boom: Idina Menzel Broadway Musical “If Then” Has $900K Week — Before It Even Starts by Roger Friedman

Wow! “If/Then,” a Broadway musical not even in previews yet, sold $909,000 worth of tickets last week. Why? The show’s star is Categories: Celebrity Featured Theater(Re…

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:28PM

Friday, March 7, 2014

LBJ Now the New “Lincoln” With Spielberg in Audience at Broadway Opening by Roger Friedman

I remember Lyndon Baines Johnson. When he announced he wasn’t running for re-election in March 1968, the United States of America was Categories: Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:11AM

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Emma Thompson Sheds Mary Poppins for Mrs. Lovett in Magnificent “Sweeney Todd” by Roger Friedman

I’d have paid double last night and would pay it again to see Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel in “Sweeney Todd” at Categories: Featured Music Theater(Read more...)

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:56AM

Friday, February 21, 2014

Broadway: Kelli O’Hara Successfully Crosses “Bridge” to Nowhere by Roger Friedman

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SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 10:39AM

Monday, February 17, 2014

Broadway: Carole King Breaks Record, “Bronx Bombers” is a Solid Triple by Roger Friedman

Broadway is buzzing in the middle of winter, believe it or not. The Carole King-Gery Goffin-Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil musical “Beautiful” broke a Categories: Celebrity Featured …

SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:55PM

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