Thursday, August 12, 2021
Barbra Streisand burst onto the scene in 1964 with “Funny Girl” and everything changed. Her career took off like a rocket. No
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:12AMTuesday, August 10, 2021
The cast and characters for “MJ: The Michael Jackson Musical” were revealed this morning. We now know who the main characters are
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:32AMMonday, August 9, 2021
As I predicted, Scott Rudin’s “West Side Story” revival will not reopen on Broadway. I’m told this is because Disney does not
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:24PMMonday, August 2, 2021
When Broadway’s “Moulin Rouge” announced the replacement for Karen Olivo today, I thought, that name sounds familiar. And it wasn’t who we
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:48PMSaturday, July 31, 2021
And so it should be. The Broadway League has decreed that everyone who sets foot in a Broadway theater in New York
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:54PMWednesday, July 28, 2021
Much as we love Clint Eastwood, his film version of “Jersey Boys” was not a success. Ever since its disappointing run in
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 12:48AMMonday, July 26, 2021
“MJ: The Michael Jackson Musical” is suffering at the box office. Advance sales are very poor so far because tourists are restricted
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:18PMThursday, July 22, 2021
A lot of things are going on this morning… THE ROLLING STONES, THE WORLD’S GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND are hitting the
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:48PMSunday, July 18, 2021
The composer, jazz musician, big band leader, Elliot Lawrence, died on July 2nd at age 96. He won 9 Emmy awards in
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:06AMTuesday, July 6, 2021
Now I know where I’ll be on November 15th. The Broadway revival of “Company” starring Patti Lupone and Katrina Lenk has moved
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:42PMWednesday, June 30, 2021
Call it the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University. The record and movie mogul, and current co-producer of “The Music
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:24PMTuesday, June 29, 2021
Finally. “Plaza Suite” is back. Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker will check in next February with a March opening night. Like
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:03PMThe Michael Jackson Broadway musical, “MJ,” is having a rough time. Ephraim Sykes, Tony nominated for “Ain’t Too Proud,” has moonwalked right
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 02:03PMI know Mel Brooks is lonely for his real friends, like Carl Reiner, and his wife, Anne Bancroft. But we will have
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:54AMMonday, June 28, 2021
Big Broadway news: “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is returning in November. But this time, it won’t be two different plays.
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:48PMSunday, June 27, 2021
Bruce Springsteen made an emotional, Triumphant return to Broadway tonight at the St James Theater. His audience included the governor of New
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:06AMFriday, June 25, 2021
“The Right Girl” is the name of the musical with songs by Diane Warren, directed by Tony winner Susan Stroman. It’s going
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:42PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
The Hollywood Reporter’s Tatiana Siegel is back with a scathing follow up story to her original Scott Rudin expose. Former Rudin assistant
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 06:03PM“The Music Man” sold out whatever seats it had left on telecharge.com Tuesday. The musical revival starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:48AMTuesday, June 22, 2021
I think I first saw David Byrne and the Talking Heads in 1977 in Boston, probably at the Rathskeller. I awoke one
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 05:36PMTickets for “The Music Man” went on sale before 10am on telecharge.com There’s a smattering of seats left in the orchestra on
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:32AMCheck your clocks at 10am. That’s when “The Music Man” should send Telecharge into a frenzy. The Hugh Jackman musical revival is
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 11:32AMSaturday, June 19, 2021
WHO are you? WHO? WHO? Springsteen on Broadway has backtracked on its vaccine proclamation, to the relief of Canadians and other international
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 04:36PMThursday, June 17, 2021
Wanna see Bruce on Broadway? People are paying thousands of dollars on reseller site for the tickets to “Springsteen on Broadway.” But
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:48PMWednesday, June 16, 2021
Want a ticket to see Hugh Jackman in “The Music Man” this winter? Forgetaboutit. The Scott Rudin-produced musical has been hijacked by
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 09:32PMBruce Springsteen, as he promised last week, has teamed up with The Killers for a new single. “Dustland” may be the first
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:24PMBefore the pandemic I was chronicling the sinking ticket sales of “The Book of Mormon” on Broadway. After 11 years, the irreverent
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:24PMTuesday, June 15, 2021
Hmmmm… Just a few short years ago, John Logan wrote the revised script for Sting’s musical, “The Last Ship,” which sailed on
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 03:03PMKids, life is fragile. We don’t know what’s going to happen. I was at a dinner party with Lisa Banes on May
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 08:54AMThursday, June 10, 2021
Scott Rudin is gone but guess who’s back? Actual professional criminal GArth Drabinsky. The Canadian theater producer whose company was called Livent
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 07:06PMThe first of Scott Rudin’s Broadway shows is coming back without him as producer. Media mogul Barry Diller, who financed the original
SOURCE: ShowBiz 411 at 01:12PM 
