Thursday, November 8, 2001 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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Archive Import - Comment

Got an email telling me:

    Douglas Sills (of the Scarlet Pimpernel) is on Will & Grace next week (15th). He was on Sabrina the Teenage Witch on 10/26. Looks like Broadway has lost another one to tv, for now...
I don't think so at all. Douglas is just working. He is slated for many Broadway projects over the next year, both in development and arriving on stage...

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Craig Bierko Guests on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," Nov. 15

Glad to hear his voice is recovering nicely!

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Shanley's Sex Comedy On the 'Money' by Howard Kissel

A playwright as savvy as John Patrick Shanley knows that mayhem, misogyny, suicide and sado-masochistic love are not enough to satisfy sophisticated New York theatergoers.

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Shortchanged on 'Money' by Donald Lyons

"Where's the play?" one might ask John Patrick Shanley after seeing his "Where's My Money?" This production at the Manhattan Theatre Club, which Shanley also directed, remains as puzzling a…

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Elaine Stritch Looks Back by Donald Lyons

Elaine Stritch - a fiery, feisty broad of 76 - takes us through her life in black tights and white shirt in her one-woman show, "Elaine Stritch at Liberty."

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Theater Review | 'Elaine Stritch At Liberty': Elaine Stritch in the Role of a Lifetime by Ben Brantley

She is tall and blonde, with skyscraper legs and klieg-light eyes, and she has the approximate energy quotient of a supernova in midexplosion. And she is 76.

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Northlight Smash, Over the Tavern, Moves to Commercial Run Nov. 23 in Chicago

You know what else I hear came from Northlight that is moving to a commercial run?

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Sex Comedy On the 'Money'

A playwright as savvy as John Patrick Shanley knows that mayhem, misogyny, suicide and sado-masochistic love are not enough to satisfy sophisticated New York theatergoers.

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Crudup is B'way's 'Man'

Thesp to headline revival

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Van den Ende inks deal for light opera

SHG to become 50% owner of Musical Light Opera House Company

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Lane's 'Producers' sked reduced

Thesp to be absent for next 2 weeks

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Newman back in ring

Hotchner's 'World' draws thesp back to 1956 TV role 11/7/01 4:24pm
Paul Newman is returning to the 1956 TV role that led to his first successful film gig, Rocky Graziano in "Somebody Up There Likes Me.".

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Playwright Anthony Shaffer Dies at 75

Playwright Anthony Shaffer, widely known for his hit thriller Sleuth, died yesterday of a heart attack in his London home, his agent confirmed to Broadway.com. He was 75.[Read More]

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Nathan Lane Reduces Playing Schedule

Under the advice of doctors, Tony winner Nathan Lane will play only six performances a week for the next two weeks. Lane's understudy, Tony nominee [Read More]

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Flower Drum Song Plays On in Los Angeles

The run of Rodgers and Hammerstein's acclaimed Flower Drum Song revival at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Ang...[Read More]

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Gypsy of the Year to Strut Stuff December 3 & 4

The 13th Annual Gypsy of the Year competition will take place on December 3 and December 4 at the Palace Theatre. Tickets for the popular event, which benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS...[Read More]

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Emily Loesser Takes Maternity Leave From By Jeeves

Emily Loesser is leaving By Jeeves for a new (more personal) production. “I'm due in January,” the pregnant actress told Br...[Read More]

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New Monty Men to Let it Go on Broadway

As Ken Mandelbaum mentioned on November 6, the male players from the [Read More]

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Linda Eder Returns to B'way with Holiday Concert

Linda Eder is set to perform at the Gershwin Theatre for five nights from December 26 through December 30. The diva will present a new show entitled Linda Eder Live at the Gershwin: The Holiday Con...[Read More]

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Bat Boy Set to Fly (Again) December 2

Bat Boy will fly out of the Union Square Theatre on December 2, according to a production spokesperson. [Read More]

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Elaine Stritch At Liberty Extends to December 30

The Public Theater production of Elaine Stritch at Liberty, which is generating some of the season's best buzz, is being extended. The one-woman show's limited engagement was scheduled to end o...[Read More]

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Archive Import - Comment

In attendance yesterday was Broadway's own Kevin McCollum... or otherwise known as David in his David and Goliath effort to break the Clear Channel/SFX hold on the road venues. Kevin has been putting together an alliance of theatres outside of the SFX realm over the past few years and it is starting to be a formidable group against the established presenting group. It is rumored that the first project to test the viability of the new business plan will be the re-launch of The Full Monty tour. This is interesting on many fronts because the Monty tour was saved by a cash infusion from Clear Channel and it was also rumored that when the Monty tour was remounted it would be non-Equity. Many people will wait to see how it lands.

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Speaking of original ideas, I attended a reading yesterday of The People VS. Mona, an original idea by Patricia Miller, Jim Wann (Pump Boys) and Ernest Chambers. Not a Broadway show, but possibly an off-Broadway with a long life in regionals. This seven person musical, very similar in style to Wann's Pump Boys, incorporates a band into the cast (at least in this reading). Set in Tippo, a small town in southeast Georgia, this story takes us through the murder trial of Mona Mae Katt, who was accused of killing her husband with her guitar. Amy Danis and Mark Johannes (Mars Theatricals) produced. In attendance were other producers, bookers and presenters, so look for this soon.

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Downtown coalition seeking to boost biz

Theaters, restaurants still hurting from Sept. 11

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D.C. auds, funds in jeopardy after attacks

Mail delivery almost halted at area theaters

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'Carnivale' a no-go at Radio City

Decision 'strictly economic,' spokeswoman sez; show set for 2002

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New moves chartered for N.Y.

Legit players talk strategy at Columbia U. conference 11/6/01 3:27pm
The title struck an upbeat note, but the tenor of the talk was sober at Columbia's U.'s two-day confab Oct. 29-30 on the state of Gotham legit.

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33rd Annual Joseph Jefferson Awards Announced

The Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee presented 29 Jeff Awards last night at a gala at North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie, Illinois. This year marked the 33rd anniversary of the Annu...[Read More]

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Redgrave & Richardson Star in Lady Windermere's Fan

Vanessa Redgrave and daughter Joely Richardson are set to star in a West End production of Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere's Fan. The comedy, directed by Sir Peter Hall, will begin previews at Ha...[Read More]

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'NOISES' OFF TO A FAB START by MICHAEL RIEDEL

TALK about a sleeper hit. Propelled by rave reviews (3 1/2 stars from The Post, a gigantic color picture in last Friday's Times), the revival of "Noises Off" took in $300,000 at the box off…

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Broadway Grosses: Comedy Hits a Home Run

With the World Series heating up, it wasn’t a great week for theater. The Broadway box office was down over $1 million from the previous week. However, there were bright spots and one was Noises Of...[Read More]

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Poets' Group Ousts Chief, Igniting Ire of Members by DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

The board of the Academy of American Poets has ousted its popular executive director, William Wadsworth, setting off an uproar among some of the country's most prominent poets.
You don't want to piss off a poet. They are more crazy then a winter wind over a New England shore. What is this world coming to that poets are fighting?

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Seeking City Money, Lincoln Center Submits Its Renovation Plans by RALPH BLUMENTHAL

After months of argument, Lincoln Center's powerful performing arts organizations agreed this week to send City Hall a redevelopment plan of nearly $1.2 billion.

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NPR's Story Project Proves Truth Is Stranger by DINITIA SMITH

"I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales From NPR's National Story Project," edited by Paul Auster, collects stories submitted by listeners of National Public Radio.
Broadway writers take note: not everything has to be an adaptation. You can use original ideas...

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