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BC/EFA

A few days ago I got my copy of Sh-K-Boom's "Broadway on Broadway 2001" CD, the live recording of the Times Square event in September. I was quite surprised that the quality was very good. Recording live is never ideal, and recording live in the middle of Times Square is nothing short of a miracle. Not only did they capture this event's sound, but the liner notes feature great photos by Kenneth Blauvelt and Bruce Glikas. It is a must have for Broadway fans, and CD proceeds benefit BC/EFA.

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Gwyneth ponders Proof, Reba may soon be playing The Pajama Game, and the new Oklahoma! finds its Will Parker in Justin Bohon.

Peter Filichia's Diary

Songs of Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim, and even Andrew Lloyd Webber are mentioned for inclusion on a list of the most beautiful ever heard on Broadway.

Peter Filichia's Diary

Filichia files through his Broadway-themed Christmas albums to make a tree-trimming tape.

John Cameron Mitchell Among 2002 Golden Globes Nominees

NYC's La MaMa to Get Satie's-faction from Small Works' Notebook, Dec. 20-30

Tony-Nom Graham Confirmed for Bway-Bound's Fortune's Fool

New Year to See More Ticket Giveaways and Discounts to Help NYC Economy

Musical A Class Act Resurfaces, at Pasadena Playhouse in Summer 2002

Green Returns to NYC Dec. 21 to Put More Love in Your Mouth

To All a Goodnight: Adobe's Eight Reindeer End Their Reign OOB, Dec. 22

Stritch an Early Winner, Albee a Loser, in Year-End Lists

Satiric Wise Guise Bring Craig, Scott, Juan and Dan Show to NYC Dec. 27-Jan. 13

Queens Mainstage to Be Renamed Claire Shulman Playhouse in 2002

Thou Shalt Get Recorded? by Ken Mandelbaum

Pine Cones and Holly Berries by Ken Mandelbaum

Bomb-itty Team Inks Deal with MTV

The Bomb-itty boys are everywhere.

Lavin and Wood Set to Star in Hollywood Arms

Linda Lavin and Frank Wood are set to star in The Goodman Theatre production of Carrie Hamilton and Carol Burnett�s Hollywood Arms.

Mos Def in Talks to Star in Uptown Topdog/Underdog

Rapper Mos Def is in negotiations to replace Don Cheadle in the upcoming Broadway-transfer of Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog/Underdog, which will start previews at the Ambassador Theater

The Shape of Things to Close January 20

The starry off-Broadway production of Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things will close at the end of its current booking period on January 20, according to Variety.

Metamorphoses Sets Dates For Broadway Run

The acclaimed Second Stage production of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses has set dates for its Broadway run. The unusual play will begin performances at the Circle in the Square on February …

MTC Delays Gone Home In Favor Of Four

The Manhattan Theater Club is moving its planned production of John Corwin's Gone Home to next season.

Rapper Learns Some New Lines by JESSE MCKINLEY

Def jams on B'way

Rapper replaces Cheadle in 'Underdog'
Mos Def is in negotiations to make his Broadway debut in "Topdog/Underdog." The Suzan-Lori Parks play about two brothers, named Booth and Lincoln, is scheduled to begin previews in March at the Ambassador Theater.

B'WAY TAKES THE RAP

By MICHAEL RIEDEL
'HIP" is not a word you'd apply to most people who work on Broadway. So when word leaked out this week that the producers of "Top Dog/Under Dog" had lined up rapper Mos Def to star in the play on Broadway this spring, the theater world furrowed its collective brow and asked: "Mos What?"

Most Recent Bway Jesus Christ Superstar Will Travel With New Luggage in 2002

LCT�s Morning�s at Seven Begins at Lyceum on March 28

Hairspray Eyes Seattle's Fifth Avenue for Pre-Bway Run, Then Neil Simon?

PHOTO CALL: The Women Are a Good Thing for Elliott's New Group

PHOTO CALL: It's a Good Thing: Goldberg and Linklater Open Play Dec.16

NYC Buys Bway Theatre Tickets to Bolster Post-Attack, Post-Xmas Economy

Afghans in America: Kushner's New Homebody/Kabul Opens in NYC, Dec. 19

Lester Persky, Producer of Bway's Slapstick Tragedy and "Hair" Film, Dead at 76

Pepe Directs U.S. Preem of Further at MTC, Beginning Jan. 15; Cast Set

DC's Off-Bway-Style Studio Theatre Plans $9.5 Million Expansion of Complex

Briah at OOB's La MaMa, Conflates Culture Clashes and Creation Stories, Dec. 20-30

No Jesus, But Marys and Josephs, Come to L.A.'s Catechism for Free Through Jan. 20

Glitter and Risqu�: Chenoweth is Fanny Hill in NYC Musical Readings Dec. 20

Hot Flash: Menopause the Musical Eyeing Off-Bway in Spring 2002

Maybe Baby, It's Tori: Spelling Steps into L.A. Two-Hander Jan. 24-March 23

Charles Busch Guests on PBS� �Theater Talk,� Dec. 21

TURBAN SPRAWL by DONALD LYONS

It's 1998 in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the Taliban rules with an iron fist.In the desperate, frantic world of Tony Kushner's "Homebody/Kabul," one woman is swallowed up in its depths and seem…

Bringing Afghanistan To Our Door

You have to give Tony Kushner points for having started a play about Afghanistan three years ago, when it was hardly at the center of anyone's consciousness, though we were bombing it in an…

Spelling to be Coronet's 'Baby'

Thesp to replace Simpson in vignettes about singles

Road grosses

Biz off; Fla. 'Kate' great

Broadway grosses

B.O. up; '42nd' 907g

Bomb-itty team pacts across MTV platforms

Deal marks cabler's first multi-platform development deal
MTV has pacted with the Bomb-itty boys to develop a theatrical film, a TV series and a made-for-TV pic based on their Off Broadway show "Bomb-itty of Errors."

Michael Crawford by Paul Wontorek

Pine Cones and Holly Berries by Ken Mandelbaum

Tori Spelling to Star in L.A. Maybe Baby

Tori Spelling, best known for playing the virginal Donna on Beverly Hills, 90210, is set to star in Charlie Shanian and Shari Simpson�s Maybe Baby, It's You at Los Angeles� Coronet Theater.

London Critics React to RNT South Pacific

The highly anticipated Royal National Theatre production of Rodgers and Hammerstein�s South Pacific, directed by Trevor Nunn, opened last week at the Olivier Theatre.

Hairspray Looks to Seattle Before Broadway Bow

Plans for the upcoming Broadway production of Hairspray are firming up. The musical will likely tryout at Seattle�s 5th Avenue Theatre in May or June.

Group to Give 150,000 Tickets to Victims' Families by JESSE McKINLEY

The ticket giveaway is part of a continued push to provide emotional solace to victims of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 as well as economic stimulus to New York cultural institutions.

THEATER REVIEW | 'HOMEBODY/KABUL'

One Woman's Quest, Fraught With Cultural Land Mines by BEN BRANTLEY
Tony Kushner's exciting if still unfulfilled new play is infused with the contradictory, impossible love of the world.

Caird Out as Director of Bway-Bound Dance of the Vampires