Sweet Smell of Success

I rather liked Sweet Smell of Success. So, because I can't sing like Brian d'Arcy James, I will leave you with these various J.J.-like comments:
Heard that Charles Busch's SHANGHAI MOON which had a short limited run at the Theatre Of The New City 4 years ago is going to get a reading and possible production at the Drama Dept. off broadway. Busch will star again as the Marlene Dietrich inspired Lady Sylvia Allington in l930's Shanghai filled with sex, opium dens and plenty of Busch laughs....

That�s the Ticker! by Peter Filichia

Los Angeles Times: Travels in Drama History by IRENE LACHER

A specialist in adapting period works, playwright Jeffrey Hatcher zeroes in on the English Restoration for a story about theater and change that's surprisingly modern.

'Beautiful Mind' Wins; Best Actress Goes to Halle Berry

By RICK LYMAN
"A Beautiful Mind" won the Oscar for best picture in ceremonies that also included the first Oscar for a black actress in a lead role in Academy Award history.
� Complete List of Academy Award Winners
� Slide Show: Academy Award Winners
� Go to Oscars 2002

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Which SWEET SMELL producer was overheard recently saying that it will be curtains for the show in two to three weeks?

Steve Martin: Making Crazy With an Old Comedy

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CABARET news? They are supposedly looking to bring in John Stamos to take over as the EMCEE when Esparza leaves. Yikes?

John Cleese and the Importance of Being Silly

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MILLIE news? I heard that Gavin Creel blew out his knee in the show the other day. He does not know when he will be back in.

Fearful '50s

It wasn't all sock hops and T-Birds, as two new Broadway productions remind us
In 1971, when I began a brief stint at Gentleman's Quarterly, one of my first tasks was to work with the fashion editor on an article about the 1950s revival. Naif that I was, I couldn't imagine the revival of a decade so recently ended. The fashion editor, however, was right.

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Blind email:

Casting for the London Follies looks very interesting. Jonathan Pryce as Ben, Elaine Paige as Sally and Brian Conley (who starred in Jolson) as Buddy. I know they're hoping for Sarah Brightman too (surely not for Phyllis though).
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:00AM

Roundabout Tuners by Ken Mandelbaum

Ken mentions Boyd Gaines is a possibility for one of the Antipholus twins, I heard it was going to be Doug Sills... Ken also mentions national tour casting of The Producers. Something that I have not read from him is the possibility that Norbert Leo Butz will be Bloom. I read that over on Talkin'Broadway's All That Chat.

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Fascinated to hear who they get for smaller parts, the only ones I know at the moment are Pat Kirkwood for Hattie and Jane Macdonald for Stella.

Talk Show Watch: Oklahoma! on 'Today' and 'Letterman'

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We also had a very amusing blind email regarding Tori Spelling, which legal won't let me run. (Our legal dept is a friend of mine who works part-time at Radio Shack.) But, they let us run this one!

Clive Barnes - rumor is he hasn't written his own stuff for years. He was totally non compis mentis when I sat behind him 20 years ago at an opening. He doesn't check his facts, either - South Pacific isn't even transferring, let alone coming to Broadway so far as I know. A book that was supposed to be written about doing SP for RNT was cancelled. I'm sure the Weisslers are planning on bringing theirs in. How does this guy get by without an editor

PHOTO CALL: Thoroughly Modern Millie: Welcome to New York!

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And finally, a blind comment regarding the ill fated ONE MO' TIME, this time from the other side of the table:

Well, I guess that this is the kind of thing we are subject to in the natural course of events.
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:00AM

PHOTO CALL: Thoroughly Modern Millie: Fuzzy Muzzy

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Among many other things, [star and director] Vernel [Bagneris] was called by [us] on Monday am before any postings on the internet.

PHOTO CALL: Thoroughly Modern Millie: Forget About the Boys

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[We] met with the company at 6pm [and] 7:30 made the rounds backstage.

PHOTO CALL: Thoroughly Modern Millie: "They Don't Know"

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We have spent $1 million on advertising and the public awareness of the show was very high.

PHOTO CALL: Thoroughly Modern Millie: "Gimme, Gimme"

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We played a bus tour convention in Orlando and performed at the TDI group sales convention here.

Sarah Brightman Delivers "Encore" April 30

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We did a direct mail campaign of 375,000 pieces at a [high] cost [and received] a lackluster response and the first indication that the ticket buying public might not want the show.

Foote's Carpetbag Is Opened Off-Broadway, March 25

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We did not use TDF because we expected a strong public demand for the show at the time that decision was made�

Tom Wopat Returns to Joe's Pub, March 25

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Yes, the first ABC's appeared on Feb 1 when load-in began. That is because since 9/ll advance buying patterns have been very shallow; essentially one week in advance and the Saturday night o…

NYC's Flea Runs The Velvet Rut in Rep with The Guys, April 9-20

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There was absolutely no limit on tickets allotted to the [TKTS] booth AT ANY TIME.

After Arci's, Jana Robbins Resurfaces with Cy Coleman Show at Danny's Skylight, March 31

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We took the full page ads in a spirit of optimism. Not expecting a bonanza, but shocked at the pathetic response they generated.

Raines Reigns as Chicago's Billy Flynn Beginning March 25

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The cheering audiences are largely comps.

Zoe Caldwell Reads Her "Cleopatra" for MTC March 25

Today In Theatre History: MARCH 25

One Mo' Time Plays One Last Time on March 24

Mamma Mia!, Ebersole, Biggs and Pullman to Appear on 'Rosie'

A Disney Pet-Acular: Fowler and Finley Perform at Macy's March 24

Rappaport Wraps in NJ March 24 and Looks Ahead to Broadway Come Summer

Hillary Clinton Takes Part in Necessary Targets Post-Show Talk, March 24

Oscar Honors 'Moulin Rouge' and Boheme Designer Catherine Martin

Into the Woods Ends at L.A.'s Ahmanson March 24; Begins on Bway April 13

Steven Suskin ON THE RECORD: Romberg and Beatniks from DRG

'PRODIGAL' PRAISE

By DONALD LYONS
LET'S transfer the biblical story of the Prodigal Son to Australia and make it the tale of a sensitive young man who leaves his happy, close family in a place called Eden to go to art school in Sydney.

'BOY' NOT 'GOLDEN'

By DONALD LYONS
ENCORES!, in its concert revival of "Golden Boy," at least proves that "Sweet Smell of Success" is not the first time the musical stage has flubbed a script of Clifford Odets. Taking an Odets play of 1937 that dealt with the corruption of an idealistic boxer by the sleazy world of the ring, "Golden Boy" in 1964 changed its boxer from Italian to African-American, bizarrely cast Sammy Davis Jr., in the role, and hired the song-writing team of musician Charles Strouse and lyricist Lee Adams, hacks best known for "Bye Bye Birdie" and "Applause."

HEY! SEND IN THE HULA-HOOPING STRIPPER!

By DEBORAH SCHOENEMAN
THERE'S a hot circus in town competing with Ringling Bros., but leave the kids at home.

V-DAY AT APOLLO

By IKIMULISA SOCKWELL-MASON
'THE Vagina Monologues" is getting even more colorful, thanks to actress Lisa Gay Hamilton. She's the driving force behind bringing the show to the Apollo Theatre this Saturday where a star-studded cast will perform to benefit Harlem groups that offer assistance to victims of violence.