Tuesday, March 26, 2002 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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Yikes! Who carries the insurance on Millie? I got this email after yesterday's column went up:

    In addition to Gavin Creel busting his knee at the Saturday matinee of Millie, that evening, David Eggers fell in the title number (10 minutes into the show), breaking his arm in three places. He hobbled offstage and to the stage management office, where he passed out. So two swings were on Saturday evening, and two more will very possibly be hired.
I did not check it out, but I hope that Creel and Eggers are on the road to recovery. Someone who knows them, drop us a line so that we can update everyone. It's MILLIE, not STARLIGHT for god's sake!

SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:00AM

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Other email of interest received:

    Even though Ken M. doesn't list her in his column providing names for the project, what British star will likely be putting it together for THE LOOK OF LOVE?

And the bombshell of the day: HELEN @ The Public has everyone running for high ground. Talk around town has that Tony Kushner is not in agreement with the writer, Ellen McLaughlin, and is not very happy with her input -- or the material for that matter. This doesn't quite jive with me, why doesn't he just quit then. Didn't he read the play before taking it? Anyway, the rumor is that he re-wrote 15 pages of the script, unsolicited. When McLaughlin went to John Dias (Public's Literary Manager) and George Wolfe they both sided with Kushner. With a cast of strong women (Donna Murphy, Joanna Day, Marion Seldes, Phylicia Rashad) it will be interesting to see how this plays out. Perhaps the writer can enlist The Dramatist Guild and the women in her cast to support her position. Surely something is wrong on Lafayette Street. There is a long line of distinguished women who are no longer working with The Public: Shirley Fishman, Rosemary Tischler, Shelby Jiggerts, and Morgan Jenness. Can all of them be wrong? We welcome any comments regarding this issue.

SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:00AM

Los Angeles Times: The Rights Dance by DON SHIRLEY

L.A.'s tiny stages rely on persuasion and compromise to get playwright permission, but rejection is common.

SOURCE: www.calendarlive.com at 12:00AM

Yahoo/Backstage: Unions Bite COBRA

The major performers' unions are urging members to contact their New York state legislators, asking them to support a proposed law to subsidize entertainment industry health insurance.

SOURCE: story.news.yahoo.com at 12:00AM

Yahoo/Variety: De Niro and Queen Pledge 'We Will Rock You' by Paul Majendie

LONDON (Reuters) - Hollywood superstar Robert De Niro and British rock legends Queen on Tuesday pledged "We Will Rock You" with a futuristic new musical packed with the supergroup's greates…

SOURCE: story.news.yahoo.com at 12:00AM

Peter Filichia's Diary

Hello, Merrill Lynch? Get me 100 shares of OK right away!

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AM

Working Girl

Melisssa Errico talks to Jim Caruso about her full plate of scheduled appearances in New York, in D.C., on film, and on TV.

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AM

THEATER REVIEW | 'THE CARPETBAGGER'S CHILDREN'

A Fractious Family's Decline, With Vintage Mustiness
By BEN BRANTLEY
A heady aroma, as specific and elusive as childhood memories, seems to rise from the monologues that make up "The Carpetbagger's Children," the new play by Horton Foote.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AM

B'way subsidy trickles down to smaller orgs

Gotham Mayor announces redeployment of coin
Gotham small arts orgs will be the recipient of Broadway's $1 million giveback to the city....

SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM

Attendance bump 11% on B'way

'Producers' slips, still tops

SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM

'Shrew,' 'Savages' set for Yale Rep stagings

Bundy helms satire on poets Plath, Hughes

SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM

Toronto Star: Laura Linney leaps over limp Liam by Richard Ouzounian

NEW YORK � When you play Movie Star Roulette, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Nowhere is this more evident than in the revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, currently at the Virgi…

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00AM

Toronto Star: Elaine Stritch enchants as she exorcises her demons by Richard Ouzounian

NEW YORK � She's the gal who put the "broad" in Broadway. I'm talking about Elaine Stritch, whose last Toronto appearance was in Hal Prince's memorable production of Showboat.

SOURCE: Toronto Star at 12:00AM

Robin Gives Piece of His Minds

For the last 15 years, we've seen Robin Williams trying to shoehorn his Titanic-sized wit into seven-minute talk-show appearances and the occasional flight of fancy in an overblown Hollywoo…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:00AM

Cast Set for House and Garden at MTC

Margaret Colin, Patricia Conolly, Michael Countryman, Veanne Cox, John Curless, Laura Marie Duncan, Carson Elrod, Daniel Gerroll, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ellen Parker, James A. Stephens, Olga …

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:00AM

LONGEST-EVER SHOW COMES UP SHORT FOR ABC

By DON KAPLAN
This year's Academy Awards telecast turned out to be anything but beautiful for ABC.
The era of awards shows is coming to an end. Broadway should take this opportunity to change the Tony's before someone changes it for us (ie: CBS closes the door.)

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 12:00AM