Monday, April 8, 2002 at midnight (Broadway Time)
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Oklahoma!'s new website

Oklahoma!'s new website seems to have been launched with little fanfare... flash? That is so 2001...

SOURCE: www.oklahoma-themusical.com at 12:00AM

click here!

The lovely and talented Georgia Stitt along with (the also lovely and talented?) John Ruocco are opening up "The Gym", which is a forum designed to give professional, working actors and singers a place to work every week. For more information, click here!

SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:00AM

Star-Ledger: Mrs. Anna saves Paper Mill's 'King'

BY PETER FILICHIA
Terrible "King." Wonderful "I."
Luckily for Paper Mill Playhouse theatergoers, when Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote "The King and I," they gave British schoolteacher Anna Leonowens much more time on stage than the Siamese monarch. Carolee Carmello is incandescent in the role, in a performance that must be seen.

SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:00AM

Newsday: An Exhilarating Tale of Two 'Dogs'

'Topdog/Underdog' has an eye on today's Pulitzer Prize
By Linda Winer
THE PLACE, according to the program, is "Here." The time is "Now." And life for the African- American brothers named Lincoln and Booth has always been a tough hustle.

SOURCE: Newsday Subscription at 12:00AM

The New Yorker: THE BOARDS: BEEHIVES ON BROADWAY

This August, a musical based on "Hairspray," the John Waters movie that celebrates rigid updos and disintegrating racial segregation in early-sixties Baltimore, is coming to Broadway, and the other week a dozen or so group-sales people�responsible for ordering the big blocks of tickets that buoy a show's audience figures�came to a loft apartment in the West Twenties for a special preview.
Thanks to BackToBefore on All That Chat for the link.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 12:00AM

Avengers Star to Appear in West End Monologues

Honor Blackman in The Vagina Monologues... hmm... wonder if she's playing the same character she played in Goldfinger?

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

It's Good to Be the King

Schmuel Gelbfisz, a glove salesman who entered the movie mainstream under the Americanized name of Samuel Goldfish, and Irvin Alan Kniberg, the man who would be Alan King and whose father h…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM

Topdog/Underdog

Reviewed By: David Finkle

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AM

'Electra' stops at Long Wharf

Next season's schedule for Stage II includes 'Two Days'
To no one's surprise, Gordon Edelstein, the new artistic director elect of New Haven's Long Wharf Theater, has announced that the production of Eugene O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra" featuring Jane Alexander he's currently producing and directing at his A Contemporary Theater in Seattle, also will be part of the LWT's 2002-03 mainstage season.

SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM

'Millie' gets modern makeover

Robert Hofler: Noises Off

SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM

Road grosses

Biz dips; Pitt 'Fever' 865g

SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM

Broadway grosses

B.O. up; 'Aida' 866g

SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM

ROXIE WITH MOXIE

By BARBARA HOFFMAN
BRITAIN'S perkiest TV star has the world's best weight-loss plan."It's called the 'Chicago' workout," says Denise Van Outen."Lose fat with Fosse!"Since starring in the hit musical in London and here, Van Outen's lost several pounds, two dress sizes and, to the dismay of Britain's tabloids, much of her celebrated cleavage - which Arnold Schwarzenegger groped on her "Big Breakfast" TV show.

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

THEATER REVIEW: 'TOPDOG/UNDERDOG': Not to Worry, Mr. Lincoln, It's Just a Con Game By BEN BRANTLEY

Suzan-Lori Parks's thrilling comic drama, starring Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def, revitalizes a lackluster theater season on Broadway.

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

DOGS ARE DEF By CLIVE BARNES

FOR thrilling theatrical fireworks, you're not going to do much better than Suzan-Lori Parks' "Topdog/Underdog," which opened at the Ambassador Theatre last night.

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

2 Aces, But It's No Full Monte by Howard Kissel

In a program note to "Topdog/Underdog," Suzan-Lori Parks explains that what prompted her to write the play was watching a three-card monte hustler on Canal St. At the time, she was with her…

SOURCE: New York Daily News at 12:00AM

Topdog/Underdog review by Charles Isherwood

Move over, Bialystock & Bloom: You're not the only sensational double-act on Broadway anymore....

SOURCE: Variety at 12:00AM