George Gershwin Alone Sets May 6 Broadway Opening
Previews begin April 17 for Hershey Felder's one-man show, co-produced by an owner of the Hayes
If you look at the Broadway.com story above, you will see that Theatre.com seems to have gotten the dates in this story wrong...

Women's Project Debuts Leaving Queens Musical, Feb. 25

Olivier-winning Stones in His Pockets Begins Broadway Previews Mar. 23

Chicago's Center Theatre Closing Its Doors

A Class Act Is Just That by Sean Patrick Flahaven

Broadway's New Annie Oakley Is McEntirely Good by Peter Filichia

AmericanTheater Web brings us the next three links.

Boston Herald: Devastating `Day' breaks new ground at Women on Top fest

Hello, Polly
Jaws dropped when it was announced that Polly Bergen would star in the highly anticipated revival of the Broadway musical "Follies," which opens in April with an all-star cast.

Music 365.co.uk: Rod Stewart Heading For Broadway

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Friday, February 23, 2001

Blind Email Received:

-To Come- I need to check a few things before I print this one... I hate getting sued on my birthday... but can anyone answer me this? Where are Susan Lee and Sara Galbraith (both from Broadway Television Network) and what are they doing now? Sudden unexplained departures, or even leaves of absence, lead to questions...
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Today's birthdays include: Kristin Davis, Peter Fonda, W.E.B. DuBois and George Frederick Handel.

West Side: The Armory Show Just Keeps Growing
Having begun in 1994 as a funky 30-gallery affair in the Gramercy Park Hotel, the Armory Show has blossomed to embrace 170 of the world's hippest galleries and now occupies two enormous piers jutting into the Hudson River.

On Stage and Off: An 'Annie,' Bereft, Is Suing

Hartford Courant: Without Judy, `Bells' Won't Ring

'Love, Janis' tunes Off Broadway dates
'Heart,' 'McGee' songs to be featured in prod'n

SAG prez calls agents' proposal illegal
Missive comes after he extended olive branch days ago

Thesps looking 'Inside'
Thriller is based on Cooney's upcoming stage play "Point of Death"

Confirmed Dates for George Gershwin Alone

The Devil and Daniel Webster Cast Announced

Kaye Ballard to Tour with Monty

NYC Fringe Fest to Run Aug. 15-26; Applications Due Feb. 25

Heartbeat Celebrates Black History with W.E.B. DuBois, Feb. 23

Today In Theatre History: FEBRUARY 23

Gershwin Alone Begins Performances at Bway's Hayes April 17

How Were the Reviews?: A Skull in Connemara

Bologna and Taylor Are Going to Broadway this Summer

Spring Preview: Theatre Goes to the Movies -- and into History

Remembering a Broadway Legend: Gwen Verdon by Michael Buckley

A Strictly Personal Conversation by Peter Filichia

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Thursday, February 22, 2001

On this day in 1892, "Lady Windermere's Fan," by Oscar Wilde, was first performed, at London's St. James' Theater. Today's birthdays include: Don Pardo, Marni Nixon, Jonathan Demme, Lea Salonga and Rembrandt Peale.

Giuseppe Verdi died 100 years ago on Jan. 27. Our special feature includes audio interviews with opera singers and scholars, song excerpts, event listings and photographs from great Verdi performances.

Crossing the Footlights by Ward Morehouse III

Aida Cast Album Wins Grammy

Peggy Sue Gets Musical

Bat Boy Perches at Union Square Theatre Beginning March 3; Opens March 21
The website address for Bat Boy mentioned in this article is incorrect. The correct address is
www.batboy-themusical.com/, the website is well done and a lot of fun.

New York International Fringe Festival Feb. 28 Application Deadline Nears

NYC's Vital Theatre Rides On Horsey People, Feb. 22-March 18

Roundabout's NY Premiere of McDonagh�s A Skull In Connemara Opens Feb. 22

Stanek, White, Inkley, Mammana Are Three Musketeers in American Musical Debut March 9-25

Chicago's Working Resurfaces in IL Feb. 22-March 18
Karl, this is just for you. Feel better buddy.

NYC's Spooky Dog & The Teenage Gang Mysteries Groove on to March 30

Pet Shop Boys/Jonathan Harvey Musical to Open at London's Arts Theatre, Late May

Witches, Fosse, Game, Merrily Compete for Best Musical in London Olivier Awards Feb. 23

Acclaimed Royal National Theatre Hamlet to Tour Select U.S. Cities. Olivier Award-nominee Simon Bleale stars as the Danish prince in a production headed for Boston, Minneapolis, Tucson and Phoenix
I am sure that Equity won't have time to protest this production. They are spending all their time focusing on Barry Williams.

Blind Email Received:

Is Robert Viagas kidding us with "Simon Bleale" ?? Can theatre.com's "reporters" do any worse research? Simon Russell Beale (note the correct spelling) is perhaps one of England's finest actors. He's not an unknown quantity -- it wouldn't be difficult to find out how to spell his name. There's even another theatre.com article today abouth is nomination for an Olivier with the name spelled correctly. Sheesh.
Simon Russell Beale

I Meet A Musical Theatre Maven by Peter Filichia

Sharing the Moment with Donny Osmond by Forrest Mallard

Keri Bevan

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Wednesday, February 21, 2001

Today's birthdays include: Kelsey Grammer, William Baldwin, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Charlotte Church.

NYC: Standing, a Last Time, for a Dancer
[Gwen Verdon tribute]

Stanley Kramer, Filmmaker With Social Bent, Dies at 87
Stanley Kramer, the producer and director of such socially groundbreaking films as "The Defiant Ones" and "Judgment at Nuremberg" and one of Hollywood's most respected filmmakers in the late 1950's and early 60's, died Monday.

Broadway Friends and Collaborators Say Goodbye to Gwen Verdon

Milwaukee Rep to Present World Premiere Huck Finn Play Feb. 21

Mamet, Bogosian and Henley World Premiere Short Plays Feb. 21 - Mar. 4

Yes, in My Backyard! by Peter Filichia

Darrah Cloud Tells a Cloudy Story by Peter Filichia

Kate, Swing!, Aida, Music Man and Wild Party Seek Grammy Feb. 21

New OB Company, Manhattan Ensemble Theatre, Bows with an Idiot, Feb. 21

Coleman, Rivera and Others Recall Gwen Verdon's Gifts at Feb. 20 Memorial

Broadway Grosses: February 12-18 - Part 1

Drama Desk Nominees Announced May 1; Awards Given May 20

B'Way B.O. soars over holiday 'Annie,' 'Chicago,' 'Riverdance' show huge gains

Off B'way pumps up prices. Top tix hit $65, on par with Broadway.

B.O. rises; 'Cabaret' 807g. 'Producers,' 'Lion King' on a high netting roll.
[Road Box Office]

Biz up; 'Seuss' 618g 'Annie' makes sharpest climb

Singapore's hit tuner eyes U.S. production. 'Chang and Eng' to be tweaked for stateside appearance

Hitler sings! Mel kvells! 'Producers' causes big laughs, pride in Chi

The Producers
(Musical -- Cadillac Palace Theatre, Chicago, 2,300 seats; $70 top)
[Chicago Review]

Broadway Grosses: Looking Up

In Dreams and Gimpel to Open Off-Broadway

Yale School of Drama Eyes Perloff for Dean

Applications Available for 2001 Princess Grace Awards

FYI (for those who care) on Audra's baby
Audra names her child after two stage legends.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2001

Oh come on now... On one hand, Ken Mandelbaum's claims of scooping everyone else is done in fun, but on the other hand it is pretty sad. Lets look at what Ken did yesterday. In his most recent column, (Michael Wiley Takes to the Road) Ken opens with:

Alan Campbell (Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles and on Broadway) will have the Boyd Gaines role in the national tour of Contact. As previously noted, his Girl in a Yellow Dress will by Holly Cruikshank.Ken takes credit for "breaking" the story of Holly, who happens to be standing by for the role now, not a big surprise by any account. But what Ken fails to mention is that he wrote on Jan. 26th that John Ritter would be taking on the role that he now says Alan Campbell will be playing. What kind of out of control ego does Ken have that he treats his readers like they are idiots? He totally blew by it, pretending that he never even mentioned that Jack Ritter would be playing the role. I suppose that when it is officially announced, Ken will claim that "you read it here first". It is a disservice to the Broadway.com staff and readers and for Ken, who has written about theatre as long as he has, it is kind of sad.

Reminder: Today at 11:00 am is the Gwen Verdon memorial at the Broadhurst Theatre.

Today's birthdays include: Sidney Poitier, Gloria Vanderbilt, Robert Altman, Sandy Duncan, Patricia Hearst, Joel Hodgson and Ansel Adams (who's pic looks a lot like Hal Prince...)

SCENE AND HEARD: Inside the Tom Sawyer Rehearsals

via email: Jessica Stone's name was left out of the list of characters for Design for Living in Randy Gener's short piece on Sat. Her part is small, but it's not THAT small.....

And once again, another major Broadway show has turned over it's website to the designers of Tarantula. Chicago, The Musical, once had an excellent website that was designed and hosted by Pegasus Internet. Theatre.com came in and low-balled the price and can you believe it -- Fran and Barry moved it to save some money. Well it seems as though someone at NAMCO has come to their senses and the site has been moved once more -- to Tarantula. It is scheduled for a relaunch today. Check it out CHICAGO: The Website! Since Tarantula now has Seussical and Chicago, will this mean that the other Fran and Barry websites (Annie Get Your Gun, The BWF Foundation, et al) will follow suit? One can only hope.

Beware Your Next Date: Gilman's Boy Gets Girl Opens at MTC Feb. 20

Before Bway, Bells Begin Ringing in Stamford, CT, Feb. 20-25

Reading to Visit Vidal's Small Planet in March

PBS TV's Village Walk Looks at Downtown NYC Theatres, March 5

Gwen Verdon to Be Remembered Feb. 20 at Memorial in NYC

Paige! Torn ACL ends Richter's season Ouch!

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Monday, February 19, 2001

On this day in 1881, Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages. The next day all theatrical productions left the state of Kansas. Today's birthdays include: Jeff Daniels, Justine Bateman, Stan Kenton, Nicolaus Copernicus, David Garrick (English actor, producer, dramatist and comanager of the Drury Lane Theatre) and Merle Oberon.

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Producers should be pleased with burlesque of them
Huh? I think they need a headline writer in Cleveland...

Chicago Sun-Times: A show of shows (review of The Producers)

Chicago Tribune: `Producers' Produces
Though It Was A Great Film, It Seems To Have Been Destined For The Stage All Along

Crain's Chicago Business: Producing town's super-hot ticket. Theatergoers pay big money for Brooks' play

The Staging of Multisite Arts Performances Online
With its promise of cheap, readily available bandwidth, the Internet has become the medium of choice for multisite performance experiments for music and theater events.

'Isn't It Romantic': Wasserstein's Women Try Holding On to Love and Independence
Wendy Wasserstein's play "Isn't It Romantic" is having an Off Broadway revival, the first in New York since 1983, by the Worth Street Theater Company.

New Equity Contracts Are Meant to Preclude Non-Union Tours

TRU Reads Great American Trailer Park Musical in NYC Feb. 19

Special WGA Awards May Provide Insight to Union's Strike Profile

Chamberlin Hosts "Broadway Jazz" BC/EFA Benefit, Feb. 19

From Tech to Opening by Kate Moira Ryan

Blue Man Group Introduces New Intel TV Ads, Feb. 19

Adapting to The Producers by Peter Filichia

They Were Ahead of Their Time by Peter Filichia

Jane Eyre sold out all weekend
Hmmmm.... lets see what the BO report says...

An Assist From a Star Arranger
The man who helped everyone from Dietrich to Streisand lends his expertise to Gershwin -- Peter Matz.

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Sunday, February 18, 2001

On this day in 1885, Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published in the United States. Today's birthdays include: Jack Palance, George Kennedy, Dennis DeYoung, Cybill Shepherd, John Travolta, Matt Dillon, Molly Ringwald and Enzo Ferrari.

Theatre Reviews Limited: Eagle Song: Interview with Justin Murphy
Just in case you missed it, you can click on the top of this page and see more information about the Eagle Song CD. And even buy it!

Clown College: Where Fools Suffered Gladly
From 1968 to 1997, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College was known to circus professionals as America's premiere boot camp for fledgling clowns. The school has recently closed because of budget cuts by Ringling's corporate executives.
Most often heard comment in the halls of corporations in NYC: "We just can't afford to train any more clowns!"

Film or Digital? Don't Fight. Coexist.

Leenane Inmates Return to Complete McDonagh's Theater Trilogy

A Tradition Seen in Musical Theater, Then Across a Divide

My Reasons for the Pardons by William Jefferson Clinton

Eric Grode's STAGE TO SCREEN: Oscar Nods

Time and Again's Time Has Come � And Gone; MTC Run Ends Feb. 18

Mel Brooks' B'way The Producers Opens Chicago Tryout Feb. 18

Billy Stritch Heads to 42nd Street

Interesting website that may be of interest to some of you
Here is the link to the website mentioned: Public Domain Music.

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Aug 19 - Grease (Atkinson)

Oct 4 - Mauritius (Biltmore) [MTC]

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Oct 18 - Pygmalion (AA)

Oct 25 - A Bronx Tale (Kerr)

Nov 1 - Cyrano de Bergerac (Rodgers)

Nov 4 - Rock 'N' Roll (Jacobs)

Nov 8 - Young Frankenstein (Hilton)

Nov 9 - Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (St. James)

Nov 10: Local One Strike Begins

Nov 28: Local One Strike Ends

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Dec 3 - The Farnsworth Invention (Music Box) [Dodger Properties with Steven Spielberg, Dan Cap Productions, Fred Zollo, Latitude Link and the Pelican Group]

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Dec 6 - The Seafarer (Booth)

Dec 9 - Is He Dead? (Lyceum)

Dec 16 - The Homecoming (Cort) [Richards, Frankel]

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Jan 17 - November (Barrymore)

Jan 24 - Come Back, Little Sheba (Biltmore)

Feb 21 - Sunday In The Park With George (54)

Feb 28 - Passing Strange (Belasco)

Mar 6 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Broadhurst) [Stephen C. Byrd]

Mar 9 - In The Heights (Rodgers)

Mar 27 - Gypsy (St. James)

Mar 29 - Macbeth (Lyceum)

Apr 3 - South Pacific (Beaumont)

Apr 17 - A Catered Affair (Kerr) [Jujamcyn Theaters, Jordan Roth, Harvey Entertainment / Ron Fierstein, Richie Jackson and Daryl Roth]

Apr 24 - Cry Baby (Marquis)

Apr 27 - The Country Girl (Jacobs)

Apr 30 - Thurgood (Booth)

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May 7 - Top Girls (Biltmore)

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2008-09
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Oct 16 - Billy Elliot (Imperial)

Nov 08 - Dividing the Estate (a Shubert theater)

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TBA - 50 Words

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TBA - Cry Baby [Grazer, Gordon, McAllister, Epstein]

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TBA - Equus

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TBA - Fallen Angels (Shubert) [Kenwright]

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TBA - Girl Group Time Travelers

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TBA - Jerry Springer: The Opera! [Thoday, McKeown]

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TBA - Leap of Faith

TBA - A Little Princess [Ettinger, Dodger]

TBA - Midnight Cowboy [MGM]

TBA - The Minstrel Show - Kander and Ebb and Stroman

TBA - Moonstruck [Pittelman, Azenberg]

TBA - Mourning Becomes Electra [Haber, Boyett]

TBA - Monsoon Wedding

TBA - The Night of the Hunter

TBA - The Opposite of Sex [Namco]

TBA - Orphans

TBA - Pal Joey [Platt]

TBA - Paper Doll

TBA - The Paris Letter

TBA - The Philadelphia Story

TBA - Peter Pan

TBA - Porgy and Bess [Frankel, Viertel, Baruch, Routh, Panter, Tulchin/Bartner]

TBA - The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert

TBA - The Princess Bride

TBA - Princesses [Lane, Comley]

TBA - Poe the Musical

TBA - Rain Man [MGM]

TBA - Robin Hood

TBA - Secondhand Lions

TBA - South Pacific

TBA - Speed-the-Plow

TBA - Stalag 17

TBA - Starry Messenger

TBA - Syncopation

TBA - A Tale Of Two Cities

TBA - Torch Song Trilogy

TBA - Turn of the Century

TBA - West Side Story

TBA - The Wall [Weinstein, Mottola, Waters]

TBA - Will Rogers Follies [Cossette]

TBA - The Wiz [Dodger]

TBA - Zanna [Dalgleish]

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