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Saturday, February 24, 2001 Today's birthdays include: Abe Vigoda, Steven Hill, Michel Legrand, Barry Bostwick and Edward James Olmos. No Cardboard Belts Here: Hit Producers Leaves Chi-Town Feb. 25 for NYC DIVA TALK: Purely Patti, Plus Ah-Reba, Ah-Reba Recognition of Union Prompted Deal Between Radio City and SSDC BTN One-Niter of HDTV Jekyll & Hyde Set for March 10 PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Feb. 17-23: Here Comes the Master Race Stones in His Pockets, Merrily We Roll Along Win Top Olivier Awards Equity Protests Awards for Non-Union Tours Somehow, I knew that this was going to be an issue... Just In Time For Tonys: Gershwin Sets Opening SSDC and Radio City Settle Dispute Minsky�s On Again by Ken Mandelbaum Stones, Merrily, Blue/Orange Win Top 2001 Olivier Awards Side Show Team Plans New Musical for 2002 Janis Joplin Musical Rocks Village Theater April 22 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 It's got the makings of a musical! posted at 2/24/2001 09:24:10 AM by James Marino | Item Link Friday, February 23, 2001 Blind Email Received:
posted at 2/23/2001 04:11:22 PM by James Marino | Item Link 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 I am almost old enough to be President of the United States! posted at 2/23/2001 08:58:51 AM by James Marino | Item Link 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:
Simon Russell Beale I Meet A Musical Theatre Maven by Peter Filichia Sharing the Moment with Donny Osmond by Forrest Mallard Keri Bevan Get Movie Popcorn, Then Check the Mail posted at 2/22/2001 07:59:08 AM by James Marino | Item Link 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. posted at 2/21/2001 08:23:55 AM by James Marino | Item Link 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:
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! Beveragegirl! posted at 2/20/2001 08:09:37 AM by James Marino | Item Link 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. hilary rodman clinton posted at 2/19/2001 08:54:16 AM by James Marino | Item Link 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. The New Male Sterotype in Movies posted at 2/18/2001 07:52:24 AM by James Marino | Item Link BroadwayStars is powered by Blogger Pro! [Past News] |
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