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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
 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
 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
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!
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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!
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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
 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
 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
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
 Get Movie Popcorn, Then Check the Mail
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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
 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.
 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)
 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
 
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Tuesday, February 20, 2001
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.
 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.....
 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
 Beveragegirl!
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Monday, February 19, 2001
 On this day in 1881, Kansas became the first state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages. 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
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
 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
 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.
 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
 The New Male Sterotype in Movies
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2007-08 Broadway Season
June 28 - Old Acquaintance (AA)
July 10 - Xanadu (Hayes) [Robert Ahrens, Dan Vickery, Tara Smith/B. Swibel and Sarah Murchison/Dale Smith]
Aug 19 - Grease (Atkinson)
Oct 4 - Mauritius (Biltmore) [MTC]
Oct 11 - The Ritz (54)
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
Dec 2 - Cymbeline (Beaumont)
Dec 3 - The Farnsworth Invention (Music Box) [Dodger Properties with Steven Spielberg, Dan Cap Productions, Fred Zollo, Latitude Link and the Pelican Group]
Dec 4 - August: Osage County (Imperial) [Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Steppenwolf]
Dec 6 - The Seafarer (Booth)
Dec 9 - Is He Dead? (Lyceum)
Dec 16 - The Homecoming (Cort) [Richards, Frankel]
Jan 10 - The Little Mermaid (Lunt)
Jan 15 - The 39 Steps (AA)
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)
May 1 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses (AA)
May 4 - Boeing-Boeing (Longacre)
May 7 - Top Girls (Biltmore)
TBA - Godspell
2008-09 Broadway Season
Oct 16 - Billy Elliot (Imperial)
Nov 08 - Dividing the Estate (a Shubert theater)
Dec 14 - Shrek: The Musical (Broadway) [DreamWorks]
Talked About Not Scheduled Yet
TBA - 50 Words
TBA - Addams Family (Elephant Eye)
TBA - American Buffalo
TBA - An American Vaudeville [Farrell, Perloff]
TBA - The Beard of Avon [NYTW]
TBA - Being There [Permut]
TBA - Benny & Joon [MGM]
TBA - Billy Elliot
TBA - Brave New World [Rachunow]
TBA - Breath of Life [Fox]
TBA - Busker Alley [Margot Astrachan, Robert Blume, Kristine Lewis, Jamie Fox, Joanna Kerry & Heather Duke]
TBA - Broomhilda
TBA - Bye Bye Birdie [Niko]
TBA - Camille Claudel [Wildhorn]
TBA - Camelot
TBA - Carmen [Robin DeLevita and The Firm]
TBA - Catch Me If You Can
TBA - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [Bob and Harvey Weinstein]
TBA - Cry Baby [Grazer, Gordon, McAllister, Epstein]
TBA - Designing Women [Alexis]
TBA - Don Juan DeMarco [New Line]
TBA - Dreamgirls [Creative Battery]
TBA - Duet
TBA - Equus
TBA - Ever After [Adam Epstein]
TBA - Fallen Angels (Shubert) [Kenwright]
TBA - Farragut North [Richards]
TBA - Father of the Bride
TBA - The Female Of The Species (TBA)
TBA - Fool For Love (AA) [Roundabout]
TBA - Girl Group Time Travelers
TBA - Golden Boy
TBA - Harmony [Guiles, Karslake, Smith, Fishman]
TBA - Hitchcock Blonde
TBA - The Importance Of Being Earnest
TBA - Jerry Springer: The Opera! [Thoday, McKeown]
TBA - Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train (Circle)
TBA - Josephine [Waissman]
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]
This list is compiled from various sources. If you have corrections to the Broadway Season, please contact us.
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