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Saturday, March 31, 2001 Now, this broadwaystars.com writer was a proud member of her high school color guard - I twirled a flag, a rifle and a sabre with the marching band and the winter guard for four years, and I had a blast. Now all of New York is going to have a blast, when the aptly named Blast! begins performances at the Broadway Theatre on April 5th. After catching the PBS performance of the show, which enthralled me so much that I immediately joined PBS to get the video (without the pledge breaks), I knew I would love this show. And after catching last week's press rehearsal, it's a definite must-see. Imagine drump corps meets Stomp. With a cast of 60 brass, percussion and visual ensemble members. All of whom are young and attractive. Really attractive. It really is the most exciting thing I've seen on a stage lately - don't miss Blast!. Or I will beat you with my rifle, it's still in my mother's attic somewhere. posted at 3/31/2001 08:00:11 PM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link Blind Email Received:
posted at 3/31/2001 02:09:10 PM by James Marino | Item Link Giuliani Makes Choices for a Decency Panel on Art Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has come up with a list that includes members of his administration, friendly clerics and his own divorce lawyer to sit on his decency panel. We should put Marcia Lewis on this panel to kiss some ass and protect Broadway's (and every artist's) rights. This can become a really big issue. On this day in 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical ''Oklahoma!'' opened on Broadway. In 1945 The Tennessee Williams' play ''The Glass Menagerie'' opened on Broadway. Today's birthdays include: William Daniels, Shirley Jones, Richard Chamberlain, Christopher Walken, Gabe Kaplan, Rhea Perlman, Ed Marinaro, Cesar Chavez and Rene Descartes. 'Treason by the Book': When Treason Was Tolerable and Gossip Death Jonathan D. Spence chronicles the actions of both the high and mighty, and the low and humble, in his latest historical book about the investigation of a single case of treason in China. Behind The Scenes at Elegies: A History by Bruce D. Bossard Tonys #6 by Ken Mandelbaum Pinter Plays Are Popular Next Season Savion Glover Jumps from Hoopz to Ball The Good Thief Resurfaces at 45 Bleecker Assassins to Open at the Booth in November Fresh Face: Glenn Fitzgerald Photo Op: BLAST! Sneak Peek National Tour of Scarlet Pimpernel Ends April 1 in MI The Bachelors Sing of Pizza, Women and Love in New Musical, in WI to May 20 Songs of BMI Musical Theatre Workshop Writers Heard April 2 in Lehman Engel Tribute Urinetown! Sets Opening Night of May 3; Previews Begin April 1 �4.7m Makes My Fair Lady West End's Fastest Seller McPherson's Good Thief With d'Arcy James Resurfaces OB April 4 May 26 Williamstown 2001 Season to Feature Miller, Rice, Gurney and Giering Sondheim's Assassins Books, Yes, the Booth Theatre Report: Mike Nichols May Pick Up Angels in America Gauntlet for HBO Films Chenoweth and Groener in Cole Porter's You Never Know by Sean Patrick Flahaven Go Behind the Scenes of Mamma Mia! in TV Telecasts April 2 & 3 eBay: Cabaret video w/ Alan Cumming & Jane Horrocks Item #1420465078 You would think that the eBay people would stop this. The Yummiest Spot On The 'Net! Ghetto Cookies are taking New York City's taste buds by storm! posted at 3/31/2001 09:01:27 AM by James Marino | Item Link Friday, March 30, 2001 Today's birthdays include: Warren Beatty, Richard Dysart, Eric Clapton, Paul Reiser and Vincent van Gogh. 'Invention of Love': Housman's Hell, Stoppard's Style by Ben Brantley The Hades that's conjured in the Lincoln Center production of Tom Stoppard's "Invention of Love" has the requisite Stygian gloom, all right. But what illuminates it isn't infernal flame, but bright, lambent wit. On Stage and Off: A Milestone and an 'Ouch!' Brian d'Arcy James is gaining momentum. I hope we don't lose him to TV as well... 'Assassins' scopes out Booth bow Mantello to helm B'Way bow of presidential killer legiter Photo Op: THE INVENTION OF LOVE Opening See a picture of Jesse McKinley. What the hell is he doing at an opening night? :-) Luhrmann to Helm Broadway La Boh�me in 2002 Trio of Stage Stars To Appear in New Rudnick Film The Invention of Love Review by Adam Feldman Fynsworth to Record Elegies Benefit Carter Joins Seussical Earlier Than Expected Agustin Will Be in Bells After All The Book of Liz Extends Until May 20 London's Caretaker, Starring Gambon, to Reach Bway in Fall 2001 Report: Lobby Hero May Have Commercial Life Off-Broadway OOB's Spooky Dog Celebrates Six Months and Extends Through May 26 Bold Girls of Belfast Reach OB's Urban Stages, March 30-April 21 Goldman-Grossman Musical Tom Jones to Be Workshopped in NYC in June Seussical Gets Carter Earlier Than Expected; Pop Star Joins March 30 Report: La Boheme Directed by Luhrmann, Eyes Broadway for Spring 2002 Stage Managers' Association Final 2000-2001 Meeting Scheduled, May 17 South Pacific Stage Revival Kicks Off U.S. Tour in Minneapolis, Summer 2001 Titanic Composer Working on Tom Swift Musical How Were the Reviews?: Invention of Love on Broadway Report: Baz Luhrman to Stage Puccini's Boheme for Broadway Variety reports that the show will be presented under the auspices of the producers of Rent, which is based on the opera Bold Girls Are Taking Over NY Urban Stages Mar. 30 Bells Are Ringing for Comden and Green -- and Marc Kudisch by Michael Buckley Should We Acknowledge All the Unknowns? by Peter Filichia A faithful reader pointed out to me that the NY Post review of Mnemonic has a "time line" problem...
And then there is another reader who points out a NY Times omission:
Web Users Left Scrambling as a Big D.S.L. Network Goes Dark posted at 3/30/2001 01:56:35 PM by James Marino | Item Link Thursday, March 29, 2001 Today's birthdays include: Eric Idle, Elle MacPherson, Lucy Lawless, Howard Lindsay and Pearl Bailey. Aspen Festival Chief to Head Carnegie Hall Robert J. Harth, the longtime chief executive of the Aspen Music Festival and School, was chosen to head Carnegie Hall, which weathered a turbulent period under its outgoing leadership. 'Mnemonic': Into the Loop of a Daisy Chain of Memories by Ben Brantley The astonishing new play "Mnemonic" uses the tools and language of biophysics, archaeology and technology to draw you into its world of seemingly endless empathy. Follies: Tops With The Times by Ken Mandelbaum JRT Has NYC Preem of Nazi-Era Meeting in The Garden of Frau Hess, April 21 Sondheim Speaks of Career at Walter Reade Theatre Event The adobe theatre company Shouts Hooray for Iceboy, Beginning March 29 Stoppard's The Invention of Love Opens on Broadway, March 29 Pinter, Holm Featured in Pinter Retrospect in July for Lincoln Center Festival 2001 The Latest at Bells Are Ringing Summary: Julio Agustin is not leaving now. Stoppard's Invention of Love Opens on B'way Mar. 29 Aaron Carter Joins Seussical One Week Early on March 30 "60 Minutes" Plans Segment on Mel Brooks and The Producers Craig Lucas Joins Adam Guettel in Light in the Piazza Musical Should Britain's National Theatre Be Doing My Fair Lady -- or New Musicals? Michael John LaChiusa Ponders... Blooming Boy Likes Bloomer Girl by Peter Filichia Arthur Kopit Still Can by Peter Filichia Good Shepard The veteran cast album producer Thomas Z. Shepard on his proudest achievements, his battles in the studio, and his future projects. 'Boheme' is B'way bound 'Rent's' Seller, McCollum to produce Post-Gazette: On Stage: Marshall and 'Chicago' go to the movies Looks like it is happening... Urinetown, the Musical! posted at 3/29/2001 07:49:36 AM by James Marino | Item Link Wednesday, March 28, 2001 On this day in 1987, Maria von Trapp, whose life inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music,'' died in Morrisville, Vt., at age 82. Today's birthdays include: Reba McEntire. Reba Fills the Balcony, Doin' What Comes Natur'lly With Reba McEntire in the title role, the musical "Annie Get Your Gun" has a new lease on life. The Weisslers hit a home run with Reba and are struggling with Cathy Rigby at the Box Office down the block. Biz up; 'Aida' 855g 'Follies' lead pack with 390g 'Manilow Songbook' hits the stage. Bows at Mercury on June 19 London falls for a loverly 'Lady'. Mackintosh firms up West End transfer A Class Act Turns To Celeb Critics A Ratings Victory for South Pacific Broadway Grosses: Spring's Awakening Times Nixes Servicemen Ad CBS News Highlights Chekhov Theatre Ensemble�s Stages of Learning Program, April 12 Bard�s Edward III in Mint Condition for hope�s Inaugural Staging, March 28 Ruby Dee Is Grandma in St. Lucy's Eyes Off-Bway March 28-April 22 Broadway Grosses: March 19-25 - Part 1 Menken & Spencer's Duddy Kravitz Musical Gets April 6 Reading Producer Stewart Takes Lead in OB If It Was Easy for Final Performance Harold Pinter to Debut as a New York Stage Actor in July Bells Are Ringing Revival Loses a Cast Member
Daphne Rubin-Vega Does "The Time Warp" from Rent to Rocky Horror by Michael Buckley Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherry by Charles Nelson Inside.com: Napster-Proof CDs: The Music Industry's Secret Plan to Safeguard Popular Music From the Wild Web The record business wants to lock down songs on a new breed of CDs. Is this the end of rip, mix and burn? We visit the labels' laboratories to learn more about what 'stickiness' means to music. Ten Reasons Not To Go To the Movies posted at 3/28/2001 06:58:50 AM by James Marino | Item Link Tuesday, March 27, 2001 Today's birthdays include: Quentin Tarantino. N.Y.U. Arts Scholarship Program Caps a Patron's Spending Spree Alberto W. Vilar, the Cuban-born high-tech investor and opera enthusiast, will donate $20 million to create a program modeled on the Rhodes scholarship. Oscar Ratings Fall to All-Time Low Viewers tuned out ABC's Academy Awards show almost every half-hour starting at 9 p.m. in the East. Maybe this is a trend among awards shows. Seeing the parallel between the mighty Oscars and the much maligned Tonys, maybe it really is time to reconceive the show. Both of them... Big Stars Act in Plays by Kids As part of the 52nd Street Project, plays by students aged 10 to 12 were performed by veteran actors last weekend. 'Judgment at Nuremberg': On Evil and the Citizen, No Answers Are Easy by Bruce Weber Darius de Haas Performs in American Songbook Series 'Producers,' 'Stones' hoist B'way B.O. Mixed results for shows on regular-perf duty Legit Weekly Box Office WEEK 41: Mar. 5 - 11, 2001 Something I have not noticed before: Variety is now carrying a summary of TKTS sales. Broderick to Return to Bway's Producers March 27 2000-01 Pulitzer Prizes to be Announced April 16 at Columbia University Atlanta�s Alliance Theatre Names Susan V. Booth Artistic Director, March 26 Aida Begins National Tour in Minneapolis, March 27 New Revue, Newyorkers, Sings of NYC, Opening March 27 at MTC Schlitz-Ludwig Musical Tom Sawyer Starts Bway Previews March 27 at Minskoff Agustin Bows Out of Bells Review: JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG by Adam Feldman Photo Op: JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG Opening Connick/Stroman Thou Shalt Not Seeking a B'way Theatre for Fall 2001 How Were the Reviews?: Judgment at Nuremberg on Broadway Aida National Tour Launches Mar. 27 in Minneapolis What South Pacific Had to Change by Peter Filichia Tom Sawyer Musical Begins B'way Previews Mar. 27 Lupone Joins Cast of Selleck's B'way Thousand Clowns Nunn Cents Incense Theatrical Gents -- A Furore Erupts Over My Fair Lady He may earn 'only' about $170,000 as artistic director of the National -- but Trevor Nunn makes a lot more in royalties, and now there are even more on the way. MTC Newyorkers Revue Open Off-B'way Mar. 27 On a Klea Day, You Can See La Merman by Peter Filichia Randall�s Island Tony Randall talks about the challenges of running a non-profit theater company and bringing Judgment at Nuremberg to Broadway. Problems in paradise? Fortuitous people have made mention of it. Movie mistakes. dot com, of course! posted at 3/27/2001 06:44:03 AM by James Marino | Item Link Monday, March 26, 2001
- Steven Soderbergh, Director, "Traffic" Is Academy Award� winner Russell Crowe safe now from his millions of admirers? Perhaps Ginger and Catherine can be assigned to protect him from Tom Hanks. On this day in 1911, Playwright Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Miss. Today's other birthdays include: Leonard Nimoy, Alan Arkin, James Caan, Diana Ross, Vicki Lawrence, Martin Short and Jennifer Grey. Gregory Harrison by Paul Wontorek Brad Rouse by Adam Feldman Poor Eliza by Ken Mandelbaum Foote to Direct Parsons in Primary Stages Drama Next Season Judgment at Nuremberg Opens at Bway's Longacre, March 26 Guy Haines Gets Solo Album of Show Tunes, Pop Songs and Film Tunes, April 2 Rattlestick Holds "Exposure: NY" Reading Series, March 26-April 8 David Strathairn Stars in Wesley Reading in NYC, March 26 ** Update: PBOL killed this story. Max O. Preeo wrote to tell me that the Bells' recording session is now on for April 23. He provided me with this updated link. Bells Are Ringing Cast Album To Be Recorded March 26 Ran into Kudisch on the street last Friday morning. He and Zoey have to be the cutest couple on Broadway. Been together for about a year now. Marc told me that the show was going great and he was having a lot of fun. Then again, how could you not with Faith Prince at work every day? Marcia Gay Harden Wins Oscar for "Pollack" The post-Oscar reports were saying that this was the upset of the evening. Funny, I was not upset at all. We've loved her since she was Harper in Angels in America. Schell and Grizzard Star in B'way Nuremberg Reviva Mar. 26 Glenn Close Stars in TV South Pacific Mar. 26 Something New at the Winter Garden by Peter Filichia Oh darn! Peter beat me to it. (Of course he did.) I was going to run by there and take a picture of the new Mamma Mia! sign this afternoon. Maybe I still will for those of you who need tangible proof. Stagebill's e-asy Hollywood Media has pacted with publisher Stagebill to host a Stagebill channel on Hollywood Media's Broadway.com Web site... The Talkin'Broadway forum returned to commission last night. On another note, I can't believe that as I type this, it is snowing on West 93rd Street in Manhattan. Perhaps it is only outside my window. There is a big movie shoot going on in the neighborhood. Maybe that is it. When will this winter end? Grrr! I am kind of sad that I didn't get free tacos... posted at 3/26/2001 07:20:55 AM by James Marino | Item Link Sunday, March 25, 2001 If you are not watching the Oscars on tonight: Michael McElroy and the Broadway Inspirational Voices will perform their show "UNPLUGGED!" at Rutgers Presbyterian Church (236 West 73rd Street) at 8:00 PM. Tickets: $20.00. Call 212-768-0870. Portion of the proceeds go to Lena McPhadden-Gore Youth Theater (LYT) and to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. See the Broadway Inspirational Voices website at http://broadwayinspirationalvoices.com/ On this day in 1913, The home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City. Today's birthdays include: Aretha Franklin, Eileen Ford, Paul Michael Glaser, Elton John, Mary Gross, James McDaniel and Sarah Jessica Parker. Theatre Folk Among Top Oscar Contenders Mar. 25 An Elegy for an Era, 'Follies' Itself Goes On If "Show Boat" is the first truly great work of the golden age, "Follies" is the last. The revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical opens on April 5 at the Belasco Theater. Polly Bergen's Life-Tested Role Polly Bergen has lived every clich� of a "down and out and up again" trouper. But it was still startling when she was cast, seemingly out of nowhere, to play Carlotta Campion, in the revival of "Follies." 'Follies' Director Focuses on the Dramatic, Not the Spectacular 'Follies' Shows It, Too, Is Still Here In 'Follies,' an Octogenarian With All the Moves Good Enough for Grandma by Ken Mandelbaum Henry Winkler Ankles Dinner Party June 3 Following Matinee Performance Isn't that cute when Playbill pretends that it is Variety?
McPherson's Good Thief Escapes OB March 25; May Resurface Soon
Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens Director-lyricist Bill Russell and producer Bruce Robert Harris on the upcoming, star-studded benefit performance of the legendary AIDS musical. The Manly Men of The Full Monty John Ellison Conlee and Patrick Wilson bare all of their talents in the hit Broadway musical comedy. A New Federal Party Woodie King, Jr.�s New Federal Theatre celebrates its 30th anniversary with a star-studded gala benefit. Note: This gala is tonight at Sardi's. Mermaniac: You decide -- Jim Caruso vs Sally Mayes The New Yorker: Concert Rage I guess it was only a matter of time. Romania builds Dracula Land posted at 3/25/2001 08:47:07 AM by James Marino | Item Link BroadwayStars is powered by Blogger Pro! [Past News] |
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