On this date in 1925, the so-called "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. The conviction was later overturned. In 2001, moviemakers remade Planet of the Apes! Today's birthdays include: Isaac Stern, Don Knotts, Janet Reno, Edward Hermann, Robin Williams, Jon Lovitz, Josh Hartnett, and Ernest Hemingway.

UK Fair Lady w/ Pryce and McCutcheon Has Royal Welcome July 21-March 16

Swit, Oh and Larter Join Off-Broadway's Monologues, Aug. 7-Sept. 16

Uta Lemper to Play Joe's Pub in NYC, Sept. 6-16

False Extensions
We�re extending! We�e extending! Oops...strike that: We�re closing.
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I See I Sing! by Peter Filichia

'The Homecoming': Talk About a Reality Show. A Pinter Classic Is It. by Ben Brantley
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Friday, July 20, 2001

On this date in 1969, man walked on the moon. Or did he? How come there isn't a musical?

posted at 7/20/2001 10:10:21 PM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link

'Opera' Star To 'Dance'? by Michael Riedel
Michael Crawford may be headed back to Broadway next year as the star of the upcoming musical "Dance of the Vampires."Crawford - who has not appeared on the New York stage since he triumphed in "The Phantom of the Opera" in 1988 - is in "serious discussions" to play an aristocratic vampire who falls in love with a beautiful teenage girl in the $10 million musical, theater sources in London told The Post this week.

New 'Jurassic Park' Ads Unveiled

digitalcity.com: Music from a Sparkling Planet
Hey, Space Cadets! This show's for you. Review by Robert Lasko

Theater Review | Harold Pinter Plays: Pinter the Actor Meets Pinter the Writer

Hedwig and the Angry Inch Film Opens July 20
The movie version of the hit Off-Broadway glam-rock musical won standing ovations at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival

Jane Eyre Star Opens in New Musical July 20
And Goodspeed Opera House's They All Laughed! is angling for Broadway in 2002

Comedy About Elian Gonzales Mess to be Staged OB, Oct. 2001
It's the story of a Cuban-born man who returns to Cuba some 40 years after being exiled to the United States and at the height of the Elian Gonzales custody circus

Off-Broadway Troupe Stages Infamous Tripp-Lewinsky Tapes Aug. 13
Snatches is not the first satirical play to exploit the infamous l'affaire Lewinsky.

How Were the Reviews?: Music From a Sparkling Planet
The new play from the author of As Bees in Honey Drown opened July 19

Cherry Jones Major Barbara Extends Thru Sept. 9
Jones reunited with Moon for the Misbegotten director Daniel Sullivan on the Shaw drama

Charlayne Woodard Recalls Misbehavin' in Her New Real Life, July 21
Directed by Daniel Sullivan (Proof), it's her autobiographical sequel to Pretty Fire and Neat.

Another Killer: Major Barbara's O'Hare Offerred Assassins

Williamstown's One Mo' Time May Reach Broadway

Scott Merrill, Macheath in Famous Threepenny Opera, Is Dead at 82

Toodles, Tallulah: Kathleen Turner Vehicle Has No Immediate Plans For Bway

Benny Sato Ambush Joins Richmond's TheatreVA as New Artistic Director July 23

Lunt and Fontanne Captured at Lunt-Fontanne

Just Dandy: Pimpernel's Sills Is Ravenal Aug. 5, Then John Wilkes Booth in Assassins

Dorset Co-Founder Nassivera Named as Producing Artistic Director of VT Theatre Fest

John Major Musical Revealed as Hoax

Dame Edna Sitcom in the Works

Assassins Sets Broadway Dates

Major Barbara Extends Until September 9

Thunder Knocks Again at New York's Door

Opera covered in Web accord. Upfront, backend compensation included
The American Guild of Musical Artists announced that it has reached an agreement with opera companies on an industrywide pact covering the Web release of past, present and future video operatic and ballet presentations.
posted at 7/20/2001 08:42:16 PM by James Marino | Item Link

Today's birthdays include Carlos Santana, Sally Ann Howes, and Diana Rigg.

Remembering The Star Spangled Girl by Peter Filichia

Max Bialystock's Latest Show by Ken Mandelbaum

Broadway Arrival of Millie Delayed Until Spring

'Music From a Sparkling Planet': Trying to Come of Age Before 40 by Ben Brantley

'Hedwig and the Angry Inch': Betwixt and Between on a Glam Frontier by Stephen Holden
John Cameron Mitchell's clever, funny, wildly innovative film musical follows the travails of a would-be rock star and survivor of a botched sex-change operation.
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Thursday, July 19, 2001

Today's birthdays include Pat Hingle, Helen Gallagher, and Anthony Edwards.

Your Choices for a Non-Musical Mount Rushmore by Peter Filichia

Marty and Friends by Ken Mandelbaum

Pinter the Actor Meets Pinter the Writer by Ben Brantley
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Rodney Kirk, Director Of Manhattan Plaza, Is Dead at 67
I was looking for an obit for John Petrafesa when I came across Rodney Kirk. Broadway has lost two friends in the recent days.

Christiane Noll to Be Earhart in Maltby-Shire Flight at O'Neill, July 27-Aug. 12

Do Dustin Diamond (Screech from Saved by the Bell) and Jaleel White (Steve Urkel, Family Matters) have Broadway in their future? It could be a Horror...

That is almost as horrifying as the rumored reversed-gender Tommy concert being pitched for December. Some possibilities are Janine LaManna as Oldest Tommy, Bryan Batt as "Mrs" Walker, John Ellison Conlee as The Acid Queen, Miriam Show as the blind guy, Kevin Cahoon as Sally Simpson, and either Sherie Scott or Daphne Rubin-Vega as Uncle Ernie.

'Thunder' rolls to Gotham
Tulchin returns with Mordecai, Hall
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Wednesday, July 18, 2001

John Petrafesa, VP of Labor Relations @ Disney and former "Assistant to the President" of IATSE International, passed away this morning from a massive heart attack.
:( .

We also hear that there is a plan being kicked around to sell MAMMA MIA House Seats through "corporate sales" so they can rake in even more... Huge advance. Wonder if the scalpers are sitting on a lot of the advance...

Next week, there is going to be a covert, star-studded workshop of the new "Blair Witch" musical. The writing team is unknown, but rumor has it Marin Mazzie is in contention for the role of the Blair Witch.
posted at 7/18/2001 04:42:06 PM by James Marino | Item Link

Show Business Online: CD Review of Stephanie Pope
Now�s The Time To Fall In Love

Park it Here, Broadway comes to Bryant Park in a series of lunchtime concerts
This Thursday (July 19) in Bryant Park, it�s Les Miz, Phantom, and a wild card: Bat Boy. Be there!

Buzz Lines: If you don�t want to miss The Actors� Fund�s all-star, 20th anniversary concert of Dreamgirls, you�d better get your tickets now.

Charles Nelson's Casts and Forecasts: The theater�s newest convert is TV actress Crystal Bernard, Broadway�s latest Annie (as in Get Your Gun).

Plays and Playwrights 2001
Charles Wright cracks open Martin Denton�s new anthology of provocative, Off-Off Broadway plays.

'One Mo' Time' may get B'way berth
More than two decades after its Off Broadway premiere, the musical "One Mo' Time" could be moving uptown to Broadway....

'Goat' in B'way pen
Albee's latest eyed for a spring opening

Luke Perry Extends Stay in Rocky Horror

For Him, Pinter's Plays the Thing
Dublin dervish orchestrates Lincoln Ctr. fest

Songbird's Set to Take A Chance on 'Mia'

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"Ooooooooooooooooooo!" by Peter Filichia

Steppin' to the West End? by Ken Mandelbaum
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Show�s Future at Stake by Michael Riedel
Jim Steinman's "Dance of the Vampires" is making its way to Broadway - but not without a splattering of bad blood. A rift has opened between Steinman, who wrote the songs on Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell" album, and his producers, Anita Waxman and Elizabeth Williams.

According to Cindy Adams...
The Winter Garden's advance for its soon-due "Mamma Mia!" is $28 million. Producers are considering a $120 per ticket top.

Bryan Batt To Light Up Beauty and the Beast.

Albee's Goat Heads for Broadway.

Roundabout's Blue Extends Until September 16.

The Shape of Things Opens Off-B'way October 10.

Sonja of Original 'Survivor' Series Is Mrs. Paroo in MI Music Man.

Rocky Horror's Tom Hewitt Reawakens in Frank Wildhorn's New Dracula Musical.

Cunningham, Hamilton, Smith-Cameron Make Music from a Sparkling Planet July 19.

Debbie Gravitte to Star in Paper Mill Red, Hot & Blue! Oct. 24.

Neither Ru Paul Nor Sebastian Bach Are Going into Rocky Horror Show

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Today's birthdays include Nelson Mandela, Hume Cronyn, John Glenn, James Brolin, Elizabeth McGovern, and Vin Diesel.

How 'Seussical: The Musical' Was Puffed Into a Big Flop by Robin Pogrebin
Why did "Seussical" � a collection of stories from the children's books by Dr. Seuss, strung together with songs � fail to live up to its powerful promise?
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Tuesday, July 17, 2001

George Gershwin Alone Takes Final Bow July 22
posted at 7/17/2001 03:59:55 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

Revivals: The '60s by Ken Mandelbaum
posted at 7/17/2001 01:14:26 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

Bastille Day on Broadway by Peter Filichia
How did I miss this?
posted at 7/17/2001 09:14:11 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

Today's birthdays include David Hasselhoff, Art Linkletter, Phyllis Diller, Donald Sutherland, Diahann Carroll, Lucie Arnaz, and James Cagney.

Theater Fund Files Suit to Protect TKTS Name

Taylor and Bologna Bring If You Ever to Broadway, July 17

Is RuPaul Rocky Horror's Next Sweet Transvestite?
posted at 7/17/2001 05:52:16 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

Monday, July 16, 2001

London My Fair Lady to Release Cast Album July 23

Donna McKechnie Holds a Mirror to Her Career and Sings at Arci's Place July 24-Aug. 4

Harold Pinter Begins Reign at Lincoln Center Festival July 16

Full Monty Composer David Yazbek Plays Joe's Pub, July 16

Shoestring-Budget Musicals Tonight! Has Porter, Gershwins and Berlin in 2001-2002
My boycott of Theatre/Broadway Online.com is back. Those pesky pop up banner ads are back like ants at a picnic! I wonder if they are keeping track of how many readers they've lost since changing their site? What a shame!

'Lupe' Not Worthy Of the Salsa Great

TO SING'S THE THING
Audra McDonald sings tonight at 8 on the Great Lawn of Central Park

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Today's birthdays include Barnard Hughes, Michael Flatley, Phoebe Cates, Will Ferrell, Corey Feldman, and Ginger Rogers.

Tony's Follies by Peter Filichia

Happy Birthday Michael Lavine! by Peter Filichia

Vampires at the Minskoff? by Ken Mandelbaum

'Much Ado About Nothing': A 60's Shakespeare � Go-Go, With Hints of James Bond by Anita Gates
posted at 7/16/2001 07:07:45 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

Sunday, July 15, 2001

Steven Suskin ON THE RECORD: BELLS ARE RINGING and early Rodgers & Hart
I think you should all run out and buy the new 'Bells are Ringing' CD just to see my name in the credits. And it's also a well-crafted cast recording, listening to that overture makes me glad that we still have that big orchestra sound.

The Second Coming of 'N Sync
The nearly fab five make a bid for musical credibility

'Hedwig' - The Final Cut

For Him/Her, the 'Hedwig' Film Is/Isn't the Same
posted at 7/15/2001 11:32:34 AM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link

On this date in 1997, fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot to death outside his home in Miami; the man believed to be the gunman, suspected serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan, was found dead eight days later. Versace's former home in Miami has become the Graceland of Miami Beach, visitors passing by quite often. Someone should write a play or musical about this eight day period in Miami, it was very surreal. Today's birthdays include: Alex Karras, Ken Kercheval, Patrick Wayne, Jan-Michael Vincent, Linda Ronstadt, Kim Alexis, Lolita Davidovich, Forest Whitaker, Brigitte Nielsen, Scott Foley, Brian Austin Green, Rembrandt, and Clement Moore (Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house......)

Harold Pinter: His Genius Is to Find the Drama Between the Words

Notes on Pinter, Given by Pinter

A Theater Company, With All the Comforts of a Family

EARLY DOUBTS ASIDE, LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL FITS FIRMLY IN NEW YORK

'HEDWIG' CROSSES OVER TO THE SCREEN
But specifically, it's about John Cameron Mitchell, the man who helped create the show and also wrote, directed and stars in the film adaptation, which struts into theaters Friday.

The Toronto Star Noel Coward a lion larger than life by Richard Ouzounian
For all the Noel Coward fans out there, interesting read. Loved this line, "If Coward were alive today, I picture him appearing regularly in Entertainment Weekly, guest hosting Saturday Night Live and urging us to check out http://www.noelcoward.com."

posted at 7/15/2001 10:59:28 AM by Susan Heim | Item Link

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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]

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
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Oct 16 - Billy Elliot (Imperial)

Nov 08 - Dividing the Estate (a Shubert theater)

Dec 14 - Shrek: The Musical (Broadway) [DreamWorks]

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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]

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