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Saturday, July 28, 2001 ![]() ![]() Blind Item Received:
posted at 7/28/2001 11:05:06 AM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Seagull" - whose all-star cast includes John Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman, Meryl Streep and Christopher Walken - runs through Aug. 19 at Central Park's Delacorte Theater. Dates for tickets in the boros, where the lines may be a bit shorter... One last thing: anyone know how to get in touch with Kristen Bell? There is a producer out there looking for her for a fun gig, but her Equity contact information is wrong so they cannot reach her. If you do know, email us. Thanks. posted at 7/28/2001 08:38:36 AM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 7/28/2001 07:08:39 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Friday, July 27, 2001 SHAMELESS PLUG DEPT.: Mermaniac.com, a Show Tunes Weblog written by yours truly, will be participating in a 24-hour "blogathon" for charity this weekend. I will be writing and posting one new entry to my website every half hour from 12 noon on Saturday until 12 noon on Sunday (Pacific Time). I'm raising money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, and I'm proud to count BroadwayStars.com as one of my sponsors. There's still time to donate. But don't forget, you don't need a special occasion to donate to BC/EFA. Just send them money any time you feel like it. Or even when you don't! posted at 7/27/2001 07:39:57 PM by Bill Jennings | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not surprisingly, I work with two of these groups - 2texans/Faux Real and LITE. posted at 7/27/2001 03:46:58 PM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reidel talks about ANGELS IN AMERICA coming to HBO, and that is interesting to those who are not up on theatre news, but even better is Classic Reidel:
posted at 7/27/2001 02:30:38 PM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() posted at 7/27/2001 01:59:30 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Albee's 'Baby' to make way for Bard 'Abridged' ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Composer Debra Barsha shares details about Radiant Baby, planned for a January 2002 workshop in NY ![]() ![]() Speculation continues over casting of the Broadway revival of Eugene O�Neill�s Long Day�s Journey into Night ![]() ![]() The assistant editor of the Tony-winning Theatre World books will follow the backstage doings of Broadway's personalities ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suzan-Lori Parks' new play opened July 26 at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre ![]() ![]() Inspired by the 1923 bittersweet novel by Italo Svevo, Zeno at 4 a.m. blends film, vocals, string music and puppets. ![]() ![]() posted at 7/27/2001 12:46:45 PM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 7/27/2001 06:53:03 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Thursday, July 26, 2001 On a personal note, I urge everyone (in NY, that is) to go and see 'The Seagull' - it was a superb night of theatre. And lest you think that we here at BroadwayStars.com get special ticket privileges, let me dispel you of that myth. I went to Central Park at 7am on Tuesday, and waited until 1pm. And ended up in that group of people who were given numbered cancellation vouchers, since they ran out of regular tickets just ahead of where I was. But I came back at 6:30pm and got in on the cancellation line. So go early! But go! posted at 7/26/2001 02:06:03 PM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link It was an NBC-Broadway evening last night with many Broadway regulars showing up on prime time. The 8PM slot was opened up by a guest appearance of Paige Price in Ed as a mean, stuck-up, rock band singer. Type casting. Just kidding. Paige is wrapping up a Gershwin revue at The MUNY in St. Louis this week. Following was the all-star cast of The West Wing whose roots are firmly planted in Broadway shows. Ending the evening was Terrence Mann as a defense attorney on Law & Order. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Louis G. Spisto, the embattled executive director of the American Ballet Theater, resigned under pressure in a continuing crisis for the troupe ![]() ![]() Earlier this month, Roger Nierenberg demonstrated a management-awareness seminar that uses orchestral teamwork as a guiding principle for corporations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The ABBA musical, which has been a hit in London, Toronto, San Francisco and Los Angeles, starts previews in October at the refurbished Winter Garden ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nicky Silver talks (jokingly!) about wanting to have a taste of the casting couch experience. ![]() ![]() Has the Off-Broadway rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch turned mainstream in its screen incarnation? Nein! ![]() ![]() Rising star Jeff Juday of the Off-Broadway musical I Sing! on TV sitcoms, Christianity, and red Speedos. ![]() ![]() Lincoln Center�s festival devoted to the work of Harold Pinter takes no time to pause as it offers a non-stop schedule of plays and films. ![]() ![]() Play offers Streep's first stage performance in two decades
![]() ![]() New director to replace Calder posted at 7/26/2001 09:40:00 AM by James Marino | Item Link Wednesday, July 25, 2001 John Cameron Mitchell and Jennifer Love Hewitt being mentioned as replacements in Rocky? That's the discussion over at TalkinBroadway's All That Chat. I love both of those casting choices. Also of note over at ATC, is the informal poll of who will drop first at The Seagull, because of the heat. Well thank God that it isn't Noise/Funk performing outside today! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 7/25/2001 06:28:24 PM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 7/25/2001 01:32:32 PM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() Space to stroll; drivers feeling squeeze All of Times Square should be closed to south bound traffic and the entire area made into a Broadway Walk of Fame (similar to the Hollywood Walk). Can you just imagine seeing Carol Channings' handprints outside the St. James? With the amount of money that Broadway generates for the City of New York, this should not even be an issue. ![]() ![]() I must be reading different numbers... Jack Welch, retiring chairman of GE, is going into business with Chuck Dolan of Cablevision. What does this have to do with Broadway you say? Well, Jack and Chuck are reported to be purchasing the Boston Red Sox. As Chuck owns Cablevision (nee: Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, et al) this now places him in the same realm of Harry Fazee, a 1920's Broadway producer and then owner of the Boston Red Sox. Fazee traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in order to finance a Broadway show. Looks like New York won on both accounts! We hope that Massachusetts native and BroadwayOnline columnist, Peter Filichia, approves. More rich people talk: NYC Mayor candidate, Michael Bloomberg, disclosed part of his finances. In there were a few gems to see how he would support the arts community. According the Daily News, Bloomberg has invested in a national tour of the musical "Annie" and in making Arthur Miller's novel "Focus" into a film. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This CD rocks. Go buy it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Strouse is also working on a Broadway show called The Night They Raided Minsky ![]() ![]() The Lynn Riggs play holds a special place in the career of the team that wrote The Fantasticks ![]() ![]() A wide variety in pricing structures found -- but the new top is $100. Plus: Reader tips on getting good seats. ![]() ![]() The rock musical spoof of the cult anti-drug film is looking for high times in New York, after a West Coast debut Will Patrick Wilson pass on seeing cattle standing like statues for the Narrator/Goat Man? ![]() ![]() Albee, 'One Mo' Time' aim for B'way ![]() ![]() Rodgers Centennial prod'n to open at Leicester Haymarket Theater ![]() ![]() Season to feature premieres by Nelson, Smith, Donaghy ![]() ![]() Washington stages sked Greeks, new works posted at 7/25/2001 09:42:21 AM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() V.J. is seeing a dream of his come true... Whether our dream is about the theatre or something else, we should all be so lucky. posted at 7/25/2001 06:50:38 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Tuesday, July 24, 2001 Best and most outrageous blind submission of the year (so far):
posted at 7/24/2001 03:11:58 PM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() posted at 7/24/2001 12:42:14 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 7/24/2001 06:18:54 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Monday, July 23, 2001 We've received a bunch of concerned emails that in the ABCs of The New York Times the ad for The Fantasticks says "Final Weeks" (or something close to that, I have not seen it.) I emailed the production team at The Fantasticks and here is the official response:
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 7/23/2001 10:15:04 PM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() [Thanks to Roscoe for the link] posted at 7/23/2001 04:41:14 PM by James Marino | Item Link Steve Barton, of 'Phantom' fame, passes away. posted at 7/23/2001 01:30:06 PM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link ![]() ![]() posted at 7/23/2001 12:39:03 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link ![]() ![]() posted at 7/23/2001 11:38:52 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Oh this date in 1984, Vanessa Williams, the first black Miss America, resigns after Penthouse magazine announced that it will publish lesbian photographs of her in its September issue. Prior to entering the Miss America contest she had certified committing no acts of "moral turpitude". Well, there's ONE way to launch a career on Broadway! posted at 7/23/2001 10:48:14 AM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Summer of a Dormouse" is a memoir in which the 78-year-old playwright, screenwriter, novelist and lawyer describes what it's like when your body is failing but your mind is young. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 7/23/2001 08:44:47 AM by Susan Heim | Item Link Sunday, July 22, 2001 ![]() ![]() Christine Ebersole, the Tony-winning star of "42nd Street," knows the value of a good story. She invented a heartwarming one for her 5-year-old adopted daughter, Mae Mae. She made up a name, Lin, for the child's birth mother, and assured Mae Mae that Lin loved her very much. ![]() ![]() The early death of an artist always seems poignant. You think of the ghosts of Keats and Shelley murmuring their lost poems, or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who died at 35 and ended up in a mass grave after his family failed to keep up the mandatory fees for his grave site. posted at 7/22/2001 09:49:35 PM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() posted at 7/22/2001 01:22:34 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jan looks just like Brendan Fraser ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Christine Ebersole, the Tony-winning star of "42nd Street," knows the value of a good story.She invented a heartwarming one for her 5-year-old adopted daughter, Mae Mae. She made up a name, Lin, for the child's birth mother, and assured Mae Mae that Lin loved her very much. ![]() ![]() posted at 7/22/2001 12:38:59 AM by Susan Heim | Item Link BroadwayStars is powered by Blogger Pro! [Past News] |
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