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Saturday, August 04, 2001

Theater That's on the Fringe -- and Beyond
In the third year, there was a musical about a city very much like New York, except that a severe water shortage has led to the control of all toilets by a malevolent corporation. It was called "Urinetown: The Musical." "Urinetown" opens on Broadway next month, a first for a show that got its start at the New York International Fringe Festival.
And my friend Raquel was in it, and it was the funniest thing I saw in the Fringe that year.

A Chance to See `Salesman' as if for the First Time

Zero Mostel: A Clown Harboring an Inner Artist

Ren�e Taylor and Joe Bologna: Inspired by One Another

Karen Horn visits 'The Full Monty'

posted at 8/4/2001 11:14:35 PM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link



McCormack Leaves River City Behind, Exits Music Man Aug. 5

The Patients are Running the Asylum at OOB's Theater for the New City, Aug. 4-Sept. 17

Henry Moss Fully Cast for Sept. 5 Start at OB's Signature

Full Monty Cuts Short Toronto Extension; Ends Perfs Aug. 5
It's probably dangerous using the words cut short and extension with a show about naked men baring it all on stage, but use the words one must. The Full Monty national tour, after extending to Sept. 1 in Toronto, will cut short the elongated stay, now ending their run at the Elgin Theatre Aug. 5. The company's next engagement at Chicago's Shubert Theatre begins Sept. 6.

Buzz Lines: They're Here For CHESS!
Brian d�Arcy James prepares for his Chess rematch with Rob Evan in Nyack, New York.

Delays, Delays, Delays By: Charles Nelson
What�s happening�or not happening�with the scheduled Broadway productions of Mack & Mabel, Noises Off, and Ten Unknowns?

Anton Chekhov: Writer signed a contract with his conscience by Richard Ouzounian
They're lining up in New York's Central Park at 4 a.m., but it's not for an 'N Sync concert or a chance to meet Julia Roberts. The presence of Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Marsha Gay Harden, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and other major boldface participants certainly has something to do with it.
But I'm willing to give a lot of the credit to Chekhov (1860-1904), the medical student who started out as a comic journalist and became one of the finest playwrights the world has ever known.

posted at 8/4/2001 02:06:47 PM by Susan Heim | Item Link



Staged Readings for Maltby/Shire Flight and Walter Bobbie's Hollywood Musicals Held Aug. 3 - 11
Pretty fabulous casts - I'm going today. Thoughts to come.

posted at 8/4/2001 03:14:13 AM by Seth | Item Link



Today's birthdays include the Queen Mother, Yasser Arafat, Richard Belzer, Louis Armstrong, Roger Clemens, Louis Armstrong, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

A Tale of Two Buddies by Peter Filichia

Manilow's Harmony Lives: Musical May Play Chicago

Topdog/Underdog Extends Until September 2

Broadway Tonight Aims to Replace Tours with TV

Put Down My Knitting and Come...Where, Old Chum? by Tom Lynch

posted at 8/4/2001 12:10:51 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

Friday, August 03, 2001

Two LCT Musicals for Butz by Ken Mandelbaum
posted at 8/3/2001 02:00:13 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link



Today's birthdays include Richard Adler, Leon Uris, Tony Bennett, and Jay North.

I Had Another Dream by Peter Filichia

'An Evening With Donna McKechnie': The Eternal Ingenue Conducts a Tour of Her Life by Ben Brantley
A mix of high-sheen professionalism and raw vulnerability make Donna McKechnie's cabaret act quite a singular sensation.
Does Brantley's reviewing a cabaret act strike anyone as a little odd?

Full Cast Announced for Frank Wildhorn's New Dracula Musical

Aug. 5 PBS Special Shows How The Producers' Cast Album Was Made

Cast Set for Flower Drum Song at Mark Taper

'Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh': An Orgy of Verbal Slapstick by Neil Genzlinger

posted at 8/3/2001 06:37:19 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link



'Dresser' A Lam Duck by Michael Riedel
If he sets foot in America, they'll clap the irons on him. But that hasn't stopped disgraced theatrical impresario Garth Drabinsky from plotting a return to Broadway. Drabinsky - who makes Max Bialystock look like Mother Teresa - recently hatched a scheme to revive Ronald Harwood's 1981 play, "The Dresser," in New York, starring Philip Bosco and Alan Cumming.

Anyone seen Jessie McKinley lately?

posted at 8/3/2001 06:05:29 AM by James Marino | Item Link

Thursday, August 02, 2001

Catching Up with a 1970 Tony Nominee by Peter Filichia
Matthew, Howdjamissthis one? : )

B'way Dates Confirmed for Alda in QED

John Hurt To Star in Krapp's Last Tape Off-B'way

Alda Is Latest Bway Brain at Lincoln Center Theatre's QED, Beginning Sept. 30

Eli's Comin' Coming Again? Musical Wants Transfer for Fall 2001

Chicago's Issue-Oriented Stage Left Has World Preem Death Penalty Play in 2001-2002
The 2001-2002 season begins Sept. 15-Nov. 3 with the world premiere of Chagrin Falls, a play by Mia McCullough about a reporter who travels to Chagrin Falls, OK, to witness the execution of a convicted murderer. "She discovers a community that maintains an uneasy co-existence with both the death penalty and institutionalized death," according to the season announcement. Kevin Heckman directs. McCullough's play won First Prize in the 2001 Julie Harris Playwriting Competition

Saving the Last Dance for Us: Doc Pomus Musical Still Eyeing Bway for Late 2002
Save the Last Dance for Me will feature more than 20 tunes by Pomus, including "Viva Las Vegas," "This Magic Moment," "Teenager in Love," "Lonely Avenue," "Boogie Woogie Country Girl" and the title song.

Shaw Thing: The Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake offers works by G.B.S. and much more.
Saw an excellent production of PICNIC there earlier this summer. It's a beautiful place to visit as well.

Tunes and Tomes: Fynsworth Alley revisits the Whorehouse and offers Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens.

Alda play sets run in Gotham
Lincoln Center Theater prepares for 24 performances of "QED"

"The Simpsons" Do Macbeth.
Okilly-dokilly, neighborino, you're not going to find a funnier show anywhere this summer than MacHomer.
Sounds hilarious!

posted at 8/2/2001 07:05:04 PM by Susan Heim | Item Link



CDs: Urine Good Company by Ken Mandelbaum
posted at 8/2/2001 12:28:58 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link



On this date in 1924, James Baldwin, the American essayist, novelist and playwright whose work explored racial issues, was born. Following his death on Dec. 1, 1987, his obituary appeared in The Times. And in 1939, Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging creation of an atomic weapons research program. Today's birthdays include: Mary Louise Parker, Peter O'Toole, Wes Craven, Joanna Cassidy, Kevin Smith and Edward Furlong.

Fans of the infamous Dorothy Parker will retrace her steps and lift a glass to celebrate the legendary wit at the third annual Parkerfest on Friday, Aug. 10 through Sunday, Aug. 12, 2001 in New York. Sponsored by the Dorothy Parker Society of New York, events include a Speakeasy Night, Roundtable Luncheon at the Algonquin Hotel and Walking Tour. Parkerfest celebrates Mrs. Parker's birthday (Aug. 22, 1893) and life as one of the country's greatest writers. For more info, email Kevin Fitzpatrick.

'SEAGULL' TICKET SEEKERS FLOCK TO PARK
If you want to see Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Natalie Portman and other stars in 'The Seagull,' get in line. Each day, New Yorkers and out-of-towners line up by the thousands to get tickets for the free Shakespeare in the Park production. Most leave empty-handed.

Pip In! 'Great Expectations, The Musical', Begins Goodspeed Run Aug. 2
Rita Gardner, a 'Fantasticks' original, now takes on the creepy Miss Havisham in this John Jakes-Mel Marvin musical based on Dickens' epic.

Mills, Cuccioli and Bloom Bring 'A Little Night Music' to Seattle Sept. 18-Oct. 14
My brother lives in Seattle - I always tell him what he should run out and see. Or stay in and miss.

Disney Offers a Shot at Stardom on August 13

Star-Studded Seagull Extends a Week

Let's hear it for the boys.

posted at 8/2/2001 09:36:14 AM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link

Wednesday, August 01, 2001

An Unruly Cast of Characters Learns Its Line
Now that I have actually been chased out of Central Park by a desperate mob of Anton Chekhov fans, I feel vindicated in my longstanding belief that this city is one ongoing freak show populated by hordes of high-strung people who have managed to transform yoga into a competitive sport.

posted at 8/1/2001 04:04:44 PM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link



DVDs: Catfish Row by Ken Mandelbaum
posted at 8/1/2001 03:28:36 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link



Today's birthdays include Arthur Hill, Dom DeLuise, Tempestt Bledsoe, Francis Scott Key, Herman Melville, and Jerry Garcia.

Another Fabulous FutureFest by Peter Filichia

PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Martha Plimpton

I Love You, You're Perfect Turns Five, Aug. 1

Fans Wait in Line Up to 13 Hours for Starry Seagull

Fantasticks Rescinds Plans to Close

An Actor and Actress, All Rolled Into One by David Jay Lasky
Martin Van Treuren is winning plaudits for his dual-role performance in the loose and eccentric production of "Pirates of Penzance" playing aboard a four-masted barque at South Street Seaport.

Six Shows Are Added for 'Seagull'

posted at 8/1/2001 06:26:54 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

Tuesday, July 31, 2001

Will the Real Curly McLain Please Stand Up? by Michael Portantiere
You have to love the Internet.

Showtime heads 'West'
Cabler to tape live stage prod'n of Shepard's play. Showtime has signed a deal with Bruce Willis to tape his live stage production of Sam Shepard's play "True West" for an exclusive pay TV window later this year....

B'way beats summer heat with B.O. gain

Roundabout's 'Blue' hits high note
Off Broadway sleeper scores with both black and white auds

Playwrights Horizons Is Gaining More Seats and Studio Space
Playwrights Horizons, the decrepit two-story Off Broadway writer's theater, is being razed to make way for a $24 million five-story complex.

Showtime Goes West with Willis

Showtime Tapes Bruce Willis Staging of True West July 31
Willis stars in and directs Idaho production of Sam Shepard's dark comedy about two estranged brothers

Dedicated Theatergoers Wait in Line for The Seagull
Public Theatre says it's one of the three biggest draws ever at the Delacorte Theatre

Fantasticks Rescinds Plan To Close
The longest-running musical in history has rescinded warnings of "last weeks"

Two Sweet Transvestites Take On B'way's Rocky Horror Show, Aug. 2-9
Producer Jordan Roth still looking for someone permanent to replace Tom Hewitt when he leaves in mid-August.

Sept. 9 "Broadway on Broadway" To Get Primetime Airing on WNBC
The free Times Square event will showcase Broadway hits and preview the coming season

How Are Broadway Shows Doing at the Box Office? -- Week Ending July 29
How are all the non-The Producers shows doing? Check out the actual weekly box office figures on BroadwayOnline.com

posted at 7/31/2001 03:48:42 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link



Leif Garrett Is Villain in MI Rock Musical, 'Old Timer', July 31-Aug. 12

Gien Uproots From 'Syringa Tree' July 31; Blumberg Starts Aug. 1

Valerie Harper Joins 'The Tale of the Allergist's Wife' July 31
Valerie Harper's roles have ranged from Rhoda to Pearl S. Buck. Now she plays a depressed Jewish housewife whose best friend reawakens her but also tests her limits.

posted at 7/31/2001 02:13:01 PM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link



New Stones Star by Ken Mandelbaum
posted at 7/31/2001 02:05:44 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link



Broadway Grosses: ROCKY Rocks
posted at 7/31/2001 12:50:22 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link



3hree Likely to See Regional Life, but NYC Plans Still Cloudy

From Zentertainment:

    "SHOWTIME Will tape a live special performance of the Sam Shepard play TRUE WEST tonight at the LIBERTY Theater in Hailey, Idaho. Bruce Willis stars and directs the dark comedy about a troubled relationship between two brothers, and he also happens to be owner of the LIBERTY Theater. Chad Smith, Andrew Alburger, and Danielle Kennedy also star.'"
How is it that this information was kept secret until now?

posted at 7/31/2001 10:48:56 AM by Seth | Item Link



As Audiences Discover Frugality, Pop Culture Starts Feeling a Chill
    "Ticket sales on Broadway are flat and would be down if not for two sell-out shows, 'The Producers' and 'The Lion King.'"
You don't say...

posted at 7/31/2001 09:20:04 AM by James Marino | Item Link



Today's birthdays include Wesley Snipes and Dean Cain.

The Movie Musical with the Egregious Omissions by Peter Filichia

Playwrights Horizons Is Gaining More Seats and Studio Space by Ralph Blumenthal

Hail to the Cheek by Marc Miller
Forbidden Broadway creator Gerard Alessandrini has a good old time with a bad old musical as he deconstructs Mr. President.

posted at 7/31/2001 06:43:28 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

Monday, July 30, 2001

Free Theater, but the Lines? Unspeakable
Oh, I am so glad I already went.

Rehearsals begin August 7 for 'Camila', an original book musical by Laurie McKelbey with lots of tango and Latin dancing, set to bow September 12 at Philadelphia�s Walnut Street Theater. It�s based on a true story set in Argentina in the 1840s. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hayden will star; her name is Elizabeth Sastre. In support: Titanic�s Alma Cuervo and Once Around the City�s William Parry. The director is BT McNicholl and the choreographer is Scott Wise, both of whom earned high marks recently�McNicholl for 'The IT Girl' and Tony-winner Wise for the Astaire Awards.
I never miss a Michael Hayden musical.

Jim Caruso is...Prying!
Karen Mason of 'Mamma Mia!' on auditioning, making it in showbiz, and Broadway vs. cabaret.

Jude Law Returns to London Stage in 'Doctor Faustus'
Jude Law is set to return to the stage in a production of Christopher Marlowe's 'Doctor Faustus' at London�s Young Vic. The play will begin an eight-week run the week of March 25.
I am booking my plane tickets NOW.

'Hairspray' Not Holding Marshall?
Also: As we all know, David Shiner did not have a particularly happy time on Broadway last season in 'Seussical'. But there�s a chance that he could be back on Broadway this season, for a possible holiday return engagement of 'Fool Moon' with Bill Irwin.

Laura Linney to Star Opposite Liam Neeson in Broadway 'Crucible'

OB's 'Fantasticks' Fears Finish, Fights for Forever

Stratford Fest Confirms Plummer as Lear in 2002; Miller Directs
I was just watching 'The Sound of Music' the other night; I think Christopher Plummer is a babe.

On this date in 1938, Adolf Hitler presents Germany's highest award for non-citizens to automaker Henry Ford, a renowned anti-semite. Ford had personally paid for copies of the racist and fictitious rant "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion" to be placed in all major U.S. libraries. I don't remember this part in 'Ragtime'.

posted at 7/30/2001 02:20:13 PM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link



Blatt and Giering's Mistress Cycle Workshopped at Williamstown, Aug. 3-4
Hope this all works right - I'm new here.

posted at 7/30/2001 11:46:31 AM by Seth | Item Link



Today's birthdays include Lisa Kudrow, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Delta Burke, Laurence Fishburne, Vivica A. Fox, Tom Green, Christine Taylor, Hilary Swank, and Henry Ford.

Your Favorite Show Songs Cut from Movies by Peter Filichia

Revivals: The '80s by Ken Mandelbaum

posted at 7/30/2001 06:35:53 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

Sunday, July 29, 2001

On this day in 1998, Jerome Robbins, a master choreographer of modern ballet and a major Broadway innovator, died in New York at age 79.
Today's birthdays include: Robert Fuller, Peter Jennings, Geddy Lee, Dag Hammarskjold, Don Marquis and Clara Bow.

Why Opera Isn't the Word for Sondheim

In Opera by the Bay, Drama Offstage

Steppenwolf's Cuckoo Flies From Broadway July 29

Off-Broadway's World of Mirth Comes to an End July 29 as Guyer Play Closes

Drama Dept. Holds Potluck Dinner and Talent Show, July 30
It's a company picnic, folks.

Wives Mix Baking and Murder in Berkshire Festival's Smell of the Kill, July 31
Kristen Johnston, Claudia Shear and Dylan McDermott appear in featured roles

Donna McKechnie's Life: In the Music, in the Mirror
The Tony-winner for A Chorus Line recalls her life with Michael Bennett, Gwen Verdon, Fred Astaire -- and her cabaret show and upcoming new musical.

A matter of `Luck': Finding new life in Arthur Miller's first Broadway play

The Seagull tickets are out of control. Friends of mine saw the show last night. They went out on line to see it at 4AM Saturday. They were one of the last to get tickets. People that arrived at 5AM did not get them. Also, over at Talkin'Broadway, there is a post about 6 tickets on eBay for $6,000. Don't you think that is kind of pricey for a free ticket?

Neil Patrick Harris in OKLAHOMA!?
There have been whispers of Patrick turning down Oklahoma! for months now. Will someone, either Patrick or the production, care to comment?

TwinCities.com: Role of nurse Nellie is a Dilly

posted at 7/29/2001 10:07:52 AM by James Marino | Item Link



Today's birthdays include Elizabeth Dole, Peter Jennings, David Warner, Ken Burns, Wil Wheaton, and Sigmund Romberg.

Bella Donna! by Peter Filichia

Trying to Act Saintly Nowadays Can Be a Hair Shirt by Celia Wren
From Shakespeare to Shaw to Loesser, selling piety in theater today is a challenge. Cherry Jones, right, plays a trooper for the Salvation Army in "Major Barbara."

David Warner: A Prodigy Who Opted Out Opts Back In by Peter Marks
The most astonishing line in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival of "Major Barbara" is not in the script. It's in the program, in the Who's Who in the Cast section, next to a photo of a distinguished-looking silver- haired actor. "David Warner," it says simply, "is making his American stage debut."

posted at 7/29/2001 09:30:10 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

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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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