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Saturday, January 05, 2002 ![]() ![]() MUST HAVE OWN EQUIPMENT Anyone looking for a new job in 2002? ![]() ![]() Richard Rodgers was the man who wrote "You'll Never Walk Alone," but personally, he followed a sad, solitary path for all of his 77 years on earth. posted at 1/5/2002 11:00:08 AM by Susan Heim | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Excerpts from the opening monologue of Kushner's new play, "Homebody/Kabul." posted at 1/5/2002 08:04:02 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Friday, January 04, 2002 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Play opens Off Broadway March 13 Alan King stars as legendary film producer Samuel Goldwyn in "Mr. Goldwyn." The new play by Marsha Lebby and John Lollos opens Off Broadway March 13 at the Promenade Theater, where it replaces Neil LaBute's "The Shape of Things." ![]() ![]() When I first saw John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle" 40-odd years ago as an unimaginably innocent teenager in suburban Milwaukee, I didn't understand why people were so taken with a play about the propriety of a soldier spending the night in a single girl's apartment. ![]() ![]() IT'S time for some fearless and no doubt foolhardy predictions about the shows and stars that will have the theater world buzzing in 2002. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Broadway.com has learned that A.R. Gurney and Andrew Lippa are in the preliminary stages of developing a musical version of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's Life With Father. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As well as a production... in Korea. (?) ![]() ![]() Excellent casting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 1/4/2002 09:12:01 AM by James Marino | Item Link Thursday, January 03, 2002 ![]() ![]() Cablevision Systems Corp. has named a former AOL Time Warner executive as president of its New York cable business, fueling buzz that Cablevision is looking to sell the business to the media giant.What does this have to do with Broadway? Follow the money... Cablevision owns Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall. They have been involved in many productions (Christmas Carol, Pimpernel, Wizard of Oz...) AOL Time Warner wants to get into the Broadway business (nee: Disney), dangling its feet in the water with the Batman project among other things. If this rumored sale happens, it will definitely have an impact on Broadway, if only to give Disney some competition. But in bigger ways, if AOL Time Warner takes a large stake in Broadway properties, they most certainly have a distribution and marketing channels. Can you imagine everyone who logs on to AOL getting a popup that says, "You've Got Tickets!" posted at 1/3/2002 02:49:24 PM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() ...and the Grinch's heart grew to three times it's normal size! posted at 1/3/2002 02:36:29 PM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() Camp Broadway and Columbia University's Columbia Scholastic Press Association, in association with Walt Disney Theatrical Productions, unite to train New York City high school students in arts journalism ![]() ![]() [Cancels her next few concerts at Arci's and some 42nd Street performances.] posted at 1/3/2002 10:24:20 AM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even the most zealous partisans of the Royal Shakespeare Theater, built in 1932 as a showcase for the Art Deco style then in vogue, are well aware of its drawbacks. ![]() ![]() Holiday B.O. a big reason to celebrate "The good story is, there was no story," said "Rent" producer Jeffrey Seller. "Broadway behaved as it was supposed to last week." ![]() ![]() Filichia chats with Joe Morton and other theater types at various holiday parties. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Those tapping feet of 42nd Street did something amazing last week: they danced their way to the top of the box office heap. ![]() ![]() Jessica Goldberg�s Good Thing will end its limited engagement at The New Group/Theatre @ St. Clement's a week earlier than expected. The drama will now close on Sunday, January 6. ![]() ![]() The long-rumored revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Kim Cattrall, may still happen. ![]() ![]() Despite a holiday-week bonanza at the box office, Broadway ended the year down more than $22 million and 500,000 fannies from its record 2000 season. With figures available through Dec. 30, Broadway theaters recorded $373,128,667 in sales for the season starting in June. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() IF you haven't met Wise Guise yet, you should. The 11-year-old sketch-comedy troupe has a new show, and while it's uneven, it's still wildly entertaining. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() $279,803 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And good news to look forward to in February: Playbill Radio will be launching! posted at 1/3/2002 09:19:29 AM by James Marino | Item Link Wednesday, January 02, 2002 ![]() ![]() posted at 1/2/2002 11:49:46 PM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Legit shows averaging 48.9% rise over last session After a turbulent autumn at the box office, Broadway managed to end the year with its traditional big-bucks performance. ![]() ![]() Global Search for New Musicals to be Oct. 20-Nov. 3 ![]() ![]() Princess Grace may be on her way to Broadway. It will be a long trip. "Grace, the Musical," with a score by veteran composer Cy Coleman, is running in Amsterdam � and so far, it's in Dutch. ![]() ![]() THINGS are a little sleepy on Broadway right now, what with theater mucky-mucks running off to ski houses in Vermont, private yachts in the Caribbean and spas in Arizona. But there's plenty of theater news coming out of London. ![]() ![]() What's hot and what's not in movies, theater and music. ![]() ![]() Retro-news... it's hot for 2002! ![]() ![]() Legendary actress Eileen Heckart died Monday, December 31 at her home in Connecticut after a three-year battle with cancer, according to The Associated Press. She was 82. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 1/2/2002 09:57:57 AM by James Marino | Item Link Tuesday, January 01, 2002 ![]() ![]() Hats off to Bacall, Garbo, Loren, and all of the other �beautiful girls� invoked by musical theater lyricists. ![]() ![]() As 2002 begins, here is a look back at some highlights and disappointments of the fall 2001 season. ![]() ![]() A hundred years of gratitude for Marlene Dietrich, a landslide of tributes to Richard Rodgers, and a bittersweet birthday for Amahl and the Night Visitors. ![]() ![]() Michael Buckley catches up with Zoe Caldwell, an actress for all seasons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 1/1/2002 09:48:01 AM by James Marino | Item Link ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() H A P P Y N E W Y E A R posted at 1/1/2002 08:46:12 AM by the other James | Item Link Monday, December 31, 2001 ![]() ![]() Simon comedy made world preem on B'way in Nov. And "45 Seconds from Broadway" makes it nine Broadway shows to post closing notices this winter. The Neil Simon comedy will call it quits at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Jan. 13, after 31 previews and 73 regular performances. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "I can�t believe it�s me. I�m afraid that a lot of people will listen to it and try to sing like that�I hope they don�t hurt themselves! I�m not sure how I do it. ![]() ![]() The theater community was shocked when Kathleen Freeman, the unstoppable star of The Full Monty, died unexpectedly on August 23, as she had appeared in the hit show just a few days earlier. ![]() ![]() Over the past year, the theaters of New York City were filled with star turns, unforgettable debuts and the kind of passion that can only be found on the stage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() [Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, and Bea Arthur.] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, I totally zoned on this one. I meant to mention that on Discovery's The Learning Channel December 29 and December 30 was "Wedding Story" which featured Broadway stars Paige Davis and Patrick Page, in their actual wedding. (They met on the Beauty and the Beast tour.) Paige is the host of TLC's popular show, Trading Spaces. Hopefully TLC will re-broadcast "Wedding Story" around Valentine's Day. Word is that Santa has brought me one of my presents late: I asked for a weekly fix of Michael Buckley, the TV Guide writer and former Broadway Online columnist. TheaterMania, who picked up a 3x a week Peter Filichia after the closing of BroadwayOnline, has added Michael Buckley to the TheaterMania roster. Mr. Buckley will be writing once a week, mostly interviewing personalities. Starting the new year: Zoe Caldwell. Of course, we will link to the interview as soon as it is posted... And while we are talking about Santa's presents, Hollywood Media Corp, which owns Broadway.com, has had something special to cheer about over the past three months. While all the uncertainty in the stock market, Hollywood Media Corp, which is considered a pure play dot com, has seen its stock price double since the end of October. Even in the face of Tribune Company selling its entire 9% stake in the company, the shares were immediately purchased and held the stock price. And finally, since everyone else is wrapping up the year, I thought I would as well. BroadwayStars has grown a bit this year. We now have approximately 35,000 unique readers every day. This never could have happened without some writing and linking help from my friends: Catherine Skidmore, Mathew Murray, Susan Heim, James Galla, Seth Christenfeld and Bill Jennings. My buddies Douglas Maxwell and Keith Johnson on the technology side who keep me from breaking everything. (More likely, they fix what I already broke.) The un-named people who I don't name so that they can keep their jobs (they know who they are!) thanks to you too. This site has been brought to you this year by a generous grant from American Express. Lets hope they hire me again next year! The last thing to mention is that theater people are the best people in the world. Smart, caring, insane, dependable and dreamers. The major media talked about how America changed after September 11th: Americans are smarter, caring, insane, dependable and dreamers. And what a wonderful feeling that is to be unified in goodness. Theater people already knew that. posted at 12/31/2001 10:59:18 AM by James Marino | Item Link Sunday, December 30, 2001 ![]() ![]() Plenty of Signs That the Show Is Still the Thing by BEN BRANTLEY From Elaine Stritch's brass to the brazenness of "The Producers," theater showed that it, and New York, would survive. ![]() ![]() Anchors Mattered Again, and 'Survivor' Didn't by CARYN JAMES A time when network news moved center stage, "Friends" grew up and reality shows lost most of their allure. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At first glance, the spring theater season has a heavy aura of d�j� vu about it � in the case of musicals, not only will there be several major revivals but even the new shows will be adaptations of familiar ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is always the runts of the litter that deserve our sympathy - particularly if they happen to be talented runts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() posted at 12/30/2001 09:55:35 AM by James Marino | Item Link BroadwayStars is powered by Blogger Pro! 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