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Saturday, January 26, 2002
 Toronto Star: Graduating to stardom on the stage Toronto audiences get chance to sample Alicia Silverstone's many charms by Richard Ouzounian
 Toronto Star: Jason Biggs' expectations by Richard Ouzounian
 Toronto Star: Are you trying to seduce me Ms Turner? Kathleen Turner's sexy image through the years has made The Graduate, opening in Toronto next month, a hot ticket by Richard Ouzounian
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 Ron Taylor, Voice of Blues and a Plant, Dies at 49
 Ads Suggest the Pitfalls Of Losing Art Education
 Peter Filichia's Diary Filichia thoroughly enjoys a new book about a now forgotten but once famous showbiz entrepreneur of the 19th century.
 Charles Nelson's Casts and Forecasts A trip to Town for Paul Newman, a possible new flight path for the FireBird, and a Game to play for Karen Ziemba.
 Patti LuPone Returns to Carnegie Hall
 Six Dance Lessons Delays Until Next Season The planned Broadway production of Richard Alfieri's Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks, starring Uta Hagen and David Hyde Pierce, has been delayed until next season.
 Irwin Takes Over for Murray in The Guys Anne Nelson�s The Guys is extending its run at the Flea through February 9, except it is doing so without original star Bill Murray.
 Les Miz Celebrates a Record-Breaking Milestone Tonight
 Cast Set for Off-Broadway's Necessary Targets Shirley Knight, Diane Venora, Alyssa Bresnahan, Catherine Kellner, Sally Parish, Maria Thayer and Mirjana Jokovic are all set for the off-Broadway production of Eve Ensler�s Necessary Targets.
 Banderas to Make B'way Debut in Nine Next Season
 Shear, Emery & Stone Star in Smell of the Kill Claudia Shear, Lisa Emery and Jessica Stone will star in Michele Lowe�s The Smell of the Kill on Broadway.
 Fresh Face: Kate Blumberg by Paul Wontorek
 Havel's Largo Desolato to Open at NYC's Spring Theatreworks Jan. 30
 PHOTO CALL: Carson McCullers, Take a Bow!
 PHOTO CALL: Schulman and Bacon Bring Carson McCullers to Life
 PHOTO CALL: Bacon and Stears Play On-Again Off-Again McCullers
 Grey House Releases Second "Performing Arts Directory" of Dance, Music and Theatre
 New Musicals Gold and Beach Radio Get NYC Readings Jan. 26 & 28
 Actor-director Reggie Montgomery, a Vet of Public Theater, Dead at 54
 Six Dance Lessons Postpones Bway to Next Season
 Yes Guv'nor: Pataki to Attend Bway's 42nd Street Jan. 25
 In New Adaptation of 'Othello,' Meet Dessie, Jago and Cass, on PBS Jan. 28
 Honk! Writers Drewe & Stiles Working on Two New Musicals
 PHOTO CALL: Taymor Takes in TFANA's Cymbeline Jan. 20
 PHOTO CALL: Sher's Cymbeline Arrives in America Jan. 20
 Bradley Spends '60 Minutes' With August Wilson Jan. 27
 Mario Van Peebles and Treat Williams Read L.A. War Letters Jan. 29, Opening Feb. 17
 Irwin Joins Weaver in The Guys at OOB's Flea, Jan. 29-Feb. 9
 DIVA TALK: Peters sings R&H, Cook sings Sondheim, Lacey sings Gospel
 Report: Banderas to Play Guido in Roundabout Nine Revival, Jan. 2003
 Shear, Stone and Emery Go in for The Kill at Bway's Hayes, March 5
 Still the Sane, if Not Successful, Voice, Daria Bows Out
What exactly has Billy Rosenfeld been doing for The Last Five Years?
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Friday, January 25, 2002
 A Busy, Early Spring on Broadway
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 Obscene Jesters "Love Can Be a Dirty Joke!"
 Who Is Dan Rice? By: Peter Filichia
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 Banderas is B'way bound with 'Nine'� Thesp to play Italo helmer in the midst of a midlife crisis Antonio Banderas will make his Broadway debut in a revival of the 1982 hit musical "Nine," based on Federico Fellini's classic "8 1/2."
 Road grosses� B.O. even; 'Graduate' 377g
 ON STAGE AND OFF: Lights Down, but Not Out by JESSE MCKINLEY
 For Musicals, Big and Brassy Gives Way to Small and Affordable by BRUCE WEBER An important question facing producers of emerging musicals: How big a show should this be?
 'ROOF' CAN'T GET OFF GROUND by MICHAEL RIEDEL EVERYTHING about "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is up in the air.A much-touted London revival of the Tennessee Williams play was to have transferred to Broadway's Cort Theater this spring, with Brendan Fraser as Brick, Frances O'Connor as Maggie and Ned Beatty huffing and puffing as Big Daddy.
 TDI to Present Broadway Festival January 28 On Monday, January 28, Theatre Direct International (TDI) will present the first annual Broadway Festival.
 Cooper and Uggams to Star in NYC-Bound Thunder
 Orfeh to Rock in Love, Janis Off-Broadway
 Broadway Grosses: One Hot Show John Leguizamo took three days off from Sexaholix... a love story last week to promote his starring role in the film Empire at the Sundance Film Festival.
 Michael Grandage to Head Donmar Warehouse Michael Grandage has been appointed the new artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse Theatre.
 Music Legend Peggy Lee Dies at Age 81 Music legend Peggy Lee died Monday, January 21 from a heart attack, according to The New York Times. She was 81.
 Follow Spot: It looks like Hugh Jackman will be barking for a Carousel at Carnegie Hall on June 6, with Audra McDonald along for the ride as Julie Jordan.
 Cabaret Notes: TV and stage star Tom Wopat muses on love in a bright, classy cabaret act.
 The Rodgers He Knew: Walter Willison, a Tony nominee for Two by Two, offers a corrective to Meryle Secrest's biography of Richard Rodgers.
 Will Les Miz Be a Television Movie Musical?
 Report: Notre Dame Composers to Debut Cinderella Musical Sept. 25
 Bo Eason is the Runt of the Litter at OB's MCC, Jan. 31-March 10
 Shanley, Birkenhead and Krieger Moving Forward on Bway Moonstruck
 Les Miz Hits Milestone Performance No. 6,138 Jan. 25, Topping Chorus Line
 Traffic Light Wunderkind Creates Comedy of Eros, Jan. 25-Feb. 17 Off-Bway
 The Civilians Plays Canard, Canard, Goose at HERE, Jan. 15-Feb. 17
 No Nudes: PBS' "Women," May 29, Won't Show Tilly Out of the Tub
 Actress Wishin,' Hopin' Springfield Musical, See All Her Faces, Is a Triad Hit Jan 18-22
 Billy Joel-Twyla Tharp Musical Project Begins Auditions in Toronto, Feb. 1
 Queen Musical We Will Rock You Backed by Robert De Niro
 Robins and Cuccioli Star in Guthrie Antony and Cleopatra, Jan. 25-Feb. 24
 The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret in NYC, Jan. 24-Feb. 24
 Maybe Baby, It's Tori: Spelling Steps into L.A. Two-Hander Jan. 24-March 23
 Mackintosh Says Oliver! Will Tour U.S. in 2003
 Wilkinson, Mackintosh, Nunn, Kuhn, Mann and More Will Celebrate Les Miz Milestone Jan. 25
 Nick Starr Appointed Exec Director for The National
 RSC Warned About Cost of Changes
 Luhrmann Working on Stage Versions of Ballroom and Moulin
 Robert Anderson's Silent Night Gets Rare Reading, Feb. 4
 PHOTO CALL: It Started With a Dream: Coleman Plays Carnegie Hall
 PHOTO CALL: Sigh for Cy: Coleman Celebrated by Henderson, Dale, Isaacs, White
 Continuing Education: Randy Newman Tuner Has Reason to Live
 PBS Brings Broadway Home Jan. 23, Airing Tony-Winner 'Fosse'
 Rung Down: Berlin Hunchback to Close June 16; Disney Still Eyeing U.S. Stage and TV Versions
 Coming Soon: Debbie Does Workshop in March, Then OB Eyed
 BC/EFA to Don Its Easter Bonnet April 22-23 at Bway's New Amsterdam
 Berkoff is Back Off-Bway as a Killer, a Kook and a Canine, Jan. 23-March 10
 Chelsea Playhouse Lights Nevelson Embers Jan. 23-Feb. 24
 Ring Around Target Margin: Obie Winner Considers Wagner Jan. 23-Feb. 10
 Yahoo TV: ABC courts Bierko
 Detroit Free Press: MSU takes plunge in waterless urinal
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Thursday, January 24, 2002
 $600,000 in Grants to Help Downtown Arts Groups By ROBIN POGREBIN The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts on Wednesday announced $600,000 in emergency grants for New York City arts groups below 14th Street.
 Arts in America: Imitating Hollywood's Snippy Designer
 Road grosses� B.O. even; 'Graduate' 377g Road grosses slid by a small 1.6% during Week 33 (Jan. 7-13), dipping to $13,493,637.
 Holiday gives B'way B.O. a small boost� 'Sexaholic,' 'Producers,' 'Lion King' sell out shows
 Donmar to don A.D.� Grandage set to replace Mendes at theater
 Sweet fragrance gets new formula� Tinkering begins on tuner after mixed Chi reception
 Broadway Grosses: January 14-20
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 Youthful Threesome Won Bet on 'Urinetown' By JESSE McKINLEY Three childhood friends from Cleveland have pulled off the unlikely feat of mounting a new Broadway musical while in their early 30's.
 Picking Up Static While Fine-Tuning a Play By BRUCE WEBER
 THEATER REVIEW | 'THE PHANTOM LADY': Mocking Social Custom Since the 17th Century By D. J. R. BRUCKNER
 Lighter-Than-Moli�re Update By ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
 Wilkinson, Mackintosh, Nunn, Kuhn, Mann and More Will Celebrate Les Miz Milestone
 PHOTO CALL: The Walton Family (With Mom Julie Andrews)
 PHOTO CALL: These Ladies Love Tony!
 PHOTO CALL: Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony: Lane, Sawyer, Tune, Ellis Honor Walton
 The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret in NYC, Jan. 24-Feb. 24
 Mackintosh Says Oliver! Will Tour U.S. in 2003
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Wednesday, January 23, 2002
 The 50 Best Musical Stage Performances Reprised for Hollywood by Peter Filichia
 Michael Grandage to Head Donmar Warehouse
 Louis Gossett Jr. to Star as Billy Flynn in Chicago
 DVDs: Dancin' Man by Ken Mandelbaum
 Luhrmann Working on Stage Versions of Ballroom and Moulin
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 THEATER REVIEW | 'CARSON MCCULLERS (HISTORICALLY INACCURATE)': Calculating the Square Root of Sadness By BRUCE WEBER
 THEATER REVIEW | 'HOMECOMING': A Woman in Search of Mother By ANITA GATES
 SUPREME INSULT By MICHAEL RIEDEL STOP, in the name of Equity! Former Supreme Mary Wilson is the latest performer to incur the wrath of Actors Equity for agreeing to star in a non-union tour of a Broadway show.
 Fosse-Natin' � But Fidgety by David Bianculli
 Rung Down: Berlin Hunchback to Close June 16; Disney Still Eyeing U.S. Stage and TV Versions
 Ring Around Target Margin: Obie Winner Considers Wagner Jan. 23-Feb. 10
 Chelsea Playhouse Lights Nevelson Embers Jan. 23-Feb. 24
 Berkoff is Back Off-Bway as a Killer, a Kook and a Canine, Jan. 23-March 10
 PBS Bring Broadway Home Jan. 23, Airing Tony-Winner 'Fosse'
 Report: Minnelli to Spend Honeymoon Touring Europe with New Show
 PHOTO CALL: Sigh for Cy: Coleman Celebrated by Henderson, Dale, Isaacs, White
 PHOTO CALL: Tape a Bow: Belber's Plays Opens OB Jan. 17
 PHOTO CALL: Cut to Tape: Belber and Co. Celebrate OB Opening
 PHOTO CALL: Caught on Film at Tape: Modine, Hickey, Wong and Nixon
 PHOTO CALL: It Started With a Dream: Coleman Plays Carnegie Hall
 Broadway Grosses: January 14-20
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 Hollywood.com: Luhrmann to bring Moulin Rouge to Broadway
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Tuesday, January 22, 2002
 Letters: I've Heard That Song Before by Ken Mandelbaum
 DVDs: Spectacular Spectacular by Ken Mandelbaum
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 THEATER REVIEW | 'CYMBELINE': Shakespeare's Grab Bag, Globally Rendered By BRUCE WEBER "Cymbeline," now being brought delightfully to life by Bartlett Sher and the Theater for a New Audience, is a kooky grab bag of a play, a Shakespearean buffet.
 Skewering American Culture and Politics, in Evil Fun By STEPHEN HOLDEN
 Luhrmann's La Boheme to Open on B'way December 8
 Roundabout's Picture Brings Home the Bacon Beginning Jan. 22
 New Musical, Saving Anne, Gets Jan. 22 Reading in NYC
 Can I Quote You? Vandenbroucke's New Book Compiles Theatre Quotations
 Care Bears: Fifth Annual BC/EFA Auction is Feb. 10 at B.B. King's
 Hot Flash: Menopause the Musical Eyeing Off-Bway in March
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Monday, January 21, 2002
 CNN: Carol Burnett's daughter dead of cancer LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Actress, writer and musician Carrie Hamilton, daughter of actress Carol Burnett, died Sunday of cancer. She was 38.
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 The Easiest and Hardest Role in Musical Theater by Peter Filichia
 Scarlet Pimpernel on DVD?
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 GOIN' TO �TOWN' by CHIP DEFFAA Before she ever auditioned for the part of Little Sally in "Urinetown, the Musical," Spencer Kayden showed producers a flash of the deadpan humor she would bring to the stage.
 The Age [Australia]: Disney to dazzle us with big productions The resurrection of the big musical is on the cards. Disney is opening an office in Australia in the belief that there's money to be made in the nation's love affair with big-ticket spectaculars.
 Hartford Courant: `Opera' Producer Slows Down Cameron Mackintosh was the producer who made "Cats," "Les Miserables," "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Miss Saigon" worldwide phenomena. A return visit of the national tour of "Phantom" to Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts is an opportunity to catch up with world's most successful producer and chat on the phone from his office in London about blockbusters, the origins of "Phantom" and the worst idea for a musical that came across his desk.
 Asian Week: Striking Gold in What�s Old, Flower Drum Song takes songstress to Broadway
 Barry Z interviews creators of Summer of '42
 Chita Rivera to star in HELLO DOLLY!
 Shuberts Hoping Le Passe Muraille Will Reach Bway in Spring or Fall
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Sunday, January 20, 2002
 Plays That Leave the Audience Bullied by Words By MARGO JEFFERSON Three new works revel in their playwrights' love of language, but it's a love that can be overpowering.
 Carson McCullers: Bringing Her Gold Prose to the Stage By JONATHAN MANDELL
 GOIN' TO �TOWN' By CHIP DEFFAA Before she ever auditioned for the part of Little Sally in "Urinetown, the Musical," Spencer Kayden showed producers a flash of the deadpan humor she would bring to the stage.
 PLAY, PLAYER BOAST STAYING POWER By CLIVE BARNES How long can a play, or even a player, remain relevant? The question wandered into my mind after I saw the Atlantic Theater's sprightly staging of Harold Brighouse's amiable, 86-year-old North Country English comedy, "Hobson's Choice," starring the 64-year-old New York actor Brian Murray.
 Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Opens Jan. 20 in NYC
 Open, Cymbeline! TFANA's Latest Takes First Offical Bows Jan. 20
 Irish Rep Sweeps Up Streets of New York, Jan. 20
 Turtle Goes Back in Its Shell at Mint, Jan. 20
 Clinton, LaChanze and Wallace Leave Monologues, Jan. 20
 Drama Desk Award Nominees Announced April 30, Awards Held May 19
 Death Dances Once More, Downtown at Cocteau, Feb. 8
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2007-08 Broadway Season
June 28 - Old Acquaintance (AA)
July 10 - Xanadu (Hayes) [Robert Ahrens, Dan Vickery, Tara Smith/B. Swibel and Sarah Murchison/Dale Smith]
Aug 19 - Grease (Atkinson)
Oct 4 - Mauritius (Biltmore) [MTC]
Oct 11 - The Ritz (54)
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
Dec 2 - Cymbeline (Beaumont)
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 Broadway Season
Oct 16 - Billy Elliot (Imperial)
Nov 08 - Dividing the Estate (a Shubert theater)
Dec 14 - Shrek: The Musical (Broadway) [DreamWorks]
Talked About Not Scheduled Yet
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]
This list is compiled from various sources. If you have corrections to the Broadway Season, please contact us.
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