Saturday, February 02, 2002 Accord in Legal War Over Sondheim Musical by JESSE McKINLEY Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, the creators of the musical "Gold!," have settled their lawsuit against the producer Scott Rudin, clearing the way for future productions of the oft-delayed show. Didn't Reidel break this news (settlement) months ago? Barrowman to Star in Sondheim Fest's Company John Barrowman has been tapped to play Bobby in the Kennedy Center production of Stephen Sondheim’s Company. As Ken Mandelbaum reported on [Read More] Stars Shine for Broadway Bears V Benefit Daniel McDonald is set to host Broadway Bears V, a one-night only auction to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA). Bears to be auctioned include a Funny Girl Bear signed by...[Read More] Dench To Be Heard (Not Seen) on B'way this Season Dame Judi Dench will be heard on Broadway this season, though not seen. The acclaimed English actress is lending her voice to The Giant in Into The Woods. Barbara Cook to Return with Mostly Sondheim Barbara Cook’s Mostly Sondheim will return to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre this summer. The acclaimed concert will have 19 additional performances at the theater on Sunday and Monday nights from...[Read More] Photo Op: Welcome back, Bea! - Photos by Bruce Glikas Preparing for Canival by Ken Mandelbaum Hildegard Knef, Ninotchka in Porter's Silk Stockings, Dead at 76 2002 Tony Award Noms Announced May 6; Ceremony June 2 at Radio City Music Hall PHOTO CALL: First Broadway Fest Brings Phantom to Town Hall Jan. 28 PHOTO CALL: Jan. 28 Broadway Fest Offers Sneak Peek at Aida PHOTO CALL: Chicago Struts Its Stuff for Jan. 28 Broadway Fest Eric Bogosian Says Goodbye to Solo Shows with Worst Tour, Beginning Feb. 2 Mia McCullough to Receive ATCA's Osborn Award for Chagrin Falls, Feb. 23 PHOTO CALL: Ziemba, Neuwirth, Reinking Toast Daykin's City Center Reign PHOTO CALL: A Day for Daykin: Bobbie, Gravitte, Fisher Salute City Center Head New Play About Dawn Powell, As We Were Saying, Begins Feb. 2 Today In Theatre History: FEBRUARY 2 Winners Announced for 17th Annual Back Stage Bistro Awards; Ceremony March 4 Urban Cowboy Unlikely to Ride to Bway This Season Pearl's Phantom Lady to Keep Appearing Off-Bway Till Feb. 24 Bway Celebrates Sixth Annual Kids' Night, March 12 PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Jan. 26-Feb. 1: Movin' Out's Movin' In American Rep Takes the Rapp: Stone Cold Dead Serious Premieres in MA, Feb. 1-March 12 Knowing Me, Knowing Drew: Pitre Gets Caricature at Sardi's Feb. 1 Mark Brokaw to Direct Feb. 5 Reading of Rewritten Musical Marty There Are Judis in the Sky: Dame Dench Is Giantess in Into the Woods Playwright Harold Pinter Has Cancer, Paper Reports Barbara Cook Returns to Lincoln Center Theater, June 23-Aug. 26 In the Water? Cody Returns to Urinetown to Replace Injured Actress Producers Tour to Start in Pittsburgh Report: Paltrow May Play Lead in Proof Movie After UK Legit Gig Barrowman Is Bobby, Ripley and Skinner Are Bobby's Babies, in DC Sondheim Celebration PHOTO CALL: Theatre Hall of Fame Welcomes New Inductees PHOTO CALL: Charnin, Meehan and Gurney Induct New Theatre Hall of Famers PHOTO CALL: Channing and Harris Induct New Hall of Famers, Including Grizzard 2002 Tony Awards Set for June 2 at Radio City Music Hall posted at 2/2/2002 01:34:14 PM by James Marino | Item Link Friday, February 01, 2002 Jennifer Cody returns to URINETOWN I only include this because we love Jennifer. Also, I never thought a Broadway show press release would read like an NFL injury report... Peter Filichia's Diary In praise of the long-running BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Charles Nelson's Casts and Forecasts Edward Albee basks in his resurgence, Nathan Lane yields to Henry Goodman (?!), and Susan Gordon returns. posted at 2/1/2002 11:56:31 AM by James Marino | Item Link ON STAGE AND OFF These Choice Tickets Cost a Mere $240 by JESSE McKINLEY LONDON BRIDGE by MICHAEL RIEDEL STARRY news from London yesterday: Gwyneth Paltrow will play the enigmatic girl in David Auburn's "Proof" at the Donmar Warehouse for six weeks beginning in May.But there's more here than meets the eye: If Paltrow does well in the role - that is, if the critics like her - expect her also to star in the movie version, which probably will go into production once the Broadway show has closed. Broadway rolls 'Out' rock  Joel, Tharp tuner 'Movin'' to Chi town No longer called "Thoel," the new Billy Joel-Twyla Tharp musical will get a more mellifluous moniker, "Movin' Out," for its upcoming Broadway debut. Tonys make a date with CBS  Smith returns as executive producer Avram sues Jackson over concert tour  Promoter seeks close to $25 mil in damages Not sure what this has to do with theater, but Variety has it under Legit, so I linked to it... Musical Still Brings It Home 'Les Misérables," which last weekend became the second-longest-running musical in Broadway history, remains in great shape. The running time of the show has been cut by about 15 minutes since I last saw it, saving approximately $23,000 a week in overtime, which is, to my mind, shrewd producing. Follow Spot Stage stars and other celebs turned out for this year’s Theater Hall of Fame ceremony and for a glittering reception to celebrate a new book on the legacy of the Shuberts. Further Thoughts Jennifer Dundas and Dan Futterman on their roles in MTC’s Further Than the Furthest Thing by Michael Buckley Putting the Ham in Hamlet by Jim Caruso The Familiar and the Fresh by Barbara & Scott Siegel 2002 Tony Awards Set for June 2 at Radio City Music Hall Painter Artemisia Gentileschi Exhibited in Lapis Blue Blood Red at HERE, Feb. 1-March 3 Theatre on TV & Radio Classical Theater of Harlem Stages Wright's Native Son, Feb. 1-24 Mabou Mines' Peter and Wendy Returns to OB's New Victory, Feb. 1-24 Billy Joel-Twyla Tharp Musical Movin' Out, to Open on Broadway Oct. 24 Marlo Thomas Vehicle, Paper Doll Seems Cut Out for New York, But When? Will "Rocky," "Legally Blonde" and "Pink Panther" Sing on Bway? MGM Hopes So Report: Producers Dream of Musical in a Bottle McCarter All Over Completes Cast; Albee Play Has NYC Hopes Carol Channing Leaves Hospital After Bout of Food Poisoning Inge Morath, Photographer and Wife of Arthur Miller, Dead at 78 Nominations for New Olivier Award Are Announced Mos Def Is Mos' Definite, as Topdog Casting Is Confirmed; Begins March 12 You are reading it here last, but they had it first, so they say... :-) VIDEO: TDI Presents Broadway Festival Jane Leeves Will Come to B'way's Cabaret I'm Not Rappaport to Open at B'way's Booth Theatre As we first mentioned on September 27, Herb Gardner’s I’m Not Rappaport is indeed coming to the Great White...[Read More] Movin' Out to Open at the Richard Rodgers Oct. 24 Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp’s musical collaboration, Movin’ Out, will begin Broadway performances at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on September 30. An official opening is set for October 24, a pro...[Read More] Alice Ripley Set for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in LA As Ken Mandelbaum reported on January 21, [Read More] Is Broadway.com's TV channel going to be "All Alice, All of the Time?". I would watch 24/7! MGM Launches New Theatrical Division Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) has created a new theatrical division, MGM on Stage. MGM on Stage will be in charge of licensing MGM films as theatrical productions, according to Variety. posted at 2/1/2002 08:50:44 AM by James Marino | Item Link Thursday, January 31, 2002 Lion eyes new stage  MGM will tap library for legit adaptations MGM has named studio veteran Darcie Denkert prexy of a new corporate unit created to promote the studio brand and the Lion's massive film and TV library. Edelstein docks ship at Long Wharf as a.d.  Legit exec comes after stint at Seattle's Contemporary Theater Life Beyond London for Witches of Eastwick John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe’s The Witches of Eastwick will have a life beyond London. Boom's Off-B'way Cast to Play in Korea Joey McIntyre, Natascia Diaz and Jerry Dixon will star in a limited engagement of Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick… BOOM! in Korea. Edelstein Named Long Wharf Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein is leaving his position as the artistic director of Seattle’s ACT Theater on July 1, 2002 to become the artistic director of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. Out-Of-Town Critics Grade The Graduate Stephanie Mills Headlines The Hearts of Men Stephanie Mills, who endeared herself to millions of theatergoers as Dorothy in the original Broadway production of The Wiz as a teenager, is back on the boards in New York City. NEA Chairman Michael Hammond Dead at 69 Michael P. Hammond, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, died Tuesday, January 29 in Washington, DC, according to The New York Times. He was 69. 'ROCKY' ON B'WAY NO HORROR SHOW YO, Adrian! Rags-to-riches boxer Rocky could soon be tromping the boards on the Great White Way.If film studio MGM has its way, "Rocky: the Musical" may just be Broadway's next big hit. "It's like a dream come true!" Peter Filichia's Diary Filichia reports on his titillating adventures in the Off-Broadway skin trade. Follow Spot Might it come to pass that Glenn Close will head a star-studded cast in the New York City Opera’s revival of A Little Night Music? Paltrow May Play Lead in Proof at Donmar Warehouse in London L.A. National Young Playwrights Festival Turns 10; Seeks Scripts Through March 15 Meisle and Norris to Head Cast of Bogosian’s Humpty Dumpty at McCarter; Begins March 26 PHOTO CALL: It's Alive! Greif Creates Monster Jan. 27 Ted Pappas Stages H.M.S. Pinafore at Pitt Public Jan. 31-March 3 Bo Eason is the Runt of the Litter at OB's MCC, Jan. 31-March 10 Sacred Fools to Bring Radical Uncle Tom's Cabin to L.A. Jan. 31-Feb. 23 Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 31 Knight and Venora Set for Ensler's Targets at OB's Variety Arts, Feb. 14 Gentleman Prefer Ripley in Blondes Reprise! March 5-17 Johnny Mercer Is a Dream for Petula Clark, Tyne Daly in L.A. Benefit March 8-10 Orlandersmith’s Yellowman Road Will Likely Lead to New York NBC's Today Brings Out Holy Bacon, Jan. 31 Melanie Marnich Gets Sol Goldman to Quake, Feb. 13-March 10 Musical Menopause Strikes OB's Theatre Four, March 5 Philly Theatre Sets its Seitz on The Infidel, Jan. 30-Feb. 24 Pittsburgh's City Theatre to Converse w/ Hatcher on Mercy, April 11-May 5 Shockheaded Peter Now Booking in London London Lion King Books to September 2002 Further Booking Announced for My Fair Lady Shaftesbury Avenue Residents Complain of Noise from Umoja Ingmar Bergman’s Maria Stuart Reaches BAM, June 12-16 San Francisco Gets an Evening With Whorehouse's Ann Margret Feb. 22 NYC's Guggenheim Hosts Taylor-Corbett, Marcovicci and Composer Gordon w/ McDonald, Chenoweth Report: Producers Tour May Start in Pitt and Cincy Dawn Powell’s Play Big Night Gets Reading at Barnes and Noble, Feb. 4 Elephant Man w/ Burton, Crudup and Glass Music, Starts March 26 at Bway's Royale Theatre on TV & Radio PHOTO CALL: Despite Illness, Broderick Is a Chatterbox Jan. 24 Choreogs' Foundation Talks to Crucible Director Eyre, Jan. 30 in NYC PHOTO CALL: Proof Is in the Run: Drama Turns 500 Havel's Largo Desolato to Open at NYC's Spring Theatreworks Jan. 30 Rattlestick Pays a Finder's Fee, Jan. 30-March 3 No Bones About It: IL's Northlight Has McDonagh's Skull, Jan. 30-March 10 Off-Broadway Goes Belly Up, Jan. 30-Feb. 23 Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 30 NEA Chief Michael Hammond Is Dead, One Week After Taking Office Rodriguez, NYPD Cop With the Chords, Sings Wildhorn, R&H and More on CD, Feb. 12 Lon Chaney Spooker Becomes Unknown Musical, Readings Held Jan. 27-28 Kathie Lee Gifford's a Go in Nyack's Premiere of Holmes' Thumbs, March 9-24 Encores' Bloomer Girl Featured on Jan. 29 "60 Minutes II" Bacon, Eder, Pascal, Yearwood, Lauper Bring Broadway's Best to Bravo March 4 Carol Channing Admitted to Hospital After Collapse Gurney's Buffalo Buffalo, w/ Betty Buckley, Has NYC Hopes After March 17 Launch ABBA DVD, Set for Feb. 26 Release, Includes Mamma Mia! Footage Strouse Musical Marty to Have Reading in NYC Feb. 5; Reilly Stars George Grizzard to Star in Paper Mill Can't Take It With You Longtime Drama League Prexy Julia Hansen Retires; Follert Named Successor How Jewish is Too Jewish?? Hoffman's Popular Solo Visits NY's Emelin, Feb. 15-17 'The Laramie Project' Premiere March 16 on HBO Gilman to Surge into Parks' Place at Public in Spring PHOTO CALL: Les Miserables Goes One Day More Over Chorus Line Jan. 25 PHOTO CALL: Tip the Hat, Tip the Hat, Tip the Hat: Les Miserables Is the 'One'! PHOTO CALL: What They Did for Miz: Wilkinson and Kuhn Return for #6,138 PHOTO CALL: Happy 6,138, Les Miserables! PHOTO CALL: He's (the Original) Jean Valjean! PHOTO CALL: Everything Is Beautiful at the Imperial: Mackintosh, Nunn Toast Les Miz PHOTO CALL: Mistress of the House: Jennifers Celebrate Miz Milestone Jan. 25 posted at 1/31/2002 09:38:31 AM by James Marino | Item Link Wednesday, January 30, 2002 Christiane Noll to star in KEPT at Theatreworks Palo Alto TicketWatch: Two Free Broadway Tickets My favorite headline of the day: "KEVIN BACON on NBCs THE TODAY SHOW tomorrow!" posted at 1/30/2002 03:47:32 PM by James Marino | Item Link Starry spring looms for Tonys  Pic strike threat results in unusually glittering B'way slate Tony Awards producer Elizabeth I. McCann recently fired off a missive to the execs at CBS regarding the 2002 telecast. The news: This year's ceremony looks to be a celebrity-studded affair. Exotic dance card  Lincoln will log Russian, Japanese prod'ns Legit back in Kabul  Afghan theater unveils first show since 1995 Biz off; 'U-town' 324g B.O. rises; 'Fever' 840g 1/29/02 5:00pm B'way gets 'Holy,' sees tiny slip 1/28/02 3:10pm Figment Full of Fire Joe Morton is pulling an appearing act. At the Vineyard Theatre near Union Square, the actor breathes infuriated life into a figment of the imagination — the "black kidnapper in a knit cap" invented by Susan Smith, the young mother who eventually confessed to drowning her two sons in a quiet lake near Union, S.C., in 1994. PAY FOR 'SPRAY' By MICHAEL RIEDEL A workshop last month of the musical "Hairspray" generated plenty of excitement in the theater world.Here was a new show with a snappy score, a funny book and lots of standout performances. Carol Channing Hospitalized With Flu Broadway Grosses: Winner Takes It All Mamma Mia! is raking it in. The ABBA musical earned a whopping $1,010,114 up a very decent $13,743 from the previous week. Topdog/Underdog Sets Broadway Dates Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog has set dates for a limited Broadway run, a production spokesperson confirmed to Broadway.com. Gilman's Surge Replaces Parks' A at the Public Rebecca Gilman’s Blue Surge will replace Suzan-Lori Parks’ Fuckin’ A in the Joseph Papp Public Theater’s season schedule. posted at 1/30/2002 10:52:36 AM by James Marino | Item Link Tuesday, January 29, 2002 Blind email received: I don't know if this has been announced at all, but Richard Adler is writing a new song for the character of Babe in Pajama Game. I have no clue if it will be in the Encores production, but it is being written for the production at Wagner College, which Adler is watching closely. posted at 1/29/2002 02:05:28 PM by James Marino | Item Link Night Full of Stars? by Michael Portantiere Alice and Emily: Together Again? by Ken Mandelbaum Getting Out of Town by Ken Mandelbaum posted at 1/29/2002 11:23:09 AM by James Marino | Item Link B'way gets 'Holy,' sees tiny slip  Leguizamo back to seven 'Sexaholic' perfs Coming off the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, Broadway marked time with a tiny $4,669 hit at the box office. Total tally came to $10,074,340 for 20 productions. Les Miz to Make History in China; Wilkinson May Star Simone and Finley Square Off in Bway Aida Beginning Jan. 29 Denton and SmartTix Create New Theatre Panel Series "SmartNYTE"; Begins Feb. 7 Four on the Fourth of July Light Up the Sky in MTC's Four Jan. 29 Karen Ziemba and Polly Bergen Working on New Musical The Powers That Bea: Arthur Solo Starts Bway Previews, Jan. 29 Eder and Noll Join Wildhorn, Upclose and Personal, at NYC Concerts Feb. 25 and March 4 Broadway Grosses: January 21-27 We Were There, Charting a Couple From Stonewall and On, Gets NYC Reading Jan. 29 Patti LuPone to Concertize at Carnegie Hall, Feb. 28 Donmar and Sam Mendes Kisses Nicole Kidman Goodbye Karen Ziemba to Head Pajama Game at Encores; Barrett Sought Shear, Emery and Stone to Star in Broadway Smell, March 7 This Is Our Youth to Play London with Paquin AD Gordon Edelstein Exits ACT; Heads to CT's Long Wharf Just Jeff Uptown and downtown with the Worth Street Theater’s Jeffrey Cohen. The Shop Around the Corner The Drama Book Shop has a new location, a new look, and a new lease on life. A Closer Look at...Long Island TheaterMania tours the stages of New York City’s next-door neighbor. Peter Filichia's Diary A pre-Valentine’s Day fantasy of a match made in musical theater heaven. posted at 1/29/2002 07:51:53 AM by James Marino | Item Link Monday, January 28, 2002 The Graduate Reviews [Toronto] Toronto Star: The Graduate needs tutoring by Richard Ouzounian The Globe and Mail: Turner's Mrs. Robinson tantalizing After Jerry Springer, The Graduate's love triangle is missing the shock factor by REBECCA CALDWELL Toronto Sun: The under-graduate Novel played better as a '60s film than it does as a '90s production by JOHN COULBOURN posted at 1/28/2002 03:06:17 PM by James Marino | Item Link THEATER REVIEW | 'THICKER THAN WATER' Fledgling Playwrights Display Varied Flight Plans by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER posted at 1/28/2002 02:09:11 PM by James Marino | Item Link THEATER REVIEW | 'THE GUYS' Standing In for New Yorkers: Expressions of Grief Over Sept. 11 by BRUCE WEBER A new play about a fire captain who lost eight of his men on Sept. 11 has the impact -- half-relieving, half-agonizing -- of a chill salve on an open wound. Hagen delays B'way 'Dance'  Thesp recovering from illness Uta Hagen and David Hyde Pierce will not make the waltz to Broadway this season. The duo had planned to open their "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks," helmed by Arthur Allan Seidelman, at the Booth Theater on April 28. 9/11 Sets The Stage For New Play There are two characters in "The Guys," Anne Nelson's play in response to Sept. 11. One is a journalist, much like Nelson herself. The other is a fireman who lost eight comrades at the World Trade Center and is bewildered about how to eulogize them at their funerals. ROOM' WITH A GOOD VIEW by CHIP DEFFAA IT'S hard to imagine a more appropriate setting for a revival of David Rabe's provocative 1972 drama "In the Boom Boom Room" than Show World. Photo Op: LES MIZ makes history - Photos by Bruce Glikas Gov. Ventura Reading New Draft of The Body Ventura, the Musical Baranski and Cumpsty Are Beatrice and Benedick for Shakespeare Society Jan. 28 Kelly McGillis is Wronged Sister in DC Duchess of Malfi, Jan. 28-March 10 SDCF Abbott Award Goes to Director-Choreographer Stroman, March 3 Jan. 28 Reading to Find Louis Zorich in The Desert No Nudes: PBS' Women, May 29, Won't Show Tilly Out of the Tub Manhattan Playhouse Offers Jan. 28 Reading of New One-Acts Grizzard, Brustein, Colt Tapped for Theatre Hall of Fame, Jan. 28 Just a Cigar? Levy Brings Psychotherapy Live! to OOB's HERE, Jan. 28, Feb. 25 Traffic Light Wunderkind Creates Comedy of Eros, Jan. 27-Feb. 17 Off-Bway Concert Reading of The Unknown on Jan. 27 & 28 in NYC Broadway Thank-You Tour Comes to Broadway — North Carolina, That is, Jan. 27 Steven Suskin ON THE RECORD: Victor Herbert, a Smattering of Sondheim, and The Shuberts Summer of `42 Won't See Spring of `02, But OB Musical May Hit Regions Off-Bway's CSC Unleashes Bell's Monster, Jan. 15-Feb. 17 posted at 1/28/2002 09:49:47 AM by James Marino | Item Link Sunday, January 27, 2002 A Season of Graying Crowds and Whitening Stars By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN More Than a Witty Novelist, She Wrote Plays, Too By JONATHAN MANDELL ‘SPEED' THRILLS By DEBORAH SCHOENEMAN In a city where you can pretty much get anything delivered to your door, a new service offers a menu of Shakespeare's sonnets, scenes and monologues. BROADWAY STARS LAUNCH SOLO FLIGHTS By CLIVE BARNES Broadway will be doing quite a number on audiences this season. From the beginning of this year until March 4, five official Broadway openings have been scheduled. Among them, these five shows offer, apart from musicians, stagehands, ushers, press agents and critics, only seven performers. Summer of `42 Won't See Spring of `02, But OB Musical May Hit Regions Traffic Light Wunderkind Creates Comedy of Eros, Jan. 27-Feb. 17 Off-Bway Off-Bway's CSC Unleashes Bell's Monster, Jan. 15-Feb. 17 posted at 1/27/2002 07:55:08 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link BroadwayStars is powered by Blogger Pro! [Past News]
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