Saturday, March 09, 2002 Building Her Plays Image by Image By PETER MARKS Mary Zimmerman, the director of "Metamorphoses," has an unusual calling. She is a specialist in literary spectacle. The Producer Include him out. That was Alan King's first reaction when he received a script of "Mr. Goldwyn," a play about the life of movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn. The 74-year-old actor/comedian says he told the producers, "'Look, I don't need any career moves at this age." Once On This Island Reunion Benefit Set for May 12 As we first reported on November 8, the original Broadway cast of Once On This Island will star in a benef...[Read More] Stars Onboard for Nothing Like a Dame 2002 Heather Headley, Audra McDonald, Lillias Whi...[Read More] Far Away Replaced by Vienna Lusthaus at NYTW New York Theatre Workshop’s planned production of Caryl Churchill’s Far Away is being delayed until fall...[Read More] Were Drama Critics Bewitched by The Crucible? After countless stage incarnations and movies, The Crucible is back on Broadway where it first ran in 1953. Richard Eyre's pro...[Read More] Bravo's 'Broadway's Best' Concert Begins Rebroadcasts March 9 Kathie Lee Gifford Debuts Rupert Holmes' Thumbs March 9 in Nyack Pigs! Trolls! Camels! Aquila's Richmond Guest-Helms Peer Gynt at NJ's Two River March 9-24 Feinstein's New CD With Israel Philharmonic has Berlin, Gershwin and More May 7 L.A.'s Gay Pinafore! Gets CD March 12; Extends Through April 28 Upcoming Cast Recordings The Syringa Tree Turns 500 March 9 'The Laramie Project' Leaps From Stage to Small Screen March 9 PHOTO CALL: Ensler's Necessary Targets Take a Bow Feb. 28 PHOTO CALL: Close Is No Longer One of Ensler's Targets Today In Theatre History: MARCH 9 Valley of the Doll: Producers Now Aim Susann Play Toward Fall Bway Bow L.A. Will Reprise! Follies, Anything Goes, Twentieth Century, Kismet in 2002-03 Sh-K-Boom Records The Last Five Years March 11 PHOTO CALL: One Mo' Time Take One Mo' Bow PHOTO CALL: One Mo' Time's a Good Time With These Cool Cats PHOTO CALL: Vereen and White Catch One Mo' Time on Broadway PHOTO CALL: One Mo' Modine: Elephant Lady and Mo' Stritch Gets Her "60 Minutes" March 10 LaChanze Leads BC/EFA Once On This Island Concerts May 12 at Winter Garden Full Cast of Golden Boy Announced for Encores! Run, March 21-24 Hannah Yelland to Star in London's Daisy Pulls It Off London's Royal Shakespeare Company announces Roundhouse Season Elton John Plans Billy Elliot Musical DIVA TALK: Peters on Stage, Screen and Radio, Stritch on Bway, Remembering LaMott She's Still Here: Polly Bergen Steps into the Cabaret March 25 Charles Nelson's Casts and Forecasts Cherry and Christine: dueling Lysistratas! Annette and Patti: dueling Desirées! A Class Act and Once on This Island: a pair of favorites return! Fund Me, Kate! New NYC cultural commissioner Kate Levin talks with Mike Salinas about her theater background and the challenges of her job. posted at 3/9/2002 10:38:57 AM by James Marino | Item Link Friday, March 08, 2002 Peter Filichia's Diary Katharine Hepburn triumphantly returns to Hartford in the person of Kate Mulgrew. The Crucible, Reviewed by David Finkle SWEDE SMELL OF SUCCESS FOR REVIVED 'CHESS' By MICHAEL RIEDEL RIDING high from the worldwide success of "Mamma Mia!" (last week's North American gross: $3.5 million, thank you very much), ABBA boys Benny Anderson and Bjorn Ulvaeus have turned their attention to a new project: a revival of their 1988 Broadway flop, "Chess." My favorite part of the article is Aftonbladet's Jens Peterson wrote: "Mindre schack. Mer karlet och politik. 'Chess" pa svenska ar ett lyft for musikalen." I couldn't agree more. On Stage and Off: Shows Must, and Did, Go On by Jesse McKinley Theater Review | 'Cymbeline': Shakespeare's Game, Without a Score Card Two Against Mob Rule Who Can Turn Up the Heat By BEN BRANTLEY Liam Neeson and Laura Linney bring a transfixing heat to Richard Eyre's otherwise merely sweaty revival of "The Crucible," Arthur Miller's play set during the Salem witch trials. 'Island' reunion a benefit Original cast to offer matinee, evening perf May 12 The original cast of "Once on This Island," based on a Caribbean folk tale, is set to hold a two-perf reunion of the 1990 Broadway musical by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Tuner will have a matinee and evening performance May 12 at the Winter Garden Theater. Variety Review: The Crucible by Charles Isherwood Variety Review: One Mo' Time by Charles Isherwood Neeson & Co. Cast A Powerful Spell Four years after Arthur Miller wrote a play about a louse — a man who was a failure as a husband, a father and a salesman — he wrote a play about a hero. The hero was a man in Puritan Massachusetts who redeemed his failures as a husband by his courageous, self-sacrificial commitment to honesty in a world gone Dreamy Shakespeare in P.J.'s Polly Bergen Comes to the Cabaret As Ken Mandelbaum mentioned on March 1, Polly Bergen will come to Broadway’s [Read More] Full Cast Announced for Golden Boy Norm Lewis and William McNulty are set to appear in the Encores! production of Golden Boy opposite prev...[Read More] Broadway Critics Check Out One Mo' Time While One Mo’ Time just opened at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre theater last night, it is not really new to Gotham theatergoer...[Read More] NEESON, LINNEY BEWITCHING By CLIVE BARNES ARTHUR Miller's "The Crucible" was magisterially reignited at the Virginia Theatre last night in Sir Richard Eyre's slow-fused but fiery production, with a magnificently heroic Liam Neeson, faultlessly supported by Laura Linney, Brian Murray and many others. A WORLD OF BARD THEMES IN THE GLOBE'S 'CYMBELINE' By DONALD LYONS 'CYMBELINE" is one of those wild, late Shakespeare plays that take elements from earlier tragedies and comedies, and reshape, rejiggle and reimagine them into surprising new patterns. Follow Spot The Storefront offers a concert version of the cult musical Rags, starring Anne Runolfsson. A Closer Look...at Los Angeles Dreamgirls Headley, McDonald and White are in Dame Benefit March 18, w/Holliday Handy MA's SpeakEasy Stages New Rock Musical, Hot Star, Nebraska, March 8-30 Bates and Langella Find Their Fortune on Bway, Beginning March 8 For 50th Production, TACT Does Shaw's First, Widowers' Houses, March 8-11 PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, March 2-8: No Column Cy Coleman Returns to His Club Roots, Playing Joe's Pub March 8-9 Johnny Mercer Is a Dream for Petula Clark, Tyne Daly in L.A. Benefit March 8-10 Today In Theatre History: MARCH 8 "Rosie" Rises for Elaine Stritch March 8 Gelbart-Menken-Zippel Lysistrata, Dumped by Brustein, Gets MTC Reading March 11 Crucible's Miller, Linney and Eyre Talk to Charlie Rose March 7 L.A.'s Blank Readies Revised LaChiusa First Lady Suite w/ Jbara, Shindle March 7 New NYC Musical, Mister, With Rapp, Adds Blum and Alban London Director Edward Hall Bounces Back London's Mamma Mia: There You Go Again Londons' Mousetrap Extends Wait Til You See Him: SF's 42nd Street 'Moons' for Rodgers Starting April 19 PHOTO CALL: Stroman Makes Contact With Abbott Award March 3 PHOTO CALL: The Producers' Tony Winners Salute Stroman PHOTO CALL: Gabrielle Is OK With Stroman and Brooks Zoe Caldwell Reads Her "Cleopatra" for MTC March 25 Kushner's Kabul Makes Regional Premiere at RI's Trinity Rep, March 15-April 21 Cerveris Dons Drag Again on FOX-TV's "The American Embassy" Together Again: PBS and CBS Will Televise Tony 2002 Awards San Francisco's ACT Stages Its First Glass Menagerie March 29-April 29 Body of Off-Bway Playwright Leonard Melfi Found posted at 3/8/2002 07:25:38 AM by James Marino | Item Link Thursday, March 07, 2002 Regarding THE GRADUATE. They posted casting today for Benjamin. Biggs will be leaving in Mid-May for 6-8 weeks for a film. They are seeking a replacement with a star name to cover the role during that time. posted at 3/7/2002 10:39:53 AM by James Marino | Item Link TDF 2002 Irene Sharaff Awards For Theatrical Costume Design Announced Top British Directors Are Busy on Broadway By MEL GUSSOW Three of the foremost British directors are working on Broadway at the same time, readying major American shows to face New York audiences this month. WNET back for Tonycast PBS 'Awards' program precedes kudo event for sixth straight year Thirteen/WNET is returning as producer of "The First Ten Awards: Tonys 2002," on June 2. Audience Member Injured at The Goat A freak accident occurred at last night’s performance of Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, leaving one audience memb...[Read More] As read first on Talkin'Broadway... Pay What You Can at Playwrights Horizons Playwrights Horizons is instituting a “Pay What You Can Night” for its upcoming shows. Sponsored by Ford Motor Company, the program will allow audience members to pay what they can for tickets to the...[Read More] Bernadette Peters to Autograph New CD Bernadette Peters will sign copies of her new album, Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein, at the Virgin Megastore in Times Square on March 15 at 6pm. Cast Set for Proof in London Ronald Pickup, Richard Coyle and Sara Stewart will appear opposite previously reported star Gwyneth Paltrow in t...[Read More] THE STARR REPORT By MICHAEL STARR Openly gay Nathan Lane played a womanizing heterosexual opera singer on NBC's short-lived "Encore! Encore!" back in 1998. Maybe Lane will have better luck now that CBS has ordered a new pilot, "Life of the Party," in which Lane plays TV-star-turned-congressman Charlie Lawrence - who happens to be gay. The show was created by ex-"Frasier" writer Jeffrey Richman and is being heralded by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). PHOTO CALL: Everyone in the Pool: Metamorphoses Opening Night PHOTO CALL: Director or Swim Coach?: Zimmerman Helms Bway Metamorphoses PHOTO CALL: These Ladies Open Metamorphoses The Carpetbagger's Children Arrive at Lincoln Center, March 7 Neeson and Linney Burn in Miller's Crucible, Opening March 7 Mancini Sings Mancini at Feinstein's March 19-30 Goodspeed's Dames at Sea Has Chamberlain & Carlton as Ruby & Dick, April 5-July 6 The Smell of the Kill Locks Into Previews, March 7 Galaxy Video Explodes Off-Off-Broadway, March 7 NYC's Lark Reads Tate's Fast Blood March 7-11 Today In Theatre History: MARCH 7 Birdbath Playwright Leonard Melfi's 2001 Death Revealed Theatregoer Struck By a Piece of The Goat; Stitches Follow Lerner & Loewe Down: After Eliza, Camelot Will Play Paper Mill Spring 2003 PHOTO CALL: Mary Testa Hangs at Sardi's March 1 Bernadette Peters Kissed by Michael Douglas Betty Buckley Arrives on DVD Goodspeed's Dames at Sea Has Chamberlain & Carlton as Ruby & Dick, April 5-July 6 PHOTO CALL: Scott and Butz Live Brown's Last Five Years March 2 PHOTO CALL: Prince Brings Brown's Last Five Years to NYC March 2 Playwrights Horizons Invites Audience to 'Pay What You Can' March 6 & May 3 Evan Pappas to Star in the Guthrie Theatre's Canterbury Tales Jeanine Tesori May Score Disney's Hoopz Suzan-Lori Parks and Jeffrey Wright Talk Topdog Edward Hall Leaves the RSC Getting Caught in the Net Longer at London's Vaudeville Frame 312: The Kennedy Assassination at London's Donmar Richard Nelson's Franny's Way, With Widdoes, Begins March 6 in NYC PBS to Broadcast Porgy and Bess George and The Jungle: Chicago Gets Twice the Sunday in the Park in 2002 Barbara Is Cook-ing Around the World Karen Akers Opens the Chase Room Bernadette Peters: CD Signing and TV Appearance One Mo' Time Finds Time to Open on Broadway, March 6 John Lithgow Drops By 'Rosie,' March 7 Holtzman's Hearts Beat at Long Wharf March 6-April 7 Peter Filichia's Diary A production of Maria Irene Fornes’ Fefu and Her Friends in Cambridge prompts Filichia to recall his unforgettable experience of the original production. Maia Wilson "...you've gotta have friends" to Benefit BC/EFA posted at 3/7/2002 08:51:03 AM by James Marino | Item Link Getting Friendly with Fefu by Peter Filichia THEATER REVIEW | 'ONE MO' TIME': Hard Times, and Hard-Driving Music, Back in the Big Easy By BRUCE WEBER The good-natured New Orleans jazz revue "One Mo' Time" is a show that adds up to considerably less than the sum of its parts. One Mo' Time review by Ken Mandelbaum It's a Roaring Twenties-Something by Howard Kissel Top British Directors Are Busy on Broadway By MEL GUSSOW Three of the foremost British directors are working on Broadway at the same time, readying major American shows to face New York audiences this month. Neeson and Linney Burn in Miller's Crucible, Opening March 7 The Carpetbagger's Children Arrive at Lincoln Center, March 7 The Smell of the Kill Locks Into Previews, March 7 posted at 3/7/2002 06:57:00 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Wednesday, March 06, 2002 Photo Op: LAST 5 YEARS Opening - Photos by Bruce Glikas Q&A: Mary Zimmerman by Beth Stevens Hollywood Bound? Good Luck, Divas By NICK MADIGAN As Mariah Carey's disastrous experience with "Glitter" proved last year, the road to Hollywood is littered with the carcasses of unwatched pop-star movies. THEATER REVIEW | 'THE DAZZLE' At Home With the Collyer Brothers By BEN BRANTLEY Richard Greenberg's fascinating and frustrating new play is as eccentric, obsessive and ultimately as messy as the Collyers themselves. B'way recycles its hits Revivals boom due to economic caution, embracing the recognizable Broadway is on a particularly cautious kick. While there are 16 new works this season, there will be a whopping 14 revivals -- a 25% jump from last season. Gov't nixes a move for Abbey Dublin theater also makes news with new play Broadway grosses B.O. up; '42nd' 903g Bob's big bow Noises Off Road Grosses This One's All Trash, No Treasure Nowadays, the Collyer brothers are a synonym for unimaginable clutter. When they died, in 1947, their Fifth Ave. mansion was filled with tons of newspapers dating to 1918, 14 grand pianos and many other musical instruments (including an organ), most of a Model T Ford and at least one grandfather clock. Broadway Grosses: Long Runners Fall Short Last week saw a lot of long-runners faltering, with last season’s hit revival of 42nd Street falling $222,730 as compared to the previous week. Other shows hit hard include The Phantom of th...[Read More] Leveaux to Helm LaBute Premiere in London Neil LaBute will not direct his play The Distance from Here at the Almeida at King's Cross as was previously...[Read More] Jenkins, Menzel & Van Patten Join Monologues Carol Jenkins, Idina Menzel and Joyce Van Patten will be the next three women to star in Eve Ensler’s [Read More] Fiennes Stars in The Talking Cure at the National Ralph Fiennes is set to star in Christopher Hampton’s The Talking Cure at the National Theatre. The actor will play famed psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung in the play, scheduled to premiere in Lo...[Read More] New York Critics Smile Upon Metamorphoses Last fall, writer/director Mary Zimmerman brought her unique show [Read More] 'LAST 5 YEARS' A MUSICAL MARRIAGE-GO-ROUND By MICHAEL RIEDEL NOW that Jason Robert Brown's new musical, "The Last 5 Years," has opened to mixed reviews (including a pan from the Times that should pick it off within weeks), let us, in VH1 fashion, look at the story behind the story. Richard Nelson's Franny's Way, With Widdoes, Begins March 6 in NYC PBS to Broadcast Porgy and Bess George and The Jungle: Chicago Gets Twice the Sunday in the Park in 2002 Barbara Is Cook-ing Around the World Karen Akers Opens the Chase Room One Mo' Time Finds Time to Open on Broadway, March 6 John Lithgow Drops By 'Rosie,' March 7 Holtzman's Hearts Beat at Long Wharf March 6-April 7 Today In Theatre History: MARCH 6 KY Humana Festival Uncovers Mystery of Attraction, Opening March 6 Broadway Grosses: Feburary 25 - March 3 - Part 1 Backstage with London's Phantom of the Opera Menzel, Van Patten and Jenkins Joins OB Monologues, March 5-April 14 London Theatre Heads for a Russian Spring Feeling The Force At The Garrick Clunes Opens in Tartuffe at the National's Lyttleton Theatre Gilmore Pulls It Off in London Bradley and Kerry Meet as Yeats and Quinn at Irish Rep March 5-31 McKechnie’s Music to be Preserved on CD Steppenwolf Theatre Options Chabon's 'Laughter' for Stage Warner and Dillane Close Early in London LaBute Replaced by Leveaux At Almeida Vanessa Williams Is Carmen Jones at Kennedy Center in Fall 2002 MTC Reads Ellison's "Invisible Man" With David, Davis and Morton March 18 Ritter, Kober and Sullivan Are Three Js in J For J at LA's Court March 14-April 21 Hal 2002: Broadway and TV star Hal Linden makes his New York cabaret debut at Feinstein's at the Regency posted at 3/6/2002 12:01:07 AM by James Marino | Item Link Tuesday, March 05, 2002 Peter Filichia's Diary Tallying up some amazing figures on Hal Prince, the legendary Broadway producer-director who is still going strong. Charles Nelson's Casts and Forecasts Paper Mill seeks a new Julie Andrews, The Tap Dance Kid returns, and Porgy and Bess gets short shrift...again. Theater Review | 'Murder in Baker Street': Mildly Elementary, but Not in the Acting SAVING THE SYMPHONY Struggling in Brooklyn When Acclaim Isn't Enough By ANNE MIDGETTE An impasse in labor negotiations is just the latest chapter in a long sequence of events that threaten the Brooklyn Philharmonic's very existence. B'way B.O. is a bear Week sets record for time of the year; receipts up over 14% over 2001 March comes in like a lion or a lamb. But on Broadway, bear is the operable critter. Overall B.O. totaled $12,203,486, down $374,466 or 3.07% from the previous session. Nineteen of the 27 productions on the boards took hits, several sizable six-figure drops. Kennedy skeds Bard, tuners RSC pacts to appear annually for 5 years RSC Partners with the Kennedy Center The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a new five-year relationship with the John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. The company will take up residency at the Washington, D.C. theater beginnin...[Read More] Eurythmics to Write Barbarella the Musical Rock stars Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox have been tapped to write the score for the stage musical Barbarella. The tuner, based on the 1968 film of the same name, is expected to bow in Vienna i...[Read More] Miller's Resurrection Blues to Debut at the Guthrie Arthur Miller’s Resurrection Blues will have its world premiere during the Guthrie Theater’s 2002-2003 season, according to The New York Daily News. Bernadette Peters: CD Signing and TV Appearance Greenberg, Frechette and Rogers Dazzle the Audience, March 5 McGrath Enacts Bernhardt's Memoir in San Diego March 24-May 5 Melissa Errico Sings 'New Standards' at the Carlyle Melba Moore’s Once More with Love at Arci’s Place, March 20 PHOTO CALL: Best Little Cabaret in NYC: Carol Catches Campbell Feb. 26 PHOTO CALL: Cabaret Cut-Ups John Barrowman and Mom Duet Feb. 27 Hal Linden, Back to Broadway, Makes NYC Cabaret Debut March 5-16 Peter Brook Returns to Chicago with Le Costume, March 5-10 Mercedes Ruehl Guests on 'Rosie,' March 6 Gentlemen Prefer Ripley in Blondes Reprise! March 5-17 Musical Menopause Strikes OB's Theatre Four, March 5 Today In Theatre History: MARCH 5 MTC Will Give Kander & Ebb's Over & Over a Listen in April Reading Bacon, Eder, Pascal, Yearwood, Lauper Bring Broadway's Best to Bravo March 4 Studio 54 Barks: Gibson, McClanahan Go to the Dogs in April 8 Benefit Cherry Lane Presents Mentored Sterno, 99 Histories, 16 Wounded in Spring Report: Eve Ensler and Jane Fonda to Collaborate on New Project RSC Forges 5-Year Kennedy Center Residency Starting 2003 Costumer Aldredge, Wig Master Huntley Are 2002 Irene Sharaff Winners The Rest Is Silence: Umoja Closed for Good on West End "Springtime" Reaches Berlin as Producers Arrives in 2004 Bea and Billy Sign 'Just Between Friends' CDs at NYC Tower Records March 4 posted at 3/5/2002 07:28:26 AM by James Marino | Item Link THEATER REVIEW | 'METAMORPHOSES': Dreams of 'Metamorphoses' Echo in a Larger Space By BEN BRANTLEY In its new home, the magic of Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of "Metamorphoses" has been enhanced; its gift for subliminal seduction magnified. DON'T MYTH IT! By CLIVE BARNES IT looks like a wading pool, apparently shallow and with a gangplank built round it.This is Daniel Ostling's startling setting for Mary Zimmerman's re-invention of Ovid's "Metamorphoses," which moved from off-Broadway's Second Stage, pool and all, to open last night at the Circle in the Square. Ovid Makes Quite a Splash On B'way by Howard Kissel Metamorphoses review by Adam Feldman posted at 3/5/2002 06:34:11 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Monday, March 04, 2002 The Storefront presents RAGS in concert posted at 3/4/2002 01:48:48 PM by James Marino | Item Link Young Cast Says Let's Myth-Behave Chris Kipiniak, Louise Lamson and Erik Lochtefeld were students at Northwestern University in 1996 when theater professor and director Mary Zimmerman cast them in an undergraduate production of "Metamorphoses," her play inspired by the Roman myths of Ovid's poetry. Back then, it was called "Six Myths." Tonight, the three actors open in "Metamorphoses" on Broadway. German-lingo 'Producers' set Comic lift lines in Aspen HBO comedy fest creates buzz One-man play "Lackawana Blues" by Ruben Santiago Hudson, standup Dwayne Kennedy, Brad Hall's musical "Otis Lee Crenshaw" and Clare Kilner's feature "Janice Beard" were among the winners at the eighth annual HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, which wrapped Saturday. Carrafa to Choreograph Encores! Pajama Game Playwright Trieschmann Given the Weissberger Award March 4 PHOTO CALL: Sweet Smell of Success: 'The Column' PHOTO CALL: Sweet Smell of Success: J.J. Hunsecker PHOTO CALL: Sweet Smell of Success: 'Don't Know Where You Leave Off' PHOTO CALL: Sweet Smell of Success: 'Match Me' Dorothy Fields Playing at Jermyn Street EST Holds a Thrift Sale of Starry Duds, March 9 Metamorphoses Makes a Big Splash on Broadway, March 4 Rupert Rhymes Chairs UK Theatres Trust Primary Stages Offers A Moment of Bliss, March 4 and 7 Alan Alda Appears on 'Rosie,' March 5 McLaughlin Reads Excerpts of Helen at Barnes & Noble, March 4 Today In Theatre History: MARCH 4 Chicago Tribune: The incredible shrinking pit band You may sense it during certain Broadway musicals, either in New York or here in Chicago. Something's not quite right with the music. [Thanks to Leanna for the link!] [Thanks to Andy Propst at American Theater Web for the following links!] Newsday: '5 Years,' Two Careers, One Romance by Linda Winer OFF-BROADWAY REVIEW Newsday: Parallel Successes For Norbert Leo Butz, the triumphs of the characters he plays mirror those in his own life USA Today: Pop singers take on Broadway Hartford Courant: In New Haven, Musical Theater Changed Forever Hartford Courant: The Broadway 'Genius' A Centennial Toast To Composer Richard Rodgers Whose Collaborations Helped Define The American Musical posted at 3/4/2002 07:19:53 AM by James Marino | Item Link 'LAST 5' DOESN'T ADD UP By DONALD LYONS 'THE Last 5 Years" consists of a song cycle sung, separately but occasionally together, by a young couple chronicling the rise and fall of their relationship and respective careers. Two Come Apart At the Songs by Robert Dominguez Depending on who's telling — or rather, singing — the story, the last five years have been boom and bust for the married couple in composer Jason Robert Brown's beautifully rendered musical about a doomed relationship. The Last Five Years review by Robert Hofler There's nothing so antique as a four-poster onstage at the Minetta Lane Theater, but Jason Robert Brown's new musical, "The Last Five Years," could easily be retitled "I Do! I Don't!" posted at 3/4/2002 06:56:07 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Sunday, March 03, 2002 Goodbye Until Tomorrow Review of The Last Five Years by Ken Mandelbaum TB Theatre Review of The Last Five Years by Matthew Murray The Godfadda Workout Saw this show today. Any fan of The Godfather will love this one man show. Seth Isler spends the entire time running back and forth or hopping tables between characters. Quite an entertaining afternoon, especially if you take someone who is not a theatre fan but loves The Godfather. posted at 3/3/2002 09:34:52 PM by Susan Heim | Item Link AP Review of Last Five Years. Novelist and an Actress Sharing a Leaky Boat Ben Brantley's review. posted at 3/3/2002 06:24:16 PM by the other James | Item Link USA Today: Musical sings of the 'Last Five Years' Story is played forward for him, backward for her NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City, 1990: Jason Robert Brown, a 20-year-old songwriter disillusioned with the stuffy academics of music school, moves to Greenwich Village with dreams of writing a Broadway musical. Tonight is opening for THE LAST FIVE YEARS. If I was independently wealthy, I would buy tickets for everyone I know. It is a great show, it needs a marketing plan. I have not seen one. Responding to Crisis, Art Must Look Beyond It By ANNE MIDGETTE The assumption that art should respond rapidly to crisis is common currency today. But that goes against the nature of artistic inspiration. Abbey Lincoln, Maker of Her Own Genre By LARA PELLEGRINELLI A late bloomer, Abbey Lincoln ended up supplying singers, especially women, with an alternative to the male-oriented standards. Laura Linney Stays Faithful to Her First Love, the Stage In Theater Depicting History, Just How Far Can the Facts Be Bent? All's Well With the World in the Globe Theater How Cowboys and Cowgirls Get Into Step Side by Side With Sidney Falco Brian d'Arcy James had never seen the 1957 film "Sweet Smell of Success" when composer Marvin Hamlisch asked him to read for the then-embryonic stage musical in late 1998. LAURA, BELLE By BARBARA HOFFMAN There are a few things Laura Linney would really rather not discuss: her hair, the many hunky films stars she's worked with, and her romances, which the Oscar-nominated actress calls "that wildly awkward area of my life." A CRITIC'S JOB DISSECTED - BY A CRITIC By CLIVE BARNES Is there anyone so weak-livered or simple-minded that he or she has not come out of a theater, movie house or concert hall, read a book or even just watched television, then read a review of the event, taken a deep and mystified breath and angrily said:... Kushner's Homebody/Kabul Closes in NYC, March 3; London, RI, CA Next Last Few Weeks To Catch Star Quality in London Eric Grode's STAGE TO SCREEN: Checking Out Chekhov Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicings Ends Off-Broadway The Castle Crumbles: Off-Broadway Hit Closes March 3 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: The Last Five Years Opens Off-Broadway Anita Louise Combe Joins West End Chicago SDCF Abbott Award Goes to Director-Choreographer Stroman, March 3 Today In Theatre History: MARCH 3 Metamorphoses Offers $30 'Poolside' Seats PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with John McMartin Thirty years after the original Follies, McMartin is back doing Stephen Sondheim on Broadway in Into the Woods. Bagneris' Another Time One Mo' Time, a vibrant, loving look at jazz greats of the twenties, returns to Broadway, conceived, written and starring the electrifying Vernel Bagneris. Pool Cue: Metamorphoses Sets a High-Water Mark on Broadway Metamorphoses has turned into the best known creation of the prolific Mary Zimmerman, who is a towering figure in Chicago theatre, visible enough nationally to win a MacArthur "Genius" grant, but relatively unknown to New York theatregoers. Great Kate!: Kate Mulgrew Plays Katharine Hepburn in Tea at Five One great Kate deserves another. In the Hartford Stage production of Tea at Five, "Star Trek Voyager"'s former Captain Janeway plays film legend Hepburn. posted at 3/3/2002 09:15:22 AM by James Marino | Item Link So, we have to wait six more weeks for the recording of THE LAST FIVE YEARS... This Sh-K-Boom release will be produced by Jeffrey Lesser (Rocky, Tick, Kristin, et al) and arrives in time for Tax Day. (April 15th for those Canadians reading this.) Look for a new business model in producing cast recordings with this one... Don't be too surprised if you find a logo or two on the back of the jewel case. Also mentioned around the campfire tonight is the release of the last HTML programers at Broadway Television Network. They were the final staffers that remained after BTN jettisoned the Theatre.com/BroadwayOnline crew. No one is sure who is keeping up their site as of now. But more important than anything else, a story of how times have hit us all hard... It seems that Fynsworth's brother, Fonsworth, is a go-fer to Puffy (P. Diddy). My how the mighty have fallen... posted at 3/3/2002 12:00:09 AM by James Marino | Item Link BroadwayStars is powered by Blogger Pro! [Past News]
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