Saturday, March 16, 2002

Blind Item Received: Word on the street is that none other than Harvey Weinstein was brought in yesterday to supervise the ad campaign to save SWEET SMELL. They're putting up major money for a t.v. campaign to fight the nearly universal pans. Expect the commercial to de-emphasize Lithgow and show the leggy chorus girls, ala CHICAGO.

Globe and Mail: Broadway goes to the movies again -- but why?
[Sweet Smell of Success]
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Toronto Star: E.L. Doctorow serves dinner at the end of the world
Script has prescient things to say about Sept. 11th tragedy
by Richard Ouzounian

Theater Review | 'Miss Evers' Boys': A Tale of a Moral Woman and an Immoral Deception

'A Beautiful Mind' Meets Ugly Oscar Tactics
By RICK LYMAN
The campaign against "A Beautiful Mind" has struck many in Hollywood as particularly brutal.

Prodigal
Reviewed by Brooke Pierce

Eyre Supply
Director Richard Eyre on Arthur Miller and the everlasting pertinence of The Crucible.

Charles Nelson's Casts and Forecasts
Alan Ayckbourn sets up House at MTC, Monty travels on, and the Roundabout plays host to Edward Albee.

Prodigal
Review by William Stevenson

Photo Op: SWEET SMELL bash - Photos by Bruce Glikas
A picture of everyone on Broadway, except Alice Ripley...

Ron Raines is Chicago's Newest Billy Flynn
As Ken Mandelbaum reported on March 13, Ron Raines will be [Read More]

Albee's All Over Set for Gramercy Theatre
Edward Albee�s All Over will be the last production of the Roundabout Theatre Company�s 2001-2002 subscription series at the Gramercy Theatre. The production, imported from New Jersey�s McCarte...[Read More]

Cast Changes at CSC's The Underpants
Lee Wilkof and Cheryl Lynn Bowers have joined the cast of the Classic Stage Company production of Carl Sternheim�s The Underpants, replacing originally announced company members Fisher Stevens...[Read More]

Did Sweet Smell Find Success With NY Critics?
The new musical Sweet Smell of Success had a shaky start with critics in Chicago, where it tried out earlier this year. After...[Read More]

LIFE IS A DRAG-A-RET
By CHRIS WILSON and MARSHA KRANES
The groom was not pleased when three Liza impersonators turned up at his bachelor party.
I don't usually post Liza stuff -- but how about we all pick dates to see how long this lasts? If men impersonating Liza is going to bother her new husband, the newlyweds have to move to Mississippi to avoid that...

PHOTO CALLL: The Sweet Smell of Opening

PHOTO CALL: Off-Stage, They Don't Bite: The Leads of Sweet Smell of Success

PHOTO CALL: Elaine Paige Congratulates Hamlisch on Sweet Smell

PHOTO CALL: 'Don't Look Now': Director Hytner, Kelli O'Hara and Stacey Logan

PHOTO CALL: Drawn to the Sweet Smell: Allen, Friedman, Hunter and Orfeh

Pinchot and Burns Take Stones on the Road to San Fran, DE, CT

New York City Opera Stages Stroman-Ellis Night Music March 7-29, 2003

Ella, Sarah and Ethel, the Ladies of Song, Sing Again in NYC Showcase March 21

Ann Hampton Callaway Will Croon at Brooklyn Center March 16

Today In Theatre History: MARCH 16

Brooks' Brothers Lane and Broderick Exit Producers March 17

DIVA TALK: Kuhn Sings at Lincoln Center, Peters at Radio City and More

Middle Ages Sing in Musical Knight Life, Premiering March 15 in CA

Cookie Full of Arsenic: NYC's Film Forum Screens 'Sweet Smell of Success' Through March 28

Ian McKellen Is 'Live from New York' March 16

Love, Janis That Much? Off-Bway Joplin Show Offers $100 Top Price

Jude Law Returns to London Stage March 18

Unsuitable Girls Begins London Previews April 30

Stevens, Goldenhersh Lose Underpants; Steve Martin Play Now Starts March 21

Albee's All Over Isn't: Roundabout Brings McCarter Staging to NYC Gramercy in June

Donna Murphy Takes a Spill, But Helen is Still a Lady Who'll Launch March 19

Sony Classical Will Record Sweet Smell Cast Album March 17

Seattle Rep Premieres Grace and Things in 2002-03

Songwriter Roger Edens' Melodies Linger for Added Shows in NYC, March 19 & 26

Report: Roundabout Assassins Aims for Fall 2003

Audra, Lillias, Bebe & Ann, Bernadette, Chita and More at March 18 Dame Benefit on Bway

Right On, Maude! Bea Arthur Adds Actors' Fund Performance March 17

Tom Panko, Dancer-Choreographer Who Assisted Onna White, Dead at 74

Amanda Watkins is Goulet's Nellie South Pacific Tour March 19

Broadway Actor Alan Manson, a Ziegfeld for Barbra, Dead at 83

Falls Stages Gilman's Blue Surge at The Public, Beginning April 9

Kathleen Turner and The Graduate Begin Seducing Bway March 15

PHOTO CALL: Bernadette Peters Releases New CD

PHOTO CALL: No Oklahoma!, But Hensley, Moore Like Peters' New CD

PHOTO CALL: Butz, Scott Put Last Five Years on the Record

PHOTO CALL: Brown Shows 'Em How Last Five Years Is Done

PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, March 2-8: No Column

How Jewish is Too Jewish?? Hoffman's Popular Solo Visits NY's Emelin, March 15-17

Today In Theatre History: MARCH 15

Albee, Linney Honored at Lortel Awards May 6; Off-Bway Nominees Announced April 2�

Joosten, of "West Wing," Makes Serious Inquiries Only in L.A. March 14-April 14

Chicago's Lookingglass Looks to Zimmerman and Schwimmer in 2002-03

NYC's Vital Theatre Is Dressed in Straight Jacket & Tie April 4-27

Phantom Vet Davis Gaines Appears in Cabaret, in Concert and on Video in 2002

Cliff Roquemore, Director and Producer, Dead at 53

Forbidden Love Reigns in San Jose With Nottage's Las Meninas March 16-April 14

Frame 312 Opens at London's Donmar Warehouse

Madonna's London Debut Will Go On

NJ's George Street Has Diva Festival May 8-18

Summer Season Announced for London's Royal Court Theatre

London's Young Writers Festival Now Accepting Scripts

StageDirect Captures Regional Fringe Work on Video

New Musical, Frog and Toad, Gets NYC Lily Pad in Fall 2002 After Debut in MN

Match Me, Sidney: Musical Sweet Smell of Success Opens on Bway March 14

PHOTO CALL: The Goat or Who Is Bowing?

PHOTO CALL: Who Is The Goat? They're Not Telling

PHOTO CALL: The Goat Is a Family Affair

PHOTO CALL: Noises On: Goat Gains a Cherry

Ritter, Kober and Sullivan Are Three Js in J For J at LA's Court March 14-April 21

Elton John and Billy Joel last night at the Garden... those two could do a Broadway show together... And speaking of rock star crossover, the Bruce Springsteen musical "Drive All Night" is had their reading on Tuesday. In the cast were Adam Pascal and Kerry Butler...

Arci's Place closes doors in preparation for move to theatre district.
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Friday, March 15, 2002

Aspiring Artist Shot Dead In Botched Rob
Jerry Bacasa was a musician and artist. He also tended bar at The Public. His uncle is Walter Durkatz, a theatrical agent.

Brian d'Arcy James by Paul Wontorek

Illeana Douglas by Paul Wontorek

Cast Set For Blue Surge at the Public
Steve Key, Sarah Knowlton, Rachel Miner, Joe Murphy and Colleen Werthmann are set to star in Rebecca Gilman�s Blue Surge at The Public Theater. The production, directed by Robert Falls, begins...[Read More]

Anthony Clark Named New RSC Director
Anthony Clark has replaced Edward Hall as director of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Edward III, according to Variety. As we [Read More]

Miss Julie Added to Roundabout's 2002-2003 Season
Miss Julie will be part of the Roundabout Theatre Company�s 2002-2003 season lineup. David Leveaux is set to direct the Strindberg classic for the theater company.

The Full Monty Lets It Go For London Critics
The Broadway production of The Full Monty officially arrived at London�s Prince of Wales Theatre last night. The West End mounting of the hit musical features original Broadway cast members Joh...[Read More]

Charles Dickens to Open April 24 at Belasco
Broadway.com has learned that Peter Ackroyd�s The Mystery of Charles Dickens, currently running at London�...[Read More]

Roundabout books 'Look'
Adds 'Nine' to next season
The arrival of a long-aborning Burt Bacharach/Hal David musical and a revival of the musical "Nine" are among the high-lights of the Roundabout Theater Co.'s 2002-2003 season announced Wednesday.

Road grosses
B.O. up; new 'Mamma' hot

Audra to TV?
Audra McDonald's been signed for a TV pilot for NBC called MISTER STERLING

Peter Filichia's Diary
A talk with Scott Siegel about his Town Hall series of concerts showcasing songs from bygone Broadway musicals.

Follow Spot
Remembering Irene Worth and her al fresco performances as Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music in Philadelphia last summer.

Sweet Smell of Success
Reviewed by David Finkle
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THEATER REVIEW | 'SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS': A Faustian Pact in a City of Demons By BEN BRANTLEY
Despite the vastness of the talents that have gone into creating this nocturnal landscape, you're likely to find yourself counting the moments until dawn.

'SMELL': SLEAZY DOES IT By CLIVE BARNES
BLACK, black, black - "The Wizard of Oz," it is not, and we're not in Kansas anymore, or even Oklahoma. It's sleaze-time in the gossip-strewn streets of Gotham in the Age of Ike, J. Edgar Hoover and Walter Winchell.

It's a Musical Stinker: 'Sweet Smell' can't mask an odor of rot by Howard Kissel
The relationship between a power-hungry Broadway gossip columnist and a sycophantic press agent is not, as far as I know, one of the Basic Plots.

Sweet Smell of Success review by Charles Isherwood

Sweet Smell of Success review by Ken Mandelbaum

Sweet Smell of Success review by Thomas Burke

'MATCH ME': STAGE VS. FILM NOIR By LOU LUMENICK
THE movie version of "Sweet Smell of Success" is beginning a two-week run at Film Forum today, giving New Yorkers a rare opportunity to see a Broadway musical and its source material at the same time.

On Stage and Off: Battling Bad Reviews by Jesse McKinley

THEATER REVIEW | 'DANCE OF DEATH': More of Strindberg's Peace Amid Misery By D. J. R. BRUCKNER

Report: Roundabout Assassins Aims for Fall 2003
Uh huh.

Kathleen Turner and The Graduate Begin Seducing Bway March 15

Audra, Lillias, Bebe & Ann, Bernadette, Chita and More at March 18 Dame Benefit on Bway

Right On, Maude! Bea Arthur Adds Actors' Fund Performance March 17

Tom Panko, Dancer-Choreographer Who Assisted Onna White, Dead at 74

Amanda Watkins is Goulet's Nellie South Pacific Tour March 19

Broadway Actor Alan Manson, a Ziegfeld for Barbra, Dead at 83

PHOTO CALL: Bernadette Peters Releases New CD

PHOTO CALL: No Oklahoma!, But Hensley, Moore Like Peters' New CD

PHOTO CALL: Butz, Scott Put Last Five Years on the Record

PHOTO CALL: Brown Shows 'Em How Last Five Years Is Done
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Thursday, March 14, 2002

Jana Robbins: Cy�s Matters by Peter Filichia
Filichia sings the praises of Jana Robbins as she sings the songs of Cy Coleman.

Match Me, Sidney: Musical Sweet Smell of Success Opens on Bway March 14

Next for Baz Luhrmann, Bringing 'La Boh�me' to Broadway By PETER MARKS
Having found a way to mesh the music of Madonna and Richard Rodgers on screen in "Moulin Rouge," Baz Luhrmann will attempt to bring Puccini to the land of "Hello, Dolly!"

THEATER REVIEW | 'THE BOMB': 'Our Town,' Mass Nudity and Other Bedfellows By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Josh Fox's "Bomb" is full of such energy and unpredictable action that its what-might-they-do-next possibilities command interest even as it slogs to a dramatically uninspired end.

Something's Pretty Goofy In the State of Denmark by Robert Dominguez
It's not every musical that begins by screening a five-minute documentary on its creators, but Heinsplatt & DeSelza were not ordinary songwriters.

Music Deeply Felt, But Story's Old Hat by Robert Dominguez
When a nice, working-class family opens a show by singing about how good life is, you just know something bad's about to happen. But in the musical "Prodigal," composers Dean Bryant and Mathew Frank give the parable of the prodigal son a decidedly modern twist.

King's English by Howard Kissel
Samuel Goldwyn is best remembered for mangling the language ("Include me out"), but many of the films he produced (including "The Pride of the Yankees" and "The Best Years of Our Lives") still resonate.

THEATER REVIEW | 'MR. GOLDWYN': Making a Movie Mogul's Life a Stand-Up Comic's Shtick By BRUCE WEBER
Anyone old enough to remember Alan King's gigs on "The Ed Sullivan Show" will get a nostalgic kick out of his performance as the legendary film producer Samuel Goldwyn.

Mr. Goldwyn review by William Stevenson

CDs: From Romberg, A Hit and a Flop by Ken Mandelbaum

MISS EVERS' REGRETS By DONALD LYONS
AMONG the most troubling events of 1930s America was the decision of government doctors, deprived of federal funds, to investigate syphilis by allowing it to proceed unchecked in some black males in Alabama while deceiving them into thinking they were being cured.

AMAZINGLY BAD �GRACE' By DONALD LYONS
OCCASIONALLY, there comes along something so tasteless, so preposterous that one can only gape in awe. And it's directed to underline its cartoonish qualities. And then there is its resemblance to a play by the same author that lasted exactly a night on Broadway some years ago.

Will Simon Callow Play Dickens at the Belasco?

Hollywood/Ukraine Actress Peggy Hewett Dead at 56

Larson's tick, tick...BOOM! Will Tour at Least 21 Weeks, Starting January 2003

Full Monty's Megawatt First Night in London

PHOTO CALL: The Goat or Who Is Bowing?

PHOTO CALL: Who Is The Goat? They're Not Telling

PHOTO CALL: The Goat Is a Family Affair

PHOTO CALL: Noises On: Goat Gains a Cherry
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Wednesday, March 13, 2002

Follow Spot
Patti LuPone�s publicist corrects a New York Post report concerning a flap over actors soliciting contributions to Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS in curtain speeches.
It must be the truth since her publicist is telling it. Cause he was there.

In New American Blues, the Toll of 9/11
By KIRK JOHNSON
Some songwriters are expressing their feelings about Sept. 11 through artistic expression.
� Audio: Songs of 9/11

'Lion' sets L.A. close
Show to travel to Chicago
"The Lion King" will conclude its long run in Los Angeles at the end of this year. The musical opened at the Pantages Theater in October 2000.

'Producers' waltzes
Vienna org plans first non-English prod'n

Broadway grosses
Biz off; 'Stritch' 348g

Legit lord looks to the east
Lloyd Webber backs new Bollywood tuner in London

Real Drama? Never You Mind
An uneven blend of snappy one-liners, clich�d romantic situations and mother-daughter melodrama, "Surviving Grace" seemingly suffers from the same debilitating symptoms that afflict one of the main characters. It often forgets it's supposed to be a play.

'Noises Off' Calms Down

Helen Hayes Award Nominees Announced
Each year the Helen Hayes Awards, named for the first lady of American theater and Washington, D.C. native, Helen Hayes, honor achievement in professional theater in the D.C. area. Nominations were an...[Read More]

Broadway Grosses: Mo' Blues
Will One Mo� Time have that much more time on Broadway? The musical, which opened last week, continues to struggle at office. The musical played at a mere 23.50% two weeks ago at the Longacre T...[Read More]

The Diva Will Go On; LuPone Stays in Noises Off
What exactly is going on with Broadway diva Patti LuPone? The New York Post reported today that LuPone quit [Read More]

Dates Set for Annual Easter Bonnet Competition
The 16th Annual Easter Bonnet Competition will take place at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Monday, April 22 and Tuesday, April 23. The event, a culmination of six weeks of fundraising by various...[Read More]

Foote's Getting Frankie Married Premieres in CA March 29-May 5

Gould and Kane Awaken in Chayefsky's Middle of the Night in L.A. March 20-24

Magic Moment: New Dramatists Honors Barbara Cook May 14

Less Starry, but Still Controversial, The Exonerated Arrives in L.A. April 13-June 2

PHOTO CALL: Oklahoma!: 'Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin''

PHOTO CALL: Oklahoma!: Aunt Eller and Laurey

PHOTO CALL: Oklahoma!: His 'Lonely Room', She 'Caint Say No'

PHOTO CALL: Oklahoma!: People Will Say We're in Love

PHOTO CALL: Oklahoma!: The Farmers and the Cowmen

Have a Stage Role, Mr. Goldwyn; Alan King is Film Mogul Off-Bway

Gabriel Byrne Among Producers of Kings of Kilburn in NYC March 13-April 21

Today In Theatre History: MARCH 13

Long Runs on Broadway

Less Starry, but Still Controversial, The Exonerated Arrives in L.A. April 13-June 2

The Lion King L.A. Staging Closes Late 2002, Roars Again in Chi in 2003

Enchantment Passing Through: Aida Gets Surprise Substitute on Bway

LuPone Back in Noises Off March 12 Following Backstage Ballyhoo

Broadway Grosses: March 4-10

The Mysteries Extends Run at London's Queen's Theatre

London's Full Monty Opens March 12

New Cast For West End Mamma Mia!

Broadway Celebrates 15 Mis�rables� And Glorious � Years March 12

Patti LuPone Raises Her Voice, But Not in Song
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THEATER REVIEW | 'THROW PITCHFORK': Painting a Family Portrait and Finding a Father's Soul By BRUCE WEBER
Alexander Thomas's autobiographical one-man show tells the story of his growing up black and poor, and his subsequent life as an aspiring actor in Hollywood and New York.

THEATER REVIEW | 'SURVIVING GRACE': A Dying (and Still Difficult) Mother By BRUCE WEBER
"The Apple Doesn't Fall . . ." closed after its opening night performance on Broadway in 1996. It is back with a new title, and it is still ghastly.

POUTY LUPONE BACK ON BOARD By MICHAEL RIEDEL
FOUL-mouthed Broadway diva Patti LuPone was in full damage-control mode yesterday, telling sympathetic reporters that she planned to report for work at last night's performance of "Noises Off" and denying she had quit the show.
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Tuesday, March 12, 2002

For Theaters and Museums, a Rapid Rebound
By ROBIN POGREBIN
New York City's theaters and museums, which suffered a drop in attendance after Sept. 11, are now reaching or exceeding pre-attack attendance predictions.

Arts in America: Dramaturges Take a While to Define Themselves

Gelbart 'Lysistrata' pulled
Brustein version to be substituted
A couple of millennia after its debut, Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" is still proving controversial.

B'way comes in like a lion
Early March brings 19% B.O. boost

Allen's a Greek God

'Oklahoma!' Steps Into The Future
Ali Hakim, the energetic, crafty peddler in Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!", could learn a thing or two from Susan Stroman. Better yet, from her father. The choreographer's all-new dance numbers for "Oklahoma!", opening on Broadway March 21, are being touted as a highlight of the production and in many ways, she says, she owes it all to her dad.

'Golden Boy's' Ribeiro: A Real Dancer in the Ring

Acclaimed Actress Irene Worth Dies at 85
Acclaimed actress Irene Worth, who won three Tony Awards during her illustrious career, has died at the age of 85. The cause, according to the Associated Press, was a stroke.

The Plot Thickens at the RSC
Director Edward Hall, son of Royal Shakespeare Company founder Sit Peter Hall, has left the Royal Shakespeare Company. Hall, who was scheduled to direct Edward the Third at the theater, walked...[Read More]

New York Critics Face Albee's Goat
The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, Edward Albee�s controversial new work, has had the New York theater community buzzing for months....[Read More]

Broadway Cares' 2002 Easter Bonnet Tickets Go on Sale April 16

Tranelli, Pistone, Mason Enjoy Dinner at Eight Musical Reading March 12

Pillow Book Talk: 36 Views Begins NYC Premiere at Public March 12

PHOTO CALL: Get On the Bus: Tomei Signs the Joe Papp Bus

PHOTO CALL: Get On the Bus: Mandy Signs the Joe Papp Bus

U.S. Premiere of Aussie Musical, Prodigal, Opens March 12 in NYC

Jeffrey Wright and Mos Def Are Bway Kin in Topdog, Starting March

Broadway Belongs to Kids March 12 in Sixth Annual Kids' Night on Bway

Of Minds and Mothers: Surviving Grace Opens Off Bway March 12

Tiffany's Last Show Has Bening, Daly as Bennett's Talking Heads March 12-30

Tony-Winner Ebersole Returns to 42nd Street March 12

Peters' Rodgers and Hammerstein CD to Be Released on March 12

Today In Theatre History: MARCH 12

Judith Light, Michael Rupert, Cladia Shear, Brian Stokes Mitchell Nommed for 2002 Hayes Awards

DIVA ALERT: Bernadette Peters To Make Radio City Music Hall Debut

Legendary Actress Irene Worth is Dead at 85

Donna McKechnie Revives Her Musical Comedy Life at Arci's March 11, 18 & 25

The A Train Pulls Into London's Donmar Warehouse

Stage Connections: The West End's Waldorf Hotel

PHOTO CALL: Burn, Babies, Burn: The Crucible Bows

PHOTO CALL: Eyre and Miller Join Their Crucible Cast

PHOTO CALL: At The Crucible: John Proctor and Sally Bowles

PHOTO CALL: I Was John Proctor Too!: Daniel Day Lewis Attends Crucible Opening

PHOTO CALL: Accused and Accusers: All Cast Is Equal at Crucible's Party

PHOTO CALL: Crucible Coup: Julia Stiles and Harrison Ford Are Miller Animals

Barbican Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Seattle's 5th Avenue Gets Hairspray and Full Monty in 2002-03

Orlandersmith's Yellowman Plays CT's Long Wharf April 3-May 5

Live With Rosie: Kathie Lee Gifford Chats March 12

It's a Helluva Town: Ebersole, Mason and Callaway Salute NYC on CUNY-TV

South Coast Rep Reads Davalos' Daedulus March 11

Beast Roars Its Way to Bway's Top 10 March 13

Peter Filichia's Diary
If you had the chance to travel back in time to one major Broadway event, which would you choose?

Photo Op: Mercedes & Bill do THE GOAT - Photos by Bruce Glikas

Video: CRUCIBLE opening night

Field Trip: THE GOAT opening
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B'WAY DIVA CALLING IT QUITS OVER 'AIDS' FLAP By MICHAEL RIEDEL
Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone quit the hit Broadway comedy "Noises Off" over the weekend after clashing with cast members and management about asking audiences to contribute to a theater AIDS charity.
Thanks to Chandler on All That Chat for the link.
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Monday, March 11, 2002

Spotlight on Norbert Leo Butz by Nancy Rosati

Theater Review | 'Scab': Roommates' Yen for the Same Man, and Other Problems

Bronfman 'Dance' on B'way
Lincoln Center taping has raised tuner's profile. Edgar Bronfman Jr. will return to Broadway after nearly a 25-year absence. The former vice chairman of Vivendi Universal has joined the producing team for the Broadway-bound musical "Never Gonna Dance," scheduled to open in Gotham next season.

HONING CRAFT FOR A SONG
By CHIP DEFFAA
THE future of Broadway might be on West 57th Street.That's where aspiring composers, lyricists and librettists gather weekly to practice their craft at the BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshops.

BMI Musical Writers Get MTC Showcase March 11, With Graff, Isaacs Singing

Talk Show Watch: Minnelli on 'Today,' Peters 'Live'

A Meal for Molaskey: Musical Dinner at Eight Sits Down for NYC Reading March 12

Seattle Rep Premieres New Moliere Don Juan March 11-April 13

Today In Theatre History: MARCH 11

Josefina Gabrielle by Paul Wontorek

Photo Op: CRUCIBLE opening - Photos by Bruce Glikas

Photo Op: A splashy opening night - Photos by Bruce Glikas
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THEATER REVIEW | 'THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA?'
A Secret Paramour Who Nibbles Tin Cans
By BEN BRANTLEY
Edward Albee's new play is about a profoundly unsettling subject, which for the record is not bestiality but the irrational, confounding and convention-thwarting nature of love.

IT ISN'T KID STUFF
By CLIVE BARNES
YES, there really is a goat in Edward Albee's new play, "The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?" which opened at the John Golden Theatre last night, but you wouldn't want to pet it.

BOOTY & THE BEAST
By BARBARA HOFFMAN
WHILE a man-goat love affair seems tough to believe, it's happened before.Academics have traced human-animal intimacy as far back as 520 B.C., where a Greek vase of the time was etched with a scene giving new meaning to the phrase "stag party."

Albee's Latest A Tragedy?
If you're going to have an affair with an animal, as someone does in Edward Albee's "The Goat," why, you might ask, choose one with horns and an ornery disposition rather than one that is sweet, cuddly and more pliable?
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Newsday: Those Sneaky Previews by Linda Winer

She has a point...

The Seattle Times: The most happy actress Patti Cohenour...
[Thanks to Tim for the link!]
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Sunday, March 10, 2002

Can you spot this major faux pas on the website for LAST FIVE YEARS? Perhaps it is mistakes like this that keep lawyers busy...

When Your Characters Are Speechless, Let 'Em Sing!
By NICHOLAS HYTNER
The new musical "Sweet Smell of Success" is playing in previews to audiences who seem mostly not to know the 1957 movie on which it is based.
This should be required reading for anyone in the business.

Halle Berry, Bruised and Beautiful, Is on a Mission
By DANA KENNEDY
Halle Berry could become the first African-American to win the Academy Award for best actress � for her performance as a worn-out waitress in "Monster's Ball."

Arts Awaken After the Taliban
By ANDREW SOLOMON
After the depredations of the Taliban and the devastation of war in Afghanistan, an optimistic and exuberant artistic community emerges.
� Slide Show

As Targets Evolve, So Must the Satire

More Than a Bright Golden Haze
When he got a letter saying that Trevor Nunn of Britain's National Theatre wanted to direct "Oklahoma!", Ted Chapin, president of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, was at first unimpressed.

The Pieman Cometh...

'Oklahoma': Celebrating the American Spirit

TRYING TO GET AT WHAT'S REAL ON STAGE
By CLIVE BARNES
There's a subtle difference between naturalism and realism in the arts, always worth considering in matters theatrical.

'KISSING' FRIENDS
By LOU LUMENICK
Let's say you're a nice, straight, Jewish actress from Connecticut fed up with the shallow sitcom roles you've been playing. What do you do?
I've said it before, keep you eye on Jennifer Westfeldt, she is going to be huge. [Jennifer was the best Julie Jordan I've ever seen.]

TOTALLY STRAIGHT - OR ARE THEY?
Jennifer Westfeldt and Heather Juergensen are both straight, but each had youthful attractions to women.

CAN THEY 'PRODUCE'?
By CHIP DEFFAA
Here come the replacements. It's one of the toughest acts to follow in one of the great successes in Broadway history, but when the blockbusting duo of "The Producers," Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, finally pack it in next Sunday, a new pair will take center stage.

Andrea Martin, Sweet Smell, Donna McKechnie to Appear on 'Rosie'

The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Opens on Broadway March 10

Stritch Gets Her '60 Minutes' March 10

PHOTO CALL: Frecette, Swift, Rogers Take a Dazzle-ing Bow

PHOTO CALL: Frecette, Swift and Rogers Dazzle

Steven Suskin ON THE RECORD: Dazzling Dreamgirls and 1943 Show Tunes

Nobody Does It Like Her: Jana Robbins Sings Cy Coleman at Arci's in NYC March 10-31

Today In Theatre History: MARCH 10

It was 41 on 44th yesterday... Nathan's vocal problems got a Presidential reprive yesterday as George Bush Sr. [41] came to see The Producer's yesterday for the matinee. It's amazing how a VIP can speedup the healing process... We wonder if Mr. Lane will do this week's matinees as well. Surely in this city we can find a VIP or two with as much clout as a former president to come to the last matinees?
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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]

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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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