Saturday, June 15, 2002

[ MSNBC ]  Cynthia Nixon, a grrl and a woman
'Sex and the City' star discusses her Broadway performance

[ TM ]  Free to Be...You and Me
Reviewed by David Finkle

[ TM ]  Face the Music
Reviewed by Marc Miller

[ TM ]  Maria Stuart
Reviewed by David Finkle

[ TM ]  Jason Robert Brown and Friends to Perform at The Cutting Room by Brooke Pierce

It's highly unlikely that there will be a full update of headlines/links this weekend. Most of the BroadwayStars staff is at the Kennedy Center seeing the Sondheim Festival this weekend. I will be at Roseland loading in Broadway Bares... which you should ALL attend if you are in town.
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Friday, June 14, 2002

[ P ]  Dame Edna to Tour Again � But Without Broadway Producers

[ P ]  A&E Broadcasts Richard Rodgers Special June 16; Complete Line-up Announced

[ P ]  Our House Musical Launched in U.K. at Scala

[ P ]  "Ally McBeal" Star Jane Krakowski Does Fuddy Meers at Edinburgh

[ P ]  Original Cast Reunion Concert of Merrily We Roll Along Set for Sept. 30

[ B ]  Revivals #4 by Ken Mandelbaum

[ B ]  Jane Krakowski Heads to Edinburgh Fringe Fest

[ B ]  Cast of Merrily Gathers for Reunion Concert

[ B ]  Israel Horovitz's Old Lady Set for Off-B'way

[ B ]  Gorshin in Gracie Bows at Helen Hayes in Oct.

[ ST ]  Oh, Mama! 'Hairspray' co-stars share special chemistry by Misha Berson
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ SPI ]  An already good musical now is all dolled up for Broadway by JOE ADCOCK
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? Not necessarily.
Thanks to Craig for the link!
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[ USA ]  Groundwork ensures play won't be comedy of errors by Elysa Gardner
Scott Ellis directs The Boys from Syracuse based on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.
Rehearsals for the new production began this week, with an opening scheduled for Aug. 18.
Between now and then, USA TODAY will take a tip from another Shakespeare-inspired musical, Kiss Me, Kate, and follow the drama behind the comedy. That is, we'll chart the progress of The Boys From Syracuse from the first meeting of the cast and crew up to opening night.

[ USA ]  Liza, new husband foresee a terrific year's end by Jeannie Williams
Some of their reported projects are fiction, Gest says. They've been approached for a Minnelli book, but that's not a priority. She has no plans to go into Gypsy on Broadway or on the road.

[ ND ]  Bergman Gives Queens the Royal Treatment by Linda Winer

[ ND ]  Free to Be . . . Charming But Also a Little Listless by Gordon Cox

[ LAT ]  Not Quite Able to Connect the Dots by DON SHIRLEY
In a Sondheim festival revival, the musical about pointillist painter Georges Seurat fails to capture the original show's colors.

[ LAT ]  THEATER BEAT
Going Happily Over the Top in Old-Time Hollywood
Reviews of "Epic Proportions"; "The Cherry Orchard" starring Alfred Molina, Stephanie Zimbalist and Greg Mullavey; and "Criminal Minds."

[ CSM ]  Back on Broadway, with no apologies by Tony Vellela
A profile of Jack Noseworthy... the day before his show closes. Gee, thanks for the plug.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ MST ]  Ordway hopes that 'Anything Goes' with 3 top talents by Graydon Royce
With Sandy Duncan, Jim Walton and Michael Brindisi.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ CST ]  Speaking with ... John Leguizamo BY JAE-HA KIM

[ BG ]  Historical dramas that teach, challenge by Catherine Foster
LENOX - With its 25th season opening with two world premieres, ''The Valley of Decision'' and ''Golda's Balcony,'' Shakespeare & Company is throwing down the gauntlet to its audience. Crammed with history and complex ideas, these plays demand close attention.

[ BG ]  'Third Watch' actor goes from cop to collar by Catherine Foster
Jason Wiles, who normally plays the hard-boiled cop Bosco on ''Third Watch,'' will play a young seminarian with a past in ''Mass Appeal,'' at the Cape Playhouse.

[ BH ]  S'wonderful for actor by Robert Nesti
Profile of Hershey Felder.

[ B ]  Ask a Star: Judy Kaye

[ B ]  Free to Be...You and Me Review by Adam Feldman

[ B ]  Casting Update for A Man of No Importance

[ B ]  Tuesdays with Morrie Play Eyes Gotham

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia: The Columnist notes the trend of musicals telling us they�re musicals.

[ TM ]  The Little Foxes Reviewed By: David Hurst

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: Divas in Concert, Five Years on Disc PLUS News of Buckley, Peters and Cook

[ P ]  Horowitz Brings His Old Lady to New York, Oct. 3

[ P ]  Rupert, Barbour, Larsen to Star in Durang Musical, Macao, at NYS&F

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Millie Signs Her Moniker at Virgin Megastore

[ P ]  Loh's Worry, Musical Mystery Highlight San Jose Fest June 14-18

[ P ]  Hello, Jerry: Composer Herman Signs New CD and Gravitte Sings June 14 in NYC

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Robards, Hathaway Win Derwent Awards
Hathaway, who is in London, had her mother pick up the honor June 11...
Hathaway's mother is Kate McCauley, formerly of Les Mis.

[ P ]  Zimmerman Unveils Her Spin on Galileo's World, in Chicago June 14

[ P ]  Seattle Hears Lackawanna Blues June 14-July 13

[ P ]  Patti LuPone Announces Several Concert Dates Post Noises Off Run

[ P ]  Hairspray Opens Pre-Broadway Run at Seattle's Fifth Avenue June 14

[ P ]  Broadway Stars Sing Rodgers at the Gershwin on June 28

[ P ]  Dee, Davis and Rose Discuss Raisin in the Sun on "Theatre Talk"

[ P ]  Sibling Revelry Spices Gip Hoppe's Heart of Jade, in Boston June 13-29

[ P ]  Women Crash an All-Male Music Fest in New Musical, Eight Ways, at Philly's Arden, June 14

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JUNE 14

[ P ]  Molaskey, Murphy, Moran Join Musical Man of No Importance; Previews Begin Sept. 12

[ P ]  Barbour, Felder Are Back From Broadway Near Broadway June 17

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Krakowski, Finneran, La Chanze Are Stars Under the Stars

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Danieley, Mazzie, White, Ziemba Are Stars Under the Stars

[ P ]  "When Will It Be Bloomsday?" June 16 at Symphony Space

[ * ]  "Evening At Pops" 2002 National Broadcast Schedule
Thanks to John_C on All That Chat for the link!
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[ NYT ]  On Stage and Off: Landing Softly After the Tonys

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'MARIA STUART'
Two Queens, Each the Prisoner of the Other
By BEN BRANTLEY
Ingmar Bergman directs the Royal Dramatic Theater of Sweden in an intense, elegant interpretation of Friedrich von Schiller's "Maria Stuart" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

[ NYP ]  THEY'LL BE DAMED
By MICHAEL RIEDEL
NOW, possums, pull up a chair and let's dish Dame Edna. The Broadway diva and alter ego of writer-performer Barry Humphries is about to launch another "Royal Tour" with an eye to bringing it to New York next year.

[ NYP ]  CHUCKLES ON ORDER AMID 'CHAOS'
By CHIP DEFFAA
ALONG with Chicago City Limits, Freestyle Rep was long one of the best known and most highly respected of improv comedy troupes.

[ NYP ]  WE GOT IT, OK?
By DONALD LYONS
TRADITIONAL notions of girlhood and boyhood just aren't valid anymore.Girls can do anything they've a mind to. Boys can cry without being called sissies.

[ DN ]  Scepters That Haunted Europe
As political issues go, regicide is not very hot these days. When Friedrich von Schiller wrote "Maria Stuart" in 1800, however, less than a decade had passed since the French, who still may not be ready for self-governance, had executed their king and queen.

[ DN ]  A Disappointed Clan Revisited

[ DN ]  Growing Old Is Cos for Laughter

[ V ]  'Arms' sets B'way bow
Prince prod'n to open in October at the Cort Theater
"Hollywood Arms," the play by Carrie Hamilton and her mother Carol Burnett based on the latter's life story, has firmed up its Broadway plans.

[ V ]  Free to Be You and Me
Review by Charles Isherwood

Saw The Prince and The Pauper last night at The Lambs.
A very strong cast of 12 plays numerous roles (perhaps 36+ roles?). A star is born in Allison Fisher, who plays Lady Jane. While I expect that the show is still tightening up for a Sunday opening, it still runs long for its target audience. With ticket prices at $55 and $40, certainly more Princes than Paupers will be able to see this, which may be the shortfall on the business side. Approximate break even is about 40% paid audience (about 1,100 tickets per week, or 138 per show) without discounting -- so it may work through the summer. It is in need of a strong review to help. With the Producer of The Prince and The Pauper (Carolyn Rossi Copeland) also having the title of Producing Artistic Director of The Lambs, a certain synergy between the production and The Lamb's Theater Company could help (hopefully the stop clause percentage will be more flexible as P&P finds its audience). It probably needs a cast recording as well... Regardless of what happens with this production, it is another step of a great set of talents making their way to Broadway. You will certainly hear more from composer Neil Berg, director Ray Roderick and musical supervisor John Glaudini.

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Thursday, June 13, 2002

[ P ]  Will Sondheim Celebration Come to N.Y.?: Highlights Concert Looks Likely

[ P ]  Rose Rage Plays at U.K.'s Haymarket

[ P ]  London's BBC Airs Bombay Dreams Documentary

[ P ]  Gwyneth Paltrow Ends West End Proof Run June 15

[ B ]  CDs: If We Only Have Love by Ken Mandelbaum

[ B ]  Photo Op: Brooke Shields Visits Allergist's Wife

[ B ]  Death in Venice Review by Adam Feldman
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[ TM ]  Summer in D.C. With Ra�l by: Diane Snyder
Starring in two Sondheim shows at the Kennedy Center, Ra�l Esparza is where he wants to be.

[ TM ]  OOBR Awards To Honor �ber-Cool Off-Off Broadway Productions On June 24 by: Brooke Pierce

[ P ]  Musical Little Ham Gets Industry Preview June 16-17 Prior to Off-Bway Run

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Radnor Is New Graduate

[ P ]  Walter Charles Does Double Duty in Sondheimfest; Replaces Injured Actor in Company

[ CP ]  Married With a Mob by David Anthony Fox
Daniel Stern's Barbra's Wedding gets its world premiere at the Philadelphia Theatre Co.
I saw this play last night -- it's a very sweet piece that has some slow spots, but a lot of laughs.
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[ ND ]  Smash Sondheim, But Will It Travel? by Patrick Pacheco
"The problem is that we now have on Broadway a first-class revival of 'Into the Woods,' perhaps [Stephen] Sondheim's most accessible work, featuring a major star [Vanessa Williams]. It won the Tony Award over 'Oklahoma!' and it's still not doing great business," said one producer.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'OUR TOWN'
Paul Newman Chronicles Life at Bustling Grover's Corners by BRUCE WEBER
Paul Newman stars as the Stage Manager in the Westport Country Playhouse's rickety production of Thornton Wilder's quintessentially American meditation on mortality.

[ YN ]  Archerd: Newman preps for L.A. stage bow by Army Archerd
Paul Newman is getting rave reviews making his first stage appearance in almost 40 years -- in "Our Town" on the Westport Country Playhouse Stage (artistic director is Joanne Woodward Newman) -- and he will be onstage this fall at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

[ LADN ]  Can-Duke attitude by Evan Henerson
Reprise! mounts a stripped-down but talent-packed production of 'Follies'

[ LADN ]  From Compton to Broadway by Theo Douglas
Ahnjel Chavonne Harris is working in the chorus and hoping to play the same role on Broadway that she played in a high school show

[ LAT ]  Mordant Wit, on the Death of a Playwright by DARYL H. MILLER
The recorded history of Shakespeare's life is riddled with enough gaps to invite speculation. So is that of his contemporary, Christopher Marlowe, who was killed under mysterious circumstances at age 29.
With JD Cullum as Marlowe.

[ NJ ]  Center Stage by Peter Filichia
Stowe goes on

[ B ]  Photo Op: Broadway Under the Stars - Photos by Bruce Glikas

[ B ]  Barbour & Felder are Back From Broadway

[ B ]  Hollywood Arms Opens at B'way's Cort on Oct. 31

[ P ]  Film of The Grey Zone to Open Festival, July 17

[ P ]  Drama Dept. Free to Be Opens Off-Broadway, June 13

[ P ]  TX's Theatre Under the Stars Likely to Host Mack & Mabel in 2003-2004 Season

[ P ]  Ah, To Be Young, Gay and Backstage; Just Us Boys Gets Off-Bway Staging June 20-30

[ P ]  Green and Morris Make Musical Once Upon a Primetime in L.A. June 22-July 27
Moore, not Morris (see James� note below).

[ P ]  Into the Woods' Boot Gets the Boot Till June 18

[ P ]  The Phantom of the Opera Hits 6,000th Performance on Bway June 13

[ P ]  Actors Playground Offers Summer Play Readings Galore, Beginning June 17

[ P ]  Millie's Marc Kudisch Joins Ravinia's Little Night Music Concerts

[ P ]  Who's Participating in Sept. 11 Town Hall Benefit? Who Isn't?

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Paper Mill's Fair Lady Takes Her Bow

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Crampton Is Paper Mill's Fair Lady

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Noll, Gibson Visit Paper Mill's Fair Lady

[ P ]  Second Stage Opens Notebook; Kesselman Play Begins June 13
Four students' lives are forever altered by an influential English teacher in Wendy Kesselman's play, which is directed by Evan Yionoulis.

[ P ]  Rumpelstiltskin and Fully Committed Part of Summer Park Series

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JUNE 13

[ P ]  Hollywood Arms Will Be Housed at Bway's Cort Theatre Beginning Oct. 8; Opens Oct. 31

[ P ]  Sarah, Plain and Tall Sings in Kid-Friendly New Musical, July 11-Aug. 14 in NYC

[ P ]  Lotsa Love: 29th St. Rep Extends Shepard to July 27

[ TB ]  Introducing ... Darrin Baker by Scott Cain
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Maintenance! Just need to catch you up on a few things, a few opinions and such...

The 2002 BroadwayStars Tony Awards Contest was a fun endeavour once again with about 5,000+ entries. Coming out on top with 19 of 22 correct answers were four readers: Donald Feltham (Los Angeles), Michael Schilke (NYC), Jim Malloy (NJ), and Karen Zornow (NYC). The tie-breaking email was sent out to them on Monday, June 3 @ 3PM.

Donald Feltham, who is known to many of you as the voice of the Broadway Radio Hour over at Bruce Kimmel's "Haines, His Way" website, was the first to respond to the email taking the Grand Prize ($50 Amazon Gift Certificate and 2 tix to CAREER TRANSITIONS FOR DANCERS annual 'Next Step Gala' at City Center "Shall We Dance" a Richard Rodgers celebration. Donald promised that he would not use the Amazon Gift Certificate to buy Fynsworth Alley CDs...

Jennifer Kalman, our most northern fan, scored 18 of 22. (She asked me.)

On other fronts, we missed something in the New York Times about 10 days ago. Roger Gindi, a Broadway producer, wrote a letter to the Times regarding Jesse McKinley's article about where the money from a Broadway ticket goes. Roger makes two clarifications to Jesse's article with regard to investor return.

Mike Burstyn Plays Doctor in National Tour of Allergist's Wife Come Fall.

We have been lax at getting updates going in the morning. Call it post-Tony exhaustion. :-) I hope to get back to the old schedule of updates soon.

ONCE UPON A PRIMETIME, an original musical comedy, is opening in LA this June at Powerhouse Theatre, 3116 2nd Street, Santa Monica. Amanda Green (we love her) has written the lyrics. Curtis Moore created the score.

The "Add a Star" feature is still broken. Hopefully I will get to it sometime soon...

And last but not least... Catherine is back today from London! We hope to get a full report of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2002

[ B ]  Erin Dilly Steps Into Syracuse

[ P ]  Datz All: Dilly Added to Syracuse in Cast Shift

[ B ]  Goodman & Peters Set for Follies in the U.K.
Playbill reports that Kathryn Evans is playing Sally in this production of Follies. What a coincidence -- I have a photo of Kathryn Evans taken outside the Belasco when Follies was playing there...

[ B ]  Tom Wopat Joins Cast of 42nd Street June 21

[ B ]  Love, Janis Loses Another Star: Branigan Out

[ B ]  Sam Harris to Join The Producers on B'way

[ B ]  Ricky Jay: On the Stem Extends for Three Weeks

[ B ]  Steppenwolf Announces 2002-2003 Season

[ B ]  From the Shelf: Total Eclipse of the Heart by Ken Mandelbaum

[ NYT ]  Signe Hasso, Actress in Both Hollywood and Sweden, Dies at 91 by REUTERS
Signe Hasso, the Swedish-born star of the 1947 drama, "A Double Life," whose stage and screen career spanned nine decades, died in Los Angeles on June 7.
This obituary fails to mention her Broadway credits.

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
ANNE Heche is stepping into the hit play, "Proof." So here's our chat on the subject: How many times have you been on Broadway before?

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Elizabeth McCann
Producer Elizabeth I. McCann is ready for a much-needed vacation following her role as a producer of two Broadway plays in 2001-2002 and the managing producer of 2002 Tony Awards. But before her break, she talks about promoting The Goat, taking on the New York theatre press and looking at what makes a good Broadway season.

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hairspray: Corny Collins' Show, Home to the 'Nicest Kids in Town'

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hairspray: Tracy Turnblad's Gonna Be a Star!

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hairspray: Edna Turnblad Gets a 'Welcome to the 60's' Makeover

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hairspray: Corny Collins' Dance Show Roll Call

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hairspray: Finale

[ NJ ]  A mess in the Old West BY PETER FILICHIA
"Wild Dust" could be a much better musical than it is. But the show, now having its world premiere at the Centenary Stage Company in Hackettstown, is an unfortunate and unfocused mess.

[ TM ]  Cabaret Notes
The Siegels wonder what exactly Billy Bob Thornton was up to at Joe�s Pub.

[ TM ]  When We Dead Awaken Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

[ VV ]  RAMPANT EXHIBITIONISM by Michael Feingold
Museum by Tina Howe

[ VV ]  FOUR ON THE FLOOR by Ed Park
"Marathon 2002, Series C" at Ensemble Studio Theatre

[ VV ]  THE LORD IS A GIRL by Francine Russo
Silence By Moira Buffini

[ VV ]  MA-YI'S ASIAN FLUENCY by Alexis Soloski
This End Up (A User's Manual for Lovers of Asians) by Ralph B. Pe�a

[ VV ]  THE JAMES BOND by Ben Nadler
Blind Horses by Dan Dietz

[ VV ]  MANN'S FATE by Robert Simonson
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, adapted by Robert David MacDonald

[ TB ]  SMT's Island Entertaining But Not Enthralling Review by Matthew MacDermid

[ TB ]  Linda Eder: Live at Lenape! Review by Pati Buehler

[ LAT ]  Play's the Thing That Links Kids in L.A., London by KERRY MADDEN
Exchange: Pupils in the two cities use Internet to jointly study theater and learn about one another.

[ CST ]  Letter from the Spoleto Festival BY HEDY WEISS
CHARLESTON, S.C--It may not have been part of the official brochure outlining all the dance, theater, chamber music, opera and installation events that were part of this year's Spoleto Festival U.S.A. But for real theater, Deep South style, nothing could quite compete with lunch at the Tea Room of the Grace Episcopal Church on a quiet street in the heart of downtown Charleston.
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[ NYT ]  Isolated Heroes as Two Sides of a Coin By BEN BRANTLEY
Like most great art, Stephen Sondheim's "Company" and "Sunday in the Park with George" provide the extraordinary privilege of watching the world come into focus through someone else's eyes.

[ NYT ]  Stutterers' Words Flow More Easily on the Stage
By JESSE McKINLEY
A group of actors performed last weekend as part of the inaugural production of the Our Time Theater Company, a new troupe devoted to being "an artistic home for people who stutter."

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'DEATH IN VENICE'
Plunge Over the Precipice in the Mind of a Dreamer

[ P ]  Several London Shows Cancel Matinees

[ P ]  Carousel Concert Scheduled at Royal Festival Hall June 15-16

[ P ]  How Did the Tonys Go? Producer Liz McCann Tells Playbill On-Line

[ P ]  Pellow Packs a Punch in London Chicago

[ P ]  Laura Branigan Is Latest Through the Love, Janis Revolving Door

[ P ]  The Magic Continues: Ricky Jay: On the Stem Extends Through Aug. 4

[ P ]  Daisey Brings Dog Years to Letterman June 12

[ P ]  Henry Goodman Joins London Follies; Evans and Peters Among Cast

[ P ]  Tom Wopat Is the Duke of 42nd Street, Playing Julian Marsh Beginning June 21

[ P ]  As Bombay Dreams Previews, Lloyd Webber's at Work on New Musical

[ P ]  Judith Ivey Is Anguished Mom in 2003 Premiere of Unspoken Prayers in IL

[ P ]  Talk Show Watch: Edie Falco on 'Leno', Mamma Mia on 'Today'

[ P ]  Ford's Theatre Will Go Dormant June-November, But Carol and 1776 Planned

[ P ]  Last Session's Schalchlin, Brochu Preview New Musical at CA's Laguna Playhouse Aug. 12

[ P ]  War Brides, the Musical, Gets CT Run June 13-23

[ P ]  Alice Ripley Sings at Joe's Pub, Aug. 12

[ P ]  Marcovicci Sings I Am Anne Frank at Town Hall with Murphy, Bergen and Others

[ P ]  Reno Takes Rebel to San Fran June 18-23; Returns to NYC's Lion Theatre June 27

[ P ]  Liz Callaway to Sing Songs of the Sixties June 20 and 21 in Illinois

[ P ]  Sounds of Silence Continue at OB's Ohio Through June 29

[ P ]  Ricky Ian Gordon's Only Heaven, Setting Langston Hughes to Music, Gets CD Oct. 1

[ P ]  Carol Burnett Gets the Walters Treatment on June 14

[ P ]  L.A. Theatre Works Records Orson's Shadow With Glenne Headly June 12-16

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JUNE 12

[ TM ]  NYC Premieres of Works By Young Playwrights (and a Former Young Playwright) This Month

[ TM ]  The Song of Sutton Foster By: Peter Filichia
John Thomas Oaks penned an ode to Broadway's newest star when she was still a star-to-be.

[ TM ]  Judith Daykin To Retire as President and Executive Director of City Center

[ TM ]  New Haven Hosts the Seventh Annual Festival of Arts and Ideas, June 13-30

[ DN ]  Top Tunes Bustin' Out All Over
To end its "Broadway by the Year" season, Town Hall presented songs Monday from musicals that opened in the spectacular 1964. In addition to "Hello, Dolly!", "Funny Girl" and "Fiddler on the Roof," there were excerpts from the musical version of Budd Schulberg's "What Makes Sammy Run?" (the composer, Ervin Drake, was in the audience) and Stephen Sondheim's "Anyone Can Whistle."

[ DN ]  B'way Goes on a Picnic
The first "Broadway Under the Stars" concert Monday turned Bryant Park into a mini-Woodstock without the mud. More than 10,000 people of all ages jammed into the park, covering the grass with blankets, sheets and curtains, suggesting an audience for more of these Monday concerts.
If you expect to see any of that grass you better show up more than an hour beforehand. Next time I will know better. I was impressed with the number of people standing on the sides, underneath the trees. There had to be thousands over there, they couldn't possibly see and I wonder how much they heard. They stayed for the entire program though.

[ NYP ]  IT'S WEBBER'S WORLD by Michael Riedel
A NEW musical about Bollywood. Another that charts the rise of a Mariah Carey-like pop singer. And the scramble to secure an invitation to the hoity-toity Sydmonton Festival

[ NYP ]  THERE'S LOTS OF LIFE IN 'VENICE' by Donald Lyons
A BRILLIANT and gripping dramatization of Thomas Mann's 1910 "Death in Venice" is being staged by Giles Havergal at the Manhattan Ensemble Theater.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2002

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Take All My CDs: de Haas Released Disc

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Take the L Train: Lennox, Lewis, La Chanze Celebrate de Haas Disc

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: June 3-9

[ P ]  Joan Rivers Show May Reach Broadway

[ P ]  Yesssssss! Sam Harris Is New Carmen Ghia in Producers July 2

[ P ]  Judith E. Daykin To Leave City Center in 2003

[ P ]  Steppenwolf Studio to See Four World Premieres in 2002-03

[ P ]  Daniel J. Travanti Returns to San Diego's Globe in Miller's Sons, July 21-Aug. 31

[ P ]  L.A's Mark Taper Stages Yew's Bernarda Alba With Sandra Oh July 14-Sept. 1

[ P ]  Peters Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein on June 13 'Regis' Appearance

[ P ]  U.K. Theatre To Be Preserved on Video & DVD

[ P ]  The Mysteries Returns to West End June 20 and 21

[ P ]  Shakespeare Still Cool Says U.K. Poll

[ B ]  Revivals #3 by Ken Mandelbaum

[ B ]  Polly Bergen Extends Stay in Cabaret

[ B ]  Boy George Eyes Return to Taboo

[ YN ]  Newman Eclipses Grand 'Our Town' by MICHAEL KUCHWARA
WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) - All the focus has been on the actor portraying the Stage Manager.
However, the real star of the Westport Country Playhouse's sold-out revival of "Our Town" is author Thornton Wilder, whose 64-year-old drama reaffirms its status as one of the great American plays of the 20th century.
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[ P ]  Fever Tour Ends With DC Run June 11-30; New Tour Begins in November

[ B ]  Will Liza Get a Turn as Mama Rose in Gypsy?

[ TM ]  Tom Wopat To Be the Duke of 42nd Street? by: Michael Portantiere
Though the casting is unconfirmed by the show's press office, TheaterMania has heard that Tom Wopat may soon be taking over the role of Julian Marsh in 42nd Street when Michael Cumpsty leaves the cast.
I think they "heard" it in Mandelbaum's column on May 27...

[ YN ]  Bollywood U.K. Stage Shows Nixed on War Threat
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[ TB ]  ON THE SCENE: BROADWAY UNDER THE STARS

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATER
Memory Is a Big Part of One-Acts by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Promise is always in the air when Ensemble Studio Theater holds its annual festival of one-act plays.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THIN WALLS'
Yes, Those Walls Have Ears, and They Sure Do Get an Earful by ANITA GATES
The century-old building in Alice Eve Cohen's one woman show should be the most sympathetic character of all.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'BECOMING BERNARDA'
Casting a New Light Into the Shadows of a Familiar Family by D. J. R. BRUCKNER
The woman in the title of Oscar A. Col�n's "Becoming Bernarda" is of course the matron of "The House of Bernarda Alba."

[ NYP ]  STILL BOWLES 'EM OVER by CLIVE BARNES
OVER the years, I've come to the "Cabaret" so often, I feel I could understudy some of the roles.
"Goodbye mein lieber herr..."

[ YN ]  Archerd: Liza Preps Live Record, Las Vegas Stand by Army Archerd
I'm back in Hollywood after checking the action for a week in New York.
Check out the John Raitt item - he's unbelievable...

[ ND ]  Side by Side, These Sondheims Stand Tall by Linda Winer
Superb revivals at D.C. festival are a capital idea

[ BS ]  Robert Redford: Still Hoping To Return to the Stage by Bill Gale
The star talks to Back Stage about his love of the theatre.

[ WP ]  Hellman's 'Little Foxes': Waiting for the Fur to Fly by Chip Crews
Lillian Hellman's tightly plotted 1939 melodrama is an unaccustomed pleasure in our ambiguous age, more enjoyable than any number of "greater" works. Think of it as a spin in a big, plush touring car of the same vintage -- and with the skillful director Doug Hughes behind the wheel, it takes you where it's going.

[ CST ]  Steppenwolf unveils season lineup BY HEDY WEISS

[ NJ ]  Riveting play could use a stopwatch BY PETER FILICHIA
Even a sluggish production at African Globe TheatreWorks in Newark can't dim the power of David Feldshuh's "Miss Evers' Boys."

[ LAT ]  Dudzick's 'King O' the Moon' Explores the Trials of a 1969 Family by DAVID C. NICHOLS
The pleasures of shrewd craftsmanship distinguish "King O' the Moon," receiving its local premiere in a McCoy Rigby Entertainment presentation at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.

[ B ]  Masterson in Talks to Be Next Sally Bowles

[ B ]  Kane and Lang to Star in The Guys

[ P ]  Chicago's Non-Union Jeff Citations Go to Crucible, Chagrin Falls and More

[ P ]  Julie Andrews, Harvey Fierstein, Linda Eder to Appear on 'Rosie'

[ P ]  To Life! Or, Y'Assou! Touring Revival of Zorba Will Star Topol in 2003

[ P ]  Aida Presents "Nubian Princess Nights" June 20, 26 & 27

[ P ]  Troupe of Strolling Players No More: Kiss Me, Kate Tours Ends June 16 in NC

[ P ]  Polly Bergen to Remain in Cabaret Through Sept. 8

[ P ]  Josh Radnor Steps into Jason Biggs' Graduate Role June 11
Kathleen Turner gets a new boy toy, as Josh Radnor replaces Jason Biggs in the Broadway hit comedy.

[ P ]  Geoff Hoyle Brings Feast of Fools to La Jolla June 11-July 14

[ P ]  John Barrowman Performs in Concert at Kennedy Center June 11

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JUNE 11

[ P ]  New York City High School Journalists: Apply Now to Write for Playbill On-Line

[ P ]  The Stringers Program: Camp Broadway & CSPA Hope To Foster Young Journalists

[ YN ]  Burnett Celebrates Daughter's Life
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[ V ]  'Thanks a mil to Tony�
Awards drop green on Great White Way
Broadway got its typical $1 million spike from last week's Tony Awards. Up $1,066,619, or 8.09%, from the previous session, box office receipts for 31 shows came in at $14,250,106. That figure rests between 2001's $13.72 million and 2000's $14.33 million for this session.

[ V ]  Playbill corners legit market�
Co. to be program publisher of most major venues

[ V ]  September sees more 'Savings'�
League plans on discounted prices for tix, restaurants, hotels

[ V ]  Chi's little 'Lady'�
Revamp of a classic tuner wows crix

[ NYT ]  ARTS IN AMERICA
... Starring the Original Houston Cast by STEPHEN KINZER
The current trend in theater � becoming stronger and perhaps permanent � is for shows to open first in cities like Houston and then move to New York.
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Monday, June 10, 2002

[ CT ]  Looking on the bright side with Broadway icon Jerry Herman
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[ LAT ]  Importing Latino Theater by DON SHIRLEY
Miami festival shares dramatic works from Brazil and Spain at the Ford Amphitheatre. The show is also the start of a three-year initiative.

[ NYT ]  Center-Stage Living, at Balcony Rents by NAHMA SANDROW
IT took 10 years for Jim Houghton, the founding artistic director of the Signature Theater, and his wife, the actress Joyce O'Connor, to get their sunny two-bedroom apartment in the midtown luxury high-rise Manhattan Plaza � long enough to have two children in the interim. But it was worth the wait.

[ AP ]  Waiting to go on for the star: The life of an understudy
Profile of the very talented Stephen R. Buntrock of Oklahoma!

[ USA ]  Timeless 'Our Town' still resonates by Elysa Gardner
Paul Newman delivers great performance in timeless play.

[ ND ]  'Our Town' Is Newman's Own by Malcolm Johnson

[ ND ]  'Goat' Star Gets to See His Heroes by Robert Kahn
Never mind winning the Tony for best play. The coolest thing about starring in a Broadway hit is meeting the people who visit your dressing room after the show, says Jeffrey Carlson, who plays Billy, the well-adjusted son of Mercedes Ruehl and bestial Bill Pullman in "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?"

[ B ]  A Class Act Heads to Japan

[ B ]  Ayckbourn Premieres Snake in Scarborough

[ P ]  Abbey Victoria, a New Musical, Gets NYC Readings June 28-30

[ P ]  League To Offer "Season of Savings" This Fall

[ P ]  Together Again: Patti LuPone & Mandy Patinkin in Concert Sept. 14

[ TM ]  Laurence Luckinbill is Smokin�!! by: Michael Buckley
The actor stars in The Firebugs and prepares for a one-man show about Teddy Roosevelt.

[ TM ]  Follow Spot
Josh Fox of the International Wow company on the world before and after The Bomb.

[ TM ]  Death in Venice Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
Liza played to empty seats

[ NJ ]  'Lady' is a champ BY PETER FILICHIA
Glory Crampton triumphs in role of Eliza Doolittle

[ BSUN ]  Don't even think about calling him psychic by Mary Carole McCauley
Marc Salem reads thoughts for a living, but he denies having any unusual abilities

[ TB ]  Interview: Seth Rudetsky - Rhapsody in Seth by Nancy Rosati
We love Seth.

[ TB ]  Fat Chance Review by Sharon Perlmutter

[ TB ]  Dirty Blonde Review by David-Edward Hughes

[ TB ]  Oresteia Theatre Review by Matthew Murray

[ TB ]  When We Dead Awaken Theatre Review by Matthew Murray
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[ HC ]  'Some Like It' and Curtis are warm but not hot by EVERETT EVANS
The moment of truth arrives about 50 minutes into the first act of Some Like It Hot. The sea of chorus girls parts, and as the dancers exit, Tony Curtis enters, stepping out for his musical-theater debut at age 77.
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[ TM ]  Tragedy Tomorrow, Jukebox Tonight! by Peter Filichia
From Ballroom to Billy to Buttrio Square, it's obscure showtunes that rock Ed Linderman's jukebox.
posted at 6/10/2002 01:13:27 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'NEW YORK STORIES IN BLACK AND WHITE' Urban Encounters Reveal Shades of Gray

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'A TO B'
A Simple Gay Play Only at First Glance

[ P ]  Finneran, Eder, Butz, Krakowski, Glover Added to 'Broadway Under the Stars,' June 10

[ P ]  Surviving Grace Will Close Off-Bway June 16

[ P ]  Defending the Caveman Returns to New York Oct. 8

[ P ]  Rent's Manley Pope Performs in Concert at Cutting Room June 19

[ P ]  Millie Cast Appears in Times Square Record Store June 11 for CD Signing

[ P ]  Callaway, McNight, Korey and Lewis Sing Musicals of 1964 June 10 in NYC

[ P ]  New Jerry Herman Score, Miss Spectacular, on CD June 11; Herman and Gravitte Sing in NYC

[ P ]  Bang the Drum Slowly: QED with Alda Closes June 10

[ P ]  Babyface's Musical Love Makes Things Happen Arrives at NYC's Beacon June 10-16

[ P ]  NCTF Presents Langella and Ruehl With Awards June 10; Shear Hosts

[ P ]  Annie Golden Plays Joe's Pub, June 10

[ P ]  Waters Regular Mink Stole Stars in Larsen's Sleeping With Straight Men June 14-July 21

[ P ]  Musical Spoon River With Meriwether Extends in L.A. Through Aug. 4

[ P ]  Florence Klotz to Receive 2002 Patricia Zipprodt Award June 10

[ P ]  Jeff Citation Awards, Citing Best Non-Union W Handed Out June 10

[ P ]  Marti Pellow Joins West End Company of Chicago

[ P ]  Julie Burchill Is Away Opens at U.K.'s Soho Theatre

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JUNE 10

[ B ]  Alan Cumming Stars in Elle Off-Broadway

[ B ]  Surviving Grace Takes Last Breath June 16

[ B ]  CDs: Jerry's Latest by Ken Mandelbaum
Garrett Long (The Spitfire Grill) is said to be likely for the role of Gertrude McFuzz on the Seussical national tour starring Cathy Rigby.

[ TM ]  Broadhurst Theatre to be Booted

[ TM ]  Somethin� Wrong With Strippin?!! The Boys and Girls of Broadway Bares Say �Hell, No!�

[ DN ]  Queen Musical Rocks Brits
Critics pan London hit, but like 'Mamma,' it may find fans here

[ DN ]  New Man Shows Promise
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Sunday, June 09, 2002

[ WP ]  The Slyest Little Fox by Philip Kennicott
Writer Lillian Hellman, Still Provocative

[ WP ]  'Success' And the Stink Of Failure by Ann Hornaday
As a Sure Thing Closes, Recriminations Play On

[ BG ]  The Brustein effect by Ed Siegel
In 22 years of charge, the founder of ART did more than champion audacious theater, he sparked a renaissance

[ BG ]  Broomhill bridges opera and South African song by Terese Loeb Kreuzer
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Don Jose killed Carmen again - though for the first time at Spoleto Festival USA. The sultry gypsy was played by Pauline Malefane, 26, of Cape Town, surrounded by an ensemble of South African performers. They sang in English and delivered the dialogue in Xhosa or Afrikaans, three of South Africa's 11 official languages.

[ NYP ]  AYCKBOURN AGAIN, ON THE DOUBLE by CLIVE BARNES
The most popular playwrights of the United States and Britain, Neil Simon and Sir Alan Ayckbourn, are obsessed: Simon with words,Ayckbourn with time.

[ NYT ]  Bergman's Royal Rivals, Each Ensnared by Love by CHARLES McNULTY
In Ingmar Bergman's production of Friedrich von Schiller's "Maria Stuart" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, emotional combustion is guaranteed.

[ NYT ]  Plays That Transport Children Back to a Fabulous Dublin by KAREN FRICKER
At the Ark, the children's cultural center in Dublin, the idea is to respect children, not talk down to them.

[ DN ]  It's Up to You, New York by David Hinckley
Songwriters Hall of Fame deserves a home in this city

[ LAT ]  'Twilight Zone,' in Living Color by MIKE BOEHM
Two episodes from the classic black-and-white TV series are debuting on the Southern California stage.

[ ND ]  The Ho-Hum Tony Show by Linda Winer
A week after the 2001-02 Broadway season officially ended on national TV, I'm still thinking - marveling? festering? - about last Sunday's Tony Awards. These days, it appears we seek closure where we have a chance to find some.

[ HC ]  12 Ways To Save The Tonys Show by Frank Rizzo
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ P ]  "Radio Playbill" Interviews Barbara Cook, Plays Thou Shalt Not CD � June 11-16

[ P ]  Eric Grode's STAGE TO SCREEN: Finding the Fortune in Fortune's Fool

[ P ]  Donaghy's Boys and Girls Wraps in NYC June 9

[ P ]  Bernadette Peters and Rachel Ward Star as Gay Couple in "Bobbie's Girl" June 9

[ P ]  Mr. Goldwyn Closes Off-Broadway June 9

[ P ]  Tony-Winner Ebersole Will Exit 42nd Street June 9; Beth Leavel Steps in June 11
Christine Ebersole, who won a 2001 Tony Award for her performance in 42nd Street, leaves the show today.

[ P ]  Reverend Billy Preaches Peace in New NYC Play the birds are on fire June 9-23

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JUNE 9

[ TB ]  Death in Venice Theatre Review by Matthew Murray
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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]

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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]

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