Saturday, July 20, 2002

[ P ]  All Over's Leading Lady Michael Learned Guests on "Weekend Today," July 20

[ P ]  Jones, Kurtz, Groener Become Bway's Imaginary Friends, Nov. 25; Opens Dec. 12

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: A Cat Gets Her Hat

[ P ]  Marlo Thomas Joins Stephen Lang in The Guys in NYC, July 30-Aug. 28

[ P ]  Producers Discussing Herman's Miss Spectacular With Tommy Tune

[ P ]  D.C.'s Millennium Stage Offers Free Concerts from Kuhn, Cerveris, Baron & More in August

[ P ]  Dysfunctional 'Family' Offer Concert at Ars Nova Theatre July 20

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JULY 20

[ P ]  PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, July 13-19: Stritch, Inc.

[ P ]  Miracle, by South Africa's de Wet, Gets U.S. Premiere at CT White Barn, July 19-21

[ P ]  Sharks & Saints
Thomas McCormack's Endpapers � currently playing Off-Broadway's Variety Arts Theatre � is an insider's look at the world of publishing

[ NYT ]  CONNECTIONS
A Gap Between Cultures Crying Out for a Bridge by EDWARD ROTHSTEIN
One theme of the Lincoln Center Festival has been the interaction of cultures, and it was with that in mind that the festival's director arranged to stage the Iranian Ta'ziyeh dramas.

[ TM ]  Caged Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

[ BE ]  A 1960s black comedy takes aim at hypocrisy in the 21st century by Jeffrey Borak
"Loot" at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

[ AJC ]  Holliday propels 'Dreamgirls' by Kathy Janich
The verdict: Wonderful, what can I say, but wonderful.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link.

[ * ]   Dave Carter, R.I.P.
Dave Carter, an immensely talented young singer-songwriter, died yesterday of a heart attack while on a concert tour.
"This is my home.
This is my only home.
This is the only sacred ground that I have ever known.
Should I stray, in the dark night alone,
Rock me Goddess in the gentle arms of Eden."
-Dave Carter
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Friday, July 19, 2002

[ B ]  Marlo Thomas Joins Stephen Lang in The Guys

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Spinella and Cumming Make Art Party's Elle

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Quelle Elle? Art Party's!

[ P ]  Rise 'n' Shine: Wopat and 42nd Street Co. Perform on July 20 "Today" Show

[ YN ]  Anne Heche Stars in Broadway Play by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
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[ B ]  Playwrights Horizons Finalizes 2002-2003 Season

[ B ]  Were Critics Crazy About Proof's New Cast?

[ B ]  DVDs: Day in Deadwood by Ken Mandelbaum

[ P ]  Greenspan Added to Playwrights Horizons 2002-03 Season; Directors, Dates Announced

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: J-19, the Millie-Maker?

[ P ]  Ann Miller Is "Too Darn Hot" in San Francisco "Kiss Me Kate" Benefit July 25

[ P ]  Lady Day, the Billie Holiday Story, At U.K.'s New End Theatre

[ TM ]  Cabaret Notes
At Danny's on Restaurant Row, the one and only Charles Lindberg flies the Siegels to the moon.

[ TM ]  Tunes and Tomes
Kean was a botched, early-'60s attempt to revive operetta, but Alfred Drake is glorious in the title role.
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[ B ]  World Premieres Highlight Rattlestick's Season

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia rails against the varying dimensions of theater programs, dammit!

[ P ]  Jennifer Holliday Returns to Dreamgirls Role July 19-27 in Atlanta

[ P ]  Josephine Baker and Charles Busch Subjects of July 19 "Theater Talk"

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: Sondheim Comes to NYC, Busy Newman, Your Little Shop Picks

[ P ]  Secrets & Liza: 'E! True Hollywood Story' Spotlights Minnelli

[ P ]  Rent's Anthony Rapp Is Henry V in Boston, July 19-Aug. 4
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[ NYP ]  PLAY-DOUGH BID by MICHAEL RIEDEL
THE Public Theater, which last season launched the Tony Award-winning "Elaine Stritch at Liberty" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Topdog/Underdog," is talking with Broadway producer Carole Shornstein Hayes about a deal that would give her first dibs on anything the non-profit institution produces.

[ NYP ]  PROOF IS IN PERFORMERS by CLIVE BARNES
Luckily, the casting has always proved inspired in "Proof," David Auburn's mix of mystery and mathematics at the Walter Kerr Theatre, where it has just received an electric jolt with a completely fresh team led by Anne Heche and Len Cariou.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'PROOF'
A Light, Quick Anne Heche Makes 'Proof' a New Play by BRUCE WEBER
With its new cast lead by Anne Heche, David award-winning play is now a crisp crowd pleaser, paced at a gallop.

[ DN ]  Math tale has new formula by Howard Kissel
The new cast, headed by Anne Heche, makes "Proof" seem a much stronger play than it did when I first saw it two years ago.

[ DN ]  On This Stage a Star Is Born by Linda Winer
Heche's B'way debut proves spectacular

[ B ]  Proof (07/02) Review by Adam Feldman

[ DN ]  Acting in the service of faith by Howard Kissel
"The Ta'ziyeh of Imam Hussein," describes the murder of the prophet Muhammad's grandson, the event at the heart of the Shi'ite sect of Islam.

[ NYT ]  CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK | TA'ZIYEH
A Spectacle, Moving Yet Mysterious by BRUCE WEBER
The Lincoln Center Festival productions of Ta'ziyeh, the Iranian musical theater form, are, above all, an education for secular New York.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE MUTE DREAM'
Interacting Without Words and Separated by a Duck by NEIL GENZLINGER
Registering high on the weirdness scale is a meandering, sometimes affecting work from Iran's Theater Bazi as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.

[ NYP ]  THE VANISHED VILLAGE REVISITED by DONALD LYONS
Review: "Veronique."

[ NYP ]  PLAYWRIGHT TRAVELS INTO SATIRE COUNTRY by DONALD LYONS
Review: "Valparaiso."

[ NYP ]  SOPHIE'S CHOICE by CHIP DEFFAA
SHARON McKnight, portraying Sophie Tucker in her solo show "Red Hot Mama," delivers a bravura performance - even though the show itself needs developing.

[ ND ]  'Hairspray' Peek Is Simply Divine

[ ND ]  'Sarah': A Little Musical on the Prairie by Gordon Cox

[ BH ]  An unCommon role: Actor Anthony Rapp takes on Shakespeare's `Henry V' by Robert Nesti

[ BG ]  'Dinner' actor brings direction to Cape theater by Catherine Foster
Andre Gregory, perhaps best known for his 1981 film, the acclaimed art-house hit ''My Dinner With Andre,'' doesn't do just any old benefit.

[ P ]  Winner of British TV Talent Contest Will Appear in Chitty

[ P ]  Tony-honored Blast! Inspires Sequel, Shockwave, at Disney World; Tour Follows

[ P ]  TV's Malik Yoba Featured at "Black 2: Broadway," July 29 at B.B. King's in NYC

[ P ]  Movin' Out Is a Big Shot in Chicago, as Joel-Tharp Opens in Chicago

[ P ]  Cleale and Litzsinger Join Broadway's Amour; Casting Complete

[ P ]  D.C. Passion, with Kuhn, Cerveris and Luker, Begins Perfs. July 19

[ P ]  South Rep Reads Latino Works July 25-Aug. 4 Including Cruz, Gomez, Scenarios

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JULY 19

[ P ]  Rent's Anthony Rapp Is Henry V in Boston, July 19-Aug. 4

[ P ]  McDonald, Barrett & Criswell Perform in Berlin Concerts in December

[ P ]  Janie Dee Chats About Her London Theatre Projects

[ P ]  Susan Egan Headlines Molly Brown July 22-28; Principal Cast Announced

[ P ]  Cast Change and U.K. Tour Set for London Monologues

[ B ]  Photo Op: Noises Off Welcomes Jane Curtin and New Castmates

[ WP ]  Hip-Hop Enters A New Stage by Natalie Hopkinson
D.C. Fest to Spotlight Next-Generation Plays

[ WP ]  A Festival of Intense Emotions by Nelson Pressley
At Shepherdstown, Brothers, Lovers and Friends

[ NJ ]  You'll more than like it -- Princeton troupe presents Shakespeare al fresco BY PETER FILICHIA

[ TB ]  Ripped From the News San Francisco Review by Richard Connema

[ BS ]  Summer Festivals Sizzle by Leonard Jacobs
NY Fringe Fest, Midtown Theatre Fest, and Living Room Get Comfy

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following two links:

[ ST ]  The broad's way: Mae West Fest inspires women playwrights and directors by Misha Berson

[ SFC ]  Golden 'Candide' couple a pair onstage and off by Octavio Roca
Interview with Jason Danieley and Marin Mazzie.
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Thursday, July 18, 2002

[ B ]  Full Cast of Amour Announced

[ B ]  Will Neeson and Richardson Star in Camelot?

[ B ]  New York City Sondheim Concert Update

[ B ]  Dinner and Laramie Among Emmy Nominations

[ B ]  Preview #1: Clear Fall, Cloudier Spring by Ken Mandelbaum

[ P ]  San Fran's Magic Commissions New Works by Mee, Beber, Kornbluth for Bay Area Theatres

[ P ]  Boston's Mill 6 Opens Comedies by McIvor and Welch, July 18-27

[ P ]  Hollywood Arms's Broadway Cast to Mirror Chicago's

[ P ]  A Bad Friend, at Lincoln Center, to Be Feiffer's First New Play in Years

[ P ]  Emmy Nominations for 'Laramie Project,' 'Dinner with Friends' and Numerous Theatre Actors

[ P ]  Henry Ford Sings in New Musical Reading, Any Color You Like, July 18 in NYC

[ P ]  Burn This, with Catherine Keener and Edward Norton, Begins Aug. 27 in NYC

[ TM ]  Captain Jack by: Lynda Sturner
Director Jack O'Brien on the stage musicalization of John Waters' Hairspray.
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[ NYT ]  Making Theater Accessible to People With Trouble Hearing by MERVYN ROTHSTEIN
Special open-captioned performances give the deaf and hearing impaired the opportunity to attend Broadway plays and musicals.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL'
The Pain of Loss, Assuaged by a Fresh Face by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Mixing deep yearnings, comedy, lively song and music and excellent performances, "Sarah, Plain and Tall" is a virtually unalloyed delight.

[ DN ]  Farm musical just charming by Howard Kissel
Review: "Sarah, Plain and Tall."

[ DN ]  Duke of New York: Smits plays the park by PATRICIA O'HAIRE
A shipwreck has brought Jimmy Smits back to New York City.

[ DN ]  Shake-a-leg-speare by Robert Dominguez
A spirited cast highlights a frenzied, madcap and highly energized production of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors," but unfortunately, it runs out of steam by the final curtain.

[ WP ]  Sondheim Stars Sign Up For New York Concert by Jacqueline Trescott

[ LAT ]  Promising Young Performers Are Given Chance to Strut Their Stuff by LYNNE HEFFLEY
Danielle Withers, 18, of Mason, Ohio, was waxing enthusiastic about her upcoming trip to Hollywood, where she and others like her will perform at the John Raitt Theatre.

[ BS ]  Dream Plays and Nightmare Seasons by Scott Proudfit
A list of shows Back Stage West critics can't wait to see and others they never want to see again.

[ P ]  Sondheim Celebration Comes to NYC Oct. 21 with 'A Concert Spectacular'

[ P ]  With an Eye Toward Broadway, Little Mary Sunshine Gets NYC Readings July 18-19

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Make Joyful Noises: New Cast Bows

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Curtin, Cast Make New Noises

[ P ]  Good Morning, New York: Hairspray Begins Broadway Previews July 18

[ P ]  Mazzie, Danieley, Moreno & Hearn Head July 18-20 Candide Concerts in San Francisco

[ P ]  L.A.'s MET Tells True Hollywood Story With Premiere Gatsby in Hollywood July 25-Aug. 31

[ P ]  Broadway Show League Begins Playoffs July 18

[ P ]  Susan Egan Named Interim Artistic Director of Calif. High School of the Arts

[ P ]  Audra McDonald Sings Rodgers at Royal Albert Hall in September

[ P ]  Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song Celebrated July 25

[ P ]  Houston's Main Street Sports Musical, Three Cornered Hat, July 18-Aug. 17

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JULY 18

[ P ]  Rush and Cheap Seat Policies for Broadway Shows

[ P ]  Actress-Producer-Director Betsy Friday is Dead at 44

[ P ]  Wherefore Art Thou, Tiny Ninja? TNT Is Back With Romeo and Juliet July 25

[ TM ]  Betsy Friday, Producer and Actress, Gone Too Soon by: Ben Winters

[ TM ]  Sleeping With Straight Men Reviewed By: Lex Lonehood

[ NJ ]  The music elevates a delightful 'King' BY PETER FILICHIA
Hail to the "King"!
"King Mackerel and the Blues Are Running," that is, the musical that's now at Cape May Stage's "second space," the Savannah Key Cabaret in the Marquis de Lafayette Hotel.

[ NJ ]  Center stage BY PETER FILICHIA
Globe's new spin

[ TB ]  Othello Review by Matthew Murray

[ TB ]  Past, Present, and Future Los Angeles Review by Sharon Perlmutter

[ TB ]  A Great Performance In Garson Kanin�s Born Yesterday San Francisco Review by Richard Connema

[ TB ]  Annie Cincinnati Review by Scott Cain
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Wednesday, July 17, 2002

[ B ]  Alexander & Short Confirmed for Producers in LA

[ YN ]  British Theater Report May Reignite Racism Claims By Barbara Lewis
British theater is unfairly discriminating against black and Asian administrators, according to a survey to be published this month.

[ YN ]  New Sketches and Gay Budgie for Monty Python Fans
Monty Python fans will be treated to something completely different this summer when three sketches by the irreverent British comedy troupe are performed in public for the first time.

[ P ]  Dame Judi Dench Receives Honorary Degree from University of Leeds, July 17

[ P ]  Reno's Rebel Exits Off-Broadway's Lion July 22

[ TM ]  The Voyage of the Carcass Reviewed By: Brooke Pierce
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[ NYP ]  VIVA VEGAS! by MICHAEL RIEDEL
HERE'S a pairing that should make fans of the musical theater sit up and take notice: Jerry Herman and Tommy Tune.The two Broadway legends, who've never worked together, are talking about teaming up on a new musical.

[ P ]  Elaine Stritch Eyeing Book Deal and U.S. Tour

[ P ]  Urinetown Tour Will Make a Splash in Minneapolis, September 2003

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Preview Movin' Out: 'Uptown Girl'

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Preview Movin' Out: 'She's Got a Way'

[ P ]  Mel Brooks Gets Jason Alexander and Martin Short for L.A. Producers, Starting May 2, 2003
Long rumored, now official: It'll be Jason Alexander as Max and Martin Short as Leo in the Los Angeles production of the smash musical.

[ P ]  Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams Extends Booking Period

[ P ]  Report: Producers Sprecher and Greenblatt Want Vegas Staging of Herman's Miss Spectacular

[ P ]  Casting Now Complete for London Mounting of Sondheim's Follies

[ P ]  Beauty, Beast, Prince, Pauper & Modern Millie Sing "Broadway in Bryant Park," July 18

[ P ]  Casting Now Complete for Kennedy Center A Little Night Music

[ P ]  Sarah, Plain and Tall, the Musical, Opens in NYC July 17

[ P ]  Millie Producer Lane Directs Ain't Misbehavin' and New Cohen Musical in MA

[ P ]  Williamstown Rakes in the Loot Beginning July 17

[ P ]  Daisy Eagan Gets Agressive With CA's TheatreWorks July 17-Aug. 18

[ P ]  DeLaria and Wopat Lead July 17 Billie Holiday Salute at Hollywood Bowl

[ P ]  Sherie Ren� Scott and Norbert Leo Butz Reunite for New Musical Feeling Electric, July 22

[ P ]  Sharon McNight to "Offend Almost Everyone" July 30 in NYC

[ P ]  Alan Cumming's Art Party Makes Debut with Elle, July 17-31

[ P ]  Second Stage Presents Holman's Spanish Girl, July 17

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

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JULY 17

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris was to have made his Broadway debut last fall, in Assassins, but the musical was put on hold in the wake of 9/11. The former "Doogie Howser, MD" star has finally arrived on the Great White Way, playing another genius-type in Proof. Please don't call him "Doogie."

[ B ]  Conner Leaves Broadway in Boston for CAPA

[ B ]  Durham Replaces Peters in London's Follies

[ B ]  CDs: Shakalaka Baby by Ken Mandelbaum
BOMBAY DREAMS (Really Useful Records)

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
Includes a review of the current "Producers" cast. (She likes them � what a shock.)

[ ND ]  The Children's Hour by Linda Winer
Second of 'Ta'ziyeh' trilogy has a more human insight

[ NJ ]  A new twist on Atlantic City gaming BY PETER FILICHIA
Here's another way to win money in an Atlantic City casino -- while seeing an off-Broadway show, too.

[ NJ ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
In his new book, producer Stuart Ostrow offers recommendations for musical theater audition songs.

[ BG ]  Reagle's 'Annie' is sure-fire fun by Sally Cragin
"Annie Get Your Gun" starring Andrea McArdle.

[ NYer ]  PLAY AT THE PLATE by JOHN LAHR
Losing it in the locker room.
Richard Greenberg's "Take Me Out."

[ VV ]  MARIAN, MUSIC, MORALITY by Michael Feingold
Play Yourself by Harry Kondoleon; Pacific Overtures by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, additional material by Hugh Wheeler

[ VV ]  FESTING ON FORTY DEUCE by Charles McNulty
The Third Annual International Midtown Theatre Festival

[ VV ]  SHAKESPEARE'S FAMILY BUSINESS by Tom Sellar
Comedy of Errors and King Lear

[ USA ]  'Hairspray' shoots for staying power on Broadway by Elysa Gardner

[ LAT ]  Big Hopes for Broadway's 'Hairspray'
Previews of "Hairspray," the '60s-tinged, fat-liberation-themed musical based on the 1988 John Waters film, begin on Thursday. And its life, thus far, has been charmed.

[ ADV ]  Everything�s coming up Hairspray by Drew Limsky
When John Waters and Harvey Fierstein get together on Broadway, it�s�divine!
Thanks to whizzer on All That Chat for the link!

[ SFC ]  Luhrmann's radical new 'Boheme' by Edward Guthmann
Director brings 1990 production to Curran
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!
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Tuesday, July 16, 2002

[ B ]  Will Pamela Anderson Be London's Girl?

[ B ]  Matt & Ben Legal Troubles Revealed as Elaborate Hoax
Hilarious!

[ P ]  Get Off-Broadway: Debbie Does Dallas Returns to New York Stage, Oct. 29

[ P ]  Prize-Winning Playwright August Wilson Discusses Yellowman in Seattle July 16
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[ B ]  Feiffer and Zaks Bring Friend to Lincoln Center

[ P ]  Lincoln Center and Gutierrez to Set Dinner at Eight in Fall

[ P ]  Constant Wife Finds New Home at London's Lyric Theatre

[ P ]  Cuccioli Stars in Wilde-Inspired Musical, Dorian,; Debut Is Sept. 12-29 in Denver

[ TM ]  Follow Spot
Dustin Chinn talks about the newest creation of the Asian-American performance group Peeling.
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[ B ]  Dinner at Eight Returns to B'way in November

[ B ]  From the Shelf: Polanski's Vampires by Ken Mandelbaum

[ P ]  Actor Henry Goodman Discusses His Producers Firing

[ P ]  Vera Dunn O'Connor, a Veteran of Anything Goes, Dead at 89

[ P ]  Jana Robbins Performs Coleman in L.A. July 15 & 29; Then Joins Allergist Tour

[ P ]  Parks' Goner Given Benefit Perf July 22 Prior to Edinburgh Run

[ P ]  CBS Picks Up Broadcast Rights to 2003 Tony Awards

[ TM ]  Cabaret Notes
The Siegels have beaucoup de good things to say in their second report from Qu�bec.
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[ PS ]  The Sondheim Celebration: Merrily We Roll Along
Review by Potomac Stages
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[ BSUN ]  Sondheim festival 'Merrily' rolls along by J. Wynn Rousuck
Two-thirds of the way into this festival, it seems safe to say there's no better place in America for serious musical theater audiences to be spending the summer.

[ WP ]  'Merrily': Sadly It Plods Along by Nelson Pressley
Retooled Sondheim Vehicle Ultimately Stalls

[ TM ]  Merrily We Roll Along Reviewed By: Michael Toscano

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'CITY OF DREAMS'
A Prince Plagued by Doubt and a Crumbling Empire by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Nothing less than the clash of generations and the birth pangs of modern technology, art and psychiatry are plumbed in the laudably ambitious new musical "City of Dreams."

[ DN ]  Iranians Offer A Passionate Show of Faith by Howard Kissel

[ NYP ]  YOU CAN BET ON THESE HORSES by SHIRLEY FLEMING
THE Lincoln Center Festival opened one of its most exotic shows on Friday in a tent in Damrosch Park, and if the music drama "Ta'ziyeh" was perhaps puzzling to the English-speaking audience, the audience itself may have seemed just as puzzling to the Farsi-speaking cast.

[ NYP ]  CURTAINS FOR 'TOPDOG' by BARBARA HOFFMAN

[ LAT ]  'Show Boat' Takes a Fascinating Look Back by F. KATHLEEN FOLEY
When Hal Prince directed his Tony Award-winning revival of "Show Boat" in 1995, he boasted that he had restored much of the material that had been trimmed from the show over the years. Now, Musical Theatre West goes Prince one better.

[ WP ]  Rip-Roaring Robin Williams by Tom Shales
On Broadway, the Comic Runs Circles Around a Crazy World

[ WP ]  Paulette Ivory, Giving 'Aida' Its Pop by Jane Horwitz
Honey-Voiced Londoner Adds a Twist of the Classical to a Demanding Role

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Unproven

[ B ]  Little Shop Sets Dates for Broadway Run

[ P ]  Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire Rumored for London Stage Debut

[ P ]  Liberty Smith, Musical Romp Thru U.S. History, Gets July 22 Reading with Wardell, Stout, Long

[ P ]  House and Garden Players Shift; Performances Continue to July 28

[ P ]  Will Power: Actor Needles Performs Bard Ode Bill and Will at Stratford Fest, July 17-28

[ P ]  Sedaris, Lane, Palmer & Handler Guest on New "Sex and the City" Season

[ P ]  Next Leg of Leggy Contact Tour Starts Nov. 5 in Toronto, Continues to April 2003

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Cast Off: Prince, Hibbert Make Final Noises

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Noises' Tony Winners Depart

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Gallagher Has Monty Moment at Noises Off Farewell

[ P ]  Jane Curtin and New Troupe Juggle Sardines, Contact Lenses and Lovers in Noises Off, July 16

[ P ]  "Radio Playbill" Plays Bombay Dreams CD, Salutes Orchestrators, July 16-21

[ P ]  'Megan Mullally and Supreme Music Program' Available on CD in Late July

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Happy 23rd Birthday, Laura Benanti!

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Happy B-day From the Wicked Stepsisters

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Benanti Gets B-day Wishes from a Prince and a Witch

[ P ]  Twiggy, Ivey, Gerroll to Haunt Bay Street's Blithe Spirit July 16-Aug. 4

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JULY 16

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: July 8-14

[ P ]  Look, He Made a Hat: Mandy Patinkin Concert CD Will Be Devoted to Sondheim

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: They Are Rappaport

[ P ]  Cirque du Soleil's Quidam Plays Beantown's Downs, July 25-Aug. 25

[ P ]  Pulitzer Prize-Winning Topdog/Underdog Ends Bway Run Aug. 11

[ USA ]  Tony Curtis Likes it 'Hot' Again

[ BS ]  Stage Direction by Cindy Mulkern
From celluloid to center stage, studios are molding properties for some play on Broadway.

[ CST ]  Musical, not baby, in works for Anderson BY BILL ZWECKER
Pamela Anderson in a stage version of "The Girl Can't Help It"?

[ ND ]  Directing and Playing Opposite Two Wives by Blake Green
One's a ghost, one's genuine at Bay Street

[ NJ ]  Let there be light: 'Dirty Blonde' troupers bring legendary Mae West out of darkness BY PETER FILICHIA

[ TM ]  Heroes Reviewed By: Michael Portantiere

[ TM ]  City of Dreams and LooLa Reviewed By: Adam Klasfeld

[ BH ]  Modern look makes `Miss Julie' seem hurried by Vicki Sanders
``Miss Julie'' shattered convention in the late 1890s. The Berkshire Theatre Festival aims for, and in part achieves, a similar effect with the world premiere of Craig Lucas' new adaptation.

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following links:

[ ATU ]  'Miss Julie' is powerful theater by MICHAEL ECK

[ ATU ]  Age is honored in 'Quartet' by MICHAEL ECK

[ SDUT ]  The Out of Towners by Anne Marie Welsh
To stage their high-profile projects, three local directors look to the north
Includes a profile of "Hairspray" director Jack O'Brien.

[ SFC ]  New 'Woods' isn't solid by Robert Hurwitt
CD Reviews: Into the Woods, Leave It To Me!, Miss Spectacular.
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Monday, July 15, 2002

[ B ]  Sarandon & Downey Jr. to Star in Anything Goes?

[ B ]  Debbie Set to Do Jane Street in October

[ B ]  Standout Cow Kimball to Bask in the Spotlight

[ B ]  Photo Op: On the Scene at Broadway Barks

[ P ]  Cirque du Soleil's Quidam Plays Beantown's Downs, July 25-Aug. 25

[ P ]  Pulitzer Prize-Winning Topdog/Underdog Ends Bway Run Aug. 11

[ P ]  Houston's Main Street Sports Musical, Three Cornered Hat, July 18-Aug. 17

[ P ]  'At This Theatre' Goes Under Renovation
Louis Botto's famed tome, 'At This Theatre,' has been updated and expanded and will be released by Applause Theatre and Cinema Books this September

[ TB ]  San Francisco Reviews by Richard Connema
Richard reviews the current Theatre Rhinoceros production of Sleeping with Straight Men and the recent New Conservatory Theatre production of Terrence McNally's The Ritz.

[ NY ]  Hairspray It On BY SUSAN DOMINUS
This whimsical, candy-colored, sixties-tinged musical -- based on a film by the notoriously weird John Waters and starring Harvey Fierstein in drag -- won over the critics and the crowds in Seattle. Now it's set to open on Broadway. Could this be the next Producers?
Thanks to Wayman Wong on All That Chat for the link!
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[ B ]  With So Little to Be Sure Of by Ken Mandelbaum

[ P ]  HMS Pinafore Set to Return to London's Savoy in Dec.

[ P ]  Rice Says From Here To Eternity May Star Zeta-Jones & Spacey

[ P ]  Movin' Out Composer Joel Chats on Bravo's "Inside the Actors Studio" July 15

[ P ]  Millie Now Part of the Broadway Inner Circle, with Hairspray in the Wings

[ P ]  Bruce Willis Stars in Showtime True West in August

[ P ]  Lee Meriwether Spoon River Musical Extends Again in L.A., Now Through Sept. 1

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Merrily We Roll Along: 'Old Friends'

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Merrily We Roll Along: 'Growing Up'

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Merrily We Roll Along: 'Good Thing Going'

[ P ]  She's Back! Ethel Merman's Infamous Disco Album To Be Released on CD

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Pictures from Broadway Barks 4

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Bernadette Peters

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Dog, or Who is with Bill Pullman?

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Tale of Rhea and Shuler

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Keep it Canine

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Oscar and Steve...and a Pooch

[ P ]  Dysfunctional "Family" Offer Concert at Ars Nova Theatre July 20

[ P ]  Dvorsky, Stiles & Prymus Head Wizard of Oz Cast at NSMT July 16-Aug. 11

[ P ]  Theatre Gael Conjures Fiery Irish Muse Maud Gonne, in Lady and the Poet

[ P ]  Richard Rose Is New Artistic Director of Toronto's Tarragon in 2002-03

[ P ]  L.A. Has Puppetry of the Penis Aug. 13 at the Coronet

[ P ]  Perfectly Marvelous: Heather Laws Is the New Sally Bowles July 15

[ TM ]  Stagestruck!
Jim Caruso asks a bevy of stars to share their most indelible theatrical memories.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
At which no-longer-extant theaters was the music of Richard Rodgers heard once upon a time?

[ NJ ]  Festival finesses perils of 'Pericles' BY PETER FILICHIA

[ NJ ]  Play demands more than actors deliver BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
Providing young actors with a forum in which to develop their fledgling skills is the noble ambition of Amphibian Productions.
The company's first Manhattan production, however, which opened Thursday at the Connelly Theatre in the East Village, is a disastrously unwise choice of scripts.

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
Several theater-related items.

[ DN ]  There Goes The Off-Broadway Neighborhood by Robert Dominguez
"Shoppers Carried by Escalators Into the Flames," a bizarre, ultimately pointless social satire by cult writer Denis Johnson, is just the latest work to focus on dysfunctional types with the kind of out-there problems only a playwright could invent.

[ CST ]  Slice of '70s devastatingly told in 'Purple Heart' BY HEDY WEISS
Had Henrik Ibsen been around to chronicle the age of "The Brady Bunch"--those far-from-halcyon days of the early 1970s, when the Vietnam War raged a vast ocean away, and Nixon reigned in the White House--he might have devised a play that felt and sounded very much like Bruce Norris' "Purple Heart."

[ LAT ]  Cultural Fine-Tuning of 'Pacific Overtures' by MARK SWED
Amon Miyamoto brings pared-down staging and heightened sophistication to the Sondheim musical.

[ ND ]  A Rare Visit From Islam's Only Child by Linda Winer

[ B ]  The Playboy of the Western World Review by Adam Feldman

[ TB ]  Interview: Naked Boys Singing by Jonathan Frank
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[ B ]  Topdog/Underdog Closes on August 11

[ NYT ]  WRITERS ON WRITING
Hearing the Notes That Aren't Played by DAVID MAMET
How much can one remove from a script, and still have the composition be intelligible?

[ NYP ]  CURTAIN CALLS: THE FLOURISHES & FLOPS by CLIVE BARNES

[ NYP ]  YEAH, BEBE! by LOU LUMENICK
Sexy "Chicago" and "Cheers" star Bebe Neuwirth had just one question when she laid eyes on the young actor who plays her 15-year-old lover in the new indie sensation "Tadpole."

[ WP ]  A Tall Ardor for 'Passion' Players by Paul Farhi
Sondheim Cast Faces Agonizing Roles

[ WP ]  Coward's Back. How Very Encouraging. by Tim Page
Nostalgia CD Spotlights Inter-War British Pop and the Man Who Infused It With Charm

[ LAT ]  An Actor's Dream and Dread by JOSH GETLIN
When Brad Oscar vaulted from supporting player to a star of "The Producers," nothing less than the show's survival was at stake.

[ LAT ]  There's 'Life' After 'The Producers'
Since leaving the hottest show on Broadway in March, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick have gotten some rest and are now embarking on a series of new projects.

[ LAT ]  The Local Angle by DON SHIRLEY
Led by the Mark Taper Forum, U.S. resident theaters are seeking out issues and voices from their own backyards.

[ LAT ]  To Be Young, Urban and Neurotic by MIKE BOEHM
The amusingly named troupe helps members cope with the craziness of an actor's life

[ LAT ]  More Than Words Can Say by SEAN MITCHELL
'The Guys,' about a fire captain and journalist working on eulogies after Sept. 11, goes beyond the ordinary.

[ BG ]  'Henry V' in the age of Bush and Giuliani by Maureen Dezell
Struggling to make a hero current on the Common
Starring Anthony Rapp.

[ BG ]  Anthony Rapp's life onstage by Maureen Dezell

[ BG ]  Starting over: Jill Clayburgh comes back to the stage by Catherine Foster

[ ND ]  New York's Classic Act by Susan Reiter
Shakespeare, Central Park, free tickets - the fifth Delacorte decade is about to debut

[ ND ]  A 'Gypsy' Comes Home by Gordon Cox
Jimmy Smits, at the wheel of a big, black SUV, cruises through Manhattan traffic with all the expertise of a cab driver.

[ ND ]  These Stars Are Winners by Robert Kahn
Theater luminaries gathered in Central Park yesterday for the Broadway Softball League All-Star and Old Timers Game, a fund-raiser for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Includes an audio clip of an interview with Shuler Hensley.

[ B ]  Photo Op: Robin Williams Bows on Broadway

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Noises Off: Curtin for Cast

[ P ]  Chita Rivera Is Bernarda Alba at L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum July 14-Sept. 1

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JULY 14

[ P ]  The Air Up There: Utah's Sundance Lab Offers Playwrights Mountain Seclusion to Test New Works

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Guys and Guys: Nathan Lane and Peter Gallagher

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Party Animal: Chad Kimball and Alicia Silverstone

[ P ]  Hepburn, Schell and Cusack Return to Screen in Six Classic Theatrical Films

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JULY 13

[ P ]  Long Runs on Broadway

[ BS ]  Invading the Empty Space
Theatre Critics Who Create for the Stage

[ BS ]  Nonprofit Stages Suffer Deficits by Roger Armbrust
TCG's Annual Report on Theatres Shows 44% with Shortfalls

[ BS ]  AEA in New Off-Broadway Contract by Roger Armbrust

[ NYT ]  Ira Eaker, Co-Founder of Back Stage, the Actors' Bible, Dies at 80 by JESSE McKINLEY

[ NYT ]  POP REVIEW | RICHARD THOMPSON
Making Extra-Golden Oldies His Own by JON PARELES
I saw some excellent theater this weekend - PRIVATE LIVES in New York, ONCE IN A LIFETIME in Williamstown, QUARTET at the Berkshire Theatre Festival - but none of the performances compared to this one I saw at Joe's Pub on Friday. Richard Thompson's "1000 Years of Popular Music" was informative, refreshing, original, moving, funny, and incredibly entertaining. And it even included a few songs that have made it to Broadway...

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following links:

[ AJC ]  HAPPY HOLLIDAY by Kathy Janich
With new attitude, 'Dreamgirls' diva reprises role that once defined her

[ AJC ]  'Dreamgirls' still speaks to outsiders by Craig Seymour
Musical's message of hope endures

[ NHR ]  Goodspeed Musicals revamps a Rodgers and Hart classic by E. Kyle Minor
Musical theater wags have long maintained that Rodgers and Hart's "Babes in Arms" is blessed with a great score and cursed by a hackneyed book.

[ SS ]  Obituary: Vera O'Connor, actress, executive by Jack Zink
At the peak of her career in the 1930s Vera Dunn was featured as Bonnie, the gun moll in Cole Porter's Anything Goes with Ethel Merman, making her way into Walter Winchell's column for delivering her lines while hanging upside-down from the deck of a ship.
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Sunday, July 14, 2002

[ NYT ]  Musical Drama on a Story Sacred to Shiite Muslims

[ NYT ]  A NIGHT OUT WITH Melissa Errico and Patrick McEnroe

[ P ]  Hairspray Readies for Broadway Bow With New Seats and a New Song

[ P ]  Steven Suskin ON THE RECORD: Syracuse and Oklahoma!, via Rodgers

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[ NYT ]  Where Musicals and Opera Overlap, a Hybrid Emerges

[ NYT ]   Hard Times for Cast Albums, to Broadway's Regret

[ NYT ]  From China, Ancient Tales in Modern Dress

[ P ]  The Air Up There: Utah's Sundance Lab Offers Playwrights Mountain Seclusion to Test New Works

posted at 7/14/2002 12:17:08 AM by Susan Heim | Item Link

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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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