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Saturday, August 31, 2002
[ LAT ] What You Can't See by JAN BRESLAUER
Phylicia Rashad and Diahann Carroll have found success despite roadblocks as invisible as the lives in the play 'Blue.'
[ B ] Ask A Star: Polly Bergen
Gotta love her story about John Stamos' ass...
[ YN ] Ehle Shares Tips for Period Acting
NEW YORK (AP) - Jennifer Ehle is young, pretty and talented, so most of the film parts she is offered are either period heroines or modern girlfriends.
[ YN ] Jane Curtin Takes on 'Noises Off' by TIM MOLLOY
NEW YORK (AP) - In the soon-to-close Broadway hit "Noises Off," Jane Curtin plays one of the bewildered actors constantly veering toward catastrophe because of what's happening behind the scenes.
[ B ] Edinburgh Fest Announces Best of Fringe 2002
[ B ] Photo Op: Paper Mill Miss Saigon Open Rehearsal
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: Paper Mill Crowns a New Miss Saigon
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: Paper Mill Miss Saigon: I Still Believe
[ P ] NYC's TACT Revives Greene's Potting Shed, Dos Passos' USA in 2002-2003
[ P ] Fierstein, Falco, Skinner Line Up For Celeb-Filled Flea Market Sept. 22
[ P ] Kaye, Gaines, Luker Salute NYC at Hollywood Bowl, Aug. 31-Sept. 1
[ P ] Farm Show Inspires Healey's Drawer Boy, Set for West Coast Premiere Aug. 31-Sept. 24
[ P ] Off-Broadway's Dog Years Ends With the Dog Days of Summer, Aug. 31
[ P ] Peter Stone Talks About the Creation of Sugar, Now Touring As Some Like It Hot
[ P ] Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 31
[ BS ] Tampa Bay Theatre Critics Unplugged by Cher Tanner
Views from Front-Row Center
[ TB ] Grasmere and Reunion Los Angeles Reviews by Sharon Perlmutter
No theater stories in the New York dailies today...
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Friday, August 30, 2002
[ B ] Michael Mayer to Direct National Tour of Hair
[ TM ] Cabaret Notes
Karen Oberlin pays delightful tribute to Doris Day and fills us in on Doris Von Kappelhoff, to boot.
[ TM ] TACT Announces New Season in New Space by: Brooke Pierce
posted at 8/30/2002 05:32:50 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link
Off-Broadway's THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER will appear Saturday, August 31 on WNBC's TODAY IN NEW YORK (9:00 - 10:30 AM). The segment will feature just the two lead characters, the Prince (Dennis Michael Hall) and the Pauper (Gerard Canonico).
[ P ] Los Angeles Recalls That Day in September Sept. 21-Oct. 20
[ P ] Little Shop's Pre-Bway Run Plays FL May 7-June 15, 2003
[ P ] Joel Grey to Perform The Road to Cabaret at Bay Street, Oct. 12
[ B ] La Vie Fatone by Ken Mandelbaum
REVIEW: RENT
[ B ] Tim Burton to Helm Batman: The Musical
[ TM ] Wink-Wink, Nudge-Nudge by: Marc Miller
Today's post-modern musicals pride themselves on their insincerity, and that's not a good omen.
[ NYP ] LIZ SMITH
BROADWAY BABIES and music lovers rejoice! New York's famous Colony Records store will not be kicked out of its legendary Brill Building site, where it has thrived for 55 years. Colony owners Richard Turk and Alan Grossbart just signed a new long-term lease agreement. Hurrah!
And they'll celebrate by raising their prices again...
Also, Liz has an item on Carol Channing getting a star on the new "Broadway Walk of Stars"... anyone know anything about this?
posted at 8/30/2002 03:33:56 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link
- Ain't this the kind o' weather
For smackin' leather,
For playin' baseball!
No kidding. Lynn Ahrens' lyrics from RAGTIME hit's the nail on the head. Lets hope the boys of summer find a resolution today and keep playing. But I felt that the missed opportunity by the deafening silence from the Broadway community with regard to this issue was unfortunate.
The possible baseball strike is national news. Instead of Broadway complaining about the NFL kickoff (in Times Square) and cancellation of some shows on Sept 11th, what the leadership of the Broadway community should have done is to harness the news of the nation to put the spotlight back on the real national pastime: Broadway, and theater in general.
What if someone, like a Gerry Shoenfeld or Jed Bernstein, stood up and said, "If baseball strikes, bring your tickets from any unplayed Major League Baseball game to a Broadway (or touring house around the nation) box office nearest you for a seat at our next performance..." (based on ticket availability of course) do you think that Broadway would have gotten a little PR? A few new fans possibly? It is then that these leaders (Shoenfeld or Bernstein) could address the issues that the public has with Broadway on a national stage -- like the cost of ticket prices. Most Broadway show top ticket prices are less expensive than Yankees, Mets, Knicks, Giants, Jets, Rangers, Islanders and Devils tickets.
You are asking how to fund it? If the baseball games are cancelled, the teams are required to refund the money to the ticket holders. Why not let the public use the ticket at a Broadway theater and then The League work payment/refunds out with the teams. No one is saying that this is an easy solution, but it is one that would have been good for Broadway in a financial sense, a political sense and in a public relations sense. Unfortunately, Broadway producers and theater owners only like to work with a small select few of their friends and cannot see the benefit of working as an entire industry together. My opinion of course.
- Up yer alley!
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[ TM ] Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia comes up with lots of ideas for musical theater songs to be sung in September, aside from the obvious choice that was written by Kurt Weill.
[ TM ] Tunes and Tomes
Tony Randall is a nimble musical comedy man on DRG's compact disc edition of Oh Captain!
[ P ] Report: Tim Burton to Direct Musical of Batman
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[ NYP ] BAT-SONG! by MICHAEL RIEDEL
HOLY Broadway! "Batman: The Musical" has finally landed a director - Tim Burton.
[ NYP ] THE PLAY'S THE 24-HOUR STAR THING by BARBARA HOFFMAN
IMAGINE writing, casting, rehearsing and performing a play in 24 hours flat, from start to finish. How about six plays?
[ NYT ] From Boy Band to Broadway by JESSE McKINLEY
Joey Fatone, the cuddly baritone of 'N Sync who has joined the cast of "Rent," is, in his heart of hearts, something of a theater geek.
[ NJ ] Cast changes help keep 'Rent' 'N Sync BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
[ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'BAPTIZING ADAM'
A Lonely Soul With a Gun by BRUCE WEBER
This amateurish work, earnestly acted, posits the theory that promiscuity and religious devotion are equivalent pursuits.
[ TB ] Baptizing Adam Review by Matthew Murray
[ YN ] 'Law & Order' Perfect for NYC Actors by FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer
"They are extremely particular about getting exactly the right person for each role," reports Patrick Quinn. "After I had auditioned a few times and hadn't gotten a part, I started worrying that I would be the only New York actor who DIDN'T make it on `Law & Order.'"
[ USA ] Marissa Jaret Winokur: Heavily into 'Hairspray' hoopla by Donna Freydkin
[ USA ] Stage to screen, Pacino will be everywhere next year by Stephen Schafer
[ BH ] Kate's in control: Mulgrew plays Hepburn with her own brand of feistiness by Terry Byrne
"I've always been compared to Katharine Hepburn, and it bugged me," actress Kate Mulgrew says.
[ BG ] Hawthorne work proves letter-perfect for a play by Catherine Foster
While Tina Packer, head of Shakespeare & Co., was looking for a work for the fall season by a Berkshires writer that featured a strong role for a woman, she was also reading Carol Gilligan's analysis of ''The Scarlet Letter'' in her new book, ''The Birth of Pleasure.''
[ NJ ] Attitude adjustment helps 'Miss Saigon' BY PETER FILICHIA
Sometimes it pays to be humble.
[ DN ] 4 shows bid bye-bye to B'way on Sun. by HOWARD KISSEL
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: Everything Is Rent With Fatone
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: Justin, Joey Are 'N Sync With Rent
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: Rent, Also Featuring a Manley Guy
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: Rent ��Old Schoo
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: Stamos, Orfeh Get Some Rent
[ P ] Sh-K-Boom Records Spins Debbie Does Dallas Album for November Release
[ P ] The Mayor's Limo, New Social Comedy About Homeless Politics, Begins Sept. 17 in NYC
[ P ] Kate Levering Taps Back Into 42nd Street Aug. 30
[ P ] Ontario's Blyth Fest, Devoted to Canadian Voices, Loses Artistic Director in October
[ P ] A Saint She Ain't Opens at Westport Country Playhouse Aug. 30
[ P ] Richard Maxwell Offers Joe Times Five at P.S. 122, Aug. 30
[ P ] Juliana Francis Takes Up Pen and Director's Chair for Latrice at P.S. 122, Aug. 30
[ P ] Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 30
Thanks to American Theater Web for the following links!
[ MST ] Personal and professional meet for actor Glynn Turman by Rohan Preston
[ PPG ] Broadway hit, well-stocked with Pittsburghers, ends with PBS broadcast by Christopher Rawson
To mark the end of "Contact's" Broadway run and its debut on national TV, I leapt at the chance to see again a show I love and to interview several leading members of the company -- a number of whom happen to be Pittsburghers.
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Thursday, August 29, 2002
[ B ] Porter to Provide Killer Plant Voice in Little Shop
[ B ] Def Poetry Jam Lands at Longacre Theatre
[ P ] Lonny Price Is New Director on Urban Cowboy; B.J. Crosby Part to Be Recast
[ TM ] Timon of Athens Reviewed By: Brooke Pierce
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[ B ] Lonny Price Set as New Director of Urban Cowboy
[ B ] Photo Op: Rent Welcomes Joey Fatone
[ NYT ] EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK
Sondheim Finds a Home in Washington by PHILIP TAUBMAN
A musical master finds an unlikely showcase.
Thanks to davei2000 on All That Chat for the link!
[ P ] Revised Zippel Revue, It's Better With a Band, Has Barrowman, Mayes, Hicks and Blazer
I am SO glad I live nearby...
[ P ] Songs for a New World Serenades Seattle Sept. 5-Oct. 12
[ TM ] Love and Magic Spark Boomerag Theatre Company's Fall 2002 Season by: Michael Portantiere
[ BE ] A Richard Rodgers centennial celebration, Boston Pops-style by Jeffrey Borak
with Ron Raines.
[ NJ ] Opportunity knocks: A long day of auditions for would-be "Annies" BY ALLISON FREEMAN
[ HC ] Kate Mulgrew Storms Cleveland As Kate The Great by FRANK RIZZO
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!
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[ B ] Shoshanna Bean Takes the Spotlight Sept. 9
[ B ] Fatone & Winokur to Host Broadway on Broadway
[ B ] Preview #11: What the World Needs Now by Ken Mandelbaum
[ P ] Lily Savage Joins Chitty Cast
[ P ] Gordon Cox Debuts as Author of Newsday's Theatre Column
[ P ] Cast Change in LCT Importance as Pasquale Is Added
[ P ] Boyd, Cleevely, Eda-Young Head Cast of Rapp's Trueblinka, Sept. 19
[ P ] Arab-American Act Canceled as Opener to Jackie Mason Chicago Date
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[ ND ] Busy Broadway's A Hopeful Sign by Gordon Cox
Gordon Cox is Newsday's new Play by Play columnist.
[ NYP ] FINEST OF FRINGE FEST by BARBARA HOFFMAN
Many are Fringe-y - but few are chosen. Herewith, some of the big winners of this year's New York International Fringe Festival, which closed Sunday after 195 shows and more than 1,200 performances.
[ NYP ] CHEAP TICKETS by B. HOFFMAN
If you love theater - but hate coughing up big bucks for tickets - Playwrights Horizons has an offer you can't refuse.
[ B ] Pasquale Replaces Wardell in A Man of No Importance
[ B ] Broadway Grosses: Crowds in the Clair de Lune
[ P ] Schalchlin and Brochu Workshop Musical Big Voice for L.A. Public Sept. 12-29
[ P ] John Kelly Stages 'Children of Paradise'-Inspired Piece at Kitchen, Sept. 12-28
[ P ] Seattle Cast Travels to Los Angeles for Taper's Nickel and Dimed Sept. 8-Oct. 27
[ P ] Houston's Main Street Premieres Meloncon's The Laws of Storms Sept. 12-Oct. 13
[ P ] Wisconsin Hit Musical, The Bachelors, Sings Again, Aug. 29-Oct. 5
[ P ] Liberace, Doris Fish Subjects of San Francisco's Let's Talk About Me Aug. 29-Sept. 22
[ P ] Today In Theatre History: AUGUST 29
[ P ] Rappaport Producer: 'I'm Not Closing'
[ P ] Final Contact to Air Live Mainly in East Coast Markets; Other Times Vary
[ P ] New Cohen Musical, Directed by Millie Producer, Gets Cast; Starts Oct. 18 in Boston
[ P ] TheatreVirginia Will Produce Plays Sporatically From 2003 to 2007
[ BS ] To Delight and Instruct by Laura Weinert
Working in educational theatre gives actors a purpose and a paycheck.
[ YN ] Hispanic comedians, writing their own plays about U.S. cities, do one on Washington by CARL HARTMAN, Associated Press Writer
They've been called the Hispanic Marx Brothers, but they're the Marx Brothers with a message.
posted at 8/29/2002 07:42:21 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link
The Off-Broadway production of The Prince and The Pauper will get a cast recording by John Yap at JAY Records. The scheduled release date is Thanksgiving. The upcoming production of Debbie Does Dallas at Jane Street will be recorded and released by Sh-K-Boom.
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[ NYT ] CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK: Boys Will Be Girls in Pure Shakespeare By BEN BRANTLEY
The Globe Theater's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" features Elizabethan costumes, music and props, not to mention the period convention of an all-male cast.
[ NYT ] An Arab-American's Act Is Off Jackie Mason Bill By STEPHEN KINZER
[ NYT ] From Playwright to Publishing Company Chief, Then Back Again By MERVYN ROTHSTEIN
[ V ] Bloomberg, Tagliabue calm B'way down - Theaters worried concert may cut auds by Robert Hofler
At Wednesday's City Hall press conference, Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters that the NFL's big kickoff in Times Square Sept. 5 will not decimate Broadway ticket sales that day.
[ P ] Original Cast Recording of 1982's Nine Gets Two Disc Release in 2003
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Wednesday, August 28, 2002
[ B ] Mother/Daughter Cha-Cha by Ken Mandelbaum
Mentioned as a possibility for Broadway in the spring, the new Frank Wildhorn/Nan Knighton musical Camille Claudel will have a reading in October, to be directed by Gabriel Barre. Linda Eder has the title role. Also mentioned for the cast of the reading: Nancy Anderson, Sean McCourt, and Neil Patrick Harris.
[ B ] Stage Manager Bob Borod Dead at 70
[ B ] Marshall Seeks Compensation for Hairspray
[ P ] Broadway Stage Manager Bob Borod is Dead at 70
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: At the Royal National Theatre: Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: At the Royal National Theatre: Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: At the Royal National Theatre: Voyage
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: At the Royal National Theatre: Shipwreck
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: At the Royal National Theatre: Salvage
[ TM ] Peter Filichia's Diary
A summer night smiled on Filichia and others who enjoyed A Little Night Music under the stars at the Ravinia Festival.
[ TB ] Frog and Toad hops into young children's and accompanying adults hearts
Minneapolis Review by Elizabeth Weir
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[ B ] Natasha Richardson Pulls Out of Miss Julie
Broadway.com has learned that Tony Award-winner Natasha Richardson has pulled out of the Roundabout Theatre Company's planned revival of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. She was to costar with Philip Seymour Hoffman in the drama, but withdrew to shoot the film Asylum with hubby Liam Neeson.
[ NYP ] SPLITTING HAIRS by MICHAEL RIEDEL
YOU know a show's a hit when someone comes out of the woodwork to claim a piece of it.Rob Marshall - who directed three early readings of "Hairspray" before bolting to direct the movie version of "Chicago" - thinks he's entitled to a slice of what must surely be some hefty "Hairspray" profits, theater sources say.
[ NYT ] From Playwright to Publishing Company Chief, Then Back Again by MERVYN ROTHSTEIN
Thomas McCormack, the former chief executive of St. Martin's Press, wrote his first play 30 years ago. Now he has written his second, "Endpapers," a comic drama about the publishing business.
[ P ] Carolee Carmello Added to Sept. 23 Funny Girl Benefit
[ P ] Bway's Susan Schulman Will Be North of Border in 2003, Staging King and I
[ P ] The Guys Plays Final Perf. with Thomas and Lang, Aug. 28; Returning in Sept.
[ P ] Kristin Chenoweth Debuts at the Donmar
[ P ] Abigail's Party Extends at Hampstead Theatre
[ P ] Kevin Kline to Perform Shakespeare at Acting Company Benefit, Sept. 22
[ P ] Joey Fatone and Rent Celebrate a Second Opening, Aug. 28
[ P ] Hoffman's 85 Hour Shakespeare Marathon Returns to L.A.'s MET Sept. 25-28
[ P ] Lisa Timmel Is New Lit Manager at Playwrights Horizons
[ P ] Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 28
[ P ] Falco and Tucci on "Today" Aug. 28
[ P ] PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Rupert Holmes
What's Edwin Drood creator Rupert Holmes working on this season? The real question is, what isn't he working on? He's currently occupied with a novel; a libretto to the new musical, Marty; a new solo Broadway play about George Burns and Gracie Allen; the thriller, Thumbs; and a planned musical version of his cult-hit TV series, "Remember WENN."
[ TM ] Worth Street Theater Company Offers Tribute to 9/11 Heroes by: Brooke Pierce
Mario Cantone, Daisy Eagan, and Colin Quinn will be among the many stars gathering for this reunion of participants in the Tribeca Playhouse Stage-Door Canteen, a USO-style variety show that ran at the Playhouse for several weeks during the recovery effort following the attack on the World Trade Center.
[ DN ] News Beat
'Rappaport' lives; Stage gets 'Tune' up
[ BS ] Phone Interrupts Performance? Go Directly to Jail by Leonard Jacobs
Theatregoers are accustomed to being admonished to disable their cell phones before a performance begins. Yet these things that ring in the night continue doing so, invariably right at the most dramatic or important moment of the show.
[ NYER ] BEEHIVES OVER BROADWAY by DAVID DENBY
Life is an endless platter party in "Hairspray."
[ TS ] Broadway stuck in silly season by Richard Ouzounian
Post-9/11 musical theatre favours soulless romps
[ VV ] BRECHT POINT by Alisa Solomon
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht
[ VV ] Sightlines
"The Puppet Parlor" at HERE's "American Living Room" festival
[ VV ] REVOLUTIONARY ROADS by J. Yeh
Stoppard in the Name of Love, Revolution, and More
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Tuesday, August 27, 2002
[ B ] Complete Cast Set for Man of La Mancha
[ B ] O'Grady to Replace O'Brien in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
[ B ] Tommy Tune Takes Manhattan with Rhythm
[ P ] Stratford Fest Plans Greeks, Shakespeare, King and I & Gigi in 2003
[ P ] Jacoby, Bogardus, Diaz Join Cast of Man of La Mancha
[ P ] Broadway Grosses: August 19-25
[ P ] Report: Rob Marshall Seeks Hairspray Compensation
[ P ] Summer Magic in the Air at The Globe
[ P ] West End Prepares to Make Contact
[ P ] Goodbye Edinburgh, Hello London
[ P ] Babes in Arms Won't Sing at Kennedy Center in November
[ TM ] Wherefore Art Thou Dromio? by: Michael Buckley
Lee Wilkof and Chip Zien slave away in The Boys From Syracuse.
[ TM ] Follow Spot
Lawrence Feeney on The A Train Plays, one of the oddest theatrical projects ever devised.
[ TM ] Birdy's Bachelorette Party Reviewed By: Barbara & Scott Siegel
[ SPI ] Hype, hype, hooray! for 'Hairspray' by JEFFREY ERIC JENKINS
Everyone can exhale now.
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[ P ] PHOTO CALL: Flower Drum Song: She Enjoys Being a Girl
[ P ] Barre, Not Tresnjak, Will Stage Goodspeed King of Hearts, Oct. 11-Dec. 22
[ P ] Baritone William Warfield, Known for Porgy and M-G-M's "Show Boat," Dead at 82
[ P ] Raul Esparza and Carole Shelley Return to Cabaret Sept. 9
[ B ] CDs: Toot Sweets by Ken Mandelbaum
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (Mr. Bang Bang Records)
[ TM ] Cabaret Notes
Pat Candaras shows off her dirty mouth, and her sharp comic mind, at Don't Tell Mama.
[ TB ] The Lenape RPAC Welcomes Stephen Schwartz & Friends
Philadelphia Review by Pati Buehler
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[ V ] TUNE'S GOT 'RHYTHM' IN N.Y.
Tommy Tune will return to the New York stage in November to open the brand-new Little Shubert Theater on West 42nd Street.
[ V ] MARSHALL WANTS A CUT OF 'HAIRSPRAY'S' BUCKS
Request 'unusual' according to observers
Helmer Rob Marshall is asking for "compensation" for his work on "Hairspray," according to sources close to the hit musical.
[ V ] B'WAY STILL BUOYANT
For the second week in a row, Broadway continued to slip but still managed to outpace B.O. and paid-attendance levels set in 2000 and 2001 for this time frame.
[ V ] OZ TAKING TO STAGE
Legit production house Jacobsen Entertainment is in full swing Down Under after launching three new shows in three days in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
[ NYT ] William Warfield, 82, Baritone Known for 'Porgy,' Is Dead by ALLAN KOZINN
William Warfield, the bass-baritone whose repertory included everything from theater works to Handel oratorios, was best known for his portrayals of Porgy in Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess."
[ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'MARIA VAI COM AS OUTRAS'
Love, Friskiness and High-Heeled Shoes by JENNIFER DUNNING
Everything and almost nothing goes on simultaneously in "Maria Vai Com as Outras" ("Maria Who Follows the Others"), a funny and imaginative new work by the Brazilian modern-dance choreographer Regina Nejman.
[ NYP ] MARRIAGE IN THE MAKING by BARBARA HOFFMAN
WILL she or won't she? Word went out over the weekend that Kim Cattrall, the man-eating vixen of "Sex and the City," had signed on to play one-half of the lesbian couple in David Mamet's "Boston Marriage," opposite Martha Plimpton.
[ NYP ] PAGE SIX
ELAINE Stritch was happy to let a nonprofit theater group for inner-city youths name itself after her. But when the struggling company merely asked her to come talk to the kids, she wanted money for a day of pampering.
[ NYP ] LIZ SMITH
News on a musical "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" (second item).
[ WP ] Sondheim: Exit Smiling by Peter Marks
At the Festival's Close, Ovations All Around for Its Brightest Star
[ WP ] Backstage: 'Page to Stage': Work Before Play by Jane Horwitz
Kennedy Center Project Provides A Glimpse at Pieces in Development
Includes an item on Arthur Hanket of "Some Like It Hot" (second item).
[ TS ] A rueful finale for Findley by Richard Ouzounian
STRATFORD, Ont. � Two playwrights: one at the beginning of her career, the other at the end of his.
[ BS ] Walking the Walk by Laura Weinert
PCPA offers theatre artists the opportunity-- and the responsibility-- to practice what they preach.
[ P ] The Exonerated Returns to L.A. Sept. 7
[ P ] L.A's Rubicon Has Purl Streetcar, Thomas and Davis Art in 2002-2003
[ P ] Hear Songs From Upcoming Broadway Musicals on "Radio Playbill�s" Season Preview Show Aug. 27-Sept. 1
[ P ] Norton and Keener Begin Brutal Romance, Burn This, Off-Bway, Aug. 27
[ P ] Rent Goes Back on the Road Again Aug. 27
[ P ] Sony Classical to Release Bombay Dreams CD in U.S., Aug. 27
[ P ] Alice Ripley to Return to Joe's Pub Aug. 27
[ P ] Tell Her You Love Her: Megan Lawrence Is Little Sally in Urinetown Aug. 27
[ P ] Fynsworth Alley To Release Christopher Durang Comedy Aug. 27
[ P ] Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 27
[ B ] FringeNYC 2002 Excellence Awards Announced
[ B ] Kirk Headlines World at Playwrights Horizons
[ B ] Sigourney Weaver Stars in Free Guys on 9/11
[ P ] Off-Broadway's Dog Years Ends With the Dog Days of Summer, Aug. 31
[ P ] Matt & Ben, Liz Larsen, Stephen Belber Win FringeNYC 2002 Awards
[ P ] Justin Kirk Searches The World Over, a Playwrights Horizons Premiere, Sept. 6
[ P ] Charles Nelson Reilly Brings His Life Back Aug. 26 at Laguna Playhouse
Yes, I know that the last post from last night isn't working; it's my fault. James will have it fixed later today... then he'll probably have ME fixed...
Here's one I got from TVGameshows.net :
45 Years Ago this week...
Tugboat captain William Ford appears on To Tell the Truth. Panelist Polly Bergen asks what it would take for him to blow the tug's whistle if she crossed the ship's bow. Answered Ford: "If you crossed the bow, I imagine the whole crew would come over and blow it."
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Monday, August 26, 2002
[ P ] Off-Broadway's Dog Years Ends With the Dog Days of Summer, Aug. 31
[ P ] Matt & Ben, Liz Larsen, Stephen Belber Win FringeNYC 2002 Awards
[ P ] Justin Kirk Searches The World Over, a Playwrights Horizons Premiere, Sept. 6
[ P ] Charles Nelson Reilly Brings His Life Back Aug. 26 at Laguna Playhouse
[ B ] FringeNYC 2002 Excellence Awards Announced
[ B ] Kirk Headlines World at Playwrights Horizons
[ B ] Sigourney Weaver Stars in Free Guys on 9/11
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[ B ] Ra�l Esparza to Return to B'way's Cabaret
[ P ] Costume Designer and Producer Edith Lutyens Bel Geddes Dead at 95
[ P ] Judd Hirsch, Tony Bennett, Queen Latifah Honor Heroes at U.S. Open Aug. 26
[ P ] Sigourney Weaver to Reprise The Guys at Lincoln Center Free Perf., Sept. 11
[ P ] North Carolina's Newest Equity Troupe Has Goldoni's Mirandolina, Set in '50s Italy
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[ B ] Loudon Among New Guests at Dinner
Christine Ebersole, Joe Grifasi, Dorothy Loudon, Ann McDonough and James Rebhorn are all set for the upcoming Lincoln Center Theater production of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's Dinner at Eight, a production spokesperson confirmed to Broadway.com.
[ B ] Rappaport Struggles But Stays Alive
[ B ] All They Care About Is Love by Ken Mandelbaum
REVIEW: CHICAGO
Michael C. Hall has received considerable attention for his work as David Fisher on the acclaimed HBO series "Six Feet Under." (That program and "Primetime Glick" were my favorite TV fare last season.) But I was extremely impressed by the actor (then just Michael Hall) back in 1999, when he made his Broadway debut replacing Alan Cumming in Cabaret at Studio 54.
[ P ] Out Magazine to Hold Panel in Connection to Take Me Out, Sept. 23
[ P ] Cape Cod's WHAT Adds Fourth World Premiere to Season, Oct. 17-Nov. 2
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: Amour de Magritte?
[ P ] Ebersole, Grifasi, Loudon Will Be Seated for LCT Dinner at Eight
[ TM ] Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia cheers the author of Deathtrap, The Stepford Wives, Rosemary's Baby, etc. on his 73rd birthday.
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[ NYT ] Kennedy Center Raises Its Profile by ROBIN POGREBIN
Michael M. Kaiser aims to make the Kennedy Center a cultural destination for people from all over the world, not just a place for Washington residents.
[ NYT ] To Be Hamlet (but Still Keep the Day Job) by MEL GUSSOW
For years, Tim Martin, an executive at an antique-silver shop on East 57th Street, has dreamed about playing Hamlet.
[ LAT ] A British Protest of a U.S. Invasion by DAVID GRITTEN
Theater Actors union lashes out after publicly supported National Theatre follows trend of giving lead roles to Hollywood stars.
[ NYP ] HOLMES IN VIRGIN TERRITORY by DONALD LYONS
LOW farce and high wit can make intoxicating cocktails onstage. Take Sean Cunningham's "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret of Making Whoopee" at the Fringe Festival.
[ NYP ] LIZ SMITH
Liz's take on "Frankie and Johnny" (third item).
[ V ] Donmar's grand plan by MATT WOLF
Michael Grandage has announced the first four productions of his regime as artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse, succeeding Sam Mendes.
[ BH ] Nightmare over, diva Jennifer Holliday is a dreamgirl again by Robert Nesti
[ BG ] Lively tempo and acting in 'Foreigner' by Richard Dyer
[ CST ] 'Aida' is gorgeous but tone still a problem BY HEDY WEISS
The show, which had its pre-Broadway debut in Chicago in 1999, has now returned to the Cadillac Palace Theatre in a national touring company incarnation.
[ P ] Peter Stone Talks About the Creation of Sugar, Now Touring As Some Like It Hot
[ P ] Laramie's Fondakowski Tells La Jolla I Think I LIke Girls Sept. 3-21
[ P ] In Final Season at Helm, Shaw Artistic Director Newton Steps Into Play, Aug. 26-Oct. 1
[ P ] Daniel Jenkins to Star in Seattle's Education of Randy Newman Oct. 18-Nov. 17
[ P ] Song List Announced for Betty Buckley's New CD, "The Doorway"
[ P ] Encore for Encores!: City Center Series Offers 10th Anniversary Bash
[ P ] Terrence Mann and Charlotte d'Amboise Star in The Guys Sept. 11-12
[ P ] AntiGravity: An American Band Offers Tribute to NYC on Sept. 11
[ P ] Liberace, Doris Fish Subjects of San Francisco's Let's Talk About Me Aug. 29-Sept. 22
[ P ] Casting Announced for Guthrie Comedy of Errors, Beginning Sept. 28
[ P ] Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 26
[ P ] Rappaport Keeps Bway in Suspense; Closing Notice Taken Down Second Time
posted at 8/26/2002 07:57:30 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link
Sunday, August 25, 2002
[ BG ] Kate by Catherine Foster
In a one-woman show, Kate Mulgrew takes on the agitation, fear, and legend of Katharine Hepburn
[ BG ] As many actors know, one is the loneliest number onstage by Catherine Foster
[ TS ] A Lear of sinew and substance by Richard Ouzounian
It was only a few minutes into the first scene of the opening performance of King Lear last night at the Stratford Festival when Christopher Plummer made his presence felt.
[ TS ] The Audience Member from Hell by Richard Ouzounian
Many a show has been ruined by the boor in the next seat
[ WP ] Edie Falco Calls the Tune by Peter Marks
'Sopranos' Star Is Breathtaking In 'Clair de Lune'
[ ND ] Fast Chat: Michael C. Hall
[ P ] Talk Show Watch: The Producers on 'Today', Jamie-Lynn Sigler on 'The View'
[ P ] NYC Fringe Festival Ends Aug. 25; Beat, All American Boy, Sex Prove Popular
[ P ] HBO Airs "Hysterical Blindness" With Uma Thurman Aug. 25
[ P ] Rent Goes Back on the Road Again Aug. 27
[ P ] D.C.'s Sondheim Celebration Ends as Night Music Closes Aug. 25
[ P ] Steven Suskin ON THE RECORD: Bravo Giovanni and Wall to Wall Rodgers
[ P ] Wendall Greene Ends at Steppenwolf Aug. 25
[ P ] San Fran's ACT Puts Single Tix on Sale Aug. 25; Urinetown Sale Date Is Feb. 2, 2003
[ P ] Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 25
[ YN ] An appetite for destruction: Keeping track of broken props at `The Goat' by JUSTIN GLANVILLE
[ YN ] Mary Ann Meets Batman in Wyo. Play
[ TB ] Carved in Stone and Confessions of a Mormon San Francisco Reviews by Richard Connema
Thanks to American Theater Web for the following links!
[ AJC ] 'Tap Dance Kid' hoofing it to Atlanta with lots of 'Funk' by Wendell Brock
[ MH ] Adam Epstein: The producer BY CHRISTINE DOLEN
South Floridian helps turn John Waters classic into Broadway's latest mega-hit
[ BSUN ] 'Hairspray' opening fabulous, says Rhea Feikin by Sloane Brown
[ MST ] Guthrie Theater costumer Garceau, there from the start, retires at age 89 by Graydon Royce
[ MST ] 'Miz' alliance: Musical star Mahowald soldiers on by Rohan Preston
On the opening night of "Les Miserables" at the Ordway Center for Performing Arts in St. Paul a few weeks ago, there was a tsunami of feedback in the middle of a solo by Joseph Mahowald. The singer-actor who plays Javert did his character justice. He not only stayed calm during the dreadful noise problems; he rose up against the wave, his voice swelling as he delivered the aria. The room erupted in applause when he finished.
[ OCR ] Good seats for 'The Producers,' if you're willing to pay by PAUL HODGINS
Next year's hugely anticipated West Coast debut of "The Producers" (it opens May 2 at the Pantages Theatre) is one of the first out-of-town ventures for Broadway Inner Circle, an agency that sells desirable seats on the Great White Way for up to three times their original price. But don't expect the fledgling New York-based company to become a permanent fixture on the L.A. theater scene.
[ PPG ] Phyllida Lloyd is a director who also needs to be a ringmaster and a general by Christopher Rawson
[ PPG ] Bjorn Ulvaeus deconstructs the magical ABBAcadabra by Ed Masley
I finally saw HAIRSPRAY Saturday afternoon. Even though it's only been playing a few weeks, I can't believe I had deprived myself of this wonderful theatrical experience for so long. What a hoot.
Saturday night I went to see OKLAHOMA! Then three hours later I woke up and went home...
At HAIRSPRAY, I sat next to a very nice family from Forest Hills, Queens. At one point the husband/father said to me, "You know who you look like? Frank Rich. Around the eyes."
Readers, please e-mail me and tell me if you think that's a compliment!
posted at 8/25/2002 01:18:11 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link
[ NYT ] Learning the Moves of Harlem, Circa 1930 By BARRY SINGER
[ NYT ] Theater's Memory Bank Expands By JONATHAN MANDELL
[ NYT ] A Know-It-All Tells All in a Theater Fan's Words By JONATHAN MANDELL
[ NYP ] THESE NEW BRIT SHOWS WILL ROCK YOU By CLIVE BARNES
A truly unique rock musical is a rare thing.Not many successful bands are willing to take time out from touring and recording to undergo the agonies, travails and doubtful profits of a Broadway musical.
[ DN ] (Broadway Fall Preview) Many Splendored Things - Romance fuels the season's musicals and plays by Howard Kissel
Love may not be sweeping the country, but it's a hot item on Broadway this fall.
[ DN ] (Off-Broadway Fall Preview) Tales from the edge - Off-Broadway features sports & showbiz themes, plus Sigourney Weaver in a Sept. 11 play by Robert Dominguez
Tales of a gay baseball player and oversexed pro-football cheerleaders, new dramas from David Mamet and Neil LaBute, classic works by Lanford Wilson and George S. Kaufman, plus rare stage appearances by Richard Dreyfuss, Sigourney Weaver and Edward Norton � are among the highlights of the upcoming Off-Broadway season.
posted at 8/25/2002 06:54:34 AM by Matthew Murray | 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]
Talked About
Not Scheduled Yet
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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