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Saturday, April 19, 2003

Features:

[ LAT ]  They're rattling cages by Mike Boehm
The members of Zoo District push boundaries and convention. They're still working on the money part.

[ LAT ]  Those looks � that sound? by Lynell George
It's not clear if jazz "It Boy" Peter Cincotti's voice merits the hype.

News:

[ NYO ]  Monica! (the Musical?)
Monica! The Musical will get its first reading at the Manhattan Theatre Club on May 7. Its creators, Daniel Blau, Adam Blau and Tracie Potochnik, hope that the reading will lead to a stage berth here in New York, where it would join unlikely post-post-ironic musicals such as Debbie Does Dallas, Urinetown and the new Zanna, Don�t!

[ YN ]  Pianist Bobby Short Hospitalized

[ DMN ]  Character actor Graham Jarvis dies at 72

Perhaps best-remembered for his role as Charlie Haggers in the 1970s series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Mr. Jarvis more recently turned up in such diverse series as 7th Heaven and Six Feet Under.

[ IBDB ]  Graham Jarvis' Broadway Credits

[ NJ ]  A new performing art center races to be ready in the Poconos BY PETER WYNNE, Associated Press

The article mentions that the cast of "Hairspray" will play there on June 29, but the theater's website doesn't confirm which cast members will be there. Hmm...

[ NJ ]  A healthier 'Baby'? -- Reworked Broadway flop joins classic musicals on Paper Mill's slate BY PETER FILICHIA

[ LAT ]  Looking for more patrons, theaters plan rare meeting by Mike Boehm

In an apparent first for Orange County, more than 50 county-based theater organizations have been invited to a round-table discussion Wednesday on how they might merge efforts to build a bigger audience.

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 19

[
P ]  Wild Party�s Barre to Direct World Premiere Memphis Musical

[
P ]  Sail Away!: Dames at Sea Begins Performances at Helen Hayes Theatre Company April 19

[
P ]  Schedule of Upcoming Broadway Openings

[
P ]  Wright's I Am My Own Wife, Gender-Bent Portrait of German Survivor, Begins May 2 Off-Bway

posted at 4/19/2003 08:34:40 AM by
Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Friday, April 18, 2003

News:

[ BS ]  Downtown Mobile Ticket Booth Readying to Roll by Leonard Jacobs
For 30 years theatregoers have enjoyed the convenience and discounts of the TKTS ticket booth in Duffy Square. Now, in an effort to boost downtown's ongoing, post-Sept. 11 revitalization, plans are underway for the creation of a mobile ticket booth to help shows below 14th Street to fill the house and spread the word.

[ BS ]  Mama Takes 16 MAC Awards by David Finkle
The First Annual Don't Tell Mama Awards were held Mon., April 14, at the Peter Norton Symphony Space. No, wait. It only seemed like the DTM Awards when the 17th annual MAC Awards 2003 played for more than -- puff, puff -- four hours to an almost sold-out house in the refurbished uptown venue.

[ P ]  Another Take on Doll's House: Seattle's Intiman Plays Nora, April 18-May 18

Reviews:

[
TM ]  Tunes, Tomes, & Videos
The Broadway smash Hairspray hits the shelves this week in the form of a beautiful new companion book to the musical.

[ ATW ]  Flashing Stream:A Forebear to Auburn's Proof

[ ATW ]  Frog and Toad Offers Respite from Normal World

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[ P ]  DIVA TALK: An Interview with Carolee Carmello Plus a Chat with Diva Lover Rudetsky

[
TM ]  The Siegels' Nightlife Notes

The Siegels give a full report on the 2003 MAC Awards, the annual event in which the stars and soon-to-be-stars of cabaret are honored.

[ P ]  Adam Rickitt Chats About Fame, Fortune & New London Play, Office Games

[
P ]  PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, April 12-18: Move Over, Pumbaa

posted at 4/18/2003 02:06:47 PM by
Tim Dunleavy | Item Link



Reviews:

[ B ]  DVDs: Let Me Dance for You by Ken Mandelbaum
A CHORUS LINE (MGM)

News:

[ P ]  Paper Mill Playhouse to Present Baby in 2004; Complete 2003-04 Season Announced

[
P ]  Cabaret�s Cumming to Host Like, A Totally Funny ... Whatever

[
P ]  Amour�s Errico Heads to Chatterbox April 24

[
P ]  Avenue Q to Move to Broadway's Golden July 31

[
TM ]  Drama Book Shop "Playwrights & Performers" Series Hosts Edward Albee, May 16

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News:

[ NYP ]  JITTERS OVER 'GYPSY' by MICHAEL RIEDEL
THE troubled Broadway revival of "Gypsy," set to open May 1, is still far from finished - as even its director, Sam Mendes, acknowledged Wednesday night in a highly unusual (some are saying "inappropriate") meeting with the eight members of the Outer Critics Circle Awards nominating committee.

[ B ]  Avenue Q to Open at B'way's Golden on July 31

[ LAT ]  Songwriter, wife give Hammer 60 drawings by Suzanne Muchnic

The donation from lyricist Hal David and his wife adds a trove of 19th and 20th century works by 50 prominent artists.

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
Carol Channing, Chita Rivera, Arthur Miller, "Fear of Flying."

Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia chats with Frank Vlastnik, the Snail with the Mail in the kiddie favorite, A Year with Frog and Toad.

[ NJ ]  A lot of history and theater slip 'Between the Lines' BY PETER FILICHIA
Mrs. Anna in "The King and I" tells her Siamese schoolchildren, "By your students, you'll be taught."
James Campodonico is instead discovering that by your students, you'll be produced.

[ HC ]  Dream Sequence by JEFF RIVERS
Making It In America, As Seen On TV And In Movies ...
"Diosa."

[ CPD ]  MUSICAL ADMIRATION by John Kappes
Here is what Linda Eder, who brings her one-woman show "Broadway My Way" to the Palace Theatre in Playhouse Square tonight, is up against.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link.

Reviews:

[ NYP ]  GIVING NEW LIFE TO AN OLD 'DAISY' by DONALD LYONS
IN the 1920s, George Kelly blew apart middle-class complacency with his social comedies.

[ NJ ]  "Daisy Mayme" revives genial visitor from the past BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'STONE COLD DEAD SERIOUS'
Young in the Heartland, Seeking Video Salvation by BRUCE WEBER

Adam Rapp's compassionate take on coming of age in the contemporary American heartland is the work of a playwright who is forging a real voice.

[ NYP ]  NOT-SO-HOT FLASH by DONALD LYONS
'PROOF" wasn't the first play to affirm the scientific genius of women. Charles Morgan's 1938 Play, "The Flashing Stream," sets a brilliant British female scientist among male military types trying to perfect a rocket that will home in on and destroy incoming planes.

[ LAT ]  THEATER BEAT
Sacrifice and terror in Bosnia: 'Liberation'

Also reviewed: "A Woman of Independent Means" at Fremont Centre Theatre, "Uncle Vanya" at Lillian Theatre, Donna McKechnie at Colony Theatre and "Confessions of a Cha Cha Feminist" at Highways.

[ HC ]  `Diosa' Lacks Depth, Insight by MALCOLM JOHNSON
Cast Can't Overcome Dialogue, Directing

[ NYT ]  CABARET REVIEW | KAREN AKERS
A Wealth of Worthy but Neglected Theater Songs by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Karen Akers, with her history of shining a light on worthy songs, goes further into obscure territory with her new show at the Algonquin.

posted at 4/18/2003 07:42:27 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link



[ NYT ]  ON STAGE AND OFF
Agita as a Main Course by JESSE MCKINLEY

The rumors are completely sound: "Avenue Q" is Broadway bound.
Third item.

Features:

[ NYT ]  A Rainbow of Poets Who Rhyme From Life by ROBIN POGREBIN
The nine poets in "Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway" share an innate theatricality and a raw candor about their lives and the world.

[ RFT ]  Been There, Done That BY DENNIS BROWN
Jane Connell's seen the brightest lights on Broadway
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ BS ]  Theme-Based Theatre: Filling the Gap... And Other Missions
In response to what the company viewed as a chasm, Working Theater's plays are nearly all set in the workplace, and the stories are told from the point of view of the staff.

Reviews:

[ YN ]  'Tell Me on a Sunday' Deemed Patronizing by MATT WOLF, Associated Press Writer
LONDON - It's unlikely that anyone is going to make much of a song and dance over "Tell Me on a Sunday," the Andrew Lloyd Webber song cycle that once provided the first half of the musical "Song and Dance."

News:

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 18

[
P ]  August Wilson's Latest Play, Gem of the Ocean, Premieres at Chicago's Goodman, April 18

[
P ]  New Musical, My Wife's Name Is Maurice, Gets NYC Presentation

[
P ]  Milwaukee Rep Has Shakespeare and Schiller in Rep, Plus Simon, DeFilippo, Ibsen, Shue in 2003-04

posted at 4/18/2003 12:37:27 AM by
Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Thursday, April 17, 2003

[ P ]  Bob Balaban, Nathan Lane, Tim Robbins Added to Trumbo Lineup in NYC

[
P ]  L.A.'s Ahmanson Searching for Replacement of Bway-Bound Never Gonna Dance

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Tim Dunleavy | Item Link



[ B ]  As You Like It Extends at the Public Theater

[ P ]  Public's As You Like It Extends to May 4

[
P ]  William Finn's Elegies to Be Recorded by Fynsworth Alley April 28

[
P ]  "Broadway Workshop" of Musical Traps! on PBS's"EGG" Season Finale, April 18

[
P ]  Off-Broadway's Blue Man Becomes Rock Group with "The Complex Tour," Starting April 26

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News:

[ P ]  Edward Norton Hosts Starry Signature Benefit Honoring Albee and McCann, May 5

[
P ]  New Musicals from Wild Party's Lippa and Pulitzer Winner Norman Play CA, April 30-May 3

[
P ]  Broadway Show League Throws Out First Pitch in Central Park, April 17

[
P ]  Happy 35th! Classic Stage Company Throws Starry Benefit Bash April 28

[
P ]  Comedy Dear Prudence Extends at Rattlestick to May 4

[
P ]  Full Cast of Marsha Norman's Last Dance Announced; MTC Run Begins May 6

[
P ]  Chita Rivera to Host 2003 Drama Desk Awards on May 18

[
P ]  Audiences Talk Back to King Herod at Broadway's Salome, Beginning April 21

[
P ]  Seattle's ACT Stays Open: Ailing Theatre Will Start 5-Play Season in July

[
B ]  Chita Rivera to Host 2003 Drama Desk Awards


Reviews:

[ B ]  CDs: Cryer and Ford's First by Ken Mandelbaum
NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL GOOD MEN (DRG)

Features:

[ B ]  Photo Op: More Stars Shine at Talking Heads

[ B ]  Photo Op: Hallelujah! Inspirational Voices Ready a Record!

posted at 4/17/2003 01:16:42 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link



Features:

[ USA ]  The new interpreters of standards by Elysa Gardner
Peter Cincotti is among a number of performers � some of them newcomers, some old pros � who are profiting from a revived interest in the interpretation of popular standards and other classic material.
Includes quotes from Melissa Errico, Michael Feinstein and Ute Lemper.

[ USA ]  That old black magic by Elysa Gardner
A few recent, and upcoming, standards-bearing collections.

[ DN ]  Proud Papa's new baby by CELIA McGEE
Dennis Doherty's "Dream a Little Dream," a tell-almost-all musical about the Mamas and the Papas - and the embittered story of how he feels Michelle done him wrong - is opening next Wednesday.

[ B ]  Fresh Face: Anika Larsen by Katie Riegel
Age: "I'm flirtin' with 30."

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Chicago: Now Entering Chicago

News:

[
CCT ]  Illness cancels Bergen's show
Pneumonia has forced film and Broadway star Polly Bergen to cancel her Tuesday through May 11 run at the Plush Room, the cabaret venue has announced. The venue has meanwhile booked singer Janis Paige, whose film and theater credits include a starring run in Broadway's "The Pajama Game," for a 10-day run beginning April 30.

[ ST ]  ACT stages a comeback: Theater company rounds up $1.5 million by Misha Berson
Thanks to American Theater Web for the two links above.

[ TM ]  Chita Rivera to Host 48th Annual Drama Desk Awards; TheaterMania Will Webcast the Event

[ HC ]  `As You Like It' Leads Shubert's Broadway Series by Frank Rizzo

What is being billed as a "pre-Broadway engagement" of a new musical based on Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" will play the theater March 12 to 21, 2004.

[ V ]  EQUITY BACKS SAG-AFTRA MERGER
Group may try to join AIMA

Leaders of Actors' Equity Assn. have unanimously endorsed the current proposal to merge SAG and AFTRA into a new umbrella union called the Alliance of Intl. Media Artists.

[ ND ]  Pulitzer Works, From Page to Stage by Gordon Cox
A sampling of Pulitzer Prize-winning works will get New York showcases in the coming weeks.

[ ND ]  NYC to Area Schools: It�s a Trip to Visit City by Elizabeth Sanger
New York City tourism chief Christyne Nicholas said she vividly remembers going to her first Broadway play - "The Magic Show" at the Cort Theatre - with her seventh-grade math class from Lynbrook, which helps explain why she stood in Times Square yesterday exhorting schools to keep taking trips to this cultural mecca.

[ BH ]  What a ride! Box offices weather the ups and downs of unpredictable season by Dean Johnson

[ NJ ]  Movie comedy at Bickford by Peter Filichia

Wendy Liscow of the New Jersey Theatre Alliance is pretty busy.

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 17

[
P ]  The Violet Hour Chimes at Chicago Steppenwolf, April 17

[
P ]  Wasserstein Further Revises American Daughter for DC's Arena Stage, April 25-June 15

[
P ]  Streakin' Begins Run in NYC April 17, Time Traveling to '70s Fun


Reviews:

[
NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE CRAZY LOCOMOTIVE'
As the Class Struggle Hurtles Ahead by BRUCE WEBER

The Classical Theater of Harlem has followed a bold success � its ragged, rousing version of Jean Genet's race-baiting circus, "The Blacks," which moved to the East 13th Theater � with the work of another clamorous iconoclast, the Polish writer and philosopher Stanislaw Witkiewicz.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'AS YOU LIKE IT'
It's Shakespeare With the Pedal to the Metal by BRUCE WEBER

A sprightly, fresh-faced ensemble takes on Shakespeare's comedy of couplings at the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.

[ NYT ]  CABARET REVIEW | BABY JANE DEXTER
Taming an Untamed Rocker by STEPHEN HOLDEN

The phrase "keeping it real" and all that it suggests certainly applies to Baby Jane Dexter, a longtime cabaret performer whose booming pop contralto is one of the more formidable voices on the New York nightclub stage.

[ ATW ]  CDs: Jesus Christ Superstar from Decca

[ ATW ]  CDs: Bayview's Dichotomy: Australian Hair and Sandy Wilson Discs

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Wednesday, April 16, 2003

News:

[ P ]  Never Gonna Dance Skips L.A. and Heads Straight for Broadway in Fall

[
B ]  Never Gonna Dance to Open on B'way in the Fall

[ BS ]  Tour Awards in Limbo?

The League of American Theatres and Producers is keeping mum on the date, location, and structure of the 2003 National Broadway Theatre Awards, which celebrate theatrical excellence in road productions.

[ P ]  Naked Angels Gives Emily Mann's Meshugah, Based on I.B. Singer, NYC Premiere May 7

[
P ]  Gets, Blazer, Rupert Test Ricky Ian Gordon's New Musical in FL Sundance Lab; SITI Also Ripens in Sun

[
P ]  WHAT Summer Season Has Reza, Aronson, Auburn, Lonergan, Shepard

[
P ]  UK Host-Comedian Returns to NYC in Graham Norton: Red-Handed, April 22-May 10

[
P ]  Play What I Wrote Gets Close to Mystery Guest

[
P ]  Drag and Lounge Meet Again as Kiki & Herb: Coup de Théatre Plays NYC, Starting April 25

[
P ]  Schulman Directs World Premiere Musical, Heartland, for WI's Madison Rep

[
P ]  Tony Nominee Helen Carey Joins Schaeffer's Follies April 29-June 1

[
P ]  '60s Mod London Comes to Café a Go Go, New Musical Starting June 5

[
P ]  Donald Margulies Adaptation of Wolfe's "A Man in Full" Picked up by HBO

[
TM ]  The Busking Bonanza, a Free Summer Theater Preview, Is Now Accepting Applications From Theater Companies


Features:

[ B ]  Photo Op: Family Friends Bernadette and Kirk Reunite at Gypsy

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Mamma Mia!: Take a Chance on Broadway


Reviews:

[
ATW ]  'Stoops' Raises 'Comedy' to Delightful Heights

[ ATW ]  Visuals and Vocals Weave Certain Spell in Camelot

[ NYT ]  POP REVIEW | JOE JACKSON
Harmony for People Out of Tune With Life by JON PARELES

If Joe Jackson had been born a few decades earlier, he would have been writing show tunes.
So what's stopping him now?

posted at 4/16/2003 06:18:25 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link



Features:

[ TM ]  Truly Julie by: Michael Portantiere
Star of stars Julie Andrews on her past triumphs and her future projects, including her upcoming directorial debut.

News:

[ B ]  The Best Damn Musical by Ken Mandelbaum
Latest word is that Never Gonna Dance will not be trying out at L.A.'s Ahmanson, as recently announced. It will instead come straight to Broadway, with previews beginning in October and the opening night in November. The Broadhurst has been mentioned as Never Gonna Dance's house.

[ TM ]  Signature Theatre Company to Honor Albee and McCann

[ P ]  Cast Complete for Caroline Rhea Debut Mondo Drama at Drama Dept., May 9-June 14

[
P ]  DC's Studio Has Tommy, Topdog, Galileo, Far Away and York Realist in 2003-04

posted at 4/16/2003 12:32:07 PM by
Tim Dunleavy | Item Link



[ TH ]  Charlotte Church's Phantom Role
British singer Charlotte Church is in talks to play the lead in a film version of popular stage musical "The Phantom of the Opera."
Part One: I don't read TeenHollywood.com. Really, I don't. Someone sent me the link. They did.
Part Two: Yes, this is a sign of the apocalypse...

posted at 4/16/2003 11:28:46 AM by James Marino | Item Link



So there is a lot of email catchup to do... Broadway's Paige Davis is appearing all over the place, last week on Hollywood Squares, on the cover of TV Guide (! How many Broadway stars have appeared there?) [pic] and with the release of the Trading Spaces book, and her forthcoming book "Paige by Paige" (Meredith Press) this summer, one hopes that she will have time to catch up with hubby Patrick, who is on the road with LION KING currently in Cincinatti...

One of my favorite design teams, Michael Bottari & Ronald Case [pic], were just nominated for the Lucille Lortel Awards for their designs for Charles Busch's "SHANGHAI MOON". They also will be at the Miami Beach Gay Film Festival for the premiere screening of "DIE, MOMMIE, DIE" for which they designed the costumes. "It should be incredible, on the huge screen at the Gusman Center, an art-deco movie palace, the film being a homage to the 60's Hollywood films that Joan Crawford and Betty Davis starred in. It was fun to do the Edith Head ,Givenchy, and Mainbocher star-styled costumes (40 for Busch alone) [pic 1] [pic 2] in bright technicolor"...

And from the insiders emailbag:
    Not only has "Kimberley Akimbo" been bought by Dreamworks for Spielberg to direct, but "Fuddy Meers" will be a major motion picture, directed by Petrarca and starring Sarah Jessica Parker (in her friend J. Smith-Cameron's original role), Matthew Broderick as her husband, and in the Marylouise Burke role, ARE YOU READY????...Meryl Streep!
Also of note, Mark Hummel is writing the dance music for the new show THE BOY FROM OZ. Mark wrote the new dance music to the Tony Award-winning revival of GUYS & DOLLS as well as a special gig in which he wrote dance music for LEGS DIAMOND, in addition to conducting for Peter Allen and Bernadette Peters on thier joint concert tour in 1989.

posted at 4/16/2003 09:58:20 AM by James Marino | Item Link



News:

[ NYP ]  THE DOPE ON 'JOURNEY' by MICHAEL RIEDEL
EUGENE O'Neill's brutal family drama "Long Day's Journey Into Night" scores pretty high on the intensity scale, so it should come as no surprise that rehearsals for the upcoming Broadway revival have been, well, pretty intense.

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
JOEL Schumacher, who directed "Phone Booth," is having a youth obsession. Planning his "Phantom of the Opera" movie, he says: "John Travolta wants to do it but I think I'll go younger."

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 16

[
P ]  Brooklyn's "Grand Canal" Given Stage Treatment, May 24-June 1

[
P ]  Nine Composer-Lyricist Maury Yeston Guests on "Theater Talk," April 18

[
P ]  Together Again, Galati and Flaherty Conjure Gertrude Stein in New Musical, A Long Gay Book

[
P ]  Master Harold...and the boys Now Scheduled to Open June 1; Tix on Sale

[
P ]  NC's Triad Premieres Debunked, Requiring Actors With Detachable Heads, in 2004

[
P ]  Sarah Silverman Returns to NYC with Jesus Is Magic at Zipper Theatre, May 13-24


Features:

[
TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
At a CCM showcase, 12 graduates sing their hearts out for friends, family, and, most importantly, for agents.

[ WP ]  'Urban Cowboy': Get Along, Little Dogie by Peter Marks
Oh, for the time on Broadway when men were men and bombs were bombs.

[ B ]  Ask A Star: Tovah Feldshuh

[ B ]  Photo Op: Last Sunday Settles In at Century Center

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Rhapsody in Seth: Opening Night


Reviews:

[
NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW
Recent Plays

Reviews of "The Gospel of John," "As Long as We Both Shall Laugh," "Thwak" and "Men Without Shadows."

[ LAT ]  A right-to-die drama that is full of life by F. Kathleen Foley
John Belluso's "Gretty Good Time" at the Falcon Theatre deals with many of the same "right to die" issues addressed in "Whose Life Is It, Anyway?" some 30 years ago. But far from being a straightforward victim-against-system story, Belluso's drama takes a more heightened and liquid approach to its painful subject, showing the vivid inner fantasy life into which its disabled protagonist retreats for respite and inspiration.
Directed by Joe Regalbuto.

posted at 4/16/2003 07:34:19 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Tuesday, April 15, 2003

News:

[ R ]  Moscow Hostage Play to End as Audiences Stay Away

[ B ]  "Master Harold" Delays Opening to June 1

[ B ]  Miriam Shor to Join Rhea in Off-B'way Drama

[ P ]  Humana Hit Omnium-Gatherum Looks Likely for 2003-04 New York Landing

[
P ]  Gregory Harrison to Join Broadway�s Chicago Summer 2003

[
P ]  David Schall, of Hollywood's Actor's Co-Op, Dead at 53

[
P ]  L.A.'s Ahmanson Gets Broadway-Bound Never Gonna Dance, Bohème, Millie in 2004

[
P ]  Playwright Victor Lodato Wins 2002 Weissberger Award

[
P ]  It�s Braxton � Not Williams � Who Will Be Disney�s Next Aida

[
P ]  PHOTO CALL: A Year With Frog and Toad: Opening Night


Thanks to
American Theater Web for the following feature!

[ SFC ]  The changing of the guard by Hugh Hart
'The Producers' has a new duo waiting in the wings
Alexander and Short.

Reviews:

[ CU ]  As You Like It Review

[ ATW ]  Comedy Tonight: As You Like It; The Rivals

[ VV ]  Gender Is the Night
Like It or Not, It's Theater, Pure and Simple by Michael Feingold

She Stoops to Comedy by David Greenspan; As You Like It by William Shakespeare

[ VV ]  A Hill of Beings by Kilbane Porter
Kenneth Heaton's 'The Ontological Detective'

[ CU ]  The Ontological Detective Review

[ VV ]  Greece Comes to Scotland
A Tale of Pan Am 103 Families by Francine Russo

Deborah Brevoort's The Women of Lockerbie

posted at 4/15/2003 05:30:17 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link



Features:

[ B ]  Tonys 2003 #2 by Ken Mandelbaum

News:

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Living the High Life
Despite mixed reviews, Life (x) 3 is doing mega business at the box office. Last week it was again the highest grossing play on Broadway, coming in at $357,897.

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: April 7-13

[
P ]  Broadway�s Little Shop To Feature �Untouchable� Voice

Veteran TV and film actor Robert Stack has recorded a voiceover for the upcoming Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors.

[
P ]  Daniel Sullivan Directs Star-Studded Cast for April 21 Benefit at Public Theater

[
B ]  Never Gonna Dance to Premiere at Ahmanson

[ P ]  Public Theater's "New Work Now!" Series Kicks Off April 26 with Cruz's Anna

[
P ]  Maury Yeston Makes NYC In-Store Appearance With CD Songbook Cast, April 22

[
P ]  On the Street Where You Live: Off-Broadway's Avenue Q Extends Again to May 11

[
P ]  Last 5 Years, What the Night is For, Bway-Bound Harvey Next Season at Laguna

[
P ]  The Graduate May Launch Tour in San Francisco in Aug. 2003

[
P ]  2003 MAC Award Winners Announced; Mason and Cincotti Named Major Vocalists

[
TM ]  Caf� a Go Go Gets Go-Going June 22

[ TM ]  Vital Children's Theatre Seeks Stories by New York Kids


Reviews:

[ TM ]  Elaine Stritch at Liberty and Donna McKechnie: Inside the Music Los Angeles Reviews by Sharon Perlmutter

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News:

[ R ]  Disney Tunes Up Teen Musical by Zorianna Kit
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Getting on the musical feature bandwagon, the Walt Disney Co. is developing an untitled project about a cynical teenage girl.

[ V ]  'SALOME' SHIMMIES, 'LIFE' SELLS ON B'WAY
Pacino, Hunt, Banderas lead star-laden shows to profits

In a blessed break with Broadway tradition, the onset of daylight-saving time did not send B.O. plummeting. Only eight of the 31 shows on the boards experienced a decline in receipts. The total tally came to $13,229,912, up $674,348, or 7.08%, from the previous session.

[ V ]  ACTOR'S CO-OP FOUNDER SCHALL DIES
Thesp's final TV role will be an episode of 'ER'

David Schall, 53, a founding member of Actor's Co-op, died Friday night of a heart attack in Hollywood, 1� hours before the opening night curtain of "Uncle Vanya," in which he was a cast member.

[ V ]  'DANCE' DUE AT AHMANSON
Luhrmann musical based on Astaire-Rogers pic

Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini's "La Boheme" and the world premiere of musical "Never Gonna Dance," based on the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers pic "Swing Time," highlight the Ahmanson's 2003-04 subscription season.

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
BILL Maher opens May 5. Broadway. Virginia Theatre. Limited engagement. Win, lose or lousy reviews, we're talking three weeks, 24 performances.
Don't everyone hate me, but I'm semi-responsible.
Plus an item on David Henry Hwang.

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
"Nine" and "Gypsy."

[ DN ]  Change at the top for the Apollo by CELIA McGEE
It's showtime for Jonelle Procope at the Apollo.

[ P ]  Bway Chicago Welcomes Two New Stars April 15
Tracy Shayne and Angie Stone join the Broadway company of Chicago April 15 as, respectively, Roxie Hart and Matron "Mama" Morton.

[
P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 15

[
P ]  Lloyd Webber's Tell Me On a Sunday, Revised and Revamped, Opens in London April 15

[
P ]  "Law & Order" Star Sam Waterston Heads Cast of The Black Monk at Yale Rep, May 9-31

[
P ]  Brooks, Alexander, Mullally Among Stars to Appear on Martin Short's "Primetime Glick"

[
P ]  Proof, Topdog, West Side Story and New Musical Revue Announced for Trinity Rep's 2003-2004 Season


Features:

[
CPD ]  A Monkee's evolution: Dolenz in 'bad-guy' role by Tony Brown
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ BS ]  Bringing Back the Bard
Moving 'As You Like It' from a parking lot to the Public Theater was no easy task for "Debbie Does Dallas" director Erica Schmidt. Here's how she did it.

Reviews:

[ NYP ]  PLAYFUL, PARED-DOWN BARD AS YOU'LL 'LIKE IT' by DONALD LYONS
Now at the Public is an "As You Like It" that originated as a parking-lot production. Under the breathless direction of Erica Schmidt (who directed "Debbie Does Dallas") five actors, dashing around with lickety-split precision, do the many parts.

[ TM ]  As You Like It Reviewed By: Brooke Pierce

[ B ]  As You Like It Review by Adam Feldman

[ DN ]  Actor channels many characters in a well-worn tale of Queens by Robert Dominguez
In the one-man show "Broad Channel," writer-performer Doc Dougherty brings a dead-end Queens neighborhood to vibrant life despite a familiar story about growing up in New York City.

[ CU ]  Broad Channel Review

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'SHE STOOPS TO COMEDY'
When a Drama Workshop Goes Berserk, Genders Bend by BEN BRANTLEY

David Greenspan, a cult figure among downtown theater devotees, has created a rambling, self-revising exercise of a play that presents life as a drama workshop.

[ NJ ]  Gender bender BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
Writer-director stars plays dual roles in 'Comedy' that lives up to its title

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE JACKIE WILSON STORY'
A Gymnastic Pop Singer Caught Up in a Melodrama by BRUCE WEBER

There is essentially one reason � and it's a very good one � to see "The Jackie Wilson Story," and that is the star, Chester Gregory II.

[ TM ]  Rhapsody in Seth Reviewed By: Matthew Murray

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Monday, April 14, 2003

News:

[ B ]  Avenue Q Extends (Again) at the Vineyard

[ B ]  Is Destiny's Child Williams a Future B'way Aida?

The singer told MTV News that she would in fact be appearing in the musical. However a production spokesperson told Broadway.com that while Williams did see the show upon a request from Disney Theatricals, talks have not gone beyond that stage.

[ B ]  Gregory Harrison Looks to Summer Chicago Run
Gregory Harrison will likely be lawyer to Melanie Griffith's Roxie Hart in Chicago this summer.

Features:

[ B ]  First Person: Enchanted First Play by Matthew Barber

Reviews:

[ TB ]  As You Like It Review by Matthew Murray

posted at 4/14/2003 08:27:30 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link



News:

[ PS ]  The Maury Yeston Instore
Maury Yeston and the cast of The Maury Yeston Songbook will be signing CD's at the Tower Records at New York's Lincoln Center on Tuesday, April 22nd from 4:30-6:00 PM. Expected to appear: Christine Andreas, Brent Barrett, Laura Benanti, Liz Callaway, Philip Chaffin, Robert Cuccioli, Christine Ebersole, Michael Holland, Howard McGillin and Johnny Rodgers.

[ P ]  Channel Nine: Stars of New Broadway Revival Make TV Appearances
The stars of the current Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Nine on Broadway will appear all over the television talk-show circuit this week, starting with Jane Krakowski appearing on CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman," April 14.

[
P ]  Starry Solo Works, Talking Heads, Extends to Open-Ended Run in Greenwich Village

[
P ]  Musical Theatre Composer Rosenblum, Who Conjured Einstein's Dreams, Gets CD

[
P ]  Librettist DiLallo and Lyricist Benjamin Snag 2003 Kleban Awards

[
P ]  Broadway Bacharach-David Revue The Look of Love Extends to June 29

[
B ]  Frank Loesser's Discretion Comes to Life in DC

[ P ]  McSweeney to Direct Greek Classic for National Actors Theatre

[
P ]  Jackie Clune Chats About the Revised Tell Me On a Sunday

[
P ]  Suggs to Sing On in London�s Our House

[
P ]  Laugh Star Yakov Smirnoff Visits "Radio Playbill" April 15-21

[
P ]  Vera Zorina, Ballet Dancer Who Helped Bring Classical Dance to Musicals, Dead at 86

[
P ]  MA's American Rep Next Season Has Chekhov, Mee, Bard, Pinter, Sophocles, Molière

[
P ]  Lynne Thigpen Remembered at April 14 Memorial Service in NYC

[
P ]  Chicago Theatre to Present Third Sondheim; Griffin Directs

[
P ]  Lauper to Be Part of Rosie O�Donnell�s Find Me On Broadway

[
P ]  Producers Star Offers San Francisco Concerts Summer 2003

[
P ]  League of Professional Theatre Women Names Honoree for April 24 Luncheon

Lynn Redgrave will be the special guest of honor at the League of Professional Theatre Women's April 24 luncheon.

Features:

[
B ]  Quotable Quotes: An Opening with Frog and Toad

[ B ]  Photo Op: Frog and Toad Makes the Leap to B'way


Reviews:

[ NYer ]  MR. EXCITEMENT by JOHN LAHR
Two kings of charisma.
"Nine" and "The Jackie Wilson Story."

[ B ]  Were B'way Critics Charmed by Frog and Toad?

[ CU ]  Daisy Mayme
Review

[ CU ]  She Stoops To Comedy Review

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[ B ]  CDs: The Streets of Dublin by Ken Mandelbaum
In the first national tour of Urinetown, Beth McVey will play Penelope Pennywise, Meghan Strange will be Little Sally, and Jim Corti will play Old Man Strong/Hot Blades Harry.

[ B ]  The Look of Love Extends Through June 29

[ P ]  Neuwirth, Chenoweth, Foster & Winokur Help Celebrate Rhapsody in Seth Reopening

posted at 4/14/2003 02:51:14 PM by
Tim Dunleavy | Item Link



[ MTV ]  Destiny's Child Attack The Movies, Broadway; Plan New Album
Michelle Williams of Destiny's Child is going into "Aida"

posted at 4/14/2003 02:33:23 PM by James Marino | Item Link



News:

[ V ]  HIP-HOPPING INTO HISTORY
Rodgers & Hart classic rewritten for London staging

Rodgers and Hart are going hip-hop. The team's 1938 musical "The Boys From Syracuse" is undergoing a thorough cultural and ethnic overhaul and will reopen as "Da Boyz" at London's Theater Royal, Stratford East, with performances starting April 24.
This can't be rap
Because it rhymes too well,
No shouts, no curses, no Yo's...


[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
EUGENE O'Neill Theatre. Opening night of the redo of "Nine." I sat directly alongside Tommy Tune. A lifetime ago, when this originally opened, it was staged by Tommy Tune.
Second item.

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
A GLOSSY opening night crowd at the Eugene O'Neill Theater worked as hard as Antonio Banderas, the 9-year-old William Ullrich and their phalanx of 16 dazzling females onstage in the revival of "Nine."
Third item.

[ MST ]  Children's Theatre's 'Frog and Toad' takes a bow on Broadway by John Habich
The Minnesota-made musical "A Year With Frog and Toad" made its Broadway debut Sunday, eight months after its world premiere at the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis. Its producers plan a national tour of the family show, which will be eligible for the 2003 Tony Awards.

[ CST ]  Sondheim joins Shakespeare at CST BY HEDY WEISS
If the Chicago Shakespeare Theater were a country you might accuse it of imperialist tendencies.

[ LAT ]  Invisible rabbit lodges at Laguna Playhouse by Don Shirley
Laguna Playhouse will open its 2003-04 season by launching a tour of "Harvey," Mary Chase's comedy about a man and an invisible rabbit.

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 14

[
P ]  Into the Woods: As You Like It's Arden Forest Grows at Public as Bard Comedy Opens, April 14

[
P ]  Sextet Sing of Life at the Crossroads in Six of One Reading, with Schaffel, April 14

[
P ]  Zimmerman's Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci Cast and Crew Set for June 3 Start

[
P ]  Tim Robbins and Paul Giamatti Take on Trumbo in NYC, April 14

[
P ]  Frank Loesser's Obscure, Unfinished Musical, Señor Discretion, Expected at DC's Arena Stage in 2003-04

[
P ]  Hugh Panaro Dons the Mask of The Phantom Once More, April 14

[
P ]  Talk Show Watch: Eddie Izzard, Mary Stuart Masterson and Julie Andrews on "The View", Antonio Banderas on "Today"


Features:

[
B ]  Q&A: Mark Linn-Baker by Cara Joy David

[ PP ]  Musical-crafting brothers as different as Frog and Toad BY DOMINIC P. PAPATOLA

Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ BH ]  Actor enjoys career as `Superstar' Judas by Robert Nesti
Carl Anderson can't escape Judas.
Some interesting comments about Sebastian Bach.

[ NYT ]  Mocking the White House at War by ALAN COWELL
A celebrated revue called "The Madness of George Dubya" has done well on the London stage. Now the director wants to take it to America.

[ LAT ]  Retaking the lead by Irene Lacher
Stacy Keach returns, stage center, ambivalent about fame as ever.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia talks to Kate Reinders, who's currently wowing audiences as Dainty June in Gypsy.

"A Year With Frog and Toad" - Reviews:

[ YN ]  Frog and Toad Is Sweet, Charming Musical by MICHAEL KUCHWARA
Can sweet and charming survive on Broadway?

[ ND ]  For Kind 'Frog,' It's Always Leap Year by Linda Winer
Niceness is not generally considered a goal for a Broadway musical. Gentleness and civility have seldom been the definition of boffo.
In other words, when we tell you that the nicest show in town is "A Year With Frog and Toad," you would not be wrong to put this in the context of a market where high-tech and the hard sell are practically moral imperatives.

[ DN ]  Amiable tales of amphibians by Howard Kissel

[ NYP ]  'FROG' HAS LEGS by CLIVE BARNES

So will your children like it? It's worth a try - and at least you'll have a pretty good time, too.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD'
Woodland Creatures Sing, Act and Dress Well by BEN BRANTLEY

In this gentle, agreeable play based on Arnold Lobel's books, there are no acrid airs of irony, condescension or frantic salesmanship.

[ NJ ]  Fun for kids, but at a cost BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
A lighthearted little musical for kids, "A Year with Frog and Toad" comes with a heavyweight top Broadway ticket price of $90.

[ B ]  A Year with Frog and Toad Review by Adam Feldman

[ TB ]  A Year With Frog And Toad Review by Matthew Murray

[ TM ]  A Year With Frog and Toad Reviewed By: Meredith Lee

[ USA ]  'Q', 'Frog and Toad' jump age barriers by Elysa Gardner

"She Stoops To Comedy" - Reviews:

[ ND ]  In This Shellgame, Ambivalence Is No Drag by Gordon Cox
In "She Stoops to Comedy," the actor, writer and director David Greenspan does indeed play a woman - and a flamboyantly theatrical one at that - but don't expect to see him decked out in drag.

[ NYP ]  'STOOPS' ELEVATES FARCE FUN by DONALD LYONS
"She Stoops to Comedy" puts Greenspan in the front ranks of comedians - and is the best comic play of the year.

[ DN ]  This no-holds-Bard gender bender's a real tour de farce by Robert Dominguez
Playwright-actor David Greenspan takes the genderbending plot device of "Victor/Victoria" to a new level in his amusing farce "She Stoops to Comedy."

[ TM ]  She Stoops to Comedy Reviewed By: Philip Hopkins

[ B ]  She Stoops to Comedy Review by William Stevenson

[ TB ]  She Stoops To Comedy Review by Matthew Murray

Other Reviews:

[ NJ ]  Deft production with or without pauses BY PETER FILICHIA
Most productions of David Mamet's "Oleanna" only have one intermission. So why has Alliance Repertory Theatre Company in Bound Brook added a second unnecessary one in its production?

[ TB ]  Daisy Mayme Review by Matthew Murray

[ TB ]  Fiction Review by Bob Rendell

[ NYT ]  TELEVISION REVIEW | 'PLATINUM'
'Dynasty,' With a Hip-Hop Beat by ALESSANDRA STANLEY

Beneath the designer clothes and rap slang of UPN's prime-time drama about the hip-hop music scene beats the heart of a prime-time soap opera.
With Steven Pasquale.

posted at 4/14/2003 08:29:07 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Sunday, April 13, 2003

Features:

[ ND ]  Fast Chat: Jeff McCarthy

[ ND ]  Taking the First by Blake Green

The words of free-speech proponent and blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo come alive in son's new play

[ HC ]  Margulies Takes Slightly Different Track by Frank Rizzo
The people in Donald Margulies' new one-act play, "Last Tuesday," are strangers on a train.

[ NYT ]  Broadway's Favorite Subject: Itself by JESSE McKINLEY
Visit the Great White Way, and you're apt to see a show about a show.

[ NYT ]  A Man Plays a Woman, Without Any Disguise by DON SHEWEY
In "She Stoops to Comedy," David Greenspan has cast himself as the female lead and plays the role without a stitch of drag.

[ NYT ]  Famous Plays, Famous Players, Forgotten Films by RICHARD SCHICKEL
Kino, an imaginative purveyor of forgotten, fringe and cult cinema on home video, is bringing out the entire American Film Theater oeuvre in handsomely boxed sets.

[ NYT ]  EXCERPT
'Avenue Q'

Text to the song "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" from "Avenue Q," a musical with puppets.

[ NYT ]  Gone 50 Years, Hank Williams Is Back by WARREN ST. JOHN
Seven years and some 1,000 performances later, Jason Petty, the star of the Off Broadway show "Hank Williams: Lost Highway," muses over his lot.

[ P ]  CHANNELING THEATRE: Jamey Sheridan and PBS� �Broadway: The American Musical�
This month we look at the stage and TV careers of Jamey Sheridan, seen weekly as Captain Deakins on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (Sundays, 9 PM/ET, NBC), and talk to Michael Kantor and David Horn about the six-part series, "Broadway: The American Musical."

posted at 4/13/2003 08:56:38 AM by
Tim Dunleavy | Item Link



Reviews:

[ TS ]  Glorious cast anchors Nine by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
Nine is a ten.

News:

[ INQ ]  The dialogue's on theater at a program of 'salons' by Douglas J. Keating
Old City's Arden Theatre Company will bring fans, theater folk together for refreshments and chat.
One evening will include a tour of the set of "Pacific Overtures."

[ TS ]  Smoking ban turns N.Y. inside out by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
Big Apple bartenders, business owners caution Toronto to think twice about invoking similar law
Includes quotes from Angus McIndoe.

[ P ]  Columbia Broadway Masterworks Series Offers Pal Joey, House of Flowers, Candide, Anyone Can Whistle & Nine May 13

[
P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 13

[
P ]  Boston Pops Offers Tribute to Jerry Herman May 10 and 12; Concert to Be Televised

[
P ]  A Year With Frog and Toad, Bway's New Family Musical, Opens April 13

[
P ]  Gender-Bent She Stoops to Comedy Opens at Playwrights Horizons April 13

[
P ]  NYC's Adult Entertainment Ends Its Fleshly Life April 13; Regional Runs Mulled

posted at 4/13/2003 08:44:49 AM by
Tim Dunleavy | 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]

This list is compiled from various sources. If you have corrections to the Broadway Season, please contact us.

 
   


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