Saturday, May 24, 2003

Features:

[ NYT ]  DEBRIEFING
How This Cowboy Got Lost in the City by JESSE GREEN
An interview with Lonny Price, the director of "Urban Cowboy," which garnered some of the worst reviews this season.

[ NYT ]  The Sincerest Form of Self-Flattery: An Allen Crib Sheet by ALEX ABRAMOVICH
In his play "Writer's Block," Woody Allen seems to be filling in the blanks with swaths of dialogue drawn from his own films.

[ NYT ]  EXCERPT
'Kiki & Herb: Coup de Th��tre'
"I haven't felt this good since, well, since our heyday in Monaco � 1967. That's a hell of a slump."

[ R ]  Brightman Moves to Shed Diva Image by Charles Karel Bouley
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Sarah Brightman is out to shatter the public's perception of her music with her new Angel Records release, Harem.

News:

[ NYT ]  Lionel Wilson, Who Gave Voice to Tom Terrific, Dies at 79
Lionel Wilson was the voice of the characters of the "Tom Terrific" cartoons on the "Captain Kangaroo" children's television show.

[ IBDB ]  Lionel Wilson's Broadway Credits
Mr. Wilson's Times obit states "He began his career as an actor, first appearing on Broadway in 'Dodsworth' at 14." Yet the IMDB does not list him as being in "Dodsworth." It does list "Dodsworth" as having been presented on Broadway in 1934, when Mr. Wilson was ten.
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Features:

[ LAT ]  The plan was faultless� by Mel Brooks
Then a "Producers" producer starts to fret about the L.A. show. Like Bialystock, is he in too deep?

[ DN ]  Wacky, tacky Wigfield by CELIA McGEE
Three author/performers create & inhabit a make-believe town

[ NYP ]  AND THEY'RE OFF! by SARAH GILBERT
The city's off- and off-off-Broadway offerings are rich enough to satisfy even the most cash-strapped theater lover. But with so many shows, often in such short runs, it's hard to keep track.
Here's a sampler of the best cheap seats in town.

[ P ]  Tony Nominee Antonio Banderas Adds A New Guido to Nine

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'AMERICAN MAGIC'
Big Trouble for the President's Magician by WILBORN HAMPTON
Gil Kofman's "American Magic" tries to address some of the issues that are polarizing the country, but has little new to say.

[ LAT ]  A woman of love, fortitude by Daryl H. Miller
In 'Lackawanna Blues,' an actor pays tribute to his remarkable 'Nanny.'

[ TB ]  Springtime for Henry
Boston Review by Suzanne Bixby

[ LAT ]  'Our Town' remains an insightful place for a visit by Howard Rosenberg

[ WP ]  Showtime's 'Our Town': Newman's Own by Tom Shales
The play was filmed on a stage -- the stage of the Booth Theatre in New York -- but without an audience. What you get may be good theater, but it is not particularly good television; the theatrical devices have not been translated into cinematic or video devices. And so the film, premiering at 8 tonight, never gets us as close to the play as it could. It doesn't even get us very close to the actors, since a lot of it is shot from a respectful but stuffy distance.

News:

[ ND ]  B'way Musicians OK New Deal by Tania Padgett
Despite hitting a sour note with some instrumentalists, Broadway musicians finally approved a contract Friday with the League of American Theatres and Producers.

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 24

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

[ P ]  Paul Newman Our Town Airs on Television May 24

[ P ]  Broadway-Bound Brooklyn Adds Extra Performances

[ P ]  A.R.T. Hears Philip Glass-David Henry Hwang World Premiere Sound of a Voice, May 24-June 29

[ P ]  National Actors Theatre�s The Persians Begins Performances May 24
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Friday, May 23, 2003

News:

[ B ]  Look of Love Scraps Extension (Sound Familiar?)

[ TM ]  Transformations: Backstage on Broadway Photo Exhibition Will Benefit BC/EFA

Features:

[ HHW ]  Interview - Danny Burstein
Thanks to craig on All That Chat for the link!

[ B ]  Video: Chatting with 2003 Tony Nominees

[ B ]  Video: Long Day's Opening

[ B ]  Video: The Look of Love Celebrates Bacharach

[ B ]  Photo Op: Dick Latessa is Timeless to Sardi's
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Features:

[ TM ]  The Jazz Singer by: Brian Scott Lipton
Jessica Molaskey returns to Feinstein's at the Regency with hubby John Pizzarelli and family.

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: Thoughts on the Final Miz and �Idol� PLUS Diva News

[ BS ]  Working for a Song
Depending on whom one asks, traditional cabaret is either a dead or dying art form, a durable commodity, or a beleaguered stepchild to more lucrative showbiz ventures.

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hairpsray: Dick Latessa Gets His Caricature at Sardi's

[ B ]  Photo Op: Kiki and Herb and George

[ B ]  Photo Op: Rain Dance's Opening Night Bash

[ B ]  Photo Op: Party for Following Foo at (Where Else?) Ruby Foo's

[ B ]  Photo Op: New York Drama Critics Honor Their Faves

[ B ]  Photo Op: Latin Rhythms Sizzle for BC/EFA

[ B ]  Photo Op: Tony Bennett Visits Gypsy Star Bernadette Peters

Reviews:

[ TM ]  The Siegels' Nightlife Notes
Jazz artist Mary Foster Conklin sings for the Siegels' supper on a noisy Saturday night at Chez Suzette.

[ TM ]  Whose Family Values! Reviewed By: Ben Winters

News:

[ P ]  New Guest Storms the Stage of Play What I Wrote

[ P ]  PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, May 17-23: Springtime for Springer

[ P ]  Pulitzer Winner Nilo Cruz Featured Among Seattle Rep's "Hot Type" New Plays Fest, May 26-June 1

[ P ]  Mackintosh Still Sees a Fair Lady in Broadway's Future, Possibly for Early 2004

[ P ]  London�s Jermyn Street Presents English Chamber Theatre Season

[ ATW ]  Town Hall's Broadway Musicals of 1925 Survives Blizzard, Comes to Disc June 3; Returns to Stage June 23

[ ATW ]  Victor Gives 'Fiddler', 'Dolly' and 'Oliver' the Deluxe Treatment, Bonus Tracks Abound

[ ATW ]  Broadway-Bound Musical, Brooklyn, Extends Denver Stay Through June 15

[ TM ]  Boomerang to Present Henry IV in the Parks

[ TM ]  Barrett, Feldshuh, Kudisch, et al. to Salute "The Broadway Musicals of 1960"
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[ STARS ]  LESLlE UGGAMS: BEAUTY, BRAINS AND BACK ON BROADWAY IN THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE by ELLIS NASSOUR
There's one huge problem with Thoroughly Modern Millie, the 2002 Tony and Drama Desk Award-winner for Best Musical: You have to wait an hour for Leslie Uggams' spectacular entrance. But what an entrance! The set parts and there she is in a jaw-dropping white fox coat. When Uggams, in the unlikely role of 20s flapper socialite/chanteuse Muzzy Van Hossmere, opens that coat, it's almost as if time stopped. In that sequin-studded, tight-fitting black, white and silver dress she looks like she did 25 years ago.
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News:

[ P ]  Hartford Stage Next Season Has World Premiere Albee Plus Williams, Zimmerman, Parks

[ TM ]  Makor to Salute Al Hirschfeld on June 11

Reviews:

[ B ]  DVDs: Ah, Paris! by Ken Mandelbaum
LES GIRLS (Warner Home Video)
GAY PURR-EE (Warner Home Video)

Features:

[ P ]  Actors' Equity at 90
Ellen Burstyn, a former Actors' Equity Association president, looks at the past and present of the venerable actors' union.
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News:

[ NYT ]  ON STAGE AND OFF
Wouldn't It Be Luvverly? by JESSE McKINLEY
Cameron Mackintosh, who has only one measly megamusical running on Broadway, has turned his attentions to a possible revival of "My Fair Lady."

[ LAT ]  Davidson the director reemerges by Mike Boehm
In his second-to-last season, the Mark Taper Forum's leader will stage three of the six shows for 2003-04.

[ B ]  Barbour Fills in for McCarthy in Urinetown

[ P ]  Playwrights Horizons' 2003-04 Slate Has Baitz, Wright, Nottage, MacLeod and Musical Wilder

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 23

[ P ]  Bratt and Margulies Star in Robin's Intrigue With Faye at MCC, May 23-June 28

[ P ]  In a Mountain Greenery, God Paints Scenery of Adirondack Fest's Lake's End, June 18

[ P ]  Philadelphia Theatre Co. Puts Hatcher's A Picasso on Display May 23-June 22

[ P ]  London Hit Jerry Springer � The Opera a Possibility for Broadway

"Mondo Drama" - Reviews:

[ NYP ]  NO LAUGHING MATTER by DONALD LYONS
IN "Mondo Drama," Douglas Carter Beane's new comedy, three women sit in an empty movie theater and reminisce with phony nostalgia about sleazy '60s exploitation flicks like "Mondo Cane" before giving us quickie versions of updated movies.

[ YN ]  'Mondo Drama' Pays Homage to Italian Film by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
Yesterday's shock value can turn into today's camp humor.
It's something playwright Douglas Carter Beane demonstrates with mixed results in "Mondo Drama," his fitful comic homage to "Mondo Cane" and all those other schlocky Italian film documentaries of the 1960s that were more titillation than entertainment.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'MONDO DRAMA'
Life as a Freak Show of Perversions by BEN BRANTLEY
The promisingly titled new comic revue by Douglas Carter Beane should be the perfect prologue to a season of summer camp � of bad beach books and silly movies.

[ ND ]  In the Land of Mock Believe by Linda Winer
An 'audience' of three spoofs the lost genre of trash travelogues

[ NJ ]  Drama Dept. misses mark in set of satiric sketches Mondo Drama BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ DN ]  'Mondo' bizarro is a world of laughs by Robert Dominguez
American girls sold as sex slaves! A coven of witches at a black Mass! It's the shocking but not true stuff of clever spoof "shockumentary" "Mondo Drama."

[ CU ]  Mondo Drama Review

[ B ]  Mondo Drama Review by William Stevenson

[ TM ]  Mondo Drama Reviewed By: Philip Hopkins

[ ATW ]  Despite Heavy-Handed 'Message', Mondo Drama Delightfully Warped Travelogue

"Peg O' My Heart" - Reviews:

[ DN ]  'Peg,' hit of 1912, is a miss today by Howard Kissel
Few plays were as popular with American audiences early in the 20th century as J. Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart." It's not hard to understand why.

[ NYP ]  WHY IRISH EYES ARE FROWNING by DONALD LYONS
THE Irish Repertory Theatre is reviving a once famous chestnut of the American stage with mixed results.

[ CU ]  Peg O' My Heart Review

[ B ]  Peg O' My Heart Review by Katie Riegel

[ TB ]  Peg O' My Heart Review by Matthew Murray

[ TM ]  Peg O' My Heart Reviewed By: David Finkle

Other Reviews:

[ BG ]  Huntington ends season on a sunny note with 'Henry' by Ed Siegel
"Even I can't make a good play out of a bad one," says Miss Smith, one of the central characters in "Springtime for Henry." Maybe she can't, but the actress who plays her, Jessica Stone, can certainly make a good comedy out of a slightly dated one. As can the rest of the cast and crew of the Huntington Theatre Company's funny season finale.

[ BH ]  Performances make 'Springtime' sparkle by Terry Byrne
Like a glass of bubbly champagne, the Huntington Theatre Company's "Springtime for Henry" tickles and teases, making no apologies for its insubstantial nature.

[ YN ]  'Meshugah' Is a Moody Dissection of Love by JUSTIN GLANVILLE
Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist who died in 1991, never had much luck with plays.
So it's a pleasant surprise that "Meshugah," Emily Mann's adaptation of Singer's book of the same name, ends up such a winner.

[ NYP ]  TWO TROUBADOURS TRUE by BRIAN SCOTT LIPTON
KIKI, the 70-year-old lounge singer and ultimate survivor - the alter ego of the brilliant Justin Bond - has been on the New York club scene for nearly a decade, accompanied by her "gay Jewish retard" pianist, Herb (Kenny Mellman).

[ LAT ]  Renewed life in Tomlin's 'Search' by Daryl H. Miller

[ DN ]  Newman isn't just dressing by David Bianculli
Puts own stamp on Wilder, shaping a wonderful 'Town'

Features:

[ NJ ]  'Much Ado' about Hannah & her parents BY PETER FILICHIA
When Sherman Howard, Donna Bullock and their daughter Hannah open "Much Ado about Nothing" at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison next week it will be their first time on stage together -- depending on how you count.

[ DN ]  Playwright Mann gives evil the eye by CELIA McGEE
Emily Mann was introduced to the Holocaust in second grade, in a class about Jewish history.
They became enemies for life.

[ BH ]  Kuntz takes bite of Big Apple by Terry Bryrne
John Kuntz, Boston's favorite actor/playwright, is headed to New York. Kuntz, who won an award for Best Solo Show at last year's New York Fringe Festival, is returning to the city for an extended run of ``Starf@%&ers,'' at the 99-seat Ohio Theatre, 66 Wooster St., from June 4 to 29.

[ NYT ]  MY MANHATTAN
A Lifetime of Memories and Magic by WENDY WASSERSTEIN
For most New Yorkers, Central Park is our constant definition of open space, room to run and the romance of reading under a tree

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

[ P-I ]  Concern for Afghan orphans prompts new Mastrosimone play by JOE ADCOCK

[ CCT ]  Playing around with what is -- or is not -- a preview by PAT CRAIG
"The Producers."
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[ TM ]  Grand: Knowing You by Peter Filichia
Filichia recalls the plot of a Bob Merrill tuner starring Robert Preston that was lost in Boston back in '78.
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The theater world mourns the passing of Austrailian and European impressario and BroadwayStars reader Michael Rademacher. He passed away May 23 in Sydney, Australia after a long fight with esophageal cancer.

Mr. Rademacher was 50 on April 21. He was a supermodel in Australia and later Europe throughout the '70s and '80s, and became a producer in the 1990s. He formed Michael Rademacher Productions, which at first produced fashion videos, then later documentaries, films and television shows for the European and British markets primarily. He was an investor and producer of theatrical productions in Europe and Australia. His wife, Maria Rademacher, is a journalist and author.

Michael was a very unassuming person, quite modest for a person of his success and talent. He and Maria were in the states in 2000 taking meetings with composers of unproduced works while also meeting about her film in development. Michael was a fan of Broadway taking in Contact, Rocky Horror, Jane Eyre, Seussical, Swing, Aida and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife in their short trip.

Michael will be sorely missed by all those who he came in contact with. If anyone happens to catch an obit in an Australian paper, please send a link our way. Thanks.
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Thursday, May 22, 2003

Features:

[ B ]  Q&A: Jayne Atkinson by Beth Stevens

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: National Corporate Theatre Fund's 25th Anniversary Chairman's Awards Gala

News:

[ B ]  Melina Kanakaredes Comes to Cabaret June 27

[ P ]  Whoa, Little Sally! James Barbour Is Lockstock in Bway's Urinetown June 13-July 6

[ VV ]  La Dolce Musto by Michael Musto
The Tony Awards brunch.
Thanks to VanSchenck on All That Chat for the link!

[ P ]  Taylor, Higgins, Nielsen Added to Williamstown Season

[ P ]  Jack Gelber Memorial Service Set for May 28; Albee, Kopit to Speak

[ P ]  Nine Star Antonio Banderas Guests on "Late Show with David Letterman," May 22

[ P ]  Playwright Makes Acting Debut in The August Wilson Project at Seattle Rep, May 22-June 2

[ P ]  Sondheim's Company Will Play Lortel Theatre, For a Good Cause, May 29-31

[ P ]  Mamet Play Breaks West End Box-Office Records

[ P ]  June at the Duplex Cabaret to Include An Evening with Carol Channing

[ P ]  Rich, Hibbert Present Theatre Book Awards May 30

[ P ]  Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train Named Best Play in 2003 Detroit Theatre Awards

[ P ]  The Appearance What I Booked: Branagh, Foley and McColl Chat with Charlie Rose May 22

[ P ]  2003 Awards Roundup

[ P ]  Two Tony Winners Star in Reading of Dearest Cousin May 28

[ P ]  Writer�s Block Star Guests on �Regis & Kelly� May 23

[ P ]  Urinetown Star Heads to the Chatterbox May 22

[ TM ]  William H. Macy and French Stewart to Deliver Keynote Speeches at SRO Conference in L.A.

[ TM ]  Ebersole and Ivey to Star in Reading of Dearest Cousin

[ TM ]  Bat Boy and Medea Among This Season's Elliot Norton Award Winners

Reviews:

[ B ]  CDs: Breast of Peacock, Apple Pie by Ken Mandelbaum
CANDIDE (Columbia Broadway Masterworks/Sony Classical/Legacy)
HOUSE OF FLOWERS

[ TM ]  Territory Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo
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News:

[ BS ]  Tour Awards Ignore Actors
In an apparent slap at Actors' Equity Association, this year's National Broadway Theatre Awards (NBTAs) have eliminated the four best-actor honors.

[ V ]  DUELING DIVAS AT D'WORKS
Spielberg eyes 'Rivals' as a possible directing vehicle
In a seven-figure spec script buy made personally by Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks has preemptively purchased "The Rivals," a drama about the catfight between 19th century stage stars Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse.

[ B ]  Additional Casting Announced for Williamstown

[ NJ ]  Center stage by Peter Filichia
'All Over' wins Obies; 'Nurse!' in Madison; Interview with Lonny Price

[ ND ]  Host for the Tony Awards? It Had to Be Hugh by Gordon Cox

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 22

[ P ]  Drama Dept. Deals in Mondo Drama May 22, as New Beane Play Opens Off-Broadway

[ P ]  Summer of the Swans Is Theatreworks' Free Summer Play for Kids in NYC, July 16-Aug. 20

[ P ]  Go-Go's Members to Write Musical About Linda Lovelace; Off-Broadway Bow Expected in Fall

[ P ]  American Classic, Peg O' My Heart, Reinvented as New Musical in NYC, Opening May 22

[ P ]  Please Hello: Philly's Arden Stages Pacific Overtures May 22-June 22

[ P ]  Enchanted Director Helms Night of the Iguana at Hartford Stage, May 22-June 22

[ P ]  Toronto's 2003 Dora Award Nominees Include Sweeney Todd, Contact

[ P ]  Broadway Musicals � Current and Upcoming � Perform at NYC's Bryant Park This Summer

Features:

[ MH ]  Interview : Joel Schumacher
In which he confirms the casting for "Phantom of the Opera."
Thanks to notung on All That Chat for the link!

[ LAT ]  'The Producers' keeps delivering by Don Shirley
With radio ads heralding "the very best musical in theater history," people's expectations of "The Producers" may be just a little inflated.

[ BS ]  Two-Part Harmony
Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner's unique artistic collaboration is founded on never giving up the search.

[ LAT ]  Eternal song, dance by Mark Olsen
Series spotlights musicals, their quirkiness and their staying power.

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Little Shop of Horrors: Seymour and Audrey

Reviews:

[ DN ]  Ruth-lessly racy revue is fun for every-bawdy by Robert Dominguez
You don't have to know who Ruth Wallis is to appreciate her "Boobs."
Quote of the day!

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'MESHUGAH'
After the Holocaust, Devouring Life in Gulps by BRUCE WEBER
The stage adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel "Meshugah," at the Kirk Theater, is far more literary than theatrical.

[ TM ]  Meshugah Reviewed By: Brooke Pierce

[ NYT ]  Theater in Review
Reviews of "Marathon 2003, Program A," "Almost Blue" and "Territory."

[ TM ]  Almost Blue Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

[ ATW ]  Three Fine Actors Mark Their Territory Well

[ NYP ]  LANFORD'S LATEST IS ALL WET by DONALD LYONS
IF you set a play on the eve of a major historical event, you run the risk of having your drama dwarfed by the larger events that follow.

[ CU ]  Rain Dance Review

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
It's Hard Not To Like 'Gypsy'

[ MN ]  Big names bring life to lost souls by Karen D'Souza
"The Guys" is a sincere work that's not so much a play as a solemn tribute to those who fell on Sept. 11.
With Sharon Lawrence and Keith David.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!
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Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Cute sign of the day: I was walking past the Imperial Theater this evening, on my way to see Movin' Out, when I noticed a sign on the stage door, it was written in different colored markers on an 81/2 by 11 sheet of paper and it read, "You will be Mizzed!" There were some signatures on it too and unfortunately because of today's rain the colors were running. Since they already have the signs up for The Boy From Oz, it was one of the last few remnants of Les Mis.
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[ B ]  Photo Op: Au Revoir, Les Miserables!
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[ TM ]  Video Highlights from the 48th Annual Drama Desk Awards
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[ B ]  Stage Notes 05/20/03 by Paul Wontorek

[ P ]  Actors' Fund Performance of The Producers Scheduled for June 1

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: 2003 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards

[ P ]  Harvey Skips Boston Run and Heads Straight for Broadway

[ P ]  Oh, Gigi! Leslie Caron Is Guest of Honor at 42nd St. Moon Benefit Focusing on Alan Jay Lerner, June 30
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Features:

[ B ]  At This Performance: Part Two by Ken Mandelbaum

News:

[ TM ]  Show Music Showdown: Preeo vs. Goodspeed

[ P ]  Al Pacino in Talks to Play Cinematic Shylock

[ P ]  Patterson, Jennings, Cox, Roberts Cast in Julie Andrews-Directed Boyfriend

[ P ]  In the Purple: The Violet Hour at Steppenwolf Extends to June 22
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News:

[ BH ]  'Harvey' skipping Hub for invisible friends
"Harvey" isn't coming to Boston because "Harvey" needs to go right to the Big Apple.

[ V ]  Sondheim, Turner tapped at Telluride
Fest unspools Aug. 29 until Sept. 1 by PHIL GALLO
Composer Stephen Sondheim will be guest director and Ted Turner will receive the silver medallion at the 30th Telluride Film Festival. "Far Side" cartoonist Gary Larson will design the poster.

[ V ]  BROKAW BAGS BARD BUCKS
Pacino in talks for key role of Shylock
Producer Cary Brokaw has secured financing for a $25 million-$30 million feature version of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." Pic is being penned and will be directed by "Il Postino" helmer Michael Radford.

[ HC ]  Theater Magazine Center Of Fight by FRANK RIZZO
It's Goodspeed Vs. Founder

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 21

[ P ]  Intrigue Begins May 23, With Margulies and Bratt Headlining MCC Run Off-Bway

[ P ]  Walter and Jean Kerr's Larchmont House on Sale

[ P ]  Burstyn and Moriber Sing Bob Merrill's Prince of Grand Street May 29-June 2

[ P ]  Audra, Callaway Sisters, Gravitte & Kennedy Sing on the Hudson's Edge in Westchester Benefit June 28

"Rain Dance" - Reviews:

[ DN ]  Wilson's A-bomb play a dramatic dud by Robert Dominguez
A potentially explosive premise ends up fizzling in "Rain Dance," Lanford Wilson's talky drama about the dawning of the atomic age.

[ NJ ]  Wilson premiere lacks a nuclear payoff BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'RAIN DANCE'
There's No Silver Lining in a Mushroom Cloud by BEN BRANTLEY
Lanford Wilson's elegiac play, set on the eve of the first atomic bomb test, is filled with a quiet anger that erupts a few times too many from the urge to overexplain itself.

[ ND ]  Engineering the Approach of Clouds by Linda Winer
Science and ceremony meet at the birth of the nuclear age

[ ATW ]  Rain Dance Waiting for an Explosion That Never Comes

[ TM ]  Rain Dance Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ VV ]  Mixed Blessings
Even When Theater's Bad, It Has Ways of Making Good by Michael Feingold
Rain Dance; Romola and Nijinsky; Woody Allen's Writer's Block

Other Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND'
Back to a World in Which Weirdness Seemed Unusual by BRUCE WEBER
What does it say that Eric Bogosian's determinedly eerie monologue, which he wrote and first performed in the early 1990's, feels so tame and dated today?

[ NYT ]  Theater in Review
Reviews of "Down a Long Road," "West Pier" and "American Dreams: Lost and Found."

[ USA ]  Rabe's 'Monk' goes Chekhov one better by Elysa Gardner
Sentimental new drama links Anton Chekhov and David Rabe.

Features:

[ LAT ]  Saved and staged by Don Shirley
One woman made the difference, taking in Ruben Santiago-Hudson as a child. His one-actor, one-guitarist play celebrates her gift.

[ VV ]  The Plays What They Wrote by Alexis Soloski
The Best Scripts Not Yet Mounted on a New York Stage

[ VV ]  Beyond Neurosis by Charles McNulty
What Kind of Political Theater Are We Really After?

[ P ]  Movin' Out's Michael Cavenaugh Sings His Way to Tony Award Nomination

[ P ]  Urban Cowboy's Honky Tonk Dances Not a Stretch for Former Ballerina Melinda Roy
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[ TM ]  The 2002-2003 Theatre World Awards By Peter Filichia
How Tammy Blanchard and 14 other newcomers were chosen as winners of Theatre World Awards this year.

[ NYP ]  TONYS ARE IN A BILLY JOEL 'STATE OF MIND' By MICHAEL RIEDEL
LOOKS like Billy Joel will indeed open the Tony Awards. He'll sing "New York State of Mind" and then the cast of "Movin' Out" will perform its musical segment, which Twyla Tharp will choreograph especially for television. That should give the show a nice boost at the box office.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2003

Features:

[ TM ]  We Can Do It! by: Michael Buckley
Lewis J. Stadlen and Don Stephenson are Broadway's new Bialystock & Bloom in The Producers.

[ R ]  Actor Hoffman Toils for Truth in Broadway Play by Larry Fine

[ BS ]  The Cold Truth
Does cold submitting ever lead to your play getting produced by an L.A. theatre company?

News:

[ TM ]  Papp Fund to Honor George Segal
For $500 a ticket, he better be playing his banjo...

[ B ]  Patterson Lands Lead in Bay Street Boy Friend

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Au Revoir

[ P ]  Liz Callaway and Amour Cast Album on "Radio Playbill" May 19-25

[ P ]  On a Shoestring Budget, NYC's Musicals Tonight! Serves Porter, Kern, Rodgers, Hart in 2003-04

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: May 12-18

[ P ]  Connection Playwright Jack Gelber Dead at 71

[ P ]  Medea, Fiona Shaw, ART and Baile Gall Win 2003 Norton Awards in Boston

[ P ]  Ben Gazzara Is Yogi Berra in Bay Street Play, Beginning May 20

[ P ]  Goodspeed Musicals Will Return Show Music Magazine to Founder Max O. Preeo

Reviews:

[ YN ]  'Rain Dance' Is a Slight Sermon by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
This talky, four-character drama, which closes the Signature Theatre Company's season-long salute to Wilson, is set specifically on July 15, 1945, in Los Alamos, N.M., as testing of the bomb is about to get under way.

[ B ]  Rain Dance Review by William Stevenson

[ TM ]  Boobs! The Musical Reviewed By: Adam Klasfeld

[ PS ]  'A Class Act': Better than Broadway! by Brad Hathaway
Potomac Stages finds that Linda Kline and Lonny Price's Bio/Tribute to Ed Kleban works better in the 200-seat Studio Theatre in DC than it did in the 1,125 seat Ambassador Theatre on Broadway.
Thanks to Brad for the link!

[ TB ]  A Class Act Washington Review by Tracy Lyon

[ ATW ]  'April' An Enchanting Month for Certain Audiences
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Reviews:

[ B ]  Did FL Critics Eat Up B'way-Bound Little Shop?

[ B ]  CDs: That Terrific Rainbow by Ken Mandelbaum
PAL JOEY (Columbia Broadway Masterworks/Sony Classical/Legacy)
ENCORES FROM ENCORES! (DRG)

Features:

[ P ]  Brian Dennehy Talks About Acting Nightly with "An Electrical Storm"

News:

[ P ]  Call Her Savage: Burnett Vehicle, Fade Out � Fade In, Finally on CD May 20

[ P ]  New Guest at Broadway's Play What I Wrote Takes Shape

[ P ]  Report: Aladdin Technician Dies from Fall

[ P ]  Brent Barrett to Return to Broadway's Chicago on June 2

[ P ]  Classical Theater of Harlem's Hit The Blacks May Reopen in Fall

[ P ]  Mol, Bierko, Kurtz Join Cast of Intrigue With Faye at MCC, May 21-June 28
posted at 5/20/2003 12:43:28 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

News:

[ V ]  'APRIL,' 'BOHEME' GET A BOUNCE FROM TONY
Noms lead to spring fling for Broadway B.O.
The Tony nominations helped to jolt Broadway out of its spring stupor. For the first time in weeks, the overall tally set a record. Thirty-two shows brought in $15,741,267, an increase of $1,807,892 or 13% from the previous week.

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
Upcoming guests at "The Play What I Wrote" (second item).

[ NYP ]  I'M NO DRUNK, BILLY INSISTS by MICHAEL STARR and RITA DELFINER
He's famous for "a bottle of white, a bottle of red," and pop star Billy Joel is now singing that he's "an alcohol abuser" - but insists he's no alcoholic.

[ BH ]  Norton Awards lauds namesake, best of Hub theater by Terry Byrne
Tony Award-winning actor Brian Dennehy joined more than 500 people last night to celebrate the 21st annual Elliot Norton Awards at the newly renovated Cutler Majestic Theatre.

[ BG ]  Norton's 100th is a winning event by Maureen Dezell
Elliot Norton couldn't make the trip from Florida to Boston for last night's celebration of his 100th birthday at the Cutler Majestic Theatre.

[ DN ]  Obies give Voice to Off-B'way's best
Avant-garde playwright Mac Wellman received a lifetime achievement Obie Award last night while dozens of Off-Broadway productions were recognized by the Village Voice.

[ NJ ]  Missing 'Les Mis': Broadway gives long-running musical an emotional farewell BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

Features:

[ P-I ]  A moment with...playwright August Wilson by JOE ADCOCK
Thanks to American Theater Web for this link, and for the "Little Shop" review below.

Reviews:

[ SS ]  Plant Prowess by Jack Zink
The hippest creature feature of all, Little Shop of Horrors, lumbered onto the Miracle Theatre stage last week, its jive-talkin' botanical bully fattened to nearly-Godzilla proportions. The extra weight is uncomfortable and clumsy for now but the show will be on its feet and limbered up soon enough.

[ ND ]  An Eye-Opener of a Work About Catching Z's by Gordon Cox
"Molly's Dream" is full of surprises from the start.

[ CU ]  Molly's Dream Review

[ NYP ]  'HUMBLE' STUMBLES by DONALD LYONS
SEEING "Humble Boy," the new English play written by Charlotte Jones and directed by John Caird, is like being trapped on a long flight with only a copy of that boring Brit novel you've been putting off reading.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'HUMBLE BOY'
A Funeral Draws a Son Home, to Joan Collins by BRUCE WEBER
In her new play, Charlotte Jones has built a soap-operatic setup that seems to be a benign though terribly presumptuous echo of "Hamlet."

[ WP ]  'A Class Act': Eulogy in a Minor Key by Peter Marks
We should all have pals as steadfast as Edward Kleban's.
posted at 5/20/2003 07:53:35 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

News:

[ YN ]  Disney Technician Dies After Fall
IRVINE, Calif. - A technician who fell 42 feet last month while testing special effects for the stage version of Disney's animated film "Aladdin," has died, officials said.

[ P ]  Ed Norton, Rosemary Harris, BAM, Talking Heads Among 2003 Off-Broadway Obie Awards Winners

[ B ]  2003 Obie Award Winners Announced

[ B ]  Oops! Shaw Out, Blanchard In for Theatre World

[ P ]  Banderas, Selya, Winokur Among Winners of Theatre World Awards

[ TM ]  Theatre World Award Recipients Announced

[ B ]  Brent Barrett Returns to Chicago June 2

[ WP ]  Curtain Call For 'Les Miz'
Broadway Run Ends, but The Show Will Go On and On by Paula Span
They cheered the first note of the overture.
They screamed after every four-bar solo sung by every raggedy convict in the opening number.
They rose in a standing ovation for "One Day More" -- and it wasn't even intermission yet.
After intermission, they cheered the set.

[ BS ]  Director Tapped as First-Ever Ockrent Fellow
The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF) has selected Adam Belcuore, an early-career director from Chicago, as the first recipient of the Mike Ockrent Fellowship in Musical Theatre.

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 20

[ P ]  Lanford Wilson's Rain Dance Makes NYC Debut Starring James Van Der Beek, May 20

[ P ]  Tom Cavanagh of TV's "Ed" Joins Bway's Urinetown May 20

[ P ]  Don Stephenson Joins Bway's The Producers May 20

[ P ]  "West Wing," "Spin City," "Oz" Stars Join Cast of Off-Broadway's Exonerated

[ P ]  Casting Announced for Summer Run of Prince and the Pauper, Starting June 4 in NYC

[ P ]  Cowboy Choreographer Melinda Roy Teams With Tommy Tune for High-Seas Musical

[ P ]  The Boy for Tony: Hugh Jackman to Host the 2003 Tony Awards

[ B ]  The Host from Oz: Hugh Jackman Set for Tonys

Reviews:

[ MH ]  'Little Shop' on its way to bigger stage BY CHRISTINE DOLEN
Despite a trio of technical glitches at Friday's opening, the stars are well on their way to Broadway-scale performances.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ NYT ]  CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
Future as Prologue in Two New Dramas by BEN BRANTLEY
Current takes on past visions of the future come from two of this country's most exciting playwrights, August Wilson, whose "Gem of the Ocean" recently opened at the Goodman Theater, and Richard Greenberg, whose "Violet Hour" has been staged by the Steppenwolf Theater Company.

[ NY ]  The Culture Business
Get Real by Jeremy Gerard
The eight Tony nominees for Best New Play and Musical prove nothing if not this: Broadway is more escapist than ever. It�s been a long time since Angels in America.

[ NJ ]  Smoke, mirrors and holes in the plot BY PETER FILICHIA
Oh, for the days when the Bickford Theatre did a comedy-mystery like "Deathtrap"!

[ YN ]  Play 'Humble Boy' Is Full of Pleasures by MICHAEL KUCHWARA
You can hear the buzz and almost feel the sting.

[ NJ ]  'Boy' loses something during crossing BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

Features:

[ TM ]  Photo File
The stars smile as photographers snap away at the Drama Desk Awards and its attendant events.

[ P ]  What a Swell Party Jim Is
�I�ve invited Fay Wray,� says Jim Caruso, �but she�s yet to come. Still,� adds the singer/comedian and weekly host of Jim Caruso�s Cast Party Monday nights at The Supper Club�s King Kong Room in midtown Manhattan, �I�ve got a friend working on her. So,� he sighs, �we�re hoping!�

[ P ]  Nine Nominee Jane Krakowski "Calls" in a Showstopping Performance

[ BS ]  Stage & Screen Closes the Book... and its Doors
To what extent there is a loss of audience for plays is debatable, but some publishing insiders weighed in with a gloomy spin when Stage & Screen Book Club recently announced it was closing shop in July.

[ ND ]  Photos: "Les Miserables" Bids Adieu

[ B ]  Photo Op: Stars Shine at 2003 Drama Desk Awards

[ B ]  Photo Op: Cowboy Rides Into the Sunset

[ B ]  Photo Op: Woody Allen's Block Party

[ B ]  Photo Op: On Their Toes: the TDF/Astaire Awards
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Monday, May 19, 2003

This just in: The host of this year's Tony Awards will be none other than Hugh Jackman.
posted at 5/19/2003 03:39:57 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

News:

[ B ]  2002-2003 Theatre World Awards Announced

[ P ]  Rosemary Harris Joins Cast of Hollywood Bowl My Fair Lady Concert

[ P ]  Phylicia Rashad Premieres One-Woman Show Here's to Life at Syracuse, May 19

[ P ]  "Jaws" Star Roy Scheider Plays Trumbo Off-Broadway, May 19

[ P ]  Mantegna, Danner, Light and More Part of New CBS-TV Season

[ P ]  Get Well Soon, Frog: Jay Goede Misses Frog and Toad Performances

Reviews:

[ B ]  Were Critics Wowed by Richardson in Sea?

[ TM ]  Humble Boy Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ TM ]  Tunes, Tomes, & Videos
Charles Wright critiques fellow critic Jonathan Kalb's Play by Play, a new collection of essays and theater reviews.
posted at 5/19/2003 03:10:07 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ B ]  At This Performance: Part One by Ken Mandelbaum
Randy Graff has been mentioned as a strong possibility for the role of Golde in the upcoming Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof.

[ P ]  Mason, McSweeney, Hortua Lined Up for Cape Cod Theatre Project, July 10-26

[ P ]  Hearts Full of Love: Curtain Rings Down Les Miz,Bringing Tears � and Teens

[ P ]  Sherie Rene Scott Explores the Landscape of the Body at Williamstown, July 9-20

[ P ]  �Paradisco� � with Anthony Rapp and JérômePradon � Screened in NYC June 11

[ P ]  Karen Akers Brings �Theatre Songs� to Several Cities This Summer
posted at 5/19/2003 12:33:57 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

"Les Miserables":

[ ND ]  Much Adieu as 'Les Miz' Closes by Gordon Cox
Amid confetti, reunions and several rounds of "One Day More," "Les Mis�rables" played its final performance on Broadway last night, closing after a run of more than 16 years.

[ DN ]  'Les Miz' takes final bows by PATRICIA O'HAIRE and BILL HUTCHINSON
The cast of "Les Mis�rables" bid au revoir to Broadway last night after a 16-year run and more than $410 million in ticket sales.

Features:

[ NYT ]  Opening in Chicago, a Wave of the New by STEPHEN KINZER
An extraordinary season of world premiere theater is under way in Chicago, reflecting a deep pool of dramatic talent and a willingness to try new work.

[ NYT ]  A Song in His Psyche, as Hummable as Fame by ROBIN POGREBIN
Maury Yeston, who wrote the music and lyrics for the musical "Nine," knows better than to make too much of his recent success.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
From Merrily to Master Harold, director (and sometime actor) Lonny Price has had one busy season.

[ B ]  Photo Op: First Pitch for Broadway Show League

News:

[ NYT ]  Jeremy Sandford, 72, Playwright Concerned With Homelessness
Jeremy Sandford, whose 1967 television play "Cathy Come Home" made homelessness the subject of a national debate in Britain, died on Monday.

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
He's Finally Going To Do Broadway

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
Tovah Feldshuh (last item).

[ P ]  Haran�s Shining Hour at NYC�s Oak Room Set for May 27-June 28

[ P ]  Joseph Papp Children�s Humanitarian Fund Gala Honors Stage/Film Star Segal May 28

[ P ]  Gypsy Tony Nominee Blanchard Gets New Co-star Every 3 Weeks

[ P ]  Middle-Age Blues Sung in New Musical, It's About Time, Tested in NYC Readings May 19-20

[ P ]  Woodard, Irwin Host Off-Broadway Obie Awards May 19; Albee, Plimpton, Izzard Present

[ P ]  The Great Latin Way: Bway's Banderas, Rivera, Esparza and Rubin-Vega Sing "Latin Rhythms," May 19

[ P ]  Musicals Tonight! Troupe Honors Veteran Bway Actor George S. Irving May 19 in NYC

[ P ]  Myler Directs NYC Reading of Musical Immigrant, a Regional Hit, May 19-20

[ P ]  Talk Show Watch: Antonio Banderas on "Letterman", Paul Reiser on "Regis"

[ NYP ]  DRAMA DESK TIE FOR TOP AWARD by MICHAEL RIEDEL
GUIDO Contini, philandering filmmaker of "Nine," has a new woman in his life: Edna Turnblad, fat housewife of "Hairspray."

[ DN ]  'Hairspray' holds Drama Desk prizes
'Hairspray," the musical starring Harvey Fierstein in drag, was the big winner last night when the Drama Desk gave out its awards.

"Humble Boy" - Reviews:

[ DN ]  Bard'n me, this plot is on Shakey ground by Robert Dominguez
To bee or not to bee is just one of several philosophical questions pondered by the befuddled hero of "Humble Boy," an uneven comedy-drama by British playwright Charlotte Jones. The play borrows liberally from "Hamlet."

[ ND ]  Cheering Up That Downer of a Melancholy Dane by Gordon Cox
What if Hamlet were an astrophysicist?

[ TB ]  Humble Boy Review by Matthew Murray

[ B ]  Humble Boy Review by William Stevenson

[ ATW ]  Humble Boy Stumbles in Crossing the Atlantic

Other Reviews:

[ NYP ]  'MESHUGAH' TRUE AND 'THIRD MAN' 1ST-RATE by DONALD LYONS
NOVELS adapted for the stage need to grasp the central aspect of the original without giving us a sprawling, crowded tale.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'CAVEDWELLER'
The Power of Sisterhood in the Rural South by BRUCE WEBER
"Cavedweller," a play about a family of women in Georgia, has many of the qualities, both pleasingly sweet and annoyingly saccharine, of movies like "Steel Magnolias."

[ NYT ]  In Performance
'Kiki & Herb: Coup de Th��tre'
'Broadway by Year'

[ NYer ]  LAUGHTER IN THE DARK by JOHN LAHR
Woody Allen on the killer instinct.

[ ATW ]  'Dream' Turns American Romance Upside Down

[ ATW ]  Simple, Elegant, Pericles Enchants

[ ATW ]  Emotional Whole Not Made from Gypsy's Sublime Parts
posted at 5/19/2003 08:01:09 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ V ]   Real-life Killer by DAVID ROONEY,�CATHY DUNKLEY
Gotham-based indie Killer Films is shopping a slate of projects to financiers here, including features from Todd Haynes, Dan Minahan, Tom Kalin, George C. Wolfe, Mary Harron, Bruce Wagner and newcomer Phyllis Nagy.
Hmmm... George C. Wolfe.

Other observations from Cannes, lots of musical films being presented here (out of competition) suggesting that we may see more of them on the big screen. Also, many of creative types are talking/looking about the new (old?) market where development of picture projects are both for stage and screen. This could actually cause a reverse effect -- bringing talent to stage rather than the vice versa. Could the choice of music over the sound system in the pavilion area be subliminal: all show tunes. Hmmmm...
posted at 5/19/2003 03:06:31 AM by James Marino | Item Link

Sunday, May 18, 2003

[ TM ]  2003 Drama Desk Award Winners Announced
As expected, Hairspray proved major competition, capturing 10 awards out of its 14 nominations, including the award for Outstanding Musical. While Marissa Jaret Winokur won for her leading performance, her onstage father, Harvey Fierstein, had to share his award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical with Antonio Banderas of Nine.

[ P ]  Hairspray Cleans Up at Drama Desk Awards; Take Me Out Is Outstanding Play
Hairspray was the big winner at the 2003 Drama Desk Awards. It won ten prizes including Outstanding Musical, Actor, Actress, Featured Actor, Direction, Lyrics, Music, Book, Costume Design and Orchestrations.

[ B ]  Hairspray Wins Drama Desk; Musical Actor Tie

posted at 5/18/2003 11:48:55 PM by Susan Heim | Item Link

"Les Miserables":

[ NYT ]  OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Javert's Hunt Comes to an End by IAIM MCCALMAN
How a sappy Broadway musical about early 19th-century France changed American culture.

[ TS ]  Les Miz closes on Broadway by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
Story of survival of the human spirit strikes chord
Includes an interview with Mackintosh about the show's past, present and future.

[ YN ]  Mackintosh Bids 'Adieu' to 'Les Miz' by MATT WOLF
LONDON - Cameron Mackintosh will bid "adieu" Sunday to his Broadway production of "Les Miserables," but the British producer says the imminent departure of a musical fondly known as "The Glums" has not got him down.

[ YN ]  The Legacy of 'Les Miserables' Lives on by MICHAEL KUCHWARA
ROCKY HILL, Conn. - It's the big, first-act finale of "Les Miserables," and director Liz Daigle is urging her cast of young French revolutionaries onward.

Reviews:

[ HC ]  Bleak `Monk' At Yale Rep by MALCOLM JOHNSON
Sam Waterston Stars In Sepulchral Take On Chekhov

[ NYT ]  Melissa Errico, Bourgeois Diva by JOHN ROCKWELL
Melissa Errico has a beautiful voice: earthy at the bottom and effortlessly rising into an ethereal soprano, with a shimmering vibrato delicately applied.

[ INQ ]  Where have all the monsters gone? by David Patrick Stearns
Changing times and tastes shrink the outsized roles in two Broadway revivals.

Features:

[ HC ]  Brighten Up The Great Gray Way
Tony Awards Telecast Could Benefit By Recruiting New, Hot Talents by Frank Rizzo
It could be one of the coolest Tony Awards shows in years. So why am I dreading watching it again?

[ BG ]  Getting silly with 'Henry' by Maureen Dezell
"Springtime for Henry" is billed as a British farce.
With Jessica Stone and Christopher Fitzgerald. (Plus some news of their upcoming wedding!)

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

[ PPG ]  CMU graduate revels in Broadway cast of 'Enchanted April' by Christopher Rawson
Dagmara Dominczyk is having an adventure. Just five years out of Carnegie Mellon, the 26-year-old is on Broadway, playing the striking, somewhat scandalous Lady Caroline in Matthew Barber's "Enchanted April."

[ SS ]  Audrey gets a revamp for Broadway-bound revival of Little Shop of Horrors by Jack Zink

[ MH ]  Play's cast, producers feted at Biltmore Hotel by Bea Moss
Guests at a lavish reception and theater party last weekend at the Biltmore Hotel got a peek inside the doors of Little Shop of Horrors, a musical about a scary, tiny plant that can't get enough to eat.

[ ST ]  August Wilson makes leap from playwright to thespian by Misha Berson
The Seattle-based playwright, who turned 58 in April, will debut his first one-man show, officially known as "The August Wilson Project," at Seattle Repertory Theatre's "Hot Type: New Works" festival on Thursday.

[ MN ]  `Mamma Mia!' star no closet ABBA fan by Karen D'Souza
Monique Lund Likes The Energy Of The Score
posted at 5/18/2003 12:17:38 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Features:

[ ND ]  Hurts So Good by Linda Winer
If the list of Tony Award nominations is making your brain feel too close to your skull, I feel your pain.

[ NYT ]  How an Onstage Garden Grows by DEBORAH NEEDLEMAN
To see a stunning example of the latest in English horticulture, one need travel only as far as Midtown to the set of "Humble Boy" at the Manhattan Theater Club.

[ NYT ]  When Chekhov Had a Bad Dream by CELIA WREN
Sam Waterston stars in David Rabe's adaptation of "The Black Monk," a little-known Chekhov story, at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven.

[ NYT ]  EXCERPT
'Public Places,' a Theater Life
In her memoir, "Public Places: My Life in the Theater, With Peter O'Toole and Beyond," the Welsh actress Sian Phillips describes the hard-drinking Irish-born actor who would become her second husband.

[ R ]  Pop Stars Shine on Broadway by Carla Hay
NEW YORK (Billboard) - They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway.
Just ask Elton John, Toni Braxton, or former teen queen Deborah Gibson. These days, they're basking in the electric glow.

[ P ]  ON THE RECORD: House of Flowers and Candide

News:

[ P ]  Kurt Deutsch and Aida�s Sherie Rene Scott Among Panel for June 7 In Stereophonic Sound

[ P ]  Urban Cowboy Rides Off: Broadway Musical Closes, May 18

[ P ]  Drama Desk Awards To Be Announced May 18; Chita Rivera Hosts

[ P ]  Happily Ever After: Tony n' Tina's Wedding Closes Off-Broadway, May 18

[ P ]  Charlotte Jones' Hamlet-Inspired Humble Boy Opens at MTC May 18

[ P ]  Dead Serious Goes Stone Cold Off-Broadway May 17

[ P ]  No Day More: Les Miz Ends Its 16-Year Broadway Run May 18

[ P ]  The Costumes! The Cost! The Gross! What Every Les Miz Fanatic Needs to Know
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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]

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TBA - The Philadelphia Story

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TBA - The Princess Bride

TBA - Princesses [Lane, Comley]

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TBA - Robin Hood

TBA - Secondhand Lions

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TBA - Starry Messenger

TBA - Syncopation

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TBA - Torch Song Trilogy

TBA - Turn of the Century

TBA - West Side Story

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TBA - Will Rogers Follies [Cossette]

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