Saturday, October 25, 2003

"Taboo" and "The Violet Hour":

[ NYP ]  ROSIE'S THORNY SPAT by MICHAEL RIEDEL
One of the sexy young stars of the troubled Broadway musical "Taboo" stormed out of rehearsals after clashing with the show's producer, Rosie O'Donnell.

[ FOX ]  Rosie's Boy George Musical: The Next 'Rent?' by Roger Friedman
Is it possible that Rosie O'Donnell has a Broadway hit on her hands?

[ NYT ]  'Taboo' Delays Previews 4 Days
Plus Jasmine Guy's departure.

[ NYP ]  'BIZARRE' JASMINE SHRINKS FROM 'VIOLET' by MICHAEL RIEDEL
TV star Jasmine Guy has withdrawn from the new Broadway play "The Violet Hour" after a disastrous night onstage - when she forgot many of her lines, mangled the names of other characters and often appeared "vacant" and "listless." She was replaced midway through Thursday night's performance by her understudy, Robin Miles, who yesterday got the lead.
Guy left the production for "medical reasons," the show's press agent said.

[ P ]  Jasmine Guy Exits Violet Hour for Medical Reasons; Robin Miles Assumes Role

[ B ]  Understudy Replaces Violet Hour's Jasmine Guy

[ TM ]  Robin Miles Replaces Jasmine Guy in The Violet Hour

Features:

[ B ]  CDs: Gentlemen Still Prefer Blondes by Ken Mandelbaum
I hear that Wayne Cilento is back as choreographer of the forthcoming Sweet Charity revival.
CD: LORELEI (Decca Broadway)

[ ND ]  Ding! Ding! The Witches Aren't Dead by Blake Green
They're roommates at the Wizard School, and in this new version of Oz the story takes off from there

[ B ]  Photo Op: Wicked Bewitches Herald Square

[ BSUN ]  Becoming a dame by J. Wynn Rousuck
Barry Humphries gave life to Edna, who's made a rhinestoned spectacle of herself ever since. To him, it's lady luck. To her, it's only fitting.

[ BG ]  A spritz of confidence by Catherine Foster
Carly Jibson is a lot like her `Hairspray' character

[ BG ]  Playwright delves into dark side of dating with 'Boy Gets Girl' by Catherine Foster
Rebecca Gilman.

[ BSUN ]  Gregory Harrison brings a veteran's savvy to the Lyric stage by Donna M. Owens

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Kathleen Marshall
On Nov. 5, with the first preview of Wonderful Town, Kathleen Marshall will enter a rarified club peopled by Susan Stroman, her own brother Rob Marshall and just a few others; she will become a Broadway director-choreographer.

[ P ]  Ramin Karimloo Chats About Role in London Phantom

[ LAT ]  A bolt for L.A. by Paul Lieberman
Michael Ritchie earned his calluses backstage before leading a company, experience he brings to Center Theatre Group.

[ LAT ]  Tailor-made for Broadway by Barbara Isenberg
The costumes that designer William Ivey Long creates aren't just for show. In many instances they make the show. Perhaps that's why he's swamped just now.

[ FW ]  All about Ethel by Perry Stewart
The spirit of the legendary Ethel Merman, right, possesses the singers in the new show I Got Merman.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link.

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Ben Chaplin at the Opening Night Party for The Retreat from Moscow

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Eileen Atkins at the Opening Night party for The Retreat from Moscow

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Lithgow and Nicholson celebrate The Retreat from Moscow

Reviews:

[ HC ]  Yale Rep's `Dahlia' Blacker Than The Dickens by MALCOLM JOHNSON
Modeled On `Nicholas Nickleby,' Play About L.A. Murder Comes Across As Endlessly Grim

[ TB ]  A Little Princess
Review by Matthew Murray

[ B ]  Were Critics Roused by The Retreat from Moscow?

[ NJ ]  Chilling portrait of a breakup BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
Anyone whose marriage may be in trouble might think twice about seeing "The Retreat from Moscow," which opened last night at the Booth Theatre.

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
A second opinion on The Boy From Oz, a review of Crystal Gayle, and a report on the continuing Cabaret Convention.

[ TM ]  Tunes, Tomes, & Videos
Stritch redux: Brooke Pierce has a terrific time with Image Entertainment's new DVD of Elaine Stritch at Liberty.

[ CU ]  Listen To My Heart
Review

[ CU ]  Golda's Balcony
Review

[ CU ]  Thoroughly Modern Millie
London Review

News:

[ ST ]  Intiman Theatre plans temporary staff layoffs
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link.

[ TM ]  Anything But Love Screening on October 27 to Benefit MAC Outreach Fund

[ TM ]  McDonald, Cerveris, et al. "Make Believe" for Charity

[ P ]  Channing, Minnelli, Ripley, Garber and More Sing Happy Oct. 25

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 25

[ P ]  Berlind Shorts�Featuring Works by Cruz, Albee and Bogosian�to Star Loesser, Ferguson and Times' Weber

[ P ]  Nude Paintings, Alleged Rape Stir Jordan Drama Tatjana in Color, Starting Oct. 25

[ P ]  Joanna Gleason, and Judy Garland Tribute, Spice Gay Men's Chorus Season in Los Angeles

[ ATW ]  Bayview Records Releases Broadway Musicals of 1939 Oct. 27

[ P ]  Musical Cupid and Psyche Will Wing to Off-Bway Run in 2004

[ P ]  Broadway's Confederate Widow Burstyn Presents Photos in NYC Gallery Debut, Oct. 27

[ P ]  Sondheim's A Little Night Music May See the Stage at Los Angeles Opera in July 2004

[ B ]  Burt Reynolds Eyes a Return to B'way in Pitch

[ P ]  New Nine Star Eartha Kitt Appears on "Weekend Today," Oct. 25

[ P ]  Museum Politics Black and White in World Premiere, Permanent Collection, Oct. 24 in Philly

[ P ]  Langella and Rossellini Headline in McNally's Stendhal Syndrome at Primary Stages

[ P ]  Is Burt Reynolds Headed to Broadway?

[ P ]  Will Manheim and Blethyn Play 'night, Mother on Broadway?

[ P ]  All-Star Recording of Hedwig and the Angry Inch Now Available

[ P ]  Alice Ripley to Star in World Premiere of New Invalid Adaptation

[ P ]  "Theater Talk" Features Retreat From Moscow Star Oct. 24

[ P ]  Paper Mill Allergist's Wife Casts Its Allergist

[ LAT ]  Theater's top dogs don't tax the payroll by Don Shirley
ARTS NOTES: Michael Healey's "The Drawer Boy" has topped American Theatre magazine's annual list of the most scheduled plays for the coming season in the nation's resident theaters.
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Friday, October 24, 2003

[ B ]  Photo Op: An Opening Night Celebration for Moscow
It's time for me to turn back into an English major for a moment...
The caption here reads "Brian Stokes Mitchell and expectant wife Allyson Tucker." Sorry, but "expectant" is not a synonym for "pregnant." An expectant mother is someone who expects to become a mother - i.e., a pregnant woman. An expectant wife is someone who expects to become a wife! And Allyson Tucker has been a wife for some time now!!
OK, I better calm down now... it's just a caption... :-)
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I can't wait to see Raul Esparza in Taboo! Or -- will I have to wait...?
posted at 10/24/2003 06:10:15 PM by James Marino | Item Link

This just in: Robin Miles has officially replaced Jasmine Guy in the MTC The Violet Hour, for medical reasons. The show's scheduled opening date of November 6 will stay unchanged.
posted at 10/24/2003 05:48:27 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link

[ STARS ]  Tovah Feldshuh: Portrayer Of �Heroic� Women Tackles The Many Facets Of Golda Meir by Ellis Nassour

[ Y ]  Barilla Commissions New Recipe in Honor of the Broadway Musical 'Nine'
Barilla Honors 'Nine' Composer and Lyricist Maury Yeston at The 2003 Barilla Feast for Celebrating and Advancing Italian Culture
I am still waiting for a Sweeney Todd cookbook.

[ SF ]  Shift to online sales leads to Ticketmaster job cuts
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[ NYP ]  IT'S BULLETS OVER B'WAY by MICHAEL RIEDEL
THIS Wednesday at noon in Times Square, Hugh Jackman and a few hundred chorus kids will fire off the opening salvo of yet another labor battle that could shut down the Great White Way.
Jackman, star of "The Boy From Oz," will host an Actors' Equity rally protesting the proliferation of non-union tours of Broadway shows.

[ NYT ]  ON STAGE AND OFF
Picking Up Steam by JASON ZINOMAN
Isabella Rossellini will star in her first play in New York in January.

"The Retreat From Moscow" - Reviews:

[ DN ]  A brilliant battle on the home front by Howard Kissel
The subtlety of the writing and the incendiary skill of its three-person cast make Nicholson's work a truly devastating piece of theater.

[ YN ]  'Retreat' Takes Look at Marriage Collapse by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
There is some heartfelt writing here, and the evening is helped immeasurably by its strong cast, particularly the incandescent Eileen Atkins who portrays an abandoned wife.

[ USA ]  'Moscow': A pitched battle, but actors triumph in the end by Elysa Gardner

[ NYP ]  MARRIAGE'S STALE MATES by CLIVE BARNES
The trouble with the play is that it is too much like a play, or, worse, rather like a schematic situation in a novel. It's painful, and despite neat touches of gallows humor, it's harrowing, but not totally lifelike.

[ ND ]  Feeling Their Pain by Linda Winer
A pair of pros can't make divorce drama come alive

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW'
Here Lies the Ruin of a Love by BEN BRANTLEY
Despite the strong work of three talented performers, an emotional sterility pervades the production of this play of estrangement at the Booth Theater.

[ TM ]  The Retreat from Moscow
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ TB ]  The Retreat From Moscow
Review by Matthew Murray

[ B ]  The Retreat from Moscow
Review by Jessica Branch

"Listen To My Heart" - Reviews:

[ B ]  Listen to My Heart: The Songs of David Friedman
Review by William Stevenson

[ TB ]  Listen to My Heart: The Songs Of David Friedman
Review by Jonathan Frank

[ ATW ]  Listen to My Heart Revue Invokes Love's Pleasure, Pain and Humor
Review by Andy Propst

[ TM ]  Listen To My Heart
Reviewed By: Barbara & Scott Siegel

Other Reviews:

[ NYT ]  REVERBERATIONS
Living for the Moments: When Contemplation Turns to Ecstasy by JOHN ROCKWELL
In a curious play called "bobrauschenbergamerica" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a mesmerizing moment occurs when a Pizza Boy wanders on stage.

[ ATW ]  Beyond Recognition: Beating Victim's Path to Recovery Paved with Improbabilities
Review by Andy Propst

[ TB ]  Beyond Recognition
Review by Matthew Murray

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'STRICTLY ACADEMIC'
Professors With No Flash and Shows With Too Much of It by BRUCE WEBER
In his dire portraits of both the campus and the theater, playwright A. R. Gurney has achieved something rare: a passionate protest delivered with a smile.

[ NYP ]  'STRICTLY' SPEAKING, JOKES ARE NO LAUGHING MATTER by DONALD LYONS
THE thing about jokes, even upscale jokes, is that they have to be funny. In "Strictly Academic" - an evening of two short, supposedly amusing plays by the prolific A. R. Gurney, somewhat lamely directed by Paul Benedict - they aren't.

[ LAT ]  When Shakespeare gets freeze-dried by Lewis Segal
The vocal delivery is pitch-perfect, but not the period staging of 'Twelfth Night.'

[ ATW ]  Thoughts Not Emotions Captured in a Solution of Silver Nitrate
Review by Andy Propst

[ ATW ]  CDs: Two for Halloween
CD Reviews by Andy Propst
'Miss Bette Davis'; 'Jeepers Creepers'

Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia shares his thoughts on some of the many shows and books that have been occupying his time.

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: A Chat with Taboo's Sarah Uriarte Berry Plus News of Buckley, Streisand and More

[ CSM ]  Nathan Lane serves up an 'acid sugarplum' by Gregory M. Lamb
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ DN ]  'Killgore' has comedy in its blood by REBECCA LOUIE
Matt Walsh, creator of 'Killgore: The Musical': 'I think [people] like the sick party atmosphere of the show.'

[ HC ]  Dahlia's Spell by MALCOLM JOHNSON
Ellroy Novel About Murdered 1940s Starlet Adapted For Stage

[ PW ]  Left Bank by J. COOPER ROBB
InterAct Theater Company, producer of bold political work, is financially troubled. But that doesn't stop it from stirring controversy.

News:

[ B ]  Blethyn & Manheim Eye 'Night Mother Revival

[ V ]  Reynolds on deck to hit 'Pitch'
Thesp circling first Broadway project in 40 years

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
Joel Grey on "Wicked" (fifth item).

[ NYT ]  Don Evans, 65, a Playwright Who Focused on Black Lives, Is Dead by WOLFGANG SAXON
Don Evans was a playwright of the African-American experience, about which he also taught at the College of New Jersey for 30 years.

[ NYT ]  Bernard Schwartz, 85, Producer of 'Coal Miner's Daughter,' Dies
Mr. Schwartz was a child actor on Broadway who got into television and film production in the 1950's, working on the paranormal suspense show "Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond" and the film "Journey to the Center of the Earth."

[ YN ]  CBS Broadcaster Writes Play About McGuire
CBS broadcaster Dick Enberg has written a play about the late basketball coach and network sportscaster Al McGuire.

[ B ]  Rossellini Set for McNally's Syndrome Off-B'way

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 24

[ P ]  Nathan Lane and Benedick Bates Begin Butley in Boston, Oct. 24

[ P ]  Lypsinka Gives Off-Broadway Lip in As I Lay Lip Synching, Starting at Minetta Lane, Oct. 24

[ P ]  Something Funny: Ahrens and Flaherty's Lucky Stiff Has Starry Concert at York, Oct. 24-26

[ P ]  A Stranger Among Brothers: Stewart, MacLachlan Start in Pinter's The Caretaker, Oct. 24

[ P ]  Rent Star Rapp Headlines Off-Broadway Private Jokes, Public Places, Oct. 24

[ P ]  World War I Tears Love Story in Mary's Wedding U.S. Premiere at San Jose Rep, Oct. 24-Nov. 16

[ P ]  PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Oct. 18-24: Triple Play

[ P ]  Delayed Gratification: Boy George Musical Taboo Delays Start of Performances

[ P ]  Kushner's Angels in America Film Debuts in Two Parts on HBO, Dec. 7 and 14
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Thursday, October 23, 2003

Features:

[ TM ]  The "It" Guy by: Michael Portantiere
Rising star Ra�l Esparza returns to Broadway in Taboo.

[ TB ]  What's New on the Rialto: The New Telecharge.com

[ B ]  Photo Op: Mamma Mia! Takes a Chance on New Leads

[ BS ]  Great Scott
Ted Tally discusses Antarctic explorers and Hannibal the Cannibal.

News:

[ B ]  Taboo Postpones First Preview to October 28

[ FOX ]  David Gest: Liza Lawsuit May Open Pandora's Box by Roger Friedman
Plus an update on yesterday's Tom Cavanaugh story.

[ B ]  Cast Announced for London's Secret Rapture

[ P ]  Original Woods Narrator and Gypsy Star Join Broadway's Twentieth Century
Tom Aldredge (Into The Woods) and Julie Halston (Gypsy) will join Anne Heche and Alec Baldwin in the upcoming Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Twentieth Century on Broadway, Playbill On-Line has learned.

[ P ]  Peter Scolari Will Dance Cheek to Cheek With Harvey Fierstein in Bway Hairspray Oct. 28-Nov. 2

[ P ]  Oodles of Ullas: Cast Shifts Due for Blonde Bombshell in North American Producers Troupes

[ P ]  Randy Skinner to Direct Gravitte, Gorshin, Rae and More in Musical Potato, Nov. 24-30

[ P ]  Recent Nine Star Joins Cast of Atlantic's Frame 312

[ P ]  Susan Stroman Ballet Double Feature Debuts at New York City Ballet Jan. 23, 2004

[ P ]  Kreston and Lahm Serve Songs by Newley, Sanders and Lahm's Mother, Dorothy Fields, in NYC Oct. 31-Nov. 22

[ P ]  NYC's CAP21 Has Four New Plays by Women Writers in Fall Reading Series, Oct. 27-Nov. 18

[ P ]  Brothers and Lovers Sift Through Emotional Chaos in NYC World Premiere, The Attic, Oct. 23-Nov. 15

[ TM ]  Actress Janice Rule Dies at 72

[ ND ]  Imagine This: John Lennon Show Slated for '04 by Gordon Cox
Plus Alix Korey and David Friedman.

Reviews:

[ BSUN ]  Astin makes 'Our Town' fresh again by J. Wynn Rousuck
Goal of restoring Hopkins theater is off to a good start

[ CU ]  The Boy From Oz
Review
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Features:

[ B ]  Wonderful Town on Disc: Part Two by Ken Mandelbaum

[ B ]  Photo Op: Frenchie and Rent Friends Rally for Charity

[ B ]  Photo Op: I Love You Celebrates 3,000 Performances

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Lithgow and Atkins begin their Retreat from Moscow

News:

[ P ]  Show Must Go On: Chenoweth Performs in Wicked Despite Injury
Theatregoers attending the Oct. 22 performances of Wicked, the new Stephen Schwartz musical at the Gershwin Theatre, witnessed a slight alteration in Kristin Chenoweth's costume.

[ P ]  Little to Star in U.K. Taboo Star

[ P ]  The Game's Afoot, Again: Musical Holmes! Gets Florida Workshop Presentations Nov. 1-4

[ P ]  Liza Responds: Minnelli Sues David Gest for Divorce

[ P ]  Academy Award Winner Julia Roberts Set for "Closer" Film

[ P ]  Streisand's "The Movie Album" Hits the Billboard Charts

[ P ]  Rowat Steps Into The Thing About Men Oct. 23-26 While Kudisch Preps for Rorem Gig

[ P ]  Tommy's Michael Cerveris to Read Caveman Oct. 27

[ P ]  Osmond's "Pyramid" Hosts "Broadway Week" in November with O'Donnell, D'Abruzzo, Vilanch and More

[ TM ]  York Theatre Company Schedules All-Star Benefit Concert of Stephen Schwartz's Children of Eden

[ TM ]  Hughes and Janki to Receive Callaway Awards

Reviews:

[ B ]  Were London Critics Thoroughly Moved by Millie?
The London Sun printed a photo yesterday of Amanda Holden signing autographs outside MILLIE. She was not in costume... in fact, she was wearing a dress that was, um, inadvertently revealing.
I would post a link to the photo here, but this is a family website! (Sort of...)
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[ ND ]  Gala Helps Dancers Take New Steps by Karin Lipson

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Features:

[ NYP ]  THIS 'WICKED' WITCH IS FINDING HER NICHE by BARBARA HOFFMAN
A glamour role it's not. When Idina Menzel appears in "Wicked" - the clever musical take on "The Wizard of Oz," opening next week on Broadway - she's painful to behold.

[ HC ]  A 'Tree' Grows In Goodspeed by FRANK RIZZO
East Haddam Theater Mounts First Major Revival Of Musical About Brooklyn Family

[ NYT ]  Satirist of Apartheid Finds New Target by ALAN COWELL
The performance artist Pieter-Dirk Uys, a controversial figure in the age of apartheid, now confronts new critics over South Africa's AIDS crisis.

[ R ]  London a Tough Nut to Crack for 'Mr. Broadway' by Paul Majendie
It is a long and tortuous journey across the Atlantic for New York shows garlanded with Tony Awards, as producer Stewart F. Lane has found to his cost.

News:

[ NYP ]  GEST WAS 'CRUEL AND INHUMAN' by DAREH GREGORIAN
Liza Minnelli's swinging back at David Gest - she's suing him for divorce claiming he was "cruel and inhuman" to her.

[ NJ ]  Center stage by Peter Filichia
Interview with Estelle Parsons (third item).

[ HC ]  Shubert brings 'The Exonerated' to New Haven by Frank Rizzo

[ B ]  Drama Dept. Dreams Up Tribeca Theater Fest

[ P ]  As Long As They Can Sing: Korey and Runolfsson Star in Friedman's Listen to My Heart, Opening Oct. 23

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 23

[ P ]  From North by Northwest: Minneapolis Hamlet Hits Manhattan, Oct. 23

[ P ]  Playwright-Director Presents Like I Say at Off-Broadway's Flea, Oct. 23

[ P ]  No Retreat: Nicholson's Moscow, with Lithgow, Atkins and Chaplin, Opens on Broadway

[ P ]  Jackie Mason Stars in New Broadway Musical Comedy Laughing Room Only, Begins Oct. 23

Reviews:

[ YN ]  'Strictly Academic' Gets an Average Grade by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
"Strictly Academic" is strictly lesser A.R. Gurney, a slight collection of one-act plays that stretch the thinnest of comic ideas past the point of boredom.

[ NJ ]  Primary Stages goes strictly second class BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ TM ]  Strictly Academic
Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

[ TM ]  Iron
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ NYT ]  CABARET REVIEW
Country Heartbreaker With an Affinity for Pop by STEPHEN HOLDEN
At Feinstein's on Tuesday night, Crystal Gayle showed she still epitomizes a torch singer who is part weepy ing�nue, part steel magnolia.

[ NYT ]  TV REVIEW | 'TERROR IN MOSCOW'
A Night Out in Moscow That Became a Nightmare by ALESSANDRA STANLEY
A documentary on HBO tonight about last year's hostage situation is a gripping portrait of a tragedy that was uniquely, terribly Russian.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2003

Features:

[ B ]  Stage Notes: 10/22/03 by Paul Wontorek
Wonderful Town; The Boy From Oz; Charles Busch; "Scarespray."

[ B ]  Ask A Star: Kerry Butler

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Colleen Bawn - Frank McCourt at the Opening

News:

[ B ]  Kate Shindle Featured in the Spotlight on 11/3

[ P ]  The Lord of the Rings Musical to Debut on London Stage in 2005

[ P ]  Name That Tuner: Off-Broadway�s Nuclear Family Creates a New Musical Nightly

[ P ]  Moonlight Becomes Worth Street Theatre, Oct. 31

[ P ]  Public Theater's Newspaper Drama, The Story, Opens Dec. 10 With Rashad

[ P ]  "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" Star Joins Singular Sensations Line-Up

[ P ]  Dream's Ending Deferred Off-Broadway as Harlem Show Extends

[ P ]  New Paula Vogel Work, Long Christmas Ride Home, Extends Off-Broadway to Dec. 7

[ P ]  New Musical, The Girl in the Frame, Gets Premiere in Boston, Oct. 30-Nov. 9

[ P ]  Fermat's Last Tango, the American Musical That Dares to Make Math Sing, Gets European Staging

[ FOX ]  TV's 'Ed' Won't Sing for Charity by Roger Friedman
Thanks to JWest on All That Chat for the link!
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Features:

[ B ]  Wonderful Town on Disc: Part One by Ken Mandelbaum

Reviews:

[ TM ]  Cabin in the Sky
Reviewed By: Marc Miller

[ TB ]  Urinetown
Cincinnati Review by Scott Cain

News:

[ P ]  More Tennessee Williams Plays Headed for Broadway

[ P ]  Janice Rule, of Broadway's Picnic, Dead at 72

[ P ]  "Match Game" Favorite Returns to Danny's With Hit Cabaret Show

[ P ]  It's Destiny: R&B Singer Michelle Williams to Replace Toni Braxton in Aida

[ B ]  Susan Egan to Stay in Cabaret Through January
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News:

[ NYP ]  'OZ' NOT WELL by MICHAEL RIEDEL
NOT since Julie Andrews nearly died lugging "Victor/Victoria" on her back has a Broadway star been required to do the heavy lifting Hugh Jackman will have to do on "The Boy From Oz," the $10 million musical about the late gay entertainer Peter Allen that opened last week at the Imperial Theatre.

[ NYT ]  Obituary: Janice Rule, 72, Film Actress Who Became a Psychoanalyst by BEN SISARIO
She made her film debut in 1951's "Goodbye, My Fancy" and later earned a Ph.D. from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute.

[ IBDB ]  Janice Rule's Broadway Credits

[ NYT ]  Liza Minnelli's Almost-Ex-Husband Sues Her, Claiming She Beat Him by SUSAN SAULNY
David Gest sued Liza Minnelli yesterday, claiming that while they lived together she went into numerous alcohol-induced rages and beat him so badly that he "suffers from virtually constant, unrelenting pain" in his head.

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
Delta Burke in "Millie" (second item).

[ CPD ]  Play House eyeing role as performing arts center by Tony Brown
The Cleveland Play House board this week approved pursuing a plan that would transform one of the country's biggest regional theater facilities into a performing arts center.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ P ]  Broadway's Mamma Mia! Welcomes Dee Hoty Oct. 22

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 22

[ P ]  Parents Kill to Get Child Into School in Off-Broadway Dark Comedy Bright Ideas, Oct. 22

Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia takes in eight Tennessee Williams plays at Hartford Stage.

[ USA ]  Tennessee Williams is hotter than ever by Elysa Gardner

[ USA ]  Photo Gallery: Tennessee Williams

[ HC ]  '8 By Tenn': Adding It Up by Greg Morago
It's fitting that the title of the production at Hartford Stage sounds like grade-school arithmetic - there's a lot of math going on in "8 by Tenn."

[ NJ ]  Doctoring the house: Broadway's old Biltmore Theatre regains its lost luster BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ LAT ]  Pushing boundaries by Diane Haithman
With an unconventional movie career on the rise, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal turns to the stage.

[ LAT ]  The word on the street by Don Shirley
Russell Simmons brings his Tony-winning 'Def Poetry Jam' to L.A. Though rooted in hip-hop, it differs from rap, Simmons says.

Reviews:

[ NJ ]  A well-told story of mother and child BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
Truthful acting by Lisa Emery and Jennifer Dundas makes "Iron" glow with dramatic intensity.

[ NYP ]  MOM'S SCARS BEHIND BARS by DONALD LYONS
TWO women chat in a prison visiting room. That's pretty much it, except for a scene or two in the prisoner's cell, in Scottish playwright Rona Munro's enthralling if overlong play, "Iron."

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'IRON'
Tight Psychological Quarters, but No Catharsis by BEN BRANTLEY
Lisa Emery's dizzying, multifaceted performance keeps this topical British drama in firm possession of an unsettling emotional imbalance.

[ DN ]  Brain-teasing twists meet by-the-book emotions by Howard Kissel
"Strictly Academic," the title of the two one-acts by A.R. Gurney that opened last night at Primary Stages, has a preemptive quality to it - as if Gurney knew exactly how critics might dismiss his work.

[ CU ]  Strictly Academic
Review

[ NJ ]  Cultural crossfire: Drama plays out among women caught in war of values BY PETER FILICHIA
Whenever Trenton native William Mastrosimone gives his hometown theater a new play, the results are often memorable.

[ TS ]  Solo act delicate and subtle by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
Review of Pete Postlethwaite's one-man show.

[ CU ]  Silver Nitrate
Review

[ NYT ]  CABARET REVIEW | STEVE ROSS
Reminders That Manhattan Is Still an Isle of Joy by STEPHEN HOLDEN
Steve Ross's frilly pianism and spirited singing infuse his contemplations of New York with a sense of Manhattan as an enchanted island.

[ ATW ]  Decca Broadway Recent Releases:Once More Into the Vault
CD Reviews by Andy Propst
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Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Features:

[ P ]  Behind the Rainbow
Things aren�t always what they seem in Wicked, a new musical that explores the unlikely friendship of the wonderful witches of Oz

News:

[ P ]  Susan Egan Extends Her Stay With Broadway's Cabaret Through 2004

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Perfect Previews
Last week the Great White Way banked $1,973,701 more than it did on the same week last season. Previewing shows are really helping the Broadway numbers climb.

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: October 13-19

[ P ]  Blackwell and Johnson are Sadie and Bessie in NC Having Our Say, Nov. 2-23

[ P ]  McElroy, Creel, Ramirez Featured on "Great Joy: A Gospel Christmas" CD, Released Oct. 21

[ P ]  Italian Playwright Lunari's Our Fathers Gets NYC Premiere Oct. 31-Dec. 7

[ P ]  Irving the Frog, New Musical by I Sing Composer,Debuts Off-Broadway

[ TM ]  Singular Sensations to Play the Village Theatre

[ TM ]  Jonathan Pryce to Star in London Production of The Goat

Reviews:

[ YN ]  Rona Munro's 'Iron' a Bracing Prison Drama by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

[ B ]  Iron
Review by William Stevenson
A play in which a mother is reunited with her daughter in prison doesn't sound like an entertaining piece of theater. But Rona Munro's uncompromising drama Iron turns out to be surprisingly gripping, with Lisa Emery and Jennifer Dundas giving knockout performances in the leading roles.

[ B ]  Strictly Academic
Review by William Stevenson
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Features:

[ B ]  Looking Back: Busted Pilots by Ken Mandelbaum
The Trio cable TV network has been offering a series called "Brilliant, But Cancelled," which has included the airing of a number of pilots for TV series that never happened. Today I thought I'd look back on some unsold pilots that featured musical-theatre performers.

News:

[ B ]  Destiny's Child's Williams Set to Star in Aida

[ B ]  Pryce to Headline The Goat at the Almeida

[ B ]  Rahman and V�rttin� Team Up for Rings Musical

[ P ]  Off-Broadway's Musical Comedy The Thing About Men Gets a New Man

[ P ]  David Mamet to Direct World Premiere of His Dr. Faustus at San Francisco's Magic

[ P ]  Blyth Festival, Celebrating the Canadian Playwright, Announces 2004 Season

[ P ]  Berlind Shorts�Featuring Works by Cruz, Albee and Bogosian�to Star Loesser, Ferguson and Times' Weber

[ P ]  Champlin, Evan Featured in Reading of Monica, the Musical, Oct. 26
I can see the ad campaign now: "The show that leaves a stain on musical theater..."

[ P ]  Sundance Theatre Lab Accepts Artists' Applications for 2004 Season

[ P ]  Saigon Star Jonathan Pryce to Headline in London Premiere of The Goat

[ P ]  York Theatre Presents Benefit Children of Eden Concert With Bway Stars, on World AIDS Day, Dec. 1

[ P ]  Benefactors' "Lack of Enthusiasm" Over Script Ends Rosenthal New Play Prize at Cincinnati Playhouse

[ P ]  Royal Gala Set for Nov. 9 at U.K.'s Richmond Theatre

[ P ]  New England's Smash Satire, A New War, Gets Close to New York with Long Wharf Berth, Beginning Dec. 10

[ P ]  Amy Coady Sings Theatre Music and Standards at Mama Rose's Oct. 30-Nov. 16

[ P ]  Davis Gaines Is Scrooge in Leslie Bricusse Musical, Dec. 9-24

[ P ]  Off-Broadway Comedy I Love You, You're Perfect Hits 3000, Oct. 21

[ P ]  Rosie O'Donnell to Be Honored Dec. 7

[ P ]  Brian Stokes Mitchell and Norbert Leo Butz Are Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in Reading; O'Hare, Scott and Ebersole Snagged

[ P ]  Mother-Daughter Prison Drama , Iron, Gets U.S. Premiere by MTC, Opening Oct. 21

[ P ]  Balaban to Direct Addicted Comedy at Off-Bway's Zipper Theatre

[ P ]  Picks of the Month Series Celebrates New CDs at Dillon's Nov. 2

[ P ]  Betty Buckley Takes a Contemporary Journey at Feinstein's, Oct. 28-Nov. 8

[ P ]  Wicked's Chenoweth, Menzel, Grey and Shelley Join Macy's Ceremony

Reviews:

[ ND ]  They're 'Strictly' Obvious by Gordon Cox
Both of Gurney's one-act plays telegraph their revelations

[ ND ]  Despite Talent, 'Iron' Is Leaden by Linda Winer
Who among us could blame Manhattan Theatre Club for being the tiniest bit distracted these days?

[ VV ]  Eternally Green: Playwright Dion Boucicault Gets His Irish Up by Michael Feingold
The Colleen Bawn

[ ATW ]  True Events Reworked to Melodrama in The Colleen Bawn
Review by Laura Shea

[ VV ]  Personal Bestings
Wherever Broadway's fault lies, dear Brutus, this week it is definitely not in our stars by Michael Feingold
The Boy From Oz; Golda's Balcony

[ VV ]  Sightlines by Charles McNulty
Richard Dresser's Rounding Third

[ VV ]  Love American Style
Bogart and Mee's homage to Rauschenberg's homeland spirit by Daniel Mufson
bobrauschenbergamerica

[ CU ]  Attacks On the Heart
Review

[ TB ]  New Arthur Laurents Play Premieres at George Street
New Jersey Review by Bob Rendell

[ CU ]  The Two Noble Kinsmen
Review

[ CU ]  Closet Chronicles
Review

[ CU ]  Something Wicked This Way Comes
Los Angeles Review by Laura Hitchcock

[ TM ]  Forty-Deuce
Reviewed By: Michael Portantiere

[ TM ]  Sherlock Holmes
Houston Review By: Holly Hildebrand
With Todd Waite and Josie de Guzman.

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
Reports on Touch, the first night of the Cabaret Convention, a memorable Cast Party, and a celebration of the life of Darrell Henline.
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Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'TWO NOBLE KINSMEN'
Triangles Are Rampant in Rarity by Shakespeare by BRUCE WEBER
Darko Tresnjak's confident production overcomes heavy-handedness and uncertain acting to find the pungent melancholy in this story of love.

[ DN ]  'Noble' try at sorry 'Kinsmen' by Howard Kissel
To open its season, the New York Shakespeare Festival has produced "The Two Noble Kinsmen" for the first time in its history. Now perhaps the play can be ignored for a few more generations, as it so richly deserves.

[ YN ]  An Obscure Work, Shakespeare Nonetheless by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
"The Two Noble Kinsmen" will never be included on a list of Shakespeare's greatest hits � but no matter.

[ NJ ]  This cheatin' heart: With fine Cigdem Onat, 'Attacks' hit targets even though aim is off BY PETER FILICHIA

[ INQ ]  Laborious comedy on love is hard to like by Desmond Ryan
Charles L. Mee's "Wintertime" at McCarter.

[ NYT ]  MUSIC REVIEW | BILLY PORTER
A Master Class for Divas From an Ebullient Personality by STEPHEN HOLDEN
The bright, rich, gospel-schooled tenor's performance at Lincoln Center on Thursday had the feel of an extravagant star turn.

News:

[ WP ]  Backstage: A Storied Theatre's Second Act by Jane Horwitz
Off-Broadway Shows To Stop at Restored 1938 Bethesda Cinema
Plus an interview with Jane Powell (second item).

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
SHEBA MASON, 18, daughter of Jackie Mason, is starring in "Pickles," an original musical comedy by her mom Ginger Reiter.

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 21

[ P ]  Anna Deavere Smith to Debut New Work at MoMA Oct. 21

[ P ]  Fringe Musical Espresso Trasho to Get Oct. 21-22 Showing in London

[ P ]  On Deck: Ben Gazzara Begins Stage Life as Yogi Berra Off-Broadway Oct. 21

[ P ]  Cast Album of Little Shop of Horrors Hits Stores Oct. 21

[ P ]  Musicals Tonight! Takes a Chance on Cabin in the Sky

[ P ]  From Where I Stand CD Hits Stores Oct. 21; Encore Engagement Nov. 12-14

[ P ]  Gurney's Strictly Academic Opens at Primary Stages Off-Broadway, Oct. 21

[ P ]  Bounce Bounces Back: Sondheim-Weidman Musical Faces the Nation's Capital

Features:

[ DN ]  Hauling out the fine Crystal by DAVID HINCKLEY
Country star Crystal Gayle will sing mostly standards when she begins a stint tonight at Feinstein's.

[ LAT ]  Relax, folks, it's just Shakespeare by Kristin Hohenadel
Globe director Mark Rylance is touring the U.S. with an all-male "Twelfth Night" aiming for an easy charm.
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Monday, October 20, 2003

Features:

[ NY ]  Voice Lesson by Ada Calhoun
With Ethan Hawke by her side, Broadway�s Audra McDonald tackles her first nonsinging part in Henry IV.

[ B ]  Photo Op: Glorious Broadway Inspirational Voices at Town Hall

[ BS ]  Be Unprepared
Empty your mind and trust your deepest impulses is one expert's preferred method of readying a character.

[ MN ]  The fearless one by Karen D'Souza
Suzan-Lori Parks has never been one to court praise.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

News:

[ R ]  Diana Rigg Wins Libel Fight

[ B ]  Cate Blanchett Set for Hedda Gabler Down Under

[ B ]  Danny Gurwin Fills in for Daniel Reichard in Men

[ TM ]  WorkShop Theater Company Benefit Set for November 3

[ TM ]  Gotta Dance Gala to Honor Hollywood Hoofers

[ P ]  Tony Winner Elaine Stritch at Liberty Released on DVD, Oct. 21

[ P ]  Kudisch, Luker and Avenue Q Creators Take Wing in"Working in the Theatre" Talks, Oct. 28-30

[ P ]  Simon and Rees Discuss Shakespeare Films of Oliver, Nov. 10

[ P ]  Nine's New Guido Appears on "Live with Regis & Kelly," Oct. 21

[ P ]  Cate Blanchett Returns to the Stage as Hedda Gabler in Sydney

[ P ]  Julia Trevelyan Oman, British Designer, Is Dead at 73

[ P ]  Composer Jason Robert Brown Marries Georgia Stitt

Reviews:

[ ATW ]  Romantic 'Kinsmen' at Odds
Review by Andy Propst

[ CU ]  The Colleen Bawn
Review
posted at 10/20/2003 05:57:45 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Features:

[ B ]  Random Notes on This and That: 10/20/03 by Ken Mandelbaum

[ TM ]  Yours, Anne by: Brian Scott Lipton
Anne Runolfsson sings her heart out in a new revue of songs by David Friedman.

Reviews:

[ TB ]  Eddie Mekka stars in Fiddler on the Roof (Lite) at New Mark Two
Florida Review by Matthew MacDermid

News:

[ P ]  Millie, Mice and Sugar Open This Week in London

[ P ]  New Biography on Lunts Due in Stores Oct. 23

[ P ]  Swoosie Kurtz and Marsha Mason Star in Free Reading of The Clean House Oct. 20

[ P ]  Into the Woods Star to Host Hinton Battle Theatre Lab Fundraiser; Glover, Moore, Mills to Perform

[ P ]  Oscar Winner Streep to Receive AFI Life Achievement Award

[ P ]  "Tonight Show" Interviews Taboo's Rosie O'Donnell and Boy George

[ P ]  Mary Poppins to Open in London Dec. 2004; Creative Team Announced

[ B ]  Dates & Venue Set for West End's Mary Poppins
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[ CBS ]  Wolverine Plays Flamboyant Showman
"The Boy From Oz" tells the story of Allen's life and death after a long battle with AIDS. Australian actor Hugh Jackman made his mark with American movie audiences as the hairy, scary mutant super-hero "Wolverine."

[ FJ ]  Millie' role realizes a dream for actress
Once she participated in a staged reading of "Thoroughly Modern Millie" six years ago, Darcie Roberts dreamed of taking the part to a bigger stage.

[ FJ ]  LONG LIVE `Les Miz'
Lavish musical will be new to Flint audiences
For Randal Keith, Broadway's last Jean Valjean, being on stage for the closing night of the 15-year run of "Les Miserables" was a bittersweet experience.

[ NY1 ]  Theatre Review: "The Boy From Oz"
NY1's Roma Torre has a review of the new play, "The Boy From Oz."

[ NYP ]  CENTURY THEATER MAY FETCH $12M
posted at 10/20/2003 10:52:24 AM by James Marino | Item Link

Features:

[ NYT ]  The Show That Ate the Original Cast by ROBIN POGREBIN
The path to Broadway for "Little Shop" was unconventional in that the producers of the show felt it needed a new direction and cast to get there.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia ruminates on musicals that are, or were, just a little too dependent on their stars.

[ BH ]  Embracing musical of 'Importance' by Robert Nesti
Interview with Ahrens and Flaherty.

[ NYT ]  Softer Rents, but the Hunt Is Still Hard by JOSH BARBANEL
Real estate article; among those interviewed are David Ayers of "Mamma Mia" and Jessica-Snow Wilson of "Little Shop of Horrors."

[ LAT ]  When a cigar is not just a cigar by Mike Boehm
In 'Anna in the Tropics,' the stogie and its assembly -- an art learned by the cast -- anchor the sultry tale.

Reviews:

[ ND ]  A 'Noble' Effort by Gordon Cox
Making the most of lesser Shakespeare

[ TB ]  The Two Noble Kinsmen
Review by Matthew Murray

[ B ]  The Two Noble Kinsmen
Review by Kate Kilbane Porter

[ TM ]  The Two Noble Kinsmen
Reviewed By: Brooke Pierce

[ B ]  The Colleen Bawn
Review by Celia Wren

[ NYP ]  UNEVEN IRISH CLAN DRAMA by DONALD LYONS
THERE is an entirely respectable case to be made for Dion Boucicault as the leading dramatist in English of the mid-19th century.

[ NJ ]  True love is a farce in 'Wintertime' BY PETER FILICHIA

[ NHR ]  NHSO�s 'Road to Broadway' paved with golden melodies by Dale Robinson
With Danny Gurwin.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ NYer ]  DOWN UNDERDOG by HILTON ALS
The life and times of Australia�s pluckiest son.

[ USA ]  'Golda's Balcony' offers an inspiring view of Meir by Elysa Gardner

News:

[ YN ]  USA Calls on Discala for 'Fleiss'
Jamie-Lynn DiScala (nee Sigler) of "The Sopranos" fame will play former Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss in a USA Network movie tentatively titled "Going Down: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss."

[ YN ]  TV Tidbits: Notes Of Interest
When Lifetime Television's The Division returns in January for season four, Yancey Arias and Jon Tenney will join the cast in recurring roles.
Last item.

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
HUGH'S QUIET DAYS & OUT-THERE NIGHTS

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
PERFORMANCE IS PURE WIZARDRY FROM 'OZ'
Plus Tovah Feldshuh.

[ NYT ]  Julia Trevelyan Oman, Theater Designer, 73, Dies

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 20

[ P ]  Memorial Service for Wardrobe Supervisor Laurino Set for Oct. 23

[ P ]  McDonald, Skinner, Murney, Cerveris, Kimball and Rudetsky to Make Believe Nov. 3

[ P ]  14th Annual Cabaret Convention�with Salutes to Garland, Wilson and Hirschfeld�Begins Oct. 20

[ P ]  Abelard and Heloise, the Musical, Gets NYC Readings With Robert Evan; Barre Directs Nov. 6-11

[ P ]  Jackman and Boy From Oz Cast Sing for Original Broadway Recording, Oct. 20
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Sunday, October 19, 2003

Features:

[ TS ]  Solo show filled with characters by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
British stage and screen star Pete Postlethwaite brings his one-man show "Scararmouche Jones" to North America, starting in Toronto.

[ BG ]  Nathan Lane goes beyond Broadway by Maureen Dezell

[ BG ]  After years of obscurity, a blizzard of Izzard by Nick A. Zaino III

[ BG ]  With his portrayal of George Burns, he makes a new impression by Judy Abel

[ BH ]  Gorshin's Burns leaves lasting impression by Stephen Schaefer

[ CST ]  G is for Gorey, who wrote some dark tales BY MISHA DAVENPORT
There are probably better sources to base a musical on than the macabre, mysterious and murderous books and drawings of Chicago-born Edward Gorey.

[ CST ]  'Topdog/ Underdog' Lucky dog BY MARY HOULIHAN
The first thing you notice about K. Todd Freeman are his eyes.

[ HC ]  As He Likes It by FRANK RIZZO
One Of The Theater's Towering Figures, Sir Peter Hall, Discusses The Past, Present And Future, Which Includes Directing His Daughter At The Shubert In One Of Shakespeare's Most Popular Plays

[ NYT ]  For Peter Hall, Home Is Where the Rosalind Is by MATT WOLF

[ NYT ]  That Prince of Denmark Can Be a Real Clown by DOMINIC P. PAPATOLA
Minneapolis's unorthodox and innovative Theatre de la Jeune Lune makes its New York debut on Thursday with a staging of "Hamlet."

[ NYT ]  EXCERPT
Everything Was Possible
Ted Chapin, a production assistant on the original Broadway version of "Follies" in 1971, has published his journal about the experience.

[ NYT ]  URBAN TACTICS
Waiting on the Corner of Broadway and In-Between by ERIKA KINETZ
Ben Katchor in the theater district. You have to be outside a theater, he says, to se the effects of theater on people.

[ NHA ]  Sir Nigel Spasm's Short Pants Revue by CHRISTOPHER ARNOTT
Eric Idle on many things, including Seussical.

[ LAT ]  Playwright has a daily regimen by Mike Boehm; Diane Haithman
If a play a day keeps the doctor away, Suzan-Lori Parks must be radiating health. For nearly a year, the 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner ("Topdog/Underdog") has been crafting another slash-marked opus called "365 Days/365 Plays."

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hugh Jackman at Opening Night of The Boy From Oz

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

[ DP ]  UNC grad makes Broadway bow by John Moore
'Mamma Mia' lead to Jenny Fellner

[ CE ]  New shows score with smarts, originality by Jackie Demaline
Interviews with the creators of Metamorphoses and Urinetown.

News:

[ NYT ]  Weddings & Celebrations: Georgia Stitt, Jason Robert Brown

[ NYT ]  Weddings & Celebrations: Antonia Gianino, Joel Hoekstra

[ NYT ]  VOWS: Joy Dewing and Noel Katz by JAMES BARRON
Their chat-room conversations about musical theater led to starring roles in "Our Wedding: The Musical."
Hey, I know that guy!!
Congratulations to all.

[ V ]  B.O. up; 'Gypsy' 681g
Broadway grosses

[ V ]  Biz up; 'Hairspray' 934g
Road grosses

[ V ]  Primo legit pair hail 'Mary'
Disney, Mackintosh in 1st collaboration
Plans are firming up for the London preem of the stage musical "Mary Poppins" 14 months from now. The project marks the first producing collaboration between legit heavyweights Cameron Mackintosh and Disney.

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
ANNE'S B'WAY-BOUND
Anne Heche; Elaine Stritch; the Cabaret Convention.

[ P ]  Talk Show Watch: The Boy from Oz on "Sunday Morning," Rosie O'Donnell and Boy George on "Leno"

[ P ]  TV Film "Beautiful Girl" � Starring Winokur with Songs by Gibson � Debuts Oct. 19

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 19

[ P ]  Drama League to Honor Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith Feb. 9

[ P ]  Boucicault's Melodrama, Colleen Bawn, Gets NYC Irish Rep Run Oct. 19-Nov. 30

[ P ]  Korey, Runolfsson and Cast of OB Listen Sing for "Radio Playbill" Oct. 20-Nov. 1

[ P ]  Evita � with Aida's Finley � Begins at HHTC Oct. 18

[ P ]  Marriage of Bette and Boo Opens TACT Season Oct. 18-20 in NYC

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  The Male 'Twelfth Night' Is a True Masquerade by BEN BRANTLEY
As Mark Rylance portrays her in the rapturous Globe Theater production, Olivia seems more human than when played by a woman.

[ P ]  ON THE RECORD: Q, "Boston" and Herman
This week's column examines the new Avenue Q cast recording, the re-release of "Lost in Boston" as well as two tomes: "Jerry Herman: The Lyrics, A Celebration" and Richard Ouzounian's "Are You Trying to Seduce Me, Miss Turner?"

[ NYT ]  'Arthur Miller': Attention Must Be Paid by JAMES CAMPBELL
Martin Gottfried's biography tracks the influence of Arthur Miller's life on his work.

[ NYT ]  'The Creative Habit': Self-Help for the Artistically Challenged by EMILY EAKIN
Twyla Tharp's new book.

[ StL ]  Scaled-Down 'My Fair Lady' is Big on Sparkle and Charm by JUDITH NEWMARK
With Crista Moore.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!
posted at 10/19/2003 10:40:24 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

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