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Saturday, April 10, 2004

Features:

[ TS ]  Perfect, in every witch way by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
She's doing fine, Oklahoma.
That's the report I can confidently file to the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow about their favourite daughter, Kristin Chenoweth.

[ NYT ]  The Next Act for Broadway's Boy Wonder by JESSE GREEN
At 41, Joe Mantello, the director of "Assassins," has become a prince of Broadway � albeit a prince who'd rather abdicate than be seen enjoying his crown.

[ NYT ]  Slide Show: Murderer's Row

[ WP ]  A Tough Act to Begin by Peter Marks

Producers Take Risk in Bringing Play About a Terrorist to Broadway

[ WP ]  A Season's Long, Difficult Birth by Nelson Pressley
When Arena Stage Plans Its Schedule, The Process Seldom Adheres to a Script

[ NJ ]  Johnny on the spot answers call for Jesus BY PETER FILICHIA
John Booth wasn't going to say no to Jesus.
He was "only" scheduled to choreograph and dance in "Sermon on the Mount," the musical that opens Friday at African Globe TheatreWorks in Newark. Now, after the original actor dropped out, he's playing the lead.

[ NYT ]  A Comedy That Visited on Its First Time Around, Too by JESSE McKINLEY
The director David Leveaux describes Tom Stoppard's comedy "Jumpers" as a play about "philosophy and bottoms." It was the latter that caused much of the fuss over the original 1972 London production.

[ P ]  Hooray for Bollywood
Bombay Dreams, a new musical about a young Indian man�s quest for film stardom, mixes spectacle, glamour and romance

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Match's Frank Langella Chex It Out

[ LAT ]  The analyst triangle by Christopher Hampton

How the relationship between Sabina Spielrein and Carl Jung � and Freud � inspired me to dramatize Jung's tormented life.

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'VIVACE'
Vaudeville's Back on 42nd St., Trick-Filled Sleeves and All by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

This import from Labyrinth-Circle of Berlin combines music, song, film, dance, acrobatics and clowning in a fast-moving, funny show.

[ CU ]  The Royal Family
Los Angeles Review

[ NJ ]  Palestinians' dramatic 'Roar' BY MICHAEL SOMMERS


News:

[ NYT ]  Memorial Set for Robert Harth
The service, open to the public, will include performances by the singer Audra McDonald and the pianist Emanuel Ax and reminiscences by Sanford I. Weill, chairman of Carnegie Hall, and the violinist Sidney Harth, Robert Harth's father.

[ DW ]  Early Shift BY MICHAEL ROBERTS
The Rocky Mountain News on March 26: "Walden Family Playhouse looks like a success, judging by all visible signs." The Rocky on March 27: "Walden Playhouse closes doors." (The theater was owned by San Francisco Examiner owner Philip Anschutz.) Rocky entertainment editor Joe Rassenfoss tells Michael Roberts: "We asked all the right questions, and let's face it -- they have very solid financial backing. This Anschutz fellow, as I understand it, is fairly reputable." (Last column item.)
Thanks to Poynter.org for the link.

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 10

[ P ]  Movin' Out Tour's Piano Man Nominated for Music Award

[ P ]  Cyrano, with Stephen Rea, Noses Into London's National April 10

[ P ]  "Brits Off Broadway" Festival Is Rare Glimpse at New Work From UK, Continuing in NYC to July 4

[ P ]  The Sweetest Sounds: Diahann Carroll Stars in Atlanta Bubbling Brown Sugar, July 16-24

[ P ]  "New" Loesser Musical, Señor Discretion Himself, Sings to the Strumming of Guitars, at DC's Arena Stage

[ P ]  Value of Human Life Determined in Site-Specific, 9/11-Inspired Audit, Way, Way Off-Bway � in Queens

[ P ]  Breaking Into Kathleen Turner's House Is No Easy Feat in New Comedy, Premiering at Atlanta's Alliance April 28

[ TM ]  Museum of Television and Radio to Expand Theater Holdings

[ TM ]  Spalding Gray Memorial Slated for April 13

[ TM ]  New York Musical Theatre Festival Scheduled for September

[ TM ]  Broadway Performers Will Rock Out for BC/EFA on May 3

[ B ]  B'way Inspirational Voices Offer Gospel, Jazz and Blues

[ B ]  The Boy From Oz Cancels June 6 Performance

[ B ]  Memorial for Spalding Gray Set for April 13

[ B ]  Williamson Set for London Return of Fever

posted at 4/10/2004 10:41:06 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Friday, April 09, 2004

Features:

[ B ]  Tonys 2004 #2 by Ken Mandelbaum
Continuing our exploration of the possibilities in the various Tony categories for the current season, we move on to featured musical actor...

[ B ]  We Love Patti! Who Doesn't?

[ B ]  A Rousing Party for Roar

[ B ]  Maria Friedman's Distinguished Guests

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Neil Simon Theatre Gets a Perm, with Plenty of Hairspray


Reviews:

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
Life is a definitely a cabaret as Barbara & Scott check out Patti LuPone at Feinstein's and Karen Akers at the Oak Room.

News:

[ B ]  Barbara Cook Returns to Lincoln Center in June

[ P ]  Barbara Cook's Broadway to Play Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater in June

[ P ]  PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, April 3-9: The Country Wife

[ P ]  "Just Shoot Me" Star Joins L.A. Run of Underpants, Extended Again to May 2

[ P ]  Princesses, Musical That Gives "A Little Princess" a Twist, Will Play Seattle in 2005

[ P ]  Musicals My Fair Lady, George Gershwin Alone Play on Pianos at Hartford's SummerStage

[ P ]  Sixteen Wounded Presents Benefit Performance for Cherry Lane Theatre, April 14

[ P ]  Bombay Dreams' Rahman to Create Musical About the Buddha

[ P ]  Tennessee Williams' Spring Storm Makes New York Debut in May

[ P ]  "Theater Talk" Examines Stendhal Syndrome and bridge and tunnel April 9

[ P ]  Jessica Lange to Star in Glass Menagerie Revival; Leonard and Hawke to Co-star

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[ NYP ]  AT LONG LAST, LANGE by MICHAEL RIEDEL

[ B ]  Lange, Hawke & Leonard to Star in Menagerie

[ NYT ]  ON STAGE AND OFF
A Pulitzer and a Plan by JASON ZINOMAN

The Broadway production of Doug Wright's "I Am My Own Wife," starring Jefferson Mays, will move to the Goodman Theater in Chicago in January.

"Match":

[ B ]  Photo Op: A Striking Opening Night for Match

[ B ]  Did Belber's Match Light Up for B'way Critics?

[ BG ]  Langella makes 'Match' sizzle with laughter by Ed Siegel

Picture Neil LaBute married to Neil Simon. "Match" could use a little more meat on its bones and a little less predictability, but when you consider the dearth of nonmusicals on Broadway, this is one tasty Great White Way meal.

[ ND ]  Comedy that dances to a serious tune BY LINDA WINER
The commercial theater needs a bit of Stephen Belber, the downtown playwright who made his Broadway debut at the Plymouth Theatre last night with "Match," an improbable but nimble little feel-good suspense sitcom. And "Match" needs a lot of Frank Langella.

[ JN ]  Accept no substitutes by JACQUES LE SOURD
Langella alone makes the evening worthwhile.
If he's not there, make sure you're not, either.

[ USA ]  Langella, Liotta make almost perfect 'Match' by Elysa Gardner
*** � out of four

[ HC ]  'Match' A Tense Pas De Trois by MALCOLM JOHNSON
Frank Langella Is One Of The Treasures Of American Theater

[ DN ]  Striking 'Match' lights up stage by Howard Kissel
"Match" is uproariously funny, enthralling theater.

[ NYP ]  STRIKE 'MATCH' by CLIVE BARNES
WHEN the valiant Frank Langella, forced to overact a storm, can still leave a play lying flat and dull on the stage, that play is in trouble.

[ B ]  Match
Review by Eric Grode

Presumably, there are some who would derive great pleasure from watching Frank Langella flounce around in wool socks, smoke hash, knit and say "twat." Those people are encouraged to check out Stephen Belber's Match. Everyone else should steer clear of this rickety, agonizingly obvious did-he-or-didn't-he? play.

[ Y ]  Langella Masterful in 'Match' by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
Frank Langella is a playwright's best friend. Consider the fine work he does in "Match," Stephen Belber's fitful three-character play at Broadway's Plymouth Theatre.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'MATCH'
A Folksy Eccentric Who's Got a Secret by BEN BRANTLEY

Frank Langella is a contradictory mix of small-town American folksiness and esthetic worldliness in Stephen Belber's slender and soggy new comedy

[ TM ]  Match
Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

[ TB ]  Match
Review by Matthew Murray

[ ATW ]  Trying to Spark a Flame on Belber's Twisty Match
Review by Andy Propst


Other Reviews:

[ LAT ]  Flush with grande dames by James C. Taylor
An uneven "Royal Family" tackles a theatrical dynasty.

[ NYT ]  MUSIC REVIEW | MARIA FRIEDMAN
Experiments in the Art of Subtraction, With a British Touch by STEPHEN HOLDEN

[ DN ]  Leading lights of Off-B'way by Howard Kissel

It is always a bit of a surprise when real content appears in pieces of theater, but that has been the case with several recent Off-Broadway efforts. Here are three, including "Sarah, Sarah," "Ears on a Beatle" and "Barbara Cook's Broadway."

[ ATW ]  Happy Birthday, Wanda June: 'Let Them Eat Cake'
Review by Laura Shea

[ ATW ]  An Intimate, Musical 'Baby' of a Show
Review by Andy Propst

[ NYP ]  PROMISING 'ROAR' WHIMPERS OUT by DONALD LYON

[ SUN ]  More Buzz Than Sting by JEREMY McCARTER

WASPs in "Mrs. Farnsworth", Annabella Sciorra in "Roar", and First Ladies in the East Village.

Features:

[ NYT ]  Stoppard's Eight Lords A-Leaping by JESSE McKINLEY
The titular tumblers in Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," an esoteric circus of a play, are not, by and large, very athletic or, to be completely honest, very good.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
What shows has Filichia seen over the past week? Well, he'll tell you...

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: A Chat with Broadway and Cabaret Star Karen Akers PLUS a Singing Baby

[ NYP ]  HIT PARADE by BARBARA HOFFMAN

Those who rarely stray further than "42nd Street" may be shocked at what Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman have cooked up in "Assassins," opening April 22 at Studio 54.

[ CT ]  The world is Richard Thomas' stage by Michael Kilian
Ex-'Waltons' star orchestrates busy theater schedule

[ BS ]  Bridging the Gay/Straight Divide
In a utopian theatrical world, a playwright need not be homosexual to create a homosexual character; a playwright need not be heterosexual to create a heterosexual character.

[ BS ]  Finding Work in Today's Musicals On and Off Broadway
Is there still such a thing as a "Broadway gypsy"? A performer who makes a living dancing in one Broadway show or touring production after another? And if so, how do you become one nowadays?

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
EARLY THIS WEEK, at the intimate performance space Ars Nova on West 53rd Street, John Tartaglia, one of the puppet masters of Broadway's "Avenue Q," offered a charming one-man show.

News:

[ BG ]  Booming TheaterMania adds CapeTix website by Maureen Dezell
CapeTix.com, a new arts marketing website, is gearing up in Wellfleet to sell summer shows in theaters from Provincetown to Plymouth this season.

[ NYT ]  Victor Argo, Who Played Heavies in Scorsese Films, Dies at 69 by JESSE McKINLEY
Victor Argo was a New York character actor who played hoodlums and hardened detectives in movies by directors like Martin Scorsese, Abel Ferrara and Jim Jarmusch.

[ BSUN ]  Jibson goes off road, onto Broadway stage in 'Hairspray' by J. Wynn Rousuck

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Current and Upcoming Off-Broadway Plans
Shakespeare in the Park Casting; 'Mrs. Farnsworth', Atlantic's 'Two', 'Birdie'
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[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 9

[ P ]  Worth Street's The Normal Heart Beats Its First at The Public Theater, April 9

[ P ]  Ambitious NYC Musical Theatre Festival Planned for Fall; Production-Ready Scripts Sought

[ P ]  Pygmalion Heralds 2004 Shaw Festival Season in Ontario, April 8

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Thursday, April 08, 2004

Features:

[ TM ]  Bare Facts by: Michael Portantiere
Damon Intrabartolo on the New York premiere production of his pop opera about young people's relationship to Catholicism.

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Gurney Swats at a Flea with Opening of Mrs. Farnsworth at Downtown Theatre

News:

[ P ]  Hit Play Mrs. Farnsworth Mulls Extra Performances, Future

[ P ]  Casting Announced for Goodspeed's All Shook Up, Musical With Songs Elvis Made Famous

[ P ]  Waterston Is Lincoln Once Again at Cooper Union, May 5

[ P ]  Murphy, Wolfe, Encores! Among Drama League's Special Award Winners

[ P ]  Canadian Production of The Dresser Up in Smoke as Harwood Fumes

[ P ]  Les Miz Star Is 'Slay Miz' in Massachusetts Premiere of Lizzie Borden: The Musical

[ P ]  Sixties Musical Revue Suds Kicks Off National Tour April 16

[ B ]  Somlyo to Serve as Consultant for Drama Desk

[ B ]  Full Cast Set for B'way-Bound All Shook Up

[ B ]  Drama League Honors Murphy, Wolfe & Encores!

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[ B ]  DVDs: Lerner and Loewe's Last by Ken Mandelbaum
In this July's Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera production of The Music Man, Jeff Goldblum will play Harold Hill and Catherine Wreford (who originated the role of Phyllis in the Broadway revival of 42nd Street and originated the role of Peggy Sawyer in the latest national tour) will play Marian. Wreford is also Goldblum's real-life fianc�e.
DVD: THE LITTLE PRINCE (Paramount)
DVD: THE POINT (BMG)

Features:

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: She Is a Diamond: LuPone Opens Cabaret Act at Feinstein's

News:

[ B ]  The Normal Heart Delays Previews Again

[ P ]  Goodman Theatre Takes a Wife in 2005

[ P ]  Netherlands' Pia Douwes Makes Broadway Debut in Chicago April 8

[ P ]  William Finn to Take Part in Birth of a Musical Festival

[ P ]  American Theatre Wing's Roy Somlyo Jumps From Tonys to Drama Desks

[ P ]  Modine and Light are Stanley and Blanche in Food for Thought Reading

[ P ]  McArdle, Fuller, Cariou, Lewis and Kudisch Salute Composer Strouse April 12

[ TM ]  Winokur to Join Hairspray Tour for L.A. Engagement

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Features:

[ TM ]  Loose Lips by: Brian Scott Lipton
BSL consorts with a prostitute, chats with a Foster child, and runs into everyone from Betsy Palmer to George Steinbrenner at various shows around town.

[ HC ]  Taboo or Not Taboo: Albee Goes Beyond the Peephole by FRANK RIZZO
"I wanted to write a play examining the limits of our tolerance," says Albee, 76, "and whether the value structure we seem to accept is a valid one and whether or not we re-examine our values as frequently as we should."

[ DN ]  Robert Dominguez' Que Pasa?: E. 4th: Enter, stage Latino
The spring theater season is shaping up as a time of hope and renewal for some of the city's long-standing Latino companies.

[ NYT ]  100 Years Ago, an Intersection's New Name: Times Square by JAMES BARRON
The newspaper's headline the next morning told the story: "Times Square Is the Name of City's New Centre."

[ ND ]  Women in Theater
The acclaimed television series Women in Theatre returns for a second season with 13 half-hour interviews -- with major directors, choreographers, designers, actors, playwrights and producers -- conducted by Linda Winer, theatre critic and arts columnist for Newsday.

"Mrs. Farnsworth" - Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'MRS. FARNSWORTH'
Patrician Calm Can't Extinguish Embers of Pain by BEN BRANTLEY

Playing a wealthy, high WASP couple, Sigourney Weaver and John Lithgow deploy annihilating charm in this new play from the author of "The Cocktail Hour."

[ NJ ]  Gossipy Mrs. Farnsworth flays Bush BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
A lively charade, "Mrs. Farnsworth" doesn't so much preach to the choir as amuse it with tittle-tattle.

[ Y ]  'Mrs. Farnsworth' Is Witty, Urbane by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

[ ND ]  "Mrs. Farnsworth" BY GORDON COX

Sigourney Weaver and John Lithgow look like they're having a great time in "Mrs. Farnsworth."

[ JN ]  Lithgow, Weaver, perfection by JACQUES LE SOURD

[ HC ]  Upper-crust character study by MALCOLM JOHNSON

[ CU ]  Mrs. Farnsworth

[ TM ]  Mrs. Farnsworth
Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo


"Roar" - Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'ROAR'
A Palestinian Blues Singer in Detroit? Her Father Thinks Not by MARGO JEFFERSON

Betty Shamieh's play at The New Group is part tender drama and part searing comedy, all of it beautifully directed by Marion McClinton.

[ Y ]  'Roar' Looks at American Life by JUSTIN GLANVILLE, Associated Press Writer

[ ATW ]  A Distant 'Roar'
Review by Laura Shea

[ CU ]  Roar


Other Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE LIFE OF SPIDERS'
A Silk Purse of a Different Ilk, and This One's Deadly by MARGO JEFFERSON
Kelly Stuart uses Balzac, that genius of novelistic detail, to fashion a haunting high-wire tale of 19th-century Paris.

[ ND ]  Review: "First Lady Suite" BY LINDA WINER
When "First Lady Suite" had its beguiling premiere at George C. Wolfe's new Public Theater in 1993, we knew Michael John LaChiusa was a name we'd have to learn to spell.

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Jay Records Releases 'Musical of Musicals'
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News:

[ ND ]  A desire for a fresh look at 'Streetcar' by Gordon Cox
In order to clear away preconceived notions, the Irish director Garry Hynes had the script to Tennessee Williams' classic "A Streetcar Named Desire" retyped on fresh paper.
Plus Lynn Nottage on "Intimate Apparel."

[ V ]  Somlyo's in tony job for Drama Desk nods
Awards to be presented in a TheaterMania Webcast
Jumping ship, Roy A. Somlyo has been named executive consultant to the Drama Desk Awards.

[ HC ]  Hartford Stage's summer festival of play readings by Frank Rizzo
New works by Reno, Craig Wright, Daisy Foote, David Cale, Edwin S�nchez, Joe Hortua and Stephen Belber - as well as the Tectonic Theater Company's new project - will make up Hartford Stage's "Brand:NEW" festival of play readings June 9 to 13.

[ TS ]  City alive with sound of musicals by MARTIN KNELMAN
6 toe-tapping shows a boon for tourism

[ NJ ]  Center stage by Peter Filichia
Ahhhchoo! Broadway star Karen Ziemba is about to catch a cold at the Paper Mill Playhouse.

[ P ]  Life of Lion King's Jason Raize Celebrated April 8 at New Amsterdam

[ P ]  Good Morning, Toronto: "American Idol" Veteran Olivarez Stars in Canadian Bow of Hairspray, Starting April 8

[ P ]  Belber's Match, with Langella, Liotta and Adams, Opens on Broadway April 8

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Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Reviews:

[ B ]  Mrs. Farnsworth
Review by Celia Wren

Republicans, beware! For the next few weeks, you might want to give a wide berth to 41 White Street, where The Flea Theatre is showcasing a diverting piece of agit-prop.

[ B ]  Roar
Review by William Stevenson

[ TB ]  Roar
Review by Matthew Murray


News:

[ P ]  Reconstruction of Duffy Square, Home of TKTS Booth, to Begin in Winter 2005
Includes a picture of the planned redesign of the TKTS booth.

[ P ]  London's Donmar Warehouse Season to Feature Jeremy Northam and Clare Higgins

[ P ]  A Good Hair Day: Winokur Is Tracy in L.A. Stop of Hairspray

[ P ]  New Voices Salutes Lyricists Campbell and Waldrop in April 19 Concert in NYC; Clark, Reichard, Winther Sing

[ P ]  Shear Madness as Videotaper Caught at Dirty Blonde Performance in CA, April 4

[ P ]  Times Square Turns 100 Years Old

[ P ]  Buffet of Words Served in Tasting Memories, With Harris, Bosco and More, Off-Bway May 19-June 13

[ P ]  Assassins Star Denis O'Hare Joins Lineup of MCC Theatre Miscast Benefit, April 19

[ P ]  HBO Delays DVD Release of "Angels in America" to Sept. 14

[ P ]  Aida's Deborah A. Cox Records Special Dance Mix of Show Song

[ P ]  The Normal Heart Revival to Begin Previews April 9

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[ B ]  Victor Argo, Star of Anna in the Tropics, Dies
Victor Argo, who made a splash on Broadway earlier this season as Santiago in Nilo Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Anna in the Tropics, died of cancer on April 6. He was 69.

[ P ]  Victor Argo, Character Actor of Broadway's Anna in the Tropics, Dead

[ B ]  Victor Argo's Broadway Credits


Features:

[ B ]  Stage Notes: 04/07/04 by Paul Wontorek

[ B ]  Obscure Recordings: '50s TV Tuners by Ken Mandelbaum

[ P ]  Off-Broadway Shines a Light on Playwright Tristine Skyler

Over the past few years the Worth Street Theatre has struck gold with risky productions of new plays by unsung young playwrights.

[ TM ]  Photo File by: Michael Portantiere and Joseph Marzullo
John Tartaglia, J. Smith-Cameron, Richard Dreyfuss, Swoosie Kurtz, and Patti LuPone are only a few of the stars of our latest photo feature.

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Bollywood in the Big Apple: Bombay Dreams Now in Previews

Reviews:

[ TB ]  Delightful Baby Feels Like the Dawn of a New Era at Paper Mill by Bob Rendell

News:

[ B ]  Winokur Set for L.A. Run of Hairspray Tour

[ P ]  Classic Hemingway Tale Gets World Premiere Staging by Boston's Stoneham Theatre in 2004-05

[ P ]  Thrill Me, the Leopold & Loeb Musical, Gets NY Cast Album April 20

[ P ]  London's Whitehall Theatre to Be Reborn as Trafalgar Studios

[ P ]  Ralph Fiennes May Play Hamlet Again in West End

[ P ]  Vidnovic and Westenberg Join April 19 Broadway by the Year; McCarthy Withdraws

[ P ]  Sunset Boulevard's Barrowman to Release New CD in June

[ P ]  Alfred Molina and Alice Ripley to Offer Standup Shakespeare April 19

[ P ]  Foster, Harada and Cody Head to the Chatterbox April 8

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond:Plans for Summer in the Berkshires, Part II
Dorset, Adirondack, Mac-Haydn, Chester
XM Satellite Radio

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond:Two Musicals Cropping Up Off-Broadway
'Finian's Rainbow', 'The Joys of Sex'
XM Satellite Radio

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Features:

[ NYT ]  A Fledgling Williams Play Flies to the Stage by MEL GUSSOW
"Spring Storm" was never produced or published during Tennessee Williams's lifetime. Next month, an enterprising young director will bring the play to a New York stage.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Who does Peter Filichia think are the 50 most loathsome New Yorkers in musical theater?

[ TS ]  Writer lights up Broadway by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
Stephen Belber's Match is opening in Manhattan tomorrow night and it's the first time in more than 20 years that a playwright has made his Broadway debut with a play that hasn't been initially tried out somewhere else.

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Doug Wright
Doug Wright became a Broadway playwright earlier this season, and on April 5 he became a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright.

[ BH ]  Up close, 'Othello' gets personal in visiting Guthrie production by Terry Byrne
The last time noted director Joe Dowling took on Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello," it starred Christopher Walken and the late Raul Julia and was staged outdoors in Central Park during the 1991 New York Shakespeare Festival.

News:

[ NYT ]  A Face-Lift for the Square Within Times Square by JAMES BARRON
Duffy Square, the triangle between West 47th Street, Broadway and Seventh Avenue, is getting a makeover.

[ NYT ]  A High-Wire Performer Is Injured in a Fall
A performer with Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus fell yesterday from a 25-foot-high tightrope at Madison Square Garden and was hospitalized with minor injuries.

[ R ]  ABBA Says 'No' to Reunion - at Any Price by Paul Majendie
The sight of the group's outrageous stage outfits is enough to make its 58-year-old songwriter Bjorn Ulvaeus cringe nowadays.

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
VETERAN actor Eli Wallach is writing his memoirs. And he gave a sneak preview the other night at the party for the opening of painter Ellen Adler's show at the Blue Heron Gallery.

[ Y ]  Loretta Devine Draws 'Wild Card' for Lifetime

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 7

[ P ]  Sold-Out A.R. Gurney Comedy, Mrs. Farnsworth, Opens at Flea Theatre, April 7

[ P ]  Roar with Annabella Sciorra Makes World Premiere Off-Broadway, April 7

[ P ]  Performers are Virtual Orchestra in Off-Broadway's Loudmouth, April 7

[ P ]  Ugandan Odyssey, Biro, Begins April 6 at Public Theater; Opening Is April 18

[ P ]  TACT's Triangle Factory Fire Project Conjures Workplace Disaster of 1911; World Premiere is May 14-29

[ P ]  Goodman Theatre's Proof Extends to May 2


Reviews:

[ NJ ]  2 big talents: Actors juggle multiple roles to keep What Exit? audience in their pockets BY PETER FILICHIA

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'TROJAN WOMEN'
After the War, Before the Slavery, Steeping in Civilization's Tatters by MARGO JEFFERSON

The Classical Theater of Harlem's dynamic and harrowing production of Euripides' play succeeds in making a classic relevant.

[ CU ]  Happy Birthday, Wanda June

[ CU ]  Baby

[ CU ]  Blue Man Group

[ CU ]  The Humana Festival: 2004

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column

Theater and cabaret are heating up even if the weather isn't: Barbara & Scott report on Well, From Door to Door, and Helen's Hideaway.

[ VV ]  Family Structuralists
Two Jewish-family plays fall apart, but Well, the wiser, does it deliberately and elegantly by Michael Feingold

Well; Sarah, Sarah

[ VV ]  Sightlines by Michael Feingold
Sly Fox

[ VV ]  Kate Fodor's Hannah: Merely Dr. Heidegger's experiment? by Michael Feingold
Hannah and Martin

[ VV ]  Less
Poor little TV rich girl reveals life ain't no cheery cartoon by Alexis Soloski

Yeardley Smith's More by Alexis Soloski

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Tuesday, April 06, 2004

Features:

[ B ]  First Person: Saving Grace by Martin Moran

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Sneak Peek of Kennedy Center's Streetcar

[ B ]  Photo Op: Checking in on the Kennedy Center's Streetcar


Reviews:

[ TM ]  Baby
Reviewed By: Matthew Murray


News:

[ P ]  Wonderful Town Introduces Wednesday Night Talk Backs

[ P ]  She's a Big Girl Now: Carly Jibson Is Broadway's New Tracy in Hairspray Starting May 4

[ P ]  Brit TV Celebs to Star in London Rattle of a Simple Man

[ P ]  The 2004 New York International Fringe Festival Set for Aug. 13-29 Run

[ P ]  T.H. McCulloh, Los Angeles Theatre Critic, Dead at 69

[ P ]  Moran and Barrish Talkback at The Tricky Part Performances, April 6-9

[ TM ]  2004 Lucille Lortel Award Nominees Announced; Frozen and Valhalla Lead the Pack

[ TM ]  Casting Announced for The Broadway Musicals of 1949

[ TM ]  TM to Present Discussion With Neil LaBute at Ars Nova

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[ Y ]  Calif. Man Illegally Tapes 'Dirty Blonde'
One person apparently thought the Pasadena Playhouse's stage production of "Dirty Blonde" was worth immortalizing.
Police were called to the theater Sunday after a man was caught illegally videotaping an afternoon performance of the play about the actress Mae West, officials said.
Thanks to Lyric on All That Chat for the link.

Features:

[ B ]  Tonys 2004 #1 by Ken Mandelbaum
With only a month left to the 2003-2004 Broadway season, it's time for our fourth annual series of pieces exploring the possibilites for the year's Tony Award categories.

Reviews:

[ TM ]  Tunes, Tomes, & Videos
Matthew Murray reviews the newly released cast albums of A Year WIth Frog and Toad and The Thing About Men.

News:

[ P ]  New Resident LORT House, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Opens With My Fair Lady and Big Plans for 2004-05

[ P ]  "American Idol" Singer Marque Lynche Joins Cast of Fame on 42nd Street

[ P ]  Damn Yankees Movie on Track as Next Miramax Cinematic Musical

[ P ]  Karen Ziemba Is Miss Adelaide in Paper Mill Guys and Dolls

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Rolling Along

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Features:

[ NYT ]  Where Plays Escape the Curse of the Unseen by BRUCE WEBER
The Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Ky., has become a popular resource for talented, emerging playwrights and new works.

[ ND ]  Weaver's way with wives BY BLAKE GREEN
Actress tackles 'Mrs. Farnsworth' as director's spouse

[ DP ]  Song duo lives for the laughs by John Moore
'Hairspray' music is their latest feat

[ OCR ]  A 'Royal' revival by PAUL HODGINS
A venerable comedy classic looks at a fictional theater family that may seem strangely familiar to Barrymore fans.
�The Royal Family� with Kate Mulgrew and Marian Seldes.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the two links above!


[ TS ]  National Ballet dancer is movin' on and out by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
Christopher Body now starring on Broadway

[ TS ]  Novel musical makes, draws on history by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
"I think it's one of the most important shows in the history of Canadian theatre."
That's how Martin Bragg, artistic producer of CanStage, describes the company's production of P�lagie, which starts previews on Monday night at the Bluma Appel Theatre, prior to a Thursday opening.

[ WP ]  Backstage: A Much-Appreciated Return to Tennessee by Jane Horwitz
The opening event in the Kennedy Center's "Tennessee Williams Explored" festival this spring and summer will be a one-evening symposium with grande dames of the stage. Zoe Caldwell, Rosemary Harris, Estelle Parsons and Eva Marie Saint will join moderator Charles Osgood of CBS News to talk about the playwright.
Caldwell and Harris gave Backstage a snippet of what they might discuss.

[ R ]  New York Play Uses Therapy, Real Life to Entertain by Christine Kearney
A zany new off-Broadway show, "This is Your Ridiculous Life," uses professional psychotherapists onstage to interview members of the audience. Their life stories then are used as material for improvised comedy skits.

[ BS ]  Arts Highs
Southern California arts high schools offer havens for dedicated young performers.

[ B ]  Photo Op: Baby Bows at Paper Mill

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway's Assassins Take First Shot

[ DC ]  Photos: All-Star Reading of "Sunset Boulevard"


News:

[ DN ]  'Wife' writer gets Pulitzer surprise by ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
Doug Wright was in the middle of directing a reading of a play in Manhattan when he received a call from the Pulitzer Prize committee, telling him he was the drama winner for his one-man show, "I Am My Own Wife."

[ NYT ]  The Pulitzer Prizes: Letters, Drama and Music

[ CST ]  Pulitzer-winning drama first opened in Chicago BY HEDY WEISS

[ P ]  Frozen, Bug, Caroline, I Am My Own Wife, Valhalla, Small Tragedy Among 2004 Lortel Nominees

[ B ]  Frozen, Valhalla Top 2004 Lortel Award Noms

[ B ]  American Idol's Lynche Set for Fame Off-B'way

[ V ]  B'way B.O. sets record

White Way sees green despite dips

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: March 29 - April 4

[ Y ]  Rhys-Davies, Boatman Report for Pilot Duty

Matthew Morrison has come on board ABC comedy pilot, "Thank God It's Monday," an ensemble workplace comedy about guys who talk about their home life at work. Morrison, a member of the original cast of the Broadway hit musical "Hairspray," will play one of the guys.

[ CST ]  Second City joins Shakespeareans for 'Romeo' spoof
Risking a plague on both their houses, Chicago Shakespeare Theater and Second City are teaming up for a summer spoof of "Romeo and Juliet."

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 6

[ P ]  Karen Akers Sings Classics in "Time After Time," April 6-May 15 at Algonquin

[ P ]  Patti LuPone Carries a Torch April 6-24 at Feinstein's at the Regency

[ P ]  National Theatre Production of Stoppard's Jumpers Jumps to Broadway April 6

[ P ]  Frog and Toad Cast Album, Freshly Packaged, Gets April 6 Release by PS Classics

[ P ]  Bart and Oscar Are Back as The Producers on Broadway

[ P ]  Kudisch and Co. Sing on The Thing About Men Original Cast Album, Released April 6

[ P ]  Kevin Kline and Lewis Black in April 19 Reading of New Weller Play

[ P ]  A.R. Gurney Comedy, Mrs. Farnsworth, Sells Out at Flea Theatre; Transfer Next?

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: London News Round-Up
XM Satellite Radio


Reviews:

[ NJ ]  Paper Mill delivers a bouncing 'Baby' BY PETER FILICHIA
Call the sitter immediately.
Every parent within striking distance of Millburn must get to the Paper Mill Playhouse to see "Baby."

[ NYP ]  PREZ WIVES' CLUB A FUN FANTASY by DONALD LYONS
Despite its unhummable score, "First Lady Suite" is a memorable piece of theater, full of wit and wonderful performances.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'FIRST LADY SUITE'
Why the Caged First Ladies Sing by BEN BRANTLEY

Michael John LaChiusa's intricate chamber musical at the Connelly Theater is powerfully sung and performed by skilled Broadway veterans.

[ CT ]  'Ashley' a standout at Louisville's Humana Festival or 2 real winners at this year's Humana Festival by Michael Phillips

[ NYT ]  MUSIC REVIEW | JULIE WILSON
An Artful Wink Slyly Denies Time's Passage by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Ms. Wilson transformed standards into deep, emotional recollections in her comtemplative show of personal mileage this weekend.

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Monday, April 05, 2004

News:

[ B ]  Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife Wins Pulitzer
Playwright Doug Wright has been awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play I Am My Own Wife, currently running at the Lyceum Theatre. Tracy Letts' Man From Nebraska and Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros's Omnium Gatherum were the other nominated finalists in the category.

[ TM ]  I Am My Own Wife Author Doug Wright Wins 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

[ P ]  I Am My Own Wife Wins 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Drama

[ B ]  Karen Ziemba is Paper Mill's Miss Adelaide

[ B ]  Denis O'Hare to Star in B'way's Sweet Charity

[ B ]  Casting Update for B'way-Bound All Shook Up

[ P ]  Simon Gray Here, There, Simon Gray Everywhere in England; Japes May Hit Broadway

[ P ]  Mamma Mia! Composer Has Songs From New Musical on "Radio Playbill" April 5-18

[ P ]  Broadway's Lion King, Aida and Pop Composer Elton John is Featured Theme on "American Idol," April 6

[ P ]  Hartford's TheaterWorks Gets Albee's Goat, Opening April 9

[ P ]  National Labor Relations Board Dismisses Musicians Union Charge Against Brooklyn Company


Features:

[ B ]  Q & A: 4/5/04 by Ken Mandelbaum

Reviews:

[ TM ]  First Lady Suite
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ TM ]  My Kitchen Wars
Reviewed By: David Finkle

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[ CU ] Columbia Announces 88th Annual Pulitzer Prizes

See also: www.pulitzer.org

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Features:

[ P ]  Assassins Shooting Gallery, Part III: Garrison as Fromme and Baker as Moore

[ B ]  Photo Op: First Lady Returns to New York Stage

[ B ]  Photo Op: Bombay's Rahman Toasted by India Awards


News:

[ P ]  Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel Wins 2004 Steinberg New Play Award

[ P ]  Gem of the Ocean's Rashad and Wilson Among L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award Winners

[ P ]  Toronto's Tarragon Theatre Has Four World Premieres, Plus Private Jokes, Public Places in 2004-05

[ P ]  Second City's My Cousin's Wedding to Play Nyack's Helen Hayes in June

[ P ]  Noah Emmerich Replaces O'Byrne in Kennedy Center Streetcar

[ B ]  Emmerich Replaces O'Byrne in DC's Streetcar

[ B ]  B'way Cast Members Ready for Big River Tour

[ B ]  Tickets Now on Sale for Medoff's Prymate

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News:

[ V ]  Emmerich shows 'Desire'
Thesp to play Mitch in Williams revival

Noah Emmerich will replace Brian F. O'Byrne in the Kennedy Center's upcoming production of "A Streetcar Named Desire."

[ * ]  "Wonderfalls" cancelled
A too-early end for the quirky Fox TV series starring Broadway's Katie Finneran.
"The cow creamer will be silent this Thursday and forever forward," exec producer Tim Minear says in a post on Buffistas.org.


[ NYT ]  John Taras, Choreographer, Dies at 84 by ANNA KISSELGOFF
John Taras was an internationally known American choreographer associated chiefly with New York City Ballet.

[ IBDB ]  John Taras' Broadway Credits

[ NJ ]  A showy 75th birthday for McCarter BY PETER FILICHIA

The McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton has set a number of jewels in place to celebrate its diamond anniversary season.

[ DN ]  Swan song deux for 'Producers' 2 by ERIN WALSH and TAMER EL-GHOBASHY
Fans gave a rousing sendoff to Nathan Lane (Max Bialystock) and Matthew Broderick (Leo Bloom) as the two triumphantly capped their return engagement to the St. James Theater in "The Producers."

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
CATCH THIS 'FOX'

[ P ]  Talk Show Watch: Richard Dreyfuss on "Regis," Patrick Wilson on "Today"

[ P ]  Broadway's Huck, Twain and Jim Join Calhoun for Big River Tour, Launching June 11 in CA

[ P ]  Avenue Q's John Tartaglia Makes Solo Concert Debut April 5

[ P ]  London Oklahoma! Stars Jackman and Hensley Battle in "Van Helsing" Movie, May 7

[ P ]  Cast Announced for Premiere of Naomi Wallace's Things of Dry Hours, in Pittsburgh

[ P ]  Starry Cast Lined Up For Royal National Theatre's Forum

[ P ]  Pulitzer Prize for Drama to Be Announced April 5

[ P ]  Mint Benefit to Feature Sternhagen, Jones, Dillon and Staller


Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Do you know about the Reagle Players in Waltham, Massachusetts? Filichia thinks you should.

[ HC ]  If 'Cheap' Shows Are Broadway, Velveeta Is Cheese by Frank Rizzo
Now more than ever, theater fans attending Broadway touring shows are wise to remember the shopping adage: Buyer, beware.

[ HC ]  The Heart Of Conflict by FRANK RIZZO
'Sixteen Wounded,' Set In Middle East Tension, Moves From New Haven To Broadway

[ CT ]  Exorcising her demons by Chris Jones
Rebecca Gilman's new play about a tortured painter parallels the playwright's own life in Chicago

[ CST ]  Combs leaves world of hip-hop for the Great White Way BY NEKESA MUMBI MOODY

[ CST ]  If the crown fits, this star will wear it BY CINDY PEARLMAN

Profile of Anne Hathaway, with the following interesting quote:
"My mom is actually making her feature film debut in 'Princess Diaries 2.' Her name is Kate McCauley, and she plays Madame Bouvier, the court-appointed supervisor for my wedding," she says.

[ TB ]  The Journey Begins...... (Part 4 of a 5 Part Series - April 2004) by Scott Cain

[ MN ]  His -- and his dad's -- 'Antonia' by Karen D'Souza

Scott Schwartz.

[ OCR ]  Is it live or is it ...? Sinfonia's here to stay by PAUL HODGINS
Thanks to American Theater Web for the final two links above.

Reviews:

[ B ]  First Lady Suite
Review by Eric Grode

Intellectually stunning and emotionally breathtaking, First Lady Suite may be the musical highlight of this season.

[ TB ]  First Lady Suite
Review by Matthew Murray

[ CU ]  First Lady Suite

[ ND ]  A passionate, topical Troy story BY GORDON COX

"Trojan Women" at the Classical Theater of Harlem.

[ P ]  ON THE RECORD: The Musical of Musicals and Gay's the Word

[ CU ]  Brando

[ CU ]  Unidentified Human Remains

[ TB ]  "ELEGIES," "CHILDREN OF EDEN," and "A FLAG IS BORN"
Washington, D.C. Reviews by Tracy Lyon

[ TB ]  Fully Committed and Lady in the Dark
Los Angeles Reviews by Sharon Perlmutter

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2007-08
Broadway Season

June 28 - Old Acquaintance (AA)

July 10 - Xanadu (Hayes) [Robert Ahrens, Dan Vickery, Tara Smith/B. Swibel and Sarah Murchison/Dale Smith]

Aug 19 - Grease (Atkinson)

Oct 4 - Mauritius (Biltmore) [MTC]

Oct 11 - The Ritz (54)

Oct 18 - Pygmalion (AA)

Oct 25 - A Bronx Tale (Kerr)

Nov 1 - Cyrano de Bergerac (Rodgers)

Nov 4 - Rock 'N' Roll (Jacobs)

Nov 8 - Young Frankenstein (Hilton)

Nov 9 - Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (St. James)

Nov 10: Local One Strike Begins

Nov 28: Local One Strike Ends

Dec 2 - Cymbeline (Beaumont)

Dec 3 - The Farnsworth Invention (Music Box) [Dodger Properties with Steven Spielberg, Dan Cap Productions, Fred Zollo, Latitude Link and the Pelican Group]

Dec 4 - August: Osage County (Imperial) [Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Steppenwolf]

Dec 6 - The Seafarer (Booth)

Dec 9 - Is He Dead? (Lyceum)

Dec 16 - The Homecoming (Cort) [Richards, Frankel]

Jan 10 - The Little Mermaid (Lunt)

Jan 15 - The 39 Steps (AA)

Jan 17 - November (Barrymore)

Jan 24 - Come Back, Little Sheba (Biltmore)

Feb 21 - Sunday In The Park With George (54)

Feb 28 - Passing Strange (Belasco)

Mar 6 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Broadhurst) [Stephen C. Byrd]

Mar 9 - In The Heights (Rodgers)

Mar 27 - Gypsy (St. James)

Mar 29 - Macbeth (Lyceum)

Apr 3 - South Pacific (Beaumont)

Apr 17 - A Catered Affair (Kerr) [Jujamcyn Theaters, Jordan Roth, Harvey Entertainment / Ron Fierstein, Richie Jackson and Daryl Roth]

Apr 24 - Cry Baby (Marquis)

Apr 27 - The Country Girl (Jacobs)

Apr 30 - Thurgood (Booth)

May 1 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses (AA)

May 4 - Boeing-Boeing (Longacre)

May 7 - Top Girls (Biltmore)

TBA - Godspell

2008-09
Broadway Season

Oct 16 - Billy Elliot (Imperial)

Nov 08 - Dividing the Estate (a Shubert theater)

Dec 14 - Shrek: The Musical (Broadway) [DreamWorks]

Talked About
Not Scheduled Yet

TBA - 50 Words

TBA - Addams Family (Elephant Eye)

TBA - American Buffalo

TBA - An American Vaudeville [Farrell, Perloff]

TBA - The Beard of Avon [NYTW]

TBA - Being There [Permut]

TBA - Benny & Joon [MGM]

TBA - Billy Elliot

TBA - Brave New World [Rachunow]

TBA - Breath of Life [Fox]

TBA - Busker Alley [Margot Astrachan, Robert Blume, Kristine Lewis, Jamie Fox, Joanna Kerry & Heather Duke]

TBA - Broomhilda

TBA - Bye Bye Birdie [Niko]

TBA - Camille Claudel [Wildhorn]

TBA - Camelot

TBA - Carmen [Robin DeLevita and The Firm]

TBA - Catch Me If You Can

TBA - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [Bob and Harvey Weinstein]

TBA - Cry Baby [Grazer, Gordon, McAllister, Epstein]

TBA - Designing Women [Alexis]

TBA - Don Juan DeMarco [New Line]

TBA - Dreamgirls [Creative Battery]

TBA - Duet

TBA - Equus

TBA - Ever After [Adam Epstein]

TBA - Fallen Angels (Shubert) [Kenwright]

TBA - Farragut North [Richards]

TBA - Father of the Bride

TBA - The Female Of The Species (TBA)

TBA - Fool For Love (AA) [Roundabout]

TBA - Girl Group Time Travelers

TBA - Golden Boy

TBA - Harmony [Guiles, Karslake, Smith, Fishman]

TBA - Hitchcock Blonde

TBA - The Importance Of Being Earnest

TBA - Jerry Springer: The Opera! [Thoday, McKeown]

TBA - Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train (Circle)

TBA - Josephine [Waissman]

TBA - Leap of Faith

TBA - A Little Princess [Ettinger, Dodger]

TBA - Midnight Cowboy [MGM]

TBA - The Minstrel Show - Kander and Ebb and Stroman

TBA - Moonstruck [Pittelman, Azenberg]

TBA - Mourning Becomes Electra [Haber, Boyett]

TBA - Monsoon Wedding

TBA - The Night of the Hunter

TBA - The Opposite of Sex [Namco]

TBA - Orphans

TBA - Pal Joey [Platt]

TBA - Paper Doll

TBA - The Paris Letter

TBA - The Philadelphia Story

TBA - Peter Pan

TBA - Porgy and Bess [Frankel, Viertel, Baruch, Routh, Panter, Tulchin/Bartner]

TBA - The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert

TBA - The Princess Bride

TBA - Princesses [Lane, Comley]

TBA - Poe the Musical

TBA - Rain Man [MGM]

TBA - Robin Hood

TBA - Secondhand Lions

TBA - South Pacific

TBA - Speed-the-Plow

TBA - Stalag 17

TBA - Starry Messenger

TBA - Syncopation

TBA - A Tale Of Two Cities

TBA - Torch Song Trilogy

TBA - Turn of the Century

TBA - West Side Story

TBA - The Wall [Weinstein, Mottola, Waters]

TBA - Will Rogers Follies [Cossette]

TBA - The Wiz [Dodger]

TBA - Zanna [Dalgleish]

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

 
   


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