Friday, May 14, 2004

[ B ]  Caroline Performance Cancelled Due to Flooding
The Friday, May 14 performance of Caroline, or Change has been cancelled because, during a routine work during the day, a sprinkler system at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre malfunctioned causing minor flooding on the stage. Performances are expected to resume at 2pm Saturday, May 15.

[ P ]  Caroline All Wet: Faulty Sprinkler System Forces Cancellation of May 14 Show

[ TM ]  Caroline, or Change Cancels Friday, May 14 Performance

[ P ]  Chenoweth-LuPone Candide to Be Part of "Great Performances" TV Season

[ B ]  Kidman, Bennett and Blige Join Tony Telecast

[ TM ]  Drama League Award Winners Announced
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News:

[ P ]  Wife, Wicked, Assassins, Henry IV and Jackman Win 2004 Drama League Awards

[ B ]  2004 Drama League Awards Announced

[ B ]  Frenchie Davis Returns to B'way's Rent June 1

[ P ]  Ken Ludwig Now Slated to Direct Own Leading Ladies at Alley and Cleveland

[ P ]  I Am My Own Wife Star Guests on "Theater Talk" May 14

[ P ]  Secret Garden's Schulman to Direct Voyage Musical Workshop

[ P ]  The Mystery Plays and The Triple Happiness Set for Summer New Plays Uptown Series

[ P ]  Report: Liam Neeson Camelot Postponed to Fall 2005

[ P ]  Barbara Cook Forced to Postpone London Opening Due to Illness

[ P ]  Wonderful Town to Perform on Weekend "Today" Show

[ P ]  Andrea Martin Begins in The Rose Tattoo at Boston's Huntington, May 14

[ P ]  Embedded Digs in Until June 5; Robbins Remains

[ P ]  PBOL'S THEATER WEEK IN REVIEW, May 8-14: Witches and Puppets

[ P ]  "Ode to Attention Seekers": Taboo CD Signing Set for May 27

[ P ]  Former Renter Takes Part in Reading of New Musical, Lulu

[ P ]  Marc Salem to Bring Mind Games to Broadway

[ P ]  Kidman to Present on Tony Telecast; Bennett and Blige to Sing

[ P ]  Anna, Take Me Out, Bad Dates, Ma Rainey and Zimmerman's Secret Set for Seattle Rep 2004-05

Reviews:

[ B ]  DVDs: Those Were the Happy Times by Ken Mandelbaum
STAR! (20th Century-Fox)

[ TB ]  The NEW My Fair Lady Sets Up Shop in Princeton
Review by Bob Rendell

Features:

[ P ]  Shooting Star
Chatting with Assassins' Neil Patrick Harris

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: Tony Nominees Chenoweth, D'Abruzzo, Menzel, Murphy and Pinkins Plus LuPone on Tour
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[ STARS ]  SHANNON COCHRAN OF BUG: 45 YEARS TO OFF-BROADWAY ... AND PINCHING HERSELF TO MAKE SURE IT�S NO DREAM
by ELLIS NASSOUR
Not even a can of the most intense Raid can stop Bug from becoming the most talked about play of this season. It has pedigree: penned by the very unassuming actor Tracy Letts of Killer Joe fame; and is the recipient of rave reviews and award nominations -- including honors for leading lady Shannon Cochran.

News:

[ NYP ]  WORKING ON A ROAD GANG by MICHAEL RIEDEL
TONY Award electioneering was in full tilt this week as the producers of this year's nominated musicals wined and dined an influential block of Tony voters: the road presenters.

[ NYT ]  ON STAGE AND OFF
No Type-Casting by JASON ZINOMAN
Next up for Andr� De Shields, the fearless actor who played an H.I.V.-infected ape in "Prymate," is the nefarious and brutal Roman emperor Caligula.

[ B ]  Stephen Belber's Match to Shutter May 23
At the time it closes, Match will have played 28 previews and 53 regular performances.

[ P ]  Match to Close on Broadway May 23

[ TM ]  Match's Fire Will Go Out on May 23

"My Fair Lady":

[ NYT ]  'My Fair Lady' in Miniature by BRUCE WEBER
The "My Fair Lady" on the jewel-box second stage at the McCarter Theater Center is the imaginative product of two affable and boyish Chicagoans.

[ TM ]  My Fair Lady
New Jersey Review By: Matthew Murray

[ NJ ]  A fair-thee-very-well vest-pocket musical BY PETER FILICHIA
By George, I think they got most of it.

Features:

[ BG ]  Funny lady, serious role by Maureen Dezell
Comic actress Andrea Martin takes on Tennessee Williams's 'Rose Tattoo'

[ DN ]  'H-a-i-r-s' Michael ... BY JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ
Michael McKean has created two memorable characters on TV and in the movies - but now on Broadway he's stepping into someone else's shoes.
Of course, they're high heels.

[ WP ]  Tennessee Williams's Testosterone and Old Lace
Fashion owes a significant debt to playwright Tennessee Williams.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Professor Filichia tests your knowledge of shows that share common song titles.

[ NJ ]  Singer basks in reflected glory BY PETER FILICHIA
Queen Esther Marrow calls her new musical "In Mahalia's Light" for good reason.

[ BG ]  O.J. case inspired 'Lizzie' writer by Catherine Foster

[ TM ]  And the Nominees Are... by: Michael Buckley
TheaterMania schmoozes with the stars at the 2004 Tony Award nominees' brunch.

[ BS ]  The South Asians Are Coming... In Fact, They're Already Here
Whether South Asian theatre artists are truly joyous about "Bombay Dreams" or just reluctant to voice criticism is arguable.

[ BS ]  The Right(s) Stuff
One playwright's experience with obtaining -- and keeping -- the rights to another artist's work was reasonably smooth sailing. Other writers are not as fortunate.

[ ND ]  Stephin Merritt, the prolific front man for The Magnetic Fields, writes musicals, scores Chinese operas and leads three other bands BY STEVE KNOPPER

Reviews:

[ TB ]  Necropolis
Review by Warren Hoffman
I'm in a quandary. Is Necropolis, the new play by Don Nigro at the Pantheon Theatre, a bad play with a fair amount of sex thrown in or a good softcore porn play with bad lines? Considering the cheesy background music that often underscores the action, I'd say it's a draw.

[ B ]  The Two and Only
Review by William Stevenson

[ TM ]  The Woman Destroyed
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ BG ]  Lyrics dull edge of 'Lizzie Borden' by James Parker

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'WHERE DO WE LIVE'
Multiple Characters in a Human Kaleidoscope by MARGO JEFFERSON
Christopher Shinn's play explores the forces that make disparate lives converge � or at least cross briefly � and then go their separate ways.

[ ND ]  Once 'too timely,' now nearly timeless BY LINDA WINER
When Tony Kushner's "Homebody/Kabul" had its premiere at the New York Theatre Workshop in December 2001, the two-part Afghan journey was not just eerily timely. Strange as this sounds, the work actually felt too timely.

[ NJ ]  Kushner's brilliant 'Kabul' could use a trim BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ DN ]  Cruel intentions, different results by Howard Kissel
Few plays open as arrestingly as Tracy Letts' "Bug," which is set in an impersonal motel room in a Southwestern city.

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
Notes on Neil LaBute's play, Jim Caruso's return, and cabaret stars Julie Reyburn, Jack Donahue, Ruben Flores, and Martha Lorin.

[ NYT ]  MUSIC REVIEW | PAUL WILLIAMS
Quick Wits Along With 70's Hits by STEPHEN HOLDEN
Mr. Williams enlivened his program of famous songs with anecdotes at Feinstein's at the Regency last week.

Other News:

[ B ]  Off-B'way's Embedded Extends Through June 5

[ B ]  Salem to Play Monday Mind Games at Lyceum

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: MAY 14

[ P ]  New Ensemble Piece, Triangle Factory Fire, Gets World Premiere by NYC's TACT May 14-29

[ P ]  Natasha Richardson Set to Ride Streetcar to Broadway's Studio 54 in March 2005

[ P ]  Suddenly Last Summer � with Rigg and Hamilton � Opens in London May 14

[ B ]  Vote For Our 5th Annual Audience Awards!

[ TM ]  Thoroughly Modern Millie Will Close on June 20
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Thursday, May 13, 2004

[ B ]  Thoroughly Modern Millie to Close on June 20
The Tony Award-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie will play its final performance at the Marquis Theatre on June 20. At the time it closes, it will have played 32 previews and 904 regular performances on the Great White Way.

[ P ]  Thoroughly Modern Millie to End Broadway Run June 20

[ B ]  Hunter Foster is Next Leo Bloom in The Producers

[ P ]  The Producers Welcomes Little Shop's Hunter Foster in June

[ P ]  'N Sync's Joey Fatone to Join Broadway's Little Shop of Horrors

[ B ]  Joey Fatone to Star in Little Shop on June 24

[ P ]  Kathleen Marshall to Direct and Choreograph TV Once Upon a Mattress With Burnett

[ P ]  The Boy From Oz Takes the Ed Sullivan Theatre as Jackman Appears on "Letterman," May 13

[ P ]  The Two and Only � with "Soap" Star Johnson � Opens Off-Bway May 13

[ B ]  Kern Replaces Von Essen in Finian's Rainbow

[ HC ]  Edward Albee, biographer at U of H symposium by Frank Rizzo

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Mitchell, O'Brien Among Guests Whom Honored Chita Rivera May 10

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Joys of Sex Cries Out, Opens Off-Bway May 12
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Features:

[ B ]  Obscure Recordings: Rose Marie and Bitter Sweet by Ken Mandelbaum
Douglas Sills has been mentioned for the upcoming Broadway revival of La Cage aux Folles. Sills is, of course, currently appearing in another Jerry Zaks production, Little Shop of Horrors.

[ TM ]  Loose Lips by: Brian Scott Lipton
Kate Shindle goes all girly for Michael John LaChiusa, Judy Kuhn moves into The House of Mirth, and Euan Morton of Taboo fame is only one of the stars headlining at Joe's Pub this month.

Reviews:

[ CU ]  The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc

News:

[ B ]  Original Stars Take Dirty Blonde to West End

[ P ]  Christopher Plummer Celebrates Playwright MacLeish May 27

[ P ]  Wild Party's Julia Murney Sings at Free Unity Concert May 14

[ P ]  Avenue Q Urges Community to "Vote Your Heart" at Invited Party in New York

[ P ]  Bombay Dreams Says "Shakalaka Baby" to ABC May 14

[ P ]  Chad Kimball Joins Finian's Rainbow in June; Kevin Kern, Too

[ P ]  Johnny Guitar Will Be RecordedMay 17

[ P ]  Rehearsals for Wonderful Town Tour Begin in August; Tour Launches in Houston

[ P ]  Tony Acting Nominations Honor History

[ P ]  Carol Channing Honored by York Theatre Company June 7

[ P ]  Natasha Richardson in Streetcar and Shepard's Fool For Love May See Broadway Via Roundabout

[ P ]  Multi-Award Winner Intimate Apparel Extends Off-Broadway to June 13
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[ USN ] A Fall From Grace by Kit R. Roane
A former Broadway actress turned war photographer--and a life unhinged
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Features:

[ DN ]  Not much adieu about Lilith by ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
Bebe Neuwirth will bid farewell to "Frasier" tonight the same way Lilith Crane would.
With barely any emotion at all.

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'HOMEBODY/KABUL'
Afghanistan Still Stirs a Housewife by BEN BRANTLEY
As the title character, Linda Emond dominates this revised and enriched production of Tony Kushner's ambitious, jagged work from 2001.

[ SUN ]  The Discovered Country by JEREMY McCARTER
Dazzling are the paradoxes of "Homebody/Kabul".

[ NYT ]  CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
When a Book's Epilogue Is Created on the Stage by MARGO JEFFERSON
Two plays based on classic stories lure us into the eternal present of performance while keeping us grounded in literary and cultural history.

[ TB ]  Trust
Review by Matthew Murray

[ ND ]  When Joan of Arc was still just Jeanette BY GORDON COX
The hush of a cloister envelops "The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc."

[ BH ]  Kiss this chemistry-free 'Kate' revival goodbye by Robert Nesti

[ BH ]  'Lizzie' turns notorious crime into stirring musical by Terry Byrne

[ NYP ]  WAR IS STILL HELL FOR GULF VETERAN 'SOLO' by DONALD LYONS
The strongest elements of the play are the performances and the quiet moments in which they flourish.

News:

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
DE NIRO'S NEXT BIG PUSH: THEATER
Plus important news about Mandy Patinkin.

[ R ]  Tonys Chief Shrugs Off Scathing NY Times Critique by Larry Fine

[ ND ]  Tony picks prove: lots to love by Linda Winer
A carefully drawn list reflects a thankfully busy Broadway season

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
TONY SHUTOUT

[ P ]  Chef's Theater: A Musical Feast Employs New Ingredients Beginning May 13

[ P ]  Unforgettable, Again: Nat King Cole & Me, a New Musical, Gets World Premiere at Denver Center, May 13-June 5
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Features:

[ B ]  First Person: The Secret (and Silent) Life of the Secretary by Eliza Lumley

Reviews:

[ TM ]  Tunes, Tomes, & Videos
David Finkle pores through The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2002-2003 and muses on the accuracy of the volume's title.

[ TM ]  Homebody/Kabul
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ TM ]  Lizzie Borden: The Musical
Reviewed By: Sandy MacDonald

News:

[ B ]  Off-Broadway's Intimate Apparel Extends
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Features:

[ B ]  Q & A: 5/12/04 by Ken Mandelbaum

[ B ]  Photo Op: 2004 Tony Nominees Do Brunch

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Tony Nominees Begin Awards Push by Greeting the Press

[ P ]  MARQUEE VALUE: Avenue Q Goes on the Campaign Trail at the Golden

[ LADN ]  Whiz kids by Evan Henerson
"Urinetown" on tour.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

News:

[ B ]  Kimball to Replace Gets in Finian's Rainbow

[ B ]  Roundabout Gets Love & Richardson in Streetcar

[ B ]  Darren Ritchie Joins Dracula, The Musical Cast

[ TM ]  New York Theater Journalists to Dissect the 2003-2004 Season at Ars Nova

[ TM ]  Drama Book Shop to Host Book Signing Event for Lucille Lortel Biography

[ TM ]  Tartaglia to Host Benefit for LGBT Youth

[ P ]  LAByrinth Extends Guinea Pig Solo Off-Broadway to June 6

[ P ]  Avenue Q's Tony-Nominated Composers at Work on Stage, Film and TV Projects
When comedic composers Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez say "We're busy,"they aren't joking.

[ P ]  Kushner Addresses Caroline, Producers, Critics in League Speech

[ P ]  La Chanze to Star in Broadway-Bound Musical The Color Purple

[ P ]  The Pajama Game Broadway Revival Now Looking at 2004-05 Season

[ P ]  Off-Broadway�s Normal Heart May Last Out the Summer

[ P ]  Off-Broadway Pop Opera Bare To Transfer to New Venue for Return in September

[ P ]  New Manhattan Summer Play Festival Announces Roster; Runs July 5-Aug. 1

[ P ]  Tom Hewitt and Melissa Errico Set for Dracula; Musical Gets New Broadway Dates

[ TM ]  Intimate Apparel Wins NY Drama Critics' Circle Award

[ B ]  Tony Winner Virginia Capers Dead at 78
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News:

[ NYP ]  STRAIGHT MAN by MICHAEL RIEDEL
HOW "gay" can Hugh Jackman be at this year's Tony Award telecast?

[ NYP ]  Serving up 'Frasier'
Gang lunches before finale by DAVID BIANCULLI
David Hyde Pierce is in talks to work with director Mike Nichols on a musical stage version of one of his favorite films, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail."

[ P ]  Virgina Capers, Tony-Winner for Musical Raisin, Dead at 78

[ NYT ]  Virginia Capers, 78, Actress Who Won a Tony for 'Raisin', Dies by BEN SISARIO

[ IBDB ]  Virginia Capers' Broadway Credits

[ P ]  Intimate Apparel Wins 2004 New York Drama Critics Circle Awards; No Musical or Foreign Play Prize Given

[ B ]  Apparel & Barbara Cook Take NY Critics Prize

[ NYT ]  'Intimate Apparel' Gets Critics' Circle Prize

[ B ]  Bare to Move to Dodger Stages September 21

[ B ]  Dracula Musical Changes Broadway Start Date

[ B ]  Two New Musicals Added to Vineyard Season

[ NJ ]  Young and talented notebook
Rising Star nominees

[ P ]  Adam Rapp's Gompers, Tale of a Steel Town, Featuring Anthony Rapp, Opens May 12 in Pittsburgh

[ P ]  The Afterlife Is a Farce: U.K.'s Frantic Assembly Stages Heavenly in Brits Off Bway Fest Starting May 12

[ P ]  New Musical, Studs Terkel's "The Good War," Gets Premiere at IL's Northlight; Carnelia and Bell Collaborate

[ P ]  Voice of the City, New Musical With an O. Henry Twist, Gets NYC Reading May 13 at York; Azenberg Directs

[ P ]  Michael Cumpsty and Kate Fry Star in McCarter's My Fair Lady

[ P ]  Claire Bloom and Kathryn Hunter Star in Barry�s Whistling Psyche, Opening May 12

[ P ]  Kerry O'Malley Joins Off-Broadway's Finian's Rainbow May 12

[ P ]  Naughty or Nice: The Joys of Sex Musical Opens Off-Broadway, May 12

[ P ]  Take Me Out Returning Champions Shoot for Tony Double Play with Assassins

[ P ]  Jerry Zaks Now Attached to Ludwig's Shakespeare in Hollywood

[ P ]  Ten Chimneys, Famed Home of Lunts, Declared a National Historic Landmark

[ TM ]  2004 Theatre World Award Winners Announced

[ TM ]  Best of D.C. Theater Honored in Helen Hayes Awards Ceremony at Kennedy Center

[ NYT ]  Arts Briefing by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Peter Allen, announcer for Metropolitan Opera's radio broadcasts, retires; the Mark Medoff play 'Prymate' closes; Nam June Paik receives the Edward MacDowell Medal.

Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Have you read Making It on Broadway? If you're pursuing a career in theater, Filichia thinks you should.

[ BH ]  Andrea Martin could leave indelible mark on 'Tattoo' by Terry Byrne

[ DN ]  Raul Esparza puts a lot of 'Heart' into his work BY JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ

[ BS ]  Neil Patrick Harris: Double Duty
Now in "Assassins," Neil Patrick Harris hopes audiences leave the theatre with a more complex perspective. "It makes Americans comfortable to call an assassin a lunatic."

[ TM ]  Too Many Cooks?
David Finkle on the growing phenomenon of food preparation and consumption onstage.

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Spotlight on: South Coast Rep
XM Satellite Radio

"Where Do We Live" - Reviews:

[ ND ]  Egos and confrontation downtown on 9/11 BY GORDON COX
"Maybe you have to learn to tolerate a certain amount of narcissism," says one wise character in "Where Do We Live." Maybe about an hour and 45 minutes' worth, if you're going to make it through the show.

[ B ]  Where Do We Live
Review by William Stevenson
Christopher Shinn's new play at the Vineyard Theatre offers a thoughtful view of life in New York City pre- and post-9/11. There's not a lot of dramatic action in it, but what does take place adds up to a compelling portrait of very different worlds colliding in Manhattan.

[ TM ]  Where Do We Live
Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

[ TB ]  Where Do We Live
Review by Matthew Murray

[ ATW ]  Where Do We Live: An Intense Look at Man's Capacity for Caring Pre-9/11
Review by Andy Propst

Other Reviews:

[ SUN ]  Broadway by the Tear by JEREMY McCARTER
There must have been highlights to this season, right?

[ NJ ]  Early Williams opus best for aficionados BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ VV ]  An Early Williams, Not Without Grit, Gets Turned Into Mush by Michael Feingold

[ TM ]  As I Lay Dying
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'TOOTH AND CLAW'
A Thriller, Yes, a Thriller, All About Tortoises and Evolution by NEIL GENZLINGER
Michael Hollinger's play may be about tortoises, but it sweeps along at a bracing pace more often seen in hares.

[ NJ ]  Opening doors: Alliance Repertory's tale of optimistic loser is a winner BY PETER FILICHIA
How can a play about a guy in a dull, dead-end job be so entertaining?
Yet Kenneth Lonergan's 2001 off-Broadway hit, "Lobby Hero," indeed is, in a solid production at the Alliance Repertory Theatre Company in Bloomfield.

[ CST ]  'The Pajama Game' BY HEDY WEISS
At the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, with Evan Pappas.

[ TS ]  Plain fun makes Finian's return a real rainmaker by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
Sometimes all you need is a rainbow to lead you to a pot of gold.
The Irish Repertory Theatre in Manhattan is currently staging a hit revival of the 1947 show Finian's Rainbow, which is not only a thing of beauty in itself, but an object lesson for some enterprising Toronto producers to copy.

[ VV ]  The Ape Of Things
One Broadway show tries frenzy, another tries cool. Guess which one is more honest? by Michael Feingold
Prymate; Frozen

[ VV ]  Sightlines by Michael Feingold
Bye Bye Birdie

[ VV ]  The Outsiders
American aliens (at home and abroad) drive two new plays by Alexis Soloski
The Internationalist; The Distance From Here

[ VV ]  Civilian Indignities
John Ortiz sizzles in LAByrinth's Iraq-war-era Woyzeck by David Ng
Guinea Pig Solo

[ NYT ]  BOOKS OF THE TIMES | 'PULL ME UP'
A Long Island Boyhood, Chasing Dreams and U.F.O.'s by WENDY WASSERSTEIN
Dan Barry's memoir is an extraordinarily lyrical look at a mid-20th-century working-class Irish-American family.

P.S.: Happy birthday, Erin Dilly!
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Reviews:

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
Barbara & Scott report on the Encores! production of Bye Bye Birdie and sink their teeth into Say Cheese!

News:

[ B ]  2004 National B'way Theatre Awards Announced

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Back to the Wild
Prymate had been steadily increasing in the grosses (last week it was up $3,848), but it never found an audience. Last week, the same week it opened to scathing reviews, the show filled the Longacre Theatre to just 14.77% capacity on average and made only $41,094.

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: May 3-9

[ B ]  2003-2004 Theatre World Winners Announced

[ P ]  Jackman, Mays, Tartaglia, Westfeldt, Lathan, Morton, Jones Among Winners of Theatre World Awards

[ P ]  Shear, Chamberlin, Stillman Reunite for London Debut of Dirty Blonde, June 7

[ P ]  They Might Be Musical Giants: Vineyard Sets New Musicals People Are Wrong! and Miracle Brothers

[ B ]  Hollywood and Crowns Win Helen Hayes Awards
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[ B ]  CDs: Get Rich Quick! by Ken Mandelbaum
Stephen Sondheim will turn 75 next year. In honor of that occasion, I hear that his 1964 Broadway musical Anyone Can Whistle is likely to be a part of Encores!' 2005 season.
CD: BOUNCE (Nonesuch)

News:

[ B ]  Jane Krakowski May Be Hitchcock Blonde for B'way

[ P ]  London's Hitchcock Blonde Expected for Broadway Stage in Fall

[ P ]  Almeida Theatre's 2004-05 Season to Include Brighton Rock, Russell Beale Macbeth

[ P ]  D.C. Theatre's Helen Hayes Awards Honor Ludwig's Hollywood, Crowns, Drawer Boy

[ P ]  Barbara Cook Brings Broadway to London May 11-29

[ P ]  Marc Kudisch of Assassins on "Radio Playbill" May 10-23
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Features:

[ ND ]  From 'The Piano' to discord BY BLAKE GREEN
Anna Paquin's fine, but she's grown up to blue-note roles

[ USA ]  McKean dolls up as Edna by Elysa Gardner

[ R ]  Riverdance Still Flows Swiftly After 10 Years by Gideon Long

The Tony Awards:

[ NYP ]  'DREAMS' DASHED AS PARADE PASSES BY by MICHAEL RIEDEL
THE Tony Award nominators have consigned "Bombay Dreams" to the black hole of Calcutta.

[ V ]  Times Tony item puzzles B'way
Okrent calls awards 'artistically meaningless,' 'culturally corrosive'
Broadway players weren't just counting their Tony nominations, or lamenting the lack thereof, Monday morning. They also were scratching their heads over the New York Times' Sunday broadside against the awards, written by the paper's new "public editor," Daniel Okrent.

[ NYT ]  Tony's Limited View of Time and Place by JESSE McKINLEY
What does it take to win a Tony? Lots of rehearsal of course and supportive parents. But a better question is, Where do you have to be to win a Tony?

[ Y ]  Cincinnati Playhouse Wins Regional Tony by JOHN NOLAN, Associated Press Writer
News that the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park had won its first Tony Award for excellence as a regional theater surprised the staff and caused immediate euphoria.

[ CE ]  Cincinnati Playhouse wins Tony award by Janelle Gelfand

[ R ]  Ned Beatty Snubbed by Tony Voters by Robert Osborne

[ DN ]  Tony list is bewitched by ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
Quotes from Kristin Chenoweth, Idina Menzel and Nilo Cruz.

[ USA ]  Actor race leads Tony drama by Elysa Gardner
Quotes from Chenoweth, Simon Russell Beale and Jed Bernstein.

[ ND ]  'Wicked' dominates Tonys with 10 nominations by Gordon Cox

[ NYP ]  TONYS' 'WICKED' WAYS by BARBARA HOFFMAN

News:

[ WP ]  Arena Stage Garners Eight Helen Hayes Awards by Peter Marks

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
ALAN REMEMBERED AS A KING AMONG MEN

[ BS ]  Fynsworth Alley Shuts Down

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: 3 More Additions to the '04-'05 on B'way
XM Satellite Radio

[ P ]  Guthrie Presents Baryshnikov in Forbidden Christmas May 11-23

[ P ]  Christopher Shinn's Where Do We Live Opens at Off-Broadway's Vineyard, May 11

[ P ]  Philly's Walnut Street Welcomes Dolly! May 11-July 3

[ P ]  Where Are the New Plays Coming From? Columbia U's Playwriting Program Offers Thesis Readings, May 11-18

[ P ]  Preserving Vintage Scores, PS Classics, Inc. Releases Swift's Fine and Dandy, With Creel, Cantone, Carmello

[ P ]  Iraq War Hits Close to Home in World Premiere, Gulf of Westchester, at Florida Stage

[ P ]  Kron's Praised New Play, Well, Begins Final Week at The Public, Closing May 16; Will It Live On?

[ P ]  Regina Taylor's New Play, Sarah Breedlove, Premieres at Alabama Shakespeare Fest in 2005

[ P ]  San Francisco's Best of Broadway Gets Jerry, Lennon, Edna, Wife, Evita and White Christmas

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  MUSIC REVIEW | 'THE LYRICS OF COLE PORTER'
A Trip to the Y on Gossamer Wings by STEPHEN HOLDEN
There were many satisfying moments in Andrea Marcovicci's nostalgic musical tribute of Cole Porter at the 92nd Street Y on Sunday.

[ ND ]  "Spring Storm" BY LINDA WINER
The play is a mess, but it's a big, ambitious mess - gushing with both awful and glorious poetic lyricism, bursting with the sort of overloaded sexual symbolism that threatens to flood the hypocritical Mississippi Delta town with April thunderstorms.

[ Y ]  'Guinea Pig Solo' Shows War Effect by JUSTIN GLANVILLE, Associated Press Writer
If he hasn't already, John Ortiz can give up his gym membership. The star of "Guinea Pig Solo" � LAByrinth Theater Company's latest helping of urban grit at the Public Theatre � runs circles around himself portraying a troubled soldier recently returned from the war in Iraq.

[ TB ]  Guinea Pig Solo
Review by Matthew Murray

[ NJ ]  LAB's 'Guinea Pig' bears gritty urban tragedy BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ NJ ]  Mamet play comes to life at Two River BY PETER FILICHIA

[ TB ]  Cedarwood Avenue
Review by Warren Hoffman

[ TB ]  Cabaret Girl and Dirty Blonde
San Francisco Reviews by Richard Connema
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Monday, May 10, 2004

The Tony Awards:

[ B ]  2004 Tony Nominees React to the Big News

[ B ]  Photo Op: New York Celebs Announce 2004 Tony Noms

[ NYT ]  'Wicked' Tops List of Tony Nominees by JESSE McKINLEY
"Wicked," a big-budget, family pleasing spectacle that tells the story of Oz from the witches' perspective, led the field with 10 Tony Award nominations.

[ NYT ]  Audio Slide Show

[ NYT ]  Slide Show: Nominated Productions

[ NYT ]  Slide Show: Nominated Performers

[ NYT ]  The 2004 Tony Nominees

Reviews:

[ TM ]  Spring Storm
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ ATW ]  Spring Storm
Review by Laura Shea

[ TM ]  Iolanthe
Reviewed By: Marc Miller

[ TM ]  Trust
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ CU ]  Cyrano de Bergerac
London Review by Lizzie Loveridge
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Features:

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Krakowski, Lauper, Famous New Yorkers Announce 2004 Tony Nods

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond:The Final 2 Musicals for '03-'04 - 'Caroline' and 'Bombay'
XM Satellite Radio

News:

[ P ]  White Barn Puts George S. Irving, Gus Kahn, Basie and Miller, Bolcom and Morris � and Shakespeare � in NYC, June 4-26

[ P ]  Final Performance of Birdie by Encores! Is City Center Gala

[ P ]  Prymate Quietly Closes on Broadway

[ P ]  Alan King, Comedian, Actor and Producer, Dead at 76

[ B ]  Comedian/Performer Alan King Dead at 76

Reviews:

[ TM ]  Candide
Reviewed By: Michael Portantiere

[ CU ]  Spring Storm
posted at 5/10/2004 03:59:45 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

News:

[ B ]  Mark Medoff's Prymate Closes on Broadway
The critically lambasted Broadway drama Prymate has closed its doors. The show, which did not pick up any Tony Award nominations this morning, has played its last show. It played a total of 23 previews and five regular performances.

[ B ]  Wayne Brady to Make B'way Debut in Chicago

[ P ]  Wayne Brady Heads to Chicago on Broadway as Billy Flynn, Sept. 7

[ P ]  Luker and Barrett Sings Disney Hits in On the Record Workshop

[ P ]  Tony Awards Tickets On Sale May 10

[ P ]  Wicked, Frozen, I Am My Own Wife, Caroline, Oz Among 2004 Tony Nominees

[ TM ]  2004 Tony Award Nominations Announced

[ TM ]  Alan King, Actor and Comedian, Dies at 76

[ TM ]  Frayn's Democracy to Open on Broadway in November

Features:

[ B ]  Random Notes on This and That: 5/10/04 by Ken Mandelbaum

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
How might the history of the Tony Awards have been different if there were two categories for Best Book of a Musical?

[ B ]  Fresh Face: Manu Narayan by Katie Riegel
Age: "I can be whatever age you want me to be."

[ B ]  Photo Op: Tracy and Amber Reunite in Oz

[ B ]  Photo Op: Bye Bye Birdie Closes Encores! Season

[ B ]  Photo Op: LaBute's Distance Is Here

[ B ]  Photo Op: Honoring the 2004 Drama Desk Nominees

Reviews:

[ TB ]  Talkin' Broadway - Sound Advice 3-29-04 by Jonathan Frank
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[ TONY ]  2004 Tony Award� Nominations

[ Y ]  'Wicked' Dominates 2004 Tony Nominations
"Wicked," a quirky and fantasy-filled musical about those folks who live along the Yellow Brick Road, picked up 10 Tony Award nominations Monday.
"Assassins," the controversial Stephen Sondheim musical, followed with seven and four shows tied with six nominations apiece: "Caroline, or Change," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Avenue Q" and the Lincoln Center revival of "Henry IV."

[ P ]  This Is the Moment: 2004 Tony Nominations Announced

[ B ]  2004 Tony Award Nominations Announced
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2004 Tony Award� Nominations

Here is the complete list of nominations for the American Theatre Wing's 58th Annual Tony Awards�.

Best Play
Anna in the Tropics
Author: Nilo Cruz
Producers: Roger Berlind, Daryl Roth, Ray Larsen, Robert G. Bartner, The McCarter Theatre Center

Frozen
Author: Bryony Lavery
Producers: MCC Theater, Robert Lupone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler, John G. Schultz, Hal Newman, Zollo/Paleologos and Jeffrey Sine, Roy Gabay, Lorie Cowen Levy and Beth Smith, Peggy Hill, Thompson H. Rogers, Swinsky/Filerman/Hendel, Sirkin/Mills/Baldassare, Darren Bagert

I Am My Own Wife
Author: Doug Wright
Producers: Delphi Productions, Playwrights Horizons

The Retreat from Moscow
Author: William Nicholson
Producers: Susan Quint Gallin, Stuart Thompson, Ron Kastner, True Love Productions, Mary Lu Roffe, Jam Theatricals

Best Musical
Avenue Q
Producers: Kevin McCollum, Robyn Goodman, Jeffrey Seller, Vineyard Theatre, The New Group

The Boy from Oz
Producers: Ben Gannon, Robert Fox

Caroline, or Change
Producers: Carole Shorenstein Hays, HBO Films, Jujamcyn Theaters, Freddy DeMann, Scott Rudin, Hendel/Morten/Wiesenfeld, Berg�re/Fox Theatricals/Manocherian, Roger Berlind, Clear Channel Entertainment, Joan Cullman, Greg Holland/Scott Nederlander, Margo Lion, Daryl Roth, Zollo/Sine, The Public Theater

Wicked
Producers: Marc Platt, Universal Pictures, The Araca Group, Jon B. Platt, David Stone

Best Book of a Musical
Winnie Holzman, Wicked
Tony Kushner, Caroline, or Change
Book: Martin Sherman; Original Book: Nick Enright, The Boy from Oz
Jeff Whitty, Avenue Q

Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Taboo Music: Boy George
Avenue Q Music: Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx
Wicked Music: Stephen Schwartz
Caroline, or Change Music: Jeanine Tesori (Music) Tony Kushner (Lyrics)

Best Revival of a Play
Henry IV
Producers: Lincoln Center Theater, Andr� Bishop, Bernard Gersten

Jumpers
Producers: Boyett Ostar Productions, Nederlander Presentations Inc., Freddy DeMann, Jean Doumanian, Stephanie McClelland, Arielle Tepper, The National Theatre of Great Britain

King Lear
Producers: Lincoln Center Theater, Andr� Bishop, Bernard Gersten, Stratford Festival of Canada

A Raisin in the Sun
Producers: David Binder, Vivek J. Tiwary, Susan Batson, Carl Rumbaugh, Ruth Hendel, Jayne Baron Sherman, Dede Harris, Arielle Tepper, Cynthia Stroum, Barbara Whitman

Best Revival of a Musical
Assassins
Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Ellen Richard, Julia C. Levy

Big River
Producers: Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Ellen Richard, Julia C. Levy, Deaf West Theatre, Ed Waterstreet, Bill O'Brien, Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum

Fiddler on the Roof
Producers: James L. Nederlander, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Harbor Entertainment, Terry Allen Kramer, Bob Boyett/Lawrence Horowitz, Clear Channel Entertainment

Wonderful Town
Producers: Roger Berlind, Barry and Fran Weissler, Edwin W. Schloss, Allen Spivak, Clear Channel Entertainment, Harvey Weinstein

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play
Simon Russell Beale, Jumpers
Kevin Kline, Henry IV
Frank Langella, Match
Jefferson Mays, I Am My Own Wife
Christopher Plummer, King Lear

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Eileen Atkins, The Retreat from Moscow
Tovah Feldshuh, Golda's Balcony
Anne Heche, Twentieth Century
Swoosie Kurtz, Frozen
Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun

Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
Hunter Foster, Little Shop of Horrors
Hugh Jackman, The Boy from Oz
Alfred Molina, Fiddler on the Roof
Euan Morton, Taboo
John Tartaglia, Avenue Q

Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked
Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Avenue Q
Idina Menzel, Wicked
Donna Murphy, Wonderful Town
Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play
Tom Aldredge, Twentieth Century
Ben Chaplin, The Retreat from Moscow
Aidan Gillen, The Caretaker
Omar Metwally, Sixteen Wounded
Br�an F. O'Byrne, Frozen

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play
Essie Davis, Jumpers
Sanaa Lathan, A Raisin in the Sun
Margo Martindale, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Audra McDonald, A Raisin in the Sun
Daphne Rubin-Vega, Anna in the Tropics

Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical
John Cariani, Fiddler on the Roof
Michael Cerveris, Assassins
Ra�l Esparza, Taboo
Michael McElroy, Big River
Denis O'Hare, Assassins

Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Beth Fowler, The Boy from Oz
Isabel Keating, The Boy from Oz
Anika Noni Rose, Caroline, or Change
Jennifer Westfeldt, Wonderful Town
Karen Ziemba, Never Gonna Dance

Best Scenic Design
Robert Brill, Assassins
Ralph Funicello, Henry IV
Eugene Lee, Wicked
Tom Pye, Fiddler on the Roof

Best Costume Design
Jess Goldstein, Henry IV
Susan Hilferty, Wicked
Mike Nicholls and Bobby Pearce, Taboo
Mark Thompson, Bombay Dreams

Best Lighting Design
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, Assassins
Brian MacDevitt, Fiddler on the Roof
Brian MacDevitt, Henry IV
Kenneth Posner, Wicked

Best Direction of a Play
Doug Hughes, Frozen
Moises Kaufman, I Am My Own Wife
David Leveaux, Jumpers
Jack O'Brien, Henry IV

Best Direction of a Musical
Joe Mantello, Assassins
Kathleen Marshall, Wonderful Town
Jason Moore, Avenue Q
George C. Wolfe, Caroline, or Change

Best Choreography
Wayne Cilento, Wicked
Kathleen Marshall, Wonderful Town
Jerry Mitchell, Never Gonna Dance
Anthony Van Laast and Farah Khan, Bombay Dreams

Best Orchestrations
Paul Bogaev, Bombay Dreams
William David Brohn, Wicked
Larry Hochman, Fiddler on the Roof
Michael Starobin, Assassins

Special Tony Award� for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
James M. Nederlander

Regional Theatre Tony Award�
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
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"Guinea Pig Solo" - Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'GUINEA PIG SOLO'
You Can Take the Soldier Out of the War, but You Can't . . . by BEN BRANTLEY
John Ortiz's performance as a harrowed veteran of the war in Iraq keeps the blood pressure compellingly high in this otherwise overstated play at the Public Theater.

[ ND ]  Talk loudly and carry a big stick BY GORDON COX
In "Guinea Pig Solo," the linoleum floor is white, the better to show off the blood that spills on it.

[ SUN ]  Patriotic Gore by JEREMY McCARTER
Private First Class Jose Solo is freaking out, and Mayor Bloomberg isn't helping.

[ B ]  Guinea Pig Solo
Review by William Stevenson

[ NYer ]  TROUBLE IN MIND by HILTON ALS
Insanity and insects in �Guinea Pig Solo� and �Bug.�

Other Reviews:

[ B ]  Spring Storm
Review by Su Ciampa

[ NYP ]  'STORM': FLASH OF GENIUS by DONALD LYONS
THE very early works of great playwrights are interesting, even fascinating, if only for the teasing, incoherent, unsure glimpses they provide of the dramatist who was to come.

[ NYP ]  HEARTY HELLO FOR 'BYE BYE BIRDIE' by DONALD LYONS
"BYE Bye Birdie," revived at Encores! this weekend, is pure bliss and deserves to be Broadway-bound.

[ NYT ]  NEW CD'S
Jazz Conversations With Different Accents by BEN RATLIFF
Jamie Cullum's elastic, scratchy singing makes you long for something deeper; the reissue of a Mary Lou Williams album contains elegant notes.

Features:

[ BH ]  'Elegies' celebrates Bay State composer's lost loves by Robert Nesti

News:

[ NYT ]  Alan King, Comic With Chutzpah, Dies at 76 by BRUCE WEBER
Alan King parlayed his Borscht Belt sense of humor into a thoroughgoing show business career that lasted more than half a century.

[ DN ]  Our King of comedy dies by RALPH R. ORTEGA and JANE H. FURSE
N.Y.-born funnyman loses cancer fight at 76

[ USA ]  50 fun-filled years from Alan King by C�sar G. Soriano

[ USA ]  Picking Tony winners could be a tough chore by Elysa Gardner
Hugh is a shoo-in and P. Diddy will be shut out.

[ NJ ]  Paper Mill honors Del Rossi in grand fashion BY PEGGY McGLONE
Retiring executive producer Angelo Del Rossi's hard work, creativity and longevity at the Paper Mill Playhouse were celebrated in a starry salute Saturday night that featured live and taped testimonials by some of Broadway's hottest names.

[ Y ]  Ricardo Montalban's Theater Opens
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Celebrities gathered for the opening of the Ricardo Montalban Theatre, owned by a group that advocates greater roles for Hispanics in Hollywood.

[ V ]  Detroit 'Lion' $1.4 mil
Road grosses

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 10

[ P ]  D'Abruzzo, Tartaglia, Federan, Lemenager, Racey and Wooley are New Faces of '04 May 10

[ P ]  Charles Strouse Celebrated May 10 in Merkin Concert Hall Concert

[ P ]  Jane Alexander Hosts Our Time Gala; Pascal and Bradley Perform

[ P ]  Langella, Mitchell and Barrett Honor Tony Award Winner Chita Rivera May 10

[ P ]  Tony Awards Tickets On Sale May 10

[ P ]  Raisin's Rashad Hosts Inspirational Voices Benefit May 10

[ P ]  Carl Anderson's Life Celebrated May 10 at Broadway's Ford Center

[ P ]  In DC's Helen Hayes Awards,Bounce Brothers Kind and McGillin Are Rivals; Ceremony Is May 10
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Sunday, May 09, 2004

News:

[ Y ]  Comedian, Actor Alan King Dies at 76 by LUKAS I. ALPERT, Associated Press Writer
Alan King, whose tirades against everyday suburban life grew into a long comedy career in nightclubs and television that he later expanded to Broadway and character roles in movies, died Sunday at the age of 76.

[ IBDB ]  Alan King's Broadway Credits

Features:

[ WP ]  Her 'Streetcar' Has Arrived by Ann Hornaday
Fame Has Come Late for Patricia Clarkson -- or Maybe It's Right on Time

[ HC ]  Artistic License by Frank Rizzo
A Meeting Of The Directors From 40 Years At Hartford Stage: Jacques Cartier, Paul Weidner, Mark Lamos And Michael Wilson

Reviews:

[ WP ]  'Jesus Christ' Superloud by Peter Marks
So many words are unintelligible in the new touring production of "Jesus Christ Superstar" that Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic rock opera might as well be performed in Aramaic.

[ CU ]  Belgrade Trilogy
DC Review by Rich See
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[ NYT ]  THE PUBLIC EDITOR
There's No Business Like Tony Awards Business by DANIEL OKRENT
UNLESS I acquire some unexpected clout around here in the next 48 hours, Times readers will wake up on Tuesday morning to read a prominent story announcing the nominees for an artistically meaningless, blatantly commercial, shamefully exclusionary and culturally corrosive award competition.

[ NYT ]  Barney Kessel, 80, a Guitarist With Legends of Jazz, Dies by PETER KEEPNEWS
Barney Kessel was one of the greatest guitarists ever. If you don't believe me, check out his classic duet with Julie London, "Cry Me a River." Or get a copy of one of the greatest albums ever recorded, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book - Barney is the sole guitarist on every track on that double-LP set, including a beautiful duet with Ella on "Wait Till You See Her." He always made the best sound better.

Features:

[ P ]  CHANNELING THEATRE: Chatting with "Elaine Stritch at Liberty" Documentarians

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
Shirley Jones and Patrick Cassidy interview.

[ NYP ]  MICHAEL MCKEAN BIG HOUSEDRESS TO FILL IN 'HAIRSPRAY' by BARBARA HOFFMAN

[ NJ ]  Reinventing 'enry 'iggins BY PETER FILICHIA
He's been acclaimed for his Broadway portrayals of Orestes in "Electra," Alcibiades in Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens" and physicist Werner Heisenberg in "Copenhagen."
So when Michael Cumpsty says he's playing Henry Higgins, he doesn't surprise that many theatergoers -- until he tells them that he isn't performing in a production of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion."

[ NYT ]  BOLDFACE NAMES
The Anguish of Guys and Dolls by JOYCE WADLER
We dropped by City Center, where the Encores! series is doing, "Bye Bye Birdie," the 1960 Broadway musical that is a send-up of ELVIS madness.

[ NYT ]  PUBLIC LIVES
Critics Got First Shot; He Gets Last Laugh by ROBIN FINN
Tim Robbins, the actor/writer/director/activist behind "Embedded," faced a tough audience of high school students.

[ BSUN ]  A young actor gets star-making role at Kennedy Center by Mary Carole McCauley
Adam Rothenberg will open as Kowalski in 'Streetcar'

[ DN ]  Hugh raises the stakes by JOE NEUMAIER
Versatile star relishes his horror romp

[ DN ]  Jamie jazzes the joint by JIM FARBER
Britain's answer to Norah Jones is a guy who calls himself 'incredibly immature'

[ BH ]  Go ahead, ax me: Musical 'Lizzie Borden' looks for a motive by Terry Byrne

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Bway Stars Kline and Judd Sing Cole Porter in Silver Screen "De-lovely"

Reviews:

[ ATW ]  Review: 'Bye Bye Birdie' by Andy Propst

[ NJ ]  Again, it's hello to 'Bye Bye Birdie' BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ NJ ]  Nothing's sacred in 'Big Bang' BY PETER FILICHIA
That old expression that big things come in small packages?
It's certainly true out at the Tri- State Actors Theatre in Sussex, where "The Big Bang" is a smash- hit.

[ NJ ]  Tragic possibilities: Misery gets plenty of company 'Here' BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
Yikes -- it's been one misery after another on New York stages this week.

News:

[ R ]  Tony Nominations Monday for Diverse Broadway Season by Larry Fine

[ AP ]  B'way awaits nominations for Tony Awards by MICHAEL KUCHWARA

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: The Tony Nominations Loom - Who Will Be Recognized?
XM Satellite Radio

[ P ]  Life Begins at 8:40: Broadway Anticipates 2004 Tony Award Nominations May 10

[ P ]  Talk Show Watch: Bombay Dreams on "Good Morning America", Wonderful Town on "Today", Sean Combs on "Regis"

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 9

[ P ]  Broadway Talks Series Features Tovah Feldshuh May 9

[ P ]  Christopher Shinn's Where Do We Live Opens at Off-Broadway's Vineyard, May 9

[ P ]  Chef's Theater: A Musical Feast Employs New Ingredients Beginning May 13

[ P ]  Sharon, We Hardly Knew Ye: Errico Exits Mythical Missitucky May 9; O'Malley in Wings for Finian

[ P ]  Gurney's Musical House of Mirth Finds Home at White Oak Sundance Lab in FL

[ P ]  Anna's Ortiz and "Scrubs" Star Reyes Open in LAByrinth's Guinea Pig Solo May 9

[ P ]  Guthrie's Pirates of Penzance Sets Sail May 8

[ P ]  Look Who's In Love: Barrington Stage Names Its Sweet Charity, June 24-July 14

[ P ]  Blow, Gabriel! Anything Goes Begins Performances at Canada's Stratford Fest

[ P ]  Wonderful Town, On The Record, Broadway-Bound Sweet Charity Set Dates for Boston

[ P ]  Broadway Golden Boy Hugh Jackman Slated to Leave Musical Oz Sept. 12
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