Friday, May 21, 2004

Features:

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: A Chat With a Gal From Oz, Isabel Keating Plus "American Idol" Thoughts

[ B ]  Nominee Poll: Where Were You When You Heard You Were Nominated?

[ P ]  Dear As Folk
Playwright James Sherman grew up surrounded by strong women. From Door to Door is his affectionate tribute to them.

News:

[ B ]  Brian Stokes Mitchell Named President of Actors' Fund

[ B ]  Sternhagen & Easton Set for J.M. Barrie Plays

[ P ]  Sternhagen and Easton to Star in Mint Barrie Double Bill

[ P ]  Batter Up: Chuckleball, a New Sports Comedy Revue, Premieres in NYC July 6

[ P ]  Aquila Brings Comedy of Errors Back to NYC in June, in Rep with Othello

[ P ]  PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, May 15-21: Days in the Sun

[ P ]  Tony-Winner Harriet Harris Plays Final Two Weeks of Millie, June 7-20

[ P ]  Annie Gets NYC-Aimed National Tour Starting Summer 2005

[ P ]  Rodgers and Hart's The Girl Friend Sings in NYC to June 6

[ P ]  Pop and Broadway Stars to Sing in Actors' Fund Hair Concert

[ P ]  Elaine Paige Offers Career Retrospective on Two-CD Set

[ P ]  Detroit's Plowshares Stages The Story, Play Set in a Motown-Like Metropolis, in 2004-05

[ P ]  Side Show's Kennedy and Skinner to Star in Muny's Breakfast at Tiffany's; Summer Season Announced

[ P ]  Boyett May Bring Bennett's History Boys to Broadway

[ P ]  NYTW Offers a Dutch Marriage and an English Number

[ P ]  Aida's Headley at Work On Second Solo Recording

[ P ]  Sh-K-Boom to Record Bright Lights with Patrick Wilson

[ TM ]  PS Classics to Record Broadway Assassins

Reviews:

[ B ]  CDs: Let's Go Eat Worms in the Garden by Ken Mandelbaum
FINE AND DANDY (PS Classics Inc.)

[ TM ]  A Mother
San Francisco Review By: Stephanie von Buchau

[ TB ]  The Rose Tattoo
Boston Review by Suzanne Bixby

[ CU ]  The Triangle Factory Project

[ CU ]  Light Raise the Roof

[ TM ]  Light Raise the Roof
Reviewed By: David Finkle
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[ NYP ]  MURPHY'S FLAW by MICHAEL RIEDEL
"THAT'S a fine way to lose a man," sings Donna Murphy onstage in the revival of "Wonderful Town."
The actress could be singing the same tune off-stage, too, although with a slightly altered lyric: "That's a fine way to lose a Tony."

Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia's unhappy now, unhappy hence, and unhappy ever after about Barry Singer's Ever After.

[ NJ ]  Brevity (of hair) is the soul of 'Wit' BY PETER FILICHIA
Karen Case Cook requested a hairstyle that left her with virtually no hair.

[ NYT ]  Musicians Say Fisher Hall Isn't as Bad as All That by ANNE MIDGETTE
Is Avery Fisher Hall really as terrible as it is made out to be? Or is it just a place everyone loves to hate?

[ BH ]  WHAT a ride! Adventurous Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre celebrates 20th year with another edgy new play by Terry Byrne
"It's probably the worst career move I've ever made," laughs playwright and WHAT co-artistic director Gip Hoppe. "But we're having a lot of fun."

[ BS ]  Musicians, Singers, Lend Us Your Ears: Save Your Hearing
There is a growing recognition of the problem of hearing loss in performers due to long-term exposure to high-volume music, and specialists are cropping up to address it.

[ BS ]  A Treasure Box of Shock and Awe
As Mac Wellman noted in the Village Voice a few days back, New Yorkers are lucky to have a variety of fearless theatrical "scenes" from which to choose.

[ DN ]  Algonquin is jazz crooner Stigers' den by ISAAC GUZMAN
It was a good thing for jazz when Curtis Stigers got sick of being a pop star.

"Light Raise the Roof" - Reviews:

[ ND ]  Where no one's home (or has one) BY LINDA WINER
Off-Broadway's unpredictably healthy season for black women playwrights hit a speed bump at the New York Theatre Workshop last night with "Light Raise the Roof," Kia Corthron's big-hearted but preachy drama about the city's homeless.

[ NJ ]  Unleavened misery on mean streets BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
Kia Corthron is an immensely promising younger playwright.

[ ATW ]  Light Raise the Roof: Lives on the Street in Chilling, Humane Portrait
Review by Andy Propst

[ SUN ]  Get Me Rewrite by JEREMY McCARTER
Two long, long plays at the end of a long, long season. Two audiences coughing, fussing, and fidgeting. Two nights, all things considered, better spent watching baseball.
Light Raise the Roof and Boy.

Other Reviews:

[ BG ]  A 'Rose' in bloom by Ed Siegel
Nicholas Martin's directorship of the Huntington Theatre Company has been most notable for three virtues, all of which are on display in Tennessee Williams's "The Rose Tattoo."

[ BH ]  Martin blooms in 'Rose' by Robert Nesti

[ NYP ]  STRONG SHOW OF FAITH FOR MELODRAMATIC 'TRUST' by DONALD LYONS
OH, the troubles! Northern Ireland has been beset by an endless plague of violence and hatred. And it is that bloody period Gary Mitchell treats melodramatically in his 1999 play, "Trust."

[ ND ]  Hot flash: Brit ladies of a certain hip age BY GORDON COX
"Fascinating" is somewhat too strong a word for the British musical comedy trio Fascinating Aida.

[ TB ]  Fascinating Aida in Absolutely Fascinating
Review by Jonathan Frank

[ NYT ]  POP REVIEW | SUTTON FOSTER
Power Voices, Playful Lyrics in a Three-Concert Showcase by STEPHEN HOLDEN
Sutton Foster, the lanky tomboyish star of "Thoroughly Modern Millie," plays both ends against the middle with astonishing musical self-assurance.
Plus "The Girly Show" and Robert Kapilow.

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
Reports on the 2004 Drama Desk Awards, the cabaret debut of Sutton Foster, and the return of icon Keely Smith.

[ NYT ]  CABARET REVIEW | CURTIS STIGERS
A Jazzman Goes Honky-Tonk by STEPHEN HOLDEN

[ ATW ]  Joys of Sex: Cute Songs in Awkward Context
Review by Andy Propst

[ LAT ]  This 'Company' accepted by Rob Kendt
Social anachronisms don't carry the play into the present day, but the music and the wit transcend chronology.

News:

[ BG ]  As a busy summer approaches, Theater District gets a makeover by Catherine Foster

[ B ]  NYTW Season: Bergman, Churchill & More

[ B ]  Lorna Luft to Bring Garland Tribute to West End

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
Tony Randall; Gary Stevens.

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: National News Roundup
Chicago musical places blame Romeo and Juliet's death; Rat Pack musical planned for FL; 'Showtune' also in FL; Latin Fest in CA
XM Satellite Radio

[ P ]  Frances Ruffelle's New CD, "Showgirl," Due in June

[ P ]  31st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards Presented May 21; Hairspray's Brier a Nominee

[ P ]  Rita Moreno Teaches McNally's Master Class in Moisés Kaufman Staging at Berkeley Rep, May 21

[ P ]  Wonderful Town? Roiling Conflicts of Winesburg, Ohio Come to Life in New Musical

[ P ]  Gun Song: PS Classics to Record Roundabout Revival of Assassins
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Thursday, May 20, 2004

[ NYT ]  ON STAGE AND OFF
Word of Mouth Creates a Hit by JASON ZINOMAN
If the intention of casting Sean Combs in "A Raisin in the Sun" was to draw audiences, it has worked in a big way.
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News:

[ B ]  Actors' Fund to Present Hair Concert Sept. 20

[ B ]  Cast Set for Goldberg's Get What You Need

[ B ]  Bridge & Tunnel Eyes Helen Hayes Theatre

[ B ]  Harris to Return to Thoroughly Modern Millie

[ P ]  New York Stage and Film Season Has Liu, Farrow, Harden, Pullman, Lapine and Beach Boys Musical

[ P ]  Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Names Its New Chairman

Features:

[ TM ]  Follow Spot by: Michael Portantiere
It's "New York theater hunks on the road" as Chris Sieber stars in Company in L.A. and Matt Bogart returns to the D.C. stage in Orpheus Descending.

[ B ]  Photo Op: Oh, Mama! Harvey Checks Out Hairspray's New Edna

[ B ]  Photo Op: Beauty and the Survivor

[ B ]  Photo Op: A Fete for NY Drama Critics' Circle Award Winners

[ B ]  Photo Op: It's All About Off-Broadway's Boy

[ B ]  Photo Op: Tovah Celebrates 400 Perfs in Golda

Reviews:

[ TB ]  Company
Los Angeles Review by Sharon Perlmutter

[ B ]  Absolutely Fascinating
Review by William Stevenson

[ B ]  Light Raise the Roof
Review by William Stevenson
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[ STARS ]  TONY RANDALL: REMEMBERING AN ACTOR WITH A DREAM
by ELLIS NASSOUR
Tony Randall loved theater -- "better than anything in the world," he said. After many years of success onscreen in Doris Day/Rock Hudson romps and series TV, he not only returned to his first love but created the National Actors Theatre (NAT). In a recent interview, Randall looked back at the ups, and all the downs.

Features:

[ TM ]  Loose Lips by: Brian Scott Lipton
Brian finds himself in very close physical proximity to Hugh Jackman, Donna Murphy, Audra McDonald, Shirley Jones and the Cassidy boys, etc.

[ B ]  Obscure Recordings: Say, Darling by Ken Mandelbaum

[ B ]  Tonys Buzz: Spotlight On: Anika Noni Rose

[ B ]  Tony Buzz: Tony Memories: Chuck Cooper

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Tony Time: Distinguished Nominees Gather for Annual Portrait

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: NY Drama Critics Honor Nottage, Intimate Apparel

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Playwright Julia Jordan Becomes a Boy Off-Broadway

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Tony Nominee Tovah Feldshuh Turns 400 as Prime Minister Golda Meir

Reviews:

[ INQ ]  'Casino Paradise' regained at Prince by David Patrick Stearns
Amid a glittering but stylized production that suits a narrative where characters "tell" more than "show" their personalities, the excellent cast headed by Martin Vidnovic (the Trump-like mogul), Jason Danieley (his idealistic son), and Rachel Ulanet (his comically shallow daughter) have no inhibitions about selling their songs in a traditional Broadway manner - to great effect.

[ CP ]  Casino Paradise by David Anthony Fox
Casino Paradise, by the classy team of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom and lyricist Arnold Weinstein, beguiles and perplexes.

News:

[ P ]  Susan Schulman Directs CanStage Workshop of Musical Not Wanted on the Voyage by Bartram & Hill

[ P ]  New Dramatists to Honor Meryl Streep May 27; Kline and Kushner Present Tributes

[ P ]  Michigan's Barn Theatre Opens 59th Season Without Founder Jack Ragotzy; Aida and Beauty Slated

[ P ]  Folk Revue, Love is the Weirdest of All, Gets Premiere in Madison Rep's 2004-05 Season

[ P ]  Marisa Tomei Joins Scott and Weber in Design for Living Love Triangle at Williamstown

[ B ]  Marisa Tomei to Star in Williamstown's Living

[ P ]  Donna Murphy Among Women's Project & Productions' 2004 Honorees at June 7 Gala

[ P ]  Mitch Albom's Quirky Comedy, Duck Hunter Shoots Angel, Premieres in Michigan in Summer

[ P ]  Rice, Groenendaal, the Jellisons and Skip Kennon Perform Voices of Spring Concert June 14 in NYC

[ P ]  Annual Free "Stars in the Alley" Concert Set for June 2

[ TM ]  Stars in the Alley Concert Slated for June 2

[ P ]  Art Isn't Easy: 7 Reece Mews, About an Artist's Search for Painter Francis Bacon, Plays NYC May 20-June 5

[ P ]  "Theater Talk" Gets Critical May 21

[ P ]  LuPone and Lithgow Part of New 42nd Street Gala Benefit June 7
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Features:

[ B ]  Stage Notes: 05/19/04 by Paul Wontorek

[ DN ]  Sincerely, Squeaky by ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
To research her role as a would-be presidential assassin in the Broadway musical "Assassins," actress Mary Catherine Garrison reached out to a member of the family.
Mass murderer Charles Manson's "family."

[ NYT ]  BOLDFACE NAMES by CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
Stephanie D'Abruzzo (last item).

[ NYT ]  At the Ready, Sheet Music Minus the Sheets by ADAM BAER

[ P ]  Tony Nominee Holzman Picks Her Favorite Wicked Moment

[ BSUN ]  'Mamma Mia!' brings a hometown girl home by J. Wynn Rousuck
Tiffani Barbour began performing here at age 3

[ BS ]  Shakespearean System
Acting coach Scott Kaiser has devised a process to demystify the Bard that feels a lot like Stanislavsky.

[ BS ]  His Country's Conscience
South African playwright Athol Fugard believes in the power of words and theatre.

[ LAW ]  Peeking Through the Stage Door by Steven Leigh Morris
Behind the scenes of Athol Fugard�s newest play
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link.

News:

[ V ]  Tomei makes a 'Living'
Thesp to play Gilda in Coward production
Marisa Tomei will join Campbell Scott and Steven Weber in the Williamstown revival of "Design for Living."

[ HC ]  'My Fair Lady' has new leads for Hartford Stage by Frank Rizzo
When the Hartford Stage presents "My Fair Lady," July 3 to Aug. 1, Simon Jones will play the lead character Henry Higgins, stepping up from his supporting role of Col. Pickering.

[ WP ]  Mergers & Acquisitions, Arts Division by Jacqueline Trescott
The Kennedy Center Lands New York Investment Banker Stephen Schwarzman

[ NYT ]  Philharmonic to Give Home a New Interior by ROBIN POGREBIN
The New York Philharmonic has decided to rebuild the inside of Avery Fisher Hall with an acoustically improved auditorium and redesigned public spaces.

[ NYT ]  After Almost 30 Years, an Encore That Seems Worth the Risks by ANTHONY TOMMASINI

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
TONY'S ODD LIFELONG NEED TO BE NOTICED

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
LIFE IMITATES LIT

[ NJ ]  Center stage by Peter Filichia
Olympia Dukakis and Louis Zorich; Mark Dobies.

[ CST ]  Theater Notes BY HEDY WEISS
It's official. Chicago Shakespeare Theater's marathon production of "Rose Rage," inspired by the "Henry VI" plays, is headed to New York with the entire 12-man Chicago cast that performed it here this past winter moving intact.
Plus Craig Carnelia and Studs Terkel (final item).

[ DN ]  Inner Tube
Andrews & PBS toast 100 yrs. of Broadway

[ B ]  Rose & Tartaglia Named 2004 Derwent Winners

[ B ]  The Normal Heart Extends Through August

[ P ]  Schwartz to Direct Miss Julie at Cherry Lane Theatre

[ P ]  Bounce Star Offers Solo NYC Concert June 13

[ P ]  Bare Cast Signs New Recording May 20; Free CDs, Too

[ TM ]  Bare CD Signing to be Held on May 20

[ P ]  Fascinating Aida Opens in NYC May 20

[ P ]  Zoo Story Gets Homelife Backstory in World Premiere Peter and Jerry, May 20

[ P ]  Homelessness Hits Off-Broadway as Corthron's Light Raise the Roof Opens May 20

[ P ]  Jay Johnson Offers Audience Talkbacks for The Two and Only Starting May 19 Off-Bway

[ P ]  OBIE Winner A Very Merry Unauthorized Children�s Scientology Pageant Gets L.A. Run and CD

[ P ]  Eleanor Rigby, The Passion of George W., Goonies... The Musical! Among FringeNYC 2004 Titles

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Checking in on the Drama Desk Ceremony
XM Satellite Radio

Reviews:

[ PP ]  'Forbidden Christmas' doesn't quite fulfill promise BY DOMINIC P. PAPATOLA
First things first: Unless you count a brief pas de deux with a power-line tower, Mikhail Baryshnikov doesn't dance in the world premiere production of "Forbidden Christmas" at the Guthrie Lab.

[ ST ]  His gifts misused, Baryshnikov can't save 'Christmas' by Rohan Preston
It is a work of high ambition, rich with visual ideas, interesting metaphors and bits of clever stagecraft. But the work flops resoundingly as theater.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the two links above.

[ NYP ]  DELIVERED WITH FIRE by DONALD LYONS
Electrically directed by Scott Alan Evans and dynamically acted by the whole company, it is one of the theater events of the season.
"The Triangle Factory Fire Project."

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE JOYS OF SEX'
Finding the Humor and Melody in a Popular Indoor Sport by ANITA GATES
Despite numbers like "Intercourse on the Internet" and "I Need It Bad," this new musical isn't nearly as idiotic or offensive as a theatergoer might guess.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'ANTIGONE'
Sophocles Goes Truly Retro, Back to the Beginning of Time by NEIL GENZLINGER
Paul Lazar play rips the Sophocles classic to pieces and casts it back into prehistory.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'DEAR FIZZY'
A Fairy, Not the Brightest, Still Gets to Keep Her Wand by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Expert puppetry and kindly storytelling combine to deliver a message of friendship in an imperfect world in this 60-minute intermissionless entertainment.

[ BSUN ]  'Picnic' engages, endures by J. Wynn Rousuck
Inge's 1953 play is at Center Stage
With Kristine Nielsen.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004

[ P ]  Margo Martindale and Tom Aldredge Win Equity's New Richard Seff Award

[ P ]  Clay Aiken and Broadway Faves to Join Headley at "Home" Concert

[ P ]  Avenue Q's Tartaglia and Caroline's Rose Win Derwent Awards

[ P ]  Wicked Witch's Alter Ego Hits New York Anew as Miss Gulch Returns! Plays May 20

[ P ]  Part Three of Over the Tavern Trilogy Gets Chicago Reading at Victory Gardens, With Zacek, June 13

[ B ]  Full Cast Announced for B'way's After The Fall
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Features:

[ B ]  Tony's Best Musicals---Part Two by Ken Mandelbaum

[ TB ]  Interview: Fascinating Aida by Jonathan Frank

News:

[ P ]  Time After Time, Musical Thriller With H.G. Wells as Hero, Gets NYC Reading With Borle and Kennedy May 21

[ P ]  Wicked's Menzel Lands Film Role

[ P ]  Urinetown Leaks Across the Border, Premiering in Resident Toronto Production May 19

[ P ]  Cast Set for Broadway Revival of Miller Drama After The Fall; Hecht, Buckley, Nelson Join Krause

[ P ]  Ragtime Co-Stars Reunite for PBS' Memorial Day Concert

[ P ]  London Journey�s End Reopens at Playhouse May 20; Mamma Mia! Reopens Prince of Wales, June 3

[ P ]  Mazzie and Danieley to Spend Summer in Pasadena Shade

[ P ]  The Normal Heart Extends Off-Broadway Through August

[ P ]  Cape Cod's WHAT Theatre Bites Hands That Feeds It in Cape Cod Tourist Spoof Cuckooland, May 26-June 26

[ P ]  George Street Season to Feature Amy Irving, Last Five Years and Blessing Premiere

[ P ]  Wicked's Chenoweth Likely for "Bewitched" Film

[ P ]  Little Shop's Greene Has Full Plate with Side Man, CD and Concerts

[ P ]  Drama Desk's 2004 Awards Show to Air on New York TV May 19

[ P ]  Charlayne Woodard to Star in Lynn Nottage's Fabulation at Playwrights Horizons, June 3-27

[ P ]  Assassins Co-Star Heads to the Chatterbox May 20

[ TM ]  Chef's Theater Suspends Performances

[ CBS ]  Randall: A True New Yorker

[ TS ]  The real Tony Randall was fussy guy by JIM BAWDEN
Tony Randall kept insisting, "I am not and I never have been Felix Unger."
But as he talked, he kept flicking bits of lint off my raincoat and he gave me a hotel cloth to polish my shoes.

Reviews:

[ TM ]  Boy
Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

[ CU ]  Boy
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[ NYP ]  ANTONIO'S 'HOLIDAY' by MICHAEL RIEDEL
ANTONIO Banderas, who was nominated for a Tony last year for his tender and sexy performance in "Nine," may be back on Broadway next season.

[ R ]  'Bewitched' Casting Spell on Chenoweth by Liza Foreman
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth has a way with witches.
The actress-singer, who stars in the hit Broadway show "Wicked," is in negotiations to play opposite Nicole Kidman in Columbia Pictures' feature film adaptation of the popular TV series "Bewitched."

Features:

[ GP ]  Listening by Kristin Chenoweth
You�ve got to have a lot of things go right for you to make it on Broadway. Not just the obvious, like a strong voice and ...
Thanks to ChenoFan2 on Kristin's message board for the link.

[ DN ]  Babes on Broadway by DREW MacKENZIE
These six kids are singing and dancing their hearts out on Broadway.

[ NYT ]  This Is One Celebrity Chef You Won't Find on TV by FLORENCE FABRICANT
IN this currently food-obsessed theater season, the celebrity chef Antonin Car�me makes the perfect subject for a show.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
A feast of a conversation with Catherine Wolf, producer of Tasting Memories.

[ CST ]  Orbach's shoot-from-the-lip cop laid down 'Law' with a bit of wit BY PAIGE WISER

[ CST ]  Living to tell the tale of Chicago theater BY HEDY WEISS
Fifty years and several fast-moving generations of Chicago theater were represented on the Steppenwolf Theatre stage Monday night.

[ B ]  Tony Buzz: Spotlight On: Jennifer Westfeldt

Other News:

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
LATIFAH EYED FOR 'MAME'
Plus an Elaine Stritch item.

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
Alfred Molina, etc.

[ B ]  Supper Club Flooding Forces Chef's Theater Hiatus

[ B ]  Woodard to Star in Fabulation at Playwrights

[ B ]  All Shook Up Books B'way's Marquis Theatre

[ P ]  Broadway's Marquis Theatre Is "Heartbreak Hotel" When All Shook Up Opens in 2005

[ NJ ]  Playhouse taps Irving for premiere BY PETER FILICHIA
Academy Award-nominated actress Amy Irving will appear in a world premiere play as part of the George Street Playhouse's 2004-05 season, announced yesterday by David Saint, the New Brunswick theater's artistic director.

[ NYT ]  BOLDFACE NAMES
And So Refined, in Addition by CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

[ HC ]  Tony Randall Had That Touch Of Class by FRANK RIZZO
Randall may have been the last of a lost species: the Cultured Conversationalist, a man of the arts, letters and many opinions, deliciously and delicately delivered. While others wisecracked, he quipped; while others promoted their latest movie, book or hair-care product, he promoted civilization.

[ DN ]  'Odd Couple's' fussy Felix dead by ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
"Whenever we needed a big laugh, we would bring in Tony," Letterman said yesterday.

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: MAY 19

[ P ]  New Play The Triangle Factory Fire Project Opens Off-Broadway May 19

[ P ]  Romeo and Juliet Start Star-Crossed Lovers Season at Shakespeare�s Globe May 19

[ P ]  Tasting Memories Brings Hart, Harris, Bosco and Grimes to Off-Broadway, May 19

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Spotlight on Atlanta's Alliance '04-'05 Season
XM Satellite Radio

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Summer's Coming in NYC - That Means Theater Festivals
XM Satellite Radio

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER NOTEBOOK
Two Comedies From Milne, Before He Dreamed of Pooh by WILBORN HAMPTON
The Mint Theater Company is seeking to reintroduce New York audiences to A. A. Milne the playwright with two spiffy new productions.

[ TB ]  Boy
Review by Matthew Murray

[ B ]  Boy
Review by William Stevenson

[ ATW ]  Counsellor, Defend Thyself
Review by Laura Shea

[ ATW ]  Kushner's 'Homebody' Still Has Lessons for Our Times
Review by Andy Propst

[ ATW ]  Blackbird:An Unlikely Place and Pair for a Love Affair
Review by Andy Propst

The 49th Annual Obie Awards:

[ VV ]  Mein Gott, everyone's a winner! by Michael Musto

[ VV ]  Obies: Telling Tales Out of School
Commemorating P.S. 122's 25-year history of stretching the bounds of contemporary performance
Alexis Soloski listens in to an oral history of P.S. 122

[ VV ]  Obies: Writers' Bloc
A fearless new generation of Off-Broadway playwrights establishes downtown beachheads
Mac Wellman on the making a truly creative theater community

[ VV ]  Obies: Season Your Admiration
In the midst of global dimming, the theater could offer a few bright spots by Michael Feingold
Reflections on the season
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[ TU ]��A fastidious, fascinating actor and friend
Jack Klugman visited his old ``The Odd Couple'' partner Tony Randall in a New York City hospital last week. "He was fighting,'' said Klugman, forever the slovenly Oscar Madison to Randall's fastidious Felix Unger. "I never saw a braver guy in my life.''
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004

News:

[ P ]  Broadway Theatres Dim Lights May 18 in Honor of Tony Randall
Broadway will mourn the loss of theatrical star Tony Randall May 18 by dimming the lights on all marquees at 8 PM.

[ UPI ]  Remembering Tony Randall by Pat Nason

[ * ]  TV Land salute to Tony Randall; includes "Password" ep

[ B ]  Queer Eye's Jai Rodriguez Returns to Rent

[ B ]  Roger Bart Readies for Dracula, The Musical

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Raisin the Roof
For the first time in its run, Raisin cracked the top 10 in terms of gross, quite a feat for a straight play.

[ P ]  Adam Rapp's Blackbird Extends Off-Broadway to May 29

[ P ]  World Premiere of Stephen Belber's For Reele May See Roundabout's Off Broadway Stage

[ P ]  Liquid Diet: Water Main Break Causes Chef's Theatre to Go Dark

[ P ]  Ebersole, Kind, Baker, Hibbert, Roberts Take Bay Street's Rough Crossing This Summer

Reviews:

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
Barbara & Scott have their say about this year's MAC Awards show and also solicit the opinions of other attendees.

[ ND ]  Review: "Boy" BY GORDON COX

Features:

[ R ]  Recalling the Summers When Stars Fanned Out by Robert Osborne
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[ B ]  CDs: Classic Soundtracks by Ken Mandelbaum
I hear that Angela Christian (Miss Dorothy in the Broadway Thoroughly Modern Millie) has been cast in a leading role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's forthcoming West End musical The Woman in White.
WEST SIDE STORY (Sony Classical/Legacy/Columbia Masterworks)
A STAR IS BORN (Columbia/Legacy/Sony Music Soundtrax)

Features:

[ TM ]  Second Sight by: Michael Portantiere
Laura Linney and Ben Shenkman co-star in the Manhattan Theatre Club revival of Donald Margulies's Sight Unseen.

[ B ]  First Person: Who Is Bob? by Jay Johnson

[ B ]  Tony Memories: Karen Ziemba

[ B ]  Photo Op: Seeing Stars at the 2004 Drama Desk Awards

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Obie Awards Honor Off-Bway's Best of the Season, May 17

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: MTC Has Spring Fever at Gala w/ Bway Celebrities

News:

[ CBS ]  Photo Essay: Tony Randall

[ B ]  Jessica Grov� to Play Miss Dorothy in Millie

[ P ]  Gay Marriage Is Set to Song in Solo Show The Girl That I Marry, June 14-28

[ P ]  Broadway's Rent to Welcome Frenchie Davis and Drew Lachey

[ P ]  Hairspray's Dynamites to Judge Macy's "Be a Tony Superstar!" Contest

[ P ]  Aquila's Othello Gets Modern Setting, With Actors and Audience Commingling, May 18-June 27

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: May 10-16

[ P ]  "60 Minutes II" Chats with Broderick and Parker May 19

[ P ]  Mamet Directs FX Drama "The Shield"

[ P ]  T.R. Knight Is Julia Jordan's Boy as Play Opens Off-Broadway at Primary Stages, May 18

[ P ]  Butz to Depart Wicked in July; McIntyre Likely to Replace

[ P ]  Sarah Jones' bridge and tunnel Extends Off-Broadway; Aiming for Broadway in March

[ P ]  Sally Rand Celebration to Include Bishop, McKechnie, Neuwirth and Wilson

[ P ]  Free Reading of Pascal's Oysterman's House Held May 18

[ P ]  Barbara Cook's Broadway to Hit NYC Stores in June; Track List Announced

[ P ]  2004 MAC Awards Announced; Mason, Sullivan, DeRoy Among Winners

[ TM ]  18th Annual MAC Awards Ceremony Held at Peter Norton Symphony Space

[ TM ]  2003-2004 OBIE Awards Bestowed at Webster Hall

Reviews:

[ ND ]  'Streetcar' rides a darkly comic track BY LINDA WINER
Clarkson's Blanche is the most compelling element in the strange yet ordinary production, staged with more gothic humor than poetry by Irish director Garry Hynes, who won her Tony Award for the raucous "The Beauty Queen of Leenane."

[ TM ]  A Streetcar Named Desire
Reviewed By: Michael Portantiere

[ CU ]  A Streetcar Named Desire

[ TM ]  Minimum Wage
Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

[ CU ]  Counsellor at Law
posted at 5/18/2004 04:10:56 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ Y ]��'Odd Couple' Star Tony Randall Dies at 84

[ CNN ]  Tony Randall dead at 84

[ IBDB ]  Tony Randall's Broadway Credits

[ P ]  Tony Randall, Beloved Actor and Founder of National Actors Theatre, Is Dead at 84

[ NYT ]  Tony Randall, Half of the 'Odd Couple,' Dies at 84 by RICHARD SEVERO

[ B ]  Actor/NAT Founder Tony Randall Dead at 84

[ TM ]  Tony Randall Dies at 84
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News:

[ P ]  Small Tragedy, Mark Russell and George C. Wolfe Among 2004 Off-Broadway Obie Awards Winners

[ B ]  Winners of 49th Annual Obie Awards Announced

[ B ]  Joey McIntyre Turns Wicked; Butz Gets Rotten

[ B ]  Drew Lachey Joins Rent Cast on September 10

[ BH ]  White, Whitehead earn top Elliot Norton awards by Terry Byrne
Julie White, who played a hilarious shoe-aholic in the Huntington Theatre Company's "Bad Dates," and Paxton Whitehead, who redeemed the Huntington's "What The Butler Saw," were the big winners at last night's 22nd annual Elliot Norton awards.

[ NYT ]  June Taylor, 86, Dies; Created 'Gleason' Dances by BEN SISARIO
She brought the chorus line into the television age with her choreography on "The Jackie Gleason Show."

[ NJ ]  David Mamet, TV director BY ALAN SEPINWALL
The writer and film director takes the helm for an episode of 'The Shield'

[ NYP ]  MAMET TAKES A SHOT AT 'THE SHIELD' by LINDA STASI

[ NYP ]  PACK IT IN by MICHAEL STARR
"It was a mutual thing," Jerry Orbach told The Post about his decision to leave "Law & Order," the show on which he's been a constant through hundreds of episodes - and many cast changes.

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
THINGS LOOKING UP FOR ANNE HECHE

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
Diahann Carroll, Karen Ziemba.

[ P ]  Alan Bennett�s The History Boys Premieres at London�s NT, May 18

"The Joys of Sex" - Reviews:

[ NJ ]  Sex of 'Joys' is subtle and lighthearted BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ NYP ]  UNFULFILLING 'SEX' by DONALD LYONS
The whole thing is as if Jackie Mason and Britney Spears collaborated on a show. Oy!

[ Y ]  Cute, Harmless 'Joys of Sex' Set to Song by PETER SANTILLI, Associated Press Writer

[ TM ]  The Joys of Sex
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ CU ]  The Joys of Sex

Other Reviews:

[ Y ]  'Suddenly Last Summer' Lights Up London by MATT WOLF, Associated Press Writer
It's ladies' night at the Albery Theatre, where audiences can debate the sort of question that makes theatergoing a treat: Who's better in the spine-tingling new revival of "Suddenly Last Summer" � the seasoned veteran, Diana Rigg, or the astonishing young actress, Victoria Hamilton?

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE'
It's 'Streetcar,' but Blanche Has a Sly Side by BEN BRANTLEY
Patricia Clarkson offers a clear-eyed look at one of theater's haziest heroines in a largely spark-free production at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

[ WP ]  Opera: 'Streetcar's' Dubious Track by Tim Page
Tennessee Williams's Play, Andre Previn's Music Make for an Ill-Advised Coupling

[ TB ]  Heavenly
Review by Jonathan Frank

[ CU ]  Heavenly

[ TB ]  Chicago
New Review by Matthew Murray

[ NJ ]  Trouper at his zenith: Veteran actor gives commanding performance in Celtic drama BY PETER FILICHIA

[ CU ]  So Close

Features:

[ BS ]  Focus on Playwriting Groups -- Lonely No Longer
Playwrights groups stimulate, encourage, streamline, and professionalize the playwriting process.
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Monday, May 17, 2004

[ STARS ]  AWARDS SEASON 2004 by Steven M. Alper
Updated with Drama Desk and Drama League winners and the Broadway.com Audience nominees .

[ TM ]  2004 Drama Desk Awards Presented; Director Mantello Announced as Winner for Assassins But Actually Wins for Wicked by: Matthew Murray and Michael Portantiere
Includes video clips.

[ P ]  Mantello Beats Mantello in Director's Race in Drama Desk Snafu

[ B ]  Drama Desk Embarrassed by Mantello Mix-Up

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Stars Come Out for the 49th Drama Desk Awards

Features:

[ B ]  Tony's Best Musicals---Part One by Ken Mandelbaum

[ B ]  Photo Op: Drama League Luncheon Attracts Stars Galore

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Drama League Wines and Dines Bway's Best at Luncheon

[ B ]  Photo Op: A Family Affair at 42nd Street

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Patricia Clarkson Plays Blanche in Kennedy Center Streetcar

[ P ]  MARQUEE VALUE: The Frogs at the Vivian Beaumont

[ P ]  MARQUEE VALUE: Dracula at The Belasco

News:

[ P ]  Landau Tells a Few Theatrical Essays at Steppenwolf, May 27

[ P ]  Neuwirth and Reinking Discuss New Show Jenny at Makor June 25

[ P ]  Broadway's Frozen to Reach San Francisco During 2005-06

[ P ]  Kerry Butler to Depart Little Shop of Horrors in June

[ P ]  "It's All Relative" and "Whoopi" Canceled; Donna Murphy Sitcom Retooled

[ P ]  Off-Broadway Attends an Awesome '80s Prom Beginning July 23

[ P ]  Jason Bateman, Kellie Overbey Take Part in Sex Reading

[ P ]  Ceiling Collapse at London's Haymarket Injures Audience Members

[ P ]  Kennedy Center Glass Menagerie Finds Its Gentleman Caller

[ P ]  Palminteri Part of Final Appeal Free Reading May 17 and 18

[ P ]  "Broadway Under the Stars" Set for June 14

[ P ]  Landes Joins Ringwald For London When Harry Met Sally

[ P ]  Actors Theatre of Louisville Has Slanguage, Lintel, Hank in 2004-05

[ P ]  Dinner Party Star Brings New Cabaret Act to Feinstein's at the Cinegrill

[ P ]  Baranski Up for Grabs at MTC Gala May 17; Oz, Little Shop and Avenue Q to Perform

[ P ]  Hitchcock Blonde Now Headed for February Broadway Opening

[ P ]  André De Shields Receives Honorary Doctorate

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: National News Round-up
Danza Joins Falcon; Nickel in OH Extends; IL Sees Terkel's 'Good War'; VA's Signature Premieres Musicals
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Reviews:

[ TB ]  The End Of You
Review by Matthew Murray

[ TB ]  Aunt Jack
Review by Warren Hoffman

[ TB ]  The Joys Of Sex
Review by Matthew Murray

[ B ]  The Joys of Sex
Review by Celia Wren

[ ATW ]  Guinea Pig Solo Though Fast, Unmoving Emotionally
Review by Andy Propst

[ ATW ]  McCarter's My Fair Lady a Revelation
Review by Andy Propst

[ CU ]  Where Do We Live
posted at 5/17/2004 04:28:58 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ UCLA ]��Lighting the way by Alex Wen
The bright lights of Broadway are flashing. Consider them warning lights.
Graduate theater student Jodie Langel co-wrote "Making It On Broadway," a book that explores what goes on behind the curtains of theater.
posted at 5/17/2004 01:23:35 PM by James Marino | Item Link

Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Does Michael Cumpsty really need a microphone to be heard in a 350-seat theater?

[ NYT ]  A Brooklyn Landmark Gets Its Crown Back by GLENN COLLINS
When the $8.6 million exterior restoration of the Brooklyn Academy of Music is completed this year, visitors will be able to gaze once more at the structure's richly ornamented crown.

News:

[ NYP ]  'WICKED' IS DRAMA DESK BIG WINNER by MICHAEL RIEDEL

[ B ]  Assassins and Wicked Top Drama Desk Winners
Wicked and Assassins have always shared director Joe Mantello but now they have another thing in common--the two musicals each won five awards when the 2004 Drama Desk Awards were announced on Sunday, May 16...

[ P ]  Wicked, Assassins, Henry IV, Wife Win Drama Desk Awards

[ TM ]  2004 Drama Desk Awards Presented

[ DN ]  They won't be making 'Whoopi' anymore by ADAM LISBERG
Comedian Whoopi Goldberg's city-centered sitcom has been scrapped from the NBC lineup after a season of low ratings and critical pans.

[ Y ]  De Shields Gets Belated Honorary Degree
MADISON, Wis. - A grounded airplane made Broadway star Andre De Shields late for his trip to Madison, but he wasn't about to let that keep him from receiving an honorary doctoral degree.

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
A Wicked Match? (Third item.)

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
STRITCH IN TIME

[ Y ]  B.O. slips; 'Lion' $1.4 mil
Road grosses dropped 5.3% to $13,840,915 during Week 50 (May 3-9).

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 17

[ P ]  Village Voice's Obie Awards Announced May 17 at Manhattan's Webster Hall

[ P ]  Alicia Witt Assesses The Shape of Things, Opening in London May 17

[ P ]  Boise Comes to New York at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, June 8-July 18

[ P ]  2004 MAC Awards Presented May 17

[ P ]  Philip Seymour Hoffman Stars in LAByrinth Evening of Shanley's Romantic Poetry, May 17

[ P ]  Broadway Rush and Standing Room Only Policies

[ ATW ]  Take Bare's Tunes Home - Sh-k-Boom Records EP CD for Giveaway with Ticket Purchase
ATW News

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: NYC News - 'Dracula' Casting Confirmed; Public, Vineyard, Second Stage Prepare for '04-'05
XM Satellite Radio

Reviews:

[ ND ]  A sex musical going its own boobish way BY GORDON COX
Sex can never be too safe, but new musicals can. Take "The Joys of Sex," the ostensibly naughty Off-Broadway show running at the Variety Arts Theatre. It's passionless and cutesy, and that's by design: "Joys" aims to be a sex romp that you can bring your grandmother to.

[ SUN ]  Washington's Monuments by JEREMY McCARTER
In "A Streetcar Named Desire", Patricia Clarkson reminds you that marble has veins; plus a first look at Loesser's last.

[ CU ]  Homebody/Kabul

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: LaBute and Rapp's Dark Sides
XM Satellite Radio

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Recent PS Classics and LML Music Releases
XM Satellite Radio
posted at 5/17/2004 07:43:05 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Sunday, May 16, 2004

[ R ]  London Theater-Goers Injured in Ceiling Collapse

Features:

[ BG ]  Can the company still play a role? by Catherine Foster
Resident actors are becoming a rarity

[ BH ]   Hub musician Berlin to rule new 'Kingdom' by Robin Vaughan
It's always seemed like a real no-brainer that Rick Berlin, the veteran Boston cabaret-rock maestro, should write a musical - even though he's not related to Irving and contemporary Broadway musicals make him nauseated (understandably).

[ WP ]  Keith Baxter, An Actor With a Friend In Tennessee by Peter Marks
'Henry IV' Star Recalls A Gentler Side of Williams

[ LAT ]  Still smoldering by Patrick Pacheco
Tennessee Williams wrote with lyrical rawness of the human experience. Contemporary playwrights still find much to appreciate, if not imitate.

[ HC ]  Albee's Bench Players by FRANK RIZZO

[ NYT ]  Excerpt: 'Homelife'

[ HC ]  Excerpt From 'Homelife'

[ HC ]  Excerpt From 'The Zoo Story'

[ ND ]  FAST CHAT: Frank Langella by Blake Green

[ NYT ]  Laura Linney, Homecoming Queen by SUSAN DOMINUS
Laura Linney has achieved her success so incrementally that she might almost have invented a new niche in the entertainment industry: the stealth celebrity.

[ PP ]  With 'Pirates,' sound of music is back at Guthrie BY DOMINIC P. PAPATOLA
After almost a decade, the musical has returned to the Guthrie mainstage. And artistic director Joe Dowling, who's at the helm of the nautical operetta that closes the Guthrie's 40th season, says it's here to stay.

[ NYP ]  MAGNETIC CHARM by MARY HUHN
Stephin Merritt, the singer and songwriter behind the Magnetic Fields, often doesn't know where a pop song stops and his life begins.
Funny quote about Tom Lehrer and Stephen Sondheim.

[ INQ ]  Gospel singer puts her life on N.J. stage by Douglas J. Keating
As a child, Queen Esther Marrow often listened to Mahalia Jackson and grew up loving the work of the great gospel singer.

[ B ]  Photo Op: Sutton Foster Comes to American Cabaret

[ B ]  Photo Op: Drama League Luncheon Attracts Stars Galore

[ B ]  Photo Op: The Joys of Sex Gets Hot and Heavy Party

[ B ]  Photo Op: Ave Q Hits the Campaign Trail with Pizza & Pizzazz

[ B ]  Photo Op: Oz Film Munchkin Visits Wicked

[ B ]  Tony Memories: Sutton Foster

[ B ]  Nominee Q&A: George O'Dowd

[ B ]  Tony Memories: Denis O'Hare

[ BS ]  Is Multiple Representation a Good Thing?
Actors seek representation from agents in terms of their talent, experience, and marketability. Agents look for talent to enhance the prestige and financial livelihood of the agency.

[ BS ]  Medoff's Muse: Phyllis Frelich

[ HC ]  Sondheim Bounces Back
Tony Nods For 'Assassins' Mark Recovery From Disaster

[ LAT ]  Getting ready for 'Company'
Actors do well to take a very deep breath and become part of the complex show's whole.

[ P ]  Two for Two for Tony: Kathleen Marshall and Brian MacDevitt Earn Double Nominations

[ P ]  Composer Stephen Schwartz Makes Tony Comeback After Long Absence

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

[ MN ]  Hollywood knocks on playwright's door by Karen D'Souza
Just when Theresa Rebeck had resolved to stop writing for television and to devote herself completely to the theater, she heard from CBS again.

[ AAN ]  Ultimate 'Candide' will dazzle BY SUSAN ISAACS NISBETT
University of Michigan production with Frederica von Stade, Matthew Chellis and Harvey Evans.

[ SFC ]  CO-STARS IN LIFE by Leba Hertz
Louis Zorich leans into Olympia Dukakis' shoulder with a knowing nudge and a laugh. It's a subtle shared moment that only a long-married couple might understand.

[ TT ]  His 'Fair Lady' by TED OTTEN
Gary Griffin interview.

Reviews:

[ BSUN ]  Clarkson gets Blanche, right down to her fingertips by J. Wynn Rousuck

[ WP ]  Uneven 'Streetcar' Still Something To Be Desired by Peter Marks
The production feels like an unfinished canvas; the colors are all there, but they don't blend in all the intended ways.

[ P ]  ON THE RECORD: Sondheim's Bounce and Neva Small's Broadway

[ DN ]  Howard Kissel's Cultural Tourist: Tonys take the pulse
This year's nominations reflect B'way's current health

[ NYT ]  John Gielgud's Candid Correspondence by BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE
The actor's letters offer unvarnished assessments of his colleagues' abilities. And those were the people he liked.

[ CU ]  Guinea Pig Solo

[ CU ]  Rattle of a Simple Man

[ CU ]  Trust

[ CU ]  The Lake

News:

[ NYT ]  In Veteran Broadway Producer, Jets Seek Blocking Help by CHARLES V. BAGLI
Broadway producer Marty Richards has been recruited by the New York Jets to win over public opinion for a plan to build a stadium along the West Side Highway.

[ NYT ]  North Korean Performers Adapt to Life on a New Stage by NORIMITSU ONISHI
Many North Korean defectors are performing as singers or dancers in South Korea, but only a fraction are professional performers.

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 16

[ P ]  Golda's Balcony Offers Actors' Fund Performance May 16

[ P ]  Helluva Town: Show Tunes That Celebrate NYC Echo in Revue at Museum of the City of New York May 15-16
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[ NYT ] Edward Albee Returns to the Zoo

[ NYT ] The Late Show With Bebe Neuwirth

[ NYT ] A Box Barely Big Enough for Two Tormented Souls
Theater Review: Blackbird

[ P ] Drama Desk Awards for 2003-04 Season to Be Announced at May 16 Ceremony

[ P ] Well Runs Dry at Public Theater as Acclaimed Kron Work Ends Run May 16

[ TS ] Critics flip over the Hairspray girlfriend

[ TS ] Flush with success
Urinetown, the No. 1 Broadway musical, comes to T.O. next week. They couldn't hold it in any longer
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