Friday, August 20, 2004

[ B ]  Brooke Shields to Replace Murphy in Town
She will begin performances on September 28, replacing original headliner Donna Murphy.

[ B ]  Kind & Ruck to Star in The Producers in January
Expect a Spin City reunion on Broadway this winter.

[ B ]  Roundabout Eyes Mr. Marmalade for Off-B'way
posted at 8/20/2004 06:06:13 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Features:

[ P ]  A Teacher and a Doer
With the 2004�2005 Signature Theatre season dedicated to her work, playwright Paula Vogel is seizing the opportunity to enter into a dialogue about new plays and playwrights

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Dracula Is Back in Town

[ B ]  Photo Op: Sly Fox Welcomes New Cast

Reviews:

[ B ]  FringeNYC 2004: Jesus and Mandy
Review by William Stevenson

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
Barbara and Scott check in on Movin' Out, attend The Day Emily Married, and go to the movies with Scott Coulter.

News:

[ B ]  From My Hometown Closes Off-B'way August 21

[ B ]  Dodger Stages to House The Immigrant

[ TM ]  League Offers Discounts on Broadway Tickets for Performances During the RNC

[ P ]  Hello, GOP; Goodbye SRO?: Broadway Offers Late Summer Ticket Promotion

[ TM ]  Show Stoppers! Concert at Avery Fisher to Benefit GMHC

[ P ]  After The Fall Director Michael Mayer Spotlighted in NY1's "On Stage," Aug. 21

[ P ]  A Class Act to Make U.K. Premiere

[ P ]  The Awesome '80s Prom to Become Open Run Sept. 10

[ P ]  Former "M*A*S*H" Star to Say Goodnight Gracie
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Features:

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: Greene's Sensational "In His Eyes," McGovern Gets Jazzy Plus Broadway Showstoppers

Reviews:

[ B ]  Did Critics Sink Their Teeth into B'way's Dracula?

[ B ]  DVDs: Ruthless! by Ken Mandelbaum
THE BAD SEED (Warner Home Video)

[ TB ]  Ellen Craft: A New Opera
Review by Matthew Murray
Opera is rare at the New York International Fringe Festival; good opera is even harder to come by. Ellen Craft is not only good opera, but it's brilliant, thrilling, and moving, easily enjoyable wherever your tastes may lie on the theatrical spectrum.

[ B ]  FringeNYC 2004: Dog Sees God
Review by Eric Grode
Bert V. Royal's gleefully naughty and borderline brilliant Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead does for "Peanuts" what Avenue Q did for Sesame Street.

[ B ]  FringeNYC 2004: Pith!
Review by Eric Grode

[ TM ]  FringeNYC Roundup 2
Reviewed By: Adam Klasfeld

News:

[ P ]  PBOL'S THEATER WEEK IN REVIEW, Aug. 14-20: Down for the Count

[ P ]  Wonderful Town Star Gets TV Deal
Jennifer Westfeldt, who was Tony-nominated for her performance as Eileen Sherwood in the current revival of Wonderful Town, has signed a deal with ABC-TV.

[ P ]  Kristin Chenoweth Hopes Boots Will Walk to Broadway

[ P ]  More Casting Announced for London's Grand Hotel
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[ NYP ]  CONVENTIONAL WISDOM By Michael Riedel
"IT'S going to look like a hurricane whipped through here." That's how one top Broadway producer describes the devastation that is about to be visited on theater box offices in the coming weeks.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia never thought the New York Musical Theatre Festival would happen, but Kris Stewart and Elizabeth Lucas proved him wrong.

"Dracula":

[ JN ]  Oh, positive! By JACQUES LE SOURD
Most of the highbrow critics will hate "Dracula, the Musical," Frank Wildhorn's new vampire show, which opened last night at the suitably gothic Belasco Theatre.
We thought it was fun. A decadent � but mercifully never camp � amusement.

[ NYP ]  IT SUCKS By Frank Scheck

[ TB ]  Dracula
Review by Matthew Murray
Dracula ranks as one of the saddest and most dispiriting Broadway shows in years.

[ DN ]  'Dracula': Fangs but no fangs by Howard Kissel
Unfortunately, there was only one moment in the Frank Wildhorn musical that opened last night at the Belasco when I experienced true terror: In the middle of the second act, I was gripped by a numbing fear that the show would never end.

[ WP ]  'Dracula' Has Little Bite By Peter Marks
The very best you can say about "Dracula" is that you've seen worse.

[ R ]  Theater Review: Dracula, the Musical By Larry Worth (Hollywood Reporter)
It's said that vampires die from a stake through the heart. If so, Broadway's brand-new "Dracula" needn't worry. It has no heart. Or brains. Or vision.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'DRACULA, THE MUSICAL'
The Bat Awakens, Stretches, Yawns By BEN BRANTLEY
"Dracula, The Musical" isn't simply bad, which is an esthetic state of being that is kind of fun if you're in the right mood. It is bad and boring.

[ USA ]  This 'Dracula' in need of a transfusion By Elysa Gardner
* � out of four

[ TM ]  Dracula, the Musical
Reviewed By: David Finkle
It's juiceless, joyless, and -- inexcusable for an adaptation of a classic thriller -- shockless.

[ NJ ]  Down for the count BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
"I can't poison your life/I can't drive you insane," he sings to Mina. "I can't drag you into my world/Of bloodlust and pain." Hey, what kind of a self-respecting, he-man vampire is this? Who wants to see love turn the prince of the undead into a wuss?

[ Y ]  'Dracula' Anemic, Unconvincing By MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
The composer, who wrote the music for such shows as "Jekyll & Hyde," "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "The Civil War," writes melodies that seem to evaporate as soon as they are heard.

[ B ]  Dracula
Review by Eric Grode
Dracula, the latest of Wildhorn's unapologetically bombastic pop operas, probably won't change many minds, although it's far more mediocre than partisans on either side are likely to admit.

[ SUN ]  Fresh Kills by JEREMY McCARTER
You�re lost. Think of the new adaptation of Bram Stoker�s �Dracula� as a musical, and you�re lost.

[ HC ]  'Dracula' Musical Drained Of Life By MALCOLM JOHNSON

[ ND ]  'Dracula' bares more than fangs by Blake Green
"Dracula: The Musical" opened on Broadway last night, but "Dracula" the chaste version won't be.

Other Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE LOVES OF SHAKESPEARE'S WOMEN'
It's Love That Maketh Thy World Go Round By WILBORN HAMPTON
If Susannah York's show is not quite a master class in the poet's gallery of women, it is as good an introductory course as any around.

[ NJ ]  Cndnsd Shkspr nchnts BY PETER FILICHIA
Acrobatic trio gleefully sends up Bard's plays

[ CCT ]  'World' offers new spin on Kander-Ebb By KATHI SCRIZZI DRISCOLL
"The World Goes �Round" at the Cape Playhouse, with Ana Maria Andricain, George Dvorsky, Deidre Goodwin, Judy McLane and John Scherer.

[ TM ]  Where's Charley?
Connecticut Review By: Michael Portantiere

[ BH ]  Barrington's 'Cyrano' is a winner by a nose By Terry Byrne

[ ATU ]  Berkshire Theatre Festival handles 'Misanthrope' with care By MICHAEL ECK
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ NYT ]  CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
Political Art, Potshots to Sure Shots By CARYN JAMES
You don't need a conspiracy theory or an imminent Republican convention to explain why there is so much Bush-bashing entertainment today: Mr. Bush is in power.

[ NYT ]  ART REVIEW | 'SEURAT AND THE MAKING OF 'LA GRANDE JATTE'
How Seurat Worked Up to Sunday By HOLLAND COTTER
The Art Institute of Chicago has spun a wonderful show around George Seurat's famous oil painting, which includes related sketches and works by contemporaries.

The Fringe Festival:

[ NYP ]  SATIRICAL 'NICKY' GOES NOWHERE By FRANK SCHECK
BEFORE Nicky Hilton made headlines this week with her quickie Vegas wedding, she seemed to be the heiress everyone had forgotten � well, almost everyone.

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Some Fringe Favorites
XM Satellite Radio

[ ATW ]  From the Fringe: The Jammer
Review by Laura Shea

[ ATW ]  From the Fringe: Rapunzel
Review by Laura Shea

[ DN ]  Fringe in full swing by Robert Dominguez

[ P ]  Alone in the Universe? Henry Noodle Explores Space in Sci-Fi Musical at NY Fringe Aug. 20-28

Features:

[ BH ]  From soap to stage: 'Guiding Light' star sings for his supper in 'Nine' By Terry Byrne
"On TV, I'm surrounded by crazy women," says "Guiding Light" star Robert Newman, "so playing Guido is not a stretch."

[ BG ]  Playwright brings a devilish comic touch to 'Satan' By Catherine Foster
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.

[ BS ]  Cocteau Defectors Question Leader's View of Ensemble
After 30 years with one theatre -- indeed, being profoundly identified with that theatre -- jumping ship is no easy decision. Ask actor Craig Smith.

[ BS ]  The Public as Critic and Consumer Advocate
Perhaps there are no earth-shattering revelations in Zagat's New York City Theater Guide, but it does offer some interesting insights about the habits of audience members.

[ B ]  Photo Op: Theater Folks Sing for Change

[ B ]  Photo Op: The Boy from Oz's Actors' Fund Performance

News:

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
THAT was some wardrobe malfunction yesterday in Bryant Park.

[ BS ]  Effectiveness of Cell Phone Ban Unclear

[ NJ ]  Center Stage BY PETER FILICHIA
Women on the move

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 20

[ P ]  Cuba Libre! Freed Detainees Tell Their Stories of Guantánamo, Aug. 20

[ P ]  Judy Kuhn, Alan Menken and Jodi Benson Salute Disney Music Aug. 20 and 21

[ P ]  Public Theatre Alum O'Hare, Hoffman, Leibman, Portman, Wolfe Fill Braff Film "Garden State"

[ P ]  Full Cast of Peter Dinklage Richard III at Public Announced

[ P ]  Ebersole, Noll and Noseworthy to Be Part of Camille Reading
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Thursday, August 19, 2004

Features:

[ TM ]  Loose Lips By: Brian Scott Lipton
Katherine Helmond is the boss in The Oldest Profession, the Drama Desk Art*Kives are now decorating the walls of the Arte Caf�, and a Tree may soon be growing at City Center.

News:

[ B ]  Lincoln Center Plans Rivals for this Season

[ B ]  Christina Ricci in Talks for B'way Hitchcock Blonde

[ TM ]  Prelude to Off-Broadway Begins 9/30 at CUNY Grad Center

[ P ]  Casting Now Complete for McDonald-LuPone-Cerveris Sunday in the Park

[ P ]  Mee's Mail Order Bride and Rivera's School of the Americas Featured in LAByrinth Barn Series

[ P ]  Cast for World Premiere The Four Seasons Musical Jersey Boys at La Jolla Playhouse

[ B ]  MTC Exchanges Leading Lady for Magnolias

[ B ]  Respected Composer Bernstein Dead at 82

[ NYT ]  Elmer Bernstein, Prolific Film Composer, Dies at 82 By RICHARD SEVERO
No mention of his Broadway credits here.

Reviews:

[ B ]  FringeNYC 2004: Young Zombies in Love
Review by Eric Grode
What hath Urinetown wrought?

[ B ]  FringeNYC 2004: Mimi Le Duck
Review by Eric Grode
posted at 8/19/2004 03:53:41 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Reviews:

[ ND ]  Dracula: The Musical
Review BY LINDA WINER
For all the potential, "Dracula" betrays our most basic expectations for vampire seduction. The show isn't even good junk.

Sparky023 on All That Chat pointed out that Newsday posted this review before 10 a.m. on the day of the show's opening. Is this a new record for an early posting? Even for Newsday?

[ ATW ]  Day 5 FringeNYC 2004 - 'Infertility'; 'A Place Without Season'; 'The First Step'
Reviews by Andy Propst

News:

[ P ]  Falco-Blethyn 'night, Mother Sets Perimeters of Limited Run
The new Broadway revival of Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, 'night, Mother, starring Edie Falco and Brenda Blethyn, will play the Royale Theatre for 19 weeks only, it was announced.

[ P ]  Whoopi Goldberg Solo Broadway Show to Have Tryout in Philadelphia

[ P ]  Wicked's Chenoweth to Release Second Solo Recording in March

[ B ]  Brooke Tansley Is Beauty's Next Belle, Sept. 14

[ P ]  Hairspray's Tansley Is New Belle in Broadway Beauty

[ P ]  Michael Gambon to Play Falstaff at London's National Theatre

[ P ]  Luker, Gravitte, Barrett and Raines to Sing Broadway Showstoppers in 2005

[ P ]  Busch Withdraws Our Leading Lady From MTC Season

[ P ]  Elmer Bernstein, Composer of Film Scores and Broadway Shows, Is Dead at 82
posted at 8/19/2004 11:43:32 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

News:

[ Y ]  Elmer Bernstein, Film Composer, Dead at 82 By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer

[ IBDB ]  Elmer Bernstein's Broadway Credits

[ Y ]  'Lady' skips out on NYC
Charles Busch has withdrawn his play "Our Leading Lady" from Manhattan Theater Club's current season.

Features:

[ NYT ]  A Movie Full of Sex, With Nothing Simulated About It By DINITIA SMITH
John Cameron Mitchell, the creator and star of the drag hit "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," has a new opus in the works, and it's just full of sex.

[ DN ]  For Black & York, it's one-woman showtime By JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ
Karen Black and Susannah York's movie careers have seen better days - the '60s and '70s, to be precise. But the two actresses have never stopped working - and now they're starring in one-woman shows as different as the types of characters they've portrayed onscreen.

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following stories:

[ LADN ]  Today's pop stars, take notes By Evan Henerson
Former teen pop star Deborah Gibson, aka Debbie Gibson, has left her bubble gum persona behind for a more grown up path as she opens a reprise of the play "Brigadoon" at the Freud Playhouse in UCLA.

[ SUN ]  PROFILE: RON LASKO
Guiding the Fringe Into the Mainstream By ROBERT SIMONSON

[ RFT ]  Take Me Out to the Muny BY DENNIS BROWN
How to make money and stultify people

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEWS | NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL
A Chilling Account of a Child Never Known By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Reviews from the New York International Fringe Festival, which runs through Aug. 29 and features productions by more than 200 theatrical companies.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'PLUMS IN NEW YORK'
Looking for Mr. Strindberg in Some Very Strange Places By ANITA GATES
Anna Rosa Sigurdardottir's one-woman show is about a young would-be playwright haunted by August Strindberg's ghost.

[ BE ]  A 'Cyrano' with panache By Jeffrey Borak

Other News:

[ B ]  London's Child Gets Six Feet Under's Ambrose

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 19

[ P ]  Cue the Coffin: Dracula the Musical Opens Aug. 19 at the Belasco

[ P ]  Karen Finley Goes After Dubya and Stewart in George & Martha at New NYC Space

[ P ]  Rent's Lachey, Hair's Murney, Brooklyn Cast Sing at Broadway in Bryant Park, Aug. 19

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: News Round-Up
'Vibrations'; 'La Cage'; 'Charity'; 'Ocean'
XM Satellite Radio
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Wednesday, August 18, 2004

[ P ]  Jonathan Freeman and Brooks Ashmanskas Are New DeBris and Ghia in Producers, Aug. 31

[ P ]  Contact Movie to Wait Until Completion of Producers Film

[ P ]  Tom Hulce and Jeremy Sisto Set for Take Me Out Los Angeles Debut

[ P ]  Is Broadway Suffering From EDS?
Is The Great White Way succumbing to EDS, Edna Depravation Syndrome?

[ P ]  "Six Feet Under" Star Ambrose to Be Part of National Theatre Buried Child

[ P ]  Susan Egan Signs New CD, "Coffee House," Aug. 18 in NYC

[ P ]  Caruso to Host Voices for Change Concert Aug. 18; Additional Performers Announced

[ P ]  Initial Casting Announced for Wild Party Twin Cities Premiere

[ P ]  Les Misérables' Final Valjean Releases Solo Recording

[ P ]  Schwartz's Baker's Wife to Be Tweaked for Paper Mill Run

[ P ]  Here Lies Jenny Star Cast in Paper Mill She Loves Me

[ P ]  Full Cast Set for Matthew Broderick-Frances Sternhagen Foreigner Off Broadway

[ P ]  Whoopi Goldberg to Revive 1984 Broadway Solo Show

[ P ]  Martin Short Broadway Solo Show Gets a Title

[ P ]  Barrowman and Ellison to Join West End Company of Chicago

[ B ]  AMAS Brings Lone Star Love Off-B'way in Winter
posted at 8/18/2004 03:55:16 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ B ]  CDs: Come to the Masquerade by Ken Mandelbaum
Jonathan Freeman is said to be replacing Gary Beach as Roger De Bris in the Broadway company of The Producers.
MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF (Original Cast Records)

News:

[ B ]  Full Cast of Roundabout's Foreigner Announced

[ B ]  Whoopi Goldberg Readies Return of 1984 Show

[ P ]  Report: Musical Lone Star Love Due Off-Broadway Nov. 21

Features:

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Des McAnuff
Director Des McAnuff likes a good yarn about unforgettable people living and yearning in remarkable eras.

Reviews:

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
Barbara and Scott watch Mickey and Jan Rooney put on a show, then attend Isabel Rose's act at Makor.

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Three Options Outside FringeNYC 2004
On Edge; The Day Emily Married; Booth Variations
XM Satellite Radio
posted at 8/18/2004 12:28:19 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia dines with Richard Adler, who's still got heart -- and lots of great stories.

News:

[ NYP ]  SOLE MATES By MICHAEL RIEDEL
THIS should make you chuckle: Martin Short is calling his one-man show "If I'd Saved, I Wouldn't Be Here: Martin Short on Broadway."

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
FINE ROMANCE HITS SOME SOUR NOTES
Frank Wildhorn and Linda Eder.

[ B ]  Gavin Creel Signs on as La Cage aux Folles Son

[ NYT ]  Arts Briefing By EDWARD WYATT
"Jerry Springer"; "La Cage aux Folles."

[ B ]  Todd Susman to Trade Hairspray Tour for B'way

[ CST ]  Cops won't block risque 'Puppetry' BY MARY HOULIHAN
Conservative critics have managed to get the touring comedy show "Puppetry of the Penis" banned in Boston, but they've struck out in Chicago.

[ Y ]  Steiger will tell 'Stories'
Joan Benedict Steiger will star in " Collected Stories," a play about literary appropriation. Thesp had planned to produce the play with her late husband, Oscar-winning actor Rod Steiger. The show will be dedicated to his memory.

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 18

[ P ]  Bat Boy Flies the London Skies Starting Aug. 18

[ P ]  Susannah York Speaks the Speeches of Shakespeare's Women in NYC Aug. 18-29

The Fringe Festival - Reviews:

[ SUN ]  Turnabout at the Play Fair
Fringe Festival reviews by some of downtown's finest: Adam Rapp, T. Ryder Smith, Carl Forsman, Young Jean Lee, and Jose Zayas.

[ NJ ]  Crapshoot at the Fringe BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
One-woman show stands out amid offbeat offerings

[ TB ]  Martha & Me: A Musical
Review by Matthew Murray

[ TB ]  Die, Die, Diana: A Musical
Review by Matthew Murray

Other Reviews:

[ CST ]  Anti-nuke 'Infinity' is armed with gimmicks BY CHRISTOPHER PIATT
Jesse and Mac, the working stiffs in Steven Dietz's play "Foolin' Around With Infinity," report to work a quarter-mile below ground in Utah, where they help protect America's ever-growing nuclear arsenal.

[ VV ]  Unwarranted Intrusion
A celebrity drops in on a budding playwright, but is that something to write plays about? by Michael Feingold
The Triple Happiness

[ VV ]  Babes in Oldness
At 84, Mickey Rooney's hardy, but not much like Andy Hardy by Michael Feingold
Let's Put On a Show!

[ VV ]  Showstoppers
The Booths once knocked 'em dead. Not anymore, though by Alexis Soloski
The Booth Variations

[ VV ]  Sightlines by Jorge Morales
Squeeze Box

[ VV ]  Bushwhacker
Stand-up satirist misplaces his pointed political punchlines by Charlotte Stoudt
Brian Dykstra: Cornered & Alone

[ VV ]  Serial Mom by Charles McNulty
A Middle East setting doesn't guarantee classic tragedy

[ VV ]  Sightlines by Francine Russo
From My Hometown

[ VV ]  Horton Hatches A Plot by Michael Feingold
When old playwrights look back, they sometimes see youthful thrills instead of nostalgia
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Features:

[ TM ]  Follow Spot By: Michael Portantiere
Are different techniques really required to act in the theater as compared to film and television? Also: Michael Berresse on his newest venture, intriguingly called [title of show].

News:

[ P ]  It's Out! Beach and Davis Are La Cage Couple; Creel and Gaylor Are Jean-Michel and Anne

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Easy Being Green
Wicked is on a roll. For the fifth straight week, the witchy musical has been tops at the box office, beating traditional top grosser The Lion King.

[ B ]  Ellison & Barrowman to Join West End Chicago

[ TM ]  BC/EFA Flea Market and Grand Auction Set for 9/19

[ P ]  40-Year-Old Attempts to Cheat Death in Immortality at Fringe NYC

[ P ]  The Boy From Oz's Judy and Liza Appear at Gay Icons Talk in NYC, Aug. 23

[ P ]  Irish Comedian Tommy Tieran Brings Cracked to Village Theatre, Sept. 21

[ P ]  "Evening Primrose," "Cop Rock" and More Musicals Play at Museum of TV & Radio in NYC, Oct. 1-3

[ P ]  PA's Bristol Riverside Theatre Goes From Cliffhanger to Greek Romp in 2004-05

[ P ]  Report: Billy Crudup in Talks for Broadway's Pillowman

[ P ]  Morrison and Deschanel Join "Mattress" TV Cast

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Six New Plays Premiere at Kirk Douglas in '04-'05
XM Satellite Radio

Reviews:

[ B ]  FringeNYC 2004: All the Help You Need
Review by Eric Grode

[ B ]  FringeNYC 2004: You've Never Done Anything Unforgivable
Review by Eric Grode

[ ATW ]  Day 3 FringeNYC 2004 - Die Die Diana; Golden Prospects;
You've Never Done Anything Unforgivable; The Spickner
Spin
Reviews by Andy Propst

[ ATW ]  Day 4 FringeNYC 2004 - Mimi Le Duck; All Good Things
Reviews by Andy Propst

[ CU ]  The Triple Happiness

[ CU ]  Plums In New York
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Features:

[ ND ]  A bright morning after BY BLAKE GREEN
Troubled times over, McGovern is back on club scene and returning to Broadway

[ BR ]  Plenty of flesh for a vampire By ROBERT FELDBERG
Interview with Melissa Errico.

[ B ]  Q&A: Christy Carlson Romano by Lara De Meo

[ NYT ]  A Lebanese Parody? Don't Worry. You'll Get It. By LIESL SCHILLINGER
"Live! With Pascale and Chantal," which runs through Aug. 28 at the Fringe Festival, is a hilarious, spot-on parody of the Lebanese talk show genre.

[ ND ]  Chasing a rainbow audience BY KATTI GRAY
Faced with a mostly white theater audience, marketers turn their attention to New York�s minorities

[ ND ]  Asian troupes woo a white audience by Katti Gray

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE CHERRY ORCHARD'
Conflicting Impulses of Chekov's Last Play By BEN BRANTLEY
Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" has been given a thoroughly disarming production at the Williamstown Theater Festival, where it runs through Aug. 22.

[ BG ]  Chekhov, 'Cyrano' shine in the Berkshires By Ed Siegel

[ CU ]  Cyrano de Bergerac

[ NYT ]  CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
A Shostakovich Musical Returns By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
The Moscow Operetta Theater's "Moscow: Cherry Tree Towers" is one of several enticing offerings at the Bard Music Festival this summer.

[ CST ]  'Broadway Man,' 'Mister K' show promise at fest BY HEDY WEISS

[ BG ]  Reagle Players conjure a terrific 'Music Man' By Sally Cragin
With Sarah Pfisterer as Marian.

[ CCT ]  Here come the Callaway sisters By JOHANNA CROSBY
There�s something to be said for good genes.

[ ND ]  Review: "Let's Put On a Show!" BY LINDA WINER

[ TB ]  Young Zombies in Love
Review by Matthew Murray

[ TB ]  Granola! The Musical
Review by Matthew Murray
If you're not yet tired of ruthlessly (and pointlessly) self-referential musicals, or musicals where almost every song, joke, and performance lands with a colossal thud, by all means check out Granola! The Musical at the New York International Fringe Festival.

[ ATW ]  From the Fringe: Granola! The Musical
Review by Laura Shea

News:

[ V ]  Crudup's up to B'way gig
McDonagh drama to be helmed by Crowley
Billy Crudup is in talks to headline the Broadway production of Martin McDonagh's "The Pillowman."

[ B ]  Tony Winner Derricks Replaces Star of Brooklyn

[ P ]  Tony Winner Derricks Replaces Jennings in Brooklyn

[ NYT ]  Arts Briefing By BEN SISARIO
Cleavant Derricks; "Purlie" (fourth item).

[ P ]  Brooklyn�The Musical to Be Recorded in October

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: August 9-15

[ V ]  Stormy skies fail to flood B.O.
Attendance flat on B'way

[ P ]  More Than 20 New Performers Added to All-Star Hair Concert

[ P ]  Heaven Help Us!, the New Rat Pack Musical, Moves From Sunny Florida to Edge of Rockies Sept. 14

[ P ]  Is Wonder of the World Star Amy Sedaris the Next "Late Late Show" Talk Host?

[ P ]  Wicked Composer Schwartz Makes Changes for Broadway's New Wizard

[ P ]  Judy McLane Confirmed for Broadway's Mamma Mia!

[ B ]  Spinella & Turturro Set for New Audience Shows

[ P ]  Stephen Spinella and John Turturro Headline New Season for Theatre for a New Audience

[ NJ ]  Claussen joining Paper Mill BY PEGGY McGLONE

[ P ]  One Red Flower, a Vietnam Musical, Blooms Aug. 17 in Arlington; Florence Lacey Is Mom Who Won't Forget

[ WP ]  Backstage
Notes From Vietnam: The Musical By Jane Horwitz
"One Red Flower."

[ TM ]  MT&R Announces "Musicals on Television" Screening Schedule

[ TM ]  Groenendaal, Nixon, and Rice in M�nage

[ P ]  Groenendaal, Nixon and Rice Sing About Love in Ménage Concert

[ Y ]  Off B'way plays hop train to Conn.

[ Y ]  'JERRY' IN $ JAM

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 17

[ P ]  Bounce's Richard Kind Is a Sly Fox on Broadway, Beginning Aug. 17

[ P ]  Reprise! Season Begins with Mazzie and Danieley in Brigadoon

[ P ]  Northlight's Cat Feet Chronicles a Family Headed by a Poet; Casting for World Premiere Announced
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Monday, August 16, 2004

News:

[ P ]  Stephen Sondheim-Nathan Lane The Frogs to Be Recorded

[ B ]  Hibbert, Morrison, O'Hare Join TV's Mattress

[ B ]  A Class Act to Play London in September

[ P ]  Lord of the Rings May Bow in West End October 2005

[ P ]  Closer Film Trailer with Roberts, Owen, Law, Portman Hits Movie Theatres and Web

[ P ]  Helmond, Burke, Van Patten, Gillette and Glynn Bow in Vogel's Oldest Profession Aug. 21 Off-Bway

[ P ]  Connecticut Company Vies to Be Off-Broadway's Next Stop

[ P ]  Rapp, Forsman, Werthmann Become Fringe Critics for a Fortnight

Reviews:

[ TM ]  FringeNYC Roundup 1
Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

[ CU ]  2004 New York International Fringe Festival Reviews

Features:

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Icelandic Plums Ripen in New York
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Features:

[ B ]  Preview 2004-2005: Pop Goes Broadway by Ken Mandelbaum

News:

[ NYP ]  LADY'S NIGHT By DON KAPLAN
Comic cut-up Amy Sedaris � star of the cult cable hit "Strangers with Candy" and a regular guest on the wee-hours circuit � finds herself at the head of a short list of names to take over "The Late Late Show" when Craig Kilborn steps down in two weeks.

[ B ]  Lord of the Rings Tuner Aims for Oct. 2005 Bow

[ P ]  Michael McKean, Dominic Chianese, Martha Plimpton Star in Woody Allen's Memory This Fall

[ P ]  "Theater Talk" to Present Special Closed-Captioned Series

[ P ]  Bare Will Be Revealed Anew Oct. 13, Later Than Expected

[ P ]  Fierstein, Menzel, Murney, Pascal, Rodriguez, Tartaglia and White Set for All Star Hair Concert

[ P ]  Tony Winner Denis O'Hare Joins "Once Upon a Mattress" Film

[ P ]  Everett Bradley to Reprise Swing! Role for North Shore; Complete Cast Announced

[ P ]  Groener and Canova to Star in Reprise! I Do! I Do!
The first musical with three exclamation points!
Not mentioned in the article is the fact that Groener and Canova did this show for a two-week run at the Cape Playhouse earlier this summer.

Reviews:

[ SUN ]  Instant Drama by JEREMY McCARTER
Tasked with the impossible, Michael Greif has achieved the improbable.

[ CU ]  The Ruffian on the Stair/Theme and Variations
Review By Jenny Sandman
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News:

[ NYT ]  ADVERTISING
Stage Takes a Page From Sports By GLENN RIFKIN
The rarefied world of theater may soon get a taste of promotional tie-ins, ballpark-style.

[ B ]  Stars Sign on for Actors' Fund 9/20 Hair Concert

[ V ]  ICM taps NYC legit head
Herold bringing along Merrill clients
International Creative Management has hired Patrick Herold, former owner of the Helen Merrill agency, as a senior VP and head of the legit theater department at ICM's New York office.

Features:

[ NJ ]  The man who made Dracula sing BY PETER FILICHIA
As he sits in a Manhattan restaurant on a rehearsal break from "Dracula, the Musical" -- his latest creation, based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel about love among the vampires -- Wildhorn seems well-rested and confident as Thursday's opening at the Belasco Theatre approaches.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
How well did you do on the 2004 Broadway University Entrance Exam?

[ P ]  STAGE TO SCREEN: Your "De-Lovely" Thoughts and a "Stage Beauty" Preview
People sure do have strong feelings about �De-Lovely.�

[ INQ ]  The lord whose love ruined Oscar Wilde By Douglas J. Keating
"The Lives of Bosie," with Austin Pendleton.

[ HC ]  Goodspeed Gets Into Touring by Frank Rizzo
Will the "Goodspeed Experience," so expertly polished at its quaint jewel-box theater on the banks of the Connecticut River in East Haddam, travel to other places?

[ HC ]  A Work In Progress By FRANK RIZZO
The Celebrated O'Neill Theater Center Wrestles With Its Future

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Mickey Rooney Still Knocks 'Em Dead When He Says Let's Put On a Show! Off-Bway

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

[ BEE ]  Keeping the edge keen By Marcus Crowder
When Brad Little steps on stage Tuesday night in "The Scarlet Pimpernel," the Wells Fargo Pavilion audience will see a larger-than-life, swashbuckling character and a full-voiced actor.

[ PP ]  Dowling faces the future BY DOMINIC P. PAPATOLA
As the Guthrie's artistic director enters his 10th year, the theater must start thinking about life without him, and vice versa.

Reviews:

[ NJ ]  Shakespeare director earns his laurels BY PETER FILICHIA

[ CU ]  The Cherry Orchard - Williamstown

[ TB ]  What If? A Musical Revue
Los Angeles Review by Sharon Perlmutter

[ NYer ]  LIARS AND CHEATS by HILTON ALS
�The Day Emily Married� and �Fiction.�

[ TM ]  Brian Dykstra: Cornered & Alone
Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

The Fringe Festival - Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'YOU'LL HAVE HAD YOUR HOLE'
Tortured by Slaps, Punches and (Gasp!) Engelbert By STEPHEN HOLDEN
The awkward, tentative production of Irvine Welsh's play as seen at Collective: Unconscious is drained of adrenaline and ultimately tilts toward sentimentality.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'HOST AND GUEST'
A Blood Feud Brings Cultural Indigestion By ADA CALHOUN

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'BELIEVE IN ME... A BIGFOOT MUSICAL'
Believing Is Seeing: Faith in All Its Permutations By LIESL SCHILLINGER
Anyone who loves the lyrics of Tom Lehrer, Ira Gershwin and Gilbert and Sullivan will revel in the rhymes created by Michael Holland in this musical-comedy adaptation of Adrien Royce's stage play "Everything That Happens in the Woods Is Real.''

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'PITH!'
A Stranger Arrives and Lifts the Gloom By LIESL SCHILLINGER

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'GEEK LOVE'
A Family of Freaks in Carny Togetherness By ADA CALHOUN

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'MOONCHILD'
Moon for the Manipulator, Worshiping His Charisma By ADA CALHOUN

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'HARVEY FINKELSTEIN'S SOCK PUPPET SHOWGIRLS'
Back to 'Showgirls,' This Time With Socks On By LIESL SCHILLINGER

[ ATW ]  From the Fringe: The Gathering Room
Review by Laura Shea

[ ATW ]  From the Fringe: Young Sexy and Talented
Review by Laura Shea

[ ATW ]  NYCFringe 2004: Day 1
Reviews by Andy Propst

[ ATW ]  Day 2 FringeNYC 2004 - 'Haven', 'Barrymore's Body', 'Rings'
Reviews by Andy Propst

The Fringe Festival - News:

[ P ]  Infertility, a Musical Hard to Conceive, Plays NY Fringe Aug. 17-28

[ P ]  Pre-Teen Tries to Cheer Up the Messiah in FringeNYC's Jesus and Mandy, Aug. 14-28

[ P ]  Iconic Film "The Goonies" Becomes Musical Parody Save the Goondocks! at FringeNYC

[ P ]  Not Your Momma's Tupperware Party, Dixie Longate Sells Plasticware and Naughty Laughs at NY Fringe Show, Aug. 14-28

[ P ]  Gay-Themed Confessions of a Mormon Boy is Hot Seller in NY Fringe, Aug. 13-29; Hofsiss Directs

[ P ]  Mimi Le Duck, the Musical, Spreads Its Wings at NY Fringe with Annie Golden, Aug. 13-25

Other News:

[ Y ]  B.O. steady; 'Millie' 983g
Road grosses rose during Week 10 (Aug. 2-8), with the 14 shows reporting grossing $12,509,573, an increase of 8.5% from the prior frame.

[ B ]  Bare Delays Start at Off-B'way's Dodgers Stages

[ B ]  MTC Eyes Moonlight for 2004-2005 Season

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 16

[ P ]  Edutainment Solo The Lehr Curse Takes Hold of Zipper Theatre Monday Nights, Aug. 16

[ P ]  GMHC Showstoppers Benefit Concert to Feature Errico, Graff, Greene, Bogardus and More

[ P ]  Brooklyn Preview Offered Aug. 19 at Bryant Park

[ P ]  Off-Broadway Pulls Out Some Plums, as Icelandic Play Opens Aug. 15

[ P ]  Tim Miller, Civilians, Tiny Ninja Hamlet Fill P.S. 122 2004-05 Season

[ P ]  Fans Offered a Chance to See NYC Industry Reading of A Tale of Two Cities Musical

[ P ]  DRG to Release CD By Wicked's Joel Grey

[ P ]  Casting Announced for First Regional Sunset Boulevard Production

[ P ]  Marisa Tomei is Electra in Free Staged Reading

[ P ]  Report: Movin' Out's Tharp to Create Bob Dylan Musical

[ P ]  Sirius Satellite Radio: Dracula Songs Aug. 16-29 on "Radio Playbill"

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: News Roundup
Two Aug. Closings; 'Democracy', 'Little Women' and 'La Cage' Casting
XM Satellite Radio

[ NYT ]  Paul Garner, a Vaudeville Actor, Dies at 95

[ IBDB ]  Paul Garner's Broadway Credits
Good ol' Mousie Garner! I saw him at a Three Stooges convention years ago... what a character.
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Aug 19 - Grease (Atkinson)

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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)

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

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Jan 24 - Come Back, Little Sheba (Biltmore)

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

Feb 28 - Passing Strange (Belasco)

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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]

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Apr 27 - The Country Girl (Jacobs)

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2008-09
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Oct 16 - Billy Elliot (Imperial)

Nov 08 - Dividing the Estate (a Shubert theater)

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TBA - 50 Words

TBA - Addams Family (Elephant Eye)

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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]

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TBA - Camille Claudel [Wildhorn]

TBA - Camelot

TBA - Carmen [Robin DeLevita and The Firm]

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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]

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