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Saturday, February 19, 2005
Features:
[ LAT ] It can be curtains with no backups on the bench By Mike Boehm
Break a leg? The risks are daunting when a troupe goes without an understudy.
[ WP ] Coo, Coo, Ca-choo By Chip Crews
Feeling Stuck in the Siren Role, Morgan Fairchild Makes the Most of It With 'The Graduate'
[ B ] VIDEO: On the Scene: Steel Magnolias Stars Meet the Press
[ NYP ] PAGE SIX
THE VAPID state of pop-culture punditry on cable networks like VH1, MTV and E! is due for a good skewering, so we're looking forward to Marc Spitz's "The Name of This Play is Talking Heads."
Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!
[ G ] Touched by fire
If Arthur Miller was admired more in Britain than in the US it was because he made theatre matter, says Richard Eyre. His work inspired a generation of playwrights and still speaks to us today
[ CPD ] Taking center stage by Tony Brown
Sitting tall and regal at an out-of-the-way table and chattering on a mobile phone, Linda Powell lets it be known to everyone in a Cleveland Heights coffeehouse that a someone is on the premises this afternoon.
And so she is.
Reviews:
[ NYT ] CABARET REVIEW
Blues in the Night for Songs That Got Away By STEPHEN HOLDEN
An evening of Harold Arlen's music without any showstoppers might be said to be an evening without Harold Arlen. That was the impression left by the rickety centennial tribute to the composer that tottered across the stage of Carnegie Hall on Monday evening.
[ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'A CLOCKWORK ORANGE'
Crimes, Misdemeanors and Kubrick By JASON ZINOMAN
This production of Anthony Burgess's stage version of his 1971 novel never escapes from the shadow of the iconic film.
[ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'HIDING BEHIND COMETS'
Twins Behind the Bar and a Mystery Man in Front By NEIL GENZLINGER
Brian Dykstra's play about bizarre twins and an interloper fails to skirt the clich� of the guy-walks-into-a-bar genre.
[ JN ] Bye Bye boredom By EDWARD BUROUGHS
"Bye Bye Birdie," with Jim Walton and Ruth Gottschall.
[ BG ] 'Quartet' struggles to find right tone By Ryan McKittrick
LOWELL -- In ''Quartet," playwright Ronald Harwood imagines a nursing home for musicians that caters to divas and virtuosos of years past.
[ NJ ] Bitter tale gets bland treatment BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
Many theatergoers know of "Coriolanus" simply from Cole Porter's naughty lyric in "Brush Up Your Shakespeare."
[ DN ] Selleck's rock-solid in 'Stone Cold' by Kay Gardella
Versatile actor Tom Selleck takes on the lead of Jesse Stone in the CBS film "Stone Cold" (tomorrow, 9 p.m.), adapted from Robert B. Parker's novel of the same name.
With Viola Davis, Jane Adams, and Reg Rogers.
News:
[ NYT ] Dan O'Herlihy, Actor Who Starred in 'Fail-Safe,' Dies at 85
[ IBDB ] Dan O'Herlihy's Broadway Credits
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Friday, February 18, 2005
[ Z ] FX Picks Up Pair of Comedies
Including "Starved," starring Laura Benanti.
[ R ] Patinkin Enrolls in ABC's 'Quantico' By Nellie Andreeva (Hollywood Reporter)
Emmy winner Mandy Patinkin leads the cast of ABC's drama pilot "Quantico," which also includes Shemar Moore and Lola Glaudini.
Features:
[ B ] Personal Favorites: The '80s by Ken Mandelbaum
[ B ] FRESH FACE: David Ayers
[ P ] The Norman Conquest
James Earl Jones takes on the irascible Norman Thayer in Ernest Thompson's On Golden Pond.
[ P ] A Merry New Band of Pythons
Monty Python's Spamalot brings to Broadway that most elusive of treasures-inspired lunacy.
[ B ] Quotable Quotes: Meeting the Beauties of B'way's Upcoming Steel Magnolias
[ B ] PHOTO OP: A Hot Time in the Kitchen with Mamma Mia!
Reviews:
[ TM ] The Siegel Column
The new musical at Second Stage will be around for a spell. Plus: A brand new piano bar-cabaret is soon to open in the theater district!
[ TB ] The Two of Clubs
In this week's installment of their new column, Barbara and Scott Siegel present The Farley Brothers (Upstairs at Rose's Turn), Jerry Scott (Danny's Grand Sea Palace) and a new feature - "Show ... and Tell," a list of recommended shows currently running in NYC.
[ SUN ] Mob and Superman by JEREMY McCARTER
Into the garden of delights that New York has lately become � pretty orange curtains in the park, cute spelling bee musical, charming documentary about porn � �Coriolanus� descends like a black granite slab.
[ CU ] Coriolanus
[ TB ] New York Festival of Song: Fats and Fields
Concert review by Alan Gomberg
[ B ] Did Turner and Irwin Wow Boston Critics in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
News:
[ B ] Sienna Miller Eyes Role in As You Like It in the West End
[ B ] Fully Committed Will Not Return to London's Arts Theatre
[ P ] It's Better With a Cello: LaChiusa, Schwartz, Bucchino, Marzullo and More Write Cello Pieces forMarch 7 Concert
[ P ] Simon Bradbury's One-Man Chaplin Show Tramps Its Way to Pittsburgh, Opening Feb. 19
[ P ] Tony Winner Cerveris Lends Original Music to NYU's The History of Tears
[ P ] More with "The Simpsons" Star Smith Opens in Los Angeles, Feb. 18
[ P ] Arthur Miller Remembered on Feb. 18 "Charlie Rose"
[ P ] Commonwealth Shakespeare Co. to Present Hamlet in Summer on Boston Common
[ P ] Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul Set to Play Boston Theatre Works
[ P ] PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Feb. 12-18: Bee Aggressive
[ P ] Nine Parts Extends Again, Plans National Tour Beginning at Geffen
[ P ] World Premiere Revision of Gore Vidal's On the March to the Sea Gets Starry Concert-Style Run in NC
[ P ] Jennifer Ehle to Be Tracy to Kevin Spacey's C.K. In London Philadelphia Story
[ B ] Jennifer Ehle to Play Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic
[ TM ] All-Star Line-Up Set for Sondheim 75th Birthday Benefit
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[ NYP ] IN A DEJ� STEW By MICHAEL RIEDEL
THE producers of the acclaimed off-Broadway revival of "Hurlyburly" are getting cold feet about making the leap to Broadway.
[ V ] Ehle to play Tracy Lord in London "Story"
Tony-winner plucks plum role at Old Vic
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?":
[ BG ] Howling 'Woolf' Irwin, not Turner, gives depth and spirit to Albee's classic By Ed Siegel
[ BH ] Sheepish 'Virginia Woolf' doesn't dig deep enough By Terry Byrne
[ CSM ] The really odd couple By Liza Weisstuch
Quotes from the stars and playwrights.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link.
Features:
[ TM ] Peter Filichia's Diary
What was it that Filichia didn't like about The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee?
[ NYT ] The Show Between Acts By RANDY KENNEDY
A random and thoroughly unscientific tour of intermissions at New York theaters took me from the elegant and easeful to the middling to the merely puzzling.
[ NYT ] Graphic: When the Lights Go Up
[ CST ] New 'Charity' makes peace with Fosse's ghost BY KEVIN NANCE
[ CST ] Tony-winner O'Hare right at home with latest role BY HEDY WEISS
Plus an item on Arthur Miller and Inge Morath.
[ TM ] Viva Chita! By: Michael Portantiere
Musical theater icon Chita Rivera talks about her upcoming gig at Feinstein's at the Regency.
[ BS ] Pragmatism as an Aesthetic
Despite the soaring costs of producing a Broadway musical, producer Stewart Lane asserts that within the last 10 years, it's a business that has become very "attractive financially, precisely because the corporate world has gotten involved. God bless Disney and the Disneyfication of 42nd Street. It has created a gold mine."
[ BS ] London Recent Drama Grads Take the Town
In September, Back Stage followed six recent acting school grads as they start their careers in the Big Apple. Now, London correspondents Mark Shenton and Lisa Martland talk to six people about how they ended up training professionally and their first steps as professionals on the other side of the pond.
[ DN ] Deep Dish Cabaret: Fun on the run By GREGORY BENSINGER
[ ND ] QUEENS THEATRE IN THE PARK
A melting pot for new plays BY STEVE PARKS
[ BSUN ] One gentleman of music makes a Baltimore debut By Ann McArthur
Ten years ago, at age 20, Eric Svejcar was a concert pianist with the Cincinnati Pops. For three days.
[ LAT ] She speaks Lisa Simpson, but she offers you 'More' By Lynne Heffley
Emmy Award-winning Yeardley Smith steps from behind an animated image onto a bare stage in her new one-woman show.
[ DN ] That old Arlen magic by Howard Kissel
Among the many virtues of "Beyond the Rainbow," the Performing Arts Library's centennial tribute to Harold Arlen, are two kiosks in which visitors can put on earphones and hear historic recordings of his songs.
News:
[ B ] Will Eno's Thom Pain (based on nothing) Extends Through July 3
[ V ] Valdez returns to stage in 'Remix'
Revue-style show will open April 29
[ SD ] Edgy theater company evicted By Preston Turegano
A small, semi-professional theater company has been evicted from a storefront in Normal Heights after the venue proprietor defended a provocative photo display in the lobby.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link.
[ BH ] Hotline: Huntington sets readings By Terry Byrne
[ BG ] Company plans Common approach to 'Hamlet' By Maureen Dezell
[ NYT ] Arts, Briefly
Compiled By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Kennedy Center Plans Big Education Push; Honors in Irish Theater
[ BS ] Equity Updating Showcase Code for Festivals? By Leonard Jacobs
[ BS ] Santa Monica Playhouse Co-Artistic Director Honored
[ NJ ] Arts notes
'Monologues' for 13
[ P ] Stars A-Plenty to Come Out for Stephen Sondheim 75th Birthday Benefit, March 21
[ P ] Today In Theatre History: FEBRUARY 18
[ P ] Susan Stroman Ballet Double Feature Returns to NYC Ballet Feb. 18
[ P ] Tommy Tune and Manhattan Rhythm Kings Sing and Dance at Palm Desert's McCallum Theatre Feb. 18-19
[ P ] Guggenheim Becomes Work of Art in Woman Before a Glass Starring Ruehl, Feb. 18
[ P ] Jones, Bikel, Cromwell Join Los Angeles Reading of "Casablanca," April 3
[ P ] Halperin To Step Down as President of League of Chicago Theatres; New Advocate for Windy City Stages Sought
[ P ] Twelve Angry Men Perform Actors' Fund Benefit Performance, March 13
[ P ] Broadway's Harris and Egan Guest on New CBS Drama Feb. 18
And it's Ms. Egan's birthday, too!
"Boozy" - Reviews:
[ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'BOOZY'
Whoopee Cushions and Robert Moses By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
"Boozy" serves as a lively if loose primer on the career of Robert Moses, the famously ruthless architect, but it's hampered by the monotony of its self-conscious comic tone.
[ ND ] Houses brought down around floppy ears BY GORDON COX
[ NJ ] No promised land for 'Moses' BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
[ ATW ] Boozy: City Planning? It's a Complex Issue. Just Don't Forget the Bunnies
Review by Andy Propst
[ B ] Boozy
Review by Ron Lasko
[ CU ] Boozy
"Coriolanus" - Reviews:
[ ATW ] Rhetoric Emphasized in TFANA's Coriolanus
Review by Andy Propst
[ DN ] Shakespeare oversimplified by Howard Kissel
[ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'CORIOLANUS'
A Warrior Whose People Think His Behavior Is Heinous By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Karin Coonrod's production of Shakespeare's tragedy has all the vitality of a staged reading of a monograph from a political science journal.
[ NYT ] Slide Show: Scenes From 'Coriolanus'
"Hiding Behind Comets" - Reviews:
[ NJ ] 'Comets' tail wags: Troupe's penchant for gore builds oh so slowly to fitting crescendo BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
[ ATW ] Hiding Behind Comets: Dykstra's Crackling Variation on 'So, This Guy Walks Into a Bar...'
Review by Andy Propst
[ TM ] Hiding Behind Comets
Reviewed By: David Finkle
[ CU ] Hiding Behind Comets
Other Reviews:
[ LAT ] An 'Accomplice' in its own undoing By Rob Kendt
Rupert Holmes' gleeful mystery at Colony Theatre in Burbank doesn't lack for twists.
[ LAT ] THEATER BEAT
A bold move into the Jazz Age
Reviews, including "Floyd Collins."
[ NYP ] TEPID TALE OF LADIES ON A CERTAIN STAGE By FRANK SCHECK
FROM the title, you'd expect a saucy, sexy good time at "We're Still Hot!," the newly imported Canadian musical.
[ DN ] Movie Digest: Bigger Than the Sky
A nonactor finds his inner Cyrano in director Al Corley's unlikely and lifeless valentine to community theater and the theater community.
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Thursday, February 17, 2005
Features:
[ B ] ASK A STAR: Kathie Lee Gifford
[ P ] Inside View: The It's A Wonderful Life UK Workshop
News:
[ B ] Soap Star Catherine Hickland Joins Pieces (of Ass) on February 23
[ TM ] New York IT Awards Now Accepting Nominations
[ P ] Orlandersmith Explores Irish and Nuyorican Lives in World Premiere of Raw Boys, at Philly's Wilma
[ P ] Wicked and La Cage Stars Join Gavin Creel for Prom King Event, March 7
[ P ] Being Julia: Sweeney's Hit Letting Go of God Extends L.A. World Premiere for Fourth Time
[ P ] Bard's Roman War Hero Drama Coriolanus Opens Off-Broadway, Feb. 17
[ P ] Broadway's Swoosie Kurtz Plays Matriarch to Anne Heche for WB "True" Pilot
[ P ] Simon Jones and Larry Keith Confer in TACT Concert Revival of David Storey's Home March 12-14
[ P ] Austin Pendleton's Orson's Shadow to Get New York Premiere March 1
[ P ] Broadway's Rowat, Klausner, Gillette Sing New Opera 1 Plum Sq. on WNYC Feb. 18
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Features:
[ P ] PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Kathleen Turner
If you were a producer looking for a marquee name to play the man-eating Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, you wouldn't have to look much further than Kathleen Turner.
News:
[ P ] LaPaglia, Johansson, McDormand to Star in Film Version of A View From the Bridge
[ P ] Jeffrey DeMunn Will Paint a Portrait of Picasso for MTC
[ P ] Rocco and His Theatres: Jujamcyn Head Becomes Official Owner of Five Broadway Houses
[ P ] Lloyd Webber Tailors Movie "Phantom" Song for Beyoncé's Voice
[ P ] Bee Bumps Off-Broadway Starts of Privilege and Birdie Blue
Reviews:
[ TB ] Vagabond Tales
Los Angeles Review by Sharon Perlmutter
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News:
[ NYT ] A New Owner for 5 Theaters on Broadway By DINITIA SMITH
The producer Rocco Landesman became the owner of Broadway's third-largest theater chain, Jujamcyn Theaters.
[ DN ] A dramatic exit for Miller's fiancee by Rush & Molloy
Just a day after her father's death, Arthur Miller's daughter ordered his fianc�e, Agnes Barley, out of the house she had shared with him for 2-1/2 years, we have learned.
[ NYT ] Otto Plaschkes, 75, Dies; Produced 'Georgy Girl' and Other Films By JENNIFER BAYOT
In the 1970's, Mr. Plaschkes was head of European production for the American Film Theater, founded by Ely Landau to adapt plays for the screen.
[ V ] Pendleton will cast 'Shadow' Off B'way
Show begins previews March 1 in Gotham
Austin Pendleton's "Orson's Shadow" is that rarest of legit beasts: a new play receiving a commercial production in an Off Broadway house. Planetearth Prods. and Scott Morfee have announced a March 13 premiere for "Orson's Shadow" at the Barrow Street Theater.
[ WP ] Kennedy Center Adds A Theater For the Kids By Jacqueline Trescott
Arts Education Gains Emphasis, Funding
[ INQ ] Inqlings | MOVE show sticks close to the history By Michael Klein
MOVE, the musical?
Philly's Olive Dance Theatre and Goodie Goodie Productions are mounting a dance-theater piece based on the so-called back-to-nature group that engaged authorities in two deadly confrontations.
[ TM ] 92nd Street Y to Present The Rage of Achilles
[ P ] Hecht, Burton, Grizzard Go Greek in 92nd Street Y Reading of "The Iliad"
[ P ] Fat Pig's Ashlie Atkinson Appears on "The Jane Pauley Show" Feb. 23
[ TM ] Ashlie Atkinson to Discuss Her Role in Fat Pig on The Jane Pauley Show
[ TM ] 2005 TDF/Irene Sharaff Award Winners Announced
[ HC ] Rapp Leaves 'Horrors' Tour For Hollywood, 'Rent' by Frank Rizzo
[ P ] Today In Theatre History: FEBRUARY 17
[ P ] "Theater Talk" Pays Tribute to Davis and Examines Spring Theatre Season
[ P ] Little Shop's Greene Offers Torch Songs Feb. 17 and 18
[ P ] LaChanze and Rachel York Begin Previews in Dessa Rose at Mitzi Newhouse, Feb. 17
[ P ] Golden Pond Phone Sales Begin Feb. 17; Cort Box Office Opens Feb. 28
[ P ] Harden and Strathairn Read Kushner for Topia Arts Center Benefit in Western Massachusetts Feb. 17
[ P ] Bruce K. Sevy Exits Alabama, Bound for Denver Center Theatre Co. and New Plays Program
[ P ] Tickets for Broadway Revival of Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross Go on Sale
[ P ] A Sad Tale's Best for Winter: James Joyce's The Dead Revived by Salt Lake City's Pioneer Theatre
[ P ] Controversial Middle-East Drama, Paradise, Set for a New York Debut
Features:
[ TM ] All Over the Map By: Adam Klasfeld and Dan Bacalzo
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour in Dayton, The Queen of the Remote Control in Minneapolis, and Glittra's Mission in Seattle
[ LAT ] A dose of reality, 1950s style By Liane Bonin
'What's My Line?' stays true to its TV show roots at the Acme Comedy Theatre.
[ NYT ] BOLDFACE NAMES
To Have and Have Not By JOYCE WADLER
The tip sheet for the New Yorker for New York Awards had promised Lauren Bacall and Chita Rivera. Our correspondent could find neither at the Waldorf-Astoria on Monday.
[ P ] MARQUEE VALUE: The Pillowman at the Booth
[ DN ] Monheit's major is in the classics By ISAAC GUZMAN
Reviews:
[ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'A LIFE ... A BROAD'
A Performer's Emotional Globe-Trotting Set to Music By MARGO JEFFERSON
Melanie Rey has a big bright voice, and her one-woman show has the advantage of being a musical. But the need to win us over undercuts it.
[ ATW ] Full of Sound and Fury
Reviews of A Clockwork Orange and Disposable Men by Andy Propst
[ ATW ] Brooklyn Boy: A Successful Present Haunted by Needs of the Past
Review by Andy Propst
[ NJ ] 'Still hot' will cool quickly BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
They call their show "We're Still Hot," but the fact of the matter is, no, they're not.
[ TM ] Floyd Collins
Reviewed By: Terri Roberts
[ CU ] The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
[ TB ] Patti LuPone: Matters of the Heart
Pittsburgh Review by Ann Miner
[ NYT ] CABARET REVIEW | CAROL SLOANE
A Mental Health Session Conducted to a Swing Beat By STEPHEN HOLDEN
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Wednesday, February 16, 2005
[ P ] Jessica Wanamaker Leaves Drama League Director Post After Three Months
[ B ] Second Stage Delays Previews for Privilege Until April 5
[ P ] Theatre Under the Stars Will Stage Its Own 110 in the Shade, Beauty and Cinderella in 2005-06
[ P ] Denver Center Theatre Plans World Premiere, Gem of the Ocean, All My Sons, After Ashley in Thompson's First Season
[ P ] Phoenix Theatre Treats Tennessee Williams and Romulus Linney to a Beer in Play in a Pub, April 4
[ P ] Costumers Klotz, Zinn, Zullo and Messel Win 2005 Irene Sharaff Awards
[ P ] Today In Theatre History: FEBRUARY 16
[ P ] The Mambo Kings Wooing Possible Nestor for Upcoming Musical Broadway Debut
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[ NY ] The Look Book
Sara Gettelfinger, Actress
When I'm spending twelve hours a day at the theater, I aim for comfort. By Amy Larocca
[ B ] Q & A: John Lithgow by Kathy Henderson
[ B ] DVDs: Musical Documentaries by Ken Mandelbaum
TRY TO REMEMBER: "THE FANTASTICKS" (Zeitgeist Films)
CHILDREN WILL LISTEN (PBS Home Video)
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News:
[ HC ] Writer's Bitter Drama By TOM PULEO
A prominent family's bruising divorce saga - taut with allegations of excessive drinking, child abuse and attempted poisoning by nicotine patch - has mushroomed into a $1.4 million defamation lawsuit against one of America's foremost living playwrights.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Hartford, accuses Alfred F. Uhry of waging a smear campaign against his son-in-law, Russell B. Rhea.
[ FOX ] 'Dreamgirl' Alicia Keys? By Roger Friedman
Thanks to Wayman Wong on All That Chat for the link!
[ NYP ] MILLER LIGHTER By MICHAEL RIEDEL
IN public, Arthur Miller played the role of Great American Dramatist to perfection.
But Miller didn't live up on Mount Rushmore all the time, and in private, his friends say, he could be a lot of fun.
[ R ] Miller's Mourning Daughter Braves Press in Berlin
[ B ] Jeffrey DeMunn to Headline A Picasso at MTC's Stage II
[ INQ ] Prince postpones premiere
The Prince Music Theater has postponed its next scheduled production - the premiere of Einstein's Dreams, which was to begin performances Feb. 26 - and is replacing it with the latest touring production by the new-vaudeville entertainers, the Flying Karamazov Brothers.
[ NYT ] Arts, Briefly
Compiled BY LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
The six-time Tony Award winner Florence Klotz will be honored at the Hudson Theater on April 8 as the winner of the annual Theater Development Fund-Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for theatrical costume design.
[ NYP ] LIZ SMITH
GEST THE FACTS
[ CST ] Longtime chief Halperin leaving League of Chicago Theatres BY HEDY WEISS
[ BH ] Theater honcho's tough task: Fill the stages, and the seats By Terry Byrne
Drew Murphy is on the hot seat.
As the new president of Clear Channel's Broadway in Boston, Murphy is responsible for filling the seats in four downtown theaters.
[ P ] Playwrights Wasserstein and Rudnick Team for Feb. 16 Event
[ P ] New Elizabeth Swados Musical Jabu Begins Off-Broadway, Feb. 16
[ P ] Greg Hicks Stars In RSC Macbeth, Opening Feb. 16
Features:
[ TM ] Peter Filichia's Diary
What words did the contestants in the Broadway Spelling Bee have to tackle?
[ NJ ] Letter perfect: Spelling whiz spellbound by new musical BY VICKI HYMAN
[ DN ] 'Wuthering' is high drama By ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
Emily Bronte, meet John Hughes.
See review below.
[ P ] MARQUEE VALUE: On Golden Pond at the Cort
"Happy Days" - Reviews:
[ ND ] In 'Days' like this, pathos pales BY GORDON COX
[ NJ ] Beckett revival hardly skims the surface BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
[ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'HAPPY DAYS'
No Problems, Even if She Is Buried Up to Here By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Samuel Beckett's mordant comic allegory is thoroughly travestied in the Worth Street Theater Company's production of "Happy Days," starring the comic Lea DeLaria.
[ ATW ] Happy Days: A Welcome Comedic Tone for Beckett's Classic
Review by Andy Propst
[ TB ] Happy Days
Review by Matthew Murray
[ CU ] Happy Days
[ TM ] Happy Days
Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo
Other Reviews:
[ TM ] We're Still Hot!
Reviewed By: David Finkle
[ CU ] Wuthering High
[ VV ] The Next Generation of Serious Theater Critics
College Students' Reviews of The Gods are Pounding My Head!
[ VV ] Hard Core Orthography by Michael Feingold
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
[ VV ] Authentic Chekhov via the Classical Theatre of Harlem by Alisa Solomon
The Cherry Orchard
[ VV ] Sightlines: by Rachel Wetzsteon
Sabina
[ VV ] Married Puppets Punch and Kick and Scream by Alexis Soloski
The Confessions of Punch and Judy
[ VV ] Schnitzler's Artists in Bleak Hapsburg Autumn by Michael Feingold
The Lonely Way
[ BSUN ] Two spark 'Wedding' By J. Wynn Rousuck
Gravatt, Paulding spark production at Ford's
[ WP ] Two Knockouts: New York Takes On Tinseltown By Peter Marks
"Hurlyburly" and "Brooklyn Boy."
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Tuesday, February 15, 2005
Reviews:
[ B ] Happy Days
Review by Eric Grode
[ B ] We're Still Hot
Review by Katie Riegel
It's not the best sign when the audience at your show provides more original material than the musical on stage.
[ TM ] The Siegel Column
Rebecca Luker takes a chance, Encores! plants a Tree, and Harvey Fierstein switches from glad rags to sad rags.
Features:
[ TB ] Spotlight On Judy Kaye by Alan Gomberg
[ B ] PHOTO OP: Chitty Chitty Tickets Go On Sale with a Bang
[ B ] PHOTO OP: Broadway Magnolias Meet the Press
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: Boston Gets a Bit Afraid as Virginia Woolf Begins Pre-Broadway Run
[ P ] MARQUEE VALUE: Sweet Charity at the Hirschfeld
News:
[ B ] Sarah Jones' Bridge & Tunnel Delays B'way Bow Until Fall
[ P ] Sarah Jones' Bridge & Tunnel Plans Fall Broadway Debut Awaiting Theatre
[ B ] London's Reduced Shakespeare Company Shakes Up Schedule
[ B ] Broadway Grosses: Ready for Spring
[ B ] Mexican Actor Jaime Camil to Play Nestor in The Mambo Kings on Broadway
[ TM ] Busch and Halston to Appear Together on Broadway in Actors' Fund Benefit
[ P ] Busch and Halston to Perform Vampire Lesbians for Actors' Fund March 28
[ P ] Actors' Equity Executive Director Alan Eisenberg to Leave Union in October 2006
[ P ] John Mahoney Will Star in Northlight's Retreat From Moscow in 2006
[ P ] Spamalot Creator Eric Idle Appears on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Feb. 15
[ P ] Margulies Appears With Brooklyn Boy Cast at Lincoln Center Barnes & Noble Feb. 18
[ P ] Robert Brustein Chats With Oskar Eustis at Feb. 24 Public Theater Event
[ P ] Irreverent Off-Broadway Playwright Marc Spitz Returns With Talking Heads
[ P ] National Theatre and Tate Modern Join Forces for Strindberg Project; NT�s
[ P ] Six Theatrical Dames, One Knight and Other Stage Stars Sign Up for Tsunami Gala in London
[ P ] Princesses Musical Plays Seattle in August Prior to Fall Broadway Bow
[ P ] Meg Ryan to Come to Broadway�in the Movies
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[ NYT ] Gays Debate Radical Steps to Curb Unsafe Sex
While this is not necessarily about Broadway, AIDS has affected the community so much that we felt it was worth linking here. - James
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[ NYT ] True to Her Orthodox Beliefs, if Not to Her Roots By SARAH BRONSON
Performers often lampoon their own heritage, and that is precisely what Rachel Factor, a Japanese-American who converted to Orthodox Judaism, is doing in "J.A.P."
News:
[ V ] Frost ankles Goodspeed
Producer gives co. the cold shoulder
[ B ] Princesses Looks to Later Seattle Start; Expected on Broadway in 10/05
[ B ] 20th Anniversary of Vampire Lesbians Toasted With B'way Benefit by Busch and Halston
[ B ] Aubrey Reuben Named New President of Outer Critics Circle
[ P ] Aubrey Reuben Named Outer Critics Circle Acting President
[ R ] Meg Ryan 'Role' on Playbill at Disney By Liza Foreman (Hollywood Reporter)
Meg Ryan has signed to star in "The Role of a Lifetime," the long-gestating romantic comedy about a Hollywood actor and a British director whose paths cross on Broadway.
[ BSUN ] 2 theaters live up to tradition By J. Wynn Rousuck
Shows do go on, after a fashion
Interesting story about how a show went on after Lisa Datz injured her vocal cords.
[ NYP ] SOAP LEGEND'S STUFF UP FOR AUCTION By ADAM BUCKMAN
FANS of the late soap queen Ruth Warrick might want to check out an upcoming auction of her personal belongings.
[ NYT ] Arts, Briefly By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER
Shakespeare and The Science of Love; Abba Reunites, Sort Of
[ P ] Today In Theatre History: FEBRUARY 15
[ P ] God Squad Sings! Pop-Group Spoof, Altar Boyz, Begins Off-Broadway Run Feb. 15
[ P ] "Change" Partners of We're Still Hot, a New Menopause Musical, Get Their Opening Night Feb. 15 in NYC
[ P ] Tony Roberts Stars in Irish Rep's Endgame, by Irish Master Beckett, in NYC
[ P ] Soap Star Takes Over Perchik's Soap Box in Broadway's Fiddler Feb. 15
[ P ] Broadway Grosses: Feb. 7-13
Reviews:
[ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'THE LONELY WAY'
Longings and Betrayal Behind Viennese Facades By MIRIAM HORN
The Mint Theater's spare, lucid production of Arthur Schnitzler's 1904 play is a revelation.
[ ATW ] Going a 'Lonely', if not Subtle, 'Way'
Review by Andy Propst
[ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'BYE, MOM! OR, HOW NOT TO BURY YOUR MOTHER'
With Mom in a Coma, It's Time to Let the Old Woman Have It By JASON ZINOMAN
With this tongue-in-cheek comedy, Susan Austin Roth has written what feels like a rough draft with potential.
[ NYT ] THEATER REVIEW | 'SERENADE'; 'PHILOSOPHER FOX'
Lessons From the Animal Kingdom By MARGO JEFFERSON
"Serenade" and "Philosopher Fox" are two fiercely witty animal fables by the Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek.
[ NYT ] MUSIC REVIEW | MEGAN MULLALLY
One Singer, Many Voices, From Sweet to Loud By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Megan Mullally was part sweet, plain folk singer and garrulous loudmouth in her Friday program at Frederick P. Rose Hall, which ranged from Saint-Sa�ns to P. J. Harvey.
[ NYT ] MUSIC REVIEW | ROSANNE CASH
From Country to Show Tunes By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Rosanne Cash's diverse program ranged from Lerner and Loewe to Steve Earle on Thursday at Frederick P. Rose Hall.
[ NYT ] MUSIC REVIEW | REBECCA LUKER
Songs With a Highish Brow Find a Sympathetic Voice By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Rebecca Luker made a glamorous muse who sang new music by mostly younger composers with precise enunciation at the Thalia Theater on Saturday.
[ LAT ] They get a kick out of revue
'My Way' singers and quintet glide from smoky to sparkling in a show of Sinatra tunes. By Daryl H. Miller
Swank if insubstantial, the program � presented by McCoy Rigby Entertainment � tips its hat to a bygone era, while serving as a showcase for several popular Southland musical theater artists: director Nick DeGruccio and singer-actors Nikki Crawford, Tami Tappan Damiano, Kevin Earley and Damon Kirsche.
[ TB ] The Member of the Wedding
Washington, D.C. Review by Tracy Lyon
Arthur Miller, 1915-2005:
[ CPD ] Role of Miller's first wife receives too little notice by Tom Feran
[ LAT ] COMMENTARY
Life of a Salesman: Remembering the Other Arthur Miller By Marjorie Miller
Marjorie Miller is the foreign editor of The Times.
My father was a salesman named Arthur Miller, and the playwright's death last week reminded me of this irony. It prompted me to think about what's in a name and what makes a life.
[ NYT ] OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Public Thinker By BOB HERBERT
The death of Arthur Miller is not only the loss of a great playwright, but of that rarity in America now, a great thinker.
[ NYT ] APPRECIATIONS
Arthur Miller: Death of a Legend By ADAM COHEN
Arthur Miller's career had its share of misfires, but on the strength of his best plays, he seems destined for immortality.
[ NYT ] Arthur Miller's Gift: The Act of Questioning (2 Letters)
Features:
[ B ] PHOTO OP: Mojo Risin' at 1966
[ WP ] Backstage: For Jerry Whiddon, An Exclamation Point By Jane Horwitz
Anne Bogart (second item).
[ BG ] A cultural demolition By Adrian Walker
There isn't much joy these days surrounding the Gaiety Theater, where an important piece of Boston's black history is well on the way to demolition.
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Monday, February 14, 2005
Features:
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: Cast Members from Chitty Provide Some Bang at Box Office Opening
[ P ] PHOTO CALL: Encores! Nurtures A Tree at Start of 2005 Season
[ TM ] Name That Tuner! By: Joseph Marzullo; video by Damian Chiurco and Kyle Sullivan; text by Michael Portantiere
Photo and video highlights of a Birdland party for The TheaterMania Guide to Musical Theater Recordings.
News:
[ B ] London's Festen to Close at the Lyric on 4/16; Salesman is Next Tenant
[ B ] Ben Vereen to Join Broadway's Wicked as the Wizard on May 31
[ P ] More Magic to Do: Pippin Tony Winner Ben Vereen to Be Wicked's Next Wizard, May 31
[ P ] New Play from David Marshall Grant Featured in Boston's Breaking Ground Festival
[ B ] MTC to Present David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole Next Season
[ P ] Current McReele Star to Appear in A Soldier's Play Reading in Boston, March 7
[ P ] Atlanta's Theater of the Stars Will Produce Music Man and My Fair Lady in 2005 Season
[ P ] WB's "7th Heaven" Characters Sing Show Tunes in Feb. 14 Episode
Reviews:
[ TM ] Washington DC
The Member of the Wedding
Reviewed By: Michael Toscano
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[ B ] CDs: Alfred E. Neuman Presents by Ken Mandelbaum
Anika Noni Rose, 2004 Tony winner for Caroline, or Change, will star as Lutiebelle in Purlie for Encores! Blair Underwood has been mentioned for the title role.
THE MAD SHOW (DRG)
News:
[ * ] MEGAN HILTY TO JOIN BROADWAY LEGEND IN NEXT CAST OF WICKED
She joins fellow Northwest actor Shoshana Bean, who is currently playing Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Broadway legend and Tony-winner Ben Vereen, who will be playing The Wizard.
Thanks to adamgreer on All That Chat for the link!
[ B ] Roundabout Extends Hit Drama Twelve Angry Men Through May 8
[ P ] Hung Jury: Broadway�s Twelve Angry Men Stays, Bumps Passion Play
[ P ] Step Right Up for Ancient Assassins: Box Office for Julius Caesar Opens Feb. 14
[ P ] Hilton Theatre Box Office to Open Valentine's Day for Chitty Buyers
[ P ] Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole To Be Explored by MTC in 2005-06
[ P ] La Jolla Playhouse Adds Doctor Zhivago Musical Workshop to New Season
Reviews:
[ TM ] Tunes, Tomes, & Videos
David Finkle offers a highly enthusiastic appraisal of director Michael Blakemore's new tell-all tome.
[ CU ] Floyd Collins
Los Angeles Review By Laura Hitchcock
[ CU ] Floyd Collins
Los Angeles Review By Sharon Perlmutter
[ TB ] Lend Me a Tenor and Rosemary and I
New Jersey Reviews by Bob Rendell
[ TM ] The Lonely Way
Reviewed By: David Finkle
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Features:
[ NYT ] You Can Name the Tune, But Does It Fit the Plot? By JESSE McKINLEY
A look inside the increasingly popular yet challenging business of writing a jukebox musical.
[ TM ] Peter Filichia's Diary
Does Harvey Fierstein's Tevye have Filichia jumping for joy or just shouting "oy?"
[ P ] MARQUEE VALUE: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the Hilton
[ CSM ] Arthur Miller's life had symmetry rarely granted his characters By Tony Vellela
News:
[ * ] Kristin Chenoweth Reveals Spirit on 'As I Am'
Thanks to Jason for the link!
[ B ] Stephen Schwartz Takes Home Grammy for Wicked Cast Recording
[ P ] Wicked�s Cast Album Wins Grammy Award
[ Y ] Noted Paris Theater Gutted by Blast
[ NYT ] Arts, Briefly
Compiled By BEN SISARIO
A Festival's Troubles; Mazel Tov for 'Jewtopia'; Elaine Stritch.
[ V ] Spacey to take on Bard
Thesp tries Shakespeare in 2nd season at Old Vic
[ V ] Biz slides; 'Movin' Out' 976g
Road Grosses
[ V ] B'way can't shake chills
Warmer weather fails to heat legit B.O.
[ P ] Today In Theatre History: FEBRUARY 14
[ P ] Charity Hope Valentine to Help With Valentine's Day Shopping at Hirschfeld
[ P ] Callaway, Ross, Wilson and Carroll Set for Café Society: Table for Four
[ P ] Stars Salute Bobby Short at Waldorf Astoria Feb. 14
[ P ] In Your General Direction: Monty Python's Spamalot Sends Broadway a Valentine as New Musical Begins
Reviews:
[ NJ ] Farce at its finest BY PETER FILICHIA
'Lend Me a Tenor' is at its best in George Street production
[ TB ] The Frankenstein Summer
Review by Matthew Murray
[ TB ] The Lonely Way (Der Einsame Weg)
Review by Matthew Murray
[ CU ] Man and Boy
London Review by Lizzie Loveridge
[ CU ] Accomplice
Los Angeles Review By Laura Hitchcock
"Oh, dear, what can the matter be?" Janet hums seductively, a theme song that the actors repeatedly croon throughout Rupert Holmes' deft, daffy, complex comedy of terrors which is given the spiffy production it deserves by The Colony Theatre.
[ B ] Minneapolis Critics Spend a Little Time With Applegate and Sweet Charity
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Sunday, February 13, 2005
[ PP ] 'Charity' not exactly sweet BY DOMINIC P. PAPATOLA
[ MST ] 'Charity' needs work by Rohan Preston
Thanks to American Theater Web for the links above.
Features:
[ LAT ] One-man show By Rachel Shteir
Miles Kreuger orchestrated his own career as caretaker of America's musical theater. Will he ever take a bow and part with the cultural gems under his L.A. roof?
[ NYT ] Broadway's Society of Repeat Attenders By JESSE GREEN
The commercial theater increasingly relies on repeat visitors. But there is a repeat elite who demonstrate an extraordinary level of commitment to their favored entertainments.
[ NYT ] Crossover: The Musical By JOHN HODGMAN
All right, here's the premise: respected Off Broadway playwright signs on to write the big Broadway musical versions of "Shrek" and "Betty Boop." A real fish-out-of-water scenario. Can he pull it off without compromising his artistic integrity? Let's see! (Cue splashy production number.)
[ P ] CHANNELING THEATRE: A Chat with Orfeh
Orfeh appears in tonight's "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (NBC, 9 PM ET).
[ NYP ] LIZ SMITH
A TRULY RICH MAN
Harvey Fierstein interview.
[ NYP ] I LOVE PARIS By BARBARA HOFFMAN
We'll always have Paris. Or so it seems, seven months and three Paris Hiltons into "I Love Paris."
[ LAT ] BRIEF ENCOUNTER
Shakespeare on love by Susan King
Susannah York explores the devotions of women created by the Bard.
[ NYT ] Robert Moses, Superhero? By PHILIP NOBEL
"Boozy," the latest production of Les Freres Corbusier, takes a whack at understanding a power broker who shaped New York City.
[ NYT ] DIRECTIONS | BEHIND THE SCENES
The Voice of God By ERIC GRODE
God is being heard, though not seen, in theaters all over New York these days. Performers of the deity's voice comment on the role.
[ NYT ] TRAVEL ADVISORY
Strindberg as Painter and Playwright
[ NYT ] DIRECTIONS | LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
The Vanishing Point
When "Gem of the Ocean" closed last Sunday after 87 performances, it was the shortest run for any of August Wilson's original Broadway productions.
[ ND ] The wizard of songs BY BLAKE GREEN
Harold Arlen, who wrote 'Over the Rainbow' and scores of other scores, would have been 100 this year - and it's something to sing about
Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features:
[ PPG ] Actors regale critics at brunch By Christopher Rawson
"I guess I'm here as the token gentile heterosexual," joked James Naughton last Saturday, "a role that I play to perfection."
[ AAN ] Rising composer to perform locally BY ROGER LELIEVRE
Ricky Ian Gordon brings music to Kerrytown
[ IS ] Indy natives take stage in 'Millie' By Peter Szatmary
[ ATU ] String training By JOSEPH DALTON
Basil Twist preps puppeteers for production of 'Sleeping Beauty' opera
[ OCR ] Mother planted seed for love of the arts
In his theater column, Paul Hodgins remembers a mother who imbued her kids with a passion for the arts.
Reviews:
[ TB ] City Center Encores! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Review by Matthew Murray
If A Tree Grows in Brooklyn isn't the weakest Rodgers and Hammerstein musical not written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, it's close.
[ CU ] A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
[ TB ] Learning Curve
Review by Lindsey Wilson
[ CU ] Shylock
Arthur Miller, 1915-2005:
[ NYT ] OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Attention Must Be Paid By DAVID MAMET
Arthur Miller's drama found dignity in failure.
[ CT ] 'Never so happy as when he was making a play' by Robert Falls, artistic director of the Goodman Theatre
[ CT ] Why Miller matters
Always a man of his words By Ann Marie Lipinski
[ CT ] Why Miller matters
We are all Willy Loman By Chris Jones
[ CT ] Why Miller matters
Even if you missed his plays By Julia Keller
[ CT ] His plays, our conscience By Michael Phillips
[ CT ] MOVING ON By Michael Phillips
ARTHUR MILLER RECENTLY LOST HIS WIFE OF 40 YEARS. FACING LIFE ALONE AT AGE 87, HE FINDS CONSOLATION, AS ALWAYS, IN WORDS. AND THE FIRES IN HIS SOUL STILL BURN
Published November 6, 2002
[ NYP ] PAGE SIX
IN one of the very last things Arthur Miller wrote before he passed away, the playwright expressed some interesting thoughts on death.
News:
[ NYT ] Thousands Bid Farewell to Ossie Davis By COREY KILGANNON
The actor was remembered in a service that lasted almost four hours and was described by several speakers as a state funeral for black America.
[ DN ] Tears flow in Harlem BY KERRY BURKE, LESLIE CASIMIR and TRACY CONNOR
Chad Tucker, 19, an actor from Rosedale, Queens, had been in line since 4 a.m. He talked about how Davis and Dee visited him backstage after his performance in a play, "Blue," two years ago.
"It was the equivalent of being in a gold mine. I was so touched," he said. "When I win my Academy Award, he is one of the people I will thank."
[ NYT ] Beverly Dennis, 79, Actress Who Became Psychotherapist, Is Dead By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT
Beverly Dennis, an actress who played on Broadway, in films and on television, most notably on CBS as Red Buttons's wife on "The Red Buttons Show" until she was blacklisted in the 1950's, died on Jan. 20 at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
[ IBDB ] Beverly Dennis' Broadway Credits
[ DN ] Ben Widdicombe's Gatecrasher: Any Round Table discussions?
What's a hit show without some backstage bitchery? Word is that sparks flew during the Chicago tryouts of the new Monty Python musical, "Spamalot."
[ V ] Traveling tuners land crix licks
Non-equity tours take shortcuts to fill skeds
In January, Los Angeles turned into the legit stix when a non-Equity tour of "Oklahoma!" rolled into the mighty Pantages Theater. There on the stage that recently hosted "The Producers" and "Hairspray" were thesps barely out of college.
[ V ] 'Cookin'' heat cools off
'Tap' sequel among lackluster shows at large venues
[ TM ] Fez Under Time Caf� to Close on March 17
[ NJ ] Arts notes
Paper Mill changes cast by Peter Filichia
[ P ] Today In Theatre History: FEBRUARY 13
[ P ] Tyne Daly, Tonya Pinkins and Original Chorus Line Stars to Be Part of Annual S.T.A.G.E. Concert
[ P ] Robert Moses, a Towering NYC Figure, Is Deconstructed in Boozy, Feb. 13-March 5 in Soho
[ P ] Sirius Satellite Radio: Korey and Hadary Get All Shook Up on "Radio Playbill"
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2007-08
Broadway Season
June 28 - Old Acquaintance (AA)
July 10 - Xanadu (Hayes) [Robert Ahrens, Dan Vickery, Tara Smith/B. Swibel and Sarah Murchison/Dale Smith]
Aug 19 - Grease (Atkinson)
Oct 4 - Mauritius (Biltmore) [MTC]
Oct 11 - The Ritz (54)
Oct 18 - Pygmalion (AA)
Oct 25 - A Bronx Tale (Kerr)
Nov 1 - Cyrano de Bergerac (Rodgers)
Nov 4 - Rock 'N' Roll (Jacobs)
Nov 8 - Young Frankenstein (Hilton)
Nov 9 - Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (St. James)
Nov 10: Local One Strike Begins
Nov 28: Local One Strike Ends
Dec 2 - Cymbeline (Beaumont)
Dec 3 - The Farnsworth Invention (Music Box) [Dodger Properties with Steven Spielberg, Dan Cap Productions, Fred Zollo, Latitude Link and the Pelican Group]
Dec 4 - August: Osage County (Imperial) [Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Steppenwolf]
Dec 6 - The Seafarer (Booth)
Dec 9 - Is He Dead? (Lyceum)
Dec 16 - The Homecoming (Cort) [Richards, Frankel]
Jan 10 - The Little Mermaid (Lunt)
Jan 15 - The 39 Steps (AA)
Jan 17 - November (Barrymore)
Jan 24 - Come Back, Little Sheba (Biltmore)
Feb 21 - Sunday In The Park With George (54)
Feb 28 - Passing Strange (Belasco)
Mar 6 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Broadhurst) [Stephen C. Byrd]
Mar 9 - In The Heights (Rodgers)
Mar 27 - Gypsy (St. James)
Mar 29 - Macbeth (Lyceum)
Apr 3 - South Pacific (Beaumont)
Apr 17 - A Catered Affair (Kerr) [Jujamcyn Theaters, Jordan Roth, Harvey Entertainment / Ron Fierstein, Richie Jackson and Daryl Roth]
Apr 24 - Cry Baby (Marquis)
Apr 27 - The Country Girl (Jacobs)
Apr 30 - Thurgood (Booth)
May 1 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses (AA)
May 4 - Boeing-Boeing (Longacre)
May 7 - Top Girls (Biltmore)
TBA - Godspell
2008-09
Broadway Season
Oct 16 - Billy Elliot (Imperial)
Nov 08 - Dividing the Estate (a Shubert theater)
Dec 14 - Shrek: The Musical (Broadway) [DreamWorks]
Talked About
Not Scheduled Yet
TBA - 50 Words
TBA - Addams Family (Elephant Eye)
TBA - American Buffalo
TBA - An American Vaudeville [Farrell, Perloff]
TBA - The Beard of Avon [NYTW]
TBA - Being There [Permut]
TBA - Benny & Joon [MGM]
TBA - Billy Elliot
TBA - Brave New World [Rachunow]
TBA - Breath of Life [Fox]
TBA - Busker Alley [Margot Astrachan, Robert Blume, Kristine Lewis, Jamie Fox, Joanna Kerry & Heather Duke]
TBA - Broomhilda
TBA - Bye Bye Birdie [Niko]
TBA - Camille Claudel [Wildhorn]
TBA - Camelot
TBA - Carmen [Robin DeLevita and The Firm]
TBA - Catch Me If You Can
TBA - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [Bob and Harvey Weinstein]
TBA - Cry Baby [Grazer, Gordon, McAllister, Epstein]
TBA - Designing Women [Alexis]
TBA - Don Juan DeMarco [New Line]
TBA - Dreamgirls [Creative Battery]
TBA - Duet
TBA - Equus
TBA - Ever After [Adam Epstein]
TBA - Fallen Angels (Shubert) [Kenwright]
TBA - Farragut North [Richards]
TBA - Father of the Bride
TBA - The Female Of The Species (TBA)
TBA - Fool For Love (AA) [Roundabout]
TBA - Girl Group Time Travelers
TBA - Golden Boy
TBA - Harmony [Guiles, Karslake, Smith, Fishman]
TBA - Hitchcock Blonde
TBA - The Importance Of Being Earnest
TBA - Jerry Springer: The Opera! [Thoday, McKeown]
TBA - Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train (Circle)
TBA - Josephine [Waissman]
TBA - Leap of Faith
TBA - A Little Princess [Ettinger, Dodger]
TBA - Midnight Cowboy [MGM]
TBA - The Minstrel Show - Kander and Ebb and Stroman
TBA - Moonstruck [Pittelman, Azenberg]
TBA - Mourning Becomes Electra [Haber, Boyett]
TBA - Monsoon Wedding
TBA - The Night of the Hunter
TBA - The Opposite of Sex [Namco]
TBA - Orphans
TBA - Pal Joey [Platt]
TBA - Paper Doll
TBA - The Paris Letter
TBA - The Philadelphia Story
TBA - Peter Pan
TBA - Porgy and Bess [Frankel, Viertel, Baruch, Routh, Panter, Tulchin/Bartner]
TBA - The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
TBA - The Princess Bride
TBA - Princesses [Lane, Comley]
TBA - Poe the Musical
TBA - Rain Man [MGM]
TBA - Robin Hood
TBA - Secondhand Lions
TBA - South Pacific
TBA - Speed-the-Plow
TBA - Stalag 17
TBA - Starry Messenger
TBA - Syncopation
TBA - A Tale Of Two Cities
TBA - Torch Song Trilogy
TBA - Turn of the Century
TBA - West Side Story
TBA - The Wall [Weinstein, Mottola, Waters]
TBA - Will Rogers Follies [Cossette]
TBA - The Wiz [Dodger]
TBA - Zanna [Dalgleish]
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