Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft and Nathan Lane have already seen it. So has Bette Midler, but then she's an investor.
Danny DeVito and Yoko Ono are on tap for next Thursday, and we haven't even gotten to the musical-theater groupies who have bombarded internet chat rooms with their opinions, most of which range from rave to rave to rave.
Hirsch's sense of comic timing remains as sharp as ever. Maybe better.
Item on Jamie-Lynn Sigler in "Beauty & the Beast."
City Sees 18 Showcases on 14 Stages in Two Weeks
2000-01 Season Pumps $4.42B into NYC; Producers' Costs Soar
At the funeral, I bet he'll look good.
Includes a photo.
With a December date set in London for "The Producers" (with original co-stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick), another Broadway show has its Blighty bow set.
Actually, it was Off-Broadway.
Plus an item about a Cy Coleman/Warren Leight collaboration, and one about Marian Seldes' next show.
Celebrated local theater director Manuel Gonzalez Gil hopes his risque musical version of Shakespeare's late 16th century classic tale of frustrated love will give a battered people a vent to poke fun at itself as the worst economic crisis in Argentine history goes from the sublime to the ridiculous.
MAYSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Rosemary Clooney made a final journey to her hometown Friday for a funeral attended by family, friends and hundreds of fans.
LONDON (Reuters) - A British theater company has dropped the word hunchback from its stage adaptation of the classic novel "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" to avoid offending disabled people, n…
LONDON (Variety) - Add Woody Harrelson and Kyle MacLachlan to the seemingly endless list of film stars choosing to appear on stage in London's West End.
After the bow of "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife" Wednesday at the Ahmanson, Gordon Davidson, artistic director/producer of the Center Theater Group, told me of his decision to step down -…
As promised, Neil Simon "previewed" his newest play, "Rose and Walsh," at the Geffen Monday night.
Last item.
Too bad this wasn't taped as a TV special, because it was something truly special.