Saturday, July 21, 2001 On this date in 1925, the so-called "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, Tennessee, with John T. Scopes convicted of violating state law for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. The conviction was later overturned. In 2001, moviemakers remade Planet of the Apes! Today's birthdays include: Isaac Stern, Don Knotts, Janet Reno, Edward Hermann, Robin Williams, Jon Lovitz, Josh Hartnett, and Ernest Hemingway. UK Fair Lady w/ Pryce and McCutcheon Has Royal Welcome July 21-March 16 Swit, Oh and Larter Join Off-Broadway's Monologues, Aug. 7-Sept. 16 Uta Lemper to Play Joe's Pub in NYC, Sept. 6-16 False Extensions We’re extending! We’e extending! Oops...strike that: We’re closing. posted at 7/21/2001 12:05:38 PM by Susan Heim | Item Link I See I Sing! by Peter Filichia 'The Homecoming': Talk About a Reality Show. A Pinter Classic Is It. by Ben Brantley posted at 7/21/2001 10:27:17 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Friday, July 20, 2001 On this date in 1969, man walked on the moon. Or did he? How come there isn't a musical? Put on my makeup, turn up the 8-track, and take the wig down from the shelf... posted at 7/20/2001 10:10:21 PM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link 'Opera' Star To 'Dance'? by Michael Riedel Michael Crawford may be headed back to Broadway next year as the star of the upcoming musical "Dance of the Vampires."Crawford - who has not appeared on the New York stage since he triumphed in "The Phantom of the Opera" in 1988 - is in "serious discussions" to play an aristocratic vampire who falls in love with a beautiful teenage girl in the $10 million musical, theater sources in London told The Post this week. New 'Jurassic Park' Ads Unveiled digitalcity.com: Music from a Sparkling Planet Hey, Space Cadets! This show's for you. Review by Robert Lasko Theater Review | Harold Pinter Plays: Pinter the Actor Meets Pinter the Writer Hedwig and the Angry Inch Film Opens July 20 The movie version of the hit Off-Broadway glam-rock musical won standing ovations at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival Jane Eyre Star Opens in New Musical July 20 And Goodspeed Opera House's They All Laughed! is angling for Broadway in 2002 Comedy About Elian Gonzales Mess to be Staged OB, Oct. 2001 It's the story of a Cuban-born man who returns to Cuba some 40 years after being exiled to the United States and at the height of the Elian Gonzales custody circus Off-Broadway Troupe Stages Infamous Tripp-Lewinsky Tapes Aug. 13 Snatches is not the first satirical play to exploit the infamous l'affaire Lewinsky. How Were the Reviews?: Music From a Sparkling Planet The new play from the author of As Bees in Honey Drown opened July 19 Cherry Jones Major Barbara Extends Thru Sept. 9 Jones reunited with Moon for the Misbegotten director Daniel Sullivan on the Shaw drama Charlayne Woodard Recalls Misbehavin' in Her New Real Life, July 21 Directed by Daniel Sullivan (Proof), it's her autobiographical sequel to Pretty Fire and Neat. Another Killer: Major Barbara's O'Hare Offerred Assassins Williamstown's One Mo' Time May Reach Broadway Scott Merrill, Macheath in Famous Threepenny Opera, Is Dead at 82 Toodles, Tallulah: Kathleen Turner Vehicle Has No Immediate Plans For Bway Benny Sato Ambush Joins Richmond's TheatreVA as New Artistic Director July 23 Lunt and Fontanne Captured at Lunt-Fontanne Just Dandy: Pimpernel's Sills Is Ravenal Aug. 5, Then John Wilkes Booth in Assassins Dorset Co-Founder Nassivera Named as Producing Artistic Director of VT Theatre Fest John Major Musical Revealed as Hoax Dame Edna Sitcom in the Works Assassins Sets Broadway Dates Major Barbara Extends Until September 9 Thunder Knocks Again at New York's Door Opera covered in Web accord. Upfront, backend compensation included The American Guild of Musical Artists announced that it has reached an agreement with opera companies on an industrywide pact covering the Web release of past, present and future video operatic and ballet presentations. posted at 7/20/2001 08:42:16 PM by James Marino | Item Link Today's birthdays include Carlos Santana, Sally Ann Howes, and Diana Rigg. Remembering The Star Spangled Girl by Peter Filichia Max Bialystock's Latest Show by Ken Mandelbaum Broadway Arrival of Millie Delayed Until Spring 'Music From a Sparkling Planet': Trying to Come of Age Before 40 by Ben Brantley 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch': Betwixt and Between on a Glam Frontier by Stephen Holden John Cameron Mitchell's clever, funny, wildly innovative film musical follows the travails of a would-be rock star and survivor of a botched sex-change operation. posted at 7/20/2001 07:31:32 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Thursday, July 19, 2001 Today's birthdays include Pat Hingle, Helen Gallagher, and Anthony Edwards. Your Choices for a Non-Musical Mount Rushmore by Peter Filichia Marty and Friends by Ken Mandelbaum Pinter the Actor Meets Pinter the Writer by Ben Brantley posted at 7/19/2001 07:36:27 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Rodney Kirk, Director Of Manhattan Plaza, Is Dead at 67 I was looking for an obit for John Petrafesa when I came across Rodney Kirk. Broadway has lost two friends in the recent days. Christiane Noll to Be Earhart in Maltby-Shire Flight at O'Neill, July 27-Aug. 12 Do Dustin Diamond (Screech from Saved by the Bell) and Jaleel White (Steve Urkel, Family Matters) have Broadway in their future? It could be a Horror... That is almost as horrifying as the rumored reversed-gender Tommy concert being pitched for December. Some possibilities are Janine LaManna as Oldest Tommy, Bryan Batt as "Mrs" Walker, John Ellison Conlee as The Acid Queen, Miriam Show as the blind guy, Kevin Cahoon as Sally Simpson, and either Sherie Scott or Daphne Rubin-Vega as Uncle Ernie. 'Thunder' rolls to Gotham Tulchin returns with Mordecai, Hall posted at 7/19/2001 07:09:49 AM by James Marino | Item Link Wednesday, July 18, 2001 John Petrafesa, VP of Labor Relations @ Disney and former "Assistant to the President" of IATSE International, passed away this morning from a massive heart attack. :( . We also hear that there is a plan being kicked around to sell MAMMA MIA House Seats through "corporate sales" so they can rake in even more... Huge advance. Wonder if the scalpers are sitting on a lot of the advance... Next week, there is going to be a covert, star-studded workshop of the new "Blair Witch" musical. The writing team is unknown, but rumor has it Marin Mazzie is in contention for the role of the Blair Witch. posted at 7/18/2001 04:42:06 PM by James Marino | Item Link Show Business Online: CD Review of Stephanie Pope Now’s The Time To Fall In Love Park it Here, Broadway comes to Bryant Park in a series of lunchtime concerts This Thursday (July 19) in Bryant Park, it’s Les Miz, Phantom, and a wild card: Bat Boy. Be there! Buzz Lines: If you don’t want to miss The Actors’ Fund’s all-star, 20th anniversary concert of Dreamgirls, you’d better get your tickets now. Charles Nelson's Casts and Forecasts: The theater’s newest convert is TV actress Crystal Bernard, Broadway’s latest Annie (as in Get Your Gun). Plays and Playwrights 2001 Charles Wright cracks open Martin Denton’s new anthology of provocative, Off-Off Broadway plays. 'One Mo' Time' may get B'way berth More than two decades after its Off Broadway premiere, the musical "One Mo' Time" could be moving uptown to Broadway.... 'Goat' in B'way pen Albee's latest eyed for a spring opening Luke Perry Extends Stay in Rocky Horror For Him, Pinter's Plays the Thing Dublin dervish orchestrates Lincoln Ctr. fest Songbird's Set to Take A Chance on 'Mia' posted at 7/18/2001 01:48:26 PM by Susan Heim | Item Link "Ooooooooooooooooooo!" by Peter Filichia Steppin' to the West End? by Ken Mandelbaum posted at 7/18/2001 12:36:36 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Show’s Future at Stake by Michael Riedel Jim Steinman's "Dance of the Vampires" is making its way to Broadway - but not without a splattering of bad blood. A rift has opened between Steinman, who wrote the songs on Meat Loaf's "Bat Out of Hell" album, and his producers, Anita Waxman and Elizabeth Williams. According to Cindy Adams... The Winter Garden's advance for its soon-due "Mamma Mia!" is $28 million. Producers are considering a $120 per ticket top. Bryan Batt To Light Up Beauty and the Beast. Albee's Goat Heads for Broadway. Roundabout's Blue Extends Until September 16. The Shape of Things Opens Off-B'way October 10. Sonja of Original 'Survivor' Series Is Mrs. Paroo in MI Music Man. Rocky Horror's Tom Hewitt Reawakens in Frank Wildhorn's New Dracula Musical. Cunningham, Hamilton, Smith-Cameron Make Music from a Sparkling Planet July 19. Debbie Gravitte to Star in Paper Mill Red, Hot & Blue! Oct. 24. Neither Ru Paul Nor Sebastian Bach Are Going into Rocky Horror Show posted at 7/18/2001 10:05:32 AM by the other James | Item Link Today's birthdays include Nelson Mandela, Hume Cronyn, John Glenn, James Brolin, Elizabeth McGovern, and Vin Diesel. How 'Seussical: The Musical' Was Puffed Into a Big Flop by Robin Pogrebin Why did "Seussical" — a collection of stories from the children's books by Dr. Seuss, strung together with songs — fail to live up to its powerful promise? posted at 7/18/2001 05:37:06 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Tuesday, July 17, 2001 George Gershwin Alone Takes Final Bow July 22 posted at 7/17/2001 03:59:55 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Revivals: The '60s by Ken Mandelbaum posted at 7/17/2001 01:14:26 PM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Bastille Day on Broadway by Peter Filichia How did I miss this? posted at 7/17/2001 09:14:11 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Today's birthdays include David Hasselhoff, Art Linkletter, Phyllis Diller, Donald Sutherland, Diahann Carroll, Lucie Arnaz, and James Cagney. Theater Fund Files Suit to Protect TKTS Name Taylor and Bologna Bring If You Ever to Broadway, July 17 Is RuPaul Rocky Horror's Next Sweet Transvestite? posted at 7/17/2001 05:52:16 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Monday, July 16, 2001 London My Fair Lady to Release Cast Album July 23 Donna McKechnie Holds a Mirror to Her Career and Sings at Arci's Place July 24-Aug. 4 Harold Pinter Begins Reign at Lincoln Center Festival July 16 Full Monty Composer David Yazbek Plays Joe's Pub, July 16 Shoestring-Budget Musicals Tonight! Has Porter, Gershwins and Berlin in 2001-2002 My boycott of Theatre/Broadway Online.com is back. Those pesky pop up banner ads are back like ants at a picnic! I wonder if they are keeping track of how many readers they've lost since changing their site? What a shame! 'Lupe' Not Worthy Of the Salsa Great TO SING'S THE THING Audra McDonald sings tonight at 8 on the Great Lawn of Central Park Blondes have more fun? This one is for James! posted at 7/16/2001 08:36:05 AM by Susan Heim | Item Link Today's birthdays include Barnard Hughes, Michael Flatley, Phoebe Cates, Will Ferrell, Corey Feldman, and Ginger Rogers. Tony's Follies by Peter Filichia Happy Birthday Michael Lavine! by Peter Filichia Vampires at the Minskoff? by Ken Mandelbaum 'Much Ado About Nothing': A 60's Shakespeare à Go-Go, With Hints of James Bond by Anita Gates posted at 7/16/2001 07:07:45 AM by Matthew Murray | Item Link Sunday, July 15, 2001 Steven Suskin ON THE RECORD: BELLS ARE RINGING and early Rodgers & Hart I think you should all run out and buy the new 'Bells are Ringing' CD just to see my name in the credits. And it's also a well-crafted cast recording, listening to that overture makes me glad that we still have that big orchestra sound. The Second Coming of 'N Sync The nearly fab five make a bid for musical credibility 'Hedwig' - The Final Cut For Him/Her, the 'Hedwig' Film Is/Isn't the Same posted at 7/15/2001 11:32:34 AM by Catherine Skidmore | Item Link On this date in 1997, fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot to death outside his home in Miami; the man believed to be the gunman, suspected serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan, was found dead eight days later. Versace's former home in Miami has become the Graceland of Miami Beach, visitors passing by quite often. Someone should write a play or musical about this eight day period in Miami, it was very surreal. Today's birthdays include: Alex Karras, Ken Kercheval, Patrick Wayne, Jan-Michael Vincent, Linda Ronstadt, Kim Alexis, Lolita Davidovich, Forest Whitaker, Brigitte Nielsen, Scott Foley, Brian Austin Green, Rembrandt, and Clement Moore (Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house......) Harold Pinter: His Genius Is to Find the Drama Between the Words Notes on Pinter, Given by Pinter A Theater Company, With All the Comforts of a Family EARLY DOUBTS ASIDE, LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL FITS FIRMLY IN NEW YORK 'HEDWIG' CROSSES OVER TO THE SCREEN But specifically, it's about John Cameron Mitchell, the man who helped create the show and also wrote, directed and stars in the film adaptation, which struts into theaters Friday. The Toronto Star Noel Coward a lion larger than life by Richard Ouzounian For all the Noel Coward fans out there, interesting read. Loved this line, "If Coward were alive today, I picture him appearing regularly in Entertainment Weekly, guest hosting Saturday Night Live and urging us to check out http://www.noelcoward.com." This one is for Catherine posted at 7/15/2001 10:59:28 AM by Susan Heim | Item Link BroadwayStars is powered by Blogger Pro! [Past News]
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