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Saturday, March 02, 2002 Getting Happy With LuPone and a Surprise Guest By STEPHEN HOLDEN Patti LuPone's Carnegie Hall concert on Thursday culminated in a nervy conceptual coup that should be fondly remembered by the audience for years to come. Material Girl to debut in May previews Madonna is the latest thespian newcomer to the West End, where she will open May 23 in an Australian comedy called "Up For Grabs." The David Williamson play has been described as a satire on the art market. It's time for "One Mo' Time" — again. The 1979 Off-Broadway musical hit, which spent 3 1/2 years at the Village Gate, then traveled to London for another year and a half years (including a command performance for Queen Elizabeth), is belatedly reaching the big time — just like so many of the performers it portrays. The Broadway production of Into The Woods will open a day later than expected. The Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine tuner is no...[Read More] The Long Wharf Theatre 2002-2003 season will include the world premiere of a play by Pulitzer Prize-winner Donald Margulies and a new production of Eugene O'Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra, st...[Read More] Hannie Rayson’s Life After George will end its West End run on March 16, after only a month of performances. The play, starring Stephen Dillane, had been booking through the spring. Peter Ackroyd’s The Mystery of Charles Dickens, which is returning to the West End in March, may hit Broad...[Read More] This is the column that PBOL references above. posted at 3/2/2002 08:04:20 AM by James Marino | Item Link Friday, March 01, 2002 Catching up with Norbert Leo Butz as he prepares to open in The Last 5 Years. Sherie René Scott’s role in The Last 5 Years hits close to home by Brian Scott Lipton Updates on Kevin Chamberlin, Katie Finneran, Louis Gossett, Jr., Bea Arthur, and their various endeavors. Araca is busy! Word has it that it looks like DEBBIE DOES DALLAS has booked the JANE STREET THEATER for the full production. It hopes to open in mid-June. Riedel checked in this morning with me. (He is a faithful reader you know!) He assures me that the last show he invested in was Seussical. posted at 3/1/2002 03:55:25 PM by James Marino | Item Link
[Thanks to Craig for the link!] By ROBIN POGREBIN The choreographer Susan Stroman's exuberant leaps and do-si-dos for "Oklahoma!" appear to be the perfect spring antidote to this country's trying autumn. • Music from 'Oklahoma!' By AMY HARMON The recording industry has begun selling CD's designed to make it impossible for people to copy music to their computers, trade songs over the Internet or transfer them to portable MP3 players. For the first 10 minutes of Eve Ensler's "Necessary Targets," which is set in a Bosnian refugee camp, the audience's task is to determine which of two American characters is the more hateful: the psychiatrist or the trauma counselor. The limited run of Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends has turned into an open-ended one. The show, which was previou...[Read More] As Ken Mandelbaum reported earlier this week, the Paper Mill Playhouse will present Miss Saigon as part of i...[Read More] I am pretty sure that this was talked about on All That Chat and RATM weeks ago... As Ken Mandelbaum mentioned on February 22, Alfonso Ribeiro will indeed headline the upcoming Encores! produ...[Read More] They Shoot Horses, Don't They? tops the list of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award nominations. The Greenway Court Theater production of the play earned eight nominations. The [Read More] Plans for Madonna’s West End stage debut are now confirmed. The pop icon will star in Australian playwright David Williamson’s Up For Grabs at Wyndhams Theatre. The Broadway revival of I'm Not Rappaport, originally expected to open at the Booth Theatre in April, is be...[Read More] By MICHAEL RIEDEL 'WE got our b - - - s back."That's how one producer of "Sweet Smell of Success" sums up the changes made to the new $10 million musical since its Chicago tryout last month. Has Riedel started to invest in Broadway shows? RATINGS for the Grammy Awards show were no hit. The awards, which aired on CBS on Wednesday night, averaged 19 million viewers - down 29 percent from last year and the lowest for the show since 1995. It's not just the Tonys. All awards shows, except Oscars, are headed south. [Thanks to Andy Propst at American Theater Web for the link!] posted at 3/1/2002 09:17:43 AM by James Marino | Item Link Thursday, February 28, 2002 Turner offers master class but second act falls short [Thanks to Brian in Boston for the links!] posted at 2/28/2002 09:27:30 AM by James Marino | Item Link At the 44th Grammy Awards, Alicia Keys won five honors, U2 took four and the soundtrack to "O Brother Where Art Thou," was a surprise winner of album of the year and four other awards. A kind reader pointed out: "the play referred to [in the article is] "Waiting to Be Invited" [which] is part of Ensemble Studio Theatre's 'Going to the River' festival of plays by African-American women beginning March 10th." 'Paper Doll' to fill in at Booth Theater in spring The revival-laden Broadway season loses one. The producers of "I'm Not Rappaport" have pushed back its opening from late April to the second week of July. Bening, Daly, Kurtz among headliners There is almost more makeup strewn around feminist playwright Eve Ensler's office suite than in Bloomingdale's cosmetics department. Swooping in for yet another photo shoot, she declines an invitation from one of several assistants to touch up her bright-red lipstick The Producers nabbed a Best Musical Show Grammy to add to its pile of awards. The honor is given to the album's producer, Hugh...[Read More] Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends, with Billy Goldenberg at the Piano, is [Read More] Ray Winstone is set to headline the Royal Court Theatre production of Jez Butterworth’s The Night Heron. Other cast members include popular television actress Jessica Stevenson, Roger Morlidge...[Read More] Alan Campbell is joining the Broadway company of Contact. The actor, who previously starred as Michael Wiley in the touring pro...[Read More] By CHIP DEFFAA SELLING the last ticket for Penny Arcade's show, box-office worker Kyle Jarrow commented: "It's like a party upstairs. And it lasts two hours." By DONALD LYONS THE Theater by the Blind is presenting the premiere of "Murder in Baker Street" by Judd Woldin. It's an elegant, lively melodrama that takes place in 1903 at and near the home of Sherlock Holmes. By DONALD LYONS SAM Shepard's best plays are fires struck from the kindling of his own life. IF you really love Lucy you can buy her childhood home on the Ebay Website. The house, a three-bedroom, 11/2-bath frame house in Celoron, N.Y. where "I Love Lucy" star Lucille Ball spent her formative years before moving to Manhattan is selling for $98,500 on the real-estate section of the popular auction Web site. posted at 2/28/2002 06:33:13 AM by James Marino | Item Link Wednesday, February 27, 2002 Throwing caution to the winds, Filichia offers an appreciation of Frank Wildhorn, who’s back in town with a cabaret show. Hey, what is that on the calendar... oh look, there it is, "Feb 27, 2002: Hell Froze Over". posted at 2/27/2002 05:21:43 PM by James Marino | Item Link By RICK LYMAN For the second time in Academy Award history, three of the 10 acting nominees in lead roles are black. But instead of drawing cheers from those fighting for greater black representation in Hollywood, the situation is raising concerns. Cyn Cañel Rossi was a 13-year-old aspiring playwright when she began seeking out plays about people like herself. "I was looking for works that were identifiable, but there were no voices [representing] Caribbean-Latina playwrights," says Cañel Rossi, who grew up on the lower East Side in a Puerto Rican-Spanish family. OSCAR-winner Lou Gossett Jr. is making a quick exit from "Chicago" after giving what several sources described as "harrowing" performances during which he froze on stage, forgot whole pages of dialogue and appeared "completely at sea." This situation was first mentioned on Talkin'Broadway's "All That Chat" section two days ago... The season is blossoming—six shows are currently previewing on Broadway. Oklahoma! is off to a great start—it only played one performance but it filled the large Gershwin Theatre to 100% capaci...[Read More] Reynold Levy has been chosen to be the new president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, according to The New York Daily News. Before his appointment is official, the Lincoln Center boar...[Read More] Mark Hampton and Barbara J. Zitwer’s Paper Doll will not open at the Cort Theatre after all. Although the play was [Read More] Louis Gossett Jr. is out of Broadway’s Chicago because of “health reasons,” a production spokesperson confirmed to Broadway.c...[Read More] With a little help from his friends at Nonesuch, Billy Porter shines in the brand new, note-complete recording of Dreamgirls in concert. posted at 2/27/2002 07:21:15 AM by James Marino | Item Link Tuesday, February 26, 2002 Kate D. Levin takes the lead of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs just as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg proposes sweeping budget cuts. B.O. betters holiday weekend receipts by 7% With B.O. up 7.63%, Broadway defied past trends and improved on the previous session's holiday weekend. When Jennifer Tipton went off to college in the mid-'50s, her goal was to be an astrophysicist. She wanted to be the first person on the moon. Shortly after she arrived at Cornell, she found another way to fly high — she became a dancer, studying with a disciple of Martha Graham. As we first reported on January 31, I’m Not Rappaport is coming to Broadway’s Booth Theatre later this seas...[Read More] This year's annual The Night Of 1000 Voices will be dedicated to the work of lyricist Tim Rice. The charity concert, scheduled to take place at the Royal Albert Hall on May 5, is expected to in...[Read More] Mike Daisey’s 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com, which won the award for Best Solo Show in last year’s NYC Fringe Festival, is coming to the Cherry Lane Theater. The play will begin perform...[Read More] The Signature Theatre Company is canceling performances of Edward Albee’s Occupant from February 23 through March 19. As we [Read More] Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson’s The Feast of Snails will end its run at the Lyric Theater on March 23. The play, which marked David Warner’s return to the London stage after a three-decade absence, ju...[Read More] When Bill Bailey’s Bewilderness plays its last performance at the Westbeth Theatre Center on Saturday, March 30, it will mark the end of era. A day later, on March 31, the producing organizatio...[Read More] Marvin Hamlisch and Craig Carnelia saw the Last Five Years on stage and off last night at the Martin Beck... with Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott in the audience of Sweet Smell. Last Five Years and Sweet Smell producer Marty Bell brought everyone along last night for a look/see. posted at 2/26/2002 08:52:36 AM by James Marino | Item Link Monday, February 25, 2002 Deprived of royalties from his uncle's body of work, Lorenz Hart’s nephew says: "Show me the money!" posted at 2/25/2002 03:25:26 PM by James Marino | Item Link Albee Hides Death Behind Curtains by BEN BRANTLEY Rosemary Harris's version of cool heat sends off stellar light waves in this revival of Edward Albee's 1971 drama, which is not the most audience-friendly play. The Recording Artists Coalition is seeking nothing less than a radical redefinition of the way the recording industry does business. Palestinians, Israelis among newcomers to int'l event Palestine's Al-Kasaba Theater, Israel's Inbal Pinto Dance Co., London's multiracial music-theater company the Shout and France's Transe Express musicians and trapeze artists will be among the newcomers to New Haven's annual Intl. Festival of Arts & Ideas this summer. Off: Thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes! I must remember that Catherine + red wine + access to the internet is a bad thing. With all the "Happy Birthdays" sung into my voicemail, I can release a CD. Hmmmm.... posted at 2/25/2002 07:24:51 AM by James Marino | Item Link Sunday, February 24, 2002 Interview with creative team of L5Y and Millie Fortune’s Gold The Wooster Group Who updates the site when we all go to DC? Berkoff May Be The Best Newsday's Patrick Pacheco does a review of the upcoming season. New season of Six Feet Under begins next Sunday. OK, shoot me, it's not theater. posted at 2/24/2002 09:39:09 AM by the other James | Item Link BroadwayStars is powered by Blogger Pro! [Past News] |
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