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Monday, May 19, 2008

    Features:

    [ TM ]  Oh, Happy Night! By: Joseph Marzullo; Text by Brian Scott Lipton

    TheaterMania catches up with James Earl Jones, Patti LuPone, Paulo Szot, Edward Albee, and many other winners of the 53rd Annual Drama Desk Awards.

    [ P ]  A "Steppenwolf Style"? However You Define It, the Tonys Have Embraced It

    [ B ]  Q&A: Three Tonys and Counting! A Chat with Gypsy Star Boyd Gaines

    [ B ]  PHOTO OP: OMG! Hannah Montana's Miley Cyrus Checks Out Legally Blonde

    News:

    [ G ]  Obituary: Frith Banbury by Michael Billington

    Eclectic stalwart of London's West End as director, producer and actor

    [ G ]  Letter: Frith Banbury by Alan Bennett

    [ IBDB ]  Frith Banbury's Broadway Credits

    [ TM ]  Julia Roberts to Host Westport Country Playhouse Annual Gala

    [ TM ]  Old Globe Announces 2008-2009 Season

    [ P ]  Emick, Hubert, Dunn and Luker Set for North Shore's Contact

    [ TM ]  Jarrod Emick to Star in NMST's Contact

    [ TM ]  Almeida, Tricycle Announce Summer and Fall Seasons

    [ P ]  Almeida Season Will Feature British Premieres of Shepard and LaBute Plays

    [ P ]  Tricycle Season to Include British Premiere of August Wilson's Radio Golf

    [ TM ]  Birdsong, Conlee, Moran, Saltzberg, Testa, et al. Set for Barrington Stage Season

    [ P ]  Baysic, Cervantes, Mastro and Wilfert to Star in Barrington's Spelling Bee

    [ P ]  Spring Awakening Will Make U.K. Premiere in 2009 at Lyric Hammersmith

    [ P ]  Dow's New Musical Wilde Tales Pairs "Happy Prince" and "Selfish Giant," in Pittsburgh

    [ P ]  Williams, Levy and Margherita Join Cast of London's Zorro Musical

    [ P ]  Stoppard to Star in Hampstead's On the Rocks in July

    [ P ]  Eisenberg Awarded Second Annual Patrick Quinn Award

    [ P ]  Whitton Will Be Hedwig at the Barrow Mansion; Eardley Directs

    [ P ]  Moran, Birdsong, Jellison and Conlee Set for Free WATT!?! Readings

    [ P ]  Cast Complete for Public Hamlet at the Delacorte

    [ P ]  Stout, Chapman, Bradley, Williams and More to Be Part of Free Sophie Reading

    [ P ]  Jimmy Slyde, Tap-Dancing Master, Dies at 80

    [ P ]  Casting Announced for London Premiere of Disney's High School Musical

    [ P ]  Harwood's Quartet to Make Music on Screen

    [ B ]  Hallie Foote and David Rasche Win Seff Awards from Actors' Equity

    [ P ]  Will Julie Andrews' Mousical Find a Home on Broadway?

    Reviews:

    [ BS ]  Inner Voices: Solo Musicals - Reviewed by ANDY PROPST

    A trio of winning performances ground the three short musicals that make up "Inner Voices: Solo Musicals." Although the contributions from three songwriting teams are decidedly mixed, the premise of the evening - brief tune-filled monologues that take their cue from shows like Alan Bennett's "Talking Heads" - proves to have marvelous potential.

    [ BS ]  Welcome Home Marian Anderson - Reviewed by RONNI REICH

    To successfully encompass a groundbreaking performer's life within a play, there must be a focus, an arc, and a portrayal that does justice to its subject. Though it has other charms, actor-writer Vanessa Shaw's "Welcome Home Marian Anderson" lacks these crucial elements.

    [ BS ]  Birthright - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

    Birthright, written and directed by Jackie Alexander, has a fine play, with some echoes of August Wilson, inside it. Alexander's dialogue is rhythmic and often lyrical, his characters rounded. Unfortunately, he also has an abundance of plot and backstory, by turns confusing and unconvincing.

    [ BS ]  Edward the King - Reviewed by JERRY PORTWOOD

    Playwright David Brendan Hopes' decision to revisit the relationship between Edward and his male lover should inspire some new conceptual twist; instead the play feels like a dumbed-down version of the story, lacking eroticism and a provocative point of view.

    [ DCTS ]  REVIEWS: Adding Machine, No, No Nanette!, and a Master Class with Harold Prince by Richard Seff

    [ TM ]  How Theater Failed America
    Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

    Mike Daisey presents an engaging, witty, and impassioned critique of the contemporary theatrical scene.

    [ CU ]  The Deep Blue Sea

    Edward Hall's production of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play, with Greta Scacchi playing the suicidal Hester Collyer. Its theme of unrequited love remains ever pertinent.

    [ TB ]  Peggy and Karen Shoot for the Funny Bone in Women Who Steal by Bob Rendell

    [ NYer ]  Intruder in the Wings by Hilton Als

    A staging of William Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury."

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      • [ NY ]  Tricia Walsh Smith Now Wants YOU to Pay Up, Too

      The Awards Season:

      [ B ]  Passing Strange, Osage County, South Pacific Win Big at Drama Desk Awards

      [ P ]  August and Passing Strange Win Top Honors at Drama Desk Awards

      [ TM ]  Benanti, Dunagan, Fishburne, Gaines, Lavin, LuPone, Szot, et al. Win Drama Desk Awards

      [ LAT ]  Gold Derby by Tom O'Neil
      No real drama: 'South Pacific,' 'August: Osage County' snag the Drama Desk Awards as expected

      [ NYT ]  Drama Desk's Awards
      Compiled by LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

      [ ND ]  Tony Awards reflect a changing tide on Broadway
      Linda Winer | Critical Mass

      [ DN ]  These Tony nominees traveled a long way to Broadway By Joe Dziemianowicz

      [ B ]  FEATURE: Daniel Evans Proposes to Cheyenne Jackson! On the Scene at the Drama League Awards

      [ TM ]  Esparza, Herman, Lopez, Ziemba to Present Outer Critics Circle Awards

      [ P ]  53rd Annual Village Voice Obie Awards Will Be Presented May 19

      This Morning's Peter Filichia:

      [ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: The 2008 Broadway University Final Exam

      [ NJ ]  Beethoven bio-drama comes across as tone-deaf

      Features:

      [ TIME ]  Grade School Impresarios By LINA LOFARO

      A 10-piece orchestra from the Broadway musical The Little Mermaid visited the class and orchestrator Danny Troob explained which instruments convey water, waves, swells of emotions and sparkling lights. Stephen Sondheim instructed the kids on how to make sounds scary and rhyme words.

      [ TIME ]  Bye Bye, Birdie. Hello, Rent By RICHARD ZOGLIN

      The high school musical has graduated from Oklahoma! - and from High School Musical too

      [ BS ]  The New High School Musicals by Daniel Lehman

      [ NYT ]  Fleeting Stage Glory, Savored and Survived By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

      The Broadway transfer of "Glory Days" looked like the beginning of a showbiz fairy tale. Then it closed on opening night.

      [ INQ ]  From Broad Street to Broadway - and back By Howard Shapiro

      Philadelphia's theater community has been building relationships with New York for decades.

      [ CT ]  Finding 'cheap' hotels on Broadway By Chris Jone

      [ DN ]  Alison Pill is sitting pretty onstage BY MARK ELLWOOD

      [ DN ]  Eric Bogosian writes his own ticket By Howard Kissel

      [ CST ]  DeYoung's 'Hunchback' ringing the bells again BY MISHA DAVENPORT

      Styx frontman's show at Bailiwick

      [ CT ]  Dennis DeYoung and 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame': from Styk to the stage by Chris Jones

      [ NYT ]  The Almost Naked City By MARK CALDWELL

      Although burlesque was kicked out of New York in 1942, the gleefully bad-mannered entertainment has returned to the city.

      [ HC ]  The Tennessee Williams Marathon Train Stops Here By FRANK RIZZO

      [ JN ]  Yazbek gives back by Peter D. Kramer

      [ ND ]  Grand finale for season one at John W. Engeman Theater BY STEVE PARKS

      Northport's own year-round theater wraps debut year

      [ BG ]  The stage is set for fresh works By Louise Kennedy

      In Lenox and Central Square, new spaces mean wider opportunities

      [ BR ]  From the big screen to Broadway By ROBERT FELDBERG

      Reviews:

      [ HChron ]  American in Paris is a fine trip By EVERETT EVANS

      [ TM ]  Inner Voices: Solo Musicals
      Reviewed by: Patrick Lee

      Victoria Clark's remarkable performance in Michael John LaChiusa and Ellen Fitzhugh's "Tres Ninas" elevates this evening of three solo musical monologues into a must-see event.

      [ LAT ]  REVIEW: 'My Antonia' By David Ng

      The adaptation, at the Rubicon in Ventura, feels overstuffed and rushed.

      [ NYT ]  They Had Faces Then, in Silent Movies, and Feet, Too By ROSLYN SULCAS

      Craft was the resounding element of Susan Stroman's "Double Feature," which had its first performance of the New York City Ballet's spring season.

      [ NYT ]  Robbins, Served Up in French Style By GIA KOURLAS

      The latest evening in New York City Ballet's Jerome Robbins Celebration draws on the music of two refined composers: Ravel and Debussy.

      [ NYT ]  Cold War? What Cold War? By ANITA GATES

      If you're going to make a stage musical out of a television show, "Happy Days" is not a bad choice.

      [ NYT ]  More Than Snappy Comebacks By ANITA GATES

      In Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," drama plays as big a role as comedy.

      [ NYT ]  Trenton Tea Party By ANITA GATES

      "Cecilia's Last Tea Party" is a modest but ravishing new piece of theater well served by the Passage Theater Company's production in Trenton.

      [ NY ]  Churchillian Eloquence By Jeremy McCarter

      The puzzling masterpiece that is Top Girls.

      [ P ]  THE DVD SHELF: "Raisin in the Sun," "12 Angry Men," "The Red Balloon" and John Adams

      "Carousel" - a feature and a review:

      [ HC ]  A Returned 'Carousel' At Long Wharf By FRANK RIZZO

      [ TB ]  Carousel
      Review by Fred Sokol

      Obituaries:

      [ NYT ]  Jimmy Slyde, Dancer and a Giant of Rhythm Tap, Dies at 80 By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

      Jimmy Slyde was one of the last great tap dancers of the big-band era, whose smooth moves carried him from swing and bebop to Broadway and the movies.

      [ IBDB ]  Jimmy Slyde's Broadway Credits

      [ CT ]  Page Hearn, 1959-2008

      News:

      [ TM ]  Idina Menzel to Play Town Hall on June 25

      [ P ]  Wicked's Menzel to Play Manhattan's Town Hall in June

      [ NYT ]  Weddings & Celebrations: Fielding Edlow, Larry Clarke

      [ TM ]  Cavanagh, Ferguson, Lennix, McCormack, Reuben, Sewell Get TV Series

      [ TM ]  Jonathan Whitton to Star in Hedwig and the Angry Inch

      [ TM ]  Complete Principal Casting Set for Carnegie Hall Show Boat

      [ CT ]  Jason Loewith leaving Next Theatre by Chris Jones

      [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: MAY 19

      [ P ]  Dennis DeYoung's Hunchback Musical Opens May 19 in Chicago

      [ P ]  Chicago Welcomes Nancy Lemenager May 19

      [ P ]  MTC Benefit, with Wopat, Merkerson, Plimpton, Tomei and Cannavale, Presented May 19

      [ P ]  Manchester, Woods and More Come Together in Beatles Tribute May 19

      [ P ]  I Love You Because Cast Reunites for Cherry Lane Concert May 19

      [ P ]  Mandy Patinkin on Broadway Plays the Schoenfeld May 19

      [ P ]  Devil's Disciple, with Edwards, Ferrin, Hibbert, Bolton and Morton, Offered May 19

      [ P ]  NEO4 Concert, with Arden, Myers, Rapp, Tveit and More, Presented May 19

      [ P ]  Mamet's Duck Variations and Pantheon Open in L.A. May 18

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