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Thursday, July 17, 2008

    [ SUN ]  Passenger Sues Airline, Claiming Humiliation by a Flight Attendant By HOPE HODGE

    The artistic director of the Manhattan Theatre Club is suing Continental Airlines, claiming that a vindictive flight attendant had her detained and interrogated by the FBI without cause.

    Thanks to midtowngym on All That Chat for the link.

    [ NYP ]  PAGE SIX

    BEST wishes to Mike Nichols. He took a break from directing the Broadway hit "The Country Girl" to have a coronary bypass over the weekend, according to several sources.

    [ WP ]  A Man Walked Into a Bard One Day . . . By Mary Jordan and David Montgomery

    Suspect in Folio Theft Is Something of a Character

    [ NYT ]  Film Society Chooses Executive Director By ROBIN POGREBIN

    Mara Manus, the Public Theater's top financial executive, is taking the helm as the Film Society undergoes a $38 million expansion.

    [ NYT ]  Vibrant Gateway Planned for Lincoln Center Campus By ROBIN POGREBIN

    The Emmy Awards:

    [ NY ]  Emmy Nominations Announced!

    This year's Emmy nominations were announced this morning by Kristin Chenoweth and Neil Patrick Harris. They were so adorable together that we certainly hope some Broadway producer is already planning a musical starring the two of them. A complete list of all the categories we actually care about...

    [ EMMYS ]  Complete List of Emmy Nominees

    [ TM ]  Kristin Chenoweth, Neil Patrick Harris, Chandra Wilson React to Emmy Award Nominations

    [ P ]  Chenoweth, Price, Dench, Linney, Rashad and More Nominated for Emmy Awards

    [ TM ]  60th Annual Primetime Emmy Nominations Are Announced

    Features:

    [ NJ ]  Comedy tonight by Peter Filichia

    When he was a teenager, Billy Finnegan couldn't quite believe what his mother was saying.

    [ TONY ]  Retro active By Adam Feldman

    The unspoiled Jonathan Groff feels the love in the 1960s hippie-rock musical Hair.

    [ P ]  Superstar Parton Jumps Onto Broadway Bandwagon for 9 to 5: The Musical

    [ AMNY ]  Interview with Emily Skinner on Broadway's Rising Stars by Matt Windman

    [ BE ]  Director digs into Chekov By Jeffrey Borak

    Michael Greif interview.

    [ FOX ]  Eric Idle adds an orchestra to Monty Python comedy (AP)

    [ CT ]  Happy birthday, Milly, from your famous friends by Chris Jones

    Milly knew the Blue Men back when they were just obscure performance artists with weirdly painted heads.

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL:Thurgood Star Fishburne Gets Sardi's Caricature

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: August: Osage County's New Residents

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Vermont Light in the Piazza with McCarthy, Worsham and Worley

    "Mamma Mia!":

    [ P ]  "Mamma Mia!" Soundtrack Lands in Top Ten on Billboard Chart

    [ CST ]  Why are ABBA songs so infectious? Science has answers BY SARAH RODMAN Entertainment News Wire

    [ INQ ]  In spite of yourself, a fABBAlous time By Wendy Rosenfield

    Review of the tour in Philadelphia.

    [ B ]  ETCETERA: Did Streep in Mamma Mia! Make John Simon Dance in the Aisles?

    [ TM ]  Mamma Mia!
    Reviewed by: Leslie (Hoban) Blake

    The film version of the long-running stage musical is the perfect summer movie!

    [ USA ]  Streep is the dancing and singing queen in 'Mamma Mia!'

    Mamma Mia! (*** out of four) is worth the ticket price just to see her belt it out, jump up and down on a bed, dance in platform shoes and slide down a banister.

    [ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH

    Liza Minnelli, Anne Berlin, "Mamma Mia!"

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

    Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Christine Baranski, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Rita Wilson, Jane Seymour, Kathie Lee Gifford, and Louise Pitre come out for the New York premiere of the film Mamma Mia!

    Midtown International Theatre Festival - Reviews:

    [ TB ]  Eighty-1 and Cherry Hill
    Reviews by Matthew Murray

    [ BS ]  Eighty-1 - Reviewed by ROBERT WINDELER

    Six strong singers and some worthy songs by Clive Chang are the plus factors in this world premiere of an 81-minute musical (no coincidence, that).

    [ BS ]  Cherry Hill- Reviewed by RONNI REICH

    To call "Cherry Hill" tasteless is to miss the point, but the dark comedy tries too hard to be all at once edgy, cute, and insightful and instead falls flat.

    [ BS ]  Flies in the Snuffbox - Reviewed by ROBERT WINDELER

    Three outstanding performances - one in each of the three one-act Chekhov plays that make up this bill - almost but not quite redeem the enterprise.

    [ BS ]  Daguerreotypes - Reviewed by MARK PEIKERT

    At almost two hours, "Daguerreotypes" is a punishingly long time to sit in the Where Eagles Dare Theatre's wicker seats and unfortunately not quite worth the red lines your skin will accrue.

    Fresh Fruit Festival - Review:

    [ BS ]  Bed and Breakfast - Reviewed by MARC MILLER

    "Bed and Breakfast" craves to be nothing more than a friendly boulevard comedy, an assemblage of pleasant gay personalities rather like, say, "The Last Sunday in June" of a few seasons back. But its characters are so generic, and it has so very, very little on its mind.

    Other Reviews:

    [ NYT ]  Hitting Botton By Ben Brantley

    I was very sad when the armed intruder put a gag in Eileen Atkins's mouth on Wednesday night.

    [ V ]  Expatriate
    Review By MARK BLANKENSHIP

    By refusing to land somewhere safe, the show makes fresh statements on common themes like celebrity, excess and art.

    [ NYP ]  GREAT DEPTH OF CHARACTERS By FRANK SCHECK (***)

    Yet as standard as those plot elements are, "Expatriate" delivers them in a freshly imaginative style.

    [ BS ]  Expatriate - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

    Lenelle Moïse's music has a beat that gets under your skin, fascinating rhythm, and real theatrical power. It's new. Expatriate, however, written and composed by Moïse, recounts familiar stories.

    [ TM ]  Expatriate
    Reviewed by: Patrick Lee

    Despite some fine writing and music, Lenelle Moise's two-hander about a lifelong friendship lacks dramatic momentum.

    [ V ]  Scramble!
    Review By FRANK RIZZO

    But in trying his hand at this in extremis comedy, Wiltse's craft fails him, and the production brings more cringes than chuckles.

    [ NYP ]  'EAST' GOES SOUTH By FRANK SCHECK (**)

    DON Reed's autobiographical monologue is subtitled "True Tales of a Reluctant Player," but his performance is anything but.

    [ LAT ]  King Henry is outnumbered By David Ng

    David Denman marches to Agincourt as Shakespeare's brave king, but the cast's antics steal the show.

    [ BN ]  Shakespeare Alfresco Brings Midsummer Magic to Dairy Country
    Commentary by John F. Wasik

    [ BG ]  They sing, they dance, they aim to shoot a president By Louise Kennedy

    [ TONY ]  Kicking a Dead Horse
    Review by David Cote

    There's a whiff of contrived narcissism about the project, which features an impeccable, finely shaded performance by Stephen Rea as Hobart Struther.

    [ TONY ]  Damn Yankees
    Review by Adam Feldman

    This Golden Age trophy, carefully dusted off, proves less shiny than one might have imagined.

    [ TONY ]  The Marriage of Bette and Boo
    Review by Helen Shaw

    Durang is our piss-taker laureate of the institutions that screw us up: religion, therapy, the universal affliction of having a family.

    [ TONY ]  The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac
    Review by Raven Snook

    Once you fall for splendiferous drag artist Taylor Mac, you'll go anywhere with him.

    [ TONY ]  Scenes from an Execution
    Review by Helen Shaw

    It may sting a bit to hear home truths about expediency and art, but trust me, having no Barker is worse than his bite.

    [ TONY ]  Crave and Somewhere in the Pacific
    Review by Aaron Riccio

    The unrelenting presence of poetic grief makes Crave a triumph; the absence of real grief just makes Somewhere sad.

    [ B ]  WORD OF MOUTH: Did Cirque Dreams Dazzle Matt, Susan & Hillary?

    [ V ]  Space Chimps
    Review By LAEL LOEWENSTEIN

    Fox's relatively under-the-radar toon is a fairly fatuous but enjoyably slim family entertainment about three chimps dispatched to retrieve a multibillion-dollar intergalactic probe. Without the massive promo push afforded those other behemoths, pic's theatrical landing may barely register. A more promising payload surely awaits in the home-entertainment sphere.

    Thanks to American Theater Web for the following articles:

    [ RFT ]  Mo' Muny!: What happens when the Muny looks back on its 90 years? (Hint: It ain't "magic.") By Dennis Brown

    [ RFT ]  Dennis Brown offers up his ten most memorable Muny moments By Dennis Brown

    [ BEE ]  Vicki Lewis nails the role of Rose in Music Circus' excellent telling of 'Gypsy' By Marcus Crowder

    [ AAS ]  'Nanny' co-star now nurtures a 'Clean House' in South Austin By Jeanne Claire van Ryzin

    Actress Lauren Lane keeps her life in balance

    [ ATU ]  WTF tackles family strife in 'Three Sisters' By MICHAEL ECK

    Jessica Hecht interview.

    [ N&O ]  'Wicked' star enjoys new spotlight By Phillip Crook

    Idina Menzel interview.

    [ OCR ]  'The Marvelous Wonderettes' in Laguna brings back marvelous memories By PAUL HODGINS

    News:

    [ P ]  Aranas, Bobb, Joyce, Marshall-Green, Pine and More to Star in NYTW's Beast

    [ B ]  Logan Marshall-Green, Larry Pine & More Set for Beast at NYTW

    [ TM ]  Marshall-Green, Pine, Stoll, et al. Set for NYTW's Beast

    [ P ]  Fourposter, Heroes and Beasley's Christmas Party Comprise Keen Company Season

    [ TM ]  Keen Company Announces 2008-2009 Season

    [ B ]  Stoppard's Heroes to Be Part of Keen Company Season

    [ TM ]  Keen Company Announces 2008-2009 Season

    [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
    Compiled by Julie Bloom

    [ P ]  Noll, Scott, Skinner, Paice, Stanek, Lacey Will Star in Signature's Ace, a Musical With Wings

    [ P ]  Andrea McArdle Will Prove You Don't Know Me at the Metropolitan Room

    [ P ]  "Moonlighting" Star Beasley Joins Cast of Grecian Formula

    [ P ]  Sondheim Extends Worldwide Publishing Agreement with Warner/Chappell Music

    [ P ]  Lacey, Grodner, Drummond and D'Amico Will Take Italian Sojourn to the O'Neill Center

    [ TM ]  Kenn Duncan's Photographs to Be Displayed at New York Public Library

    [ TM ]  Full Cast Set for BTF's A Man For All Seasons and Noel Coward in Two Keys

    [ P ]  Lavin and Najimy to Star in Reading of Nora and Delia Ephron's Love, Loss, and What I Wore

    [ P ]  Rock Musical bare Will Make Its San Francisco Debut in 2009; Arima to Direct

    [ P ]  "Theater Talk" Will Head to the Guthrie in August

    [ P ]  National High School Musical Awards Named for James M. Nederlander

    [ P ]  New Victory Announces 2008-2009 Season of Family Programming

    [ P ]  Akers, Cavenaugh, Callaway, Reichard, Haran and More Set for Fall Cabaret Convention

    [ HC ]  'Story Of My Life' At Goodspeed; 'Ella Run Extended
    Frank Rizzo | TICKER

    [ JN ]  'Noise...Funk' producer to head Purchase College Performing Arts Center

    [ TM ]  Second Stage to Buy Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater

    [ P ]  Grease's Keeling to Perform at New York City Triathlon July 20

    [ P ]  Shaiman Penning Score for Touchstone's "Bob: The Musical"

    [ P ]  New Music: NAMT Announces Selections for 2008 Festival of New Musicals

    [ TM ]  NAMT Announces 2008 Selections

    [ TM ]  Robert Sella, Robbie Collier Sublett to Headline CST's Amadeus

    [ B ]  NAMT's 2008 Festival Lineup to Include Pamela's First Musical

  • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 6:44 PM | Item Link


      • [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JULY 17

      1953 Actress Maude Adams dies today. Born in 1873, Adams, at the age of 32, played the title role in James M. Barrie's Peter Pan when it had its American premiere at the Empire Theatre in 1905. Barrie wrote the part with Adams in mind.

      [ P ]  "Part of It All": [title of show] Opens on Broadway July 17

      [title of show] -- the new, intermissionless musical that would rather be nine people's favorite thing than 100 people's ninth favorite thing -- officially opens on Broadway July 17. Previews began at the Lyceum July 5.

      [ P ]  Chenoweth and Harris Will Announce Primetime Emmy Nominees July 17

      Stage and screen stars Kristin Chenoweth and Neil Patrick Harris will announce the nominees for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards July 17.

      [ P ]  Flamingo Court, with Farr and Gillette, Begins Off-Broadway Run July 17

      Flamingo Court, a new comedy set in an apartment complex in South Florida, begins previews at New World Stages, Stage 2, July 17.

      [ P ]  It's The Violet Hour at Barrington Stage Company Beginning July 17

      [ P ]  Adding Machine Signs and Performs at Barnes and Noble July 17

      [ P ]  Sella Will Be Salieri in Chicago Shakespeare's Amadeus This Fall

      [ V ]  D.C. tryout for 'West Side' by Gordon Cox

      Revival set for Broadway in February

      [ V ]  Second Stage to buy Helen Hayes by Gordon Cox

      Nonprofit theater aims to raise $35 million

      [ V ]  NAMT taps musicals for fall festival by Gordon Cox

      Shows include 'First Musical,' 'Beatsville'

      [ V ]  Tech tune up for 'Phantom' by Gordon Cox

      Musical closes for sound system update

    • Posted by James Marino at 8:44 AM | Item Link


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