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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

    [ B ]  Stage and TV Star Estelle Getty Dies at 84

    [ P ]  Estelle Getty, Star of "Golden Girls," Dies at 84

    [ TM ]  Estelle Getty Dies at 84

    [ AP ]  Estelle Getty of 'Golden Girls' dies at 84 by BOB THOMAS

    [ IBDB ]  Estelle Getty on Broadway

    [ IMDB ]  Estelle Getty on IMDB

    [ WIKI ]  Estelle Getty on Wikipedia

  • Posted by James Marino at 3:39 PM | Item Link


      • [ NYT ]  Gladys Nederlander, 83, Show Producer, Is Dead By BRUCE WEBER

      The cause was heart failure, said her husband, the theater owner and producer Robert E. Nederlander.

      [ IBDB ]  Gladys Nederlander's Broadway Credits

      [ PBP ]  Obituary: Larry Haines

      [ TM ]  Tony Award Nominee and Emmy Award Winner Larry Haines Dies at 89

      [ IBDB ]  A. Larry Haines' Broadway Credits

      [ NYP ]  AT LAST, WIFE GETS $CREWED By DAREH GREGORIAN
      YOUTUBER LOSES BID FOR HUBBY'S MILLIONS

      [ NYP ]  B'WAY HUBBY BRINGS DOWN CURTAIN ON UNTAMED SHREW By ANDREA PEYSER

      So I asked Philip, minutes after a judge granted his divorce on grounds that wife Tricia was cruel and inhuman, if he would remarry.
      "Are you available?" he said without missing a beat.

      [ DN ]  Man wins divorce from angry wife in YouTube video By Jose Martinez

      [ NYP ]  PAGE SIX

      A MEMORIAL service for the longtime lover of Alfred Hitchcock star Farley Granger had a Hitchcockian twist itself.

      [ P ]  Broadway Grosses: July 14-20

      [ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Musicals Hot for Summer; Passing Strange Says Good-Bye

      [ V ]  Broadway hit with heatwave

      Box office saw sales increase

      [ P ]  DeGarmo, Leung, Henry, Torres and More Will Join Creel in Godspell Revival

      [ P ]  Moss Will Join Piven and Esparza in Broadway's Speed-the-Plow

      [ NY ]  Square Peggy By Emily Nussbaum

      On Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss plays one of TV's newest nerd girls-but with an unsettling twist.

      [ PAO ]  At home on stage
      The itinerant theatre Q takes up residence in Palo Alto by Rebecca Wallace

      Closing the season will be the world premiere of "My Strange Nation, The Music of Susan Werner."

      Finally! Someone is putting Susan Werner's wonderfully sophisticated music where it has long belonged - on the musical theatre stage.

      "Legally Blonde":

      [ P ]  Omigod! Bailey Is New Star of Broadway's Legally Blonde; Three Finalists Also Land Roles

      [ B ]  Bailey Hanks Wins MTV Legally Blonde Search; Starts as Elle Woods on July 23

      [ TM ]  Bailey Hanks to Be Legally Blonde's New Elle Woods

      [ USA ]  MTV winner Bailey Hanks gets her 'Blonde' moment By Elysa Gardner

      [ B ]  PHOTO OP: Laura Bell Bundy Bids Farewell to Legally Blonde

      "High School Musical: Get in the Picture":

      [ NYT ]  Casting Call for Teenagers With Talent and Character By GINIA BELLAFANTE

      ABC's new talent competition has a misleading title: winners will not to be featured in "High School Musical 3" but in a music video that will run during the credits.

      [ V ]  High School Musical: Get in the Picture
      Review By BRIAN LOWRY

      In terms of execution, ABC's latest audition show is no better than -- and actually has much in common with -- NBC's soon-forgotten reality program finding stars for the "Grease" stage revival.

      [ V ]  Weak bow for 'Musical' series

      ABC show falls victim to slow Sunday

      [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: Sunday Ratings By BENJAMIN TOFF; Compiled by Julie Bloom

      Features:

      [ LAT ]  Gas prices not seen impacting arts attendance so far By Mike Boehm

      Some arts patrons are leaving their cars behind. Others can't.

      [ NY ]  High-School Musical: When Your Drama Teachers Go to School

      In July, about 450 middle and high-school drama teachers from around the country flocked to Times Square for the eighth year of a program put on by Broadway Teachers Workshop, where they learn tips from big names like composer Stephen Schwartz, playwright Marsha Norman, and In the Heights creator Lin-Manuel Miranda.

      [ NY ]  Joss Whedon on 'Dr. Horrible,' Stephen Sondheim, and Bad Horse

      [ P ]  ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: Ship of Dreams By Seth Rudetsky

      [ TM ]  Hair Today By: Dan Bacalzo

      Director Diane Paulus discusses the Public's revival of Hair in Central Park, singing "Sodomy" at age nine, and where naked cast members hide their microphones.

      [ MTV ]  Danity Kane's Aubrey O'Day Makes A Great 'Snotty Brat' In 'Hairspray' Opening Night By Christina Garibaldi

      With 52 friends and family members in the audience, the 'Making the Band' alum didn't miss a beat.

      [ B ]  PHOTO OP: Danity Kane's Aubrey O'Day Gets a New 'Do for Hairspray

      [ NY ]  The Ballad of Ellen Foley By Michael Martin

      [ B ]  Q&A: Estelle Parsons Is One Tough Mother in August: Osage County

      [ P ]  PLAYBILL.COM'S CUE & A: Drew Lachey

      [ B ]  MY NEW YORK: Hot Fun in the City with Avenue Q's Carey Anderson

      [ B ]  VIDEO: Opening Night: [title of show]

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: San Diego's Old Globe Enjoys The Pleasure of His Company

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Ebersole and Suskin Join Strouse at Barnes and Noble

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Musical A Tale of Two Cities Prepares for Broadway

      "Mamma Mia!":

      [ V ]  Abba's appeal is strong, inexplicable By PHIL GALLO

      'Mamma Mia!' shows band's staying power

      [ V ]  'Mamma Mia!' opens Deauville

      Musical to kick off festival on Sept. 5

      [ B ]  Mamma Mia! Film Opens Strong with $27.6 Million at Box Office

      [ P ]  Mamma Mia! Tour, with McMonagle, Coomer and Dawson, to Play Chicago's Auditorium Theatre

      The Midtown International Theatre Festival:

      [ TM ]  MITF 2008 Roundup
      Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

      Reports on The Wendy Complex, Prince Trevor Amongst the Elephants, and Daguerreotypes.

      [ BS ]  Those Whistling Lads!: The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker - Reviewed by HARRY FORBES

      Though the show is a little heavy on the exposition, Dorothy Parker's surefire material and an adept cast help the play, under Bricken Sparacino's direction, flow well, some rough patches notwithstanding.

      [ BS ]  Scandal in Manhattan - Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY

      When broad comedy fails to catch fire, it can be hard to assess the reasons, but in this case a flaccid script and sloppy direction leave the cast adrift, forcing them to fill in unmotivated behavior and nonsensical plot with formless and uncomfortable posturing.

      [ BS ]  The Higher Education of Khalid Amir - Reviewed by IRENE BACKALENICK

      "The Higher Education of Khalid Amir" takes off with a series of hilarious scenes and characters.

      [ BS ]  Interning - Reviewed by PAUL MENARD

      The cast members do the best they can with the material, but Owusu's muddy script falls flat, especially under Rye Mullis' cartoonish direction.

      [ BS ]  10-Speed Revolution - Reviewed by MARC MILLER

      The cast has energy to spare, but John Heimbuch's violent, nihilistic comedy suffers from a bad case of ADD.

      Fresh Fruit Festival:

      [ BS ]  Courting Mae West - Reviewed by RONNI REICH

      Courting Mae West would not be without its excitement, nor is LindaAnn Loschiavo's play of the same name. Yet though it has all the witty banter and innuendo that's expected, too many storylines, too much repetition, and too little Mae overshadow its charms.

      "Around the World in 80 Days":

      [ BS ]  Around the World in 80 Days - Reviewed by GWEN OREL

      "Around the World in 80 Days" matches form and content brilliantly as five actors playing 39 roles perform Mark Brown's adaptation of Jules Verne's adventure story of a race against time around the globe. The show lifts off - taking the audience with it.

      [ CU ]  Around the World in 80 Days

      Director Michael Evan Haney has five capable actors playing more than thirty roles in the globe-trotting yarn, as compactly adapted by Mark Brown at the Irish Rep.

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Irish Rep Goes Around the World in 80 Days

      Other Reviews:

      [ BS ]  Gate/Beckett: I'll Go On - Reviewed by ADAM R. PERLMAN

      Barry McGovern is a masterful Beckett interpreter whose one-man show "I'll Go On" blends Beckett's words with George Carlin's comic timing. The laugh-till-you-hurt/hurt-till-you-laugh result is something either man would have been proud of.

      [ V ]  I'll Go On
      Review By SAM THIELMAN

      "I'll Go On" is about as good as it gets, with McGovern wringing laughs from some of Samuel Beckett's bleakest passages.

      [ NYP ]  GO ON AND SEE BECKETT By FRANK SCHECK (*** 1/2)

      [ TM ]  Eh Joe / I'll Go On
      Reviewed by: David Finkle

      Liam Neeson and Barry McGovern give indelible portraits in Lincoln Center Festival's productions of these Samuel Beckett works.

      [ BS ]  The Time of Mendel's Trouble - Reviewed by ANDY PROPST

      Anything would be better than this amateurish mess of paranoid political satire, which is the theatrical equivalent of a punishment from God.

      [ BS ]  Dog Day Afternoon - Reviewed by HARRY FORBES

      One can't help but admire how resourcefully this 16-person ensemble dramatizes the events - character-heavy and action-packed as they are - of the famous 1975 film, even as it inevitably falls short of its classic forerunner.

      [ BS ]  Ain't Misbehavin' - Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY

      Harlem Rep makes clear its association with the City College of New York's Department of Theatre and Speech but still purports to be a professional theatre. On the basis of this production, despite flashes of potential, it must be said the quality remains strictly amateur.

      [ V ]  Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh
      Review By SAM THIELMAN

      "Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh" returns to the Gotham stage after a well-reviewed first run last year, but it still needs the help of a dramaturg who's not afraid to employ the guillotine.

      [ V ]  East 14th: True Tales of a Reluctant Player
      Review By MARK BLANKENSHIP

      Plays don't work like TV shows or standup routines, so why didn't Don Reed get some help?

      [ V ]  The Female of the Species
      Review By DAVID BENEDICT

      Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy ingredients are certainly bold, but the satirical farce meal she serves up is less than satisfying.

      [ CU ]  Zorro the Musical

      What this musical has first and foremost, is action: magical disappearances and witty exchanges.

      [ NJ ]  Shadow Lawn Stage offers a neatly acted 'Odd Couple' by Peter Filichia

      [ CU ]  The Violet Hour

      This literate, funny yet poignant play has enough going for it even without the surprise element.

      [ AMNY ]  Review: Kicking a Dead Horse By Matt Windman (**)

      [ BS ]  Cheryl B. Engelhardt - Reviewed by DAVID FINKLE

      When a tunesmith has a highly personal style, the potential exists for the songs to begin to sound alike after the fifth or sixth or even the third or fourth ones.

      News:

      [ P ]  Mint's New Season to Include Glass Cage and Mrs. Holroyd

      [ TM ]  Bamman, Serralles, Toibin, Wetherall, et al. to Be Part of Mint's 2008-2009 Season

      [ TM ]  Alan Cox to Join Stacy Keach in National Tour of Frost/Nixon

      [ V ]  Carradine seeking SAG board spot

      Actor part of Membership First majority

      [ NYT ]  Corrections

      [ P ]  Goodspeed Musicals Will Present Premiere of Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas

      [ P ]  Blue Man Group to Open 2008 IT Awards; Nominations Announced

      [ TM ]  Mac, Paley, Nguyen, Steggert, et al. Receive IT Awards Nominations

      [ TM ]  Ortega, Ramirez, Reyes, Velez, et al. Recieve ALMA Nominations

      [ P ]  Oscar Nominee Blethyn to Take Manchester Menagerie on U.K. Tour

      [ P ]  Xanadu's Testa Will Present Her Sleepless Variations at the Barrington

      [ P ]  White, Brier, Rudetsky, Ralston and More Will Be Part of Obama Fundraiser, Spare Some Change

      [ P ]  Florence and Nostrand Join Cast of Off-Broadway's Fantasticks

      [ P ]  Jenkins and Stanton's Stage Comedy, Love Child, Added to Primary Stages Season

      [ TM ]  Jenkins and Stanton's Love Child Added to Primary Stages Season

      [ B ]  Jenkins & Stanton's Love Child Joins Primary Stages Season

      [ P ]  Carroll, Ryan, Silvers and More Will Join Feldshuh in Irena's Vow

      [ TM ]  Full Cast Announced for Irena's Vow

      [ P ]  Cason, Clark, Ledisi, Nager, Roberts and More to Star in Reprise's Once on This Island

      [ TM ]  Principal Cast Announced for Reprise's Once on This Island

      [ P ]  Barrington's Spelling Bee, with Baysic, Mastro and Wilfert, Will Play North Shore in August

      [ TM ]  Full Cast, Creative Team for NSMT's Spelling Bee

      [ P ]  O'Hara, Cavanaugh, Benanti, Huffman, Rubin-Vega and Young Will Perform at Ross School Benefit

      [ TM ]  Benanti, Cavanaugh, Huffman, O'Hara, Rubin-Vega, Young to Appear at Ross School

      [ TM ]  Marguerite Cast Recording to Get July 28 Release

      [ P ]  New Musical Marguerite to Play Tokyo in 2009

      [ TM ]  Brunstetter, Callaghan, et al. Win Samuel French Short Play Festival

      [ TM ]  Jacoby, Murray, von Essen, et al. Set for Sacramento Music Circus' Sweeney Todd

      [ P ]  Do Not Disturb One-Acts to Play 59E59 Theaters

      [ P ]  Greeley, McCarthy, Walker, Butler and More Will Join McKechnie in Reagle's Nanette

      [ P ]  Hairspray's Angel, Godspell's Creel and More to Sing at "Broadway in Bryant Park"

      [ P ]  Jarrow Workshops Big Money at Williamstown July 21

      [ P ]  Bean and Damiano Will Join Zarley for "Here I Am" Celebration

      [ P ]  "Happy Days" Star Winkler Will Be Captain Hook for U.K. Peter Pan

      [ P ]  Molloy, Arrow, Watson, Foster and More to Star in Cape Rep's Ragtime

      [ P ]  Porter, Pettiford, Simpson and Mae Set for Escape to Catalina Island Revue

      [ P ]  Kind Replaces Phillips in Casa Mañana's Damn Yankees

      [ P ]  Friedman's "Musical" Will Be Screened Outdoors July 22

      [ P ]  Happy Hour: Plays About Drinking Plays West Side Dance Project Through Aug. 11

      [ P ]  Duerr to Star in Punishing Blow, Penned by "Ethicist" Writer Cohen

      [ P ]  Plimpton, de Haas, Foa, Gemignani and Long Join Line-Up for Variations on Shakespeare Concert

      [ P ]  Higgins and Russell Beale Have A Slight Ache Beginning July 21 in London

      [ P ]  Gate Theatre's New Season Will Include Adaptations of Ibsen and Schnitzler

      [ P ]  Russell Beale Will Narrate Oedipus Rex in Philharmonia Orchestra Opening Concert

      [ P ]  Talk Show Watch: Nathan Lane on "Letterman," Jennifer Hudson on "Regis"

      [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: JULY 22

      [ P ]  Primary Stages Brings Buffalo Gal to Off-Broadway's 59E59 Theaters Beginning July 22

      [ P ]  Drama Desk Winners Receive Trophies July 22

      [ P ]  Keeling and Spencer Are Danny and Sandy in Broadway's Grease Beginning July 22

      [ P ]  "Let the Sunshine In": Hair Begins Central Park Run July 22

      [ P ]  Annie Get Your Gun, with Colella and Ashford, Begins Pittsburgh CLO Run July 22

      [ B ]  Pop Star Fergie In Talks to Join Cast of Nine Feature Film

    • Posted by Tim Dunleavy at 9:52 AM | Item Link


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