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Monday, August 4, 2008

    Features:

    [ P ]  ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: Laura, Peter and Turkey Sheds by Seth Rudetsky

    [ P ]  THE LEADING MEN: Keeling, Bell and Parlato

    This month we chat with Derek Keeling, who is making his Broadway debut as Danny in Grease; [title of show]'s Hunter Bell, who is amusing to no end; and Dennis Parlato, who has returned to a role he last inhabited 23 years ago.

    [ B ]  Q&A: Buffalo Gal Star Susan Sullivan's TV & Theater Balancing Act

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Buffalo Gal Makes NY Debut Off-Broadway

    [ B ]  PHOTO OP: Rosie O'Donnell's Magic Visit to See Whoopi Goldberg in Xanadu

    News:

    [ TM ]  Morgan Freeman Hospitalized After Car Accident

    [ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Whoopi Sparks Xanadu; Summer Numbers Steady

    [ P ]  Broadway Grosses: July 28 - Aug. 3

    [ TM ]  Broadway Masterworks to Release Herman, Sondheim Collections and Podcasts

    [ P ]  Lane, Neuwirth, Chamberlin, McCarthy and Arden Featured in Addams Family Reading

    [ B ]  Christopher J. Hanke to Replace Jonathan Groff During Hair Extension

    [ P ]  Hanke to Succeed Groff in Central Park Hair

    [ TM ]  Christopher J. Hanke to Join Public's Hair on August 17

    [ B ]  Original Cast Member Gerard Canonico Is Spring Awakening's New Moritz

    [ P ]  Canonico Is Spring Awakening's New Moritz Beginning Aug. 4

    [ P ]  Desai, Kenzler, Sands, Waterston Will Join Patinkin in CSC Tempest

    [ B ]  Stark Sands, Angel Desai & More Set for The Tempest, with Mandy Patinkin

    [ TM ]  Desai, Potts, Sands, Waterston, et al. to Join Patinkin in CSC's The Tempest

    [ P ]  Goold's Six Characters to Transfer to West End's Gielgud Theatre

    [ TM ]  Rupert Goold's Six Characters to Begin West End Run in September

    [ P ]  Michael Shannon to Star in Rattlestick's Lady

    [ TM ]  Barnes, Shannon, Sparks to Star in Wright's Lady at Rattlestick

    [ TM ]  Mamma Mia! CD Tops Billboard Soundtrack Chart

    [ P ]  "Mamma Mia!" Is Fourth Highest-Grossing Film of Weekend

    [ P ]  Gypsy's Benanti, Wicked's Ellis and More Set for Aug. 7 "Broadway in Bryant Park"

    [ P ]  Caird's Revised Version of Bernstein's Candide Will Make U.S. Regional Premiere in Philly

    [ TM ]  Full Cast, Creative Team Set for Arden Theatre Candide

    [ TM ]  Cirque Dreams: Jungle Fantasy to Resume U.S. Tour Following Broadway Engagement

    [ B ]  Naked Angels to Present Geoffrey Nauffts' The Gospel According to Adam

    [ TM ]  Coleman, Leon, Mitchell, Shay, et al. to Open Atlanta's Alliance Theatre Season

    [ TM ]  Davis, Kremer, Kuhn, Wittrock, et al. Set for STC's Romeo & Juliet

    [ TM ]  Full Cast Set for Poetic License at New Jersey Repertory

    [ TM ]  Buckley, Ebersole, Gemignani, Lee, Pizzarelli, et al. to Appear at Birdland

    [ P ]  Cooper, Belcon and Halpin to Star in NYMF's Twilight in Manchego

    [ P ]  Over the River and Through the Woods Up Next at Engeman

    [ P ]  They're Playing Our Song, with Sound of Music's Fisher, Opens in London Aug. 4

    [ P ]  Broadway Kids Will Hold Bake Sale Aug. 6

    [ P ]  Joe's Garage, Based on Zappa Album, to Make World Premiere in September

    [ P ]  Larsen, Miller, DeWitt, Zagnit and More to Star in NYMF's Jerusalem Syndrome

    [ P ]  Bernhard Will Launch 20th Anniversary Without You I'm Nothing Tour in September

    [ P ]  Blonde's Johnson to Make a Splash Aug. 18

    [ P ]  Sill and Busch Will Be Meredith Willson in Sondheim Center's Banjo Boy

    [ P ]  Paige, Menzel, Barrowman and More to Be Part of Lloyd Webber's Birthday in the Park

    [ P ]  Composer Files Lawsuit Over Jersey Boys Royalties

    [ P ]  59E59 Theaters to Present Irish and Polish Theatre Festivals

    [ TM ]  Booth, Holland, Graham, Jones, Oliver, Williams Set for Vineyard's Wig Out!

    [ B ]  Michael Kenneth Williams of The Wire to Star in Vineyard's Wig Out!

    Reviews:

    [ TM ]  Summer Shorts 2: Series A
    Reviewed by: Dan Bacalzo

    Following a disappointing performance by Amy Irving, this collection of one-acts grows progressively better.

    [ TM ]  Of Thee I Sing
    Hudson Valley Review by: Brian Scott Lipton

    Will Pomerantz's enjoyable production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical satire emphasizes the script's comedy.

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      • [ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH

      THE FAMED Rodgers & Hammerstein Music Publishing business, run by Ted Chapin, has put itself on the market for a mere $250 million.

      [ AP ]  Reports: Christina Applegate has breast cancer

      This Morning's Peter Filichia:

      [ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: Can You Say Marinka?

      [ NJ ]  Nostalgia reigns at Count Basie Theatre

      Features:

      [ USA ]  Whoopi is happy to be back on Broadway in 'Xanadu' By Elysa Gardner

      "To me, Broadway is where all the magic really happens," says Goldberg, 52. "I think there's nothing better than sweaty actors on a stage."

      [ NYer ]  The Talk of the Town: The Boards
      Hippie Rock by Michael Schulman

      A walk in the park with the creator of "Hair."

      [ BR ]  "Hair" to be presented in Central Park By ROBERT FELDBERG

      There are great musicals, and there are musicals that have a great impact.

      [ DN ]  Fringe Festival gives you 202 reasons to go to the theater by Joe Dziemianowicz

      [ DN ]  Burlesque is busting out all over By HOWARD KISSEL

      [ NY ]  Stark Sands on Fratty Behavior on the 'Generation Kill' Set

      Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

      [ StL ]  Musicals say the darnedest things By Judith Newmark

      Bad lyrics - lyrics that make no sense, that make you wince with their sheer awfulness, that make you wonder how the singer can possibly get through them - are hardly lacking. And they don't come only from hacks. Even the greatest lyricists have howlers to their credit.

      [ StL ]  Veteran Muny actor Adler was 'a joy to watch' By Judith Newmark

      [ MST ]  Hold the corn By ROHAN PRESTON

      George M. Cohan, too easily dismissed as a cornball composer, was in fact an Irish-American rebel who reimagined what musicals in America could be.

      Reviews:

      [ TM ]  Art Attack By: Zachary Stewart

      Attack of the Theater People and Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times are among this summer's must-read books.

      [ TB ]  Love, Incorporated
      Review by Matthew Murray

      [ CST ]  Garage bands 3 together BY HEDY WEISS

      New Steppenwolf plays cover array of subject matter

      [ CT ]  'Dangerous Beauty' at Northwestern: prostitution as a musical career choice by Chris Jones

      [ LAT ]  Pythons' Brian has lots of life left in him By Mark Swed

      Eric Idle performs at the Hollywood Bowl in an oratorio descended from Monty Python's 'The Life of Brian.'

      [ V ]  Not the Messiah With Eric Idle
      Review By RICHARD S. GINELL

      The main point here is a satire on oratorio form - in particular, the perennial pleasures of Handel's "Messiah." In doing so, Idle and Du Prez are continuing a fine old British tradition of classical send-ups dating back to Gilbert and Sullivan and, even more pertinently, the uproarious Hoffnung Festivals of the 1950s.

      [ CU ]  A Flea In Her Ear

      David Ives new take on Feydeau's classic farce at Williamstown.

      [ CU ]  Under the Blue Sky

      With Rufus Norris directing, the piece had a good reception at the Royal Court in 2000. Those reviews are probably the main reason for this revival at the Duke of York's, but producers would also have been looking at a vehicle for Catherine Tate.

      [ CU ]  Flamingo Court

      If old is in, so is this triptych at New World Stages.

      [ SUN ]  The Golden Oldies By JOY GOODWIN

      Alas, "Flamingo Court," now at New World Stages, fails to lift the beleaguered genre above the level of the middling sitcom.

      [ WE ]  'Les Miserables' a stirring finale to MTW's season BY BOB CURTRIGHT

      Performers, orchestra contribute to making this musical one of Music Theatre's finest.

      [ RFT ]  Dancing Without the Stars: My One and Only, this week's Muny offering, rises or falls on the strength of its male lead By Dennis Brown

      [ StL ]  Review: My One and Only By Judith Newmark

      [ P ]  ON THE RECORD: Lincoln Center Theater's South Pacific

      This week's column discusses cast albums of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific, present and past.

      [ NYT ]  Can You Ever Forgive Me?' By LEE ISRAEL
      Reviewed by THOMAS MALLON

      A New York writer recalls how she created and sold hundreds of fake letters "by" celebrities such as Noël Coward and the silent-film star Louise Brooks.

      News:

      [ NYT ]  Theater Notes for the New Season
      Compiled by STEVEN McELROY

      News about the new season at the Vineyard Theater and two festivals at 59E59 Theaters.

      [ P ]  Williams, Jones and Boothe to Star in Vineyard's Wig Out!

      [ NYT ]  Weddings & Celebrations: Katharine Powell and Benjamin Roman

      [ CT ]  Obituary: Blake Anderson 1946 ~ 2008, Costume maker and performer By Gerry Smith

      Longtime actor parlayed his creative nature into a behind-the-scenes business

      [ CT ]  House Theatre to stage new musical in collaboration with Northwestern University by Chris Jones

      [ TM ]  Reese, Takei, et al. to Appear at L.A. Gay Men's Chorus Gala

      [ TM ]  Harris, Radcliffe, et al. to Participate in "TimesTalks" Series

      [ P ]  Pulpy Boy in the Basement Emerges in FringeNYC Aug. 9

      [ P ]  Cast Recording for New Musical Oh My Godmother! Now Available

      [ P ]  Today in Theatre History: AUGUST 4

      [ P ]  Fiddler, with Stadlen, Denniston, Manning and Sapp, Begins Muny Run Aug. 4

      [ P ]  Hairspray's Mason Celebrates New CD at Birdland Aug. 4

      [ P ]  Arden, Barbour, Hoff, O'Hare, Plimpton, Rapp and Ripley SingVariations on Shakespeare Aug. 4

      [ P ]  Luther Davis, Tony-Winning Bookwriter, Dies at 91

      [ TM ]  Tony Award Winner Luther Davis Dies at 91

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