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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

    This morning's Michael Portantiere:

    [ STARS ]  Sleeping Around With Sondra Lee

    In her recently published memoir, the woman aka. Tiger Lily in Peter Pan writes about her personal and professional relationships with everyone from Marlon Brando to Jerome Robbins to Federico Fellini.

    This morning's Peter Filichia:

    [ TM ]  The Flurry with the Fringe

    The good, the bad, and the bizarre at the just-completed New York International Fringe Festival.

    This morning's Michael Riedel:

    [ NYP ]  Bono a Spider-Man Superhero

    When last we checked in on David Garfinkle, the hapless producer of Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, currently shaping up to be the most expensive train wreck in Broadway history, he was looking very much like David Hedison in The Fly. "Help me! Help me!" he squeaked as he struggled to break free of my web—and get his $45 million musical back on track. The help—or, more accurately, the cash—is said to be coming by way of Bono, who, with The Edge, has written the show's score.

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      • Jeremy Piven discusses his exit from Speed-the-Plow on last night's Late Show with David Letterman.

      [ NYT ]  ArtsBeat
      Work to Resume on 'Spider-Man' Musical By Patrick Healy

      [ P ]  Work Expected to Resume on Spider-Man Sept. 2

      [ P ]  Midtown International Theatre Festival Awards Winners Announced

      [ V ]  Tuneup for 'Hard' documentary

      La Jolla steers 'Body' to stage tuner

      [ V ]  'Talent Live' gambles on Springer

      Vegas stage show to run 10 weeks with host

      [ TM ]  Michael Learned to Join Cathy Rigby in La Mirada Theatre's Steel Magnolias

      [ P ]  Rigby, Learned Are Among Steel Magnolias at La Mirada This Fall

      [ P ]  Dreamgirls Tour to Feature Duet Version of "Listen" and New Act II Opener

      [ CT ]  'Million Dollar Quartet' is New York-bound; Pritzker to make her Broadway debut by Chris Jones

      [ WP ]  'Quartet' Bound for Broadway By Jacqueline Trescott

      Schaeffer Musical Plays Off Rock Legends' Session

      [ NYT ]  'Angels in America' to Land Off Broadway Next Year By PATRICK HEALY

      [ P ]  Angels in America Will Swoop Back to New York City in 2010-11

      [ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
      BOND ON B'WAY: PROTECT ME!

      Features:

      [ NYT ]  Advertising
      A Long Wait Stirs Enthusiasm for Fox Show 'Glee' By BRIAN STELTER

      [ HC ]  Who Is That Little "Orphan" Boy? By Frank Rizzo

      [ TM ]  Matthew Modine Goes for the Save! By: Brian Scott Lipton

      The film and stage star discusses starring in the new satiric comedy Matthew Modine Saves the Alpacas and returning to Brodaway in To Kill a Mockingbird.

      [ ND ]  Live from Patchogue, it's Joe Piscopo in 'Scoundrels' By STEVE PARKS

      [ NY ]  Wallace Shawn on Essays, Being Funny, and What He'd Say to Obama

      [ CFR ]  Bye Bye Birdie Mystery: The Case of the Fez Fizzle

      If Angela Lansbury, at 83, can do a dance in the middle of Blithe Spirit, what's so hard for Gina Gershon to do?

      [ VV ]  The Critic Gets a Callback By Michael Feingold

      What readers need from reviewers-if there are any readers left

      [ TONY ]  Give 'em the business: A slew of commentary on making art pay by Helen Shaw

      [ CFR ]  The Lesson(s) of the Great Doric Wilson

      Had he not been forcibly removed from academia, playwright Doric Wilson might never have met Joe Cino.

      [ CFR ]  NEA Hijacked for Political Expedience? No! Yes? Yes! No? Er...Maybe?

      [ CFR ]  ITBA to Give Fringe Awards -- Email a Title, Win Awards!

      Is transparency of interest to theater bloggers?

      [ CFR ]  London Theater Critics: "I'm Mad as Hell and I'm Not Going to Take It Anymore"

      Can anyone imagine one of the theater critics organizations in New York actually doing something on behalf of critics?

      [ CFR ]  Arts Advocacy Update XCIX: Fire, Fired Up and Fired Down

      A distillation of the Aug. 26 Arts Watch, the weekly electronic communique from Americans for the Arts. A fixture of The Clyde Fitch Report.

      [ VV ]  Foundry Theatre's Provenance of Beauty Puts on Some Wheels By Alexis Soloski

      [ NYT ]  In Transit Blog
      Travel Deals: Broadway Tickets for Less By ALLISON BUSACCA

      Travelzoo.com has the scoop on cheap seats this fall - without having to wait in line.

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Daly, Hadary and 1989 Company Enjoy Gypsy Reunion

      [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: August: Osage County, with Estelle Parsons, Tours U.S.

      Reviews:

      [ TB ]  Genesius
      Review by Matthew Murray

      Hagiography doesn't come much hokier than Genesius, the well-intentioned but out-of-its-depth musical biography of Jane Simmon Miller at the TADA! Theater. What, you've never heard of her?

      [ NYP ]  'FAME' WANNABE DOESN'T STRIKE THE RIGHT NOTE By FRANK SCHECK (**)

      THERE'S no denying that the new musical "Genesius" is a labor of love.

      [ BG ]  Gloucester Stage presents 'Sins of the Mother' By Don Aucoin

      The past is always present in Israel Horovitz's engrossing drama.

      [ DNT ]  'Sick,' dark comedy could use a doctor By Chesley Plemmons

      News:

      [ TM ]  Kate Baldwin, Jenn Colella, Kerry O'Malley, Steve Rosen, Wesley Taylor, et al. Set for NAMT Concert at Birdland

      [ TM ]  Alan Cumming: I Bought A Blue Car Today to Play London, Costa Mesa, and NYC

      [ HC ]  Anne Frank In Theatrical Air in Connecticut By Frank Rizzo

      [ HC ]  Hartford's "Orphans'" Moves to Get Out of Rudy Giuliani's Way By Frank Rizzo

      [ CFR ]  Alliance for the Arts to Fete Founder, Foundation and Friend, Mon., Sept. 14

      The late Gerald Schoenfeld, the Jerome Robbins Foundation and Theatre Row founder Fred Papert to be honored.

      [ NYT ]  Arts, Briefly: Last-Minute Tickets By ERIK PIEPENBURG; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

      [ TM ]  Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Michael Shannon, et al. Set for HBO's Boardwalk Empire

      [ P ]  Dildine Is Executive Director of Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis

      [ P ]  Long Island Rent Has Its Cast of Bohemians

      [ P ]  Hello, Dolly!, with LaVon Fisher-Wilson, Begins Sept. 2 in Lancaster, PA

      [ P ]  33 Variations Makes Regional Debut in Cincinnati Sept. 2

      [ P ]  Chicago Run of The Color Purple, with "Idol" Winner Fantasia, Begins Sept. 2

      [ P ]  Smith, Gray, McKnight and Herbert Join Pitre for Canadian Toxic Avenger

      [ NYT ]  Erich Kunzel, Maestro With an Irreverent Baton, Dies at 74 By BRUCE WEBER

      The conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra for more than three decades, Mr. Kunzel was known for undermining the pretensions of symphonic music.

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