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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

    [ NYT ]  ArtsBeat
    Kelsey Grammer Is in Talks for 'La Cage aux Folles' By PATRICK HEALY

    [ NYP ]  Gilded 'Cage' for TV 'Crane' by Michael Riedel

    Broadway comeback for Kelsey Grammer

    [ NYT ]  ArtsBeat
    New 'Spider-Man' Producer Reaches Out By PATRICK HEALY

    [ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: Fela! Warnings

    [ DI ]  Playhouse appears safe - for now By: FREDA R. SAVANA

    Ralph Miller is deep in debt, a victim, he says, of the ravaged economy.

    Thanks to dadadadada on All That Chat for the link.

    [ BG ]  At North Shore, the show may go on By Geoff Edgers

    [ VV ]  With Ellen Stewart Ailing, What's La MaMa's Future? By Alexis Soloski

    [ P ]  Finian's Rainbow Will Get a Cast Album; February Release Planned

    [ P ]  Irish Rep's Hit Emperor Jones Gets Commercial Run at Soho Playhouse, Dec. 15-Jan. 31

    [ TM ]  The Emperor Jones, Starring John Douglas Thompson, To Transfer to Soho Playhouse December 15

    [ TM ]  Mandy Patinkin Set for Classic Stage Company's Much Ado About Nothing

    [ P ]  Patinkin Is Benedick in CSC Open Rehearsal Series Monday Night Much Ado

    [ TM ]  Antoinette LaVecchia's How To Be a Good Italian Daughter To Close December 13

    [ BBC ]  Dame Julie Andrews to make UK stage return

    Thanks to young-walsingham on All That Chat for the link.

    [ TM ]  Donny Osmond and Kym Johnson Win ABC's Dancing With the Stars

    [ WFP ]  Backstage power player 'irreplaceable' By: Kevin Prokosh

    WINNIPEG'S theatre and music communities are reeling from the news that Sam Lutfiyya died yesterday afternoon of rectal cancer.

    Thanks to David for the link.

    [ IBDB ]  Sam Lutfiyya's Broadway Credits

    [ P ]  Max Eisen, Longtime Theatrical Press Agent, Dies at 90

    [ IBDB ]  Max Eisen's Broadway Credits

    [ TB ]  The Light in the Piazza and Oliver!
    Philadelphia Reviews by Tim Dunleavy

    Features:

    [ P ]  I Found My Art in San Francisco

    Theatrical tremors from the Bay Area of California send shock waves to New York City. What makes the region so special?

    [ JSTGY ]  Quick Q&A: "Love Child"

    "Love Child" is a labor of love for writer-performers Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton

    [ B ]  What's Up, Shoshana Bean? The Wicked Diva Salutes Streisand

    [ B ]  Videos: Oleanna's Bill Pullman Answers Your Questions About Independence Day, The Goat and More

    [ DCTS ]  Jim Brochu - the stories continue

    Jim Brochu who's starring in Zero Hour Off-Broadway, and director Piper Laurie tell stories about Barbra, Lucy, and Carrie, and end with their worst moments on stage. Hilarious podcast by Joel Markowitz

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Zero Hour Celebrates Opening Night

    [ B ]  Videos: Broadway's Glory Days Lives on With Original Cast Recording

    [ TM ]  Oh, Welles By: Leslie (Hoban) Blake

    Christian McKay and Richard Linklater discuss the new film Me and Orson Welles.

    [ TONY ]  TONY's first look at Mamet's Race by David Cote

    [ B ]  Photo Op: Former Governor Mario Cuomo Races to See Mamet's Newest Work

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Chenoweth Celebrates "Christmas"

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: 2009 NYMF Awards Gala

    [ B ]  Photo Op: Stage Stars Shine at Benefit for Rosie's Broadway Kids

    "White Christmas":

    [ B ]  Photo Op: Broadway Gets a Holiday Treat: The Return of White Christmas

    [ TB ]  Irving Berlin's White Christmas
    Review by Matthew Murray

    With hardly a change in material or creative team and a complete change in cast, this year's version - like last year's, at the Marquis - is an elegant and quietly moving holiday confection.

    [ TM ]  Irving Berlin's White Christmas
    Reviewed by: David Finkle

    The great songs still shine, but this year's Broadway cast fails to sparkle.

    [ BS ]  Irving Berlin's White Christmas - Reviewed by DAVID SHEWARD

    Evergreen Berlin tunes and reliable Randy Skinner choreography are the brightest ornaments, but not everything on this holiday tree is worth celebrating.

    "Fela!":

    [ MTV ]  Jay-Z Becomes A Broadway Producer For 'Fela!' By Steven Roberts

    The rapper found the musical about the Nigerian Afrobeat legend 'fascinating.'

    [ P ]  PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Fela! - Not Your Most Happy Fela

    [ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Fela! Opening Night

    [ NYO ]  A Night at the Shrine of Fela By Jesse Oxfeld

    Plus "In the Next Room."

    [ NY ]  Dancing With the Stars By Dan Kois & Scott Brown

    Fela! can get even a Broadway audience shaking its hips. Plus: Kenneth Lonergan's midlife crisis.

    Other Reviews:

    [ DCTS ]  As You Like It
    Review by Tim Treanor

    The problem has been that Bill Shakespeare was never able to find the right composer to set his terrific lyrics to music. But now, four hundred years after the fact, one has shown up: Michael John LaChiusa, who treated us to Giant and See What I Wanna See at Signature last season.

    [ TM ]  As You Like It
    Reviewed by: Michael Toscano

    Maria Aitken's innovative if undisciplined version of Shakespeare's classic comedy makes all the world a film set.

    [ V ]  A Moon to Dance By
    Review By ROBERT L. DANIELS

    A trio of finely tuned actors make "A Moon to Dance By" a compelling theatrical experience.

    [ TM ]  A Moon to Dance By
    Reviewed by: Gwen Orel

    Jane Alexander gives a glorious performance as Freida Lawrence in this repetitive biodrama.

    [ BS ]  Biography - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

    S.N. Behrman's play was called "adult," "mature," "provocative," "intelligent," and "sinewy" by the New York critics at its premiere, and it's still all of that more than 75 years later.

    [ NYT ]  A Story So Complicated It Needs Two Playwrights By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

    The Trojan War essentially boils down to a lot of smack talked in a sandbox in "The Age of Iron," a labored epic adapted and directed by Brian Kulick.

    [ TE ]  Manson: the musical - Review by OSCAR E. MOORE

    It is sometimes very funny with its mocking manner, sometimes uncomfortable and always sexual.

    [ ND ]  Kenneth Lonergan returns with 'The Starry Messenger' By LINDA WINER

    "The Starry Messenger" is a quietly marvelous play - rambling, perhaps, but engrossing, thoughtful and richly believable.

    [ NYO ]  Broderick, Boringly By Jesse Oxfeld

    Plus "Girl Crazy," "Dreamgirls," and "The Orphans' Home Cycle."

    [ VV ]  Foote's Orphans; Ruhl's Vibrator Play; Lonergan's Starry Messenger By Michael Feingold

    [ PRESS ]  Batteries Not Included By Mark Peikert

    Sarah Ruhl's new play (the vibrator one) lacks juice

    [ NYP ]  "Dreamgirls" will make you feel all right By ELISABETH VINCENTELLI

    The Parabasis blog has a very interesting discussion about the critical reception of the "Dreamgirls" revival.

    [ TNO ]  THEY'RE WRITING SONGS OF.... by ROBERT L. DANIELS

    Eight decades later, the music and lyrics of the Brothers Gershwin still define what a Broadway musical is all about.

    [ CST ]  'Don't Give Up' stuck in the middle BY HEDY WEISS

    Needs work. That's the verdict on actor Peter Gallagher's one-man show, "Don't Give Up On Me," which mixes affectionate show biz anecdotes with songs, and is running Sunday and Monday nights at the Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place through Dec. 14.

    News:

    [ TM ]  Band Geeks! To Get Staging At Goodspeed Musicals

    [ P ]  In the Age of "Glee," Goodspeed Will March Out Band Geeks! in 2010

    [ CST ]  Musical 'Celia' to make Midwest debut

    [ CT ]  Celia Cruz show coming to Chicago by Chris Jones

    [ WP ]  BACKSTAGE: Studio Theatre takes 'Cadillac' for a spin By Jane Horwitz

    [ TM ]  Stephen Dillane to Discuss Samuel Beckett at 92nd Street Y

    [ P ]  Dillane to Read and Discuss Beckett at 92nd Street Y

    [ P ]  Playblog: "Glee" Fall Finale Is Dec. 9; Returns April 13

    [ P ]  Groovaloo, a Fusion of Dance, Poetry and Theatre, to Begin Dec. 1 Off-Broadway

    [ P ]  Reichard's Gettin' on the Good List to Play Midtown

    [ TM ]  Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch to Bring A Town and Country Christmas to Birdland

    [ TM ]  Paley Center to Host Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol Screening and Panel Discussion

    [ TM ]  Kathleen Chalfant to Read from The Talented Mrs. Highsmith on December 9

    [ TM ]  F. Murray Abraham, Sterling K. Brown, Elizabeth Waterson, et al. Set for Reading of Henrik Ibsen's The Pretenders

    [ TM ]  Nilaja Sun To Offer Benefit Performance of No Child... at the La Jolla Playhouse

    [ P ]  New York Stage and Film to Honor Margulies and Platt at 25th Anniversary Gala

    [ P ]  Lansbury Named Honorary Chairwoman for Non-Profit Career Transition for Dancers

    [ P ]  Vogel to Discuss A Civil War Christmas at Huntingon Dec. 6

    [ P ]  Today In Theatre History: NOVEMBER 25

    [ P ]  Disney's "Princess and the Frog," with Rose, Goodman and Winfrey, Premieres Nov. 25

    [ B ]  Adam James Completes the Cast of MCC's Upcoming The Pride, Starring Hugh Dancy

    [ TM ]  Liz Callaway to Play NYC's Metropolitan Room on December 31

    [ P ]  Casting Announced for Soho Rep Premiere of Lear

    [ TM ]  Chicago A Chrismas Carol Is Canceled

    [ TM ]  Hugh Jackman to Star in Real Steel Movie

    [ P ]  Talk Show Watch: Carrie Fisher on "Letterman," Mary Poppins on "Conan"

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