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Saturday, May 11, 2002

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'VIENNA: LUSTHAUS (REVISITED)'
Doom Chases Lust, but With Loveliness by BRUCE WEBER
The titillating eerieness of impending doom is exploited so gorgeously in Martha Clarke's theater piece that you can understand how civilizations become complicit in their own demise.

[ NYP ]  WORST MOM BEST MOM by DAVID K. LI
Interview with Kelly Bishop.

[ WP ]   'Oklahoma!' to Visit Kennedy Center in '03 by Jacqueline Trescott

[ BG ]  Cherry's jubilee by Maureen Dezell
With a return to ART, Jones puts the topping on Broadway, Hollywood acclaim
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ TS ]  Merrily we roll along; warily they try again by Richard Ouzounian
Sondheim's fabled flop has been worked and reworked � Is it a hit yet?

[ TS ]  Mamma Mia! star gets nod from Tony by Richard Ouzounian
Canadian Louise Pitre is excited to be recognized
Thanks to Richard for the links!

[ BN ]  PYRAMID OF LOVE by MARY KUNZ
Disney's 'Aida,' coming to Shea's stage, recasts a classic story with the music of Elton John
Thanks to Janet for the link!

[ B ]  Photo Op: 68th Annual Drama League Luncheon - Photos by Bruce Glikas

[ B ]  Gunton & McKechnie Added to Follies at Reprise!

[ B ]  Douglas Sills Joins Night Music at Sondheim Fest

[ B ]  Halston Replaces Kurtz in Long Island Sound

[ B ]  2002 Drama League Awards Announced

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hairspray Makes Bell Bundy, Winokur Enemies

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Meehan, Wittman, Shaiman Create Hairspray

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Akers, Montivecchi Reunite on Nine Night

[ P ]  Emily Watson Heads Cast of Donmar Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night

[ P ]  Krieger and Birkenhead to Score TV "Sleeping Beauty" Musical

[ P ]  Bill Irwin Subs for Tom Wopat with Amy Irving May 31-June 7 in The Guys

[ P ]  Have Carpetbag, Will Travel: LCT Hit to Foote it Back to Hartford

[ P ]  Audra McDonald Performs Solo Concert at L.A. TheatreWorks June 30

[ P ]  Glover and Light Bring Fugard's Sorrows and Rejoicings to L.A. May 11-June 30

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 11

[ P ]  Urinetown, Crucible and Metamorphoses Win the Drama League Awards

[ P ]  McKechnie Is Carlotta in L.A.'s Finalized Follies Casting

[ P ]  "Weekend Today" Summer Series Features Lion King, Producers, Mamma Mia!, 42nd Street

[ P ]  Broadway's Coming Journey Will Not Be Goodman-Dennehy Staging

[ P ]  PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, May 4-10: Nom-inal Value

[ P ]  Swan Lake's Adam Cooper Stars in London On Your Toes

[ P ]  Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Launches 2002 Season

[ TM ]  Tunes and Tomes
On two new albums, Tom Waits walks the line between dark pop and theater.

[ TM ]  Follow Spot
Hope Clarke takes on The Odyssey in a semi-musical stage version by Derek Walcott.

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Friday, May 10, 2002

[ B ]  If I Were a Bell by Ken Mandelbaum

[ B ]  Second Stage Announces 2002-2003 Season

[ B ]  Smits, Meisle, Braff, Lloyd & Platt Join Twelfth Night

[ B ]  Ben Stiller Set for Glengarry Glen Ross Revival

[ P ]  Mamma Will Provide: May 12 Once On This Island Benefit is Hot Seller

[ P ]  ART's Lysistrata, With Cherry Jones, May 10-June 9

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Robbins, Sarandon Host the 2002 Lortel Awards

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Lifetime Off-B'way Achiever Albee and Goat's Ruehl Go Lortel

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Rogers Wins Lortel; Miner Gets Black Surge

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: New Guys Guy Wopat and Gal Irving At the Lortel Awards

[ P ]  Second Stage 2002-03 Offers New LaChiusa Musical, Regina Taylor and Craig Lucas

[ P ]  Tony Producer Elizabeth I. McCann Responds to Riedel's Rant

[ P ]  Sweeney Todd Kicks Off the Sondheim Celebration May 10

[ P ]  Producer McCann and Journalists Simonson and Sommers on May 10 "Theatre Talk"

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: The Tony Gals, McKechnie's 'Music' Plus News of LuPone, Mazzie & McDonald

[ P ]  Julie Andrews Interviewed on May 10 "48 Hours"

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
The Shuberts give Cadillac top billing at the Winter Garden, and Filichia ponders the implications.

[ TM ]  Cabaret Notes
The Siegels fall under the exotic spell of Ute Lemper at Joe's Pub and Keely Smith at Feinstein's at the Regency.

[ TM ]  The Real Thing
Boston Review by Suzanne Bixby

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[ NYT ]  ON STAGE AND OFF
Race Heats Up For Best Musical by JESSE MCKINLEY
Is it true? Could "Throughly Modern Millie" really be the favorite for best musical?

[ NYT ]  Howard Merrill, 85, Writer and Producer
Howard Merrill, a writer for radio and television who began his career as a child film actor and later produced a play on Broadway, died on April 20 at a hospital in Los Angeles, his family said.

[ NYP ]  LETTERS, WE GET LETTERS by MICHAEL RIEDEL
LAST week, I wrote what I thought was a fairly tough (some might say snide) column about how poor the theater season has been and how difficult it would be for the Tony Award nominators to come up with many shows that were really Tony-worthy.
The column prompted considerable grumbling in the theater industry, which of course was the intention.

[ NYP ]  IT'S SHOWTIME! by CHIP DEFFAA
A spirit of divine madness has taken over 42nd Street - technically, four theaters on the block, just east of Broadway.

[ NYP ]  THE STARR REPORT by MICHAEL STARR
Stars all over the Lot to support the arts

[ DN ]  Tales of the Dot-com Jungle by ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
Mike Daisey worked at Amazon.com for only a year and a half, but it was long enough to fuel "21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com," a raucous and consistently funny one-man show.

[ DN ]  Was This Trip Really Necessary? by ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
It took all of 10 years for Odysseus to make it home after the Trojan War. Derek Walcott's uneven adaptation of "The Odyssey" feels longer.

[ YN ]  NLRB Hears "Music," Makes Barry Fine Final
The National Labor Relations Board's general counsel has denied an appeal by actor Barry Williams, who sought to overturn Equity's disciplinary actions against him for starring in the non-Equity tour of "The Sound of Music."

[ P ]  Oscar Nominee Mary McDonnell Heads San Jose's 2003 Orpheus Descending

[ P ]  6th Annual L.A. Actors Fund Tony Party Honors Carol Channing June 2

[ P ]  Upcoming Disney Projects Include Wish, Mermaid, Tarzan, Pinocchio, Poppins

[ P ]  Egan, Graae Don High Button Shoes in L.A. Concerts May 24-June 2

[ P ]  Obies to Be Presented May 20; Parks, Franz, Wolfe Among Presenters

[ P ]  Houston's Alley Hosts Benefit for Censored TX Whorehouse June 10

[ P ]  James, Benanti, Pitre to Perform at Drama Desk Ceremony May 19; Tix on Sale

[ P ]  The Drama League Awards To Be Announced at May 10 Luncheon

[ P ]  TACT Premieres Coward's Long Island Sound With Jones May 10

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 10

[ P ]  Ben Stiller Joins Cast of Bway-Bound Glengarry

[ P ]  Play On! Smits, Lloyd, Braff, Platt, Meisle Added to Central Park Twelfth Night Cast

[ P ]  Verdant Syringa Tree Closes Off-Broadway June 2 Prior to Regional Sprouting

[ P ]  CT's Shubert Has Dame Edna, Some Like It Hot, and Allergist's Wife in 2002-03

[ B ]  Photo Op: HAIRSPRAY Rehearsal - Photos by Bruce Glikas

[ B ]  Photo Op: 17th Annual Lortel Awards - Photos by Bruce Glikas

[ B ]  Phantom Becomes Fourth Longest Running Show

[ B ]  Stagebill Media Launches New Site

[ B ]  21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com
Review by Ron Lasko

[ B ]  Vienna: Lusthaus (Revisited)
Review by Adam Feldman

[ TM ]  One From Column A... by Michael Portantiere
Too many Tony Awards? Why not combine shows? Enter our contest to win an invitation to TheaterMania's Tony Party.

[ TB ]  Blackbird
Review by Ann Miner

[ TB ]  E.S.T. MARATHON 2002, Series A
Review by Matthew Murray

[ NJ ]  Star-Ledger: Size doesn't matter to Cooper's 'Robeson' BY PETER FILICHIA
Chuck Cooper may not look the part, but that doesn't keep him from delivering a solid performance in "Paul Robeson," Phillip Hayes Dean's play at the Passage Theatre Company of Trenton.

[ NJ ]  Star-Ledger: Center Stage by Peter Filichia
Now in his 48th year: Hal Holbrook as "Mark Twain Tonight."

[ CST ]  Chicago Sun-Times: Taken for a ride
CURTAIN CALL BY MARY HOULIHAN
"Calamity Meat"--the title refers to an old Irish superstition against eating carrion--receives its world premiere in a production by Seanachai Theatre. It features Julia Neary, Brian Hamman, John Dunleavy, Matt Gibson, Laura Jones-Macknin and Don Bender; Scott Cummins directs.
Any play with an actor named Dunleavy is ok by me!

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Thursday, May 09, 2002

[ B ]  Def Poetry Jam Eyes Fall Broadway Bow

[ B ]  Funnyman Mario Cantone Readies Solo Show for B'way

[ B ]  CDs: Oh, Happy Day by Ken Mandelbaum

[ P ]  Audra McDonald to Sing at Joe's Pub Benefit, May 18

[ P ]  Chenoweth, Foster, Krakowski, Murphy and White Added to Funny Girl Benefit

[ P ]  Think of Them Fondly: Bway Phantom Hits Bway Milestone May 9

[ P ]  Into the Woods Releases Nonesuch CD in Late June

[ P ]  Broadway Will Sport a New 'Do With Hairspray

[ P ]  Royal Shakespeare Company To Carry On Noble's Policy

[ P ]  British Hit Singles Found On Three London Stages

[ P ]  Greenberg's Take Me Out Debuts at Donmar June 20; Mantello Directs

[ P ]  The Beauty of Billy Crudup's 'Elephant' Man
Actor Billy Crudup transforms his classic features to discover the soul and humanity at the heart of The Elephant Man in the revival of Bernard Pomerance's Tony-winning play at the Royale Theatre.

[ TM ]  Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited)
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ TM ]  Red Hot Mama
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ NYT ]  Buster Brown, Tap Master and Charmer, 88, Dies by JENNIFER DUNNING
Buster Brown, a teacher, a choreographer and one of the last veteran tap stars who danced with the Copasetics, died on May 7 in Manhattan.
On Broadway, he performed in the original casts of the musicals "Bubbling Brown Sugar" and "Black and Blue."

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[ P ]  Kander & Ebb's Curtains Gets NYC Reading With Naughton and Monk, May 9

[ P ]  David Letterman Spoofs Tony Nominations with Top 10 List

[ P ]  Christopher Fitzgerald Is Charley at Williamstown

[ P ]  Kline, Phillippe, Binoche and Martin Confirmed for Picasso Flick

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'HOLLYWOOD ARMS'
So Long, Folks. Glad We Had This Time Together, but Stardom Beckons. by BRUCE WEBER
Carol Burnett is entertainment royalty, and "Hollywood Arms," a play drawn from her 1986 autobiography, "One More Time," has the sheen of the official story.

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[ NYT ]  Florida Footsteps of a Harlem Great by STEPHEN KINZER
Zora Neale Hurston, known as the "queen of the Harlem Renaissance," is often associated with New York. New attention is now being focused on her roots in Florida.

[ DN ]  Pretty in Their Freudian Slips by ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
"Vienna: Lusthaus (revisited)" brought to mind an old, well-known illustration of Sigmund Freud.

[ ND ]  Newsday: Don't Cry Tony Tears for 'The Graduate' by Patrick Pacheco

[ ND ]  Newsday: Coward's Slice of Gatsby Life by Peter Goodman
World premiere, at last, of 'Long Island Sound'

[ ND ]  Newsday: Vienna's Haunting Imagery, Revisited by Linda Winer
Review of "Vienna: Lusthaus (Revisited)."

[ ND ]  Newsday: Stop The Music! 'Goat' Gets Award by Patrick Pacheco

[ B ]  Lauren Graham Set for Once in a Lifetime at WTF
Great news! Did her TV dad (and Williamstown regular) Edward Herrmann talk her into it?

[ B ]  B'way Gospel Choir & Inspirational Voices Unite for Memorial

[ B ]  The Play What I Wrote to Return to the West End

[ B ]  QED Extends until June 10 at Lincoln Center

[ P ]  London Cats Closes May 11; Final Show Broadcast in Covent Garden

[ P ]  Play What I Wrote Returns to London Before NY Run

[ P ]  Cleveland Playhouse 2002-03 Has Proof, Dirty Blonde and Hank Williams Musical

[ P ]  Michael Tolan to Bring Flights of Angels to Emelin Theatre, June 5-16

[ P ]  Some Like It Hot Tour, with Curtis, Gulan, Hanket and Carmelli, Rehearse for June 6 Debut

[ P ]  Denver Center Hatches World Preem of Hatcher's Pierre, May 9-June 8

[ P ]  Mazzie, Danieley, Hearn and Moreno Headline July 18-20 Candide in SF

[ P ]  Lost Tribe Theatre Turns on Empire Gas in NYC, May 9-25

[ P ]  The Present Company Examines 9/11 with Stories About What Happened, May 9-June 1

[ P ]  Carmen Electra and Pussycat Dolls Live Bring Bawdy Burlesque to L.A. May 9-30

[ P ]  Jennifer Jason Leigh & Co. Leave Proof June 30; New Cast Expected for Smash Play

[ P ]  Robbins Is Dangerous Pal Opposite Harper in Allergist's Wife Tour, Fall 2002

[ P ]  New Film of Wilde's 'Importance of Being Earnest' Due in Theatres May 22

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: John Waters Presents Hairspray

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hairspray: 'Good Morning, Baltimore!'

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Winokur Finds Fame in Hairspray

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Fierstein Measures Up in Hairspray

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hairspray: 'Run and Tell'

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hairspray: 'Timeless to Me'

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Hairspray: 'You Can't Stop the Beat'

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Full Hairspray

[ P ]  Fierstein: London La Cage in the Works; Will Transfer to Broadway

[ P ]  Cuccioli Is Sky, Gray Is Jekyll and Fairchild Is Lina in Pittsburgh CLO Season, Starting June 4

[ P ]  "Will & Grace" Star Megan Mullally Records Solo CD

[ LAT ]  Los Angeles Times: Behind the Scenes With a Rockette by F. KATHLEEN FOLEY
In Cate Cohen's 'Out of Line,' life's humiliations make compelling theater.

[ NJ ]  Star-Ledger: Scandal takes center stage BY PETER FILICHIA
Talk about timely: Here's New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch presenting "The Dead Boy," a play about a priest who may or may not have molested a young man. Meanwhile, his fellow clerics and the cardinal wonder if -- or how -- the incident should be covered up.

[ BS ]  Backstage: L.A. Is "It" by Pamela Bock
Back Stage West spoke with five of the eight cast members of this season's It Factor about their journeys to where they are now--and where they're headed in the coming season.

[ Y ]  Yahoo/Backstage: "One-on-One" With Director Arthur Penn

[ Y ]  Variety/Yahoo: 'Picasso' Cast's a Big Draw by Charles Lyons
Ryan Phillippe, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin and Juliette Binoche will co-star in "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," a feature based on Martin's play of the same title.

[ Y ]  Yahoo/Reuters: Arthur Miller Wins Spanish Literary Award

[ TM ]  King John
Reviewed By: Ben Winters

[ VV ]  La Dolce Musto by Michael Musto
Items on "Private Lives", "The Producers" and "Into the Woods", plus a profile of Harriet Harris of �Thoroughly Modern Millie.� Thanks to Wayman Wong on All That Chat for the link!

[ TV ]  TV Barn: "The Queer Eye for the Straight Guy"
Don't get enough stereotypical portrayals of gay men from your prime-time sitcoms? Then you might be the target viewer for a new reality show in which "five fabulously trendy gay men" turn a straight man � not just any straight man, but a "crude and uncultured schmuck" � into a "hip and happening Renaissance man."

[ CBS ]  Late Show with David Letterman: Top Ten Reasons Your Production Was Not Nominated for a Tony Award

Thanks toAmericanTheaterWeb for the following links!

[ BSUN ]  Baltimore Sun: 'Hairspray' gets ready for Broadway by J. Wynn Rousuck
Good morning, Baltimore
There's the flasher who lives next door
There's the bum on his barroom stool
They wish me luck on my way to school.
- From Hairspray's opening number, "Good Morning, Baltimore."

[ SF ]  San Francisco Chronicle: ACT yanks 'Harvey' from next season's bill by Robert Hurwitt
The rights to Mary Chase's ever-popular comedy about the fantasy life of Elwood P. Dowd -- a mainstay of community theaters across the country -- have been withdrawn because of "a planned remake by a major motion picture studio," ACT announced today.

[ SF ]  San Francisco Chronicle: Working mother by Marianne Costantinou
Maternal roles have kept Olympia Dukakis busy onstage and in film

[ SJM ]  San Jose Mercury News: Shy but tough, she picks the shows by Mark de la Vi�a
Profile of producer Carole Shorenstein Hays.

[ HC ]  Houston Chronicle: Alley Theatre lending stage to 'Whorehouse' by HARVEY RICE
CONROE -- The Alley Theatre in Houston has donated its stage for a night to the Conroe cast that walked out rather than remove profanity from the script of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.

[ PTR ]  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Tony nominees have Pittsburgh ties by Alice T. Carter

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[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'ROMEO AND JULIET': A Party-Crashing Teenager Always Gets Into Trouble By NEIL GENZLINGER

[ NYP ]  TRUE 'BLUE' By DONALD LYONS
CLASS differences seem to ignite Rebecca Gilman's plays. Earlier this season, we saw the middle-class lawyer and the poor young killer in "The Glory of Living."

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Wednesday, May 08, 2002

[ B ]  DVDs: The Worst Pies in San Francisco by Ken Mandelbaum

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia finds the announcement of this year's Tony nominees to be a relatively unexciting affair.

[ P ]  Patti LuPone and Joel Grey Join Star-Studded "Oz" Cast

[ P ]  OB's Clubbed Thumb's "Summerworks" Fest Kicks Off with Red Death

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Game They're In: Ziemba and Barrett

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Game They're In: Page, Goodwin, Jenkins, Carter

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Game They're In: Rando and Carrafa

[ P ]  Stritch and Crucible Offer Actors' Fund Benefit Perfs

[ P ]  Ragtime's Peter Friedman Plus Graff & Carey on May 8 'Law & Order'

[ TB ]  San Francisco Reviews by Richard Connema
Reviews of Homebody/Kabul, Sisters, and Tape.

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[ NJ ]  Albee, Stritch Win Drama Critics' Prizes by HOWARD KISSEL

[ NYP ]  HOST BUSTERS by MICHAEL RIEDEL
THE hunt is on for a host. With less than a month to go before the Tony Awards, the telecast is still without a master of ceremonies, which is causing anxiety around Broadway.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE MURALS OF ROCKEFELLER CENTER'
A 'Who Was Who' Weighs In on Art by BRUCE WEBER
Jim Niesen's disappointing play takes familiar historical figures and places them in fictional juxtaposition to create a lively illustration of an era.

[ NYT ]  Michael Bryant, 74, British Stage Actor, Dies by MEL GUSSOW
Michael Bryant, a quietly virtuosic character actor who was a mainstay of the National Theater in England for the last 25 years, died on April 25 in Richmond, Surrey.

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Jeanine Tesori
Jeanine Tesori is now a two-time Tony Award nominee, having composed incidental music for Lincoln Center's Twelfth Night and a frisky score for Thoroughly Modern Millie. Originally, her role with Millie was as musical director and arranger. How did she come to compose nine new songs for the show that started as a film?

[ P ]  Playbill On-Line Summer Internship Available

[ P ]  NY Theatre Workshop Opens Vienna: Lusthaus, May 8-June 2

[ P ]  Bush Comes to Shove with Capitol Steps at Houseman Theatre, May 8-Aug. 31

[ P ]  Lyricist Annette Leisten, of BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, Dead at 75

[ P ]  'ER''s Yvette Freeman Is Dinah Was For L.A. Theatre Works May 8-12

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Drama Desk Nominees Are...Thoroughly Modern Millie

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Drama Desk Nominees Are...Mamma Mia!

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Drama Desk Nominees Have Sweet Smell of Success

[ P ]  Family Musical, Custard the Dragon, Gets Kennedy Center Bow May 10-11

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Drama Desk Nominees Are...The Goat, Noises Off, Millie

[ P ]  Principal Casting Complete for Kennedy Center Company

[ P ]  CD Series in Stores May 28: Lady, Barnum, Abner, Brel and Oklahoma!

[ P ]  Arnaz, Gaines, Panaro and Others Salute Jerry Herman at TUTS, May 18

[ P ]  25th Anniversary Season of EST's One-Act Marathon Begins May 8

[ P ]  Waite and Keith Enter Lucas and Schulner's Darkness at Atlantic, May 8

[ P ]  Soldiers' Stories: Vetere's One Shot, One Kill Gets NYC Premiere May 8-June 9

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MAY 8

[ P ]  Plays Get Box Office Boost from Tony Nominations

[ P ]  The Goat Voted Best Play by NY Drama Critics Circle; Stritch Honored

[ B ]  The Goat and Stritch Take Drama Critics Prizes

[ B ]  Broadway.com Audience Awards Ballot
Is there anyone they've left out?
And who else would you nominate for "Favorite Onstage Pair"?


[ TM ]  Cabaret Notes
Jana Robbins offers One Hell of a Ride to her audiences at Danny's Skylight Room.

[ LAT ]  Los Angeles Times: It's Easy to Fall for These Schemes by DON SHIRLEY
Like "Side Show," "Triumph of Love" is a little musical that didn't last long on Broadway in late 1997 but appears very much alive in the more intimate environs of a Southern California mid-size theater in 2002.
With Lisa Richard as Corine.

[ LAT ]  Chicago Sun-Times: Poetry reveals new side of Williams by Hedy Weiss

[ VV ]  Refracted Fairy Tales by Michael Feingold
Reviews of Into The Woods and The Man Who Had All the Luck.

[ VV ]  Sightlines
Ricky Jay: On the Stem; The Murals of Rockefeller Center

[ WP ]  Washington Post: 'Much Ado': Shakespeare Upstaged Right and Left by Nelson Pressley
Andrew Sullivan, the internationally known political pundit, stars as Benedick in the Washington Shakespeare Company's "Much Ado About Nothing," but that's not the news. At least it's not once you've seen Michael Comlish's unorthodox, anti-romantic production, which perversely searches for the nihilist in Shakespeare as it sweeps the audience through heretofore unexplored caverns of the vast Clark Street Playhouse.

[ WP ]  Washington Post: Andrew Sullivan, Getting Into The Act by Jane Horwitz

[ ND ]  Newsday: A Very Hot Topic by Ellen Mitchell
Take heart: Menopause is all the rage

[ Y ]  Yahoo/Reuters: Boy George Makes Stage Debut in Own Musical

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Tuesday, May 07, 2002

Mystery of Charles Dickens to Disappear May 12

Broadway Grosses: Unsolved Mystery

2002 Helen Hayes Award Winners Announced

Urinetown Featured on "News Hour with Jim Lehrer"

The Bomb-itty Airs on MTV in Fall 2002, Off-Broadway Team Get Sketch Show

Award Recipient Bill Tatum and wife Ziemba at May 7 Dalrymple Awards

Callow's Mystery Unravels: Solo Broadway Show to Close May 12

QED Extends at Beaumont Until June 10

Luhrmann Scribe to Pen New "Carmen" for Lopez

PHOTO CALL: Bialystock, Maybe Bloom?: Short, Lane Dine Out in NYC

NODS ARE COSTLY IN THE LONG RUN by MICHAEL RIEDEL
This opinion piece didn�t make it to the Post�s Entertainment index page, so we missed it. Thanks to Eli on All That Chat for pointing it out.

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From the Shelf: English Millie and Danish Woods by Ken Mandelbaum

George Sidney, Director of Hollywood's "Show Boat," "Kiss Me, Kate," Dead at 85

"Gloria" Hallelujah! Laura Branigan to Join Love, Janis May 21

"What Is Playbill?": "Jeopardy!" Tournament Salutes Theatre Publication May 7

PHOTO CALL: Attend the Tale: Mitchell, Baranski Do DC Sweeney

PHOTO CALL: Finishing the Set: Design for DC Sunday in the Park

Tommy Tune, Gifford & Wilson Headline 92nd Street Y Benefit May 20

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NOMINEE JAMBOREE by BARBARA HOFFMAN and MICHAEL RIEDEL
"Another day, another nomination," Stritch said dryly. "Life goes on."

Musical Gets 11 Nods � But 'Grad' Doesn't Make Grade by PATRICIA O'HAIRE

Not a Whole Lot of Drama In This Year's List by Howard Kissel

'Millie' Leads the Tony Nominations With 11 by ROBIN POGREBIN
Despite mixed reviews, "Thoroughly Modern Millie" led the Tony nominations with nods in 11 categories including best musical.

Cadillac On Marquee at Winter Garden by JESSE McKINLEY
In the latest indication of a growing corporate presence on Broadway, the historic Winter Garden Theater will be renamed the Cadillac Winter Garden.

THEATER REVIEW | '. . . AND THEN YOU GO ON'
Bits of Beckett, Puzzling as Ever by BRUCE WEBER
A monologue knitted together from excerpts from 13 of Beckett's puzzlingly self-scrutinizing works, the show is a lionizing tribute to this great Irish writer, and it is inarguably a deserving one.

THEATER REVIEW | 'RENO'
Finding Tragic Humor Eight Months Later by ANITA GATES
The act is more polished than it was last fall with Reno's humor back to her rat-a-tat-tat pace, which is reassuring.

Edna Mae Robinson, Dancer and Boxer's Wife, 86, Dies

Washington Post: Hayes Awards For Director, Play Hit 'Home' by Nelson Pressley
Nearly everyone breasted the tape at once last night at the 18th annual Helen Hayes Awards ceremony as trophies celebrating the 2001 theater season were dealt out with an even hand. The evening's slogan could have been "No Juggernauts," or maybe "Something for Everyone": The 23 prizes were divided among 14 theaters, with 18 different shows (out of an unwieldy 181 eligible) able to call themselves winners.

Baltimore Sun: The life and rhymes of Sondheim by J. Wynn Rousuck
Master of the musical discusses life, lyrics and lessons yet to be learned.

New Yorker: Deconstructing Sondheim by Stephen Schiff
This week in the magazine and here online, Nancy Franklin reviews the new revival of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods," which was originally produced on Broadway in 1987. In this piece, from 1993, Stephen Schiff profiles Sondheim.

New Yorker: BACK TO THE WOODS by NANCY FRANKLIN
Witches, wolves, and wish fulfillment.
Thanks to AmericanTheater Web for the three Sondheim links above.

Chicago Sun-Times: Chicagoans have their own sweet success BY HEDY WEISS
Although there will be several Chicago connections to watch at this year's Tony Awards, the spotlight will be shining most brightly on "Metamorphoses."

Chicago Sun-Times: Bikel has a few strings left in bow BY SARA FIEDELHOLTZ
Theodore Bikel, who first starred in "Fiddler on the Roof" in 1967, returns to Chicago tonight in another production of the classic musical. We asked him about his 35-year career as Tevye.

Star-Ledger: Potential for drama wasted in play set in Mideast BY PETER FILICHIA
How can a play in which an Israeli soldier is at the mercy of a Palestinian woman be so dull?

Philadelphia Inquirer: Song cycle takes wing in dramatic presentation by Douglas J. Keating
When Adam Guettel's Myths & Hymns song cycle was presented in New York a couple of years ago, it took the form of a concert. The Prince Music Theater, where Guettel's successful musical Floyd Collins was produced in 1999, was interested in presenting it, but producing director Marjorie Samoff wanted what she called "a more realized treatment."

Grizzard, Jefferies, Kelly and Payton-Wright Scale Hartford's Seascape, May 30

Will Off-Bway's Little Mary Sunshine Shine on Broadway?

Carpetbagger's Children Go West to South Coast Rep in 2003

Ruby Turner Joins Divas at the Donmar Series

New Group Is Smelling a Rat With O'Bryne, Rigby, Wiliams May 7-June 16

Deborah Yates to Join Contact's U.S. Tour, May 7-June 16

Feinstein's New CD With Israel Philharmonic has Berlin, Gershwin and More May 7

Today In Theatre History: MAY 7

Shakespeare, Signature Theatres Top DC's Helen Hayes Awards

Broadway Grosses: April 29 - May 5

2002 National Broadway Theatre Awards Finalists Announced; Aida Leads Pack

Tony-Winners Cooper and Uggams Headline Off-Bway Musical, Thunder, June 4

Pore Jud Ain't Daid by Michael Buckley
Shuler Hensley continues to win awards and nominations for his role in Oklahoma!

Finally
Reviewed By: Brooke Pierce

South Pacific (National Tour)
Review by Pati Buehler

The Merchant of Venice
Review by Matthew Murray

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Monday, May 06, 2002

Tony Nominees React to the Big News

Cadillac Added to Wintergarden Theatre's Name

Into the Woods Will Tour in 2003

Carpinello Drops Out of Hairspray, Understudy Morrison Is Link

2002 Tony Nominations Present Several Tight Races

Cincinatti Enquirer: How does gender influence our views? by Jackie Demaline
A couple of weeks ago, The Smell of the Kill, which is part of Playhouse in the Park's 2002-03 season, tanked on Broadway, opening and closing in almost a blink. What's interesting about this were the New York reviews, in which the majority of critics set upon the plot like slathering wolves.
Thanks to AmericanTheater Web for the link!

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Garden Parkway: Broadway's Winter Garden to Be Renamed Cadillac
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Adam Feldman has a response to B/B-B's "urine" claim as listed below: "What about THE WIZ?"

It's times like this that we remember why we love the theatre community so much!

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Best quote of the day from Boneau/Bryan-Brown: "We are fairly certain this is the first time a show with urine in the title has been nominated for a Tony."
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Follow Spot
No gasps and few murmurs were heard during the reading of the 2002 Tony Award nominations by Proof's Jennifer Jason Leigh and The Producers' Steven Weber at the venerable theater district restaurant Sardi's this morning. There are no major shocks as to those shows and performances that are and aren't included among the nominees, though a few of the nominations might be classified as mildly surprising.

'Thoroughly Modern Millie' Gets 11 Tony Nods in Very Tight Race by SHERRI DAY
"Thoroughly Modern Millie," the musical about the jazz age adapted from the 1967 movie, received 11 nominations today, the most for the 2002 Tony Awards.

Yahoo/Variety: 'Magician' to Turn Tricks on Broadway by Robert Hofler
On May 22 Broadway insiders may get their first look at the 2003 Tony Awards' top contender for best special event.

Yahoo/Variety: J.Lo Tops 'Carmen' Update by Claude Brodesser and Cathy Dunkley
And what's this about a �Jesus Christ Superstar� remake?

Chicago's Calaway and Asbury to Perform at Macy's May 6

Gwyneth Paltrow Nabs Lead in Proof Film

Evita's Bob Gunton Replaces Hal Linden as Ben in L.A. Follies June 15-23

Producer Robert Whitehead to Receive Tony for Lifetime Achievement

Revised Ragtime Gets Resident Premiere � in the Round � at MA's North Shore, May 14

Julie Harris To Receive Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre Tony

Public Tony Tickets On Sale May 6

CDs: Preston in 1776 by Ken Mandelbaum

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Millie Leads Tony Nominations with 11

Tony Award Nominations Announced; Millie is Tops

www.tonys.org: 56th Annual Tony Awards 2002

Geffen Brings Gilman's Girl, Allen's Musical Pearl to L.A. in 2002-03

DC's Helen Hayes Awards Handed Out May 6; Stokes, Light, Shear, Rupert Among Nominees

A Major Surge for the Actress Miner as Girl Gets Gilman

Composers Schwartz, Brown, Lippa, La Chiusa and Friedman in Duplex Series

Starry Lortel Awards Celebrate Best of Off-Broadway May 6; Sarandon and Robbins Host

Edward Albee Talks Back to Goat Audiences May 7 and 14

The Great Latin Way: Bway's Rivera, Rubin-Vega, Esparza Beat "Latin Rhythms," May 6

Into the Woods to Be Recorded May 6

Fugitive Impresario Planning a Comeback by RALPH BLUMENTHAL
Garth H. Drabinsky, the Canadian impresario wanted on charges of orchestrating criminal fraud, is planning a Broadway production for next year.

Is Deceptive Portrait Tied to Shakespeare? by ALAN RIDING
Research findings about an Elizabethan portrait has reawakened speculation over the possible bisexuality of William Shakespeare.
C'mon, just 'cause a guy likes to go to the theater...

AP: George Sidney, Influential Director, Dies at 85
Other directors had tried their hand at the classic Kern-Hammerstein musical ``Show Boat,'' but actress Kathryn Grayson had two words to describe why the 1951 version stood apart.
``George Sidney,'' the musical's star told The Associated Press in a 1991 interview.

West Coast to West End by ELLEN TUMPOSKY
H'wood stars get cachet on London stages

Treat Williams Series Gets Early Greenlight
The WB Network has picked up "Everwood," a new family drama starring Treat Williams as a New York surgeon who starts a new life in the Rocky Mountains after the death of his wife.

TIMES SQ. JAY-WALK by DONALD LYONS
HISTORY and mystery - that's the intriguing combo Ricky Jay is offering in his latest one-man show "Ricky Jay: On the Stem."

Peter Filichia's Diary
What should be the 100 favorite show songs of all time?

Star-Ledger: Israel meets Jordan, onstage and off BY PETER FILICHIA
He's from Israel. She's from Jordan. But despite their different backgrounds, they forge a friendship.
If it sounds like the plot of a play, it almost is.

Star-Ledger 'Don Juan' performance full of surprises BY PETER FILICHIA
"Don Juan" is about to make a number of new conquests.
Not necessarily the famed romantic lover, but Stephen Wadsworth's new version of Moliere's 1665 comedy-drama. Those who appreciate the classics must see what Wadsworth has accomplished, both on the page and on the stage of the McCarter Theatre in Princeton.

Yahoo/Backstage: Careers in Creative Arts Therapy Seminar

Yahoo/Backstage: AFTRA Lottery
Want to meet-perhaps interview with or even audition for-soap casters or casting directors or ad agency casters?

Yahoo/Backstage: A.R.T./NY Grants Deadline
The Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./NY) application deadline for the Fund for Small Theatre grants is May 17.

Cowgirls
Cincinnati Review by Scott Cain

Texts for Nothing
Seattle Review by Jonathan Frank

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Sunday, May 05, 2002

Toronto Star: All the King's horses, all the King's men by Richard Ouzounian
Two years later, it still takes an army every night to put The Lion King together again

Toronto Star: `Mane' facts by Richard Ouzounian

Toronto Star: Mamet's tales keep Tinseltown wagging by Richard Ouzounian
His Speed-The-Plow, now in Toronto, stands up to Hollywood

Very special thanks to Richard for the links to the articles above!

Washington Post: Maverick's Reprise by Chip Crews
Stephen Sondheim Has Done It All His Way. Now It's the Kennedy Center's Turn.

The Old R.S.C. Chugs Into Uncharted Country by BENEDICT NIGHTINGALE
The new musical "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is a London hit, but its director, Adrian Noble of the Royal Shakespeare Company, was not. He has just announced his resignation.

Bitter and Sweet United: Good Word, Good Theater by MARGO JEFFERSON
The revivals of "Morning's at Seven" and "Into the Woods" give us the sheen of pleasure, but coursing beneath are quieter, sadder things.

A Festival That's All Over the Map and Proud of It by ANNE MIDGETTE
The Lincoln Center Festival is hard to define, perhaps because it offers something for everyone, a mixture of far-out and familiar.

WHAT I WATCH by GEORGETT ROBERTS
Michael Mayer - Director, "Thoroughly Modern Millie"

Musicals101.com: The Pajama Game
Review by John Kenrick
Let me tell you about the healing power of musical comedy. After attending the delicious Encores! concert version of The Pajama Game, I found myself on a midtown Manhattan subway platform surrounded by people carrying Playbills from the same event. A husband and wife came down the stairs, humming the show's big hit "Hey There." About halfway through the melody, the wife broke into the lyric � and within seconds, over two dozen of us joined in, filling the station with song. (I am NOT making this up!) We finished to cheers and applause, just in time for a train to pull in. All this in a New York subway station? Now that's what I call healing power!

7� Cents by Ken Mandelbaum
Review: THE PAJAMA GAME

James Carpinello Leaves Hairspray for Hollywood

Los Angeles Times: Drawing Inspiration From the Gods by F. KATHLEEN FOLEY
Stephen Legawiec borrows from world myths to create uncommon productions for his Ziggurat Theatre.

Los Angeles Times: Life of Reilly: House, Boat, Memories by RUTH RYON
The multifaceted actor is happy to stay put in the two favorite places that define his world.

Newsday: Fast Chat: Robert Prosky by Blake Green

Chicago Sun-Times: New life for 'Xena' in musical BY MISHA DAVENPORT
When "Xena" concluded its six-season run last year with the death of the warrior princess, many Chicago fans of the cult TV show were left wondering where they would get their next fix of Xena's heroics.
Fortunately for us, we have Elizabeth Laidlaw.

Anthony Rapp Is Crowned Henry V for Boston's Free Shakespeare, July 19 Aug. 4

Steven Suskin ON THE RECORD: Elaine Stritch and Sweet Smell of Success

Tony Nominations to Be Announced at Sardi's Monday, May 6

Sinatra Sings . . . for 1,000th Time on May 5

Long Wharf Adds Premiere Going Native and Lackawanna to Season

Tickets for Bway Dance of the Vampires Go On Sale June 2, AmEx Golders May 5

Playwright Leonard Melfi to Be Remembered at May 5 NYC Memorial

Today In Theatre History: MAY 5

Passion
Boston Review by Suzanne Bixby

Homebody/Kabul
Berkeley Reviewed By: Lex Lonehood

Avanova.com: Gwyneth Paltrow to star in movie version of Proof
Thanks to doodles on All That Chat for the link!

Thanks to AmericanTheaterWeb for the following links:

San Francisco Chronicle: Rodgers' 'Sound' lives: Bernadette Peters amusing, Pops saccharine

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: The question 'What if?' can lead to great ideas by Alice T. Carter
Great item involving the Public Theater's "Helen" (last item).

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Stephen Sondheim: A Contrarian Who Raised the Level of Musicals' I.Q. By STEPHEN HOLDEN
WHEN the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens its ambitious three-and-a-half-month season devoted to six revivals of Stephen Sondheim musicals on Friday with "Sweeney Todd," there will be no escaping its ominous relevance to the state of the world at this particularly scary moment.

HE COULD HAVE DONE PLAYS LIKE THE DICKENS By CLIVE BARNES
Sometimes I think that inside every novelist there is a playwright fighting to get out.

OH, MAMA! By CLAIRE SIEGEL
It would be easy to see sultry Vanessa Williams as a prototypical postmodern sex symbol: a curvaceous singer/actress who triumphed over the nude-photo scandal that nearly wrecked her career to headline such projects as "Into the Woods," which opened this week at the Broadhurst Theater.

HIS DOT-COM COMEDY'S A REAL PIECE OF WORK By JOSHUA TANZER
Losing one's job has never been so profitable.At least that's the case for Mike Daisey, an ex-Amazon.com employee who used his time at the company as inspiration for a painfully funny new one-man show, "21 Dog Years."

SILENT �HAMLET' NO GREAT DANE By PHILIP RECCHIA
Though my grasp of Elizabethan drama isn't quite what it was in my boyhood - when father took me to the Connecticut Shakespeare Theater each week, hoping that I'd run away from home - I can safely say that Hamlet never beseeched Ophelia to pick up his dry cleaning or mused that poor Yorick's skull would make a cute piggy bank.

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2007-08
Broadway Season

June 28 - Old Acquaintance (AA)

July 10 - Xanadu (Hayes) [Robert Ahrens, Dan Vickery, Tara Smith/B. Swibel and Sarah Murchison/Dale Smith]

Aug 19 - Grease (Atkinson)

Oct 4 - Mauritius (Biltmore) [MTC]

Oct 11 - The Ritz (54)

Oct 18 - Pygmalion (AA)

Oct 25 - A Bronx Tale (Kerr)

Nov 1 - Cyrano de Bergerac (Rodgers)

Nov 4 - Rock 'N' Roll (Jacobs)

Nov 8 - Young Frankenstein (Hilton)

Nov 9 - Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (St. James)

Nov 10: Local One Strike Begins

Nov 28: Local One Strike Ends

Dec 2 - Cymbeline (Beaumont)

Dec 3 - The Farnsworth Invention (Music Box) [Dodger Properties with Steven Spielberg, Dan Cap Productions, Fred Zollo, Latitude Link and the Pelican Group]

Dec 4 - August: Osage County (Imperial) [Jeffrey Richards, Jean Doumanian, Steve Traxler, Jerry Frankel, Steppenwolf]

Dec 6 - The Seafarer (Booth)

Dec 9 - Is He Dead? (Lyceum)

Dec 16 - The Homecoming (Cort) [Richards, Frankel]

Jan 10 - The Little Mermaid (Lunt)

Jan 15 - The 39 Steps (AA)

Jan 17 - November (Barrymore)

Jan 24 - Come Back, Little Sheba (Biltmore)

Feb 21 - Sunday In The Park With George (54)

Feb 28 - Passing Strange (Belasco)

Mar 6 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Broadhurst) [Stephen C. Byrd]

Mar 9 - In The Heights (Rodgers)

Mar 27 - Gypsy (St. James)

Mar 29 - Macbeth (Lyceum)

Apr 3 - South Pacific (Beaumont)

Apr 17 - A Catered Affair (Kerr) [Jujamcyn Theaters, Jordan Roth, Harvey Entertainment / Ron Fierstein, Richie Jackson and Daryl Roth]

Apr 24 - Cry Baby (Marquis)

Apr 27 - The Country Girl (Jacobs)

Apr 30 - Thurgood (Booth)

May 1 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses (AA)

May 4 - Boeing-Boeing (Longacre)

May 7 - Top Girls (Biltmore)

TBA - Godspell

2008-09
Broadway Season

Oct 16 - Billy Elliot (Imperial)

Nov 08 - Dividing the Estate (a Shubert theater)

Dec 14 - Shrek: The Musical (Broadway) [DreamWorks]

Talked About
Not Scheduled Yet

TBA - 50 Words

TBA - Addams Family (Elephant Eye)

TBA - American Buffalo

TBA - An American Vaudeville [Farrell, Perloff]

TBA - The Beard of Avon [NYTW]

TBA - Being There [Permut]

TBA - Benny & Joon [MGM]

TBA - Billy Elliot

TBA - Brave New World [Rachunow]

TBA - Breath of Life [Fox]

TBA - Busker Alley [Margot Astrachan, Robert Blume, Kristine Lewis, Jamie Fox, Joanna Kerry & Heather Duke]

TBA - Broomhilda

TBA - Bye Bye Birdie [Niko]

TBA - Camille Claudel [Wildhorn]

TBA - Camelot

TBA - Carmen [Robin DeLevita and The Firm]

TBA - Catch Me If You Can

TBA - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [Bob and Harvey Weinstein]

TBA - Cry Baby [Grazer, Gordon, McAllister, Epstein]

TBA - Designing Women [Alexis]

TBA - Don Juan DeMarco [New Line]

TBA - Dreamgirls [Creative Battery]

TBA - Duet

TBA - Equus

TBA - Ever After [Adam Epstein]

TBA - Fallen Angels (Shubert) [Kenwright]

TBA - Farragut North [Richards]

TBA - Father of the Bride

TBA - The Female Of The Species (TBA)

TBA - Fool For Love (AA) [Roundabout]

TBA - Girl Group Time Travelers

TBA - Golden Boy

TBA - Harmony [Guiles, Karslake, Smith, Fishman]

TBA - Hitchcock Blonde

TBA - The Importance Of Being Earnest

TBA - Jerry Springer: The Opera! [Thoday, McKeown]

TBA - Jesus Hopped The 'A' Train (Circle)

TBA - Josephine [Waissman]

TBA - Leap of Faith

TBA - A Little Princess [Ettinger, Dodger]

TBA - Midnight Cowboy [MGM]

TBA - The Minstrel Show - Kander and Ebb and Stroman

TBA - Moonstruck [Pittelman, Azenberg]

TBA - Mourning Becomes Electra [Haber, Boyett]

TBA - Monsoon Wedding

TBA - The Night of the Hunter

TBA - The Opposite of Sex [Namco]

TBA - Orphans

TBA - Pal Joey [Platt]

TBA - Paper Doll

TBA - The Paris Letter

TBA - The Philadelphia Story

TBA - Peter Pan

TBA - Porgy and Bess [Frankel, Viertel, Baruch, Routh, Panter, Tulchin/Bartner]

TBA - The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert

TBA - The Princess Bride

TBA - Princesses [Lane, Comley]

TBA - Poe the Musical

TBA - Rain Man [MGM]

TBA - Robin Hood

TBA - Secondhand Lions

TBA - South Pacific

TBA - Speed-the-Plow

TBA - Stalag 17

TBA - Starry Messenger

TBA - Syncopation

TBA - A Tale Of Two Cities

TBA - Torch Song Trilogy

TBA - Turn of the Century

TBA - West Side Story

TBA - The Wall [Weinstein, Mottola, Waters]

TBA - Will Rogers Follies [Cossette]

TBA - The Wiz [Dodger]

TBA - Zanna [Dalgleish]

This list is compiled from various sources. If you have corrections to the Broadway Season, please contact us.

 
   


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