Saturday, October 19, 2002

News:

[ Z ]  ABC Signs 'Hairspray' Star To Series Deal
Marissa Jaret Winkour, star of the hit Broadway musical "Hairspray" has signed a one-year talent holding deal with Touchstone Television and ABC Television Network. The studio and network will develop a project for the actress, to begin after her run on "Hairspray" has ended.
Thanks to Amanda on All That Chat for the link!

[ B ]  Grey Gardens Musical in the Works

[ P ]  Gotanda Reveals Struggle for Asian Identity in Hedda-Inspired Wind Cries Mary Oct. 19

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Belle Is a 'Soprano'

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Sacre Bleu! Lumiere!

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Mamma Mia! We're at Beauty and the Beast!

[ P ]  Andrea Marcovicci to Co-Host First Annual Nightlife Awards Jan. 27

[ P ]  Ragtime Team Planning Gertrude Stein Musical

[ P ]  Al Pacino Focus of New Play Big Al at Off-Broadway, Begins Oct. 19

[ P ]  Daniel Gerroll Replaces Bryggman in Ghosts, Previews Now Begin Nov. 1

[ P ]  Rob Beckerï¿½s Caveman Sequel Will Highlight Fatherhood

[ P ]  MTV to Air Sketch-Comedy Program Featuring Off-Bway Actors Oct. 19

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 19

[ P ]  Mancha's First Broadway Preview Now Nov. 23

[ P ]  Dysfunction, Filth and Bouvier Heiresses; Welcome to Grey Gardens, the Musical

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Dancing Lions Welcome Flower Drum Song to Broadway

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Flower Drum Song Takes a Bow

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: The Book Writers: David Henry Hwang and C.Y. Lee

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Lea Salonga Is Pretty as a Picture (Bride)?

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Low, Look Away

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Madame Liang and Uncle Sammy

Features:

[ TM ]  Fantasy Man by: Michael Buckley
Malcolm Gets walks through walls in Michel Legrand's Amour.

[ TM ]  The Siegels' Nightlife Notes
Brian Tom O'Connor and Debra Vogel walk together along the fine line that separates musical theater and cabaret.

[ LAT ]  Simon says 'Alagazam' to Gang by Don Shirley
Playwright Adam Simon returns to the Actors Gang with a newly revived play -- but he and the "gang" go way back.

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

[ LADN ]  Life stages by Evan Henerson
Two new films, recurring TV role a stepping stone on Mary-Louise Parker's path back to theater

[ RMN ]  Touring America refreshes lyricist by Lisa Bornstein
The Arvada Center can't get enough of Stephen Schwartz. It's not alone in the sentiment.

[ RMN ]  Musician scores with his 'Monty' songs by Lisa Bornstein

Reviews:

[ TM ]  Zanna, Don't! Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ MT ]  Broadway's Best Shine on 42nd Street Moscow Review by Raymond Stults
Includes a rebuttal to the Washington Post article.
Thanks to dncrmjk on All That Chat for the link!

[ BG ]  'Grease' feels dated, for better and for worse by Ed Siegel
I have seen the future of musical theater, and it is Bruce Springsteen in ''Grease.''

[ TS ]  Cheeky musical fills cheap seats in Beantown by Richard Ouzounian
Toronto could take lessons from theatre on a shoestring
"Bat Boy" in Boston.
posted at 10/19/2002 12:18:57 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Friday, October 18, 2002

News:

[ P ]  Dance of the Vampires Librettist Michael Kunze Reveals Changes for Broadway

[ P ]  PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, Oct. 12-18: Musical Chairs

[ B ]  Colin and Cuccioli Join Temporary Help Cast

[ B ]  Tennessee Williams Fest Planned for Kennedy Ctr.

[ B ]  Olympia Dukakis in Talks to Star in The Oresteia

[ B ]  Disney Collaborates with Mackintosh on Mary Poppins

Features:

[ B ]  Photo Op: BETTY Parties!

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

[ CSM ]  Rock musical's 'poster child' moves on ï¿½ with passion by Tony Vellela
After starring in "The Who's Tommy," and "Titanic" on Broadway, and in off-Broadway's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," Michael Cerveris told his agents he did not want to do another musical.

[ CSM ]  We cain't say no to Rodgers by Gregory M. Lamb

[ OCR ]  A Shaw for a new age by PAUL HODGINS
South Coast Rep's Martin Benson tackles his favorite playwright again, with some help from a renowned scholar.

[ NHR ]  Dame Edna dreams of Yale (and dead wombat) by E. Kyle Minor
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[ P ]  Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs Premieres at SF's Magic Theatre Oct. 18

[ P ]  London's Stones in His Pockets Extends

[ P ]  West End's Damsels in Distress Extends

[ P ]  Ben Elton May Pen Sequel to London's Queen Musical We Will Rock You

[ P ]  Olympia Dukakis May Play Clytemnestra in 2003 Oresteia For Aquila Co.

[ P ]  She's One: Happy Birthday, Mamma Mia!

[ P ]  "At This Theatre" Author and Bway Storyteller Botto To Share Theatre Lore at Barnes & Noble Oct. 21

[ P ]  Disney and Mackintosh to Team for Stage Mary Poppins

[ P ]  World Premiere Dark Comedy Bright Ideas Opens at Cleveland Play House, Oct. 18

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: Chatting with Busy Betty Buckley; A Man of Importance and More

[ P ]  Colin, Cuccioli to Star in Revelation's Temporary Help Off Broadway, Nov. 12

[ P ]  Off-Broadway's Vagina Monologues Will Close Jan. 5

[ B ]  Redgrave and Leonard Join Dennehy in Journey

[ B ]  Woody Allen to Direct at Atlantic Theater Co.

[ B ]  Off-B'way's Vagina Monologues Set to Close
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Features:

[ B ]  CDs: Jones and Cassidy in Love by Ken Mandelbaum
Christian Campbell (the off-Broadway musical Reefer Madness, the film Trick) and Paige Price (Saturday Night Fever) have been mentioned for the roles of Jonathan and Susan in next year's national tour of tick, tick...BOOM!.

[ NY ]  Taking a Chance on Amour by Joanne Kaufman
Director James Lapine is more at home with Sondheimian ambivalence than with pop trifles like Windmills of Your Mind. So why did French songsmith Michel Legrand pick him to stage a romantic cream puff about a man who walks through walls to get the girl?
Thanks to Drum1870 on All That Chat for the link!

News:

[ P ]  Christine Andreas and Movinï¿½ Out Cast Album on "Radio Playbill" Oct. 15-20

[ P ]  Report: Kennedy Center to Follow Sondheim Celebration with Tennessee Williams Festival

[ P ]  Ruby Dee, Earle Hyman Star in New Ossie Davis Play, Last Dance for Sybil, Nov. 6

[ P ]  Report: Dennehy-Redgrave Journey a Go; Leonard Mentioned

[ P ]  Woody Allen to Direct Two One-Acts at OB's Atlantic in April
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Breaking News!

Disney and Cameron teaming up for Mary Poppins? You can read about it in today's New York Times. Or you could have read about it here years ago. That's okay, we still love Jesse.

[ TS ]  Lion King with lox ï¿½ it's funny
Richard Ouzounian
Theatre Critic
Darrin Baker is chopped-liver smooth as Barry, so adorable you'll want to eat him up on a cracker. But the second act reveals he also does blissfully silly drag, and can sing the evening's one serious song "Did I Ever Really Live?" with touching commitment.
posted at 10/18/2002 10:29:46 AM by James Marino | Item Link

News:

[ NYT ]  ON STAGE AND OFF
Woody Allen, Stage Director by JESSE MCKINLEY
Few artists are more connected with New York than Woody Allen. But one thing he's never done here, however, is direct a play. Till now.

[ NYP ]  VANESSA REDGRAVE WILL TAKE 'JOURNEY' TO BROADWAY by MICHAEL RIEDEL
BIG news on the revival front: Vanessa Redgrave has agreed to star opposite Brian Dennehy on Broadway this spring in "Long Day's Journey Into Night."

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
Gossip about Madonna's search for a Broadway show to star in.

[ B ]  Did Critics Like the Beat of the New Drum Song?

[ B ]  Gerroll Replaces Bryggman in CSC's Ghosts

[ P ]  Paul Newman Helps Make Our Town a Boom Town; $2 Million Advance

[ P ]  Producers Rocks Cleveland's Box Office, Setting a Record ï¿½ Twice

[ P ]  Show Tunes Return to Town Hall in 2003 Broadway by the Year Series; Harris, Opel, Gravitte Aboard

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: BETTY Really Does Rule

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Ensler, Ripley Think BETTY RULES

[ P ]  Revised Education of Randy Newman with Jenkins, Moriber Begins Oct. 18

[ P ]  John C. Reilly Sings in New Musical, Marty, Starting Oct. 18 in Boston

[ P ]  Storyteller Bodkin Brings Art of the Tale Series to Lincoln Center

[ P ]  Ziemba, Cuccioli, Raines & Wright in WorkShop Theater Benefit Oct. 28

[ P ]  Bernadette Peters Film Hits Screens Valentine's Day 2003

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 18

[ NYT ]  Keene Curtis, 79, Played Daddy Warbucks in 'Annie,' Is Dead
Keene Curtis was best known for playing Daddy Warbucks in "Annie" on Broadway and the upstairs restaurant owner on the television show "Cheers."

Reviews ï¿½ "Flower Drum Song":

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'FLOWER DRUM SONG'
New Coat of Paint for Old Pagoda by BEN BRANTLEY
David Henry Hwang's thoroughly revised "Flower Drum Song" gains a more confident heroine who strikes tai chi poses in a Mao suit but gives up all evidence of personality.

[ YN ]  'Flower Drum Song' on Broadway by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
"Flower Drum Song" has always occupied a lower rung in the Rodgers and Hammerstein pantheon of musicals that includes such classics as "Carousel," "The King and I" and "Oklahoma!"
And there's no reason to expect it to move up a notch, judging from the radically reworked version that opened Thursday at Broadway's Virginia Theatre after a successful run last year in Los Angeles.
This review misspells the main character's name as Mei-Lei instead of Mei-Li. And since it's from the AP, that mistake will be reprinted in hundreds of newspapers...

[ DN ]  It's a full-coarse Chinese musical by Howard Kissel
The current revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1958 "Flower Drum Song" is a spicier but ultimately coarser treatment of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, circa 1960.

[ NYP ]  HUMDRUM 'SONG' by CLIVE BARNES
RODGERS & Hammerstein's venerable Chinese doll of a musical, "Flower Drum Song," returned sprightly enough to Broadway last night - prancing to the sound of a different drummer, though singing the same old song.

[ NJ ]  'Song' still hums, but book is humdrum BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
The story of "Flower Drum Song" has never been the musical's strong point.

[ USA ]  Sweetness enlightens 'Flower Drum Song' by Elysa Gardner
I've read several articles lately carping about the lack of sophistication in Broadway musicals. To which I say, phooey.

[ WP ]  Out of Sync 'Flower Drum Song' by Peter Marks
Is there a number in the Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook that has aged less gracefully than "I Enjoy Being a Girl"?

[ B ]  Thoroughly Modern Mei-Li by Ken Mandelbaum
Review: FLOWER DRUM SONG
Headline of the day!

[ TM ]  Flower Drum Song Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ TB ]  Flower Drum Song Review by Matthew Murray

Other Reviews:

[ TB ]  Some Like It Hot and Doing Judy San Francisco Reviews by Richard Connema

Features:

[ BG ]  Woman on the verge by Maureen Dezell
Fiona Shaw promises a Medea who is passionate, but not a villain

[ BH ]  Classic role: For Fiona Shaw, `Medea' is as contemporary as modern betrayal by Terry Byrne
"Medea," actress Fiona Shaw says, is a very domestic play.

[ BG ]  He's the right man for this 'Gig' by Maureen Dezell
Stewart Lane landed his job directing ''The Gig'' at the Lyric Stage Company because he's got connections at the theater, he says with a wink.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: Bring on the Men!
With the opening of Mart Crowley's The Men From the Boys in San Francisco nearing, Filichia muses on the relevance of the play's precursor, The Boys in the Band.

[ NJ ]  Hats are Taylor-made topic for a show BY PETER FILICHIA
Regina Taylor knew there'd been a successful musical about cats -- but a play about hats?

[ NJ ]  Busy hoofer conceives upside-down Xanadu BY PETER FILICHIA
"Zanna, Don't!"

[ YN ]  `The Flower Drum Song': Where the Chinese-American novel began by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Writer
Before there was Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan or Gish Jen, there was C.Y. Lee and "The Flower Drum Song."

[ B ]  Q&A: Taye Diggs by Melissa Rose Bernardo

[ B ]  Photo Op: Opening Night of a New Drum Song
Wow, that was quick...

[ B ]  Photo Op: Burning Blue's Opening Night

[ B ]  Photo Op: Sigler Takes a Bow as Broadway's New Beauty

[ B ]  Photo Op: Chenoweth Kicks Off American Songbook Season

[ B ]  Photo Op: Broadway Walk of Stars Honors Carol Channing

[ B ]  Photo Op: Say Goodnight Gracie Opening
That guy next to Gorshin is ROBERT Klein, not Richard...

[ B ]  Photo Op: Mamma Mia! Supports Breast Cancer Charity
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Thursday, October 17, 2002

Reviews:

[ ND ]  Culture Clash in Chinatown by Linda Winer
David Hwang grafts 'Flower Drum' songs onto an updated story
Newsday ALWAYS has to be first...

[ TM ]  What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Reviewed By: Holly Hildebrand

[ TB ]  Blast! and Copenhagen
Seattle Reviews by David-Edward Hughes

News:

[ B ]  Chenoweth Concert to Land at American Airlines
Broadway.com has learned that Kristin Chenoweth will bring her American Songbook concert to Broadway's American Airlines Theatre for a limited engagement this November.

[ P ]  Boston Marriage-Minded Producers Waxman, Williams and Lane To Team Up

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: La Bohï¿½me: The Setting Is Paris, 1957

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: La Bohï¿½me: L'Amour

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: La Bohï¿½me: The Bohos

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: La Bohï¿½me: Waltzin' Musetta

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: La Bohï¿½me: The Kiss

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: La Bohï¿½me: Would You Like My Candle?

[ P ]  Boy George Returns to U.K.'s Broadway-Bound Taboo

[ P ]  Little Women Comes to London's Sadler's Wells

Features:

[ P ]  Culture Clash
David Henry Hwang's new book for Rodgers & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song ï¿½ now playing Broadway's Virginia Theatre ï¿½ retains the joy of the original while introducing a more complex view of cultural assimilation and generational struggles.
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[ CCT ]  'La Boheme': A stunning blend of genres
Pat Craig
The Contra Costa Times
[Thanks to MAV for the link.]

[ CCT ]  'La Boheme': 'La Boheme': Casting breaks opera mode INSIDE
By Georgia Rowe
TIMES CORRESPONDENT

[ SJMN ]  Bodacious 'Boheme'
PUCCINI MASTERPIECE ENDURES IN PRODUCTIONS BOTH LAVISH AND BASIC
By Mike Guersch
Mercury News

[ SJMN ]  Baz shows off flair for the dramatic, but there's no depth
By Karen D'Souza
Mercury News
posted at 10/17/2002 02:19:24 PM by James Marino | Item Link

Features:

[ TB ]  Spotlight On Donna Lynne Champlin by Nancy Rosati
We love Donna Lynne.

News:

[ HC ]  `Our Town' Headed For Broadway Sellout by FRANK RIZZO
Joseph Stein is working on a revised script to the John Kander and Fred Ebb musical "Over and Over." The title is now "The Skin of Our Teeth," which makes sense because it's the title of the Thornton Wilder work on which it is based.
Second item.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ P ]  Herman's Showtune Eyeing NYC's Harold Clurman or Helen Hayes for Transfer

[ P ]  Armstrong Replaces Holm in Mappa Mundi at London's National Theatre

[ P ]  Goldblum, Thomas and Neuwirth Are Exonerated This Fall

[ P ]  Four Mondays: Green, Caruso & Stritch Perform at Laurie Beechman Theatre Starting Oct. 21

[ P ]  David Shiner Is In the Round in Seattle Nov. 1-23 With New Songs by Bat Boy's O'Keefe

[ P ]  Songbook Series Continues Oct. 17-19 with Mazzie, Danieley, Mason & Barrowman

[ P ]  Aida Star Headley's Debut Recording Debuts at No. 38 on Billboard Charts

[ B ]  San Fran Critics Passionate About Boheme

Reviews:

[ TB ]  Joe Turner's Come and Gone Minneapolis Review by Elizabeth Weir

[ TB ]  Fahrenheit 451 Chicago Review by Charles Eichler
posted at 10/17/2002 01:56:27 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Features:

[ NYT ]  Digital Magic on Broadway by JESSE McKINLEY
Computers are now offering new technical possibilities and increased precision for Broadway shows.

[ ND ]  Walking Through Walls Is the Easy Part by Blake Green
'Amour' lead says remembering his lines is tougher
Malcolm Gets.

[ BSUN ]  Holding power; plenty of bounce by J. Wynn Rousuck
Waters' 'Hairspray' curls their toes

[ USA ]  'Flower Drum Song' budding on Broadway by Elysa Gardner

[ B ]  Photo Op: On the Temptation Movie Set

Reviews ï¿½ "Burning Blue":

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'BURNING BLUE'
Navy Pilots Fall in Love, Acting Out Manliness by BRUCE WEBER
"Burning Blue" by D. M. W Greer is a flat-footed drama about a Navy investigation of an air crash that turns into a witchhunt for homosexuals.

[ ND ]  Don't Ask, Do Tell: Navy Tale Sinks by Linda Winer
For reasons we are incapable of guessing, a clumsy military soaper called "Burning Blue" attracted attention at a fringe theater in London in 1995, then had a respectable run on the West End.

[ DN ]  Friendly fire downs Navy pilots by ROBERT DOMINGUEZ
Keeping a tight lid on the love that dare not speak its name has dire consequences for the Navy flyboys in "Burning Blue," a well-acted and initially gripping military drama that unfortunately makes its point early and often.

[ NYP ]  'BLUE' DOESN'T FLY by DONALD LYONS
IT seems very Clinton era: Don't ask, don't tell.Ferocious, mean investigators of homosexuality in the military. Careers ruined. Forbidden love declared. Wives upset.

[ NJ ]  Don't ask why 'Blue' is so convoluted BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
A clumsy melodrama about Navy fighter pilots that's grounded in the "Don't Ask/Don't Tell" policy regarding sexual preferences, "Burning Blue" somehow manages to be both underwritten and emotionally overwrought.

[ TM ]  Burning Blue Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

[ B ]  Burning Blue Review by William Stevenson

Other Reviews:

[ CST ]  Predictable team effort fails to score BY HEDY WEISS
Richard Dresser's "Rounding Third," now in its world premiere at Skokie's Northlight Theatre, is so fuzzy and warmhearted--and at the same time so perfectly laced with just the right degree of humanizing crankiness--that it has "unchallenging audience pleaser" written all over it.

[ BSUN ]  Leads shine in weak 'West Side Story' by J. Wynn Rousuck
As Tony and Maria, the star-crossed lovers in this Romeo and Juliet update, Drew Niles and Natasha Harper are the best - and just about the only - reason to see this over-tired production.

[ HC ]  Baby Jane strives to play it straight by EVERETT EVANS
Theatre Under The Stars' $2.3 million show, which had its official premiere Tuesday night at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, is neither an embarrassment nor a catastrophe.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

News:

[ ND ]  PLAY BY PLAY: Lips Tight on Lake's Rumored 'Cabaret' Gig by Gordon Cox

[ P ]  Proof's Johanna Day Stars in Rattlestick's Bliss, Nov. 13

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ARCHIVES: Flower Drum Song ï¿½ 1958

[ P ]  Singing a Song of Same Sex Love, Zanna, Don't! Opens Off-Bway Oct. 17

[ P ]  Andrï¿½ De Shields to Perform One-Man Tribute to Louis Armstrong Oct. 17-20

[ P ]  Colleen Fitzpartick Is Putting It Together in Los Angeles Nov. 8-Dec. 8

[ P ]  Denman, Duncan, Hess and Larsen Are Quartet of When We Were Singing Workshop

[ P ]  Kennedy, Lenox and Byron Kirk Sing Jason Robert Brown in Cooper Union Concert Oct. 25

[ P ]  Ragtime Gets UK Concert Premiere Oct. 26 With Friedman, Bickley, Hamilton and Miller

[ P ]  The Flower Blooms: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Drum Song Opens Oct. 17 on Broadway

[ P ]  Hair Cares!: Hairspray Raises Funds for BC/EFA with Concert Nov. 10

[ P ]  Michael Feinstein Creates New Record Label; First Release Now in Stores

[ P ]  Bush's War Already Playing in MA, as Hoppe's New War Opens Oct. 17

[ P ]  Broadway's New Year's Week Performance Schedule

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: OCTOBER 17

[ P ]  La Bohï¿½me Cast Album Will Appear Dec. 10; Troupe Records in California

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Flower Drum Song: A Hundred Million Miracles

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Flower Drum Song: I Enjoy Being a Girl

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Flower Drum Song: Getting Married Today
posted at 10/17/2002 08:36:10 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ V ]  La Boheme
Variety Review by DENNIS HARVEY
Purists can start their carping and trendmongers their toadying right now: Baz Luhrmann's "La Boheme" is a hit, if a qualified one as yet. This Broadway-bound revival of his 1990 Australian Opera production may not be the most moving or beautifully sung "Boheme" you'll ever witness, but it captures the tale's sportive, youthful and impetuous aspects with a bravado that will surely enchant those who might never see a "Boheme" otherwise.

[ SF ]  Simply sensational
Luhrmann's Broadway-style 'Boheme' sets a new standard for musical theater
Steven Winn, Chronicle Arts and Culture Critic

[ SF ]  Simply sensational
Production remains true to Puccini
Joshua Kosman, Chronicle Music Critic

I am not sure I saw the same show as Mr. Harvey, Mr. Winn and Mr. Kosman. I really think the show is headed for trouble in NYC... I just didn't get the excitement that these reviewers expressed.

[ SF ]  Bright lights of bohemian Paris attract stars
San Francisco steps up to the red carpet with Broadway-bound opera premiere
Carolyne Zinko, Chronicle Staff Writer
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Wednesday, October 16, 2002

News:

[ TM ]  Merrily We Roll Along Reunion Concert Taped for Musical Theatre Works Archives

[ P ]  La Bohï¿½me Cast Album Will Appear Dec. 10; Troupe Records in California

[ B ]  Armstrong Replaces Ailing Holm in Mundi

Features:

[ TM ]  You Are Beautiful by: Michael Buckley
Talented lookers Lea Salonga and Josï¿½ Llana on their starring roles in Flower Drum Song.

[ PW ]  QUESTION: Lee Blessing by J. COOPER ROBB

Reviews:

[ MST ]  Kelsey graceful as 'The Belle of Amherst' by Lisa Brock
With Linda Kelsey.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!
posted at 10/16/2002 05:39:50 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Alice Ripley has dropped out of her position as opening act for Glenn Tilbrook on three upcoming tour dates. No reason has been given.

[ YN ]  Archerd: Eisner Euphoric as Angels Reach World Series
Alan Menken, who composed the music for the scores of Disney's "The Little Mermaid" and "Beauty and the Beast," has created a new song, "To Be Free," for "Disney's 'Aladdin' -- Live On Stage," a new Broadway-caliber musical based on the animated film.
Second item. Plus a quote from Tony Curtis on the "Some Like It Hot" tour.

[ P ]  This Is Our Youth Returnï¿½with Culkin and Hanksï¿½Confirmed for West End

[ P ]  London Stones in His Pockets Celebrates Performance 1,000

[ B ]  Creative Team Announced for Gypsy Revival

[ B ]  London Critics Check Out the Dames in Life

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: High Times
posted at 10/16/2002 03:31:51 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Why is Laura Benanti out of INTO THE WOODS?
I think she hurt her back carrying the show...

[ B ]  CDs: Show Tune by Ken Mandelbaum
Tony Shalhoub has been mentioned for the role of Tevye in a Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof that could happen in the fall of 2003.

[ P ]  Peters Gypsy to Play Broadway's Shubert Theatre; Creative Team Announced

[ P ]  Men From the Boys, Sequel to Boys in the Band, Premieres in San Fran Oct. 16-Dec. 8

[ P ]  Minnelli and Gest's "Liza & David" Delayed One Day; Premieres Dec. 1

[ P ]  Kristine Nielsen in Mrs. Cratchit in Wicked Durang Sendup of Christmas Carol

[ P ]  Report: Fiona Shaw Medea to Transfer to Broadway

[ P ]  Houston's Alley Theatre Has The Goat's Regional Premiere Jan. 17-Feb. 16

[ P ]  Burning Blue Opens Oct. 16 at Off-Broadway's Samuel Beckett

[ P ]  H.G. Wells Meets Jack the Ripper in Time After Time, the Musical

[ B ]  Acclaimed Medea Sets Sights on Broadway
posted at 10/16/2002 12:36:43 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: Broadway, His Way
In a continuing series of Town Hall concerts produced by Scott Siegel, songs from musicals past -- hits and flops alike -- are showcased.

[ TM ]  Follow Spot
A trio of Off-Off-Broadway theater groups finds that three's company in a new midtown location.

[ B ]  Q&A: Lea Salonga by William Stevenson

News:

[ NYT ]  Seymour Rexite, Star of Yiddish Stage, 91, Is Dead by JOYCE WADLER
Seymour Rexite had a career arc that swung from singing for Calvin Coolidge to playing host to a television show on educational television to singing with Mandy Patinkin at Lincoln Center.

[ NYT ]  Morag Hood, Scottish Actress, Dies at 59
In 1974 she played Stella Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's "Streetcar Named Desire" in the West End of London. In 1976 she went to the National Theater Company, where she played roles ranging from Celia in Ben Jonson's "Volpone" to Esmeralda in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."

[ TM ]  Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, et al. Announce New Federal Theatre Production of Davis's A Last Dance for Sybil

[ B ]  Chicago Officially Set for Move to Ambassador

[ B ]  La Bohï¿½me to Begin Previews on Nov. 29

[ B ]  Rodgers & Hwang's Flower Drum Rethinks a Classic

[ B ]  La Mancha Pushes Back B'way Start Date

[ B ]  Jeff Goldblum Joins Cast of The Exonerated

[ B ]  Observe the Sons Marches Towards the Mitzi Newhouse

[ P ]  Cass Morgan Searches for Her True Home in World Premiere Musical, Oct. 17-Nov. 3

[ P ]  Lion King Offers Special Actors' Fund Performance Oct. 22

[ P ]  L.A Theatre Works Reads Galati's Grapes of Wrath With Cromwell Oct. 16-20

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: OCTOBER 16

[ P ]  La Bohï¿½me Delays First Bway Preview to Nov. 29

Reviews:

[ ND ]  A Breezy Tale Of Being Betty by Gordon Cox
The all-smiles production is as chipper and two- dimensional as an episode of "Josie and the Pussycats."

[ B ]  BETTY RULES Review by Adam Feldman

[ NJ ]  Making 'Shayna' pretty will take some effort BY PETER FILICHIA
What a shame. One wretched performance keeps "A Shayna Maidel" at the Bickford Theatre in Morris Township from being a rewarding evening of theater.

[ LAT ]  John Astin brings a soulful pathos to the tragic tale of Poe by PHILIP BRANDES

[ NYT ]  In Performance: Matching the Singer's Spirit to That of the Composer
Ann Hampton Callaway at Feinstein's at the Regency.

[ TM ]  The Water Coolers Reviewed By: Philip Hopkins

[ USA ]  A graceful 'Goodnight' by Elysa Gardner
One-man show turns into valentine to George Burns' one love.

[ B ]  Bailegangaire Review by Jack Savage

[ VV ]  MOMMO IN THE MURPHY BED by Marc Robinson
Bailegangï¿½ire, the Town Without Laughter by Tom Murphy; In Real Life by Charlayne Woodard

[ VV ]  TO EIRE IS HUMAN by Michael Feingold
A Man of No Importance by Terrence McNally; Say Goodnight Gracie by Rupert Holmes; The Charity That Began at Home by St. John Hankin

[ VV ]  Stage Left
A 50-Minute Play That Costs $55; the Eighth Annual RAT Conference; an Interview With Irish Playwright Conor McPherson
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[ NYT ]  Uncertain Times: Impulse Buyers Replace Ticket Subscribers By ROBIN POGREBIN
The season subscription plan seems to be losing favor with audiences around the country as single-ticket sales increase in popularity.

[ NYT ]   A Producer Is Riding High With 'Hairspray' By ROBIN POGREBIN
Margo Lion's experience with "Hairspray" shows that it is still possible to develop a hit from scratch, without having imported it from London or tested it first off Broadway.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'BETTY RULES': Women of Rock With a Tale to Tell By BRUCE WEBER
The members of the rock trio Betty tell their story in an odd grab bag of cabaret act, stand-up and sketch comedy, roadhouse rock and Broadway savvy.

[ NYP ]  WACKY WOMEN, AS A RULE, MAKE 'BETTY' ROCK By DONALD LYONS
IN the recent vein of performers telling us, on stage, about their lives, "Betty Rules" rules.

[ DN ]  Joyous bios and rhythms by Robert Dominguez
A joyous, humorous and entirely engaging "alterna-musical," "BETTY Rules" chronicles the often-rocky history of the all-girl trio. Deftly directed by Michael Greif ("Rent"), the fast-paced show is part rock concert, part tell-all memoir and all fun.

[ NYP ]  GORE GALORE FOR B'WAY By MICHAEL RIEDEL
NOW this sounds like the perfect show for Kids' Night on Broadway: Deborah Warner's blood-curdling production of "Medea," which just ended its all-too-brief run as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival.

[ DN ]  Surge of 'Flower' power propels Asian theater by Rebecca Louie
In 1958, "Flower Drum Song" fired the first shot in the battle to give Asians better representation on Broadway. As unlikely a source of revolutionary theater as it was the play is again leading the charge with a revamped production, signaling what could be a growth in Asian-American theater.

[ V ]  B'way stages rally - Play marks record; almost all musicals gain
Broadway grabbed $14,559,143 million in receipts last week, a record for the pre-Columbus Day session. Overall tally rose $1,665,759, which translates to a very average 12.92% increase from the nonholiday session.

[ V ]  B'way previews delayed; Skips on sked a rite of passage for new musicals By ROBERT HOFLER
Who wants to see a first preview, anyway?

[ P ]  First Bite: Dance of the Vampires Begins on Broadway Oct. 16

[ P ]  Why Don't We Paint the Town?: Chicago Transfers to Bway's Ambassador Theatre Jan. 29

[ P ]  Albee's Goat Goes West to Seattle's ACT in Spring 2003

[ P ]  Betty Buckley Eyes Bway Return in New Musical Diner Stories; Dec. Workshop Planned

[ P ]  Louise Pitre Vacations from Mamma Mia! Oct. 21-28; Signs for Another Year

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: October 7-13

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Dame Judi Dench Takes a Breath

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Dame Maggie Smith Breaths Life Into Hare Play

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Mamma Mia! Cares for Mammas and Daughters
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Tuesday, October 15, 2002

Features:

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Twyla Tharp
Choreographer Twyla Tharp's work has appeared on Broadway before, in limited-run dance pieces and the 1985 musical, Singin' in the Rain, but certainly nothing she's done in the commercial theatre has attained the high profile of her current collaboration with Billy Joel, Movin' Out, which opens on Broadway Oct. 24 after a long, sometimes bumpy tryout in Chicago.

[ TM ]  The Siegels' Nightlife Notes
Kristin Chenoweth makes the American Songbook her own and Ann Hampton Callaway sends a valentine to Rodgers & Hart.

[ B ]  First Person: From Death Row to Off-Broadway by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen

News:

[ P ]  Luis Perez Is New Mancha Choreographer; DC Tryout Continues Thru Nov. 10

[ P ]  West End's Bombay Dreams Searches for Asian Actors

[ P ]  Hare's Breath of Lifeï¿½with Dench and Smithï¿½Opens in West End Oct. 15

[ P ]  New Lepage Work Opens at London's Hammersmith

[ P ]  Tony Award-Winning Actor Keene Curtis Dead at 79

[ B ]  Kennedy Center Offers Funds for New American Plays
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News:

[ P ]  New Prez Named for NJ's Tony-winning But Struggling Crossroads Theatre

[ P ]  Patinkin Announces Concert Dates; Possible Sondheim Evening Off-Broadway

[ P ]  Chenoweth, McDonald and Jones Featured on PBS Rodgers Concert Oct. 16

[ P ]  London's Dress Circle Music Shop to Reopen With Nov. 23 Gala

[ B ]  Pacino in Rex Flies into De La Guarda Venue

Features:

[ B ]  Move On: Part Two by Ken Mandelbaum
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Features:

[ WP ]  '42nd Street,' to Russia With Confusion by Susan Glasser
MOSCOW -- It was less than an hour before curtain time Friday night, and backstage at the onetime Soviet Palace of Youth, cheery chorus girls from Miami and Maryland were scarfing down a last few McDonald's fries. Mark Bramble, however, was too furious to eat.

[ NYT ]  Sam Shepard Moves From Plays to Fiction by MEL GUSSOW
In common with his plays, Sam Shepard's first book of stories is richly populated by rascals and renegades, some of whom are inspired by his mysterious father.

[ HC ]  The Love-Hate Relationship Of Dame Edna And Barry Humphries by FRANK RIZZO
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ S ]  The song and dance man
Cameron Mackintosh interview.
Thanks to ElleWhy on All That Chat for the link!

[ BH ]  At home with `Marty': John C. Reilly stars in the Huntington's world premiere by Stephen Schaefer

[ BH ]  '50s teen idol Avalon returns in slick production of `Grease' by Aiden Fitzgerald

News:

[ V ]  KENNEDY'S LARGESSE
The Kennedy Center will dole out more than $100,000 to five theaters and seven playwrights in the latest round of grants under its Fund for New American Plays program.

[ V ]  BIZ EVEN; '42ND ST.' 745G
The road grosses held steady during Week 18 (Sept. 30-Oct. 6). The total of $12,003,366 for the 16 shows reporting was up by just 1.3% over the previous week.

[ YN ]  Newman Tickets the Talk of the 'Town'by Robert Hofler
NEW YORK (Variety) - The Broadway revival of "Our Town," starring Paul Newman, racked up $1.5 million in its first five days of ticket sales.

[ TM ]  Highlights of Kennedy Center's Richard Rodgers Centennial Gala to Air on PBS

[ BS ]  Mint Theater, Directors Company to Stay Put by Leonard Jacobs
Two nonprofit theatre companies long identified with a Broadway district office building will not have to abandon their premises under new lease agreements reached with their landlord, Back Stage has learned.

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Bailegangaire Ballyhoo: Milo and Fritz

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Bailegangaire Ballyhoo: Murphy and Women

[ P ]  Burn This Author's Book of Days Begins Off-Broadway, Oct. 15

[ P ]  La Bohï¿½me Opens Pre-Broadway Run in San Francisco Oct. 15

[ P ]  Les Misï¿½rables to Perform on CBS' ï¿½The Early Showï¿½ Oct. 18

[ P ]  BETTY RULES Off-Broadway: Rent Director Greif Opens New Work, Oct. 15

[ P ]  'Mod Squad' Star Peggy Lipton, 'Wonder Years' Dad Dan Lauria Play The Guys, Oct. 15-Nov. 22

[ P ]  MTV to Air Sketch-Comedy Program Featuring Off-Bway Actors Oct. 19

[ P ]  Masenheimer Returns to Les Miz as Inspector Javert Nov. 2

[ P ]  Broadway's Christmas Week Performance Schedule

[ P ]  Christine Andreas Embraces Bway Divas on Show Tune CD, 'Here's to the Ladies,' Oct. 15

[ P ]  More Things in Heaven and Hell: Shakespeare's Haunted House Opens Off-Broadway Oct. 20

[ P ]  Sorsha Miles Is Peggy-Ann in Rare Rodgers and Hart Playing San Francisco Oct. 30-Nov. 17

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 15

[ P ]  Springsteen Play Previews at NYCï¿½s Blue Heron Arts Center Oct. 29

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER'
If You Watch for a Wench, You Might Miss Your Mrs. by WILBORN HAMPTON
Mistaken identity has been a staple of stage comedy since Shakespeare, and there are few plays in which identities become more embarrassingly mistaken than in Oliver Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer."

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'BAILEGANGAIRE'
An Endlessly Repeated Tale That Never Reaches an Ending by BRUCE WEBER
Tom Murphy's "Bailegangaire," first performed in 1985 in Galway and now at the Irish Repertory Theater, will remind some theatergoers of "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" by Martin McDonagh.

[ NJ ]  Ungrateful dead: Ghost story fails to bring blithe spirit to life BY PETER FILICHIA
Just before every Halloween, Centenary Stage Company in Hackettstown puts a ghost story on stage. But this year's entry, the ultimately disappointing "The Tillie Project," involves a ghost story that's particularly close to home.

[ B ]  The Water Coolers Review by Adam Feldman

[ TM ]  3 O'Clock in Brooklyn Reviewed By: Philip Hopkins

[ NYP ]  IT GIVES IRISH A BAD REP by DONALD LYONS
A garrulous granny, by turns mad, cunning, cranky and affectionate, sits in bed and complains about her tea and bedpans. Her granddaughter Mary slavishly does her bidding. Her other granddaughter, a pregnant Dolly, drops by in motorcycle gear for brief visits between beatings by her man. It's the Irish Rep's production of "Bailegangaire," a play by Tom Murphy.

[ NYP ]  'EXONERATED' GUILTY by DONALD LYONS
FORMALLY, it's been labeled a staged reading: The actors, sitting in chairs and reading from scripts, play six real people who've been sentenced to death unjustly - and then reprieved.
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Monday, October 14, 2002

I just got an email telling me that Keene Curtis has passed away in Utah. Keene's Broadway credits are extensive. Of note that I did not know was that his Broadway career started as a Production Stage Manager. A true star on and off-stage and will be sorely missed.

[ IBDB ]  Keene Curtis
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News:

[ P ]  Thoroughly Modern Millie Tour to End Pittsburgh CLO 2003 Summer Season
A spokesperson at the Pittsburgh CLO refuted erroneous reports that the current Broadway star (and CLO alum) would join the cast at Pittsburgh.

[ P ]  Barclays TMA Awards Announced in U.K.

[ P ]  TV Comedy Trio Debut in London's Art Oct. 14

[ P ]  Pacino Oedipus To Replace De La Guarda at Daryl Roth Theatre

Reviews:

[ TB ]  The Fantasticks Chicago Review by Charles Eichler
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News:

[ P ]  Benanti Into the Woods Absence Still a Mystery; Dye Goes On as Cinderella

[ P ]  Peter Gallagher and Amelia Campbell Will Step in for Exonerated's Dreyfuss and Gilbert

[ P ]  Comic Gomez, ï¿½Viewï¿½ Host Ling & Actress Williams To Join Vagina Monologues

[ P ]  Kristin Chenoweth Wows American Songbook Crowd; Mazzie & Danieley Next

[ P ]  Dance of the Vampires Postpones First Preview on Bway to Oct. 16
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[ P ]  Sondheim Celebration at Avery Fisher Hall To Include Songs from Follies

[ B ]  Move On: Part One by Ken Mandelbaum
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Reviews:

[ NYT ]  POP REVIEW | KRISTIN CHENOWETH
A Glamorous Chameleon, Catching All the Nuances by STEPHEN HOLDEN
The concert, the season-opening event of Lincoln Center's American Songbook, got the series off to a sensational start.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE CHARITY THAT BEGAN AT HOME'
Only the Pitiable Are Invited to This Party by BRUCE WEBER
The Mint Theater Company offers a worthwhile production and worthy reanimation of an obscure play written in 1906 that has never been seen before in New York.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
The Glow of Youth by ANITA GATES
At the Young Playwrights Festival, a showcase for works by writers 18 and younger, it was easy to imagine future theatrical success for this year's winners.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'SOUP'
Waiter, Somebody Stole My Wine by JACK ANDERSON
On Thursday night at the Japan Society, the Mizuto-Abura Mime Company of Japan presented an hourlong excursion into the merriment and menace of the restaurant world.

[ ND ]  Darkness on the Edge of 'Town' by Linda Winer
Esteemed Irish writer imports a somber gem

[ TB ]  Bailegangaire Review by Matthew Murray

[ USA ]  Being wild about Oscar is of no importance in 'Man' by Elysa Gardner
As things stand, A Man of No Importance is, for all its avid good will, a show of little consequence.

[ NJ ]  Guilty ... until proven innocent BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
More of a 90-minute dramatic concert than a play, "The Exonerated" is a troubling study in American injustice and also a plea for the eradication of capital punishment.

[ TB ]  Songs for a New World Seattle Review by David-Edward Hughes

[ TB ]  House of Blue Leaves and Dreams of the Salthorse San Francisco Reviews by Richard Connema

News:

[ P ]  Full Cast Announced for Jesus Christ Superstar Tour, Launching Nov. 1-17 in CA

[ P ]  Pamela's First Musical Gets Workshop Helmed by Graciela Daniele in November

[ P ]  Faye Hasn't Dunaway With "Master Class" Film

[ P ]  Wilson, Creel, McCarthy & More Pay Tribute to Dolores Gray Oct. 28 at Lamb's

[ P ]  Decca Releases Jerry Herman's 1960 Revue, Parade, on CD Oct. 22

[ P ]  It's a White-Collar World in New Revue, Water Coolers, Opening Oct. 14 in NYC

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 14

[ P ]  First Bite: Dance of the Vampires Takes Wing at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre Oct. 14
Not according to the next article...

[ B ]  B'way Vampires Delays Previews Two Days

Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary: On the Road
Enjoying solo albums by Karen Mason, Alison Fraser, and Tom Wopat during a road trip to Hackettstown, Filichia finds that some songs are worth hearing over and over again.

[ NYT ]  CITY LORE
New Roles, Old Stereotypes by TARA BAHRAMPOUR
The Guild of Italian-American Actors battles mob images, but its New York members still need jobs.

[ AC ]  Margate native goes from A.C. Boardwalk to NYCï¿½s Broadway by VINCENT JACKSON
As a youth, Margate native Michael Rafter played piano on Atlantic City's Garden Pier for Lucille Russo's "Boardwalk Star Review" and worked with bandleader Paul Mann. Now, he's something of a fixture on Broadway.
Thanks to ElleWhy on All That Chat for the link!

[ JN ]  Jerry Herman's revival By JACQUES LE SOURD
"I hate to sound like some cliche," says composer Jerry Herman. "But I'm actually going through a renaissance, a rebirth, I don't know what to call it."
Thanks to John_C on All That Chat for the link!

[ CCT ]  Mamma mia! by Pat Craig
The idea of the Broadway cast album happening as surely as the opening night cast party is over, due to declining revenues from the albums, changing musical tastes, the expense of recording and the fierce competition for space on record store shelves.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!
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Sunday, October 13, 2002

Features:

[ BG ]  Making Marty Sing by Rene E Graham
Actor John C. Reilly knows he doesn't have movie-star looks.

[ BG ]  Steering a show on the longer road to Broadway by Maureen Dezell
With a rising star in the title role and a creative team whose Broadway credits include ''Annie,'' ''Bye Bye Birdie,'' and ''Thoroughly Modern Millie,'' the Huntington Theatre Company's ''Marty'' looks, sounds, and acts like a show that is on its way to New York.
But Huntington managers and the show's creators insist the musical isn't bound for Broadway - at least not yet.

[ NYT ]  A New Musical by Rodgers and Hwang by DAVID HENRY HWANG
Re-envisioning "Flower Drum Song" from an Asian-American's point of view called for exposing the characters' humanity, the most effective weapon against stereotypes.

[ NJ ]  'Flower Drum' blooms again on Broadway BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ NYT ]  In the Scuffed Shoes of Women Scraping By by MARC WEINGARTEN
In a play based on Barbara Ehrenreich's book "Nickel and Dimed," pay never equals need.

[ NYT ]  Pope vs. Parents in a Struggle for a Child and His Soul by RON JENKINS
Alfred Uhry dramatizes an 1858 kidnapping that has parallels in the Eliï¿½n Gonzï¿½lez case.

[ NYT ]  Demonstrating the Power of a Positive Hattitude by CELIA WREN
Regina Taylor's play "Crowns" celebrates the importance of hats in pride, fashion and faith for black women.
Does anyone still wear... a hat?

[ BSUN ]  BALTIMORE'S DRAMA QUEEN by Mary Carole McCauley
For Center Stage artistic director Iren Lewis, the play's the only thing.

[ ND ]  Casualties of the Art of War by Linda Winer
Soon after the unthinkable we call 9/11, those of us who think about such things started thinking about the impact of such catastrophe on our culture. What kind of art would rise from the shock, fear and sorrow?

[ SFC ]  Discovering his inner Dorothy by Cicero A. Estrella
Zach Galligan stars in whodunit comedy at the Alcazar
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ NYP ]  LORD OF THE FLEAS by JOSHUA M. BERNSTEIN
If you think there's no filth left in Times Square, meet Adam Gertsacov and his traveling troupe of performing fleas.

News:

[ PPG ]  CLO's modern methods net 'Millie' by John Hayes
Pittsburgh CLO will close its 2003 season with the Tony-winning "Thoroughly Modern Millie" while the musical is still playing to sold-out houses in New York. The star here in Pittsburgh will be the winner of the latest Tony for Best Actress, Sutton Foster, a CLO alum. Choreographing will be Rob Ashford, a Tony winner and Point Park grad who earned his Equity card at CLO.

[ DP ]  N.Y. producer may take over Civic Theater by John Moore
Controversial Mitchell Maxwell hopes to reopen site May 1
Thanks to American Theater Web for the two links above!

[ P ]  Talk Show Watch: Billy Joel on 'Today', Sheryl Lee Ralph on 'Caroline'

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway Walk of Stars - Hello, Jerry!

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway Walk of Stars - Joel and Chita

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway Walk of Stars - Dahl-ing, it's Marty Richards

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway Walk of Stars - Joan Collins

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway Walk of Stars - The Grey Zone

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway Walk of Stars - A Diamond is Carol's Best Friend

[ P ]  Eric Grode's STAGE TO SCREEN: Exploring 'The Grey Zone'

[ P ]  Broadway and TV's 'The Great One,' Jackie Gleason, Is Focus of CBS Movie Oct. 13

[ P ]  Jamie deRoy Spotlights Dolores Gray With Oct. 22 Cable Show

[ P ]  Richard Stilgoe Chats About New U.K. Musical Exit Allan, Enter Talent

[ P ]  Musical Theatre Works Hosts Panels on Urinetown, Hairspray, Hedwig

[ P ]  TV's Wendy Phillips, Eddie Karr Star in L.A's Visible Horse Oct. 13-Dec. 15

[ P ]  Today in Theatre History: OCTOBER 13

Reviews:

[ DN ]  Enduring sorrow BY ELLEN TUMPOSKY
Chekhov's plays strike a fresh chord in the West End

[ NYP ]  'MAN' & 'LADY' BOTH SHOW SKILL by CLIVE BARNES
Craftsmanship is a quality to be much admired, whether it's displayed by a playwright or a plumber. I was reminded of this fact last week by George S. Kaufman's farce "The Butter and Egg Man," given by the admirable Atlantic Theater Company.
posted at 10/13/2002 09:12:09 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

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