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Saturday, January 17, 2004

Features:

[ NYT ]  The Witty Star of 'The Gerry Show'
When the Tony Award-winning theater director Gerald Gutierrez died suddenly late last month at the unripe age of 53, the stories about him immediately began to flow.

[ ND ]  Roxie Muses by Blake Green
Gretchen Mol hopes for a breakout with her killer role in 'Chicago'

[ ND ]  Beulah May Live on to Slay by Blake Green
Back in 1924, Beulah May Annan was just another Jazz Age floozy hanging around the fringes of vaudeville.

[ NYP ]  MY FAVORITE PLACE by NEIL ROSEN
Evan Rachel Wood: Majestic Theatre

"I love Broadway shows," says the 16-year-old star of "Thirteen." "But what I really love are those old classic theaters, like the Majestic."

[ NJ ]  Entertainers inspire singer to 'Ladies' act BY PETER FILICHIA
"If you don't allow your daughter to become a singer, you will go to hell."
That's what Christine Andreas says Sister Mary Joseph told her mother when she was in the sixth grade at St. Joseph's School in Camden.

[ ND ]  Marking Mr. B's Century by Sylviane Gold
A year of events is set to celebrate the revolution in ballet that was George Balanchine

[ DP ]  Writer Parks a wit at play on serious stuff by John Moore
Pulitzer winner making Denver debut with LIDA

News:

[ NYT ]  Ron O'Neal, 66, Actor Who Starred in 'Superfly' Films, Dies
Ron O'Neal's role as the cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest in the 1972 film "Superfly" epitomized the era's blaxploitation genre.

[ IBDB ]  Ron O'Neal's Broadway Credits

[ TS ]  The stage will remember Uta Hagen by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN

Remembrance of Uta Hagen's stage performances, with excerpts from a 2000 interview.

[ WP ]  Actress Uta Hagen, A True Believer In Make-Believe by Peter Marks

[ HChron ]  Playwright Wilson steps in for Albee at UH by EVERETT EVANS

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson will join the University of Houston School of Theatre faculty Feb. 1 for the spring semester.
Thanks to American Theater Web for this link, and for the Denver Post article above.

[ TM ]  You've Got to Come Back a Star: 42nd Street to Hold Open Auditions for Female Tappers

[ B ]  Gillian Anderson to Star in Sweetest Swing in UK

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 17

[ P ]  Cantone, Halston and Behar Part of Comedy Cares Feb. 2

[ P ]  Television and Stage Stars Read Durang, Shanley, Martin "Trouble Love" Plays in CA, Jan. 17

[ P ]  Butz Is Back in Wicked Tonight; Diggs Plays Final Perf. Jan. 18


Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'DEMON BABY'
A Dab of Fantasy for a Comedy of Manners by MARGO JEFFERSON

Erin Courtney adds fantasy to a screwball-tinged comedy of manners in "Demon Baby," the Clubbed Thumb company's production at the Ohio Theater in SoHo.

[ SUN ]  London Sprawling by JEREMY McCARTER
Erin Courtney's "Demon Baby", plus "House of No More" and "Instructions for Forgetting".

[ TB ]  Instructions for Forgetting
Review by Warren Hoffman

[ NYT ]  Theater in Review

Reviews of Aeschylus's "Persians" and Marty Pottenger's "Abundance."

[ CU ]  The Persians

[ ATW ]  Aeschylus' Rarity The Persians Comes to the Stage, Colorfully
Review by Andy Propst

[ SUN ]  When Dinosaurs Don't Rule the Stage by JEREMY McCARTER

January is the coolest month....

[ SUN ]  Home on the Strange by JEREMY McCARTER
Richard Foreman's latest, "King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe".

[ TB ]  The Firebrand of Florence
Review by Alan Gomberg

posted at 1/17/2004 10:33:26 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Friday, January 16, 2004

Features:

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
Scott & Barbara report on exactly what was happening behind the scenes at the 2004 Nightlife Awards.

News:

[ B ]  Twentieth Century Changes Opening to 3/25

[ B ]  West End Comedy Stones Extends to May 15

[ B ]  Butz Returns to Wicked Sooner Than Expected

[ P ]  Alison Fraser to Be Part of George Street's Lips Together Cast

[ P ]  St. Germain's Ears on a Beatle to Have Off-Broadway Premiere Feb. 24

[ P ]  Twentieth Century Pulls Into Broadway Early; Now Set to Open March 25

[ P ]  New Mario Lanza Musical Be My Love, Due on Broadway in Spring 2005

[ P ]  Bacall, Caldwell, Seldes, Atkins and Rashad Among Hall of Fame Presenters

[ P ]  PBOL'S THEATER WEEK IN REVIEW, Jan. 10-16: Respect for Hagen

posted at 1/16/2004 04:17:40 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link



Features:

[ B ]  Looking Back: TV Musicals #5 by Ken Mandelbaum

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary

People have been singing the title song of Hello, Dolly! for decades, but here are some lyrics that didn't make it into the show.

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: LuPone's Torch Show, Lemper's International Voyage Plus Anne and Alix on CD

News:

[ P ]  Gillian Anderson Flies Back To London, Flockhart Stays Home
One TV star has reportedly just said no to the prospect of a West End theatre debut, while another wants to come back for a second visit.

[ P ]  Public Theater to Present Tim Robbins' Embedded, Beginning Feb. 24

[ P ]  Jerry Springer Bound for Broadway

[ B ]  Jerry Springer Aims for Spring 2005 B'way Bow

[ P ]  Nouri, d'Amboise and Rogers to Join LuPone for Encores! Can-Can

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News:

[ NYP ]  'TABOO' POSTMORTEM by MICHAEL RIEDEL
Boy George's costumes in "Taboo" were almost as strange as the backstage doings at the Rosie O'Donnell-produced musical, which closes Feb. 8.

[ NYT ]  ON STAGE AND OFF
The Play as a Sword by JASON ZINOMAN

"Embedded," a collection of satirical sketches written and directed by actor Tim Robbins, opens in late February at the Public Theater.

[ B ]  Tim Robbins Satire Embedded Set for Public

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX

"HEDWIG and the Angry Inch" star John Cameron Mitchell is declaring victory over the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, which had threatened to fire radio hostess Sook-yin Lee if she had actual sex in Mitchell's upcoming movie, "Short Bus."
Plus an item on "The Producers" and Tele-Charge, and gossip about Lynn Redgrave and Brian Dennehy.

[ NJ ]  Theater Notes by Peter Filichia
Cast "Together"

[ B ]  Norm Lewis Joins Chicago As Billy Flynn Feb. 2

[ P ]  Norm Lewis to Join Broadway�s Chicago

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 16

[ P ]  New York Theatre Workshop Reaches Valhalla with New Rudnick Work, Jan. 16

[ P ]  TV Land Pays Tribute to Carol Burnett with Two-Day Marathon

[ P ]  "The Goodbye Girl" TV Remake Debuts Jan. 16


Features:

[ NYT ]  PUBLIC LIVES
On Stage With a Famous Smile and a Tremble by ROBIN FINN

Private to the core and public on the surface, Isabella Rossellini is on the cusp of her New York City theatrical debut in "The Stendhal Syndrome."

[ ND ]  Now That�s (Cheap) Entertainment by Joseph V. Amodio
Newsday tells you how to get into a Broadway show for a song -- and other entertainment bargains.

[ ND ]  Discount Details

[ BG ]  Forty years and still tuned in by Bill Beuttler

Dave Frishberg laughs when reflecting on how his tune "Peel Me a Grape" gave him a skewed perception of the songwriting business 40-odd years ago.

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'KING COWBOY'
Richard Foreman's Foray Into Politics by BEN BRANTLEY

While this political play at St. Mark's Church offers the dizzy theatrical joys expected of Mr. Foreman, it is weighed down by literal-minded allegory.

[ NYT ]  REVERBERATIONS
Three Shakespeares, Each With a Purpose, Each Hoping to Thrill by JOHN ROCKWELL

Lincoln Center's "Henry IV" lacks the dollop of style and spirit that can be found in Laurence Olivier's film and in David Gordon's dance piece at St. Mark's Church.

[ NYP ]  'MAMMA' BEARS UP WELL WITH NEW CAST by CLIVE BARNES
THE splendid "Mamma Mia!" still has them dancing in the aisles in its third year on Broadway, even with a new Mamma.

[ NYP ]  BACK IN BLOOM by CLIVE BARNES
AS they used to say on Broadway, and in Shakespeare: "What's the news on the Rialto?" Well, with "The Producers," you can say everything new is old again - and frankly, that's just terrific.

[ NJ ]  Lorca's 'Spinster' needs dreamier staging BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ NJ ]  'Fraulein Else' forges fierce tour de force BY PETER FILICHIA

Francesca Faridany dynamic in stream-of-consciousness role

[ Y ]  AP Theater Review: 'His Dark Materials' by MATT WOLF, Associated Press Writer

[ NYT ]  TV REVIEW | 'THE GOODBYE GIRL'
A Visit to the Manhattan of Big, Cheap Apartments by VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN

Today's audiences can feel the magic of a witty Manhattan romance complete with affordable apartments with the TNT revival of Neil Simon's play.

[ NYT ]  MOVIE REVIEW | 'DISNEY'S TEACHER'S PET'
A Hand-Drawn Dog, Striving to Be Human by ELVIS MITCHELL

Lovers of the TV show probably both laughed and cringed when Nathan Lane belted out the program's theme song, "I Wanna Be a Boy," and slathered it with an extra schmear of schmaltz. Mr. Lane's shameless vocal theatrics are a perfect fit for the character he voices, Spot, a relentlessly chatty blue dog.

[ LAT ]  Reality theater that rankles by Don Shirley
COMMENTARY: A La Jolla Playhouse production to be based on the life of Andrew Cunanan is raising indignation across the political spectrum.

[ BSUN ]  'The Miser' at Center Stage pays off by J. Wynn Rousuck
New translation of Moliere classic is often deliciously over the top

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[ V ]  Luhrmann talks about Kidman, Chanel
    This will be the only U.S. engagement scheduled for this production [Puccini's "La Boheme" at L.A's. Ahmanson Theater], running through March 7. Tickets are, understandably, at a premium. Its stand at the 1,697-seat Broadway Theater was a huge success...
When did the definition of success change to include "losing its entire investment"?

[ V ]  Geffen's 'Cookin' up season finale�
Play is first prod'n while Westwood gets facelift

[ V ]  Stage legend Hagan dies�
Tony-winning actress had commanding, ferocious presence

[ V ]  B'way arranges 'Change'�
Kushner's musical opens at O'Neill Theater May 2

[ V ]  Ford's Theater hands reins to Houston vet�
Tetreault will program 2004-05 season

[ V ]  Scribes pull for O'Neill�
Policy of open submissions reinstated

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Thursday, January 15, 2004

[ V ]  Merry 'Jerry' Brits by MATT WOLF
Opera guides National to Olivier nom lead

The National Theater once again dominated the 2004 Laurence Olivier Award nominations, honoring the finest in London theater, opera, and dance during 2003. The South Bank complex garnered 20 noms -- one fewer, actually, than it managed last year -- including three of the four play nominees and the musical frontrunner, "Jerry Springer -- The Opera."

posted at 1/15/2004 10:18:17 PM by James Marino | Item Link



[ B ]  LuPone, Nouri, Rogers & d'Amboise Set for Can-Can
Patti LuPone, Michael Nouri, Reg Rogers and Charlotte d'Amboise will star in the upcoming Encores! concert mounting of Can-Can. The cast will also include Paul Schoeffler, Caitlin Carter, David Costabile, Michael Goldstrom, David Hibbard, Mary Ann Lamb, Desmond Richardson, Solange Sandy and Eli Wallach, who will make a special guest appearance in the show.

[ B ]  Caroline, or Change to Open May 2 at O'Neill

[ P ]  Caroline, or Change Set for Broadway Transfer; Begins April 13

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News:

[ TM ]  Caroline, or Change Set for Move to Broadway by: Matthew Murray
It will begin previews on April 13 in advance of a May 2 opening.

[ DN ]  Rosie sings a new tune on 'Taboo' By JOANNA MOLLOY
Rosie O'Donnell was defiant a day after announcing her Broadway musical, "Taboo," would close, leaving open the possibility the show could still go on.
"The tickets are down to $50," O'Donnell told the Daily News. "If we could fill the house at $50 a seat, I would run it forever. But people have to show up."

[ P ]  Road House to Close Off-Broadway Feb. 1

[ P ]  Save the Last Dish for Me: Hunger Waltz Runs Off-Broadway Thru Jan. 25

[ P ]  Tony Winner Elaine Stritch Will Be An Original Woman

Tony Award winner Elaine Stritch plans to launch a new lecture tour.

[ P ]  Aida Finds Its Newest Leading Lady

[ TM ]  NYTE Publishes Plays and Playwrights 2004

[ P ]  2004 Edition of Annual "Plays and Playwrights" Anthology to Arrive Feb. 15

[ P ]  Not to Be: Broadway Plans for Shakespeare Comedy The Beard of Avon Nixed

[ P ]  Sky Girls Take Off at Old Globe as World War II Women Flyer Drama Opens, Jan. 15


Reviews:

[ CU ]  Abundance

Features:

[ MH ]  The indelible Mrs. Brady headlines 'Florida Follies' BY STEVE ROTHAUS
Florence Henderson has made her mark on Broadway and on TV. She's also endured her own traumas.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ PW ]  Simon Says by J. COOPER ROBB
As Biloxi Blues opens at the Walnut Street Theatre, director Frank Ferrante discusses the risks of presenting a dramatic trilogy.

[ BS ]  Toying with Time
As playwrights explore new ways of delivering storylines and delineating characters, they are tinkering more boldly with innovative ways to theatrically depict the passage of time.

[ BS ]  TCG's Cameron Urges Nonprofits to Advocacy
In his latest message to TCG members, executive director Ben Cameron encourages not-for-profit theatres to get involved in "cultural citizenship," commonly called advocacy.

posted at 1/15/2004 05:28:47 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link



Features:

[ P ]  A Life in the Theatre
Stage Professionals Look Back at Decades of Devotion to Their Craft: Elizabeth Ireland McCann, producer.

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: MTC Begins to Drown its Crow Jan. 14

Reviews:

[ B ]  DVDs: Weill in Paris by Ken Mandelbaum
THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (Kultur)

News:

[ P ]  Broadway Theatres to Dim Lights in Honor of Theatre Great Uta Hagen, Jan. 15
Broadway will honor the late theatrical legend Uta Hagen, Jan. 15 by dimming the lights on all marquees at 8 PM.

[ P ]  Uta Hagen, Legendary Stage Actress and Teacher, Dead at 84

[ TM ]  Uta Hagen, Legendary Actress and Teacher, Dies at 84

[ P ]  2004 Olivier Award Nominations Announced; Overtures, Ragtime and Springer Each Garner Eight Noms.

[ B ]  2004 Olivier Award Nominations Announced

[ P ]  Shultz, Campbell, Reeder Cast in Craig Lucas' Small Tragedy

[ P ]  Patti LuPone to Star in Candide, Can-Can and New Solo Act, The Torch Show

[ P ]  10th Annual SAG Award Nominees Announced; "Angels in America" Receives Six Noms.

[ P ]  D'Angora's Divas I've Done Returns to Don't Tell Mama

[ P ]  King Kong Room Bookings Head to Ars Nova, Triad and Westbank Cafe

[ B ]  Mack & Mabel Highlights '04 Goodspeed Season

[ B ]  Avenue Q star Harada Steps into Spotlight Feb. 2

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News:

[ NYT ]  Uta Hagen, Tony-Winning Broadway Star and Teacher of Actors, Dies at 84 by MEL GUSSOW
Uta Hagen electrified audiences with her Tony Award-winning performance as Martha in the original Broadway production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

[ NYT ]  Slide Show: Portraits of Uta Hagen

[ B ]  Stage Legend Uta Hagen Dead at Age 84

[ IBDB ]  Uta Hagen's Broadway Credits

[ NYT ]  Tip on Spalding Gray Sighting Is Investigated by JAMES BARRON

[ DN ]  Gray's wife believes he's still alive by GEORGE RUSH, ALICE McQUILLAN and TRACY CONNOR

[ ND ]  Did Spalding Gray Jump From Ferry? by Robert Kahn and Pete Bowles

[ NYT ]  Box Offices on Broadway Feel the Chill by JESSE McKINLEY

The first weeks of winter, always a grim time for Broadway, look even worse this year due to bitter weather and waning tourism in New York.

[ Y ]  Backing 'Taboo' Backfires on Rosie by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Writer
"Even in the days of David Merrick, he had investors," theater historian and critic Ken Mandelbaum says, referring to the legendary producer of such musicals as "Gypsy," "Hello, Dolly!" and more. "He wasn't the sole investor, surely. (Like O'Donnell) there must be other examples (of solo investing), but nothing on this scale."

[ HC ]  Goodspeed tries its hand at 'Mack and Mabel' by Frank Rizzo

[ P ]  Jerry Herman's Revised Mack & Mabel Gets Green Light at Goodspeed for Fall 2004

[ ND ]  Little Big 'Duet' by GORDON COX

Show's going from 74 seats to Broadway

[ P ]  RSC Shrew Tamed at Queen�s

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 15

[ P ]  Matthew Broderick and Other Broadway Stars on Film Launch Sundance Festival, Jan. 15

[ P ]  The Neon Lights Are Bright Off-Broadway for Songwriters in They Wrote That?, Jan. 15

[ P ]  Thomas Meehan to Rework Book for Broadway-Bound Carnival


Features:

[ CT ]  A musician's double life by Anne Taubeneck
In the men's dressing room at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Michael Cerveris is talking about his double life.

[ HC ]  Sister Darlene by JEFF RIVERS
Love, Familiar Voice Of 1960s Girl Groups, Getting Overdue Attention As She Keeps Recording, Touring In �Nunsense�

[ DN ]  Ballet gets a silent-cinema spin by HOWARD KISSEL
George Balanchine and Buster Keaton are not names you generally see together.
But they have inspired Broadway choreographer Susan Stroman's first full-length ballet.

[ B ]  Photo Op: Legend Lansbury Visits Broadway's Wonderful Town

[ B ]  Photo Op: Getting to Know the Cast of Crow


Reviews:

[ TB ]  Abundance
Review by Matthew Murray

[ SUN ]  Coming to America, But Not to a Theater Near You by JEREMY McCARTER

On Lisa Loomer's "Living Out", a play ahead of its time.

[ BG ]  Fashion editor captured in 'Full' by Sally Cragin
From the moment she sweeps onstage, regal black hairdo lacquered in place, Annette Miller's Diana Vreeland is utterly lovable.

posted at 1/15/2004 07:30:46 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Features:

[ B ]  Stage Notes: 01/14/04 by Paul Wontorek
Ellen Greene; Alice Ripley; and a very funny song parody from Marc Shaiman.

[ P ]  Susan Stroman: Ballet Meets Broadway
Not since 1967 has New York City Ballet offered the world premiere of an original full-length ballet, and that one was very much an inside job: George Balanchine's Jewels.

[ TM ]  They Love the Nightlife by: Michael Portantiere
TheaterMania's cameras are there for the 2004 Nightlife Awards -- right in the front row at The Town Hall!

Reviews:

[ TB ]  NJPAC Coup: Craig Carnelia in Performance by Bob Rendell

News:

[ P ]  Serial Killer Andrew Cunanan Musical Disposable Causing Controversy

[ P ]  Middle-East Tensions Fuel New Broadway Play Sixteen Wounded, Starting March 22

[ P ]  Irish Rep's Eden, a Seriocomic Portrait of a Marriage, Begins Jan. 20, Opens Feb. 1

[ B ]  Calico to Replace Sweet Panic in West End

posted at 1/14/2004 07:08:40 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link



Reviews:

[ B ]  I, Don Quixote by Ken Mandelbaum

[ TM ]  Talk Show Confidential
Reviewed By: Matthew Murray

[ CU ]  Instructions For Forgetting

[ CU ]  Demon Baby


News:

[ NYP ]  GRAY FEARED DEAD by CHRIS WILSON
The family of missing movie monologist Spalding Gray is "bracing for the worst," fearing he may have leaped into New York Harbor's frigid waters from a Staten Island Ferry, sources said yesterday.

[ NYT ]  Police Tracing Clues in Spalding Gray Case by JAMES BARRON

[ DN ]  Cops seeking missing actor Gray by ALICE McQUILLAN

[ P ]  Search for Missing Actor Spalding Gray Continues

[ B ]  Tom Wopat to Play Billy Flynn in Chicago Tour

[ P ]  Tom Wopat to Join Chicago Tour

[ P ]  R. Kelly Sought to Score New Rocky Stage Musical

Because a musical version of LOLITA has already been done?

[ P ]  Cast Set for World Premiere of David Mamet's Dr. Faustus at San Francisco's Magic

[ P ]  HERE Gets Target Margin's Jokes Through Jan. 31

[ P ]  Rosie O'Donnell and Cyndi Lauper Continue Work on New Stage Musical

[ P ]  Bernadette Peters May Extend Gypsy Contract

[ P ]  Yale Rep Presents World Premiere of Chekhov Story Rothschild's Fiddle, Jan. 14-31

[ P ]  Toronto's Mousetrap Snaps Shut Jan. 18 After More Than 26 Years

[ P ]  Broadway Cat Digs in Claws Through March 14

[ P ]  Tropics' Lopez Hosts Very Special Evening Benefit Jan. 19

[ P ]  Aida Star Nominated for Two NAACP Image Awards

[ P ]  Chicago Star Cast in Reprise!'s One-Night-Only I'm Getting My Act Together

Sharon Lawrence, who was most recently on Broadway in the Tony-winning revival of Chicago, will head the cast of the Reprise! mounting of I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road.

[ P ]  Original Little Shop Star Offers a Valentine of a Concert Feb. 14

[ P ]  Her Shining Hour: Tonya Pinkins Sings Arlen Feb. 15

[ P ]  Long and Short of It: PlayMakers Rep Offers Two Versions of Lear, Staged by Wing-Davey, Jan. 14-Feb. 8

[ P ]  Christine Andreas Returns to Cafe Carlyle, Feb. 3-28

[ P ]  Playwright Dario Fo Sued Over New Work

[ P ]  "Ol' Man River" Singer Paul Robeson Commemorated on U.S. Postage Stamp


Features:

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Awards Light Up the Nightlife Jan. 12

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Kelsey Grammer, etc.:

[ NYP ]  KELSEY TO THE MAX by MICHAEL RIEDEL
The Darwinian winter has begun, and the contrast between the weak and the strong is now frighteningly stark.
In real trouble are "Never Gonna Dance," "Anna in the Tropics" and - here she is, world! - "Gypsy."

[ NYT ]  Kelsey Grammer May Join 'Producers'

Spalding Gray:

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
SPALDING Gray's heartsick family is fuming at the New York Times for what they consider the paper's insensitivity regarding the disappearance of the actor/monologist who created "Swimming to Cambodia" and "Monster in a Box."
Plus items on Jane Krakowski, Paul Sorvino and Jason Miller, and Angelica Torn and "Edge."

[ ND ]  Gray's Latest Effort: 'Life Interrupted' by Karin Lipson

[ CST ]  Gray's monologues took Chicagoans on wild ride BY HEDY WEISS

Throughout the 1980s and '90s, the Goodman Theatre served as something of a second artistic home to Spalding Gray.

"Taboo":

[ NYP ]  BREAKING 'TABOO' by MICHAEL RIEDEL
ROSIE O'DONNELL has decided to put "Taboo" - the limping vanity production she tried to pass off as a Broadway musical - out of its misery.

[ NYT ]  'Taboo' to Close Next Month, at a Loss for Rosie O'Donnell by JESSE McKINLEY

[ DN ]  Ta-ta to 'Taboo': Rosie pulls plug by ROBERT DOMINGUEZ

Broadway won't have Rosie O'Donnell to kick around anymore.

[ B ]  Struggling Tuner Taboo To Close February 8

[ TM ]  Not Safe in the City: Taboo Will Close on February 8


Other News:

[ V ]  'Miracle' reading claims its cast
Stars set for Child's new play, Landau directs

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 14

[ P ]  Wasserstein and Kushner Discuss Jewish Culture Jan. 14

[ P ]  Long Wharf's Long Christmas Ride Home Starts in Connecticut, Jan. 14

[ P ]  Leapin' Lizards! Mini-Tour of Annie Offers U.S. Premiere of New Song for Warbucks, Starting Jan. 14


Features:

[ TM ]  Stars Over Broadway
How much does star casting help a show? And what are the tradeoffs? David Finkle ruminates.

[ USA ]  Stars light up over Broadway by Elysa Gardner
Quotes from Hugh Jackman, Laura Linney, Alfre Woodard, Jimmy Smits, John Lithgow, and Ben Chaplin.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
How well does J.M. Barrie's classic Peter Pan hold up in its new film version? Filichia takes a look.

[ HC ]  Theaters Need To Change Their Wicked Ways by Frank Rizzo
Every year, the folks who run commercial and not-for-profit presenting theaters around the country gather in New York to assess trends in the industry, marketing strategies, the state of their economic health and the potential for future road shows from Broadway productions.
The assessment at last week's conference is: It's going to be a wicked year, in every sense of the word.

[ NYT ]  BOLDFACE NAMES
Will It Impurify Our Precious Bodily Fluids? by ANTHONY RAMIREZ

Craig Bierko on "Fired!" (second item).

[ ND ]  Crooner Cough by Karin Lipson
Remedies for those who sing for a living

[ BS ]  All in the Timing
What is comic timing, anyway? Is it a skill or technique, or is it merely a fancy way to say "good comic acting"? And, if it exists, is it innate, or can it--must it--be taught?

[ LAT ]  Celebrating Mr. B by Barbara Isenberg
When the New York City Ballet thought to honor the many talents of Balanchine, it turned to Susan Stroman, the cross-pollinating queen.

[ LADN ]  'Daydream that happens to be real' by Paul Andersen
Melba Moore's life like a Hollywood movie ... and then some
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ B ]  Photo Op: Hairspray Hunks Morrison & Thorell Say Goodbye

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE ARCHITECTURE OF LOSS'
Inhabitants of an Empty House Built With Grief and Longing by MARGO JEFFERSON

Julia Cho's touching new play at New York Theater Workshop tours the lives of a broken family on the edge of the Arizona desert.

[ ATW ]  The Architecture of Loss:Building with Pain
Review by Andy Propst

[ CU ]  The Architecture of Loss
Review

[ NJ ]  Play heats up as couples get 'Closer' BY PETER FILICHIA

Over the icy cold weekend, Alliance Repertory Theatre Company gave Bloomfield a most hot and steamy show.

[ ATW ]  2004 Nightlife Awards - An Epic Night of Grand Entertainment
Review by Andy Propst

[ VV ]  Techno Dreams
Multimedia theater may dazzle the eye, but where does it leave the unmechanical actor? by Charles McNulty

Instructions for Forgetting; House of No More

[ VV ]  Target Margin Does Goethe with Demonic Wit and Ambition by Tom Sellar
These Very Serious Jokes

[ VV ]  Sightlines by Alexis Soloski
Erin Courtney's Demon Baby

[ BH ]  As fashion maven Vreeland, star of `Full' wears it well by Robert Nesti

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Tuesday, January 13, 2004

News:

[ P ]  Bway's Taboo Will Close Feb. 8 After 100 Performances
Tuesday night, producers told the company of Taboo, the Broadway musical with original music and lyrics by Boy George, it will play its final performance on Sunday Feb. 8.

[ B ]  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Extends to March 14

[ B ]  Is Kelsey Grammer B'way's Next Max Bialystock?

[ P ]  "Frasier" and Bloom? Will Kelsey Grammer Play Max Bialystock on Broadway?

[ P ]  Sight Unseen Star Laura Linney to Appear on Final Season of Frasier

[ P ]  Bounce Concert for Actors' Fund Set for May 9

[ TM ]  Gussow to Interview McNally at Barnes and Noble

[ P ]  Denver Center's Artistic Director Donovan Marley Will Leave Job in July 2005

[ P ]  Long Wharf's Long Christmas Ride Home Starts in Connecticut, Jan. 14

[ P ]  Tea with Mussolini's Mistress: Summit Conference Begins Off-Broadway Feb. 5

[ P ]  Broadway's Master Harold Joins Second Stage's Wintertime


Reviews:

[ TM ]  Allegro
Reviewed By: Michael Toscano


Features:

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Broadway Stars Come out to Benefit MTC, Jan. 12

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News:

[ P ]  Supper Club's King Kong Room Abruptly Closes
At 4 PM Jan. 12, Jim Caruso received a call from the club saying that "tonight's the last night, and please cancel everything."

[ P ]  Friedman and Strathairn Are Hannah & Martin Off-Broadway

[ P ]  Denver Center Has Oedipus, Gem of the Ocean, Dirty Story and Creve Coeur in 2004-05

[ P ]  Mulamba to Play Mother Courage at Classical Theater of Harlem, Feb. 4

[ P ]  Paige Price Tells of Her eX-Files at Ars Nova, Jan. 16

[ P ]  Ford's Theatre Snags Alley's Managing Director to Lead DC Institution

[ B ]  Wilson, Grizzard & Skinner Join Cast of D.C. Cat


Reviews:

[ B ]  Critics Catch Frenchie Davis in Dreamgirls Tour

[ TM ]  The Architecture of Loss
Reviewed By: David Finkle


Features:

[ B ]  Photo Op: A Senator Visits a King

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Reviews:

[ B ]  CDs: Benvenuto! by Ken Mandelbaum
THE FIREBRAND OF FLORENCE (Capriccio)

News:

[ B ]  R&B Diva Deborah Cox Steps Into Aida Feb. 17

[ P ]  Full Cast Revealed For London Endgame

[ P ]  Hannigan And Evans Join London�s Mayor To Launch Ticket-Discount Scheme

[ P ]  Andrew Lippa and Julia Murney Offer Sneak Peek of Little Princess on "Radio Playbill" Jan. 12-24

[ P ]  Patrick Wilson to Star in Kennedy Center Cat On a Hot Tin Roof

[ P ]  Monologist Spalding Gray Is Reported Missing

[ B ]  Wife Reports Monologist Spalding Gray Missing

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News:

[ NYT ]  Actor Spalding Gray Is Missing by SABRINA TAVERNISE
The disappearance of Mr. Gray was of particular concern to the authorities. Mr. Gray, 62, had a history of depression, was taking medication, the police said, and had attempted suicide in 2002.

[ NYP ]  MOVIE WRITER MISSING by MURRAY WEISS and MARSHA KRANES

[ WP ]  Backstage: For Director Mark Lamos, A Belated Trip to Tennessee by Jane Horwitz

He'll have Dana Ivey as Big Mama, George Grizzard as Big Daddy, Emily Skinner as Mae (Sister Woman) and Patrick Wilson as Brick. More auditions will be scheduled in New York and Washington.

[ PTR ]  Visa to promote 'Movin' Out' in national ad campaign by Alice T. Carter
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link.

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
ARTHUR Laurents didn't realize he was creating the ultimate gay love story when he wrote "West Side Story" - and now he's miffed that some people see it that way.

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
NEW York magazine theater critic John Simon was practically burned in effigy Sunday at the Times Arts & Leisure-sponsored playwrights panel at City University of New York.

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Bad Week for Beauty
As it is every year, the first week of January was a tough one on Broadway. Every single show was down from the previous week, with tourist friendly shows suffering the most. Beauty and the Beast was down a whopping $517,296 from the week ending January 4.

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: January 5-11

[ B ]  Karate Kid Macchio to Star in Off-B'way Freddy

[ TM ]  O'Neill Playwrights Conference Accepting Open Submissions of Scripts

[ P ]  In a Very Permanent Way: Hare's Latest Opens in London

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 13

[ P ]  Alice Ripley Takes Five Flights Off-Broadway, Jan. 13-Feb. 22

[ P ]  The New Group's Staging of Aunt Dan and Lemon Hatches Anew at Acorn, Jan. 13

[ P ]  Charles Durning Begins as Final Trumbo in Off-Broadway Homage, Jan. 13

[ P ]  Biloxi Blues Steams Up Philly Winter at Walnut Street Jan. 13-Feb. 29

[ P ]  Bway's Hairspray Welcomes Dokuchitz and Blake Jan. 13

[ P ]  "Sopranos" Star and "Karate Kid" Headline in New Off-Broadway Play, Magic Hands Freddy, Feb. 5

[ P ]  Original Dreamgirls Star Takes on Ma Rainey in Hollywood, Jan. 29-March 7

[ P ]  Through the Looking Glass: Adult Musical Comedy, Alice in Wonderland, Begins Jan. 12

[ P ]  Annie Creator Martin Charnin Has a New Comic Strip Musical, and Two Unlikely Collaborators

[ P ]  Disney Projects Include Pooh's Perfect Day and School Versions of "Aladdin" and "Cinderella"


Features:

[ TM ]  Sondheim and Cook Discuss Musical Theater in New York Times-Sponsored Event

[ B ]  Fresh Face: Jennifer Westfeldt by Kevin Manganaro

[ B ]  Photo Op: Recording a Wonderful New Cast Album

[ B ]  Photo Op: MTC Gets Intimate With Three Talented Stars

[ DN ]  Show has that top 10 feeling by DAVID HINCKLEY

Some songwriters wait a lifetime to sing their songs the way they really want them to sound. That's not necessarily the case for legends Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil in their new Off-Broadway musical show, "They Wrote That?"

[ BS ]  Nicu's Spoon Stirs Nontraditional Plays and Casts
Stephanie Barton-Farcas insists she wants only "the best possible actor for the role." But actors who are blind, deaf, or physically disabled are well represented in her productions.

Reviews:

[ WP ]  'Allegro': Signature Gives Musical a Tuneup by Peter Marks
It's hard to imagine "Allegro" being thought of as a masterwork. But as Schaeffer's chamber-musical treatment demonstrates, there's more here to savor than its invisible status would have you believe.

[ NYT ]  CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
Freedom Twisted by Corrupt Regimes by MARGO JEFFERSON

While the three plays of corruption in Russia and Poland at LaMama Experimental Theater Club have a lot to teach us, one in particular is a bit overwhelming.

[ NYT ]  CABARET REVIEW | UTE LEMPER
The Arrogance of Dietrich and the Decadence of Today by STEPHEN HOLDEN

Ms. Lemper evoked Marlene Dietrich with her commanding arrogance and knowledge of life and love in her performance at the Cafe Carlyle.

[ NJ ]  Suburban sophistication BY PETER FILICHIA
Paper Mill stages Charles Busch's mainstream 'Allergist's Wife'

[ TB ]  Instructions for Forgetting
Review by Warren Hoffman

[ CU ]  The Architecture of Loss
Review

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Monday, January 12, 2004

[ STARS ]  What In The World: The Newsical Revue Adds Additional Performance Date
posted at 1/12/2004 09:36:00 PM by James Marino | Item Link



Reviews:

[ NYT ]  TV REVIEW | 'GRACIE'S CHOICE'
A Daughter Takes Charge of Her Troubled Family and Herself by VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN

In Lifetime's pastel-colored drama about sobriety and responsibility, a bright girl wins over the forces of evil, chaos and good-time moms.
With Kristen Bell and Anne Heche.

News:

[ P ]  Christina Applegate Offered Sweet Charity Lead

[ B ]  Applegate May Be B'way-Bound in Charity

[ P ]  Lizan Mitchell Is Mama in Buffalo Studio Arena Raisin in the Sun, Opening Jan. 16

[ P ]  Answers Sought in un becoming, a Drama About Hysterectomies, Feb. 5-28 in NYC

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Features:

[ B ]  The Minskoff by Ken Mandelbaum

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary

Filichia ponders the appropriateness of various musical theater ringtones designed for cell phones.

Reviews:

[ TB ]  Sound Advice: Best Theatrical Albums of 2003 by Jonathan Frank

News:

[ P ]  92nd Street Y Pays Tribute to Thornton Wilder with Guare, Vogel and Waterston

[ P ]  New Dramatists' Slee Named INTAR Executive Director

[ P ]  Christine Andreas to Sing at NYC Cabaret Jan. 12

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Features:

[ ND ]  A Less Than Rosy Picture For 'Taboo' by James T. Madore
Promoters hope lower ticket prices, a cast album and a DVD will boost play out of winter doldrums

[ ND ]  Broadway's D'Abruzzo Belts Out Her Karaoke Best by Robert Kahn

[ NYP ]  CANNED LAUGHTER by BARBARA HOFFMAN

OH, to be humiliated by . . . Woody Allen. It happened to Annabelle Gurwitch, who was cast last spring in Allen's off-Broadway play, "Writer's Block."

[ BSUN ]  City's space transformed by Scott Calvert
Hippodrome: The theater is being readied for its opening next month.

Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE PRODUCERS'
D�j� Nu? Stars Return, Now Spoofing Their Spoof by BEN BRANTLEY

In terms of wall-to-wall satisfaction, it is again the best show in town.

[ B ]  The Architecture of Loss
Review by Eric Grode

[ NJ ]  Playwright builds a story of loss upon loss BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

A vast amount of unhappiness is packed into "The Architecture of Loss" over the sorrowful course of 90 minutes.

[ NJ ]  Unsolved mystery BY PETER FILICHIA
George Street revival remains true to inscrutable heart of 'Agnes of God'

[ TB ]  The Hunger Waltz
Review by Matthew Murray

Perhaps the best thing about Sheila Callaghan's new play, The Hunger Waltz, which just opened at the Manhattan Ensemble Theater, is how it defies every expectation you may have for it.

[ TB ]  Anticipating Heat
Review by Matthew Murray

[ TB ]  Demon Baby
Review by Matthew Murray

[ TM ]  These Very Serious Jokes
Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo

[ ATW ]  The Last Supper: A Stream-of-Conscious Feast
Review by Andy Propst


News:

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
PETER Allen would have enjoyed the eclectic gathering in Hugh Jackman's dressing room following a recent performance of "The Boy from Oz," in which Jackman portrays the flamboyant performer to rave reviews.

[ V ]  B.O. leaps; 'Chi' at $1 mil
Road grosses

[ P ]  Marcovicci Hosts 2004 Nightlife Awards Jan. 12; Buckley Receives Legend of Cabaret Award

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 12

[ P ]  Krakowski, Chenoweth, Wopat to Entertain at MTC Winter Benefit, Jan. 12

[ P ]  Boy From Oz Star to Chat Live Jan. 12

[ P ]  Nothing But the Truth Symposium to Be Held at Newhouse, Jan. 12

[ P ]  Bierko, Orbach, Stevens, Pinkins Get the Pink Slip in Gurwitch's Fired!, Jan. 12

[ P ]  Where's the Loading Dock? League Launches StageSpecs.org

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Sunday, January 11, 2004

Features:

[ TS ]  Fondue farewell to The Mousetrap
Gouda it wasn't, and regrettably, show will not be the last of its kind by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN

Why is it that some of the tackiest shows tend to run for the longest time?

[ BSUN ]  'Triumph of Love' failure freed time for new writing, new horizons by J. Wynn Rousuck
"It's seldom that we can see a life-changing experience yawning in front of us," James Magruder wrote in the journal he kept on Triumph of Love, the 1997 Broadway musical for which he scripted the libretto. "What could be worse - if something happens to me because of Triumph of Love, or if nothing happens?"

[ CST ]  Great expectations BY MARY HOULIHAN
Borrow from Charles Dickens the two words that best describe the musical theater life of composer Adam Guettel.

[ HC ]  Vogel's Ride by FRANK RIZZO
Playwright Butts Heads With Muse, Age And Sex Bias And Economics Of Theater

[ HC ]  Excerpt: Drive, He Said
This excerpt from Paula Vogel's "The Long Christmas Ride Home" takes place as a family - father, mother, two daughters ages 12 and 7 and a 9-year-old son - drive to a Christmas dinner.

[ INQ ]  Being Bialystock by Desmond Ryan
"The Producers'" comic con man was birthed in squabbling over just what Zero Mostel's character should be. Decades later, there's room on stage for a mirthful multitude of Maxes.

Thanks to American Theater Web for the following features!

[ MH ]  Bikel's choice: to keep the faith BY CHRISTINE DOLEN
With powerful simplicity, The Chosen tells of Jewish fathers and sons, and the rift that comes from different ways of looking at the world.

[ ST ]  Redgrave finds role of condemned inmate vital artistically and socially by Misha Berson

[ SD ]  McAnuff's dream is on the way to reality by Anne Marie Welsh

Enter the UCSD campus, look to the east and there, on a bluff overlooking the sprawl of the Golden Triangle, Des McAnuff's dream is taking shape.

[ MN ]  Frenchie Davis leaves 'Idol' in the dust by Karen D'Souza

[ HChron ]  This 'Flower' blossoms by EVERETT EVANS

Revival of '50s musical finds a new and truer voice
Interviews with David Henry Hwang and C.Y. Lee.

Reviews:

[ P ]  ON THE RECORD: Hair and Tom Brown's Schooldays
This week's column examines the recent two-disc Hair set and the little-known musical Tom Brown's Schooldays.

[ ND ]  They've Got It Covered by Glenn Gamboa
There's a trend among contemporary singers to reprise old standards. But should they be doing it?

News:

[ V ]  B'way rings heady holiday bell
Spate of closings precedes traditionally chilly season

Broadway rang in the New Year in typically festive fashion, garnering year-high numbers for a weekly frame. The B.O. total for the 30 shows was a heady $20,449,860, up 6.8% from the preceding week, itself a healthy one.

[ V ]  Spotlight on 'Dark'
Sold-out show will return to NT next Christmas

[ P ]  Talk Show Watch: Nathan Lane on "Conan," Bernadette Peters on "Regis"

[ P ]  Atlantic Theater Company's Frame 312 Ends Its Run Jan. 11

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 11

[ P ]  Queer Songbook Series Kicks Off Jan. 18 with Bucchino

[ P ]  Bohemian Rhapsody: Freddy Mercury Musical Begins Performances Off Broadway, Jan. 11

[ P ]  The Last Letter Is Sealed as Show Closes Off-Broadway, Jan. 11

[ P ]  Original Corny and Link Exit Hairspray Jan. 11

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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)

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Oct 25 - A Bronx Tale (Kerr)

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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]

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Feb 28 - Passing Strange (Belasco)

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Apr 3 - South Pacific (Beaumont)

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Apr 30 - Thurgood (Booth)

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TBA - Godspell

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Broadway Season

Oct 16 - Billy Elliot (Imperial)

Nov 08 - Dividing the Estate (a Shubert theater)

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

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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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