Saturday, April 03, 2004

Features:

[ TM ]  Follow Spot
Michael Portantiere chats amiably with tick, tick...BOOM! director David Saint and Hairspray star Kathy Brier before venting his feelings about the Fiddler on the Roof revival.

[ B ]  Quotable Quotes: Sassy Stars of Sly Fox

[ Y ]  Five years later, ABBA musical Mamma Mia is generating Money, Money, Money by MATT WOLF (AP)

[ NYT ]  A Playwright Wonders What He Said, She Said by BEN SISARIO
The confrontation between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger is one that a generation of scholars have very likely fantasized about.

[ ND ]  Broadway shines bright for other first-timers by JOHN HABICH
Ray Liotta is not the only major star to make his Broadway debut this season - and he's not the only one to do so alongside a noteworthy theater veteran.

[ NYT ]  Victoria's Onstage Secret by LINDA RATTNER
In Lynn Nottage's "Intimate Apparel," which is set in New York in 1905, the costumes are historically accurate and made of vintage-style fabrics.

[ NYT ]  The New 'Arab' Playwrights by LIESL SCHILLINGER
A new generation of female playwrights, born in the 1960's and 70's, is breaking a path not only creatively, but socially.

[ NYT ]  Excerpt: 'First Lady Suite'

[ AJC ]  Springtime for Mel by WENDELL BROCK
Ultimate comic zings showbiz in 'The Producers'
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ B ]  Photo Op: Dope Party for Marijuana-Logues

[ LAT ]  What possessed them? by Amy Freed
A shameless betrayal of principles surrounded the 17th century Salem witch trials. Here's why I felt compelled to deal with it as farce � and now.

Reviews:

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
Barbara & Scott battle over Silent Laughter but agree wholeheartedly on Maria Friedman at the Caf� Carlyle.

[ WP ]  'Children of Eden': Adam and Eve's Musical Family by Peter Marks
At Ford's Theatre, with Andre Garner, Bradley Dean and Becca Ayers.

[ NYT ]  TV REVIEW | 'COAST TO COAST'
A Couple on a Road Trip, Feeling Angst Amid Plenty by VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
In Showtime's modestly surprising movie, Judy Davis and Richard Dreyfuss play a couple taking stock while on a cross-country drive.

[ CU ]  Twentieth Century

News:

[ NYT ]  Labor Board Dismisses Virtual Music Charge
The case, filed by a Mahattan company that sells the so-called virtual orchestra machine, alleged unfair practices by the Broadway musicians' union.

[ P ]  They Said It Wouldn't Last: Tony n' Tina's Wedding Ends Off-Broadway May 1

[ B ]  Calling It Quits: Tony n' Tina to Close on May 1

[ B ]  Off-B'way's Normal Heart Delays Previews

[ NYT ]  Sylvia Froos, 89, a Versatile Former Child Star, Dies by DOUGLAS MARTIN
In her career during the 1920's, Sylvia Froos had a knack for showing up just as a new entertainment medium arose.

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
OF course the tables were round at the Drama Dept. fund-raiser at the Algonquin hotel Tuesday night - the organization was paying tribute to writer Dorothy Parker, of Algonquin Round Table fame.

[ LAT ]  Management of LATC unresolved by Don Shirley
Who's running Los Angeles Theatre Center?

[ B ]  Day, Wood & Weller Set for Albee's New Zoo

[ TM ]  Encompass New Opera Theatre to Celebrate Sheldon Harnick's 80th Birthday

[ TM ]  Broadway Bares Goes to the Movies on Sunday, June 20

[ TM ]  Vonnegut Speaks at Access Theatre

[ P ]  Les Misérables Reopens at London's Queen's with Substantial Redesigns

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 3

[ P ]  Period of Confinement? For Pregnant Actresses, Life Is a Cabaret in Hot Mamas, April 3 & 5 in NYC

[ P ]  Free Reading of Michael Kassin's Face Offered April 7 in NYC

[ P ]  92nd Street Y to Offer Panel Discussion on Sixteen Wounded with Hirsch

[ P ]  Adirondack Fest Has Elaine Stritch At Liberty and World Premiere Musical in New Summer Home

[ P ]  All That Glitters: Barbara Cook's Broadway Gets Concert Recording on DRG Label

[ P ]  T.R. Knight to Star as Boy in World Premiere Julia Jordan Play at Primary Stages

[ P ]  Dench, Tilly, Stage Stars Voice Disney "Home on the Range" with Music by Little Shop's Menken

[ P ]  Salem Witches Hunted in World Premiere of Safe in Hell in CA, Starting April 2

[ P ]  George and Ira Sign with William Morris

[ B ]  Cast Announced for Bye Bye Birdie at Encores!

[ TM ]  Encores! Announces Casting for Bye Bye Birdie

[ TM ]  Michele Pawk to Offer Musical Theater Master Class
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Friday, April 02, 2004

[ P ]  Frayn's Democracy Expected on Broadway in Late October
Royal National Theatre's lauded staging of Michael Frayn's Democracy, previously known to be Broadway bound, will begin its U.S. premiere on Broadway Oct. 29 toward a Nov. 18 opening, according to a casting notice.

Features:

[ CT ]  Jackie Mason basics
Broadway bomb returns comic to what he does best by Chris Jones
"I was just trying to do something different for people," Mason said, with the kind of shrug you can almost hear down a phone line. "The only trouble was that it stunk."

[ B ]  Obscure Recordings: Boulevard! by Ken Mandelbaum

[ ND ]  At last, he's met his 'match' BY JEREMY CAPLAN
Ray Liotta takes a break from playing thugs and crazies on film for his stage debut as a man on an emotional journey

[ P ]  Match Maker
Ray Liotta scores his Broadway debut in Stephen Belber's Match

[ P ]  Sly Puss Dreyfuss
Richard Dreyfuss adds another huckster to his list of comic con men in Sly Fox

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: A Fun Run for Fools' Gold at Sly Fox

[ B ]  Photo Op: A Fab Fete for Sly Fox

[ O ]  From 'Millie' to movie by KYLE O'BRIEN
Michael Mayer has gone beyond Broadway.

[ DFP ]  Playwright tells tales of U-M days BY MARYANNE GEORGE
Arthur Miller visits campus, speaks to over 600
Thanks to American Theater Web for the last two links above.
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[ STARS ]  BARBARA COOK'S BROADWAY: THE LEGENDARY VOCALIST AND WALLY HARPER IN CONCERT AT LINCOLN CENTER'S VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATRE
by ELLIS NASSOUR
Spring is officially here and that usually means something's cooking - usually from legendary, seemingly ageless vocalist Barbara Cook and perennial collaborator/musical director Wally Harper. She rarely ventures anything without his expert touch and guiding hands. Some things in life are expendable, but not Harper. They've been a team 30 years.

"Sly Fox" - Reviews:

[ B ]  Critics Take In Dreyfuss in Sly Fox Revival

[ WP ]  It Has Its Pros, but One Big Con Trips Up 'Sly Fox' by Peter Marks
For 20 juicy minutes, the revival of Larry Gelbart's "Sly Fox" makes a believer out of you.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'SLY FOX'
Stealthy, Wealthy, Joke-Wise by BEN BRANTLEY
The revival of Larry Gelbart's tale of dirty rotten swindlers in San Francisco in the late 1800's brings to mind a car that's been in the garage for a couple of decades.

[ USA ]  Dreyfuss able, but casting sinks 'Sly Fox'
* * * out of four

[ TB ]  Sly Fox
Review by Matthew Murray
The new production of Larry Gelbart's comedy that just opened at the Barrymore is a luscious reminder that plays with all-star casts don't need to sacrifice quality for marquee value.

[ ND ]  'Sly' lawyers, for love and money BY LINDA WINER
Although the original and the new productions were both directed by Arthur Penn, this version seems sweeter, less overbearing, with a gentler appreciation for the script's flights of devious wordplay.

[ DN ]  Still doggone funny, if uneven by Howard Kissel
It's wonderful to have an old-fashioned comedy back on Broadway in the form of "Sly Fox," Larry Gelbart's 1976 retelling of Ben Jonson's 1606 comedy about avarice.

[ NYP ]  GREED EXPECTATIONS by CLIVE BARNES
PLAYWRIGHT Larry Gelbart is no mere sly fox - he's also an extraordinarily smart cookie.

[ Y ]  Humor Falls Flat in 'Sly Fox' by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

[ B ]  Sly Fox
Review by Celia Wren

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Sly Fox is Moderately Amusing Burlesque
XM Satellite Radio

[ TM ]  Sly Fox
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ NJ ]  Beware of the 'Fox' that fleeces playgoers BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ HC ]  'Fox' Falls Short Of Original by MALCOLM JOHNSON

[ CU ]  Sly Fox

Other Reviews:

[ NJ ]  Hear them roar: Landmark feminist musical has style and power a quarter-century after its debut BY PETER FILICHIA
That the Women's Theater Company has chosen this moment to do "I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road" has powerful real-life resonance.

[ ND ]  A spaced-out musical BY MICHAEL BRACKEN
If at first you don't succeed.... Well, you know the rest.
Barry Keating, whose "Starmites," set in the science-fiction world of Innerspace, ran briefly on Broadway in 1989, has retooled his musical for the 21st century. And the new, souped-up version is making its world premiere at the Cultural Arts Playhouse in Old Bethpage.

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: 'Plays and Playwrights' Brings NY Theatre to a Wider Audience
XM Satellite Radio

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'HANNAH AND MARTIN'
Being and Time, Love and Power or, When Hannah Met Martin by MARGO JEFFERSON
Ideas can be more frenzied and violent than feelings. This frightening truth is at the center of Kate Fodor's play about Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger.

[ ND ]  The Marijuana-logues: giggling over grass BY GORDON COX
It's all as agreeably useless as a lazy afternoon giggling at things that, in sobriety, aren't that funny.

[ NJ ]  Reefer madness: Trio's breezy pot spoof generates smoke without fire BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ NYP ]  ENGAGING 'SARAH' BREAKS UP by DONALD LYONS

[ NYP ]  TRIVIAL INTERRUPTIONS TAINT PUBLIC'S 'WELL' by DONALD LYONS

News:

[ NYT ]  ON STAGE AND OFF
Revised 'Zoo Story' by JASON ZINOMAN
Edward Albee has written a new first act for his play "The Zoo Story." Also, P. Diddy sparks controversy on Broadway.
Plus casting for "Bye Bye Birdie."

[ Y ]  Gershwin kin ink with WMA
WMA will look to create shows in the vein of "My One and Only" and "Crazy for You," contempo stage vehicles that incorporated Gershwin songs into a new book.

[ B ]  Albee, Shanley Redos Set for 2nd Stage Season

[ B ]  Stars Set for Company at LA's Reprise!

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
A Richard Rodgers evening; Barbara Cook.

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 2

[ P ]  Windy City's Neo-Futurists Bite Into Big Apple With Brooklyn Run of Too Much Light..., Starting April 2

[ P ]  Canada's Shaw Fest Begins With Earnest Ambitions April 2; Shaw, Rodgers, Guettel, Synge in the Mix

[ P ]  Julie Wilson Is Still Here, April 2-4 at New NYC Cabaret, The Hideaway Room

[ P ]  Ziemba, May, de Haas and Harriell Star in Weird Romance, April 2-4

[ P ]  Side Man, Take Me Out, Proof Stars Set for Albee World Premiere Peter and Jerry

[ P ]  Second Stage Season to Include Albee, Shanley and West Plays

[ P ]  Encores! Bye Bye Birdie to Star Ziemba, Roberts, Bobbie and Jenkins

[ P ]  A Weill Ride: Neuwirth, Rees and Reinking Conjure a Mythic Lady in the Dark in Here Lies Jenny May 6-July 24

Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Who do Filichia's readers want to crown as the King of Musical Theater?

[ P ]  DIVA TALK: A Chat With Tony and Olivier Winner Patti LuPone PLUS Barbara Cook's Broadway

[ ND ]  Theater of the streets BY STEVE DOLLAR
City at Peace, they call it. Hah. This roomful of kids, rehearsing away their Saturday afternoon at the Goldman YMHA/YWHA in the East Village, seems louder than bombs. By Saturday, when the cast of more than 60 New York teenagers from the five boroughs takes the stage at John Jay College Theater in Manhattan, they will be tuned to a fine pitch.

[ BS ]  Writers and Directors: How to Get Beyond the Workshop Whirlpool
There is a term among playwrights known as "development hell" -- a maddening netherworld in which new scripts receive endless readings and workshops, but somehow never get produced.

[ BS ]  Zeroboy and the Rites of Spring
Ok, so baseball's in Japan (the Yankees, at least) and the cherry blossoms are in full bloom in D.C. But look around -- there's plenty of spring right here in NYC. Our Theatregeek takes a peek.

[ B ]  Photo Op: Sneaking a Peek at Snoopy

[ B ]  Photo Op: An Intimate Opening for Hannah and Martin
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Thursday, April 01, 2004

Features:

[ P ]  THE LEADING MEN: Candor and Ebb
With April 15 coming up, here are three "Leading Men" who know how to tax their own talents and turn in a tour de force: Christopher Sieber (Chicago), Michael Arden (Bare) and John Tartaglia (Avenue Q).

[ TB ]  What's New on the Rialto - Interview with Michael Dansicker by Jonathan Frank

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Snoopy Benefit Concert Gives Sneak Peek

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Epic Theatre Opens Hannah and Martin at MET

Reviews:

[ CU ]  Hannah and Martin

News:

[ P ]  Original Matt & Ben Stars Take Hollywood, Starting April 1

[ BS ]  BAM Building Boom Begins

[ BS ]  SSDC Defunding SDCF?

[ BS ]  NY, Calif., Mass. AGs Eye Nonprofit Reform
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[ B ]  DVDs: Strange Music by Ken Mandelbaum
William Robert Gaynor (Taboo, Aida) has been mentioned for the role of Conrad Birdie in Encores!' Bye Bye Birdie. And it appears that Karen Ziemba and Doris Roberts are set to co-star as Rose and Mae.
DVD: SONG OF NORWAY (Prism)

[ TM ]  Hannah & Martin
Reviewed By: David Finkle

News:

[ TM ]  Documentary About Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss to Premiere at Film Forum

[ P ]  Theater Rock Band The Petersons Returns with Passover Show at Joe's Pub, April 5

[ P ]  Creative Team Announced for LuPone-Chenoweth Candide

[ P ]  Amanda McBroom's Lady Macbeth Sings the Blues to World Premiere in June

[ P ]  Aida's Matt Bogart Cast in D.C. Orpheus Descending

[ P ]  Jason Robert Brown Offers Manhattan Concert April 26

[ TM ]  All Wrong: Chenoweth, Menzel et al. Miscast by MCC
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Some interesting "breaking stories" for April Fool's Day at Broadway.com today!

Features:

[ NYT ]  Hey, Wanna See Me Onstage? Buy a Ticket! by JESSE McKINLEY
The cast of "Gypsy," the $8 million revival starring Bernadette Peters at the Shubert Theater, is conducting a grass-roots campaign to lure audiences to the show.

[ TM ]  Loose Lips by: Brian Scott Lipton
Our man Lipton chats with Karens from "A" to "Z" -- Akers to Ziemba, that is -- and tells us to look out for a Broadway transfer of Frozen.

[ NYT ]  BOLDFACE NAMES
And on Horns, the Marine Corps Band by JOYCE WADLER
"Sly Fox" (last item).

[ BH ]  Combat theater: Soldier-playwright Art Devine cues up '9-Ball' for Boston run by Christopher Cox

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ARCHIVES: Sly Fox � 1976
Here's a glimpse at the 1976 Playbill of the original production, with some perspective on the period.

News:

[ ND ]  Broadway to NY Jets: Not in our backyard BY GORDON COX
Karen Ziemba on "Weird Romance" (second item).

[ NYT ]  A Major Step Forward for Lincoln Center Plan by ROBIN POGREBIN
The first step in a $325 million overhaul of the campus's main artery along West 65th Street received approval on Wednesday.

[ NJ ]  Center stage by Peter Filichia
More from Peter's interview with Beth Fowler (last item).

[ HC ]  Loverly! 'My Fair Lady' is coming to Hartford by Frank Rizzo

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: APRIL 1

[ P ]  The Fox Hunt Is On as Gelbart Comedy Opens on Broadway, April 1

[ P ]  With College a Memory, Friends and Friendships Evolve in Between Us, at MTC Starting April 1

[ P ]  Testa, Champlin, Murney and More Sing Revised First Lady Suite Off-Off Broadway April 1-17

[ P ]  Sieber, Gibson, Light, O�Malley and Huffman to Star in Reprise! Company

Reviews:

[ NJ ]  A dim view: Oliver! makes its point -- if you sit close enough to see it BY PETER FILICHIA

[ CT ]  A 'Trying' time leads to satisfaction by Michael Phillips

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'SARAH, SARAH'
Actors Switch Horses After Act I, Giving a New Twist to a Theme by MARGO JEFFERSON
Everything turns on the actions of an implacable mother in Daniel Goldfarb's new play the Manhattan Theater Club.

[ ND ]  Review: "Sarah, Sarah" BY LINDA WINER

[ ND ]  Review: "Hannah and Martin" BY GORDON COX
The thoughtful probings of "Hannah and Martin" prove more compelling intellectually than emotionally.

[ B ]  Hannah and Martin
Review by William Stevenson

[ NJ ]  Pot spoof generates smoke without fire BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Features:

[ B ]  Photo Op: Wicked Puts On a Show for BC/EFA
Ah, it's Kristin with Jaime and the "Glitter" gang!

[ B ]  Photo Op: Glenn Close Visits Bombay Dreams

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: Actor's Equity Turns 90 In Style, with Celebrity Guests

News:

[ B ]  West End Gets Rigg in Suddenly Last Summer

[ P ]  Well, Well, Well: Lisa Kron's Embraced New Play Extends to May 16 at The Public Theater

[ P ]  Frog and Toad, Hansel and Gretel and Go, Dog, Go! Play Minneapolis' Tony-Honored Kids Theatre

[ P ]  Performance Artist Reno to Appear at The Marquee in April

[ P ]  Classical Theater of Harlem's Macbeth Goes to Germany

[ B ]  Creel Set for The Mystery Plays in CT & NY
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Features:

[ B ]  Stage Notes: 03/31/04 by Paul Wontorek
Repeat after me, readers: Idina Menzel is not pregnant.
Broadway Bares; Sweeney Todd; Baby.

[ B ]  Replacements: More from the '90s by Ken Mandelbaum

[ SUN ]  Simon Scardifield: The Exit Interview by JEREMY McCARTER
The star of BAM's "Midsummer Night's Dream" on playing Puck, wearing a tutu, and waiting for Harvey Keitel.

Reviews:

[ TM ]  Tunes, Tomes, & Videos
Martin Denton continues to anthologize Off-Off-Broadway plays, much to the delight of Charles Wright.

[ TM ]  Sarah, Sarah
Reviewed By: David Finkle

News:

[ B ]  Br�an F. O'Byrne Withdraws from Streetcar in DC

[ P ]  Frozen's O'Byrne Withdraws from Kennedy Center Streetcar

[ P ]  Thoroughly Modern Millie Star Heads Cast of The Mystery Plays World Premiere

[ P ]  Judy Blazer and Friends Launch New Theatre Conservatory in Summer, With Landau, Gets, Thalken

[ P ]  Phyllis Newman Directs Three Minutes of Durang, Fierstein, Guare and More at Provincetown June 25-26

[ P ]  Equity and League Begin Negotiations on New Production Contract April 1

[ P ]  Bill Irwin's Mr. Fox: A Rumination Extended by Signature Theatre Company, Now to May 16

[ P ]  Pinter to Direct Jeremy Northam in Old Times at London�s Donmar

[ P ]  Broadway Bares 14 to Salute the Movies; Moccia Directs

[ P ]  Journey�s End Re-Trenches at London�s Playhouse May 3

[ P ]  Casting Complete for All-Star "Sunset Boulevard" Reading

[ P ]  Guthrie's Pirates of Penzance to Feature Sutherland, Neuberger and Bryne; Complete Casting Announced

[ P ]  Broadway By the Year Welcomes Schaffel, Huffman and Never Gonna Dance Stars

[ P ]  Carla Gugino to Seduce Peter Krause in After The Fall Broadway Revival

[ B ]  Nancy Lemenager is Movin' Out's New Brenda

[ P ]  Never Gonna Stop Dancing: Nancy Lemenager to Be New Brenda in Movin' Out
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[ STARS ]  Master Class
Musical Theatre Audition / Performance Technique with Tony award-winning Broadway Actress Michele Pawk & Broadway Musical Supervisor & Conductor Kristen Blodgette

News:

[ NYP ]  MAD AT DAD by MICHAEL RIEDEL
THE stork has paid a visit to Elizabeth Parkinson, the sexy Tony-nominated star of "Movin' Out," and her husband, Scott Wise, a cast member who is also the show's assistant director and choreographer.
Everybody at "Movin' Out" is, of course, very happy for them - everybody, that is, but Twyla Tharp...

[ NYT ]  Non-Equity Tours the Issue for Actors by JESSE McKINLEY
To avoid another strike on Broadway, Actors' Equity and the League of American Theaters and Producers have to come to terms with the problem of non-Equity tours of Broadway shows.

[ B ]  Carla Gugino to Join Krause in After the Fall

[ TM ]  Fantasticks Documentary to Open at Walter Reade Theatre

[ R ]  Vaudeville Child Star Sylvia Froos Dies at 89

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MARCH 31

[ P ]  "The Story Goes On": Baby Begins Previews at Paper Mill Playhouse

[ P ]  Gillian Anderson Returns to London Stage with The Sweetest Swing In Baseball

[ P ]  Blackbird Sings Via Edge Theatre Company Off-Broadway, March 31

[ P ]  Manny Igrejas One-Act Evening, Shrinkage, Begins March 31

[ P ]  Another National Anthem Sung on Broadway as Assassins Starts, March 31

[ P ]  "Torch Song Trilogy," the Movie, Gets DVD Release May 4, With Fierstein Audio Commentary

Features:

[ TS ]  Despair inspires Murphy's comedic masterpiece by RICHARD OUZOUNIAN
If you're looking for the keys to this city, then start with Donna Murphy.

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia celebrates musical theater songs that incorporate proper names from Dietrich to Socrates.

[ PPG ]  Frank talk brings back memories by Christopher Rawson
In response to several queries as to whether "Say Goodnight Gracie" is going to be on TV or video, Gorshin says there are plans: "They keep saying they want to do it, but they're trying to decide what theater."
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ BG ]  English cooks off-Broadway; Sox title quest continues by Carol Beggy & Mark Shanahan

[ NYT ]  BOLDFACE NAMES
Perhaps It Was Beyonc�'s Greatest Hits? by JOYCE WADLER
Woody Allen at the opening of "Twentieth Century" (second item).

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond:Presidential History (Real and Imagined) Sings
'Assassins'; 'First Lady Suite'
XM Satellite Radio

"Sarah, Sarah" - Reviews:

[ Y ]  'Sarah, Sarah' Links One Family by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
Never underestimate the power of a Jewish momma.

[ ATW ]  Goldfarb Undermines Humanity with Jokiness in Sarah, Sarah
Review by Andy Propst

[ CU ]  Sarah, Sarah

[ NJ ]  'Sara, Sara' misaligns its parallel themes BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

Other Reviews:

[ CU ]  Motel Blues

[ Y ]  'The Marijuana-Logues' Light Up N.Y.C. by PETER SANTILLI, Associated Press Writer
The cast rambles on for about 80 minutes without coming up for air. The strict adherence to the subject of all things reefer may require more endurance and higher tolerance than some theatergoers can muster.

[ TB ]  The Marijuana-Logues
Review by Warren Hoffman
Man, I'm totally buzzed, and do I have a case of the munchies! Talk about a high, the new off-Broadway comedy The Marijuana-Logues is one feel-good toke. I haven't had this much fun since . . . um . . . ah . . . I can't remember. Guess I should lay off the weed.

[ CST ]  Old masters at work BY HEDY WEISS
Fritz Weaver in "Trying," Studs Terkel in "Trumbo."

[ CT ]  'Trying' succeeds at satisfaction by Michael Phillips

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'KWATZ! THE TIBETAN PROJECT'
A Coma Becomes the Real World, With a History of Modern Tibet by D. J. R. BRUCKNER
The mournful history of Tibet in the 20th century gradually emerges from this soul journey by Ernest Abuba at the West End Theater.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'EARS ON A BEATLE'
Seeing John Lennon's Last Decade Through the Eyes of 2 F.B.I. Agents by NEIL GENZLINGER
Mark St. Germain's study of two F.B.I. agents who are monitoring John Lennon seems written for people who were visiting Mars during the 1970's and 80's.
posted at 3/31/2004 09:20:21 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Features:

[ SFC ]  Scott Schwartz: A stage director refuses to respect Willa Cather's wishes, but does so respectfully by Edward Guthmann
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ TM ]  Photo/Video File by: Michael Portantiere and Joseph Marzullo
Singing soap stars, Baby boomers, Broadway first-nighters, and theater producers who happen to be women are caught by TM's cameras.

[ BS ]  Agents and Managers Sound Off
Bona fide agents and managers are all gung ho on several points, starting with the fact that they never ask potential clients for money -- for any purpose.

News:

[ P ]  Caroline, or Change Casting Announced; Pinkins, as Expected, Stars

[ B ]  Symphonie Fantastique Eyes Dodger Stages

[ BBC ]  Broadcaster Hubert Gregg mourned
BBC Radio 2 presenter Hubert Gregg, who worked for the BBC since the 1930s, has died aged 89.
With photos and sound clips.

[ IBDB ]  Hubert Gregg's Broadway Credits

[ B ]  Broadway Grosses: Spring Season in Play
Three plays are currently previewing: Match, Sixteen Wounded and Sly Fox. All have above-the-title stars, but so far Sly Fox, headlined by Richard Dreyfuss and Eric Stoltz, is doing the best at the box office.

[ P ]  Broadway Grosses: March 22-28

[ P ]  Nearly NYC: Mackintosh's Oliver! Tour Plays Newark's Prudential Hall March 30-April 4

[ P ]  Children of Eden Opens March 30 at Ford's Theatre in DC

[ P ]  Pulitzer Prize for Drama to Be Announced April 5

[ P ]  Life's Highs and Lows Explored in Off-Bway's Marijuana-Logues, Opening March 30

[ P ]  Tour Dates Announced for Disney's On the Record

[ P ]  Five World Premieres Planned at Chicago's Victory Gardens, Including Plays by Reiner, Sweet, Allen

Reviews:

[ B ]  The Marijuana-Logues
Review by William Stevenson
This ode to pot by three stoners--I mean, stand-up comedians--exhausts just about every possible joke on the subject for 90 minutes.

[ B ]  Sarah, Sarah
Review by Eric Grode

[ CU ]  According to Goldman
Philadelphia Review

[ VV ]  Mild Kingdom
Three pieces of fluff prove that, where fun's concerned, the past is indeed another country by Michael Feingold
Pardon My English; Twentieth Century; Johnny Guitar

[ VV ]  David Auburn Adapts the Diary of One Who Didn't Disappear by Michael Feingold

[ VV ]  Bugging A Beatle
Keeping tabs on public enemy number one: John Lennon by Charles McNulty
Ears on a Beatle

[ VV ]  Black Widow
Kelly Stuart spins a tangled web for her creepy characters by David Ng
The Life of Spiders

[ VV ]  Sightlines by Michael Feingold
Barbara Cook's Broadway
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Features:

[ B ]  First Person: On Being Prolific by A.R. Gurney

[ P ]  Don't Put Your Mother on the Stage: Playwright's "Mom" Disrupts New Play
Actress-playwright Lisa Kron, known for her solo shows, invites other characters and actors into her new play, Well. What results is nothing short of an on-stage crisis.

[ B ]  Photo Op: Exclusive Peek at Broadway Bares 14: Now Showing
Do not open at work!

Reviews:

[ B ]  CDs: That Wonderful Town Year by Ken Mandelbaum
THE BROADWAY MUSICALS OF 1953(Bayview)
THE THING ABOUT MEN (DRG)
JOHNNY GUITAR

[ TM ]  The Siegel Column
The Encores! series triumphs with Pardon My English, the Roundabout flops with Twentieth Century, and new cabaret clubs keep popping up in NYC.

News:

[ P ]  bridge and tunnel Breaks Box Office Records Off-Broadway with $65,000 One-Day Tally
Following a profile on CBS News Sunday Morning March 28, Sarah Jones' new Off Broadway solo show bridge and tunnel broke box office records at the 45 Bleecker Street Theater in single day sales, raking in almost $65,000 in tickets.

[ B ]  Moccia Replaces Mitchell as B'way Bares Helmer

[ B ]  Jeremy Northam Headlines Old Times at Donmar

[ P ]  Gypsy's Peters to Sing "Roses" on "Today Show"

[ P ]  Frenchie Davis Revisits Effie in Dreamgirls, This Time in Pittsburgh

[ P ]  Like Mother Like Daughter: Kathy Brier Leaves Bway's Hairspray May 2

[ P ]  Wonderful Town Schedules Initial Dates of National Tour

[ P ]  Brave New World Musical Aims for Broadway Debut in 2004-05

[ P ]  Drama Dept. Salutes Dorothy Parker March 30 and April 13

[ P ]  Audra McDonald Premieres Seven Deadly Sins in June

[ TM ]  Hottest Spot North of Havana: Atlantic Theater Company Gala to be Held at the Copa

[ TM ]  Actor Peter Ustinov Dies at 82
posted at 3/30/2004 02:54:33 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

[ BAW ] �Raisin� Revival Face Challenges Despite Star Power
posted at 3/30/2004 09:50:51 AM by James Marino | Item Link

Features:

[ DN ]  Heche now a 'Twentieth Century' fox by CELIA McGEE

[ B ]  Q&A: Yeardley Smith by Tony Phillips

[ NYT ]  Heat and Light Uptown by BRUCE WEBER
Well-known performers and public figures came together to salute the Apollo Theater on Sunday for a taped-for-TV special.

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
Happy 100th birthday wishes to Doris Eaton Travis!

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
Liz Smith the columnist on Liz Smith the actress (last item).

News:

[ B ]  Carly Jibson is Hairspray's Next Tracy Turnblad

[ B ]  Neuwirth Performs Songs of Kurt Weill Off-B'way

[ B ]  Aisha de Haas Joins Cast of Caroline, or Change

[ MSNBC ]  Actor Jason Patric arrested
He was charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest

[ Y ]  Halle Berry Bows Out of HBO Movie
Halle Berry has scrapped plans to star in HBO's ensemble drama "Lackawanna Blues," a project on which she is also an executive producer.

[ WP ]  Backstage: Old Friends Dukakis, Ayvazian Are a Clash Act by Jane Horwitz

[ BG ]  House of Blues by Maureen Dezell
Plagued by debt, cutbacks, and complaints, the venerable Strand Theatre faces the music

[ TM ]  Kurt Vonnegut to Make Rare Public Appearance Following April 1 Performance of Happy Birthday, Wanda June

[ AAN ]  Playwright Miller to be celebrated at U-M BY ROGER LELIEVRE
Show pulls together scenes from his work
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MARCH 30

[ P ]  Chef's Theater Ingredients Include Stars of Cuisine and Cabaret, Beginning March 30 at Supper Club

[ P ]  All in the Family: Daniel Goldfarb's Sarah, Sarah Opens at Manhattan Theatre Club March 30

[ P ]  New Raisin Finds the Broadway Sun Beginning March 30

[ P ]  Cast Set for World Premiere of Corthron's Light Raise the Roof, Off-Broadway April 30

[ P ]  John Kelly's Get Up and Jive Extends to May 22 at Fez

[ NYT ]  Sir Peter Ustinov, Oscar-Winning Actor, Dies at 82
Peter Ustinov's career amounted to a series of incarnations as an actor, playwright, novelist, director and raconteur.

Reviews:

[ ND ]  Smart, concise vaudeville BY GORDON COX
"Vivace" is far more sophisticated than your average circus show: You can tell early on, when the countertenor comes on to sing a few snippets of opera.

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'THE JOURNALS OF MIHAIL SEBASTIAN'
A Young Writer Caught in the Claws of Fascism and War by MARGO JEFFERSON
David Auburn, the award-winning author of "Proof," has shaped journals written by a Romanian Jew from 1935 to 1944 into a one-man play.

[ ATW ]  When Non-Action Amid Cataclysmic Events Becomes Compelling
The Journals of Mihail Sebastian
Review by Andy Propst

[ TB ]  Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
Review by Matthew Murray

[ CT ]  'Trumbo' a triumph by Chris Jones
Terkel offers insight into blacklisted friend

[ ATW ]  Exploding the Memory-Play to Become Well
Review by Andy Propst

[ NJ ]  Acting under mother's watchful eye BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
A new play that's beautifully unusual -- and unusually beautiful -- "Well" is Lisa Kron's insightful variation on a mother-and-daughter theme.

[ NYer ]  SCREWBALLS & ODDBALLS by JOHN LAHR
Comedy and collapse in �Twentieth Century� and �Well.�

[ WP ]  'Bye Bye Birdie,' Hello Ingenuity: Teen-Idol Musical Gets a Makeover by Tricia Olszewski

[ TB ]  Halpern & Johnson and Cruise Control
South Florida Reviews by Kevin Johnson

[ CU ]  Ears On a Beatle

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Two Musicals Take to Jersey Stages
Review of 'tick, tick...BOOM' at George Street; Previewing Paper Mill's Baby
XM Satellite Radio
posted at 3/30/2004 07:48:11 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Monday, March 29, 2004

Features:

[ P ]  Assassins Shooting Gallery, Part II: Gemignani as Hinckley and Cantone as Byck

News:

[ P ]  Jimmy Smits Is Benedick in Central Park Much Ado

[ B ]  Smits Returns to Park as Benedick in Much Ado

[ B ]  Carl to Replace Blanchard in Johnny Guitar

[ TM ]  Judith Blazer et al. Establish "The Artist's Crossing" Theater Company/School

[ P ]  José Rivera Sees Latest Play Adoration of the Old Woman Read in New York, March 29

[ P ]  Old Globe Adds Take Me Out, New Musicals Himself and Nora, Lady Macbeth to 2004-05

[ P ]  Free Reading of Batistick's Port Authority Throwdown Offered March 29

[ P ]  Short, LuPone, Moreno and Cincotti Comprise Ravinia�s Summer Cabaret Series

[ P ]  "New Faces of '04" Concert Features Stars from Avenue Q, Boy From Oz, Never Gonna Dance and Little Shop

[ P ]  Yeardley Smith's More Goes for Less as Off-Broadway Solo Set to Close April 18

[ P ]  Jan Sterling, Broadway and Hollywood Actress, Dies

[ B ]  Acclaimed Writer/Performer Ustinov Dead at 82

[ B ]  Tickets Now on Sale for Caroline, or Change

Reviews:

[ TB ]  Sound Advice 2-20-04 by Jonathan Frank

[ B ]  Critics Charmed by Barbara Cook's Broadway

[ TM ]  Barbara Cook's Broadway
Reviewed By: Michael Portantiere

[ TM ]  Well
Reviewed By: David Finkle

[ TB ]  Candida: Early Shaw Provides Nourishing Entertainment
New Jersey Review by Bob Rendell
posted at 3/29/2004 04:00:30 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Features:

[ B ]  Photo Op: Encores! Revives the Gershwins' English Delight

[ B ]  Photo Op: Barbara Cook Returns to the Beaumont

[ P ]  PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: From King to Cook, a Royal Line

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards for Costuming Given on March 26

[ P ]  PHOTO CALL: All Aboard! Twentieth Century Takes Off On Bway

News:

[ P ]  42nd Street's Carvajal Offers April 11 Concert for Broadway Cares

[ P ]  George Street's tick, tick . . . BOOM! Extends NJ Run

[ P ]  LuPone-McDonald Sunday in the Park Finds Its George

[ P ]  British Stage and Film Star Peter Ustinov Is Dead at 82

Reviews:

[ TM ]  Ears on a Beatle
Reviewed By: Dan Bacalzo
posted at 3/29/2004 01:06:19 PM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

News:

[ NYT ]  Peter Ustinov, Academy Award-Winning Actor, Dies at 82
British actor Peter Ustinov was renowned as being one of the world's most entertaining raconteurs and mimics.

[ IBDB ]  Peter Ustinov's Broadway Credits

[ NYT ]  Jan Sterling, 82, Actress Who Made Film Noir a Specialty, Dies
Jan Sterling was the cool, often conniving blonde in Hollywood film noir movies of the 40's and 50's.

[ IBDB ]  Jan Sterling's Broadway Credits

[ NYT ]  Letters: A Threat to Broadway

[ NYT ]  Mayor Takes a Tough Stance on Funds for Lincoln Center by ROBIN POGREBIN
The city has reduced the center's annual allotment and will ask the center to pay for its own structural improvements.

[ NYP ]  CINDY ADAMS
Raisin in the Sun, Twentieth Century.

[ NYP ]  PAGE SIX
"INSIDE the Actors Studio" host James Lipton isn't hurting for work since he stepped down as Dean of the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School.

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MARCH 29

[ P ]  Warren and Schaffel Sing "First Draft" of New Musical, Wallenberg, March 29

[ P ]  Harlem, When It Sizzles: Funkentine Musical Gets NYC Readings March 29-30

[ P ]  "Shakalaka Baby": Bombay Dreams Begins Previews March 29

[ P ]  Bundy, Barbour, Egan, Fraser, McArdle and More Set for All-Star Concert May 23

[ P ]  Butler, Kudisch and Broadway Stars Celebrate My New York at Benefit, March 29

[ P ]  Vonnegut Appears at April 1 Performance of New York Staging of His Play Wanda June

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Sunday News Round-Up
'42nd Street' Casting; Naughton Joining 'Prymate', National Theatre in NY News; Maria Friedman
XM Satellite Radio

Features:

[ TM ]  Peter Filichia's Diary
Filichia has admired Beth Fowler's work in roles from Mrs. Segstrom to Mrs. Potts to Mrs. Woolnough.

[ TB ]  What's New on the Rialto? Interview with Dorothy Lyman by Nancy Rosati

[ NYT ]  HABITATS | WEST 73RD STREET
Acting Couple Set Up a Room With a Brew by PENELOPE GREEN

"Barbara Cook's Broadway" - Reviews:

[ B ]  Show Tunes at the Beaumont by Ken Mandelbaum

[ NYT ]  MUSIC REVIEW | BARBARA COOK
Still Dreaming of Paradise, With Hardheaded Yearning by STEPHEN HOLDEN
Ms. Cook combined tough love with farsighted understanding to her Broadway tunes at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Sunday.

[ NJ ]  A career worth singing about BY MICHAEL SOMMERS
A classy encounter with a genuine legend, "Barbara Cook's Broadway" offers 90 delectable minutes of musical theater heaven with one of its friendliest angels.

[ Y ]  Barbara Cook Golden on Broadway by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
"Barbara Cook's Broadway" is on view at Lincoln Center through April 18 on a weekend performance schedule. Do not miss it.

[ ND ]  Barbara Cook gives glittering performance BY KARIN LIPSON

"Well" - Reviews:

[ NYT ]  THEATER REVIEW | 'WELL'
A Mother Speaks Out, and Hearts Dissolve by BEN BRANTLEY
In this ingeniously self-sabotaging memory play at the Public Theater, playwright and actress Lisa Kron lets her mother control the stage.

[ ND ]  The family's ill, but the casual humor is healthy BY LINDA WINER

[ Y ]  'Well' Is Freewheeling, Funny by MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic

[ TB ]  Well
Review by Matthew Murray

[ CU ]  Well

[ B ]  Well
Review by William Stevenson

"Ears on a Beatle" - Reviews:

[ ATW ]  Ears on a Beatle Conspiracy Rings Hollow
Review by Andy Propst

[ NJ ]  The men who tailed Lennon BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

[ NYP ]  'EARS' CONSPIRACY THEORY LOSES SENSE OF DIRECTION by DONALD LYONS

[ TB ]  Ears On A Beatle
Review by Matthew Murray

[ B ]  Ears on a Beatle
Review by Lara De Meo

Other Reviews:

[ NJ ]  'Candida' steered in wrong direction BY PETER FILICHIA

[ CU ]  From Door to Door

[ ATW ]  Pardon My English Not Deep, Just Zany Fun
Review by Andy Propst

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
Reviews: Twentieth Century, Pardon My English.

[ StL ]  "The Last Five Years" takes wistful, bittersweet look at marriage by Judith Newmark
With Anthony Holds and Kate Baldwin.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ ATW ]  Broadway and Beyond: Musical Offerings Abound in St. Louis
'The Nervous Set'; 'Home, the Musical'; 'Last 5 Years', 'Invitation to March'
XM Satellite Radio
posted at 3/29/2004 08:02:53 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

Sunday, March 28, 2004

Features:

[ NJ ]  ... and baby makes two for director, partner BY PETER FILICHIA
Mark Hoebee will bring his own life experiences to "Baby," the musical that he's directing for the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn.

[ P ]  STAGE TO SCREEN: Documenting a Shepard Play and "The Producers"
Michael Almereyda spent the 1990's known primarily as the director of "Nadja," filmed in part with a Fisher Price toy camera, and for his screenwriting work with such luminaries as Wim Wenders and David Lynch.

[ CST ]  Restoration drama: TheatreDreams determined to revive Chicago stage BY ANDREW PATNER
Lawrence J. Wilker and William W. Becker are dressed casually and talking animatedly.

[ CST ]  After five decades, Fritz Weaver returns to his wellspring BY MARY HOULIHAN

[ LAT ]  A theatrical class act by Diane Haithman
It's tempting to call acting veteran Marian Seldes a diva, but that would be a mistake. Offstage she is anything but.

[ NYT ]  Celebrity-Chef Backlash by JOSEPH V. AMODIO
Ann Harada is savoring her curly fries...

[ NYT ]  A Passion for the Classics and, Well, Passion by DINITIA SMITH
On Monday Anne Carson's new translation of Euripides' "Hekabe," also known as "Hecuba," will have a staged reading at the 92nd Street Y, with a star cast that includes Kathryn Walker, Kate Burton, Larry Pine, Paul Hecht, David Strathairn, Mary Beth Hurt and Maeve Kinkead.

[ NYT ]  THIS WEEK
When Every Song Is a Night at the Theater by MATTHEW GUREWITSCH
Maria Friedman, who opens a five-week engagement at the Cafe Carlyle on Tuesday, can turn a song into a miniature music drama.

[ NYT ]  From a Bohemian on Broadway to a Prince in the Opera House by MATTHEW GUREWITSCH
Many feared for the future of the stars of "La Boh�me" on Broadway. Jesus Garcia, for one, is doing fine.

[ BSUN ]  Center Stage lands a member of the 'Mamet Mafia' by J. Wynn Rousuck
What's more, Vincent Guastaferro is quite fluent in the art of Mamet-speak

[ BG ]  He aims for strong characters, not stereotype by Louise Kennedy
Playwright sees his 'Sweepers' as true portrait of Italian-Americans

[ NYP ]  POT SHOTS by SARA STEWART
In "The Marijuana-Logues," opening on Tuesday at the Actor's Playhouse, three men sit on stools on a stage, discussing their passionate love of the green leafy drug.

Reviews:

[ TB ]  According to Goldman
Philadelphia Review by Warren Hoffman

[ CT ]  If British playwrights ruled the world . . . by Chris Jones
Politics would show flexibility; dreams would be romantic

News:

[ NYP ]  LIZ SMITH
Joel Grey's birthday party; Carol Channing; the Calloway girls; Barbara Cook.

[ SD ]  Globe may put you 'over the moon' by Anne Marie Welsh
"'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is going to be the largest physical production in Globe history, and therefore will have the largest budget of any show here ever."
With quotes from Jack O'Brien.
Thanks to American Theater Web for the link!

[ P ]  Today In Theatre History: MARCH 28

[ P ]  St. Germain's Ears on a Beatle Opens at DR2 Theatre, March 28

[ P ]  "A Perfect Relationship": Barbara Cook's Broadway Opens March 28

[ P ]  Maria Tucci Joins Off-Broadway's The Stendhal Syndrome, March 28

[ P ]  Martin Moran Explains The Tricky Part Off-Broadway, Starting March 28

[ P ]  No Longer Solo, Lisa Kron Invites a Cast Into Her World, With Well, Opening March 28 at The Public

[ P ]  Caroline, or Change Phone Sales Begin March 28, Box Office Opens March 29
posted at 3/28/2004 10:28:03 AM by Tim Dunleavy | Item Link

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Aug 19 - Grease (Atkinson)

Oct 4 - Mauritius (Biltmore) [MTC]

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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

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Feb 28 - Passing Strange (Belasco)

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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)

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May 4 - Boeing-Boeing (Longacre)

May 7 - Top Girls (Biltmore)

TBA - Godspell

2008-09
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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

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TBA - An American Vaudeville [Farrell, Perloff]

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TBA - Benny & Joon [MGM]

TBA - Billy Elliot

TBA - Brave New World [Rachunow]

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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]

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