Broadway Sees Benefits of Building Black Audience
New York Times - - 22 hours ago
That's what a focus group of a dozen African-American women concluded about the musical “Memphis” last summer when they were asked to ...
Monday, June 28, 2010
Quixotic's flights of fancy get a musical lift at Madrid Theatre
Kansas City Star - - Jun 20, 2010
Kimberly Cowen and Chris Stuart rehearse a dance as aerialists Megan Stockman (left) and Jessi Fouts go through a routine from Quixotic's ...
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Economy affects two local theater troupes in different ways
Baltimore Sun - - Jun 25, 2010
When two Baltimore-area theater troupes recently announced next season's lineup, beneath the dry specifics of
Reality Bites: When Fate Messes With Broadway Shows
Playbill.com - - Jun 23, 2010
For seven years, since it debuted Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theatre, the musical Avenue Q made sport of the woes of former child actor Gary Coleman.
Send in the clones! Starry second-stringers keep Broadway shows going
Friday, June 25th 2010, 4:00 AM
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Bernadette Peters (r.) will take over the role of Desiree in 'A Little Night Music,' now played by Catherine Zeta-Jones (l.). The official start of summer this week coincided with the informal beginning of Substitute Season on city stages.
On Monday, Eddie Izzard and Dennis Haysbert assumed roles originated by James Spader and David Alan Grier in David Mamet's legal drama "Race."
On July 6, Helen Hunt takes over as the Stage Manager in the Off-Broadway hit "Our Town."
And on July 13, in a hotly anticipated switcheroo, Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch step in for Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury as daughter and mother in Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music."
The part of pinch hitter is a new one for Peters, a beloved Broadway star and two-time Tony winner. Taking on the challenge of being an alternate came at the suggestion of Sondheim, a longtime collaborator.
Hunt, an Emmy and Oscar winner, arrived at the idea of stepping in herself after seeing the show early in its run downtown.
"I met her over a year ago," says "Our Town" director David Cromer, who played the Stage Manager for the show's first six months.
"Helen came to see the show and stayed an hour talking about it. She has a long history with the play."
In 1989, she took over the role of Emily Webb for Penelope Ann Miller in a Broadway revival.
"I think she felt a sort of esthetic kinship between the two productions," says Cromer, who was tickled that she "seemed sweetly nervous about going into the role after me."
And why not? Even though replacing a role brings the chance to add, as Peters has noted, "a fresh direction to the part," following someone else's performance also comes with inevitable comparisons.
The B Team is often said to leave something to be desired in contrast to the A Team. A recent example: the first replacement cast of "God of Carnage."
But sometimes substitutes have been wholly successful in making a role (and show) their own. Reba McEntire achieved that it in "Annie Get Your Gun." Fantasia, too, in "The Color Purple."
On July 19, Broadway vet Marin Mazzie takes over as the bipolar mother in the musical "Next to Normal," alongside real-life husband, Jason Danieley, who'll play her spouse.
When she dove into the role of the Lady of the Lake in "Spamalot" she didn't seem to fret about comparisons to its originator (Sara Ramirez), saying: "I had seen the show, and I just thought it would be a lot of fun to do, and I was right."
Among theaterphiles eager to catch the "fresh direction" Peters brings to the colorful character of Desiree Armfeldt are Cromer.
"I cannot wait to see her in 'A Little Night Music,'" says the Chicago director whose career has spread to New York. "I've never gotten to see her onstage."
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Film stars captivate and capture Tonys
The Associated Press - - Jun 14, 2010
Meanwhile, year-end figures from the Broadway League show grosses up but attendance down from last season, which had its own flurry of stars, ...
Tonys Review: A Lot of Star Power for a Glorified Glee Promo New York Magazine
Frisky Rant: And The Tony Goes To ... A Screen Actor? The Frisky (blog)
Helen Hunt Signs On as the Stage Manager in Our Town
Broadway.com - 7 hours ago
Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt will join the hit off-Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town as the Stage Manager on July 6 for a limited ...
WHO IS FEEDING LOCAL ONE'S IRISH LOOP?
Madoff Feeder Fairfield Seeks US Court Protection
BusinessWeek - - 3 hours ago
June 15 (Bloomberg) -- Fairfield Sentry Ltd., the biggest feeder fund in Bernard Madoff's fraudulent investment business, asked a New York ...
Saturday, June 12, 2010
New York: Walking the new Broadway
Denver Post - - 9 hours ago
Broadway's economic impact on New York City comes close to $10 billion a year, according to the Broadway League. Even in a period of decline, ...
Friday, June 11, 2010
'Hair' to celebrate its 500th performance before closing later this month
Examiner.com - 11 hours ago
The Broadway production of the Tony Award winning revival of Hair will celebrate its 500th performance today, June 11 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on 46th ...
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Karate Kid 2010: Jaden Smith meets Ralph Macchio at LA premiere of new remake
Daily Mail - - Jun 8, 2010
Less than a week after the A-Team remake hit US screens, another updated Eighties franchise got its premiere. The Karate Kid got it first ...
Send In Bernadette Peters!!!
PerezHilton.com (blog) - 22 hours ago
Tough break Miz Goop! They are bringing in the best of the best for this one! The revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music is being graced with ...
2 major Broadway shows coming to Honolulu
KHON2 - - 20 hours ago
Disney's “Beauty and the Beast” has added Honolulu to its tour list for the first time, and “ CATS ” is will make a return appearance. ...
The Kennedy Center Announces International Theater Directors Mentoring Program
Broadway World - 1 hour ago
From June 10-13, the participants will travel to New York City,
WATCH OUT MET HERE COME THE CANADIANS
Canadian Director Threatens To Crush Metropolitan Opera Stage
Macleans.ca - - 18 hours ago
by Jaime Weinman on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 6:12pm - 2 Comments I was wondering how Robert Lepage's production of Wagner's Ring — the big test of Peter Gelb's ...
Saturday, June 5, 2010
FREE SHAKESPEARE FREE THE STAGEHANDS
Shakespeare in the park: Free plays take over New York's Central Park
New York Daily News - - Jun 4, 2010
"The Winter's Tale" launches on Wednesday at the open-air Delacorte with a roll call of stage-turned-TV stars including Marianne Jean-Baptiste. ...
Thursday, June 3, 2010
CITY FIRES LATINA FOR BEING TOO HOT
Debrahlee Lorenzana Says Citibank Fired Her Because She Was Too Hot
FOX 4 News - 2 hours ago
(CANVAS STAFF REPORTS) - Debrahlee Lorenzana claims that Citibank fired her because her bosses thought she was too much of a babe to be a banker. "It's so tiring," Lorenzana tells the Village Voice . "My entire life, I've been dealing with this. ...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Sculptor Louise Bourgeois mined a vein of pain and suffering
Globe and Mail - - 7 hours ago
The New York Times News Service Published on Tuesday, Jun. 01, 2010 6:22PM EDT Last updated on Tuesday, Jun. 01, 2010 8:00PM EDT Louise Bourgeois, ...
Wild horse can't drag me from Balanchine
New York Post - Jun 1, 2010
Christopher Wheeldon made a new horse ballet for his old company. But at its premiere Saturday night, the best performances were in the warhorses by ...
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