Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Friday, April 02, 2010
Broadway Friday
-Sexy space stud Patrick Stewart returns to Broadway next season in David Mamet's A Life InThe Theater. Engage!-Despite many rave reviews for Little Miss Sunshine's Abagail Breslin, the revival of The Miracle Worker closes on Sunday after only 38 performances.
-Musical Everyday Rapture will replace Lips Together, Teeth Apart which was torpedoed when lead Megan Mullally walked out. Opens April 29th. Fans are begging Megan to defend herself. Jeremy Pivens redux?
-Madonna spotted attending FELA! with four of her children: David, Mercy, Rocco, and Jesus. What? Gossipers dished Madge's outfit as inappropriate for her advancing years. Whatever.-Bombtastic All About Me, starring Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna closes Sunday after only 20 shows. The house only grossed 23% of the max during the run.
-First quarter 2010 Broadway grosses: $238M. That's up 4.4% from last year.
-Dancer and actor unions are warring over whether the Sinatra jukebox tuner Come Fly Away is a musical or "an evening of dance." The dancer union says there's no narrative in the show, therefore they should administer the Equity contract.
-Rejected titles for Patti LuPone's memoir:
"Peaks & Valleys of The Doll"; "Patti LuPone: Not Just a Tap-Dancing Fascist"; "Curtains Up - Cell Phones Off!"; "The LuPone Trio Minus Two"; "'SHUT UP, IT'S BEEN TWENTY-NINE YEARS!' - Trials and Tribulations of a Tony Award Winning Actress"; "Shut Up, It's Been 29 Years! A Life in the Theatre"; "Born With A Trunk: Theatrical Musings By A Big-Nosed Diva"; "Don't Cry For Me, For Me, For Me, For Meee!"; and "Mein Kampf."-DRAG ALERT: The producers of Looped are holding a Tallulah Bankhead impersonation contest. Send them your video clip.
VIDEO: The revival of La Cage Aux Folles opens April 6th.

Labels: Broadway Friday, drag, Madonna, Megan Mullally, Patti Lupone
Friday, March 26, 2010
Broadway Friday
-Reportedly due to creative differences with Tony winning director Joe Mantello, Megan Mullally has abruptly pulled out of the revival of Terrence McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart, causing producers to cancel the run. It was scheduled to begin previews on April 9th and producers are scrambling for a replacement show.-The Off Broadway revival of The Boys In The Band closes tomorrow after only 31 performances.
-A second edition of Broadway Bares: Solo Strips takes place at Splash on April 11th. Xanadu's Marty Thomas will perform.
-Mario Cantone, Carson Kressley, Kristen Johnston, Andrea Martin and others will perform at the April 5th edition of Celebrity Autobiography. "The show features a line-up of rotating performers who interpret the actual words and stories written by the famous and the infamous, in both solo and ensemble 'chamber' pieces culled from the autobiographies of celebrities."
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Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday party at Studio 54 included a special surprise for the Broadway legend. Henry Miller's Theatre on W.43rd will henceforth be known as the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. The new marquee will be rendered as Sondheim's signature, much like the topper on the Eugene O'Neill.-Fox is denying widely published rumors that the network is readying a Broadway version of Glee. A Broadway publishing rights company had previously leaked that they were in negotiations with the network.
-Stunt casting: Paula Abdul may be joining the cast of Tony winner In The Heights. The show's producer Kenny Ortega is also reported to want Abdul to choreograph the movie version of the show.

Labels: Broadway, Broadway Friday, Megan Mullally, Paula Abdul










