tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-681593788171426032024-03-05T00:21:39.264-05:00South Florida Theatre NewsJoin us for news, show openings, audition notices, etc... from all levels of the theater community. If you don’t see your theater mentioned then drop us a line at SFLTnews@gmail.comDWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.comBlogger292125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-63975804778182554792012-10-03T16:03:00.000-04:002012-10-03T16:03:09.227-04:00To anyone wondering about this blog...South Florida Theatre News has been silent for quite some time now and some of you have been wondering why. Let me just say first that SFTN has no plans of going away. The more outlets the South Florida Theatre Community has to get information out to the public the better. <o:p></o:p><br />
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As anyone who reads this blog and/or the "What I've been doing..." tab on the right hand side knows, I am also a sound designer and theatre tech in the community. The amount of work that I have been getting over the past year has steadily been growing. And with the 2012-2013 theatre season upon us, I am busier then I have ever been. Just this past week I opened up two great shows (How I survived this is beyond me): "Sylvia" for the <a href="http://brtg.org/">Boca Raton Theatre Guild</a> and "The All American Genderf*ck Cabaret" for <a href="http://thinkingcaptheatre.com/">Thinking Cap Theatre</a>. Both are great shows and I encourage you to see them. The "Cabaret" one I am running so say hi to the guy in the booth if you come by.<o:p></o:p><br />
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It is great doing what I love with so many talented theatre companies. However, with my day job and family life, it leaves virtually no time left over to get posts ready for this blog. For that I apologize.<o:p></o:p><br />
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I do not plan on going away and neither should you. The going will be slow as I try to integrate posting back into my routine, but I do hope to get back on to a more consistent schedule in the foreseeable future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will also update the side tab more frequently to keep you up to date with all of my current projects.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Thank you for reading South Florida Theatre News.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And remember that you are our most valuable patron.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without you, we wouldn’t be here.<o:p></o:p><br />
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DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-76557569385648770492012-08-24T13:44:00.000-04:002012-08-24T13:44:29.471-04:00The Past Week In Theatre History (Aug 20 – Aug 24)<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">By <a href="mailto:ehernandez@playbill.com"><i><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ernio Hernandez</span></i></a>, <a href="mailto:dgewirtzman@playbill.com"><i><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">David Gewirtzman</span></i></a><br />and Robert Viagas, Doug Nevin</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1884</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Actress <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/88847/Julia-Sanderson" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Julia Sanderson</span></a>, one of musical theatre's leading ladies during the first decades of the 20th century, is born today as Julia Sackett. Shows in which she starred included <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/596/The-Siren" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">The Siren</span></a></i> (1911), <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4038/Rambler-Rose" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Rambler Rose</span></a></i> (1917), and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/5601/Oh-Kay" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Oh, Kay!</span></a></i> (1928). Although she lived until 1975, Sanderson would leave showbiz hustle and bustle by the 1930's.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1885</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Broadway premiere of the hit London operetta <i>The Mikado</i> by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7490/W-S-Gilbert" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">W. S. Gilbert</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/12905/Arthur-Sullivan" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Arthur Sullivan</span></b></a>, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1920</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/2551/The-Bat" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Bat</span></b></a></i>, the hugely popular thriller by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13695/Mary-Roberts-Rinehart" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mary Roberts Rinehart</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5602/Avery-Hopwood" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Avery Hopwood</span></b></a>, opens at the Morosco Theatre and goes on to run 867 performances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1922</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/30456/Theoni-V-Aldredge" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Theoni V. Aldredge</span></a>, one of Broadway's foremost costume designers of the late 20th century, is born today in Greece. Included among her dozens of Broadway projects will be <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10469/A-Chorus-Line" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">A Chorus Line</span></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/878/Annie" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Annie</span></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/7826/Ballroom" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Ballroom</span></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/11531/42nd-Street" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">42nd Street</span></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4184/Barnum" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Barnum</span></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/6038/Dreamgirls" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Dreamgirls</span></a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/9148/La-Cage-aux-Folles" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">La Cage aux Folles</span></a></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1924</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/3767/Victor-Herbert" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Victor Herbert</span></b></a>'s operetta <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/1120/The-Dream-Girl" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Dream Girl</span></b></a></i> opens at the Ambassador Theatre, starring <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/57666/Fay-Bainter" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Fay Bainter</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/8417/George-LeMaire" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">George LeMaire</span></b></a>. It will run 117 performances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1926</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13236/George-Burns" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">George Burns</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/106011/Gracie-Allen" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Gracie Allen</span></b></a> make their vaudeville bow at the Palace in New York.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1928</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Birthday of actress <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/19383/Marian-Seldes" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Marian Seldes</span></b></a> who has appeared in nearly two dozen Broadway plays including <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/2598/Deathtrap" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Deathtrap</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/9581/Equus" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Equus</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4386/The-Chalk-Garden" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Chalk Garden</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/8063/The-Milk-Train-Doesnt-Stop-Here-Anymore" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore</span></b></a></i> and several plays by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18564/Edward-Albee" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Edward Albee</span></b></a>, including <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/2771/Tiny-Alice" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tiny Alice</span></b></a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/8242/A-Delicate-Balance" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">A Delicate Balance</span></b></a></i>. The latter won her the 1967 Tony Award as Best Feature Actress in a Play.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1934</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Playwright <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/19801/Sidney-Kingsley" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sidney Kingsley</span></b></a> has a hit with a stage adaptation of <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/1431/Sinclair-Lewis" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sinclair Lewis</span></b></a>'s novel <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10560/Dodsworth" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dodsworth</span></b></a></i>, starring <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/29999/Walter-Huston" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Walter Huston</span></b></a>, Fay Bainter and the ever-mysterious <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/85679/Georgette-Spelvin" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Georgette Spelvin</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1937</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Eva Le Galliene is <i>Hamlet</i> in a new production of Shakespeare's tragedy, opening tonight at the Cape Playhouse in Massachusetts. Le Galliene, while an obviously odd choice to play the Danish prince, is not the first female to take on the role. Sarah Bernhardt had done it as well. Also in the cast is future stage legend <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27822/Uta-Hagen" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Uta Hagen</span></b></a>, making her professional debut as Ophelia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1939</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Pulitzer Prize-winning stage and screen writer <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13895/Sidney-Howard" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sidney Howard</span></b></a> is killed today in a tractor accident. Howard, approximately 48 years old, won the Pulitzer for his 1924 play, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/12031/They-Knew-What-They-Wanted" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">They Knew What They Wanted</span></b></a></i>. That play would later be made into the <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/1152/Frank-Loesser" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Frank Loesser</span></b></a> musical, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/6057/The-Most-Happy-Fella" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Most Happy Fella</span></b></a></i>. Just before his death, Howard had completed the screenplay for the film, "Gone With the Wind."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1944</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Robert Wright and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6265/George-Forrest" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">George Forrest</span></a> put words to classical themes by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/17099/Edvard-Grieg" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Edvard Grieg</span></a> to create the operetta <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/6067/Song-of-Norway" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Song of Norway</span></a>,</i> based on Grieg's life. It opens an 860-performance run today at the Imperial Theatre, helped by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/1245/George-Balanchine" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">George Balanchine</span></a>'s choreography, and the success of the song "Strange Music."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1956</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Future stage and film actress <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/114641/Joan-Allen" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joan Allen</span></b></a> is born today in Rochelle, Illinois. Allen will have several great successes on the Broadway stage, winning the Tony Award for her performance in <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/9562/Burn-This" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Burn This</span></b></a></i> and another nomination for her performance of the title role in <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/28040/Wendy-Wasserstein" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Wendy Wasserstein</span></b></a>'s Pulitzer Prize-winning <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/13735/The-Heidi-Chronicles" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Heidi Chronicles</span></b></a></i>. In filmdom, Allen will receive Academy Award nominations as best supporting actress for 1995's "Nixon" and 1996's "The Crucible." Other film credits include "Searching for Bobby Fisher," "Face/Off," and "Peggy Sue Got Married."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1960</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Broadway loses a Great today as <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7077/Oscar-Hammerstein-II" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Oscar Hammerstein II</span></b></a> dies at age 65, his final musical, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/5082/The-Sound-of-Music" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Sound of Music</span></b></a></i> having recently opened. Besides the aforementioned work, Hammerstein collaborated with composer <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5467/Richard-Rodgers" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Richard Rodgers</span></b></a> on such other musicals as <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4221/Oklahoma" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Oklahoma!</span></b></a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/13229/Carousel" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Carousel</span></b></a></i>, the Pulitzer-winning <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/7854/South-Pacific" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">South Pacific</span></b></a></i>, and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4210/The-King-and-I" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The King and I</span></b></a></i>. Before he joined forces with Rodgers, Hammerstein worked successfully with several other composers. The most popular of these earlier works and collaborations is his 1927 musical with <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6634/Jerome-Kern" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jerome Kern</span></b></a>, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/13488/Show-Boat" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Show Boat</span></b></a></i>. On August 31, for the first time since World War II, all lights in and around Times Square and the theatre district will be turned off for one minute in honor of this Broadway legend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1983</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/41721/Cicely-Tyson" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Cicely Tyson</span></b></a> stars with <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/95270/Peter-Gallagher" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Peter Gallagher</span></b></a> as a tutor in rural Wales in a revival of <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18697/Emlyn-Williams" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Emlyn Williams</span></b></a>' <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/5038/The-Corn-Is-Green" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Corn Is Green</span></b></a></i> at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1983</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/148/Jerry-Herman" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jerry Herman</span></b></a>-<a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/25807/Harvey-Fierstein" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Harvey Fierstein</span></b></a> musical <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/9148/La-Cage-aux-Folles" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">La Cage aux Folles</span></b></a></i> opens tonight at Broadway's Palace Theatre. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/84909/George-Hearn" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">George Hearn</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/84127/Gene-Barry" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Gene Barry</span></b></a> star in this adaptation of the classic French play and film about a middle-aged homosexual couple who are forced to hide their sexual orientation in order to meet the fiancee of one of the men's sons, and her family. In pure musical comedy fashion, mayhem pursues. In a time when homosexuality had yet to become the basis of a big Broadway musical, <i>La Cage</i> proved to be a raging success, winning the Tony Award for best musical, and racking up 1,761 performances. Over the course of the run other actors who would play either Albin or George were <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/62158/Larry-Kert" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Larry Kert</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/61433/Jamie-Ross" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jamie Ross</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/70192/Walter-Charles" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Walter Charles</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/47945/Keith-Michell" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Keith Michell</span></b></a>. A 1996 non-musical film version of the same story called "The Birdcage" will star <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/109916/Robin-Williams" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Robin Williams</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/84847/Gene-Hackman" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Gene Hackman</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/74849/Dianne-Wiest" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dianne Wiest</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/55718/Calista-Flockhart" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Calista Flockhart</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27060/Nathan-Lane" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Nathan Lane</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1985</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7000/Morrie-Ryskind" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Morrie Ryskind</span></a> dies in his home in Washington, DC. The playwright who collaborated with <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6281/George-S-Kaufman" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">George S. Kaufman</span></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/1357/Ira-Gershwin" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Ira Gershwin</span></a>, and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5267/George-Gershwin" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">George Gershwin</span></a> on three musicals, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10975/Strike-Up-the-Band" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Strike Up the Band</span></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/6087/Let-Em-Eat-Cake" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Let 'Em Eat Cake</span></a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/2686/Of-Thee-I-Sing" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Of Thee I Sing</span></a></i>. The latter garnered Ryskind and cohorts the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He was 89 years old at the time of his death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1986</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">A lot of major Broadway talent converges on the musical <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/5776/Rags" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Rags</span></b></a></i>, an original musical about immigrants on New York's lower east side, which opens a 4-performance flop run today. Music is by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/2630/Charles-Strouse" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Charles Strouse</span></b></a>, lyrics are by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7368/Stephen-Schwartz" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Stephen Schwartz</span></b></a> (returning to Broadway for the first time since <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3093/Working" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Working</span></b></a></i>), libretto is by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13511/Joseph-Stein" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joseph Stein</span></b></a>. Opera star <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/52403/Teresa-Stratas" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Teresa Stratas</span></b></a> leads a cast that includes Larry Kert, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/3194/Judy-Kuhn" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Judy Kuhn</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/74730/Dick-Latessa" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dick Latessa</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/19196/Lonny-Price" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Lonny Price</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1987</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18740/Frank-Langella" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Frank Langella</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18488/Donal-Donnelly" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Donal Donnelly</span></b></a> star as Holmes and Watson in <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/24982/Charles-Marowitz" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Charles Marowitz</span></b></a>'s <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/2713/Sherlocks-Last-Case" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sherlock's Last Case</span></b></a></i>, which begins a 124-performance run on Broadway today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1988</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Stage and film actor <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/89388/Leonard-Frey" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Leonard Frey</span></b></a>, who appeared in the original production of Mart Crowley's <i>The Boys in the Band</i>, dies today of AIDS. Frey also appeared as Mendel, the Rabbi's son, in the original 1964 production of <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/6051/Fiddler-on-the-Roof" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Fiddler on the Roof</span></b></a></i>, and received an Oscar nomination for his performance as Motel, the tailor, in the 1971 film version.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1989</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/24517/AR-Gurney" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">A.R. Gurney</span></b></a>'s play, <i>Love Letters</i>, opens today at the Promenade Theatre Off-Broadway. A series of love letters between one Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and one Melissa Gardner from the time of their childhood up to her death, the play would eventually <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/13329/Love-Letters" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">transfer to the Edison Theatre on Broadway</span></a>. Due to the simplicity in the staging of the peace (two actors sitting at tables reading letters back and forth), the cast changed from one set of stars to another, week by week. This first week, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/20233/John-Rubinstein" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">John Rubinstein</span></b></a> is Andrew and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/98265/Stockard-Channing" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Stockard Channing</span></b></a> is Melissa. Other pairings during this initial run are <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/85607/George-Segal" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">George Segal</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/37488/Dana-Ivey" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dana Ivey</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/52529/Treat-Williams" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Treat Williams</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/39278/Kate-Nelligan" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kate Nelligan</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/51546/Timothy-Hutton" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Timothy Hutton</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/79037/Elizabeth-McGovern" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Elizabeth McGovern</span></b></a>, and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/61391/Jason-Robards" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jason Robards</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/25392/Elaine-Stritch" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Elaine Stritch</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1989</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">A British Military Entertainment troupe circa the late 1940s parks into the Roundabout Theatre for a 64-performance run with <i>Privates on Parade</i>. The cast includes <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/20118/Jim-Dale" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jim Dale</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/75990/Donna-Murphy" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Donna Murphy</span></b></a> and a female impersonator.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1990</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">A revival of <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13655/Moss-Hart" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Moss Hart</span></b></a>'s <i>Light Up the Sky</i> opens Off-Broadway at the <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/115033/Roundabout-Theatre-Company" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Roundabout Theatre Company</span></b></a>. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/78355/Elaine-Bromka" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Elaine Bromka</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/73617/Charles-Keating" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Charles Keating</span></b></a>, and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/37940/Betsy-Joslyn" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Betsy Joslyn</span></b></a> are featured in the cast under the direction of <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/537/Larry-Carpenter" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Larry Carpenter</span></b></a>. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10270/Light-Up-the-Sky" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">The original production of the show</span></a> was produced on Broadway in 1948 for 214 performances. A week following the opening, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/26044/Jason-Alexander" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jason Alexander</span></b></a> replaces cast member <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/72532/Bruce-Weitz" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bruce Weitz</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1991</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Actress <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/1319/Colleen-Dewhurst" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Colleen Dewhurst</span></b></a> dies today of cancer at the age of 67. The thespian of stage and screen starred in such productions as <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/13451/Great-Day-in-the-Morning" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Great Day in the Morning</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/8250/The-Ballad-of-the-Sad-Cafe" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Ballad of the Sad Cafe</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/2054/More-Stately-Mansions" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">More Stately Mansions</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/8240/All-Over" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">All Over</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3306/Mourning-Becomes-Electra" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mourning Becomes Electra</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/2601/Whos-Afraid-of-Virginia-Woolf" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?</span></b></a>?, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10812/All-the-Way-Home" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">All the Way Home</span></b></a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/2396/A-Moon-for-the-Misbegotten" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">A Moon for the Misbegotten</span></b></a>,</i> winning Tony Awards for the latter two.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1994</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The first day of business at Playbill On-Line. This new theatre website will "go live" Nov. 22, 1994.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1996</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18175/Al-Pacino" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Al Pacino</span></b></a> directs himself in <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13137/Eugene-ONeill" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Eugene O'Neill</span></b></a>'s <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3227/Hughie" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hughie</span></b></a></i> at the Circle in the Square Theatre. The revival featuring the director-actor will run 56 performances. Pacino, perhaps best known for his work in films like "The Godfather," is no stranger to the stage; he was also featured in <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/6890/The-Basic-Training-of-Pavlo-Hummel" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3242/Salome" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Salome</span></b></a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3243/Chinese-Coffee" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Chinese Coffee</span></b></a></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1996</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Landmark New York theatre company <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/114831/Circle-in-the-Square" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Circle in the Square</span></b></a> declares bankruptcy and goes through years of legal wrangling before reopening in 1999 with the rediscovered, and critically lauded, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7443/Tennessee-Williams" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tennessee Williams</span></b></a> drama, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3225/Not-About-Nightingales" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Not About Nightingales</span></b></a></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1998</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Returning to Off-Broadway, where she originated the role of Li'l Bit in Paula Vogel's <i>How I Learned To Drive</i> in 1997, film and stage actress <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/66170/Mary-Louise-Parker" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mary-Louise Parker</span></b></a> stars in <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5560/Alan-Ayckbourn" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Alan Ayckbourn</span></b></a>'s <i>Communicating Doors</i>. The comedy thriller opens tonight at OB's Variety Arts Theatre. The actress will go on to originate the role of Catherine in the <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/25038/David-Auburn" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">David Auburn</span></b></a>'s <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10041/Proof" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Proof</span></b></a></i> at Manhattan Theatre Club and win the Tony Award for Best Actress when it transfers to Broadway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1999</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ten years and 10 Phantoms down as <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/100777/Howard-McGillin" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Howard McGillin</span></b></a> becomes Broadway's 11th <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/7818/The-Phantom-of-the-Opera" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Phantom of the Opera</span></b></a></i> tonight. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/101035/Hugh-Panaro" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hugh Panaro</span></b></a>, the preceding Phantom, exits to take the title role in <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5565/Alain-Boublil" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Alain Boublil</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/16968/Claude-Michel-Schonberg" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Claude-Michel Schonberg</span></b></a>'s <i>Martin Guerre</i>. The <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/2436/Andrew-Lloyd-Webber" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Andrew Lloyd Webber</span></b></a> musical, which opened at the Majestic Theatre in 1988, has also featured <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/77789/Michael-Crawford" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Michael Crawford</span></b></a>, the originator of the role, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/47401/Kevin-Gray" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kevin Gray</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/46104/Mark-Jacoby" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mark Jacoby</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/56783/Davis-Gaines" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Davis Gaines</span></b></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1999</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Off-Off-Broadway's Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre begins its 2000 season with <i>On the Razzle</i>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7438/Tom-Stoppard" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tom Stoppard</span></b></a>'s take on Viennese playwright <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13490/Johann-Nestroy" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Johann Nestroy</span></b></a>'s <i>Einen Jux will er sich machen</i>. The play is the same source that inspired <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13955/Thornton-Wilder" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Thornton Wilder</span></b></a>'s <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10245/The-Matchmaker" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Matchmaker</span></b></a>,</i> which in turn inspired Jerry Herman's <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4200/Hello-Dolly" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hello, Dolly!</span></b></a></i>. Cocteau Rep is no stranger to Stoppard works, as they have previously produced <i>Travesties</i>, <i>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead</i> and <i>Rough Crossing</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2001</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/123118/Signature-Theatre" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Signature Theatre</span></b></a>'s "environmental" staging of the musical <i>Grand Hotel</i> — spilling from the stage to the seating and out into the lobby — begins previews in Arlington, VA.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2001</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The box office opens officially at the Winter Garden Theatre for <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/11524/Mamma-Mia" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mamma Mia!</span></b></a></i>, but it's just a formality. Internet and telephone advance sales have already sold-out the middle orchestra seats until February 2002.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2002</span></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Master dancer-choreographer <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5012/Savion-Glover" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Savion Glover</span></b></a> and director <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/222/George-C-Wolfe" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">George C. Wolfe</span></b></a>'s <i>Bring in 'da Noise/Bring in 'da Funk</i> song-and-dance revue begins a revival tour with original cast members Glover and Lynette DuPree at Atlanta's Alliance Theatre Company. After the Atlanta run ends Sept. 29, a new national tour will kick off, stopping in major US cities including Boston, Chicago, Washington, DC and Los Angeles, as well as short runs on college campuses throughout the U.S.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2004</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Angels in America</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> star <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/47015/Kathleen-Chalfant" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kathleen Chalfant</span></b></a> heads the Off-Broadway cast of the London stage show <i>Guantánamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom</i>. The documentary drama is based on testimony of British prisoners detained by American forces at the Guantanamo military base under suspicion of terrorist activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2004</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/35859/Charles-Eaton" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Charles Eaton</span></b></a>, one of two surviving members of a once famous family of stage performers, dies at age 94. He was the most important performing male member of the clan once referred to as "The Seven Little Eatons," veterans of the <i>Ziegfeld Follies</i>. His sister, dancer <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/35971/Doris-Eaton-Travis" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Doris Eaton Travis</span></b></a> (a highlight of Broadway's annual "Easter Bonnet" competitions) — the only remaining survivor — died in 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2008</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/7818/The-Phantom-of-the-Opera" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Phantom of the Opera</span></b></a></span></i><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> puts down his mask for four performances starting today at the Majestic Theatre on Broadway while technicians invade his lair and upgrade the sound system. Producers <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/2436/Andrew-Lloyd-Webber" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Andrew Lloyd Webber</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/173/Cameron-Mackintosh" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Cameron Mackintosh</span></b></a> take the unusual step of temporarily closing down the longest-running show in Broadway history "to bring the production's sound design technology into the 21st century."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-45224462449348865682012-08-22T14:21:00.001-04:002012-08-22T14:21:35.348-04:00Current Productions for the week of August 20, 2012<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">At <a href="http://www.stagedoortheatre.com/day.html"><span style="color: purple;">Broward Stage Door Theatre</span></a> Until Aug 26</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">It’s 1959 and legendary musical performer Billie Holiday is just four months away from death as she steps to the microphone in a seedy bar in Philadelphia for one of her final performances. Though she is there to sing, the audience will find she has a lot more on her mind than music. In addition to featuring a dozen of her hits, Holiday tells the tale of who she is, in her own original style.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A</span></strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">warded the 2011 PEN Award for Drama and the 2010 NY International Fringe Festival Award for Overall Excellence in Production of a Play, <strong><span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">The Twentieth Century Way</span></strong> is based on a little-known incident in history. This theatrical thrill ride explores the collision of reality and fantasy as two actors, auditioning for a film, end up juggling roles that eventually lead to entrapment of homosexuals for "social vagrancy" in the Long Beach, California of 1914.<o:p></o:p></span>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-74880884520230664942012-08-02T11:03:00.000-04:002012-08-02T11:03:06.191-04:00Reviews for the week of July 30, 2012<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Gather round the campfire whose glow barely keeps the darkness at bay and listen to master storytellers spin you a summer night’s ghost story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are no special effects, no makeup, no chainsaws, nothing but two actors, a couple of candles and the chilling truth that horror lies not in the sight of a blood-soaked maniac, but in the interior terror of the mind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">With the skill of an orchestra conductor, director Margaret M. Ledford has deftly wrought a world of half-shadows and whispers. She paces the evening masterfully, from Chizever’s slow delivery of passages like a connoisseur savoring the bouquet of a fine wine, to rapid-fire exchanges between angst-engorged characters, to the terror-fueled crescendo of souls and minds twirling on the precipice of damnation and insanity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Katherine Amadeo, as a sexually-repressed governess in 1872 England, smoothly traces the governess’ arc from a naïf confidently eager to meet a challenge to a terrified unhinged victim. As she descends, her visage and quavering voice mirror her imperiled soul under attack, exuding both strength and fragility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Chizever pulls off the difficult trick of portraying four different characters. Several local actors have transformed from one personality to another in a split second. What Chizever accomplishes is making each so credible that you stop marveling at the acting and just forget it’s a young man playing a middle-aged domestic or a deeply disturbed boy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">There is only one misstep. Chizever provides the sound effects of disembodied wails, the whoosh of a sudden draft and the ominous tolling of a clock’s gong. His sonorous baritone serves him well all night, even when imitating women and children. But for some reason, his noises ring so manufactured that they nearly elicit laughs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The bones of William Shakespeare’s great tragedy are visible in The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show, Jessica Farr and Paul Tei’s ambitious deconstruction of a world theater classic. Yet this Mad Cat Theatre Company take on Hamlet has had so much work done – the dramatic equivalent of Botox, a facelift, some anti-aging human growth hormone – that the play at its core is sometimes buried under an avalanche of ideas.<br /><br />The script by Tei (who has staged the production) and Farr (who plays German playwright Heiner Müller as a Cabaret-influenced manipulative narrator) is actually a mash-up of Shakespeare, Müller’s postmodern 1977 drama Die Hamletmaschine ( The Hamletmachine) and the Mad Cat duo’s 21st century take on the drama’s characters and ideas. It incorporates a DJ (the recorded voice of Dave Corey), a Skype version of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Erik Fabregat and Ralph de la Portilla), live musicians (Christopher Kent playing guitar and bass, Brian Sayre on percussion), singing, texting, a snippet of a poetry slam and the roaming, disembodied voice of Hamlet’s dead father (James Samuel Randolph). <br /><br />The emotionally deadened Hamlet (Troy Davidson) is now the nephew/stepson of the American President Claudius (Ken Clement). He’s the guy who murdered Hamlet’s father and married Hamlet Sr.’s newly widowed Gertrude (Carey Brianna Hart). Claudius’ advisor Polonius, the vice-president, is a hand puppet operated and voiced by Clement, who utters those lines in a bad Cuban-accented English. Ophelia (Emilie Paap), Polonius’ flame-haired adopted daughter, is the moody object of Hamlet’s affections. Her bro Laertes (Giordan Diaz) is clearly crushing on her too. Hamlet’s best bud Horatio (Theo Reyna) and various minor characters like a hot-shot actor and an Irish gravedigger (Kent plays those and others) round out the cast.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">This <i>Hamlet</i> is a stylized mashup of Shakespeare, Brecht and 21<sup>st</sup> Century performance art that examines existentialism versus nihilism by setting the vacillating Dane in a fantasia of modern American politics and power.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Like an atom careening around a chain reaction, it is by turns inventive, self-indulgent, exciting, boring, and, above all, sometimes insightful, sometimes incomprehensible. In other words, it’s a mess. An undeniably entertaining mess, a decidedly thought-provoking mess, but a mess.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Farr and Tei deserve laurels for shoving past mainstream strictures with intelligence and a unique artistic sensibility. Doubtless, Farr and Tei can explain the relevance of every moment to its themes. But the relevance isn’t vaguely perceptible to the audience in many moments and even long stretches. Perpetual clarity is hardly a necessary element of theater, but for this dinosaur of a critic, the audience’s comprehension even on an unconscious or visceral level is part of the artistic equation if you want them to connect to your piece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">For instance, one scene features a Cuban-American Laertes whipping up a crowd at a street rally in Miami attended by the Anglo Horatio. The two argue through bullhorns whether Spanish women received proper credit for financing the American Revolution, illustrating a clash of xenophobias. That’s a fascinating historical tidbit and a rare depiction of interracial politics in modern Miami. But it’s relevance to this specific play is murky and goes on far too long if all it’s doing is reflecting a tumultuous social background.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Georgia','serif';">Many of the staging ideas are delicious, such as Hamlet texting his “doubt truth to be a liar” love letter to Ophelia’s cell phone. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Skyped in. Secretary of State Polonius is a hand puppet operated by the venal President Claudius. Some ideas, though, go too far such as burying the German emcee under an accent so thick that we can’t understand her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There are several words which come to mind in order to fairly critique Mad Cat Theatre’s world premiere of The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show, the 2012 version of Shakespeare’s great tragedy brought to life here by playwrights Jessica Farr and talented South Florida writer/actor Paul Tei. The first is “theatre” and the second is “intellectual.”<br /><br />As “theatre” this two and a half hour show meets a lot of the criteria to entertain with a galaxy of unexpected items -music, sound, video projections, irreverent lingo, the use of cellphones, puppets; –you name it! Tei , who also directed and Farr, who has a major role among the acting crew, utilize just about everything theatrical as they deconstruct Shakespeare and attempt to bring the Bard’s hero from Elsinmore into the current decade. From, the very beginning, the audience is aware that all of the action is taking place in a big tent, reminiscent of a circus, Even, the final moments of the play are unexpected and laugh-inducing as a movie show lists the “screen credits.” There is little doubt the playwrights are attempting to put the Great Dane into our Century and amidst American politics with references to Bush’s “NO (insert a word) BE LEFT BEHIND,” the second amendment guarantee allowing anyone to carry a gun, other U.S. Constitutional and legal rights, the Cuban influx to Miami and a variety of euphemisms and local connections.<br /><br />Yes, theatrically The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show has something for almost everyone!<br /><br />On the other hand, comes the subject of intellect. Just how much of Hamlet must one recall from his or her high school or college literature class? You may recall the characters’ names, even some ofthe plot, but is this enough to keep its audience in memory mode? And even if you recall the Bard’s character, do you know anything about Heiner Mueller, who (along with Shakespeare) inspired Farr/Tei to write The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show. The playbill actually spelled his name Muller (without the Eor simple E WITH A DOUBLE PERIOD ATOP -rare on most American typewriters to be fair),ls it a possibility they purposely misspelled the name of their inspiration? Mueller (with an E) was a lending 20th century German writer/essayist/dramatist who wrote the mind-bending The Hamletmachine, and gained fame among the literary/political set for his power packed resistance to what was happening in his homeland some 30 years before the reality ofthe pre-world war Eurostate.<br /><br />Certainly, some knowledge of Mueller would be helpful in understand what Farr/Tei had in mind when they created The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show. (Mueller also used music, sound, double and triple entendres, and references to make his points explosively while using the Hamlet connection.) Credit Farr/Tei for following in such respected feet, But, seriously, will the audience get it? Maybe I underestimate the intellect ofthe local aUQience! …. The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show wraps up Mad Cat Theatre’s 12th season since its founding by the irreverent genius TeL His press material says this play asks the age old question -To Be or Not To Be? -how valid is today’s society in dealing with its problems.</span></blockquote>
</span>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-90408661097806320262012-07-31T14:50:00.000-04:002012-07-31T14:50:05.843-04:00Current Productions for the week of July 30, 2012<br />
<strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-kravis-center-presents-peter-pan.html">Peter Pan</a> Staring Cathy Rigby</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Tony® Award nominee Cathy Rigby takes flight in an all-new production of Peter Pan. Discover the Magic all over again of this two-time Emmy® Award-winning and two-time Tony® Award-nominated production. The New York Times says “Rigby still carries off the flights, fights and acrobatics that make Peter Pan audiences mesmerized.”</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At <a href="http://www.empirestage.com/"><span style="color: purple;">Empire Stage</span></a> in association with</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The </span></b><strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/about-kutumba-theatre-project-and-their.html"><b><span style="color: purple;">Kutumba Theatre Project</span></b></a> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Until August 5</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">What if you were conceived twice in one lifetime: once by the illegitimate passionate sex of a young couple and then by a "missionary position" lovemaking, conservative couple who long to have a child. What if you were adopted by the married couple, only to find out you are everything they can't stand...I mean, understand? After being coming out as a lesbian and being alienated by her adoptive family, Ashley, a spirited young daydreamer, goes on an extraordinary journey to find love and a place to call home. </span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/race-by-david-mamet.html"><span style="color: purple;">Race</span></a></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.gablestage.org/"><b><i><span style="color: purple;">The Gable Stage</span></i></b></a><b><i> Until August 5</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards. This probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war is a searing variation on Brecht's <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Mother Courage</span></em>, translated to a brothel in the conflict-torn Congo. By the author of <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Intimate Apparel</span></em>, a GableStage hit in 2006.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/hair-at-andrews-living-arts-studio.html">Hair</a> </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At The </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://andrewslivingarts.com/"><i><span style="color: purple;">Andrews Living Arts Studio</span></i></a><i> Until <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">August 5</span></em></i></span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Hair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired hippies during the "Age of Aquarius" living a bohemian lifestyle in the City of New York; fighting against the Vietnam War and the traditional values of the “Establishment”. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and their friends, Woof Hud, Jeanie Crissy along with other “Tribe” members struggle to balance their young lives, loves and the sexual revolution while rebelling against the war, their conservative parents and society. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.nakedstage.org/"><strong><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Naked Stage</span></i></strong></a><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"> Until August 5</span></i></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A young governess journeys to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children. Her predecessor, Miss Jessel, drowned herself when she became pregnant by the sadistic valet, Peter Quint, who was himself, found dead soon after the mysterious circumstances. Now, the new governess has begun to see the specters of Quint and Jessel haunting the children. She must find a way to stop the fiends before it is too late. But are the ghosts real?</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/fantasticks-by-tom-jones-and-harvey.html"><span style="color: purple;">The Fantasticks</span></a> by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/"><b><i><span style="color: purple;">Palm Beach Dramaworks</span></i></b></a><b><i> Until August 5</i></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">In this captivating love story about a boy, a girl, two fathers and a wall, the narrator, El Gallo, creates a world of moonlight and magic, then pain and disillusionment, until the boy and girl find their way back to each other. The score, which includes "Try to Remember," is as timeless as the story itself! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/04/real-men-sing-show-tunesand-play-with.html"><b><span style="color: purple;">REAL MEN SING SHOW TUNES...and play with puppets</span></b></a></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At The </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.actorsplayhouse.org/"><em><b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Actors Playhouse</span></b></em></a><em><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"> Until</span></b></em><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"> August 12</span></i></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">GET REAL! And GET READY for a song-filled adult comedy about <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Real Men</span></em> behaving like, well...<strong><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">REAL MEN</span></i></strong>. Get an inside glimpse of what it takes to be a man in a modern world shared with women, children, and yes, even puppets. <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Real Men</span></em>, who make a habit of juggling their balls every day; fatherhood, mid-life crisis, dating, marriage, potency, sexuality, and the lack of it. <strong><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">REAL MEN</span></i></strong> answers the one pertinent question that’s on everyone’s mind... <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">“Do Real Men sing show tunes and play with puppets?”.</span></em></span><br />
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<em><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/donkey-show.html"><span style="color: purple;">The Donkey Show</span></a></span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<em><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At The </span></b></em><strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.arshtcenter.org/"><em><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Adrienne Arsht Center</span></em></a></span></strong><em><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Until August 12</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">In the spirit of Studio 54, come party on the dance floor to all the '70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you! Get the bouncer's attention—and you'll hustle right in! Get down and boogie with the star-crossed lovers, or watch from the sidelines - if that's the way you like it. And don't stop til you get enough! You can party into the night and live out your own fabulous disco fantasy.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/closer.html"><span style="color: purple;">Closer</span></a> <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">by Patrick Marber</span></em></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At The </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.mainstreetplayers.com/"><b><i>Main Street Players</i></b></a><b><i> Until August 12</i></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">This play is a brutal anatomy of modern romance, where a quartet of strangers meet, fall in love, and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal. It was one of the best plays of the 1990’s and won the Olivier Award for best new play as well as the New York Drama’s Critic Circle Award for best foreign play. It is one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language.</span><br />
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<em><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-hamlet-dog-and-pony-show.html"><span style="color: purple;">The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show</span></a> by Jessica Farr and Paul Tei</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<em><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At the <a href="http://www.madcattheatre.org/"><span style="color: purple;">Mad Cat Theatre</span></a> Until August 12</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show is an abbreviated and psychedelically exaggerated sample of the Hamlet tragedy. A layered semi-musical deconstruction that touches upon Heiner Muller’s HamletMachine and his use of sampling, Prince’s Purple Rain, OFWGKTA, fear of death, the seeds of hate, depression and the implications of current day political and social figures in America, more specifically, on the campaign trial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/divorce-party-musical.html"><strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Divorce Party: The Musical</span></strong></a></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.kravis.org/"><strong><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Kravis Center</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"> Until Aug 19</span></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Still reeling from her divorce, Linda is rescued by her three friends who have come to turn her despair into a weekend of hilarity. Using popular songs with clever new lyrics, the ladies sing and dance their way through the wildest divorce party ever. From the Producer who brought you the off-Broadway hit <i>Menopause the Musical</i>, it’s the ultimate Girls’ Night Out, coupled with a healthy dose of comic mayhem and a touch of “naughty.”</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At <a href="http://www.stagedoortheatre.com/day.html"><span style="color: purple;">Broward Stage Door Theatre</span></a> Until Aug 26</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">It’s 1959 and legendary musical performer Billie Holiday is just four months away from death as she steps to the microphone in a seedy bar in Philadelphia for one of her final performances. Though she is there to sing, the audience will find she has a lot more on her mind than music. In addition to featuring a dozen of her hits, Holiday tells the tale of who she is, in her own original style.</span></div>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-73894795733180084502012-07-30T01:00:00.000-04:002012-07-31T14:49:13.413-04:00Peter Pan Staring Cathy Rigby<a href="http://www.kravis.org/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>The Kravis Center</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong> Presents<br />Peter Pan Staring Cathy Rigby</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tony® Award nominee Cathy Rigby takes flight in an all-new production of Peter Pan. Discover the Magic all over again of this two-time Emmy® Award-winning and two-time Tony® Award-nominated production. The New York Times says “Rigby still carries off the flights, fights and acrobatics that make Peter Pan audiences mesmerized.” <br /><br />Be sure to watch for a special South Florida Parenting Promotion for the opening night of Peter Pan. Special Offer is good only for phone and walk up. Click </span><a href="http://www.kravis.org/parenting"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> for more info.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Wed, Thurs, Fri, & Sat @ 7 pm</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Sunday @ 1 and 5:30 pm</span>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-69998826610513620412012-07-27T13:01:00.000-04:002012-07-27T13:01:41.440-04:00The Past Week In Theatre History (July 23 – July 27)<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today in Theatre History: JULY 23 – 27 </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By <a href="mailto:dgewirtzman@playbill.com"><i><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><strong>David Gewirtzman</strong></span></i></a>, Ernio Hernandez, Doug Nevin and Robert Viagas</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1853</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Birthday of Broadway impresario <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/615/David-Belasco" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>David Belasco</strong></span></a>, namesake of the Belasco Theatre, who wrote and/or produced dozens of plays including <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10934/The-Return-of-Peter-Grimm" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>The Return of Peter Grimm</strong></span></a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10931/Laugh-Clown-Laugh" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Laugh, Clown, Laugh!</strong></span></a></i>, and two that inspired great operas, <i>Madame Butterfly</i> and <i>Girl of the Golden West</i>. His ghost is believed to haunt the Broadway theatre that bears his name.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1856</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A Dramatic genius is born today in the person of <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/12951/George-Bernard-Shaw" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>George Bernard Shaw</strong></span></a>. Among Shaw's many playwriting credits will be <i>Pygmalion, Man and Superman</i> and <i>Saint Joan</i>. The former play, a comedy about one Professor Henry Higgins determined to turn a cockney flower girl into a "lady," would become the basis for the <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/316/Alan-Jay-Lerner" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Alan Jay Lerner</strong></span></a>-<a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/2888/Frederick-Loewe" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Frederick Loewe</strong></span></a> masterpiece <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/5810/My-Fair-Lady" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>My Fair Lady</strong></span></a></i>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1920</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Producer <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7562/Alexander-H-Cohen" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Alexander H. Cohen</strong></span></a>, known for bringing quality plays to Broadway for six decades, is born today. Lastly represented on Broadway by the <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7040/Noel-Coward" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Noel Coward</strong></span></a> play, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10043/Waiting-in-the-Wings" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Waiting in the Wings</strong></span></a></i>, starring <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/61872/Lauren-Bacall" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Lauren Bacall</strong></span></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/108833/Rosemary-Harris" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Rosemary Harris</strong></span></a>, he will produce 101 Broadway shows, including the 1964 <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/13102/Hamlet" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Hamlet</strong></span></a></i> starring <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/96898/Richard-Burton" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Richard Burton</strong></span></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/19011/Harold-Pinter" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Harold Pinter</strong></span></a><strong>’s</strong> drama <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/2616/The-Homecoming" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>The Homecoming</strong></span></a></i>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/19498/Peter-Brook" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Peter Brook</strong></span></a><strong>’s</strong> Tony Award-winning <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/11260/La-Tragedie-De-Carmen" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>La Tragedie De Carmen</strong></span></a></i>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13468/James-Joyce" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>James Joyce</strong></span></a><strong>'s <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/11543/Ulysses-in-Nighttown" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Ulysses in Nighttown</span></a></i></strong> starring <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/31762/Zero-Mostel" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Zero Mostel</strong></span></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/25081/Dario-Fo" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Dario Fo</strong></span></a><strong>'s</strong> <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10779/Accidental-Death-of-an-Anarchist" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Accidental Death of an Anarchist</strong></span></a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/865/Long-Days-Journey-Into-Night" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Long Day's Journey Into Night</strong></span></a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/864/Ah-Wilderness" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Ah, Wilderness</strong>!</span></a></i>, both starring <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/61391/Jason-Robards" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Jason Robards</strong></span></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/1319/Colleen-Dewhurst" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Colleen Dewhurst</strong></span></a>. He will live to age 79.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1938</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/28169/Helen-Hayes" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Helen Hayes</strong></span></a> is named the stage's greatest performer when the New York Sun prints its list of great performers today. Compiled after polling 150 notable people, mostly in the theatre industry, the list names <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/26456/Katharine-Cornell" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Katharine Cornell</strong></span></a> as runner-up. The pair of <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/172/Alfred-Lunt" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Alfred Lunt</strong></span></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/134/Lynn-Fontanne" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Lynn Fontanne</strong></span></a> is third and others on the list include <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/111841/John-Barrymore" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>John Barrymore</strong></span></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/62471/Maude-Adams" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Maude Adams</strong></span></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/20358/John-Gielgud" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>John Gielgud</strong></span></a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1955</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company presents <i>King Lear</i>. Sir <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/20358/John-Gielgud" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">John Gielgud</span></b></a>, Helen Cherry and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/104640/Claire-Bloom" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Claire Bloom</span></b></a> star in this latest production of the Shakespearean tragedy.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1962</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Comic actor <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/53526/Victor-Moore" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Victor Moore</span></b></a> dies today at age 86. Moore clowned around opposite straight man <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/101805/William-Gaxton" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">William Gaxton</span></b></a> in seven original Broadway musicals, including <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/954/Anything-Goes" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Anything Goes</span></b></a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/2686/Of-Thee-I-Sing" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Of Thee I Sing</span></b></a></i>, and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/6072/Louisiana-Purchase" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Louisiana Purchase</span></b></a></i>. As a dramatic actor, Moore appeared in a revival of <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/252/On-Borrowed-Time" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">On Borrowed Time</span></b></a></i> and in the Hollywood film "Swing Time."</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1975</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a smash run at The Public Theater in New York City, the <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/894/Marvin-Hamlisch" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Marvin Hamlisch</span></b></a>-<a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6104/Edward-Kleban" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Edward Kleban</span></b></a> musical <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10469/A-Chorus-Line" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">A Chorus Line</span></b></a></i> makes the move uptown to Broadway's Shubert Theatre. The <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/103/Michael-Bennett" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Michael Bennett</span></b></a>-helmed show, including such songs as "What I Did for Love" and "One," features <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/4390/Donna-McKechnie" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Donna McKechnie</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/46846/Kelly-Bishop" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kelly Bishop</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/109163/Robert-LuPone" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Robert LuPone</span></b></a>. <i>A Chorus Line</i> will truly prove to be, as its lyrics say, "one singular sensation," racking up 6,137 performances to become Broadway's longest running show up to that time. (In June 1997, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/11527/Cats" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Cats</span></b></a></i> will break that record.) A 1985 film version of <i>A Chorus Line</i>, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough, will feature <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/123210/Michael-Douglas" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Michael Douglas</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/51789/Terrence-Mann" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Terrence Mann</span></b></a> in its cast.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1982</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Little Shop of Horrors</i> begins a 2,209-performance run today at Off-Broadway's Orpheum Theatre. Based on the <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13813/Roger-Corman" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Roger Corman</strong></span></a> cult classic about a man-eating plant, this <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/16762/Alan-Menken" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Alan Menken</strong></span></a>-<a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6340/Howard-Ashman" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Howard Ashman</strong></span></a> musical stars <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/90059/Lee-Wilkof" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Lee Wilkof</strong></span></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/78695/Ellen-Greene" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Ellen Greene</strong></span></a>. The 1986 film version of the musical, directed by Frank Oz, will star Rick Moranis, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/53079/Vincent-Gardenia" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Vincent Gardenia</strong></span></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27627/Steve-Martin" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Steve Martin</strong></span></a>, John Candy, and Greene reprising her stage role as Audrey.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1985</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Film buffs will be interested to know that up until this day in 1985, Tony-winner <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/66186/Mandy-Patinkin" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mandy Patinkin</span></b></a> was to star opposite <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/92937/Meryl-Streep" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Meryl Streep</span></b></a> in the <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/19356/Mike-Nichols" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mike Nichols</span></b></a> film <i>Heartburn</i>. After this one day of shooting, however, Patinkin is replaced on the project by Academy Award-winner Jack Nicholson. The <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/12263/Evita" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Evita</span></b></a></i> star's future film credits <i>will</i> include 1987's "The Princess Bride" and 1990's "Dick Tracy." He will return to Broadway in fall 1998 with his one-man show <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10763/Mamaloshen" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mamaloshen</span></b></a></i>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1992</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Broadway star <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18104/Alfred-Drake" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Alfred Drake</span></b></a>, 78, dies today. Born Alfred Cappuro, Drake went on to star in the original productions of such Broadway musical classics as <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4221/Oklahoma" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Oklahoma!</span></b></a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/6183/Kiss-Me-Kate" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kiss Me, Kate</span></b></a></i>, and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/11680/Kismet" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kismet</span></b></a></i>. For a time in 1953, Drake replaced <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/31476/Yul-Brynner" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Yul Brynner</span></b></a> as the King of Siam in <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5467/Richard-Rodgers" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Richard Rodgers</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7077/Oscar-Hammerstein-II" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Oscar Hammerstein II</span></b></a>'s <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4210/The-King-and-I" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The King and I</span></b></a></i>, a role he had turned down when the show was first being produced.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1996</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7410/Tom-Jones" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tom Jones</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/17399/Harvey-Schmidt" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Harvey Schmidt</span></b></a>'s musical <i>The Fantasticks</i>, which opened Off-Broadway May 3, 1960 plays its 15,000th performance. The story about two young neighbors whose stars are crossed purposely by their fathers' fake feuding runs at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York City's Greenwich Village. It will close in January 2002.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1996</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tony Award-winning musical star <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/68230/Patti-LuPone" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Patti LuPone</span></b></a> returns to the Broadway stage tonight in <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27775/Terrence-McNally" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Terrence McNally</span></b></a>'s <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/8387/Master-Class" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Master Class</span></b></a></i>. Taking over the reins from the play's original Tony Award-winning star, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/20075/Zoe-Caldwell" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Zoe Caldwell</span></b></a>, LuPone is said to speed up the evening's proceedings significantly, due to her fast-paced interpretation. When LuPone finishes her run as opera diva Maria Callas in this Tony-winning play, stage and television star <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/74587/Dixie-Carter" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dixie Carter</span></b></a> will become the third -- and final -- actress to play Callas in the production. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/57722/Faye-Dunaway" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Faye Dunaway</span></b></a> will play the part on tour.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1997</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After 738 performances, the Broadway production of <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/8190/Victor-Victoria" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Victor/Victoria</span></b></a></i> will terminate its run after today's matinee performance. Based on the 1982 <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18255/Blake-Edwards" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Blake Edwards</span></b></a> film of the same name, the Edwards-helmed stage version of <i>Victoria</i> opened in fall 1995 at the Marriott Marquis with stage and screen legend <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/88259/Julie-Andrews" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Julie Andrews</span></b></a> in the leading role(s). Andrews had also starred in the film version, earning an Academy Award nomination for her performance. During the first year of the show's run, Andrews and the show became the center of a Tony nomination controversy. When <i>Victor/ Victoria</i> failed to garner any nominations other than the goes-without-saying citing for Andrews, the actress announced she would decline that honor in protest of the nominating committee ignoring all other members of what she called an "egregiously overlooked" company. Subsequent stars of the Broadway production were <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/90656/Liza-Minnelli" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Liza Minnelli</span></b></a>, who filled in for several weeks while Andrews took a vacation, and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/69341/Raquel-Welch" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Raquel Welch</span></b></a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1997</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Following a sold-out limited run at Greenwich House, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/25041/Douglas-Carter-Beane" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Douglas Carter Beane</span></b></a>'s comedy, <i>As Bees in Honey Drown</i>, begins a commercial Off-Broadway run today at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Although Bo Foxworth has taken over the lead role from <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/115814/Josh-Hamilton" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Josh Hamilton</span></b></a>, who must leave to honor a film commitment, most of the cast, including <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/115675/J-Smith-Cameron" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">J. Smith-Cameron</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/51027/T-Scott-Cunningham" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">T. Scott Cunningham</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/69553/Sandra-Daley" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sandra Daley</span></b></a>, and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/39416/Mark-Nelson" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mark Nelson</span></b></a>, remains intact.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1999</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cross-dressing British comedian <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/37513/Eddie-Izzard" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Eddie Izzard</span></b></a> begins previews for <i>Lenny</i>, the biopic on the life of American shock comedian <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13556/Lenny-Bruce" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Lenny Bruce</span></b></a>. The production, directed by Sir <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/143/Peter-Hall" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Peter Hall</span></b></a>, plays at the Queen's Theatre in London. Izzard is best known for his touring comedy shows and videos such as <i>Dress to Kill</i> and <i>Glorious</i>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1999</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/35489/Andrea-Martin" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Andrea Martin</span></b></a> is The Cat in the Hat in the workshop of the new <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6792/Lynn-Ahrens" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Lynn Ahrens</span></b></a>-<a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/10954/Stephen-Flaherty" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Stephen Flaherty</span></b></a> musical, <i>The Seussical</i> (later known as <i>Seussical the Musical</i>, and then just <i>Seussical</i>) in Toronto. Director <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18722/Frank-Galati" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Frank Galati</span></b></a> helms a cast that includes <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/47016/Kevin-Chamberlin" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kevin Chamberlin</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/60305/Jason-Fuchs" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jason Fuchs</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/60731/Janine-LaManna" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Janine LaManna</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/57065/David-Lowenstein" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">David Lowenstein</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/10547/Michele-Pawk" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Michele Pawk</span></b></a>, and others. The musical based on the work of late children's author <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/116084/Dr-Seuss" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dr. Seuss</span></b></a> (real name: Theodore Geisel) will <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3070/Seussical" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>open at Broadway's Richard Rodgers</strong> <strong>Theatre Nov. 30, 2000</strong></span></a> — but with <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/202/David-Shiner" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">David Shiner</span></b></a> as the Cat.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1999</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Writer-performers David Collins and Shane Dundas join the likes of Metallica, Alanis Morisette, the Dave Matthews Band, Rage Against the Machine, Buckcherry and Sheryl Crow as they perform at Woodstock '99 in Rome, New York. At the time, the duo, better known as The Umbilical Brothers, also perform their Off-Broadway show <i>Thwak</i> at the Minetta Lane Theatre.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2000</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tony Award-winning director <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/20370/Joseph-Hardy" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joseph Hardy</span></b></a> returns to San Diego's <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/115622/Old-Globe" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Old Globe</span></b></a> with <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5560/Alan-Ayckbourn" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Alan Ayckbourn</span></b></a> as he helms <i>Things We Do for Love</i>, which begins performances tonight. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/72917/Charlotte-Booker" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Charlotte Booker</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/94429/Monique-Fowler" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Monique Fowler</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/51644/Tom-Lacy" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tom Lacy</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/74421/Dennis-Parlato" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dennis Parlato</span></b></a> star in the romantic comedy as the tenants of a Victorian home-turned boarding house.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2000</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thrice extended at Chicago's Goodman Studio Theatre, Rebecca Gilman's comedy <i>Spinning Into Butter</i> officially opens in New York City at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. Directed by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/53/Daniel-Sullivan" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Daniel Sullivan</span></b></a>, the show featuring <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/100676/Hope-Davis" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hope Davis</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/38114/Daniel-Jenkins" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Daniel Jenkins</span></b></a> exposes the cosmetic and sometimes destructive political correctness that erupts on a small Vermont college campus when an African-American student finds several racist notes pinned to his door.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2000</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27060/Nathan-Lane" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Nathan Lane</span></b></a> stars as Sheridan Whiteside and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/87683/Jean-Smart" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jean Smart</span></b></a> stars as Lorraine Sheldon in the revival of the <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13655/Moss-Hart" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Moss Hart</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6281/George-S-Kaufman" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">George S. Kaufman</span></b></a> play, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10396/The-Man-Who-Came-to-Dinner" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Man Who Came to Dinner</span></b></a></i>, which opens tonight at the <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/115033/Roundabout-Theatre-Company" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Roundabout Theatre Company</span></b></a>'s new Broadway house, the American Airlines Theatre. Lane will probably be remembered more for his second starring role of the season, as Max Bialystock in <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4170/The-Producers" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Producers</span></b></a></i> which won him the Tony for Best Actor. The American Airlines Theatre is the refurbished and rechristened Selwyn Theatre on 42nd Street.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2001</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/23439/Alan-King" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Alan King</span></b></a>'s solo show, <i>Mr. Goldwyn</i> debuts at New York Stage & Film at Vassar College. The production later transfers to Off-Broadway.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2001</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Director-choreographer <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/120/Graciela-Daniele" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Graciela Daniele</span></b></a>'s revival <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/8185/Annie-Get-Your-Gun" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Annie Get Your Gun</span></b></a>,</i> celebrates its 1,000th performance at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway. Leads on that date are <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/105662/Crystal-Bernard" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Crystal Bernard</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/52564/Tom-Wopat" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tom Wopat</span></b></a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2001</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mike Nichols' starry production of <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/12821/Anton-Chekhov" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Anton Chekhov</span></b></a>'s <i>The Seagull</i> begins performances at Central Park's Delacorte Theatre. Meryl Streep and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/71/Kevin-Kline" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kevin Kline</span></b></a> head the cast as Arkadina and Trigorin. Also in the cast are <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/64596/Marcia-Gay-Harden" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Marcia Gay Harden</span></b></a> as Masha, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/49666/Natalie-Portman" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Natalie Portman</span></b></a> as Nina, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/48399/Christopher-Walken" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Christopher Walken</span></b></a> as Sorin, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/95948/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Philip Seymour Hoffman</span></b></a> as Konstantin, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/112939/John-Goodman" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">John Goodman</span></b></a> as Shamrayev, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/74395/Debra-Monk" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Debra Monk</span></b></a> as Polina, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/98728/Stephen-Spinella" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Stephen Spinella</span></b></a> as Medvedyev and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/62285/Larry-Pine" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Larry Pine</span></b></a> as Dorn.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2003</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actor and comedian <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/89507/Bob-Hope" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bob Hope</span></b></a> dies at age 100. Though he's known primarily for his film career, he appeared in eight Broadway musicals in the late 1920s and early 1930s, notably <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6634/Jerome-Kern" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jerome Kern</span></b></a>'s <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/8736/Roberta" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Roberta</span></b></a></i>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5920/Cole-Porter" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Cole Porter</span></b></a>'s <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/951/Red-Hot-and-Blue" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Red, Hot and Blue</span></b></a>!</i> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/3765/Vernon-Duke" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Vernon Duke</span></b></a>'s <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/11613/Ziegfeld-Follies-of-1936" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Ziegfeld Follies of 1936</span></b></a></i>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2008</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/24698/Bruce-Adler" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bruce Adler</span></b></a>, the scion of Yiddish theatre family who went on to have much success on the Broadway stage, winning two Tony Award nominations, dies at age 63. He had been battling liver cancer for several years. <span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adler, in the mid-1990s, played to huge success with a series of shows in the theatres of <strong>South Florida</strong>, from the Palm Beaches to Ft. Lauderdale to Miami.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His shows paid tribute to the performers who had shaped his own style including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Kaye" title="Danny Kaye"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Danny Kaye</strong></span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Davis,_Jr." title="Sammy Davis, Jr."><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Sammy Davis, Jr</strong>.</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Buttons" title="Red Buttons"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Red Buttons</strong></span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cab_Calloway" title="Cab Calloway"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Cab Calloway</strong></span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Durante" title="Jimmy Durante"><span style="color: #ff7f00;"><strong>Jimmy Durante</strong></span></a>, among others. Bruce Adler's first marriage ended in divorce in 2002. He married director/actress <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amy London</b> in 2003. In February 2007, he and London had their only child together, Jacob Hayden Adler. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2008</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change</i>, which opened at the Westside Theatre Aug. 1, 1996, plays its final performance at that Off-Broadway venue. The musical revue played a total of 20 previews and 5,003 regular performances, making it the second longest-running musical in Off-Broadway history.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2009</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/119063/Merce-Cunningham" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Merce Cunningham</span></b></a>, the American choreographer who was one of the most important and influential forces in the dance world during the 20th century, dies at age 90.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2011</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/61774/Jane-White" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jane White</span></b></a>, a stage veteran who created the role of Queen Aggravain in <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/904/Once-Upon-a-Mattress" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Once Upon a Mattress</span></b></a></i>, dies at age 88. Ms. White, a New York City native who grew up in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem and attended Smith College and the New School, also appeared on Broadway in <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10283/Strange-Fruit" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Strange Fruit</span></b></a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/7185/Take-a-Giant-Step" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Take a Giant Step</span></b></a></i> and the 2001 revival of <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10759/Follies" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Follies</span></b></a></i>. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Today's Birthdays:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/12838/Alexandre-Dumas" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Alexandre Dumas</span></b></a>, fils 1824. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13979/William-Gillette" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">William Gillette</span></b></a> 1853. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/29179/Nat-C-Goodwin" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Nat C. Goodwin</span></b></a> 1859. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/26833/Montague-Glass" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Montague Glass</span></b></a> 1877. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/26562/Lord-Dunsany" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Lord Dunsany</span></b></a> 1878. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/41365/Arthur-Treacher" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Arthur Treacher</span></b></a> 1894. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/12861/Aldous-Huxley" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Aldous Huxley</span></b></a> 1894. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/106011/Gracie-Allen" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Gracie Allen</span></b></a> 1895. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/4529/Herbert-Fields" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Herbert Fields</span></b></a> 1897. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/60371/Jack-Gilford" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jack Gilford</span></b></a> 1908. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/45163/Vivian-Vance" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Vivian Vance</span></b></a> 1909. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/99911/Helen-Martin" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Helen Martin</span></b></a> 1909. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/48507/Keenan-Wynn" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Keenan Wynn</span></b></a> 1916. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18255/Blake-Edwards" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Blake Edwards</span></b></a> 1922. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/61390/Jason-Robards-Jr" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jason Robards, Jr.</span></b></a> 1922. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/80316/Estelle-Getty" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Estelle Getty</span></b></a> 1923. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18271/Barbara-Harris" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Barbara Harris</span></b></a> 1935. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/104251/Chris-Sarandon" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Chris Sarandon</span></b></a> 1942. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/30383/Santo-Loquasto" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Santo Loquasto</span></b></a> 1944. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/99983/Helen-Mirren" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Helen Mirren</span></b></a> 1945. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/26706/Larry-Shue" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Larry Shue</span></b></a> 1946.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/65751/Maureen-McGovern" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Maureen McGovern</span></b></a> 1949. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/46517/Simon-Jones" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Simon Jones</span></b></a> 1950. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/48318/Kevin-Spacey" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kevin Spacey</span></b></a> 1959. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/102693/Woody-Harrelson" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Woody Harrelson</span></b></a> 1961. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/87508/Jeremy-Piven" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jeremy Piven</span></b></a> 1965. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/95948/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Philip Seymour Hoffman</span></b></a> 1967. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/47030/Kristin-Chenoweth" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kristin Chenoweth</span></b></a> 1968. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/51349/Tamyra-Gray" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Tamyra Gray</span></b></a> 1979.</span></div>
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<br /></div>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-3074405509575789062012-07-26T14:03:00.000-04:002012-07-26T14:03:49.236-04:00Reviews for the week of July 23, 2012<div style="mso-layout-grid-align: none;">
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">The <b><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/about-kutumba-theatre-project-and-their.html"><span style="color: purple;">Katumba Theatre Project</span></a> </b>and <b><a href="http://www.empirestage.com/"><span style="color: purple;">Empire Stage</span></a> </b>presents <b><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/new-theatre-opening-with-world-premier.html"><span style="color: purple;">Baby GirL</span></a>, </b>Written and Directed by <b>Kim Ehly. </b>Starring: </span><strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Sally Bondi, Clay Cartland, Miki Edelman, David R. Gordon, Noah Levine, Nori Tecosky. Jessica Welch,</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"> and featuring <strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">Lindsey Forgey</span></strong> as <strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">ASHLEY</span></strong></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;">. Design Team: Lighting Design – Nate Sykes; Sound Design – David Hart; Costume Design – Kim Ehly.</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">John Thomason </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">reviewed the show for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/">NewTimes</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">It's something close to magic that Baby Girl not only works but excels with just eight cast members, a mostly bare-walled set, and static props limited to a bed, a sofa, a beat-up desk, and some movable pedestals. No matter — this is a transportive, original piece of stagecraft that rewards our imagination and always keeps us on our toes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">As Ehly's surrogate, Lindsey Forgey is a natural comedian and a performer of effortless talent; ditto to Clay Cartland and Noah Levine, the versatile young actors who play many of the men who populate her life (most of the supporting cast members play upward of five characters). The rest of the ensemble play off one another like a perfectly oiled machine, with Bondi's spastic exuberance connecting her pivotal roles as both of Ashley's mothers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">A comedy that lurches unexpectedly and effectively into a thriller, Baby Girl has resonated with the same-sex couples who have so far made up the majority of its packed-to-capacity run. Its references to South Florida institutions like Lester's and the Peter Pan Diner will bring smiles of recognition across all swaths of the audience. And David Hart's sound design, with its milieu-capturing audio samples and eclectic song selection, helps make the small assemblage of uncomfortable-looking furniture feel, ultimately, like a home.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Ehly could well be the star in this production, though she is not on stage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The playwright – known locally as an outstanding young actress – lets loose with a pack full of comic moments while writing a play about one’s identity, only to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>find her “family”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>may be closer than one expects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her language as a playwright is outstanding,.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">A powerful Lindsey Forgey plays Ashley ( the notable<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>narrator /alter ego of Ehly)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in this tear- and smile inducing two act play and is the center of attention from the first moment the stage lights go on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What she eventually finds is that her closest friends and an unexpected finale finally leads her to what ‘family” really means.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amid the chuckles and smiles of Ehly’s realistic<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>language is enough pathos to bring a tear to one’s eye.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Sally Bondi, as both the birth-mom and adoptive parent , has some of the most telling moments. She beams with energy in both roles, alongside husbands played by David R. Gordon, Empire’s producer who proves he is an adept actor as well as entrepreneur /businessman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Ehly takes us through several decades, notably the 70s, 89s and 90s at several locations including Fort Lauderdale, Seattle and Jacksonville – times and areas in which the heroine Ashley discovers herself while seeking ‘family.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">The <strong><a href="http://www.arshtcenter.org/">Adrienne Arsht Center</a></strong> presents <strong><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/donkey-show.html">The Donkey Show</a></strong>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Starring:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Stephanie Chisholm, Leah Verier-Dunn, Inger Hanna, Rudi Goblen, Derick Pierson, Shira Abergel,</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jimmy Alex.</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Choreography by Rosie Herrera.</span></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Bill Hirschman</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> reviewed the show for the <strong><a href="http://www.floridatheateronstage.com/">Florida Theatre On Stage</a></strong>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">The Donkey Show is the Arsht’s attempt to lure a younger, broader, more diverse audience into what some might call theater, but it’s really theatrically enhanced performance art. Set in a sensory overload environment evoking Studio 54, the show is a hybrid of circus, karaoke, dance, light and sound. It’s loud, infectious, silly. Is it fun? Absolutely. Entertaining? You bet. Theater? I’ll go out on a trapeze hanging from the ceiling and say no. Narrative or theme isn’t even secondary; it’s tertiary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">The hour-long<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“play”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is bookended by 45 minutes in which the performers cavort with the audience as a DJ spins Barry White, Chic and The Bee Gees. Don’t leave before the cast does a post-show kick-butt kick line to Inger Hanna’s scorching rendition of “It’s Raining Men.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The overall experience is overwhelming and, if you allow it, thoroughly satisfying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">The six-figure production has thrown in strobes, smoke machines, bubble dispensers, everything but the kitchen sink and that’s likely because there wasn’t enough time to find one. They’ve even secured the services of Harry Wayne Casey, the local resident who founded KC and the Sunshine Band, to participate opening night and during the last two Sunday performances as an auxiliary emcee/enabler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">First among equals, certainly the most noticeable, is Miami-based Stephanie Chisholm as Tytania. Tall, lithe and wearing hot pants, mask, a gossamer cape and butterfly pasties, she marched around the stage with a regal air appropriate to the Queen of the Fairies. She delivered the high point of the show when Tytania is hoisted above the crowd in a cargo net and gyrates in various aerial acrobatics, sometimes barely hanging on with one limb. Another standout is local actress Shira Abergel who brings the strongest voice in the cast to the music.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">How much of Shakespeare’s story you extract depends on several factors: how well you know the original, how carried away you get dancing to songs like YMCA and You Sexy Thing, and how many of the club’s $10 drinks you consume. But craft and cleverness, artistry and humor are all at work in The Donkey Show, and Shakespeare’s tale of love misguided and requited, the malleability of identity and a sexually charged fantasy world gets played out in a novel way.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"></span>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-38588415351653739622012-07-24T18:49:00.000-04:002012-07-24T18:49:15.449-04:00Sherman Hemsley Dead at 74<span style="font-family: Georgia, "color: #ff7f00;Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Hemsley">Sherman Hemsley</a> performed with local groups in Philadelphia before moving to New York to study with </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Richards" style="color: #ff7f00; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="Lloyd Richards"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Lloyd Richards</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20px;"> at the </span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_Ensemble_Company" style="color: #ff7f00; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="Negro Ensemble Company"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Negro Ensemble Company</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 20px;">. Shortly after, he joined</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnette_Carroll" style="color: #ff7f00; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="Vinnette Carroll"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Vinnette Carroll</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">'s Urban Arts Company appearing in these productions: </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">But Never Jam Today</i><span style="line-height: 20px;">, </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The Lottery</i><span style="line-height: 20px;">, </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Old Judge Mose is Dead</i><span style="line-height: 20px;">, </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Moon On A Rainbow Shawl</i><span style="line-height: 20px;">, </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Step Lively Boys</i><span style="line-height: 20px;">,</span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Croesus</i><span style="line-height: 20px;">, and </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The Witch</i><span style="line-height: 20px;">. He made his Broadway debut in </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Purlie</i><span style="line-height: 20px;"> and toured with the show for a year. In the summer of 1972 he joined the Vinnette Carroll musical </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Sorry, I Can't Cope</i><span style="line-height: 20px;">ensemble in Toronto, followed a month later in the American Conservatory Theatre production at the Geary Theatre. This production had Hemsley in Act I performing the solo "Lookin' Over From Your Side" and in "Sermon" in Act II.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">While Hemsley was on Broadway with </span><em>Purlie, </em>with Cleavon Little and Melba Moore<span style="line-height: 20px;">, </span></span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Lear" style="color: #ff7f00; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="Norman Lear"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Norman Lear</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> called him in 1971 to play the role of George Jefferson on his burgeoning new sitcom, </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_in_the_Family" style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;" title="All in the Family">All in the Family</a></i><span style="line-height: 20px;">. Hemsley was reluctant to leave his theatre role, but Lear told him that he would hold the role open for him. Hemsley joined the cast two years later. The characters of Hemsley and co-star </span></span><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Sanford" style="color: #ff7f00; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-decoration: none;" title="Isabel Sanford"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Isabel Sanford</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> were secondary on </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">All in the Family</i><span style="line-height: 20px;">, but were given their own spin-off series, </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jeffersons" style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;" title="The Jeffersons">The Jeffersons</a></i><span style="line-height: 20px;">, less than two years after Hemsley made his debut on the show. Such was Hemsley's and Sanford's compatibility and credibility as a married couple that no one seemed to notice or care that in real life Sanford was twenty years older than Hemsley. </span><i style="font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The Jeffersons</i><span style="line-height: 20px;"> proved to be one of Lear's most successful shows, enjoying a run of 11 seasons through 1985.</span> </span>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-55139675623972244242012-07-24T15:27:00.000-04:002012-07-24T15:27:45.106-04:00Current Productions for the week of July 23, 2012<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Cabaret Verboten</span></i></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At </span><a href="http://artsgarage.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Arts Garage</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Until July 29</span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the face of the Nazi machine’s insidious advance, Germany’s Weimar era art-scene was a hotbed of music, theatre, and art that used satire and irony to expose the affected bourgeois morality of the time. While “decadent” and “degenerate” were terms Hitler used to describe whatever he found objectionable, the cabaret of the day reflected the social degeneracy, dripping in decadence and menace, as a response to what their world had become.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">At The </b><a href="http://www.lakeworthplayhouse.org/"><em><b>Lake Worth Playhouse</b></em></a><em><b> Until July 29</b></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hairspray sweeps you away to 1960’s Baltimore where the 50’s are out and change is in the air! Loveable plus-size heroine, Tracy, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program. Overnight she finds herself transformed from an outsider to teen celebrity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can a larger-than-life adolescent somehow manage to vanquish the program’s reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love all without mussing her hair? </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_368843882"></a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/new-theatre-opening-with-world-premier.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Baby GirL</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> by Kim Ehly</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The </b><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/about-kutumba-theatre-project-and-their.html"><b><span style="color: purple;">Kutumba Theatre Project</span></b></a> </span></strong><strong>Until August 5</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What if you were conceived twice in one lifetime: once by the illegitimate passionate sex of a young couple and then by a "missionary position" lovemaking, conservative couple who long to have a child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if you were adopted by the married couple, only to find out you are everything they can't stand...I mean, understand? After being coming out as a lesbian and being alienated by her adoptive family, Ashley, a spirited young daydreamer, goes on an extraordinary journey to find love and a place to call home. </span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/race-by-david-mamet.html">Race</a></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">At </b><a href="http://www.gablestage.org/"><b><i><span style="color: purple;">The Gable Stage</span></i></b></a><b><i> Until August 5</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards. This probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war is a searing variation on Brecht's <em>Mother Courage</em>, translated to a brothel in the conflict-torn Congo. By the author of <em>Intimate Apparel</em>, a GableStage hit in 2006.</span><br />
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<b><i><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/hair-at-andrews-living-arts-studio.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hair</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></i></b><br />
<b><i></i></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><i>At The </i></b><b><a href="http://andrewslivingarts.com/"><i><span style="color: purple;">Andrews Living Arts Studio</span></i></a><i> Until <em>August 5</em></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired hippies during the "Age of Aquarius" living a bohemian lifestyle in the City of New York; fighting against the Vietnam War and the traditional values of the “Establishment”. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and their friends, Woof Hud, Jeanie Crissy along with other “Tribe” members struggle to balance their young lives, loves and the sexual revolution while rebelling against the war, their conservative parents and society. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/turn-of-screw-by-jeffrey-hatcher.html"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Turn of the </span></i>Screw</span></strong></a><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></strong><a href="http://www.nakedstage.org/"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>The Naked Stage</strong></span></span></i></a><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><strong> Until August 5</strong></span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A young governess journeys to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children. Her predecessor, Miss Jessel, drowned herself when she became pregnant by the sadistic valet, Peter Quint, who was himself, found dead soon after the mysterious circumstances. Now, the new governess has begun to see the specters of Quint and Jessel haunting the children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She must find a way to stop the fiends before it is too late. But are the ghosts real?</span><br />
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<b><i><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/fantasticks-by-tom-jones-and-harvey.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Fantasticks</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt</span></i></b><br />
<a href="http://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/"><b><i><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Palm Beach Dramaworks</span></i></b></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><i> Until August 5</i></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In this captivating love story about a boy, a girl, two fathers and a wall, the narrator, El Gallo, creates a world of moonlight and magic, then pain and disillusionment, until the boy and girl find their way back to each other. The score, which includes "Try to Remember," is as timeless as the story itself! </span><br />
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<a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/04/real-men-sing-show-tunesand-play-with.html"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">REAL MEN SING SHOW TUNES...and play with puppets</span></b></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">At The </b><a href="http://www.actorsplayhouse.org/"><em><b><span style="color: purple;">Actors Playhouse</span></b></em></a><em><b> Until</b></em><strong><i> August 12</i></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">GET REAL! And GET READY for a song-filled adult comedy about <em>Real Men</em> behaving like, well...<strong><i>REAL MEN</i></strong>. Get an inside glimpse of what it takes to be a man in a modern world shared with women, children, and yes, even puppets. <em>Real Men</em>, who make a habit of juggling their balls every day; fatherhood, mid-life crisis, dating, marriage, potency, sexuality, and the lack of it. <strong><i>REAL MEN</i></strong> answers the one pertinent question that’s on everyone’s mind... <em>“Do Real Men sing show tunes and play with puppets?”.</em></span><br />
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<em><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/donkey-show.html">The Donkey Show</a></span></b></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><b>At The </b></em><strong><a href="http://www.arshtcenter.org/"><em><span style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="color: purple;">Adrienne Arsht Center</span></span></em></a></strong><em><b> Until August 12</b></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the spirit of Studio 54, come party on the dance floor to all the '70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you! Get the bouncer's attention—and you'll hustle right in! Get down and boogie with the star-crossed lovers, or watch from the sidelines - if that's the way you like it. And don't stop til you get enough! You can party into the night and live out your own fabulous disco fantasy.</span><br />
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<b><i><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/closer.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Closer</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> <em>by Patrick Marber</em></span></i></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><i>At The </i></b><a href="http://www.mainstreetplayers.com/"><b><i>Main Street Players</i></b></a><b><i> Until August 12</i></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This play is a brutal anatomy of modern romance, where a quartet of strangers meet, fall in love, and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal. It was one of the best plays of the 1990’s and won the Olivier Award for best new play as well as the New York Drama’s Critic Circle Award for best foreign play. It is one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language.</span><br />
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<em><b><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-hamlet-dog-and-pony-show.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> by Jessica Farr and Paul Tei</span></b></em><br />
<em><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">At the </span><a href="http://www.madcattheatre.org/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mad Cat Theatre</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Until August 12</span></b></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show is an abbreviated and psychedelically exaggerated sample of the Hamlet tragedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A layered semi-musical deconstruction that touches upon Heiner Muller’s HamletMachine and his use of sampling, Prince’s Purple Rain, OFWGKTA, fear of death, the seeds of hate, depression and the implications of current day political and social figures in America, more specifically, on the campaign trial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/divorce-party-musical.html"><strong>Divorce Party: The Musical</strong></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">At </b><a href="http://www.kravis.org/"><strong><span style="color: purple;">The Kravis Center</span></strong></a><strong> Until Aug 19</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Still reeling from her divorce, Linda is rescued by her three friends who have come to turn her despair into a weekend of hilarity. Using popular songs with clever new lyrics, the ladies sing and dance their way through the wildest divorce party ever. From the Producer who brought you the off-Broadway hit <i>Menopause the Musical</i>, it’s the ultimate Girls’ Night Out, coupled with a healthy dose of comic mayhem and a touch of “naughty.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-31637745085561907252012-07-23T12:23:00.000-04:002012-07-24T15:17:11.577-04:00The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em><a href="http://www.madcattheatre.org/">Mad Cat Theatre</a> Presents</em></strong></span><br />
<strong><em><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">By Jessica Farr and Paul Tei</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><em><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">July 27 - August 12</span></em></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Hamlet Dog and Pony Show is an abbreviated and psychedelically exaggerated sample of the Hamlet tragedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dog and Pony shows can be defined on Wikipedia as: “a highly promoted, often over-staged performance, presentation, or event designed to sway or convince opinion for political, or less often, commercial ends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Typlically, the term is used to connote disdain, jocular lack of appreciation, of distrust of the message being presented of the efforts undertaken to present it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We want your disdain for our sometimes musical variety parallel universe show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Heiner Muller would too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come and take our ride to the other side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Starring:</strong> Ken Clement</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Troy Davidson</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Giordan Diaz</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Jessica Farr</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Carey Brianna Hart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Christopher A. Kent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Emilie Papp</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Theo Reyna</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Brian Sayre</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Special Opening Night performance (Fri. July 27) @ 7 pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thurs, Fri, @ Sat @ 8 pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sundays @ 2 pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-50120893021567081062012-07-23T01:00:00.000-04:002012-07-23T01:00:04.525-04:00Closer<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The </i></b></span><a href="http://www.mainstreetplayers.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Main Street Players</i></b></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b><i> Presents<br />Closer</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>Book by Patrick Marber</em></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This play is a brutal anatomy of modern romance, where a quartet of strangers meet, fall in love, and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was one of the best plays of the 1990’s and won the Olivier Award for best new play as well as the New York Drama’s Critic Circle Award for best foreign play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is one of the best plays of sexual politics in the language.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thurs, May 10 @ 8pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Fri, & Sat @ 8pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sun @ 5pm</span><br />
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<br />DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-56939015565291218872012-07-21T11:10:00.000-04:002012-07-21T11:10:54.689-04:00The Past Week In Theatre History (July 16 – July 20)<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today in Theatre History: JULY 16 – 20 </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">By </span><a href="mailto:dgewirtzman@playbill.com"><i><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">David Gewirtzman</span></span></i></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">, Doug Nevin,<br />and Ernio Hernandez and Robert Viagas</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1924</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Broadway premiere of <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/25615/George-Dibdin-Pitt" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">George Dibdin-Pitt</span></a>'s <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/6460/Sweeney-Todd" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Sweeney Todd</span></a></i>, one of numerous adaptations of the penny-dreadful tale of murder and cannibalism that would later be adapted as a musical of the same title. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/45053/Robert-Vivian" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Robert Vivian</span></a> stars as Sweeney; <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/41052/Raffaella-Ottiano" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Raffaella Ottiano</span></a> as Mrs. Lovett. It runs 67 performances.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1928</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Following the birth of "talkie" films, Variety prints an article focusing on the amount of legit theatre talent that is being sought for this new medium. Among those stage actors being pursued for the silver screen is a Yiddish Theatre star named Muni Wiesenfreund, whose name will later be changed to <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/68379/Paul-Muni" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Paul Muni</span></a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1938</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Stage and film actor <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18287/Burgess-Meredith" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Burgess Meredith</span></a> divorces <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/12359/Margaret-Perry" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Margaret Perry</span></a> today. Perry, an actress, is the daughter of <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18179/Antoinette-Perry" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Antoinette Perry</span></a>, after whom the Tony Awards are named. The union was rather short-lived, as the future star of "Rocky" only married his now-ex-wife little more than two years earlier, in January of 1936.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1953</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Actress <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/62471/Maude-Adams" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Maude Adams</span></a> dies today. Born in 1873, Adams, at the age of 32, played the title role in <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13413/James-M-Barrie" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">James M. Barrie</span></a>'s <i>Peter Pan</i> when it had its American premiere at the Empire Theatre in 1905. (Nina Boucicault played the role in London in 1904). Barrie wrote the part with Adams in mind.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1956</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">London's Old Vic presents its Shaw Festival, starting today with the Bristol Old Vic production of <i>Major Barbara</i>. In the cast are <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/40980/Peter-OToole" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Peter O'Toole</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/94612/Moira-Shearer" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Moira Shearer</span></b></a>. The Birmingham Repertory Company production of <i>Caesar and Cleopatra</i> will follow <i>Major Barbara</i> on July 30.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1961</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <i>Stop The World - I Want To Get Off </i>opens tonight at the Queen's Theatre on London's West End. The musical, which follows the life of one man from birth to death, will run 485 performances. The show, which features book, music, and lyrics by its star, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5636/Anthony-Newley" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Anthony Newley</span></a>, and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6803/Leslie-Bricusse" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Leslie Bricusse</span></a>, will then <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10489/Stop-the-World---I-Want-to-Get-Off" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">open at Broadway's Shubert Theatre</span></a> on October 3, 1962 for a 555 performance run.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1966</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/116356/The-Abbey-Theatre-of-Dublin" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">The Abbey Theatre of Dublin</span></b></a>, Ireland is founded. It will go on to provide a central showcase for Irish playwrights new and old.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1967</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/24077/David-Wayne" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">David Wayne</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/23875/Constance-Towers" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Constance Towers</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/54973/Barbara-Cook" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Barbara Cook</span></b></a> are on-board the Cotton Blossom as the latest New York revival of the <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7077/Oscar-Hammerstein-II" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Oscar Hammerstein II</span></b></a>-<a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6634/Jerome-Kern" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Jerome Kern</span></b></a> musical, <i>Show Boat</i>, opens at the Music Theatre of Lincoln Center. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/15300/Lawrence-Kasha" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Lawrence Kasha</span></b></a> directs and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/1336/Ron-Field" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Ron Field</span></b></a> choreographs this latest revival, which will run 63 performances.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1971</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/220/Nicol-Williamson" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Nicol Williamson</span></b></a> marries actress <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/42657/Jill-Townsend" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Jill Townsend</span></b></a> today. Williamson, a stage actor well-known to Broadway, is best known for essaying many Shakespearian characters, especially Hamlet, which he has done numerous times at different venues across the globe. Newspapers reported that he became a little too physically animated in <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27230/Paul-Rudnick" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Paul Rudnick</span></b></a>'s comedy, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/10055/I-Hate-Hamlet" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">I Hate Hamlet</span></b></a></i>, causing costar <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/81095/Evan-Handler" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Evan Handler</span></b></a> to file a complaint and leave the show.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1972</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> A compilation of four one-act plays by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/25470/Frank-D-Gilroy" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Frank D. Gilroy</span></b></a>, titled <i>Present Tense</i>, opens today at the Sheridan Square Playhouse. Starring in <i>Come Next Tuesday</i>, <i>Twas Brillig</i>, <i>So Please Be Kind</i>, and the title play are <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/102225/Biff-McGuire" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Biff McGuire</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/91928/Lois-Smith" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Lois Smith</span></b></a>. There will be only eight performances.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1979</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7438/Tom-Stoppard" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Tom Stoppard</span></b></a>'s revisions of two Shakespearian tragedies are presented as a double bill tonight at the Collegiate Theatre in London. Entitled <i>Dogg's Hamle/Cahoot's Macbeth</i>, the evening of one acts features <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/110294/Ruth-Hunt" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Ruth Hunt</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/39771/Stephen-D-Newman" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Stephen D. Newman</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/41306/Alan-Thompson" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Alan Thompson</span></b></a> in the British-American Repertory Theatre production. The show opens in New York on October 3 at the 22 Steps Theatre and will soon embark on a tour.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1985</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/117284/Negro-Ensemble-Company" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Negro Ensemble Company</span></b></a> present Trevor Rhone's <i>Two Can Play</i> at Off-Broadway's Theatre Four. The play that explores a victory over male chauvinism is directed by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/14638/Clinton-Turner-Davis" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Clinton Turner Davis</span></b></a> and stars Hazel J. Medina and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/111526/Sullivan-H-Walker" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Sullivan H. Walker</span></b></a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1985</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18284/Benn-W-Levy" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Benn W. Levy</span></b></a>'s <i>Springtime for Henry</i> is revived by the <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/115033/Roundabout-Theatre-Company" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Roundabout Theatre Company</span></b></a> at the Christian C. Yegen Theatre Off-Broadway. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/37113/Peter-Evans" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Peter Evans</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/51189/Tovah-Feldshuh" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Tovah Feldshuh</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/85201/George-N-Martin" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">George N. Martin</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/42551/Jodi-Thelen" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Jodi Thelen</span></b></a> comprise the cast of the production helmed by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5072/Tony-Tanner" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Tony Tanner</span></b></a>. (The play's title is the inspiration for the supposed über-flop <i>Springtime for Hitler</i> in <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6909/Mel-Brooks" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Mel Brooks</span></b></a>' 1968 film "The Producers" which will <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4170/The-Producers" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">play on Broadway in 2001</span></a>.)</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1986</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/108495/Robert-De-Niro" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Robert De Niro</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/69111/Ralph-Macchio" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Ralph Macchio</span></b></a> star in <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27458/Reinaldo-Povod" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Reinaldo Povod</span></b></a>'s <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/6873/Cuba-and-His-Teddy-Bear" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Cuba and His Teddy Bear</span></b></a></i>, opening at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. The play tells of a macho drug dealer and his struggle to keep his son out of the business. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18273/Bill-Hart" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Bill Hart</span></b></a> directs the production which transferred from Off-Broadway's Public Theater. It will play 53 performances.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1987</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Up-and-coming singer-actor <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/47836/Kevin-Marcum" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Kevin Marcum</span></b></a>, currently playing minor roles in the Broadway production of <i>Les Misérables</i>, is found dead in his apartment today. Marcum, also a current Jean Valjean understudy, was slated to take over that role full-time after original star <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/105631/Colm-Wilkinson" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Colm Wilkinson</span></b></a>'s planned departure the following November. The cause of death is "acute cocaine intoxication."</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1987</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/24874/Charles-Busch" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Charles Busch</span></b></a>'s sendup of beach movies, <i>Psycho Beach Party</i>, opens Off-Broadway at the Players Theatre. Busch himself is among the cast of the lampoon directed by Kenneth Elliott. It will ride the waves for 344 performances and close May 15 the following year.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1990</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Got a dime? Off-Broadway's John Houseman Theatre becomes the <i>Broadway Jukebox</i> as <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/17116/Ed-Linderman" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Ed Linderman</span></b></a>'s musical revue opens. The show is new every night as audience members pick 30 songs to be performed from a collection of 90 Broadway showtunes from relatively obscure musicals. The impromptu players include <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/108068/Robert-Michael-Baker" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Robert Michael Baker</span></b></a>, Susan Flynn, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/71732/Beth-Leavel" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Beth Leavel</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18870/Gerry-McIntyre" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Gerry McIntyre</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/34585/Amelia-Prentice" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Amelia Prentice</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/45105/Sal-Viviano" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Sal Viviano</span></b></a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1996</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Tom Ziegler's <i>Grace & Glorie</i> opens at Off-Broadway's Laura Pels Theatre. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18659/Estelle-Parsons" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Estelle Parsons</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/92058/Lucie-Arnaz" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Lucie Arnaz</span></b></a> play an educated hospice volunteer and an elderly terminally-ill cancer patient. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/76/Gloria-Muzio" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Gloria Muzio</span></b></a> directs the production, which plays 134 performances and will close Nov. 10.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1999</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Pretty in... Blues. Film star <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18163/Andrew-McCarthy" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Andrew McCarthy</span></b></a> takes over the role of Clifford in <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27962/Warren-Leight" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Warren Leight</span></b></a>'s 1999 Tony Award-winning jazz drama, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3802/Side-Man" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Side Man</span></b></a></i>. McCarthy, known for roles in movies such as "Pretty in Pink," "Mannequin," "St. Elmo's Fire" and "Weekend at Bernie's" replaces <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/97197/Scott-Wolf" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Scott Wolf</span></b></a> (from TV's "Party of Five").</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">1999</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/62240/Laurie-Metcalf" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Laurie Metcalf</span></b></a> returns to Chicago's <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/116452/Steppenwolf-Theatre-Company" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Steppenwolf Theatre Company</span></b></a> as Maureen Folan in <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/26898/Martin-McDonagh" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Martin McDonagh</span></b></a>'s <i>The Beauty Queen of Leenane</i>. Directing the production is another prodigal son of Steppenwolf, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/29376/Randall-Arney" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Randall Arney</span></b></a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">2000</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <i>Christmas</i> in July! Book writer <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27127/Paul-Blake" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Paul Blake</span></b></a> adapts the 1954 movie musical, "White Christmas," for the stage. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18436/Charles-Repole" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Charles Repole</span></b></a> directs the world premiere of the show at The Muny in St. Louis, Missouri. The show has a cast that features <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/58850/Howard-Keel" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Howard Keel</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/10290/Karen-Mason" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Karen Mason</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/4755/Lee-Roy-Reams" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Lee Roy Reams</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/42841/Lara-Teeter" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Lara Teeter</span></b></a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">2001</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> British playwright <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/19011/Harold-Pinter" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Harold Pinter</span></b></a> stars in his own <i>One for the Road</i> as part of a Pinter festival at New York's Lincoln Center.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">2002</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5768/Billy-Joel" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Billy Joel</span></b></a>'s musical <i>Movin' Out</i> opens its tryout at the Shubert Theatre in Chicago. Mixed reviews will prompt director/choreographer <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/213/Twyla-Tharp" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Twyla Tharp</span></b></a> to overhaul the production, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3067/Movin-Out" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">bringing it to Broadway three months later</span></a> to acclaim, and to eventual Tony awards for both the primary creators.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">2006</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> Henry Hewes, 89, the longtime theatre critic at The Saturday Review who championed regional theatre and founded the American Theater Critics Association, dies at his home in Manhattan.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">2008</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> The London bow of <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/26302/Joanna-Murray-Smith" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Joanna Murray-Smith</span></b></a>'s <i>The Female of the Species</i> officially opens at the Vaudeville Theatre. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/78096/Eileen-Atkins" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Eileen Atkins</span></b></a> stars as feminist literary giant Margot Mason, in the production directed by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/19678/Roger-Michell" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Roger Michell</span></b></a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">2009</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A musical version of <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/26197/Jack-Heifner" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Jack Heifner</span></b></a>'s play <i>Vanities</i> — featuring a score by David Kirshenbaum — opens Off-Broadway at <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/115240/Second-Stage-Theatre" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Second Stage Theatre</span></b></a>. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/62154/Lauren-Kennedy" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Lauren Kennedy</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/70035/Sarah-Stiles" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Sarah Stiles</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/44000/Anneliese-van-der-Pol" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Anneliese van der Pol</span></b></a> star.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;">More of This Week’s Birthdays:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/59845/James-Cagney" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">James Cagney</span></b></a> 1899. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13012/Clifford-Odets" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Clifford Odets</span></b></a> 1906. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/55287/Barbara-Stanwyck" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Barbara Stanwyck</span></b></a> 1907. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/44732/Lupe-Velez" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Lupe Velez</span></b></a> 1908. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/86038/Ginger-Rogers" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Ginger Rogers</span></b></a> 1911. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/41534/Sonny-Tufts" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Sonny Tufts</span></b></a> 1911. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6365/Hume-Cronyn" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Hume Cronyn</span></b></a> 1911. Red Skelton 1913. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/106153/Grace-Durkin" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Grace Durkin</span></b></a> 1914. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/55099/Barnard-Hughes" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Barnard Hughes</span></b></a> 1915. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/95884/Phyllis-Diller" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Phyllis Diller</span></b></a> 1917. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/68088/Pat-Hingle" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Pat Hingle</span></b></a> 1924. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/2993/Helen-Gallagher" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Helen Gallagher</span></b></a> 1926. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/20870/Barbara-Matera" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Barbara Matera</span></b></a> 1929. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/69714/Sally-Ann-Howes" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Sally Ann Howes</span></b></a> 1930. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/93557/Mimi-Hines" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Mimi Hines</span></b></a> 1933. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/76302/Donald-Sutherland" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Donald Sutherland</span></b></a> 1935. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/74585/Diahann-Carroll" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Diahann Carroll</span></b></a> 1935. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/74791/Diana-Rigg" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Diana Rigg</span></b></a> 1938. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/105554/Corin-Redgrave" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Corin Redgrave</span></b></a> 1939. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/74154/Dennis-Cole" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Dennis Cole</span></b></a> 1940. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/36112/Ethyl-Eichelberger" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Ethyl Eichelberger</span></b></a> 1945. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/110038/Ruben-Blades" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Ruben Blades</span></b></a> 1948. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/92058/Lucie-Arnaz" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Lucie Arnaz</span></b></a> 1951. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/56878/David-Hasselhoff" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">David Hasselhoff</span></b></a> 1952. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/4803/Michael-Flatley" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Michael Flatley</span></b></a> 1958. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/56260/Campbell-Scott" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Campbell Scott</span></b></a> 1961.<a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/79037/Elizabeth-McGovern" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Elizabeth McGovern</span></b></a> 1961. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/105663/Craig-Bierko" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none;">Craig Bierko</span></b></a> 1964.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Racism and the pursuit of justice seem to be two sides of the same coin, forever spinning in our nation’s media and consciousness. For this reason, a play about race will always be timely. For example, just as David Mamet’s latest play, Race, hits South Florida stages , local headlines chronicle the legacy of Rodney King, as well as the ongoing case of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed African-American teen who was shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Race is always relevant. Playwright David Mamet knows this — the play debuted on Broadway 3 1/2 years ago — and so does Joe Adler, producing director of GableStage, where Race runs through Aug. 5. Adler directs this thought-provoking and often hilarious drama with a keen ear for its deft dialogue and searing innuendo. <b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Mamet posits that an ultra-wealthy white client (Joe Kimble) has been charged with raping a young black woman in a hotel room. The client claims this was a consensual episode in a long-time relationship and he is asking for help from the high-powered law firm of two veterans of negotiating legal swamps, a white lawyer (Gregg Weiner) and his black partner of 20 years (Ethan Henry). Watching intently is an eager, black and beautiful law review grad (Jade Wheeler) who dutifully soaks up the partners’ observations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Every time the lawyers spar, the question is rarely about the merits of evidence but how jurors will evaluate that evidence in the prism of racial politics. These men long ago jettisoned idealistic pushback against pragmatism. To them, deeply ingrained, almost unconscious prejudices of juries (and by extension, society) are not something to waste time bemoaning, only realities to exploit.</span></div>
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</div>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-9712783568615247212012-07-20T16:39:00.000-04:002012-07-20T16:39:38.599-04:00Musical reviews for the week of July 16, 2012<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://artsgarage.org/">Arts Garage</a> </b>in Delray Beach presents <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cabaret Verboten</b>, Written and Directed by Jeremy Lawrence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Starring:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pierre Tannous, Wayne LeGette, Lourelene Snedeker, </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Alexa Green.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Design Team: Lighting and Set Design – Stephen Placido<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>; Musical Direction – Michael Yannette<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>; Costume Design – Erin Stearns Amico.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/14/2895564/real-men-sing-show-tunes-and-make.html">‘Real Men Sing Show Tunes’ and make theater safe for men in hilarious Coral Gables musical premiere</a></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Think of the sketch-driven Real Men Sing Show Tunes as an episode of Saturday Night Live in which practically all the sketches work. If that sounds impossible — there’s such a thing as an SNL in which all the sketches work? — then you will begin to realize how sharp the writing is and how important the deft and daft stage work of director David Arisco is in making this production work as well as it does with its ingenious use of puppets, props and lighting.<br /><br />The musical is basically a madcap romp through the stages of manhood: what it takes to be a man and how to juggle all the balls modern men must contend with such as fatherhood, dating, marriage, sexuality and the lack of it, and pending senior moments. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Bill Hirschman</b> reviewed the show for <strong>Florida Theatre On Stage.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The writers have violated the double secret probation pledge that we men take in puberty never to reveal the deepest, darkest secrets of our sex, namely life-long confusion, anxiety and fear. They’re the same kind of secrets we know you women all pledge not to reveal, like the one that you really can read our minds.<br /><br />The skits, often the weakest parts of any revue, are pretty sturdy. One of the funniest features Anthony trying to hold forth with some guys in a bar about manly subjects he knows nothing about such as the baseball season, new car models and appliance repair. We’ve all been there.<br /><br />Arisco and company have a wonderful quirky visual sense. Prop mistress Jodi Dellaventura provides a hilarious procession of items for Santa Maria to find in the old toy box of an adult son who has moved away in “That’s My Boy.”<br /><br />And then there’s the puppets. Louis and Santa Maria have been involved for years in puppetry through professional children’s theater. As a result, the show is graced with a score of creatures ranging from a tiny finger figure to a 10-foot tall Grim Reaper. As with Avenue Q, the Sesame Street-like puppets designed by Louis and built by Louis and costume designer Ellis Tillman are often both furry and filthy such as three buxom Hooters waitresses.<br /><br />A tip of the hat is due musical director, arranger and pianist Manny Schvartzman, who has helmed several shows recently for Slow Burn Theatre Company in Boca Raton. Also due credit (and barely mentioned in the program) is the busy backstage crew and assistant puppeteers Gaby Macias, Kris Cardenas and Andrew Arisco.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The<strong> </strong><a href="http://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/"><strong>Palm Beach Dramaworks</strong></a><strong> </strong></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">presents <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/fantasticks-by-tom-jones-and-harvey.html">The Fantasticks</a> </b>by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tom Jones </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Harvey Schmidt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Directed by <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">J. Berry Lewis </b>and starring: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jim Ballard, Jennifer Molly Bell, Cliff Burgess, Tangi Colombel, Dennis Creaghan, Cliff Goulet, Jacob Heimer, </b>and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Barry Tarallo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b>Design Team: Lighting Design – John Hall; Musical Direction – Craig D. Ames; Costume Design – Brian O'Keefe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Until this past weekend, I had never seen a production of The Fantasticks — a startling omission from any theater critic's résumé. The Fantasticks, after all, is billed as "the world's longest-running musical," having played for 42 straight years and more than 17,000 performances in its first off-Broadway run. It has been adapted for film and television, has been produced in 67 countries, and is a high-school theater and summer-stock staple.<br /><br />The show's egalitarian success is owed to the seemingly simple choreography and minimalist set design and musical score, which can be reproduced by just about any community theater without breaking the bank. For Palm Beach Dramaworks, which is known for its lavish scenic designs and exceptional rendering of difficult classics, to produce a show like this is akin to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Martin Scorsese</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> directing an episode of Two and Half Men. Weird, but it would probably be the best Two and Half Men episode you've ever seen.</span> </blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.miamiartzine.com/latest-features/theatre-reviews/1267-the-fantasticks"><strong>A Delightful Journey At Palm Beach DramaWorks</strong></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then there is the play itself, which overtly gives nods to classic theater: the Greeks, Shakespeare and Commedia dell’Arte. The musical is based on Edmond Rostand’s 1864 French play, Les Romanesques, which also borrowed many conventions from a variety of periods in theatrical history. Theater buffs will find these references clever, while those with less knowledge will simply delight in the play's construction.<br /><br />There are so many perfections in the Palm Beach Dramaworks' production, but perhaps where it shines the most is under the direction of J. Barry Lewis and the musical direction of Craig D. Ames. The pair shows mastery here of what resounds as a complete understanding of the Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical. There are so many beautiful nuances that are crafted into this play and those that mount productions (you can imagine that there have been many, from community to high school theater productions, over the years) without taking these into consideration end up with something far less satisfying. </span></blockquote>
<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Bill Hirschman</b> reviewed the show for <strong>Florida Theatre On Stage.</strong></span><br /><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For the 34 people who have never seen the show, The Fantasticks is a two-act confection about innocence and experience. It became the world’s longest running musical with a meld of simplicity and sophistication, charm and chastening, sentiment and clear-eyed criticism. Jones and Schmidt, lovers of commedia delle’arte, ritual and stylized theatricality, wrote a universalized fable of young callow lovers whose idealized adoration is tested by harsh realities, yet emerges from the crucible with a mature abiding love that, indeed, triumphs over all.<br /><br />Jones’ unabashedly poetical words are as lyrical as Schmidt’s unique music. Both simultaneously celebrate and tease the foibles of fallible human beings. They can be as witty as the fathers bemoaning their children’s willfulness compared to a garden’s reliability in “Plant a Radish,” ranging to the bittersweet rue of the standard “Try to Remember.”<br /><br />With unflagging energy, the entire cast throws itself fearlessly and without a shred of self-consciousness into a tale of sentiment that would curdle at the hint of a wink. When the girl enthuses aloud, “I hug myself ‘til my arms turn blue,” it takes a committed actress to deliver such lines unblinkingly. Most (but not all) of the actors were in sync with Schmidt’s musical rhythms, but the exceptions will likely find the groove within a day or two. Thanks to Lewis, they never lose focus and remain honest in every moment.</span></blockquote>
<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Jan Sjostrom </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">reviewed the show for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Palm Beach Daily News:</b></span></span><br /><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The production is anchored by the magnificent Jim Ballard, playing El Gallo, the story’s mysterious master of ceremonies and villain. He’s a commanding presence, and his rich baritone voice invigorates all his tunes, but especially the old chestnut Try to Remember.<br /><br />Jennifer Molly Bell unites Luisa’s breathless romanticism with a keen sense of the ridiculous and a clarion soprano. Jacob Heimer brings a soon-to-be dashed assurance and a clear tenor to Matt.<br /><br />Among the production’s chief delights are the comic characters. Cliff Burgess as The Mute manages the minimalist props with grace and humor. Cliff Goulet as Matt’s father Hucklebee and Barry Tarallo as Luisa’s father Bellomy play the buffoons with panache, and display considerable song and dance skills in Never Say No and Plant a Radish. They set the story in motion by pretending to feud to induce their rebellious children to fall in love and then hiring El Gallo as an accomplice to their scheme.<br /><br />The comic pairing of Dennis Creaghan as Henry, an over-the-hill actor El Gallo employs, and Tangi Colombel as Henry’s sidekick, Mortimer, is perfection. They’re the ones who emerge from and return to a trunk, by the way. </span></blockquote>
<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Hap Erstein </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">reviewed the show for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Palm Beach Post:</b></span></span><br /><h1 style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As with the more complex Into the Woods, the first act ends happily, only to be followed by a darker, more cynical second half. Matt goes off to experience the cruel world while Luisa stays home and falls into El Gallo’s clutches.<br /><br />Lewis does not skimp on the show’s dark tones, but he also embraces its abundant comic relief. Barry Tarallo and Cliff Goulet all but steal the show as the two sage, but clownish fathers, capably handling the evening’s two vaudeville song-and-dance turns, Never Say No and Plant a Radish.<br /><br />Despite his frequent scowl and the show’s cynical edge, Dramaworks’ take on The Fantasticks still manages to disarm us. Maybe that is the magic trick, the creation of enchantment without seeming to chase after it.</span></blockquote>
</span></span><br /> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-11065529057988178832012-07-18T19:52:00.000-04:002012-07-18T19:52:03.578-04:00Current Productions for the week of July 16, 2012<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Cabaret Verboten</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At <a href="http://artsgarage.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">The Arts Garage</span></a> Until July 29</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">In the face of the Nazi machine’s insidious advance, Germany’s Weimar era art-scene was a hotbed of music, theatre, and art that used satire and irony to expose the affected bourgeois morality of the time. While “decadent” and “degenerate” were terms Hitler used to describe whatever he found objectionable, the cabaret of the day reflected the social degeneracy, dripping in decadence and menace, as a response to what their world had become.</span><br />
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<a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/hairspray-by-marc-shaiman-scott-wittman.html"><em><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Hairspray</span></b></em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></a><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At The </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.lakeworthplayhouse.org/"><em><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Lake Worth Playhouse</span></b></em></a><em><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"> Until July 29</span></b></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Hairspray sweeps you away to 1960’s Baltimore where the 50’s are out and change is in the air! Loveable plus-size heroine, Tracy, has a passion for dancing, and wins a spot on the local TV dance program. Overnight she finds herself transformed from an outsider to teen celebrity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can a larger-than-life adolescent somehow manage to vanquish the program’s reigning princess, integrate the television show, and find true love all without mussing her hair? </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The </span></b><strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/about-kutumba-theatre-project-and-their.html"><b><span style="color: purple;">Kutumba Theatre Project</span></b></a> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Until August 5</span></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">What if you were conceived twice in one lifetime: once by the illegitimate passionate sex of a young couple and then by a "missionary position" lovemaking, conservative couple who long to have a child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if you were adopted by the married couple, only to find out you are everything they can't stand...I mean, understand? After being coming out as a lesbian and being alienated by her adoptive family, Ashley, a spirited young daydreamer, goes on an extraordinary journey to find love and a place to call home. </span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/race-by-david-mamet.html">Race</a></span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.gablestage.org/"><b><i><span style="color: purple;">The Gable Stage</span></i></b></a><b><i> Until August 5</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards. This probing work about the resilience of the human spirit during times of war is a searing variation on Brecht's <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Mother Courage</span></em>, translated to a brothel in the conflict-torn Congo. By the author of <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Intimate Apparel</span></em>, a GableStage hit in 2006.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/hair-at-andrews-living-arts-studio.html">HAIR</a> </span></i></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At The </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://andrewslivingarts.com/"><i><span style="color: purple;">Andrews Living Arts Studio</span></i></a><i> Until <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">August 5</span></em></i></span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Hair tells the story of the "tribe", a group of politically active, long-haired hippies during the "Age of Aquarius" living a bohemian lifestyle in the City of New York; fighting against the Vietnam War and the traditional values of the “Establishment”. Claude, his good friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and their friends, Woof Hud, Jeanie Crissy along with other “Tribe” members struggle to balance their young lives, loves and the sexual revolution while rebelling against the war, their conservative parents and society. </span><br />
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<a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/turn-of-screw-by-jeffrey-hatcher.html"><b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The Turn of the Screw</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A young governess journeys to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children. Her predecessor, Miss Jessel, drowned herself when she became pregnant by the sadistic valet, Peter Quint, who was himself, found dead soon after the mysterious circumstances. Now, the new governess has begun to see the specters of Quint and Jessel haunting the children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She must find a way to stop the fiends before it is too late. But are the ghosts real?</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/fantasticks-by-tom-jones-and-harvey.html">The Fantasticks</a> by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/"><b><i><span style="color: purple;">Palm Beach Dramaworks</span></i></b></a><b><i> Until August 5</i></b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">In this captivating love story about a boy, a girl, two fathers and a wall, the narrator, El Gallo, creates a world of moonlight and magic, then pain and disillusionment, until the boy and girl find their way back to each other. The score, which includes "Try to Remember," is as timeless as the story itself! </span><br />
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<a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/04/real-men-sing-show-tunesand-play-with.html"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">REAL MEN SING SHOW TUNES...and play with puppets</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"></span></a><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">At The </span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.actorsplayhouse.org/"><em><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"><span style="color: purple;">Actors Playhouse</span></span></b></em></a><em><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"> Until</span></b></em><strong><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";"> August 12</span></i></strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">GET REAL! And GET READY for a song-filled adult comedy about <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Real Men</span></em> behaving like, well...<strong><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">REAL MEN</span></i></strong>. Get an inside glimpse of what it takes to be a man in a modern world shared with women, children, and yes, even puppets. <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">Real Men</span></em>, who make a habit of juggling their balls every day; fatherhood, mid-life crisis, dating, marriage, potency, sexuality, and the lack of it. <strong><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">REAL MEN</span></i></strong> answers the one pertinent question that’s on everyone’s mind... <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif";">“Do Real Men sing show tunes and play with puppets?”.</span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt;">In the spirit of Studio 54, come party on the dance floor to all the '70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you! Get the bouncer's attention—and you'll hustle right in! Get down and boogie with the star-crossed lovers, or watch from the sidelines - if that's the way you like it. And don't stop til you get enough! You can party into the night and live out your own fabulous disco fantasy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Still reeling from her divorce, Linda is rescued by her three friends who have come to turn her despair into a weekend of hilarity. Using popular songs with clever new lyrics, the ladies sing and dance their way through the wildest divorce party ever. From the Producer who brought you the off-Broadway hit <i>Menopause the Musical</i>, it’s the ultimate Girls’ Night Out, coupled with a healthy dose of comic mayhem and a touch of “naughty.”</span>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-5377931596080262132012-07-17T17:14:00.000-04:002012-07-17T17:14:39.749-04:00The Turn of the Screw by Jeffrey Hatcher<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> <a href="http://www.nakedstage.org/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The Naked Stage</i></b></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b><i> Presents<br />The Turn of the Screw</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Based on the provocative tale of suspense, horror and repressed sexuality, this adaptation of THE TURN OF THE SCREW gives the famous story yet another turn of its own. A young governess journeys to a lonely English manor house to care for two recently orphaned children. But she is not their governess. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Her predecessor, Miss Jessel, drowned herself when she became pregnant by the sadistic valet, Peter Quint, who was himself, found dead soon after the mysterious circumstances. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> ALVARO D’AMICO as Berger</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> EMILY COHN as Sheila</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> JEAN-MICHEL ROUSSEAU as Woof</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> BRIAN SHIRLEY as Hud </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> REBECCA MONTGOMERY as Jeanie </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> MARIA CABRERA as Crissy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"> JOY YOUNG as Mom</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1895</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Birthday of <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7077/Oscar-Hammerstein-II" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Oscar Hammerstein II</span></a>, scion of a notable theatrical family who went on to become its most famous and honored member as a lyricist and librettist. Hammerstein enjoyed a major career as lyricist for composer <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6634/Jerome-Kern" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Jerome Kern</span></a> on many musicals and operettas, most notably <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/13488/Show-Boat" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Show Boat</span></a></i>. After a series of flops in the 1930s and the death of Kern in the early 1940s, Hammerstein launched into a second career, and one of the greatest in American musical theatre history, with composer <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/5467/Richard-Rodgers" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Richard Rodgers</span></a>. Hammerstein wrote lyrics to classics including <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4221/Oklahoma" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Oklahoma!</span></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/7854/South-Pacific" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">South Pacific</span></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4210/The-King-and-I" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">The King and I</span></a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/5082/The-Sound-of-Music" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">The Sound of Music</span></a>,</i> among others. He also served as mentor to a friend of his children, whom he recruited as go-fer on his 1947 musical <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/7857/Allegro" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Allegro</span></a></i>. The young man who resolved to follow in Hammerstein's footsteps? <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7373/Stephen-Sondheim" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Stephen Sondheim</span></a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1931</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> "It's Today" -- that <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/148/Jerry-Herman" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Jerry Herman</span></a> is born. Herman will become one of Broadway's great musical theatre composers. Among his esteemed credits are the hits <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4200/Hello-Dolly" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Hello, Dolly!</span></a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/11551/Mame" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">Mame</span></a></i>, and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/9148/La-Cage-aux-Folles" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">La Cage aux Folles</span></a></i>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1974</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i>Bloomsbury</i> brings back the flavor of that literary era in this new drama by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27202/Peter-Luke" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Peter Luke</span></b></a>. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/96961/Richard-Cottrell" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Richard Cottrell</span></b></a> directs <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/31585/Yvonne-Mitchell" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Yvonne Mitchell</span></b></a> as Virginia Woolf and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/57122/Daniel-Massey" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Daniel Massey</span></b></a> as Lytton Strachey. Opening tonight at London's Phoenix Theatre, <i>Bloomsbury</i> will have 53 performances.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1977</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> A massive power failure blacks out New York City around 9:30 PM, halting the second acts of many Broadway shows. Power will be restored the following morning, neighborhood by neighborhood, but that will not be enough to save the July 14 evening attendance numbers from decreasing so sharply, many brokers will sell tickets for that night at face value.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1984</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/115033/Roundabout-Theatre-Company" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Roundabout Theatre Company</span></b></a> revives <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27947/William-Inge" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">William Inge</span></b></a>'s <i>Come Back, Little Sheba</i> starting tonight. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/95807/Philip-Bosco" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Philip Bosco</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/93319/Mia-Dillon" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mia Dillon</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/97551/Shirley-Knight" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Shirley Knight</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/98755/Steven-Weber" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Steven Weber</span></b></a> are in the cast directed by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/19576/Paul-Weidner" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Paul Weidner</span></b></a>. The production marks the first major revival of the play in more than 30 years. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/1757/Come-Back-Little-Sheba" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">The original production</span></a> played at Broadway's Booth Theatre in 1950 for 191 performances.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1988</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Tony Award-winning director <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/4632/Joshua-Logan" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joshua Logan</span></b></a> dies today at 79. One of the most accomplished theatre artists of his time, Logan had under his belt such credits as co-writing the Tony Award-winning play <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/923/Mister-Roberts" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mister Roberts</span></b></a></i> and directing and co-writing, with Oscar Hammerstein II, the Pulitzer Prize winning musical <i>South Pacific</i>. Other shows included <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/12365/This-Is-the-Army" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">This Is the Army</span></b></a></i>, <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/6066/Annie-Get-Your-Gun" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Annie Get Your Gun</span></b></a></i>, and <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/7851/Fanny" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Fanny</span></b></a></i>, which he also co produced.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1993</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/2436/Andrew-Lloyd-Webber" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Andrew Lloyd Webber</span></b></a>'s new musical <i>Sunset Boulevard</i> has its world premiere today in London starring <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/68230/Patti-LuPone" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Patti LuPone</span></b></a>, already signed to open the show in New York. Based on the classic <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/12959/Billy-Wilder" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Billy Wilder</span></b></a> film of the same name, the show will soon <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/2334/Sunset-Boulevard" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff7f00;">transfer to New York</span></a> - minus LuPone. Following LuPone's less-than-stellar review from Frank Rich in The New York Times, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/86161/Glenn-Close" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Glenn Close</span></b></a> will be hired to play Norma Desmond in the American premiere of the musical in Los Angeles. LuPone will subsequently be let go and Close is asked to open the show at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre. She will win the Tony Award for her performance.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1994</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> A revival of the musical <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/4699/Grease" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Grease</span></b></a></i> opens on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. Featured in director-choreographer <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/4580/Jeff-Calhoun" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jeff Calhoun</span></b></a>'s cast are <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/92875/Megan-Mullally" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Megan Mullally</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/1481/Rosie-ODonnell" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Rosie O'Donnell</span></b></a>.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1994</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/115033/Roundabout-Theatre-Company" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Roundabout Theatre Company</span></b></a> presents <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/25857/Henrik-Ibsen" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Henrik Ibsen</span></b></a>'s <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3822/Hedda-Gabler" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Hedda Gabler</span></b></a></i> at the Criterion Theatre. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/47901/Kelly-McGillis" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Kelly McGillis</span></b></a> stars as the title character in a cast that also features <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/67774/Patricia-Conolly" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Patricia Conolly</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/71584/Bette-Henritze" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bette Henritze</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/62197/Laura-Linney" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Laura Linney</span></b></a>. The production, directed by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/19749/Sarah-Pia-Anderson" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Sarah Pia Anderson</span></b></a>, will play 33 performances.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1995</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Ferene Molnár's <i><a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/3815/The-Plays-the-Thing" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The Play's the Thing</span></b></a></i> sees the Broadway stage again, courtesy of <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/115033/Roundabout-Theatre-Company" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Roundabout Theatre Company</span></b></a>. Adapted by <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7169/PG-Wodehouse" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">P.G. Wodehouse</span></b></a>, the play features <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/114558/Joe-Grifasi" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joe Grifasi</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/95256/Peter-Frechette" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Peter Frechette</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/60389/Jay-Goede" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jay Goede</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/19494/Paul-Benedict" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Paul Benedict</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/115675/J-Smith-Cameron" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">J. Smith-Cameron</span></b></a>, <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/87787/Jeff-Weiss" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jeff Weiss</span></b></a> and <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/48119/Keith-Reddin" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Keith Reddin</span></b></a>. The <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/76/Gloria-Muzio" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Gloria Muzio</span></b></a>-helmed production plays 49 performances at the Criterion Theatre.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">More of This Week's Birthdays:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana", "sans-serif"; font-size: 9pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/84831/George-Grossmith" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">George Grossmith</span></b></a> 1874. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/18487/Dudley-Digges" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dudley Digges</span></b></a> 1879. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/29549/Roxy-Rothafel" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Roxy Rothafel</span></b></a> 1882. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/27946/William-J-Hurlbut" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">William J. Hurlbut</span></b></a> 1883. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/7061/Noble-Sissle" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Noble Sissle</span></b></a> 1889. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6468/Irving-Berlin" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Irving Berlin</span></b></a> 1888. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6675/Jimmy-McHugh" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jimmy McHugh</span></b></a> 1894. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/4814/Martha-Graham" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Martha Graham</span></b></a> 1894. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6987/Mitchell-Parish" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mitchell Parish</span></b></a> 1900. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6904/Milton-Berle" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Milton Berle</span></b></a> 1908. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/1333/Joey-Faye" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Joey Faye</span></b></a> 1909. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/13791/Phil-Silvers" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Phil Silvers</span></b></a> 1911. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/117649/Despo" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Despo</span></b></a> 1916. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/6635/Jean-Kerr" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jean Kerr</span></b></a> 1922. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/82876/Fred-Gwynne" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Fred Gwynne</span></b></a> 1926. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/94603/Mort-Sahl" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mort Sahl</span></b></a> 1927. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/25166/David-Storey" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">David Storey</span></b></a> 1933. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/110841/Brian-Dennehy" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Brian Dennehy</span></b></a> 1938. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/20180/John-Lahr" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">John Lahr</span></b></a> 1941. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/39820/Timothy-Nolen" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Timothy Nolen</span></b></a> 1941. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/74601/Didi-Conn" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Didi Conn</span></b></a> 1951. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/61548/Jamey-Sheridan" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jamey Sheridan</span></b></a> 1951. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/107316/Boyd-Gaines" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Boyd Gaines</span></b></a> 1953. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/93319/Mia-Dillon" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Mia Dillon</span></b></a> 1955. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/88098/Jimmy-Smits" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Jimmy Smits</span></b></a> 1955. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/81522/Fiona-Shaw" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Fiona Shaw</span></b></a> 1958. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/84604/George-Dvorsky" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">George Dvorsky</span></b></a> 1959. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/49716/Natasha-Richardson" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Natasha Richardson</span></b></a> 1963. <a href="http://www.playbillvault.com/Person/Detail/37960/Cheyenne-Jackson" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #ff7f00; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Cheyenne Jackson</span></b></a> 1975.</span></div>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-31156026607944736462012-07-10T13:18:00.000-04:002012-07-10T13:18:45.457-04:00About Kutumba Theatre Project And Their First Production<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The <strong>Kutumba Theatre Project</strong> is a collective focusing on works and the development of works that give a voice to the LGBT community, women's interests, and other under served communities. The Word <strong>"Kutumba"</strong> has various meanings in many languages and they all resonate with the mission of the Kutumba Theatre Project. <br /><br /><strong>Kutumba:</strong> to leap, to strut proudly, a unique bond amongst community members, family or kin. </span><br />
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<a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/new-theatre-opening-with-world-premier.html"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Baby GirL</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> is the first production for Kutumba Theatre Project. Kim Ehly, founder of Kutumba Theatre Project, is a 28 year veteran of the theatre and has worked in film, tv, and theatre in NYC, LA, and South Florida. Baby GirL is being performed at </span><a href="http://www.empirestage.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Empire Stage</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>:</strong> an artist-driven collective that produces new and existing works for the diverse audiences of Fort Lauderdale, including the LGBT community and senior population. <br /><br />Given the common missions of Kutumba Theatre Project and Empire Stage, teaming up for the production of Baby GirL is a natural partnership. Baby GirL has all the elements to engage audiences and give focus to the LGBT community, as well as the adoption population, and lovers of the theatre in general. <br /><br /><strong>About Baby GirL:</strong> Baby GirL was conceived by Kim Ehly in a writing workshop held by Connie Congdon in New York City, in conjunction with a personal monologue exercise in a Strasberg scene study class in New York City. The monologue was supposed to be two pages long, but ended up being seventeen and half pages…and so, a play was born. A reading of Baby GirL, while in its development stage, was met with great applause at the New Theatre in Coral Gables. The screenplay version of Baby GirL placed as a finalist at the NewFest Film Festival in New York City.<br /><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Baby Girl features some of the best acting talent in South Florida: <strong>Sally Bondi, Clay Cartland, Miki Edelman, David R. Gordon, Noah Levine, Nori Tecosky. Jessica Welch, and Lindsey Forgey as ASHLEY.</strong><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Design Team: Lighting Design - Nate Sykes; Sound Design - David Hart; Stage Art Design - Leah Schmaman.<strong></strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Baby GirL runs July 13 – August 5, Fri and Sat at 8pm and Sun at 5pm. Preview performance on July 12 at 8pm. All performances are at Empire Stage, 1140 North Flagler Dr. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304. Phone number 954-678-1496. For tickets visit: <a href="http://www.smarttix.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>www.smarttix.com</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> or </span><a href="http://www.empirestage.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>www.empirestage.com</strong></span></a>.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-76900158954945499682012-07-09T11:42:00.001-04:002012-07-10T13:26:05.195-04:00A New Theatre Opening with a World Premier <br />
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Jessica Welch and Lindsey Elizabeth Forgey<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The <strong><a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/about-kutumba-theatre-project-and-their.html">Kutumba Theatre Project</a></strong> proudly opens with it's first show. The World Premier of "<strong>Baby GirL</strong>" by local p<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span dir="auto">laywright</span> </span>and directer Kim Ehly.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">What if you were conceived twice in one lifetime: once by the illegitimate passionate sex of a young couple in love, and next by a "missionary position" lovemaking, conservative couple who long to have a child but the "little guys" never make it to the egg? What if you were adopted by the married couple, only to find out you are everything they can't stand...I mean, understand? <br /><br />After being coming out as a lesbian and being alienated by her adoptive family, Ashley, a spirited young daydreamer, goes on an extraordinary journey to find love and a place to call home. When Ashley's fantasies meet reality, expect the unexpected!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Starring: <strong>Sally Bondi, Clay Cartland, Miki Edelman, David R. Gordon, Noah Levine, Nori Tecosky. Jessica Welch,</strong> and featuring <strong>Lindsey Forgey</strong> as <strong>ASHLEY</strong>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Design Team: Lighting Design - Nate Sykes; Sound Design - David Hart; Stage Art Design - Leah Schmaman.<strong></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>Baby GirL</strong> runs July 13 – August 5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; line-height: 200%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><strong>WARNING:</strong> This play contains ADULT CONTENT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">All performances are at Empire Stage, 1140 North Flagler Dr. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304. Phone number 954-678-1496. For tickets visit: </span><a href="http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?EID=&showCode=BAB20&BundleCode=&GUID=c00be0f1-352a-4c6b-883d-a106bbd2ccfa"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">www.smarttix.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> or </span><a href="http://www.empirestage.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">www.empirestage.com</span></a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong>Showtimes</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Preview on Thurs. July 12 @ 8pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Friday & Saturdays @ 8 pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Sundays at 5pm</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Follow the link <a href="http://sfltn.blogspot.com/2012/07/about-kutumba-theatre-project-and-their.html"><strong>HERE</strong></a>,<strong> </strong>or at the top of this post, for more information about this new theatre company and there world premier show.</span>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-58706016483166423602012-07-09T01:00:00.002-04:002012-07-09T01:00:03.476-04:00Divorce Party: The Musical<a href="http://www.kravis.org/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong>The Kravis Center</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong> Presents<br />Divorce Party: The Musical</strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;">July 10 - Aug 19</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>THE PARTY ISN'T OVER...<br />Back by popular demand after a six week SELL OUT, Divorce Party: The Musical makes its way back to the Kravis Center for another six week run.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Still reeling from her divorce, Linda is rescued by her three friends who have come to turn her despair into a weekend of hilarity. Using popular songs with clever new lyrics, the ladies sing and dance their way through the wildest divorce party ever. From the Producer who brought you the off-Broadway hit <i>Menopause the Musical</i>, it’s the ultimate Girls’ Night Out, coupled with a healthy dose of comic mayhem and a touch of “naughty.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>For adult</i> <i>audiences. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri & Sat @ 7:30 PM</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Wed, Sat & Sun @ 1:30 PM</span>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-21800659832802421592012-07-09T01:00:00.001-04:002012-07-09T01:00:01.000-04:00The Donkey Show<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>The </em><a href="http://www.arshtcenter.org/"><em>Adrienne Arsht Center</em></a><em> </em></strong></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>Presents</em></strong></span><br />
<strong><em><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/calendar/view.aspx?id=11458">The Donkey Show</a></span></em></strong><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>July 15 – August 12</em></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>"PASSION. SEX. A ROLLICKING COOL PARTY."</strong> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>The New York Times</em>In the spirit of Studio 54, that epic shrine to disco, the celebrated smash hit </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>The Donkey Show</em> now takes Miami by storm as the city's dreamiest pop-up club!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It's the ultimate night fever - a crazy fun house of disco mirror balls and feathered divas, of roller skaters and hustle queens, enchanted by an ever-so-light sprinkling of Shakespearean magic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Come party on the dance floor to all the '70s disco hits you know by heart as the show unfolds around you! Get the bouncer's attention—and you'll hustle right in! Get down and boogie with the star-crossed lovers, or watch from the sidelines - if that's the way you like it. And don't stop til you get enough! You can party into the night and live out your own fabulous disco fantasy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If you love the night life, <em>The Donkey Show</em> will be your midsummer night's dream come true.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Dance Floor tickets provide an all-access pass to dance alongside the cast members!<br />VIP Table seating allows you to sit and take in the action, or get up and get in on the action!</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Disco fever is highly contagious. Protect your kids - leave them at home!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Showtimes vary, follow the link <a href="http://www.arshtcenter.org/tickets/calendar/view.aspx?id=11458">HERE</a> for tickets and showtimes.</span></span>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68159378817142603.post-76929200191237909502012-07-09T01:00:00.000-04:002012-07-09T01:00:01.477-04:00REAL MEN SING SHOW TUNES...and play with puppets<a href="http://www.actorsplayhouse.org/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><b><em>Actors Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre</em></b></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><em> Presents </em></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>REAL MEN SING SHOW TUNES...and play with puppets</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><em>Book, Music & Lyrics by </em></b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b><em>Paul Louis & Nick Santa Maria</em></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong>July 11 - August 12</strong></em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">GET REAL! And GET READY for a song-filled adult comedy about <em>Real Men</em> behaving like, well...<em><strong>REAL MEN</strong></em>. Get an inside glimpse of what it takes to be a man in a modern world shared with women, children, and yes, even puppets. <em>Real Men</em>, who make a habit of juggling their balls every day; fatherhood, mid-life crisis, dating, marriage, potency, sexuality, and the lack of it. <em><strong>REAL MEN</strong></em> answers the one pertinent question that’s on everyone’s mind... <em>“Do Real Men sing show tunes and play with puppets?”. </em><strong>GET REAL! </strong></span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><em>You better believe they do!<br /><br />Another world premiere musical presented exclusively for you, our South Florida audience.</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Wed, Thurs, Fri & Sat @ 8 pm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Wed (5/16), Sat, & Sunday @ 2 pm</span>DWHarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15909776477746701094noreply@blogger.com0