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Wicked, the hit musical positively rolling in green, had its world premiere at San Francisco’s Curran Theatre before heading to Broadway ’s Gershwin Theatre, where it has broken the house record 18 times and regularly grosses more than $1.4 million each week.
Now one of the most successful shows in Broadway history (3.6 million people have [...]
Megan Hilty (left) as Glinda and Eden Espinosa as Elphaba from the original LA company of Wicked. Photo by Joan Marcus
Old friends, new winners mark 30th anniversary season
Carole Shorenstein Hays and Robert Nederlander’s new SHN/Best of Broadway season marks a milestone: 30 years of bringing Broadway to the Bay Area.
The new season, announced [...]
News from the Rialto: “American Idol” winner (Season 5) Taylor Hicks is going to fly onto Broadway as Teen Angel in the revival of Grease (you know, the one you didn’t want but came with a reality TV show anyway).
Hicks, who will be making his Broadway debut (alert the Tony Award nominating committee), is following [...]
Some interesting show and show-related CDs are popping up just in time for the holidays. In the next few weeks, I’ll be highlighting some of winners and losers.
Judy Kuhn, “Serious Playground: The Songs of Laura Nyro” (Ghostlight Records) — Kuhn was Broadway’s original Cosette in Les Miserables and she just joined the cast of the [...]
America spoke (or at least a very small percentage of America), and the first nationally televised casting session for a Broadway musical has turned into a full-blown Broadway musical.
“Grease: You’re the One That I Want,” an “American Idol“-like attempt to make Broadway hip, resulted in viewers (and a panel of judges) picking the leads in [...]
(all photos Associated Press)
“Musical theater rocks,” so said Duncan Sheik with a sly smile and a twinkle in his award-drunk eyes during Sunday’s Tony Awards.
Here’s Sheik on the red carpet before the event.
That’s the smile of someone who knows he’s going to win two Tonys (for best score and orchestration for Spring Awakening.
Another gorgeous red [...]
As per last week, if you want to know what happened on TV’s Broadwayest “reality” show, check in with our friend Seth Rudetsky at Playbill.com here. Mr. Rudetsky’s blend of Broadway theater know-how and intense sarcasm is irresistible.
This week was all about the Dannys. Apparently they had to take improv classes, learn to box, swim [...]
As if that terrible TV show “Grease: You’re the One That I Want” wasn’t enough to prove that the musical Grease has run out of gas, check out this story from Holland.
During a production of Grease, the two stars — Danny and Sandy (right) — were in a stage car (presumably during the drive-in scene), [...]
The Academy Awards came and went without making much impression. Ellen DeGeneres was fun, just as you’d expect.
The nicest surprise to me was the best foreign film winner, The Lives of Others. Fantastic movie. Deserves every prize there is.
Enjoyed watching best supporting actress winner Jennifer Hudson wipe the floor with Miss Beyonce during the Dreamgirls [...]
True to my word, I didn’t watch the oily reality TV sludge known as “Grease: You’re the One That I Want” on Sunday night, even though it’s a long holiday weekend with nothing better to do. I did catch up with some Monday morning quarterbacking on the previous night’s episode, and it seems that Jason [...]
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