Variety reports that Andrew Lippa’s musical version of The Addams Family is moving full steam ahead.
In a closed reading in August, Gomez will be played by Nathan Lane (not often you think of Lane in a role once inhabited — onscreen — by Raul Julia) and Morticia will be played by Bebe Neuwirth. How perfect [...]
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Creepy and kooky: An Addams Family musical!
Archived in the category: Addams Family, Bebe Neuwirth, Broadway, Improbable Theatre, Marshall Brickman, Nathan Lane, Rick Elice, musicals, theater news
Posted by Chad Jones on 26 Jun 08 - 0 Comments
Live from Las Vegas! `Jersey Boys’
Archived in the category: Erich Bergen, Frankie Valli, Jeff Leibow, Jeremy Kushnier, Jersey Boys, Joyce Chittick, Las Vegas, Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice, Rick Faugno, musicals, theater review
Posted by Chad Jones on 04 May 08 - 4 Comments
Opened May 3 at the Palazzo Las Vegas
OK, so technically we’re not “live” in Las Vegas anymore (6:05 a.m. flight from LV to SFO – ouch). But given that it feels like I’m still at the opening-night party of Jersey Boys at the Venetian (next door to the Palazzo, where the show actually resides), I [...]
The boys of `Jersey’
Archived in the category: Christopher Kale Jones, Deven May, Erich Bergen, Jersey Boys, Marshall Brickman, Michael Ingersoll, Rick Elice, backstage, local theater, musicals
Posted by Chad Jones on 15 Feb 07 - 1 Comment
Earlier this month, I sat down with the stars of San Francisco’s Jersey Boys, the quartet driving audiences into a frenzy every night as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. You can read the story here.
Here are some tidbits that didn’t make it into the newspaper. If this were a DVD, we’d be in the [...]
