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Ben Andron'south clever new comedy White's Lies starring Broadway diva and Tony winner Betty Buckley opened at New World Stages on Thursday May sixth. TheaterLife.com was on the isle opening dark and at the festive afterward party at the Time Hotel.
By Patrick Christiano
Ben Andron's clever new comedy White'due south Lies starring Broadway diva and Tony winner Betty Buckley opened at New Earth Stages on Thursday May 6th. TheaterLife.com was on the isle opening night and at the festive afterward political party at the Time Hotel.
Tuc Watkins ("Desperate Housewives" and "Ane Life to Alive") portrays a divorce chaser Joe White, a compulsive lothario, keeping his feelings at bay with a lifetime of i night stands and a knack for turning tricks with a bevy of beautiful broads. When Joe learns his mother's dying wish is to have a grandchild, a series of outrageous events screw out of control once Barbara (Andrea Grano), a jilted ex-girl friend,unexpectedly turns up at his office convinced that his souvenir for charade would make him the perfect lawyer to represent her in a pending divorce.
Managing director Bob Cline skillfully puts the talented peak notch ensemble, which likewise features Peter Scolari (from Telly's "Newhart), Rena Strober, Jimmy Ray Bennett and Christy Carlson Romano through their paces with brio and wit. He deftly turns the polished production (breathtaking design by Robert Andrew Kovach and costumes by Michael Bevins) into an delightfully nimble bumpy ride by adroitly mining the shallow tale for every imaginable laugh and then some!
Photography: Barry Gordin
White'southward Lies is at present playing at New World Stages, 340 West 50th Street. For tickets call 212-239-6200 or online at Telecharge.com
By Gordin & Christiano
Best Play
Red – John Logan's intellectual play almost abstract expressionist artist Mark Rothko is popular with voters and will probably take the prize. However, Geoffrey Nauffts' gay romantic comedy, Adjacent Fall, which transferred from Off-Broadway, is probably the best new play on Broadway this season.
All-time Musical
Memphis – A tight race with American Idiot and Fela!, but Memphis has momentum from victories at the Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle.
Best Revival of a Play
Fences- We wait for Baronial Wilson'southward Pulitzer Prize winning classic starring Denzel Washington, which opened about a month ago, to edge out Miller'due south A View from the Bridge, which closed April 4 .
All-time Revival of a Musical
La Muzzle aux Folles- Terry Johnson's re-envisioned revival set in a drag guild on the French Rivera is a fantabulous delight. The brilliant revival of Ragtime closed months ago.
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
Viola Davis in Fences-Y'all can bet the house on this ane. Davis blows the roof off the Court Theater with her searing portrayal of Rose Troy.
Best Performance past a Leading Thespian in a Play
Alfred Molina in Red – Conspicuously the nearly deserving, but Liev Schreiber (A View From the Bridge) won the Drama Desk and is a popular Broadway favorite, while Denzel Washington (Fences) took the Outer Critic Circle with his motion-picture show star power and charisma. Either could upset Molina, who won the Drama League Award.
All-time Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical
Montego Glover in Memphis – She has tied twice with Catherine Zeta Jones (A Fiddling Night Music), at the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle, only her powerful singing should acquit her to victory at the Tony Awards. If these two split the vote the enchanting Sherie Rene Scott (Everyday Rapture) might surprise.
All-time Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical
Douglas Hodge in La Cage aux Folles – He delivers a dazzling complex portrait, although both Chad Kimball (Memphis) and Sahr Ngaujah (Fela!) were superb.
Best Performance past a Featured Extra in a Play
Scarlett Johansson in A View from the Bridge – Non our choice, but probably the winner. Rosemary Harris (The Royal Family) would be our vote or even Jan Maxwell (Lend Me a Tenor). Both turned in superior performances.
Best Performance by a Featured Thespian in a Play
Eddie Redmayne in Crimson– Why he is in this category at doesn't make sense. He co-stars with Alfred Molina and that may requite him the win.
Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical
Katie Finneran in Promises, Promises – She was the all-time affair well-nigh the weak revival of Promises and is on a roll having already won the Drama Desk.
Best Performance past a featured Player in a Musical
Levi Kreis in Meg Dollar Quartet-Kreis tears up the stage every bit Jerry Lee Lewis, simply the sublime Kevin Chamberlin (The Addams Family unit) would be our choice.
Best Original Score
David Bryan (Music) & Joe DiPetro (Lyrics) Memphis – The pair take been cleaning upwardly and we look for them to continue. Their music and lyrics are the most original on Broadway this season.
Best Volume of a Musical
Everyday Rapture by Dick Scanlan and Sherie Rene Scott – Nosotros are looking for this team to pull off a big upset over Memphis. This clever little bear witness, which moved to Broadway at the last minute, is a real sleeper and this could exist a well deserved surprise.
Best Management of a Play
Michael Grandage, Ruby-red- Grandage also helmed a marvelous Hamlet and that dual memory volition behave him to the winner's circle over Kenny Leon (Fences).
Best Direction of a Musical
Terry Johnson for La Cage aux Folles – His scaled down re-staging imported from London is dazzling.
The American Theatre Wing's 2010 Tony Awards Volition be Broadcast Live from Radio Urban center Music Hall on CBS, Sunday, June 13th, 8:00 – 11:00 p.grand.
By Patrick Christiano
The Drama League honored movie and theater star Alfred Molina with their coveted Distinguished Operation Honor for his "dazzling portrayal of the creative person Marker Rothko" in the acclaimed Broadway production of Scarlet. Molina's work was selected over 60 outstanding performances nominated from the 2009/2010 flavour. Accepting his award at the 76th annual dejeuner from past recipient Liev Schreiber Molina said, "This is so fantastic I can't tell you. I'm Italian, I'thousand going to cry." He followed with a story in a very proper English emphasis well-nigh his wife reading the list of illustrious nominees and telling him if he wins 'Don't get English' and suddenly pumped his arm with a clinched fist and said "Yeah!"
By Patrick Christiano
The Drama League honored moving picture and theater star Alfred Molina with their coveted Distinguished Operation Laurels for his "dazzling portrayal of the artist Mark Rothko" in the acclaimed Broadway production of RED. Molina'southward piece of work was selected over lx outstanding performances nominated from the 2009/2010 season. Accepting his accolade at the 76th annual luncheon from by recipient Liev Schreiber Molina said, "This is so fantastic I can't tell y'all. I'm Italian, I'grand going to cry." He followed with a story in a very proper English language emphasis about his wife reading the list of illustrious nominees and telling him if he wins 'Don't go English' and suddenly pumped his arm with a clinched fist and said "YES!"
President Jano Herbosch delivered the opening remarks at the event co- hosted past Vanessa Williams and Michael Urie (both distinguished performance nominees) in the Broadway Ballroom of the Marriott Marquis Hotel. After hearing a few words from some of the nominees, Broadway diva Betty Buckley presented unique contribution to the Theatre to the Macy's Parade and Entertainment Grouping followed by the introduction of more of the nominees.
And then international film star Denzel Washington, who is currently appearing on Broadway in Fences, bestowed the Julia Hansen Award for excellence in directing to his Fences director Kenny Leon. "Let my heart talk to you," he said "we are all human being beings… Fences is a reflection of the not bad homo August Wilson." He ended with "I have a t-shirt that says 'Film is art, Theater is life, and TV is furniture."
A highlight of the afternoon followed, when Nathan Lane accepted his honour for Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre from the great director Jerry Saks, who was responsible for fine tuning the current Broadway hit The Addams Family. That bear witness'southward gifted star quipped, "This is the all-time Drama League Luncheon I have always been too…and the expert news is people in America don't like to read" referring to the drubbing The Addams Family unit received from much of the press. He went on, "This is my 17th Broadway bear witness…Good luck to you at the Tonys or as they phone call it at my house Passover." The popular actor is, however, nominated for a Drama Desk Award which volition be presented Sunday May 23, and then who knows he may find himself in the winner's circle once more. His performance in The Addams Family unit is stupendous.
Viola Davis, a front end runner to have home the Tony honor for her shattering performance in Fences, presented John Logan's bio-play, RED nigh the abstract impressionist artist Rothko, with the award for best new play of the season over an impressive list of nominees that included: Playwrights Horizons' Clybourne Park, a British import The Pride, the Public Theater's The Brother/Sister Plays, NYT Workshop'southward Aftermath, the classic Phase Company's Venus in Fur, and Geoffrey Nauffts's gay romantic comedy Side by side Fall, which this season transferred from Off-Broadway to Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre.
Distinguished revival of a play was presented to A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE by a rather shy Christopher Walken and Sean Hayes presented the British import of LA CAGE AUX FOLLIES with the award for best revival of a musical. All-time production of a musical went to SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM, a surprise winner over Memphis, American Idiot, Kander & Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys (which will be moving to Broadway next flavor), the Public'due south Bloody Encarmine Andrew Jackson, St. Ann'south Warehouse'due south Brief Encounter, and Broadway productions of The Addams Family, Come Fly Away and Million Dollar Quarter.
John Douglas Thompson, a distinguished performance nominee and a Drama Desk nominee for his riveting portray of The Emperor Jones in the Off-Broadway revival of Eugene O'Niell'due south political drama, summed up the experience of the afternoon when he shared about his nomination saying "…to exist in the theater is to be transformed…I feel information technology is a privilege to practise what you love and be acknowledged."
Photography: Barry Gordin
Goose Stepping through Vocal and History
By Isa Goldberg
She was the siren of the Western World and he was her lover. In "Dietrich and Chevalier," Jerry Mayer's cabaret mode musical, the two strike up a romance from their adjoining dressing rooms on a Paramount lot. The yr was 1932. Dietrich was filming "Shanghai Express" while Chevalier was suffering through another childish movie musical. It's fascinating biography and as told primarily through song, information technology makes for some endearing moments. Set against the ravages of World War II, information technology fifty-fifty has the makings of a cathartic honey story.
Goose Stepping through Song and History
By Isa Goldberg
She was the siren of the Western World and he was her lover. In "Dietrich and Chevalier," Jerry Mayer's cabaret manner musical, the two strike upward a romance from their adjoining dressing rooms on a Paramount lot. The twelvemonth was 1932. Dietrich was filming "Shanghai Limited" while Chevalier was suffering through another childish movie musical. It's fascinating biography and as told primarily through song, it makes for some endearing moments. Fix against the ravages of World War Two, it even has the makings of a cathartic honey story.
Fortunately, Jodi Stevens sparks Dietrich's magnetism and sensuality; hers is non a callow impersonation of a Hollywood star. Neither equally dark and mysterious nor every bit edgy and androgynous every bit Dietrich was in the movies, Stevens morphs into the character with the kind of self-revealing honesty that renders comparisons moot. She likewise brings a delightful comedic sensibility to the part. Clearly, information technology wouldn't serve this story to recreate the haunting, devilish version of "Falling in Love Once again" as it was staged in the movie, "Blue Angel." That scene in a muddy dark social club in pre-war Germany (1929) is a world away from this romantic Hollywood tale as told on the diminutive stage at St. Luke's Theatre where Stevens holds her ain.
To her credit, her portrayal of Chevalier'southward willful mistress (and later, friend) demonstrates the arrogance and independence that characterized that iconic effigy. And in focusing on Dietrich's fervent stand confronting the Nazis, Stevens's portrayal is attracting – nigh of the time. It's when she butchers the eleventh hr number "Lili Marlene," the German anti-war song that Dietrich famously sang on bout subsequently tour for American GIs that the play looses disquisitional momentum.
Information technology's a tough human activity to sustain as Robert Cuccioli comes across as a deadbeat version of Maurice Chevalier. In the movies, Chevalier had the gift of innocence, making us feel every bit though he fell into situations by accident and not (no never) because he's an actor. Cuccioli, on the other hand, puts so much affect (and so little substance) into the function that we are constantly aware of him. Information technology's an artless simulated that leads to a bearish version of a vaudevillian. Angry and jealous at Dietrich's rejection, this Chevalier rarely reflects the kind of levity that glimmers in his movies.
To keep the story moving, Donald Corren takes on an countless parade of characters. Culling their essential traits with aplomb, he portrays Dietrich's devoted married man Rudi, a High german Jewish piano actor (Dietrich rescued him from Germany by hocking an emerald ring gifted her by Chevalier), a butcher turned Nazi informer, a Hollywood picture producer (none other than Irving Thalberg), and finally the Parisian judge who challenges Chevalier for his supposed collaboration with the Nazis.
This, unfortunately, brings us to the story'southward awkward climax at which indicate the cabaret style musical turns from frothy wartime romance to a travesty of courtroom drama. The modify in tone is jarring. To make matters worse, Dietrich arrives ante ex machina in her regular army khakis to protect her unfairly accused ex-lover. Obviously it's a testament to their endearing romance, but as played information technology looks and feels ridiculous.
Nonetheless, the idea backside it – the portrait of Maurice Chevalier, who played such frivolous roles in the movies equally a serious and misunderstood man has the makings for dramatic tension as does, of course, Dietrich'south honey affair with America. The latter, while widely known, clearly fares better in this musical soiree.
"Dietrich and Chevalier: The Musical"
The St. Luke's Theatre
308 West 46th Street
Performances are Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 pm and Sundays at 2pm & 7pm.
Tickets from $36.l are available through Telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200.
For more information, visit DietrichAndChevalierthemusical.com.
The Drama Desk-bound nominated musical for children of all ages, Dearest Edwina, produced by Daryl Roth Productions came to Guild Hall in E Hampton for a brief visit this past weekend August fifth-7th. The fast paced comedy about Edwina Spoonapple, who joyously sings out advice with her quirky friends, was revived at the DR2 in Matrimony Square this past winter. And this weekend the delightful musical about children putting on their own bear witness made its East Hampton debut on the stage of the John Drew Theater. A lovely party in the garden followed the concluding performance on Saturday afternoon. PC
Photo: Katy Vaughn, Nicholas Park, Zina Goldrich, Martin Landry, Marcy Heisler, Doug Thompson, Ephie Aardema, Robin Lai, Jessica Kaufman, Daryl Roth, Liam Quealy
The Drama Desk nominated musical for children of all ages, Dear Edwina, produced past Daryl Roth Productions came to Guild Hall in Eastward Hampton for a brief visit this by weekend August fifth-seventh. The fast paced comedy most Edwina Spoonapple, who joyously sings out communication with her quirky friends, was revived at the DR2 in Union Square this by winter. And this weekend the delightful musical about children putting on their own show fabricated its East Hampton debut on the stage of the John Drew Theater. A lovely party in the garden followed the final performance on Saturday afternoon. PC
Photograph: Katy Vaughn, Nicholas Park, Zina Goldrich, Martin Landry, Marcy Heisler, Doug Thompson, Ephie Aardema, Robin Lai, Jessica Kaufman, Daryl Roth, Liam Quealy
Photography: Barry Gordin
Jerry Herman'due south dazzling musical La Cage Aux Folles is back on Broadway starring five-time Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer making his Broadway musical debut every bit Georges opposite the acclaimed British actor Douglas Hodge reprising his Olivier Honor winning role as the drag queen Albin. The two make a prissy match as the gay owners of a nightclub on the French Riviera, where Albin performs every bit Zaza in the glitzy drag revue, which goes on nightly in their downstairs society. The intimate heartfelt production directed by Terry Johnson with bold style began life at the Menier Chocolate Mill in London in late 2007 winning rave reviews before moving to the W End. At present La Cage is a New York treat worth savoring.
Jerry Herman'due south dazzling musical La Muzzle Aux Folles is back on Broadway starring five-time Emmy Laurels winner Kelsey Grammer making his Broadway musical debut every bit Georges opposite the acclaimed British player Douglas Hodge reprising his Olivier Award winning role every bit the drag queen Albin. The 2 make a nice lucifer as the gay owners of a nightclub on the French Riviera, where Albin performs as Zaza in the glitzy elevate revue, which goes on nightly in their downstairs club. The intimate heartfelt production directed by Terry Johnson with bold way began life at the Menier Chocolate Manufacturing plant in London in belatedly 2007 winning rave reviews before moving to the West End. Now La Muzzle is a New York care for worth savoring.
The hit 1983 musical has a clever book by Harvey Fierstein that tugs at the middle strings and there are unforgettable songs past the maestro Herman like "I Am Who I Am," "Wait Over There," and "The Best of Times." The show was mounted on Broadway just v years ago, winning a Tony Laurels for Best Musical Revival, but Johnson'south scaled downwards fresh arroyo with a modest band is a resourceful please giving the evening a seedy realistic entreatment that was missing from the big glossy earlier versions. His entertaining production goes for the laughs, merely also has a deep emotional impact.
The Cagelles, the performers in the racy drag show at the rather tacky club, number only six this time around and are muscular types that give no illusion to real women, except for their sparklingly elevate. The original had real women mixed in with the transvestites, and it was difficult to tell them apart. These new Cagelles are surprising tough even though they wear sequined gowns and their dance routines are brashly able-bodied.
Georges and Albin have been together for 20 years and raised Georges' son Jean-Michel (A.J. Shively) conceived from a brief come across. Jean-Michel has just go engaged to Ann (Elena Shaddow) the girl of a super conservative politician Dindon (Fred Applegate) and is intent on making a nice impression on Ann's parents planned visit. He fears Zaza will be too outrageous and ruin the nuptials, so he wants Georges to ban her from being there and have his real mother present instead, giving way to much dramatic one-act.
When Jean-Michel's female parent cancels at the concluding minute, Albin in a generous gesture, despite his injure feelings, dons pearls and a skirt to fill in for her. Events go drastically sour, when Zaza's true identity is revealed, but the story manages a happy ending because of the young couples enduring love.
Grammer, a surprisingly prissy baritone, turns in a warm witty functioning. And the unabridged ensemble is top notch, especially Robin DeJesus, who plays Albin's streetwise maid equally a wanabe star that volition practice anything for a chance to be in a bear witness. However, Douglas Hodge is simply sensation and his performance every bit the temperamental Albin has colorful nuance forth with bravura outbursts. His version of "I Am Who I Am," that closes the first act, is a scorching testament to existence true to yourself.
If all the characters have different accents it doesn't much matter the evening has punch! Someday Jerry Herman is in town is a cause to gloat, so if you are in the mood for a 4 star musical archetype "The Best of Times" is now.
By Patrick Christiano
La Cage Aux Folles is now playing at the Longacre Theatre, 220 West 48th Street betwixt Broadway and Eighth Avenue. For tickets call Telecharge.com at 212-239-6200 or online at world wide web.telechargecom/lacage
Photos: Joan Marcus
Broadway: The American Musical Updated
By Ellis Nassour
The lavishly illustrated Broadway: The American Musical [Applause Books; 498 pages, Updated edition; softbound, Show chronology; Bibliography; Theatre Districk maps 1928/2010; Index; Foreword by Julie Andrews; SRP $35], co-authored past Michael Kantor and NYU professor/theater historian Laurence Maslon and based on Kantor's 2004 documentary [originally a companion to the vi-part PBS series] is the first comprehensive history of the musical, from its early 20th Century roots and into the new millennium.
Broadway: The American Musical Updated
Past Ellis Nassour
The lavishly illustrated Broadway: The American Musical [Applause Books; 498 pages, Updated edition; softbound, Bear witness chronology; Bibliography; Theatre Districk maps 1928/2010; Index; Foreword by Julie Andrews; SRP $35], co-authored by Michael Kantor and NYU professor/theater historian Laurence Maslon and based on Kantor's 2004 documentary [originally a companion to the half dozen-part PBS series] is the first comprehensive history of the musical, from its early on 20th Century roots and into the new millennium.
In addition to the six chapters covering 1893 – 2009, what makes the volume a valued collectible is the treasure trove of photographs [many oversized and double-truck size], poster art, vintage Playbills, sheet-music covers, lyrics, scene design, production and rehearsal shots, excerpts from scripts, bios, fifty-fifty caricatures.
Just as the PBS series did [hopefully, the network will echo information technology before long], the book, weighing in backlog of 5 pounds, brings alive the ballsy story of musical theater and its inextricable link to 20th and 21st-Century American life through portraits of the creative artists on and off stage who accept defined theater.
When Florenz Ziegfeld arrived New York in 1893 to find acts for the Chicago Earth'south Fair, Broadway and 42nd Street was no one's idea of "the crossroads of the world." In fact, there were no theatres North of the intersection. In the famed tradition of Build-it-and-they will come, with the New Amsterdam Ziggy establish the magic formula: music, spectacle and sex entreatment. Past 1913, his Follies had become an amalgamation of everything that was happening in America.
In improver to introducing such stars as comics Weber and Fields, Fanny Brice and W.C. Fields, Ziggy integrated Broadway long before it was socially stylish by introducing dancer Bert Williams.
Brindled throughout B:TAM are such historical moments such as Gershwin's visit to Folly Isle, SC, where he began to compose Porgy and Bess; the decline of operetta and revues and the introduction of volume shows that touched on social issues, such as Show Boat, South Pacific, Oklahoma!, and W Side Story; and as the book reaches the latter role of the 20th Century, the touch on of Herman, Sondheim, and Lloyd Webber..
Sidebars highlight the stars, shows, composers [Sondheim on Kern, Hart on Rodgers], and tunes that made the musical great; original cast albums; and many bottom known shows. Among the spotlighted artists are the Astaires, Volition Rogers, Brice, Fields, Bea Lillie, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Ethel Waters, Alfred Drake, Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Gwen Verdon, Barbara Cook, Nix Mostel, Angela Lansbury, Chita Rivera, Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, and Bernadette Peters.
At that place'southward a give-and-take with Rodger and Hammerstein, articles on Berlin, Porter, Kaufman and Hart. Cameron Mackintosh writes on producing; Mel Brooks on musical comedy; Graceiela Daniele on Fosse; Hal Prince on Follies.
Broadway: The American Musical is still bachelor in a DVD boxed-prepare [PBS/Paramount Domicile Entertainment; half dozen hours; SRP $50] and equally a five-CD bundle [Sony/Columbia Masterworks; SRP $threescore].
South Pacific ~
Last Weeks Onstage, Telecast, Movie, & New Book
By Eiils Nassour
On Baronial 18, 4 days before the final performance of its about two-and-a-half-year run, Lincoln Center Theatre's Tony and Drama Desk-bound-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammer'due south South Pacific will be presented in a live iii-60 minutes telecast from the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on PBS' Live from Lincoln Center. The musical'south Tony and DD-winning director Bartlett Sher will helm with the show's choreographer Christopher Gattelli assisting on the musical staging.
S Pacific ~
Concluding Weeks Onstage, Telecast, Movie, & New Book
By Eiils Nassour
On August eighteen, 4 days before the final operation of its almost ii-and-a-half-year run, Lincoln Center Theatre'southward Tony and Drama Desk-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammer's S Pacific will be presented in a live iii-60 minutes telecast from the Vivian Beaumont Theatre on PBS' Alive from Lincoln Centre. The musical'due south Tony and DD-winning director Bartlett Sher will helm with the show'due south choreographer Christopher Gattelli assisting on the musical staging.
Kelli O'Hara and Brazilian/Smoothen baritone Paulo Szot, whose onstage chemical science and heightened romanticism as Navy nurse Ensign Nellie Forbush from Little Rock and French plantation possessor Emile de Becque enthralled audiences – and swept her to Tony and DD noms; and him to Tony and DD Awards – will be reunited for the last performances and telecast.
Also returning is Matthew Morrison [LCT'due south Low-cal in the Piazza], who segued from S. P. to TV fame on the Pull a fast one on hit Glee, in the role of Joe Cable,
Tony and DD nom Danny Burstein will be featured as Seebee Luther Billis, along with Loretta Ables Sayre as Bloody Mary, and Li Jun Li equally Liat, Cable'south native love involvement.
Based on James Michener'south sprawling Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of his WWII experiences, Tales of the Due south Pacific, the musical was crafted into a compelling story of two couples who fall in honey confronting the backdrop of the Solomon Islands and the realities of World War Two and how their happiness is threatened by prejudice.
The score includes such Rodgers and Hammerstein classics equally Nelli's showstoppers "A Cockeyed Optimist," "I'yard Gonna Launder That Man Right Outa My Pilus," and "A Wonderful Guy"; "Younger Than Springtime," Cable's rapturous complaining for Liat; "Encarmine Mary" and "At that place Is Nothin' Like a Dame," sung by Billis, the Seebees, and sailors; "Bali Ha'i," and "Happy Talk," sung by Mary; Cable's scorching rebuke against prejudice, "You've Got To Be Carefully Taught"; and 2 of the most beautiful songs in musical theater history, Emile's showstopping and soaring ballads "Some Enchanted Evening" and "This About Was Mine."
This on the heels of the announcement that the musical will be remade as "a tougher, more realistic" vehicle for the big screen, with expected release in 2013, by Amber Amusement, Chicagofilms [headed by Bob Balaban], Imagem [a unit of R&H publishing; and Ted Chapin, R&H prez.
Nether the 1949 Broadway show'due south director Joshua Logan, information technology was filmed in 70mm in 1958, starring Mitzi Gaynor and Rossano Brazzi, with Logan strangely imposing deep hues over sure scenes. There was a Glenn Close/Harry Connick Jr. ABC movie in 2001; and a 2006 Carnegie Hall concert, headlining Reba McEntire, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Alec Baldwin [Billis] that was circulate on PBS' Corking Performances.
Coinciding with all this is the java table book, South Pacific: Paradise Rewritten [Oxford University Press/Broadway Legacies serial; 288 pages, hardcover, 29 B&W halftones, thirteen B&W musical notations, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Index; SRP $28] by Jim Lovensheimer, banana professor of music, Vanderbilt University, near the musical that that not but soared with cute melodies but also addressed major social and political issues of its twenty-four hour period.
Drawing on the files of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lovensheimer explores the composers' early careers and how they explored serious social issues in other works, discusses their involvement in political movements, the musical'southward complex letters, and how the presentation of same inverse in the creative process – particularly interesting is how book writer Hammerstein refined and refined the themes of gender and racial intolerance to brand information technology acceptable to late-40s Broadway audiences.
There are wonderful behind-the-scenes stories about the cast [Mary Martin, Ezio Pinza, Myron McCormick, Juanita Hall, and William Tabbert]Amid the appendices is a scene-by-scene breakup; and others comparing the original drafts with the final forms of "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Pilus," "A Wonderful Guy," and "Happy Talk."The musical played a record-breaking 1,925 performances.
Hot on the heels of her contempo Café Carlyle advent, Tony Accolade winning Broadway star Christine Ebersole charmed an beholden audience on the John Drew Stage at Guild Hall in East Hampton Sat July 31, 2010. Beginning the evening with "IT"S Too DARN HOT," her enchanting interpretations of songs from the American songbook covered every imaginable mode and even evoked the memorable spirit of Eartha Kitt before culminating in a marvelous new version of "Another Winter in a Summer Town," from Grey Gardens, which she performed in Eastward Hampton for the kickoff fourth dimension marker an ironic post script to her laurels winning functioning from that prove.
Hot on the heels of her contempo Café Carlyle appearance, Tony Award winning Broadway star Christine Ebersole charmed an appreciative audience on the John Drew Stage at Social club Hall in East Hampton Saturday July 31, 2010. Beginning the evening with "It"S TOO DARN HOT," her enchanting interpretations of songs from the American songbook covered every imaginable style and even evoked the memorable spirit of Eartha Kitt earlier culminating in a marvelous new version of "Another Winter in a Summer Town," from Grey Gardens, which she performed in East Hampton for the get-go time marking an ironic post script to her award winning performance from that show. Her captivating rendition of songs under the musical direction of John Oddo were strung together with witty tales from her own life, thrilling a full house of enthusiastic fans including Matthew Broderick and wife Sarah Jessica Parker, along with old friends Marc Shaiman and Scott Whittman, the composers of Hairspray. PC
Photography: Barry Gordin
Recipe for Life Cause Célèbre'due south third Off-Broadway production featured several i-act plays past award-winning writers. The wonderful production took place at the Acorn Theatre, where the honoree was TINA'S WISH, a nonprofit system supporting research to create an early and effective test for ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Photo: Jake Robards, Len Cariou, Penny Fuller, Andy Brozman, Tasha Lawrence, Susan Charlotte, Michael Citriniti, Elaine Stritch, Marian Seldes
Recipe for Life Cause Célèbre's third Off-Broadway production featured several i-human action plays by laurels-winning writers. The wonderful product took place at the Acorn Theatre, where the honoree was TINA'S WISH, a nonprofit organization supporting research to create an early and effective test for ovarian cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Photograph: Jake Robards, Len Cariou, Penny Fuller, Andy Brozman, Tasha Lawrence, Susan Charlotte, Michael Citriniti, Elaine Stritch, Marian Seldes
Cause Celebre' mission is to connect compelling theatre with of import causes. Audiences have a run a risk to encounter the highest quotient of writing, acting and directing while also contributing to a cause. Bravo!
The Watermill Almanac Summertime Benefit is i of the near exciting events of the summer season on the East end bringing together the worlds of theater, art, fashion, design and order. On Saturday July 19, 2010 artists and residents from over 25 dissimilar countries interpreted this twelvemonth's theme PARADISO, with art installations and performances on half-dozen acres of Robert Wilson's renowned Watermill Center. The evening began with a silent auction and cocktails before the dinner with alive auctioneer Simon de Pury, who performed his duties in collaboration with the international motion-picture show star Sharon Stone.
The Watermill Annual Summer Benefit is 1 of the near exciting events of the summer flavour on the E cease bringing together the worlds of theater, art, fashion, blueprint and club. On Sat July 19, 2010 artists and residents from over 25 different countries interpreted this year's theme PARADISO, with art installations and performances on six acres of Robert Wilson's renowned Watermill Heart. The evening began with a silent auction and cocktails before the dinner with alive auctioneer Simon de Pury, who performed his duties in collaboration with the international flick star Sharon Stone. As a special treat Perfumer Loc Dong of IFF created a 1 of kind Fragrance to gloat the evening in a handmade bottle designed by Robert Wilson with a limited edition of ten, which were auctioned off during dinner. DJ Touch of Course provided music to end the sultry evening with dancing under the stars.
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Social club Hall presented an extraordinary evening with two multi talented performers Florence Henderson and Bruce Vilanch. The renowned stars combined their gifts for a unique experience called "A Bipolar Evening With Friends: Florence Henderson and Bruce Vilanch," a riotous musical evening of aboveboard story telling. PC
Guild Hall presented an extraordinary evening with 2 multi talented performers Florence Henderson and Bruce Vilanch. The renowned stars combined their gifts for a unique feel chosen "A Bipolar Evening With Friends: Florence Henderson and Bruce Vilanch," a riotous musical evening of candid story telling. PC
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The Bay Street Theatre Summer Gala, ROCK THE DOCK, sizzled on the Long Wharf in Sag Harbor Saturday night July 17. The festive Benefit Fustigate hosted past Mario Contone featured dinner and dancing to DJ Tom Finn forth with a live auction by guest Richard Kind.
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The Bay Street Theatre Summer Gala, Rock THE DOCK, sizzled on the Long Wharf in Sag Harbor Saturday night July 17. The festive Do good Bash hosted past Mario Contone featured dinner and dancing to DJ Tom Finn along with a alive auction by guest Richard Kind.
Photography: Barry Gordin
A smart revival of 5th of July by Sag Harbor's own Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lanford Wilson opened on the Bay Street Stage Saturday July 3. Terry Kinney, a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Visitor, directed a summit notch ensemble in Wilson's poignantly witty drama that takes place at the Talley Subcontract over the course of a fourth of July weekend. The tale reunites a group of friends, sometime activists, who make terms with the disillusionment of what has become of their lives in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. PC
A smart revival of Fifth of July by Sag Harbor's own Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lanford Wilson opened on the Bay Street Stage Saturday July three. Terry Kinney, a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, directed a meridian notch ensemble in Wilson'south poignantly witty drama that takes identify at the Talley Farm over the course of a 4th of July weekend. The tale reunites a grouping of friends, old activists, who make terms with the disillusionment of what has become of their lives in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. PC
5th of July will run through August 1. For more information read the Preview or click on the Bay Street imprint at right to purchase tickets.
Photos From Opening Night By Barry Gordin
Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor is presenting a revival of playwright Lanford Wilson'due south Fifth of July, the prequel to his Pulitzer Prize winning Talley's Folly. That Wilson is a resident of Sag Harbor since 1970 adds a touch of irony to the evening directed by Terry Kinny, which will run July 6 through August 1. The playwright'south themes oftentimes echo a struggle to preserve the past while moving on, which is reflected in the historic fishing hamlet he calls home.
Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor is presenting a revival of playwright Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July, the prequel to his Pulitzer Prize winning Talley's Folly. That Wilson is a resident of Sag Harbor since 1970 adds a bear upon of irony to the evening directed past Terry Kinny, which will run July 6 through August 1. The playwright'southward themes oftentimes echo a struggle to preserve the by while moving on, which is reflected in the historic fishing village he calls habitation.
Wilson established his career Off Broadway in the early 1960's as a playwright with a unique voice writing his signature comedy plays like The Madness of Lady Bright, and soon co-founded The Circumvolve Repertory Company in 1969, where his production of The Hot Fifty Baltimore won him critical acclamation and numerous awards. 5th of July originated there in 1978 with William Hurt and Jeff Daniels before debuting on Broadway in 1980 with Christopher Reeve taking over for Injure. A tv set flick with Richard Thomas put the play to residual until The Signature Theater Company revived the drama in 2002 as part of a season-long tribute to Lanford Wilson.
Fifth of July is set in 1977 at the Tally Farm, a prosperous spread in southern Missouri, where Ken Tally Jr., a legless 33 twelvemonth erstwhile Vietnam veteran and his lover Jed, a horticulturist live in the sprawling family Farmhouse congenital at the plow of the century. The time is the evening of the 4th of July and the following morning during a weekend long visit of Ken's 34 yr old sister June, who has brought her teenage girl Shirley. Besides in that location for the weekend are old friends from his college days Gwen and John, former activists at present distressed over what they had thought would exist a better world. Gwen is a hard drinking, pill popping heiress, who aspires to be a stone star and John is her husband director. The action of the play centers on Gwen'due south offer to purchase the farm, which she would like to plough into a recording studio and on Ken's 64 year old Aunt Sally, who has come to the subcontract to besprinkle the ashes of her belatedly husband. The play is profoundly moving and often hilarious with sharp funny dialogue. Fifth of July is ane of Wilson's near memorable works, which in its final essence deeply reveals the lost hopes and dreams of a generation and the need to have the bitterness necessary to move on to a ameliorate more fulfilling life.
Terry Kinny one of the founding members of Chicago's renowned Steppenwolf Theater Company will put his unique spin on the revival of Wilson's classic ensemble play. Kinny's directing credits at Steppenwolf include The Violet 60 minutes, Of Mice and Men, and I Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, which moved to Broadway and won a Tony Award for best revival of a play. Mr. Kinny is an accomplished histrion, also, probably best known for his function as Tim McManus in the HBO series "Oz." He has likewise appeared in the films "Save the Last Dance" and "Sleepers."
Theater trained actor and motion-picture show star Anson Mount, whose quantum office was in the Brittney Spears picture "Crossroads in 2002 will caput the ensemble as Ken Talley Jr. He has also appeared in the movies "Tully," "Urban center by the Sea," and "Corpus Christi." Shane McRae, whose theater credits include Accept Me Out, Killers And Other Family, in addition to the motion-picture show "Bad Teacher," will play his lover Jed, and Jennifer Mudge will take on the pivotal role as the story'southward catalyst Gwen, which won Swoosie Kurtz a Tony Award. Mudge appeared at Bay Street in No Time for Comedy and on Broadway in The Philanthropist.
Several Broadway veterans are featured in the revival including Elizabeth Franz (Death of a Salesman), who will play Ken'southward preoccupied Aunt Sally, David Wilson Barnes (The Lieutenant of Inishmore and the film "You Don't Know Jack), will create John Landis and Kelly Overbey (Cached Child, Price of Utopia), who has tread the boards at Bay Street in Dark Flavor and Earth to Bucky will be Ken's sister June.
Rounding out the talented ensemble are Danny Deferrari (Thujone, Problem Tales for Boys and Girls, As You Similar It), and Kally Duling (Bus Terminate, Little Women, Y'all're a Good Man Charlie Brown).
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Opening night is Saturday July 10th at 8 PM, and in that location are a limited number of two-fer tickets, which can be purchased on the day of the operation during previews July sixth -9th, and for matinees. The running schedule through August one, 2010 is Tuesday- Saturday at eight PM, Sunday at 7 PM, and matinees on Wednesday at ii PM and Sunday at 4 PM. Tickets are available by calling 631-725-9500 or past visiting the box office on the Long Wharf in Sag Harbor.
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