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May 1, 2012
Who Got Snubbed By The Tony Nominations?
Broadway's finest have been honored by the Tony nominating committee, the results announced just moments ago as theater folk all over town felt some real emotion for a change. Among the nominated are, well, approximately two thirds of the people I predicted yesterday. But more interestingly, who g ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2012
My Tony Nomination Predictions!
I've seen almost everything this season except Magic/Bird--which to me sounds like a wildlife puppet show, and it's quite possible that's what it is--and I'm ready to tell you who will definitely maybe probably almost get Tony nominated tomorrow morning. Here goes: BEST PLAY *Clybourne Park *Othe ... More >>
Theater
April 11, 2012
The Best Man: Political Party Animals
It's presidential-campaign showbiz in a Gore Vidal revival
Blogs
April 1, 2012
Gore Vidal's The Best Man: My Review
A couple of legends, some TV stars, a few Broadway types, and Giuliani's ex-wife -- all together in the original outing play. It's as mixed a bag as it sounds. It's the new production of The Best Man, which is as timely as ever, seeing as it's set at a convention where corruption and dirty politic ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
The Song "Some People" Through The Years
Surely you know the song "Some People" from the musical Gypsy. Oh, you're straight and under 50?
Blogs
February 2, 2012
The Best Man's Amazing Cast Speaks
Broadway.comGore Vidal's The Best Man is the chestnut about about the power machinations of various Presidential candidates, some of whom are willing to go farther than others when it comes to negative campaigning. (Sound familiar, news followers?) Well, the imminent Broadway revival is ca ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
"Dubbing Through The Decades" Video Expanded And Improved!
I recently posted a YouTube video of clips showing who dubbed the singing voices for various screen icons so they could sound as hot as they looked. It was eye- and ear-opening, a vastly entertaining glimpse into Hollywood magic-making that you cineastes adored. Well, by popular demand, the person ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 17, 2011
MID-DAY MAYHEM
Murder, Agatha Christie wrote
Film
June 15, 2011
Waddle Waddle, Mug, Repeat: Mr. Popper's Penguins
Murder, Agatha Christie wrote
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May 11, 2011
Summer Movie Guide 2011
Superheroes, sequels, and TWO Conans! Summer has arrived.
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April 7, 2011
Brooklyn Duo Fergus & Geronimo Pick Their Ten Favorite "Girls With English Accents"
photo by Michael Ann German Early on, Fergus and Geronimo were miscast as Woodsist-endorsed purveyors of lo-fi white noise, partly for their trickle of singles that sounded like Playskool-recorder rescues, partly because the native Texans were DIY-friendly and played shows with bands like the Beets ... More >>
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October 30, 2010
New York City's Top 5 Places That *Might* Be Haunted
Yesterday, I had the brilliant idea to break an entry and take a look for myself inside one of the city's notoriously "haunted" places: Greenpoint Hospital. Opened in 1914, the 5-building hospital unit operated throughout the 1980's and was last utilized as a men's shelter. One building, in parti ... More >>
Theater
August 4, 2010
Bernadette Peters and Elaine Stritch Brighten the Starshine of A Little Night Music
Stephen Sondheim devotees get a little more of what they've been missing
Blogs
June 29, 2010
Patti LuPone is the New Ethel Merman
via PattiLuPone.netIn 1987's tap-happy revival of Anything Goes, Patti LuPone scored as Reno Sweeney, the role originated by big-lunged Ethel Merman in the 30s. In 2008, she picked up a Tony for playing Mama Rose, another Merman role, in a rousing retread of Gypsy. And now, she going to tak ... More >>
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May 4, 2010
2010 Tonys: Nominations Announced, Big on Idiot Material
The 2010 Tony nominations are out, and the yearly ceremony that becomes more and more designed to persuade people from anywhere but New York City to spend money on theater is soon to follow. The idea behind the Tonys is simply to get Broadway to appeal to the rest of America in a big, fancy ... More >>
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May 4, 2010
Debbie Reynolds Coming Back To Broadway?
Yes, kids, Princess Leia's mother, Debbie Reynolds, is considering an offer to replace Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt in the Broadway revival of A Little Night Music. Can the peppy, old-time movie star (and the original Jennifer Aniston, victim-wise) give good wheelchair action? Can she ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2010
My Tony Nomination Predictions!
In case you live for the nominations like I do (and by the way, they'll be announced tomorrow morning), here are my guesses. Disclaimer: I'm at a disadvantage. I actually saw the shows!
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April 27, 2010
Which Celebs Get The Most Stage Door Fans?
The other night, I passed by the stage door for Promises, Promises and saw scads of people lined up to get autographs and photos of Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth after the show. Meanwhile, movie star Catherine Zeta-Jones (along with Angela Lansbury) pulls in throngs of stage door Johnnies ... More >>
Film
March 2, 2010
Black and White (Too Easily) Come Together in Harlem Aria
The other night, I passed by the stage door for Promises, Promises and saw scads of people lined up to get autographs and photos of Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth after the show. Meanwhile, movie star Catherine Zeta-Jones (along with Angela Lansbury) pulls in throngs of stage door Johnnies ... More >>
Theater
December 15, 2009
A Little Night Music, Brief Encounter, So Help Me God! Receive Wobbly Contemporary Productions
The other night, I passed by the stage door for Promises, Promises and saw scads of people lined up to get autographs and photos of Sean Hayes and Kristin Chenoweth after the show. Meanwhile, movie star Catherine Zeta-Jones (along with Angela Lansbury) pulls in throngs of stage door Johnnies ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 17, 2009
SEND IN THE CLOWNS
You can't say Angie never tried
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September 15, 2009
Bea Arthur's Big, Brash Memorial
The late Bea Arthur loved to eat hard boiled eggs with tabasco sauce, according to her Maude daughter Adrienne Barbeau at Bea's gala memorial yesterday. And that's absolutely perfect since Bea was a hard boiled egg with tabasco sauce!
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September 14, 2009
Lansbury Confirmed For A Little Night Music
I know someone who's close to legendary Angela Lansbury, and he says that, though it may not have been officially announced yet, she is indeed doing the upcoming A Little Night Music revival with Catherine Zeta-Jones. And why shouldn't she? Roll out in a wheelchair, sing one wonderful song, ... More >>
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September 14, 2009
The "Delicious" Bea Arthur Remembered
Some of the biggest names in 1960s-80s showbiz were at the Majestic Theater today for the geriatric alternative to Fashion Week: a memorial to Bea Arthur, who passed away this April from cancer at the age of 86. Hundreds of theater and TV bigwigs shuffled their walkers into the rows for an "afternoo ... More >>
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August 25, 2009
Who's Really a "Legend"?
The words "legend" and "icon" are thrown around so effortlessly these days at anyone who's accomplished what any ordinary person could achieve in a couple of New York minutes that I sometimes want to ask my legendary doorman if the iconic UPS man has arrived yet.
Columns
June 17, 2009
Talk Show Host Thrown Out of Gay Bar!
Poisonous chatter, but the ending will leave you in Stritches.
Blogs
June 8, 2009
Billy Elliot Takes 10 Tonys
The Tony Awards producers did not take our suggestions, but the show still moved at a relatively brisk pace and had some nice moments, such as the acceptance of the Best Actor in a Musical Award by the three nice young men who alternate the lead in Billy Elliot; they were physically poised as you ... More >>
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June 8, 2009
Neil Patrick Harris Sings Cutely at the Tonys
The 11 o'clock number from last night's Tony awards--done at 11:03--came when host Neil Patrick Harris belted a ditty that used the melodies from West Side Story and Guys and Dolls to sum up the night's zaniness with all new lyrics. At the after-party, Harris told me composers Marc Shaiman and Sco ... More >>
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June 3, 2009
My Tony Predictions, World!
Here's who's I say is going to win the Tony awards for Broadway excellence this Sunday. Then again, I'm at a disadvantage because I've actually seen the shows. I'm even a Tony voter! Best Play: God of Carnage Best Musical: Billy Elliot Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush, Exit The King Best Actress: Jane ... More >>
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May 18, 2009
Quick Hits
Some guy's leg and foot on the subway, via twitpic. We love Mary Louise Parker as much as anybody, maybe more, but find it hard to credit her claim that she was "goaded" into a nude scene in an (upcoming!) episode of Weeds and is "bitter" about it. She's, like, naked in everything. Here is a practic ... More >>
Blogs
May 8, 2009
"Maine," by Michael Feingold and Jerry Herman
(As is his wont, our theater critic Michael Feingold has written new lyrics to a show tune to honor the latest American state to get gay-married. Tune supplied in the Angela Lansbury 1983 revival footage above. Feel free to sing along! -- ed.) MAINE lyrics by Michael Feingold (with sincere apo ... More >>
Theater
March 25, 2009
The Good Negro and Incident at Vichy Hunt Conflict; Blithe Spirit Hunts Comedy
(As is his wont, our theater critic Michael Feingold has written new lyrics to a show tune to honor the latest American state to get gay-married. Tune supplied in the Angela Lansbury 1983 revival footage above. Feel free to sing along! -- ed.) MAINE lyrics by Michael Feingold (with sincere apo ... More >>
Columns
March 18, 2009
Shocking Secret About Gay Porn Star!
Agnès Varda, speeding at 80; Cowardly behavior
Blogs
February 18, 2009
This Week in the Voice (Updated)
Sure, forcing food down ducks' gullets sounds harsh, but Sarah DiGregorio held her nose and went to a New York foie gras farm -- and reports that it wasn't so bad. "I don't think it's OK to cut the fin off a shark and throw it back into the water," she says. "If I had seen with my own eyes that Huds ... More >>
Columns
February 18, 2009
"Come Back Mickey Rourke!" Cries His Friend
Recession update: Cheapo bashes; home alone with Altoids.
Voice Choices
February 18, 2009
LAUGH TRACK NOT INCLUDED
Funniest Home Videos got nothing on these guys
Voice Choices
February 11, 2009
IN GOOD SPIRITS
Hottie Angela Lansbury is back on Broadway
Voice Choices
May 27, 2008
MONDAY | 6.2
Hottie Angela Lansbury is back on Broadway
Voice Choices
May 27, 2008
THE COCKETTE INVASION
Fleet Week for fags
Columns
December 11, 2007
I Am Legend Star: I Am Straight!
Wynonna's backwoods backstory (and other therapy issues)
Theater
July 17, 2007
Mothers and Other Animals
Gypsy is younger than ever, but LuPone's Madam Rose is the maddest yet
Theater
May 15, 2007
2006–2007 Obie Award Winners
Gypsy is younger than ever, but LuPone's Madam Rose is the maddest yet
Theater
May 15, 2007
Obies, She Wrote
Gypsy is younger than ever, but LuPone's Madam Rose is the maddest yet
Columns
May 15, 2007
Tonys, Tonys, Tonys
The picks of the litter. In other business: Travolta's not exactly Divine, is he?
Columns
May 1, 2007
Cutting Remarks
Vagina dialogues, wildly theatrical theatrics, and some of zee most outrageous zings you've heard
Film
January 17, 2006
'Nanny McPhee'
Vagina dialogues, wildly theatrical theatrics, and some of zee most outrageous zings you've heard
News
June 22, 2004
Wonder When You'll Miss Me
Defending Bill Clinton's My Life
Theater
March 9, 2004
Fleet Street Blues
Sondheim's demon musical thrives in a heavenly operatic showcase
Columns
May 23, 2000
NY Mirror
Sondheim's demon musical thrives in a heavenly operatic showcase
News
December 1, 1998
That Girl
New York Senator Hillary Clinton?
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