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May 24, 2012
Jackie Hoffman Will Deflower A Hot New Cabaret Space
Broadway's Jackie Hoffman--known from Xanadu and The Addams Family--is bringing her acidic (and possibly Hasidic) hilarity to the spanking new cabaret 54Below. The place--under the legendary Studio 54 site--is being creatively consulted by Scott Wittman (Hairspray, Smash), and will feature performer ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2012
Evita Returns: My Review
Disclosure: I busted my ass to get from a TV appearance to Evita but got there moments late. I had to watch the first 15 minutes on a monitor in the lobby, then was allowed in to my seat. And it was worth the ass-busting. I always thought the highly conceptualized 1979 Harold Prince-directed prod ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2012
Columnist Defends Streisand In Gypsy
As you know, Barbra Streisand is going ahead with her plan to play Mama Rose in another movie of Gypsy, the musical about the tomboy who becomes a star largely thanks to the stage mother she ends up wanting to go away. Well, there's been a lot of cynicism about Babs, who's turning 70, playing this ... More >>
Blogs
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?
Voice Choices
February 22, 2012
Loni Ackerman
Surely you know the song "Some People" from the musical Gypsy. Oh, you're straight and under 50?
Blogs
February 6, 2012
Studio 54 To Reopen Without Sex And Drugs
In keeping with today's nocturnal propensity for good behavior and crackdowns, the ghost of that legendary '70s den of debauchery Studio 54 is turning into a posh supper club!
Voice Choices
January 25, 2012
'Hello Gorgeous!: Leslie Kritzer Sings Jule Styne'
In keeping with today's nocturnal propensity for good behavior and crackdowns, the ghost of that legendary '70s den of debauchery Studio 54 is turning into a posh supper club!
Blogs
November 22, 2011
Daniel Radcliffe Interview! "I Hope It's The End Of Harry"!
At yesterday's 21 luncheon promoting the DVD/Blu-ray release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, I talked to movie/theater star Daniel Radcliffe and was thrilled to find he's basically magical! Here's how our talk went: Me: Hi, Daniel. Let's start with your Broadway gig. Have you foun ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2011
Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin Together Again: My Review
In his own revue currently on Broadway, the charming Hugh Jackman sings a snippet of "I Won't Dance," backed by a full orchestra, dancing girls, and a slide show. In An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, Broadway vets Patti and Mandy do the same song conversationally and intimately, sitt ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2011
I Know Who Should Play The Three Strippers In Gypsy!
As you know, Barbra Streisand is reportedly going to make a movie where she's Grandma Rose--I mean Mama Rose--in Gypsy. Well, I have a great idea as to who should play the worn out yet educational ecdysiasts who sing "You Gotta Get A Gimick" to young Gypsy Rose Lee as they show off the shtic ... More >>
Blogs
July 28, 2011
Patti And Mandy Heading To Broadway!
Brigitte Lacombe And if you had to say "Patti and Mandy who?" then you're not going to care anyway, so just go back to your football game. I'm obviously talking about former Evita co-stars Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, who have been touring in a two-person evening of belting and who are a ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2011
A Hilarious Spoof of Awards Acceptance Speeches!
It happened at the Laurie Beechman Theater last week. It was You Like Me, a show in which various performers acted out notorious trophy-clutching speeches made by golden folks like Meryl Streep (wickedly witty), Patti Lu Pone (mildly cantankerous), and Elaine Stritch (out of her mind). La Daily ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2011
Tony Nominations! My Final Predictions!
The dramatics! The emoting! The singing and dancing and screeching for the back row! I'm talking about what's going to happen when the Tony nominations are announced tomorrow morning. My final (and 100% correct) predictions are: BEST PLAY Jerusalem War Horse Good People Motherf**k ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 20, 2011
Leslie Kritzer
The dramatics! The emoting! The singing and dancing and screeching for the back row! I'm talking about what's going to happen when the Tony nominations are announced tomorrow morning. My final (and 100% correct) predictions are: BEST PLAY Jerusalem War Horse Good People Motherf**k ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
The Five Best Celebrity Memoirs
I've read every celebrity memoir ever written (except for Keith Richards') because I love the inside dish, the self-aggrandizment, the bitterness, and the gloating, not to mention the peek into what makes these artists actually tick as people and performers. Of course some are more compell ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2011
Patti LuPone Is Great For 'Hello, Dolly!'
Two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone is in talks to star in a revival of Hello, Dolly! and already the chatterati are concerned. "Does she have the warmth for the role?" some of them are nattering on various bored boards. Um, yes she does.
Blogs
January 5, 2011
Streisand In Talks To Do Gypsy!
It's a gay man's wet dream. Singer, Oscar winner, star, and Donna Karan wearer Barbra Streisand is in negotiations to play the fiercely tunnel-visioned Mama Rose in a movie of Gypsy, according to The Post's Michael Riedel. Normally I'd say "Enough with Gypsy!" but the chance to see Streisan ... More >>
Theater
November 17, 2010
Leftists, Ladies, and Lenders--After the Revolution, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, and The Merchant of Venice
New work from Amy Herzog and Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek; plus Shakespeare hits Broadway
Blogs
November 11, 2010
Who Should Play Hazel in The New Musical?
A press release went out yesterday saying that Hazel, the maid immortalized by Shirley Booth in a '60s sitcom, is being turned into a stage musical, and they're in talks with a Broadway actress to play the part. Too bad Shirley isn't still around because she could sing as well as act, mop, a ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2010
The Great Thing About Being Dumped as a Tony Voter...
...Is that I don't have to see every single show anymore! I was so conscientious as a voter that I would sit there and watch everything that crept down the turnpike just on the off chance that it might end up getting a nomination or two.
Columns
October 13, 2010
Blind Items About Abortions And Trannie Chasers!
Who's doing what to whom? Your guess is not as good as mine.
Blogs
August 27, 2010
Patti LuPone Calls Andrew Lloyd Webber "An Alcoholic"
In 1994, Tony winner Patti LuPone was bumped from the starring role in Sunset Boulevard by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, though she'd been promised the Broadway run after doing it in London. Well, some people might have just gone home and cried about it, but some people ain't Patti! Don't c ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2010
Who Gets Top Billing in Driving Miss Daisy?
The marquee is up for the Driving Miss Daisy revival on Broadway, and James Earl Jones's name is the first one listed! He's on the left and Vanessa Redgrave comes next, on the right. This might be an alphabetical way to handle two titans of such magnitude, but isn't Vanessa slightly bigger, ... More >>
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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June 21, 2010
Raunch and Revelations at Broadway Bares
Last night's 20th anniversary edition of Broadway Bares, benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, was a splashy gala at Roseland, which I'll tell you about in the column. But let me fill you in on a couple of fun celebrity moments from the revue, which I noticed in between gagging on, I ... More >>
News
December 29, 2009
Michael Musto's Year (and Decade) in Review!
Gaga for Google and every twittle thing that made the Aughts fraught with fakery and fun
Blogs
October 23, 2009
Actor Alan Cumming Picks New York's Best Gay Bar, Street Performer, and Movie
This week is the Voice's Best of NYC issue, our annual opportunity to bestow arbitrary awards like Easiest Place to Score Free Gay Drinks and Least Embarrassing Place to Belt Out a Show Tune. In turn, we asked a few of our favorite New Yorkers to name their favorite local things. by Maro HagopianA ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2009
How To Get Hugh Jackman To Talk To You
That's easy! Simply leave your cell phone on during a performance of A Steady Rain, and when it rings during a particularly tense moment onstage, sit back and don't turn it off. That's what went on last week when Hugh broke character and advised the offending person to silence the gadget alre ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2009
60 Is The New 59
I became overwhelmed with hope after reading in Next magazine that superstar DJ Junior Vasquez is now 60 years old! It's inspiring that a sexagenarian can still spin from such a high perch! Between Junior and some other names they mentioned who are the same age, I can now cling to the possib ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2009
The Susan Boyle Phenomenon Is Already Getting Old
One of the week's most clicked clips was that of Susan Boyle, the 47-year-old frump who rocked out on Britain's Got Talent and wowed the smirks off the skeptical judges' faces. But as someone who knows about the inner workings of TV, can I just say how phony the whole thing came off? In fact, the ... More >>
Columns
March 4, 2009
Which American Idol Star Is a Lesbyterian?
Nightlife pickin's so slim that I even went to a museum.
Blogs
February 9, 2009
Voice Critic Michael Feingold and Grammy Greatness
He didn't write the music or show up at the ceremony nine-months pregnant, but we're happy to note that our theater critic Michael Feingold has had a hand in a recording that won not one but two Grammys: Best Classical Album and Best Opera Recording. The EuroArts recording of the Los Angeles Ope ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2009
Ferrell's W Spoof Bright Spot on Dark B'way
We thought its opening was poorly timed, but at the New York Post Michael Reidel informs us that You're Welcome America. A Final Night With George W. Bush, Will Ferrell's one-man George W. Bush comedy show, leads Broadway with a $5 million advance sale and is considering extending its eight-week run ... More >>
Blogs
December 5, 2008
Voice Critic This Close To Grammy Victory!
We thought its opening was poorly timed, but at the New York Post Michael Reidel informs us that You're Welcome America. A Final Night With George W. Bush, Will Ferrell's one-man George W. Bush comedy show, leads Broadway with a $5 million advance sale and is considering extending its eight-week run ... More >>
Columns
June 17, 2008
Will Rihanna Go Hollywood?
Uptown Saturday nights are more fabulous all the time. Meanwhile, back at the Tonys . . .
Blogs
June 11, 2008
Give Mama Her Props! She Was Right Twice!
Uptown Saturday nights are more fabulous all the time. Meanwhile, back at the Tonys . . .
Columns
May 27, 2008
Marc Jacobs' Brazilian Bombshell Boyfriend!
A review of the Broadway season's best leg-breaking, plus some arm-twisting
Theater
April 8, 2008
When Musicals Matured: Three Revivals Recall Another Age
South Pacific, Gypsy, and Juno show how 1950s Broadway got 'serious'
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
July 25, 2006
Bride of Sweeney
Marriage of Lorca and Doyle is one very Todd couple
Columns
November 1, 2005
NY Mirror
Marriage of Lorca and Doyle is one very Todd couple
Theater
November 1, 2005
Instruments of Revenge
Attend the tale, for Sweeney's odd, but as to knowing the score, don't touch that Doyle
Columns
June 21, 2005
Tough Advice for Ellen, Angelina, and the Olsens
Attend the tale, for Sweeney's odd, but as to knowing the score, don't touch that Doyle
Theater
March 9, 2004
Fleet Street Blues
Sondheim's demon musical thrives in a heavenly operatic showcase
Theater
February 10, 2004
All Right With Me
With Cole Porter in command of the music, if you get a kick, you've got no kick coming
Columns
February 11, 2003
NY Mirror
With Cole Porter in command of the music, if you get a kick, you've got no kick coming
NYC Life
September 11, 2001
Listings
With Cole Porter in command of the music, if you get a kick, you've got no kick coming
Books
July 3, 2001
Gay Accompli
With Cole Porter in command of the music, if you get a kick, you've got no kick coming
Columns
October 17, 2000
NY Mirror
With Cole Porter in command of the music, if you get a kick, you've got no kick coming
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