Category: Broadway
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Vulcans in America – Quinto cast in "Angels" revival
Photo courtesy of Playbill.com Both The New York Times and Playbill are reporting that initial casting for the revival of Tony Kushner’s Tony Award-winning play(s) Angels in America includes Zachary Quinto and Billy Porter. Angels in America won both the 1993 and 1994 Tony Awards for Best Play (Millennium Approaches and Perestroika respectively). Word is the Quinto will…
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>Tony Award Noms – and a few guesses
> June 13 is just over a month away, and that means that the race is really on for the Tony Award nominees. You can check out the Red Carpet webcast beginning at 6:00PM (ET) and then at 7:00PM (ET) you can catch the webcast of the non-televised awards. At 8:00PM (ET) on CBS the…
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>Living Inside a Song: Part 1
> Tonight, for the second time (first on Broadway) I experienced the miracle of luck and the perseverance of faith (at moments, literally) that is Sheri Rene Scott and she brings, as promised, your opportunity to achieve Everyday Rapture right there with her. In her “true-ish story of a young woman’s journey from Mennonite to Manhattanite”… well, I won’t bore…
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>Sweet Fanny Madam (or Butt the Show was Excellent)
> Photo from the officialRed website. We were privileged to see Red at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway the other night. It’s an intriguing look at Rothko’s work as he painted (and thought) about his commissioned work for the Four Seasons in NYC’s (at the time) newly constructed Seagram’s Building. It appealed to the…
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>Everyone’s Favorite Game: "Creative Team or Cuckoo Pants?"
> I’m not going to go into WHY Elinor Burket went nuts on the Oscars last night but I am going to offer up a new game for all of us to play: Creative Team or Cuckoo Pants! There are no rules really… you just have to pick someone on a creative team (i.e. your favorite Broadway…
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Tony Awards 2009 Recap – The Most Fun Moments of the Night
This weekend’s telecast of the 2009 Tony Awards® was more fun than a box of Slinkys® but not for all the right reasons (being brilliance, make-me-jump-on-the-phone-to-Telecharge, yada yada yada). Let’s run through these (in no particular order): Brett Michaels’ train wreck collision into the drop. The genius that he is, he took too long enjoying…
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>Waitin’ for the day your ship’ll come in…
>They’re heeeerreee! I can hardly contain my excitement. Last week, Violet Newstead, Judy Bernly and Doralee Rhodes stepped out of the office and onto the Great White Way. 9 to 5 is now a Broadway musical. Couldn’t you just pass out from the giddiness? This movie is one of my all-time childhood favs. Could I,…
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>Tony Awards 2009
>Broadwayworld.com revealed the poster for the 2009 Tony® Awards today. Hot! So, buzz has been boiling across the web, in particular at All That Chat, about which shows and artists will be nominated this year. The favored categories and their probably-eligible participants are below. Any thoughts out there from the peanut gallery? Keep in mind…
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>Finally! Yeesh. -OR- Do Critics Have This Much Power?
>Yes, finally, a new post. How did I let this go for nearly two months? Who knows. Life gets busy, you prioritize and then remember… CRAP… I have a blog. My bad. Anyhow, back to the basics. There has been a lot of debate the last year asking for an answer to the following: Do…
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Holy Christmas Batman!
This Christmas was full of excitement, magic and… unfortunately… a few passings. The magic began when we braved the crazies and went to Macy’s to check out Santa Claus. No, none of us hopped up on his jolly little lap, but we did walk through his winter wonderland, sneak a peak, and get a jazzy…
Tommy Karr 