Tommy Karr

Category: Entertainment

  • >Drag Him to Broadway!

    > Patrick’s submission for the La Cage aux Folles photo contest. So this weekend my friend Patrick found out that he is a finalist in the La Cage aux Folles photo contest.  SWEET!!  Several friends (including me) have been actively asking people to vote for him so that he can win a walk on role…

  • >"Heathers: The Musical" or "Why I Love a Moviecal"

    > I had the best time last night at Joe’s Pub.  Months ago I heard that a team of creatives including Tony Award nominee Laurence O’Keefe (Legally Blonde) and Kevin Murphy (Reefer Madness) were putting together Heathers: The Musical, based on the 1989 film, and immediately got on the horn (in this case, Facebook) and declared that everyone in my…

  • The Tony Test

    Photo courtesy of The Tony Awards. So of the 26 awards (not including the special awards for lifetime achievement, regional theatre, etc) I got 17 right… well, 16 but one of those was Adam Cork and I thought he’d win Sound Design for Enron but he won for Red. The others that I missed are…

  • Live Blogging the Tony Awards

    Here the come! The Tony Awards will air on CBS in just under 2 hours. Right now I’m following the Red Carpet coverage on NY1 (also available online at www.tonyawards.com). Don’t forget that the Creative Arts Awards are live at 7:00PM at the link above as well. Stay tuned. More to come! NOTE that updates…

  • 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…

  • >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…

  • >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…

  • Art Isn’t Easy

    Portrait, Goldie Hawn, 1996 I accidentally (and to my horror) left a collection of my own artwork in Alabama when I moved to NYC two years ago.  But my friend Lynn was good enough to send it to me (although I realized the other day that one painting is still in a closet at the University… gotta…

  • How Time Warner Cable is Like Flan

    Let me clarify first by stating emphatically that I detest flan.  It is somewhat fluffy and looks like it would be wonderful… then when you get your own and taste it you feel a little slimy and a lot unfulfilled. That is precisely my experience with Time Warner Cable. Our bill came in yesterday and,…

  • >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…