All Posts For December 2007
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The Casting Couch
December 6, 2007 4:52:40 AM PST
The Casting Couch
Come on in. Have a seat. Are you comfortable? You sure? Good. Welcome, to the "casting couch". You know what goes on here. Right? Good. Are you sure you are comfortable? Good. Are...
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Sweeney's Burton Slashing Awards Competition - Making B'way Bloody Proud
December 6, 2007 4:36:11 AM PST
Johnny Depp at Sweeney in NYC/ WireImage
The blood-filled movie musical adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd (starring Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton) has theater lovers and Sondheimites on the edge of their seats. Many are eagerly awaiting the opening of the movie this holiday season and many more are watching very closely the success of the film. Awards are one way you can measure the success of a film and "the Todd" has already picked up a juicy trophy. Yesterday the National Board of Review awarded Mr. Tim Burton the Best Director Award for Sweeney Todd.  The film also made the NBR short list of top 10 films. While the NBR is not the most respected of the film awards, it does have a history of recogniz...
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"The Most Exciting New American Play B'way Has Seen In Years!" NYTimes
December 5, 2007 5:24:47 AM PST
These are the words every B'way producer longs to see when they open the NY Times the morning after their play has opened and today that has happened. August: Osage County meet December: Rave Review County. Last night Tracy Letts' new play Aug...
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Daily Announcements - B'way Style
December 5, 2007 4:49:27 AM PST
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When I was in school, every morning we used to get daily announcements in home room. Info about school events, sports schedules and other sundry tidbits would be reported through a small green box attached to the wall - the loud speaker. Please consider this post your "B'way Daily Announcements". Class? Are you paying attention?The Other Frankenstein ClosesThe Off-Broadway musical Frankenstein has announced that it will close on December 9th. Staring Hunter Foster and Christiane Noll, Frankenstein will have had 70 performances. The show was thwarted by mixed to negative reviews and a bit of bad timing (perhaps) with the opening of the mega musical Young Frankenstein happening at ...
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West Wing Creator Fails To Wow B'way
December 4, 2007 4:41:05 AM PST
Aaron Sorkin and (sometimes) g.f. Kristin Chenoweth/WireImage
Aaron Sorkin creator of the television shows Sports Night, The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and the writer of hit movies like American President and the upcoming Charlie Wilson's War has returned to "the Broadway" with his first play since A Few Good Men in 1989; The Farnsworth Invention.  The show opened last night and the critics' reviews are out this morning and it is not pretty.The Farnsworth Invention is essentially the tale of the battle to invent television. The plot focuses on David Sarnoff (played by Hank Azaria) the head of RCA and founder of NBC and Philo T. Farnsworth (played by Jimmi Simpson) and their race to claim the patent for the creation of the television...
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Dark Day Dish: The Salad Days
December 3, 2007 4:49:47 AM PST
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According to Wikipedia (we love Wikipedia) the phrase salad days "was coined in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra in 1606. In the speech at the end of Act One in which Cleopatra is regretting her youthful dalliances with Julius Caesar she says: My salad days, / When I was green in judgment, cold in blood..." The more modern use of the phrase has come to refer to a person or thing at the peak of his/her abilities - not necessarily in their youth.  Why am I telling you this? Because these are the "salad days" for me, ladies and gentleman...these are the "salad days". This past weekend I saw three plays (not musicals) that renewed my faith in theater and attended one ah-mazing event.Â...
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