This year’s Tony race for Best Musical Revival has two Stephen Sondheim shows (“Into the Woods” and “Sweeney Todd”) in contention. Will one of them win or will they cancel each other out? Let’s go over both of them.
“Into the Woods” combines several fairy tales and explores the consequences of the characters’ quests. The main storyline focuses on a childless baker and his wife as they go into the woods to break a spell set upon them by a witch. There they run into various classic fairy tale characters, all before revealing what happens after “happily ever after.”
The original production won three Tonys in 1988 for Best Actress (Musical) for Joanna Gleason, Best Musical Book for James Lapine, and Best Original Score for Sondheim. Meanwhile, Best Musical that year went to “The Phantom of the Opera,” which wound up with six other awards. The last remounting of...
“Into the Woods” combines several fairy tales and explores the consequences of the characters’ quests. The main storyline focuses on a childless baker and his wife as they go into the woods to break a spell set upon them by a witch. There they run into various classic fairy tale characters, all before revealing what happens after “happily ever after.”
The original production won three Tonys in 1988 for Best Actress (Musical) for Joanna Gleason, Best Musical Book for James Lapine, and Best Original Score for Sondheim. Meanwhile, Best Musical that year went to “The Phantom of the Opera,” which wound up with six other awards. The last remounting of...
- 5/22/2023
- by Jeffrey Kare
- Gold Derby
You wish to have the curse reversed? You’ll need to win a Tony first! Brian d’Arcy James gave an impressive performance as the Baker in the recent revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods.” Despite an impressive stage career, James has never won a Tony Award. That could all change thanks to one of the biggest hits of the 2022-23 Broadway season, and he would break a major Tony stat in the process.
James has amassed a whopping 15 Broadway credits over the course of his career, including “Into the Woods.” He scored his first Tony nomination for the musical “Sweet Smell of Success” in 2002 before picking up additional bids as the titular ogre in “Shrek the Musical” (2010) and for the farce “Something Rotten!” (2015).
The actor also had a hand in shaping characters from two Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning musicals. He originated the roles of Dan...
James has amassed a whopping 15 Broadway credits over the course of his career, including “Into the Woods.” He scored his first Tony nomination for the musical “Sweet Smell of Success” in 2002 before picking up additional bids as the titular ogre in “Shrek the Musical” (2010) and for the farce “Something Rotten!” (2015).
The actor also had a hand in shaping characters from two Pulitzer Prize and Tony-winning musicals. He originated the roles of Dan...
- 3/15/2023
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Lin Manuel-Miranda’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Hamilton” is a strong contender for multiple Emmy nominations including for Best Variety Special (Taped) and for performers Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs, Philippa Soo, Jonathan Groff and Christopher Jackson. Filmed over three days at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway including two live performances in 2016, “Hamilton” premiered on July 4, 2020 on Disney + and was a real respite from the lack of live theater due to Covid-19. The acclaimed presentation has already received several honors including the Producers Guild Award, Critics Choice, Costume Designers Guild and Cinema Audio Society.
Though musicals have been popular on television since the earliest days of the medium, it’s rare that the original Broadway cast gets to reprise their roles such as Manuel and company did with “Hamilton.’ The first time was in 1955 when the cast of the hit Broadway musical “Peter Pan” reunited soon after...
Though musicals have been popular on television since the earliest days of the medium, it’s rare that the original Broadway cast gets to reprise their roles such as Manuel and company did with “Hamilton.’ The first time was in 1955 when the cast of the hit Broadway musical “Peter Pan” reunited soon after...
- 7/12/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Neil Simon, the creator of such Pulitzer and Tony award-winning plays as The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park and Lost in Yonkers, has died at 91. He died last night at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City from complications from pneumonia.
Simon was a giant of popular content creation, the playwright behind works that were performed worldwide by high schools, local theater groups and Broadway, where he was dominant in the last half of the 20th century. Simon’s unparalleled career in the theater included more than thirty plays and musicals that opened on Broadway over a span of four decades.
He made his playwriting debut in 1961, with Come Blow Your Horn and concluded his Broadway run with 45 Seconds From Broadway in 2001.
“No playwright in Broadway’s long and raucous history has so dominated the boulevard as the softly astringent Simon,” wrote John Lahr in The New Yorker in 2010. “For almost half a century,...
Simon was a giant of popular content creation, the playwright behind works that were performed worldwide by high schools, local theater groups and Broadway, where he was dominant in the last half of the 20th century. Simon’s unparalleled career in the theater included more than thirty plays and musicals that opened on Broadway over a span of four decades.
He made his playwriting debut in 1961, with Come Blow Your Horn and concluded his Broadway run with 45 Seconds From Broadway in 2001.
“No playwright in Broadway’s long and raucous history has so dominated the boulevard as the softly astringent Simon,” wrote John Lahr in The New Yorker in 2010. “For almost half a century,...
- 8/26/2018
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
From Sweet Charity to City of Angels, Witchcraft to The Best is Yet to Come, Cy Coleman lived on both Broadway and the pop charts, with firm roots in the jazz world. He wrote standards made famous by such singers as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole, and partnered with lyricists like Carolyn Leigh, Dorothy Fields and Peggy Lee. Grammy-winning singer-pianist Billy Stritch, a friend and protege of Coleman, celebrates the jazz side of this versatile, quintessentially New York composer in Witchcraft The Jazz Magic of Cy Coleman.
- 3/4/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1991, the second Broadway revival of Peter Pan opened at the MInskoff Theatre, where it ran for 48 performances. Peter Pan is a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and Barrie's own novelization of it, Peter and Wendy. The music is mostly by Mark 'Moose' Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics were written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The original 1954 Broadway production, starring Mary Martin as Peter and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook, earned Tony Awards for both stars.
- 12/12/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1991, the second Broadway revival of Peter Pan opened at the MInskoff Theatre, where it ran for 48 performances. Peter Pan is a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and Barrie's own novelization of it, Peter and Wendy. The music is mostly by Mark 'Moose' Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics were written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The original 1954 Broadway production, starring Mary Martin as Peter and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook, earned Tony Awards for both stars.
- 11/26/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1991, the second Broadway revival of Peter Pan opened at the MInskoff Theatre, where it ran for 48 performances. Peter Pan is a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and Barrie's own novelization of it, Peter and Wendy. The music is mostly by Mark 'Moose' Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics were written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The original 1954 Broadway production, starring Mary Martin as Peter and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook, earned Tony Awards for both stars.
- 12/12/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
“You are a traitor and I am the fucking CIA.” – Carrie Mathison
Have you been watching Homeland this season?
Homeland suffered not a sophomore slump but a jumpy junior year, which im-not-so-ho, admirably redeemed itself with the emotionally tortured final story arc of CIA agent Carrie Mathison (the magnificent Claire Danes) and her lover, the “almost” terrorist Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody (the brilliant Damien Lewis), which left Carrie pregnant, Brody dead, and viewers wondering, “Where do they go from here?”
Well, where they went has been one brilliant roller-coaster ride.
The season four premiere was a two-hour feast of Carrie Mathison six months after the death of Brody, with the geography shifting from Kabul to Istanbul to Washington, D.C., as Carrie coped with a failed drone strike and the death of the CIA station chief in Istanbul at the hands of an angry mob.
Oh, and the reality of her (detached) motherhood,...
Have you been watching Homeland this season?
Homeland suffered not a sophomore slump but a jumpy junior year, which im-not-so-ho, admirably redeemed itself with the emotionally tortured final story arc of CIA agent Carrie Mathison (the magnificent Claire Danes) and her lover, the “almost” terrorist Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody (the brilliant Damien Lewis), which left Carrie pregnant, Brody dead, and viewers wondering, “Where do they go from here?”
Well, where they went has been one brilliant roller-coaster ride.
The season four premiere was a two-hour feast of Carrie Mathison six months after the death of Brody, with the geography shifting from Kabul to Istanbul to Washington, D.C., as Carrie coped with a failed drone strike and the death of the CIA station chief in Istanbul at the hands of an angry mob.
Oh, and the reality of her (detached) motherhood,...
- 12/8/2014
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
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On December 4, NBC will try to recreate the ratings success of last year’s The Sound of Music with the family friendly Peter Pan Live!, starring Girls’ Allison Williams and Oscar winner Christopher Walken. The beloved musical with a book by Sir James M. Barrie, music by Mark “Moose” Charlap and Jule Styne, and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green has a long history with the Peacock Network, airing its first telecast of the Broadway show starring Mary Martin in 1955. After its initial broadcast, NBC restaged the musical live again in 1956, and then in 1960, with subsequent rebroadcasts of the last production over the course of the next three decades.
Originally conceived as a vehicle for Martin, Peter Pan the musical has continued to live on stages around the world. In preparation of the forthcoming live event, VH1 spoke with many of the key players...
On December 4, NBC will try to recreate the ratings success of last year’s The Sound of Music with the family friendly Peter Pan Live!, starring Girls’ Allison Williams and Oscar winner Christopher Walken. The beloved musical with a book by Sir James M. Barrie, music by Mark “Moose” Charlap and Jule Styne, and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green has a long history with the Peacock Network, airing its first telecast of the Broadway show starring Mary Martin in 1955. After its initial broadcast, NBC restaged the musical live again in 1956, and then in 1960, with subsequent rebroadcasts of the last production over the course of the next three decades.
Originally conceived as a vehicle for Martin, Peter Pan the musical has continued to live on stages around the world. In preparation of the forthcoming live event, VH1 spoke with many of the key players...
- 12/2/2014
- by Damian Bellino
- VH1.com
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On December 4, NBC will try to recreate the ratings success of last year’s The Sound of Music with the family friendly Peter Pan Live!, starring Girls’ Allison Williams and Oscar winner Christopher Walken. The beloved musical with a book by Sir James M. Barrie, music by Mark “Moose” Charlap and Jule Styne, and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green has a long history with the Peacock Network, airing its first telecast of the Broadway show starring Mary Martin in 1955. After its initial broadcast, NBC restaged the musical live again in 1956, and then in 1960, with subsequent rebroadcasts of the last production over the course of the next three decades.
Originally conceived as a vehicle for Martin, Peter Pan the musical has continued to live on stages around the world. In preparation of the forthcoming live event, VH1 spoke with many of the key players...
On December 4, NBC will try to recreate the ratings success of last year’s The Sound of Music with the family friendly Peter Pan Live!, starring Girls’ Allison Williams and Oscar winner Christopher Walken. The beloved musical with a book by Sir James M. Barrie, music by Mark “Moose” Charlap and Jule Styne, and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green has a long history with the Peacock Network, airing its first telecast of the Broadway show starring Mary Martin in 1955. After its initial broadcast, NBC restaged the musical live again in 1956, and then in 1960, with subsequent rebroadcasts of the last production over the course of the next three decades.
Originally conceived as a vehicle for Martin, Peter Pan the musical has continued to live on stages around the world. In preparation of the forthcoming live event, VH1 spoke with many of the key players...
- 12/2/2014
- by Damian Bellino
- TheFabLife - Movies
Today in 1991, the second Broadway revival of Peter Pan opened at the MInskoff Theatre, where it ran for 48 performances. Peter Pan is a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and Barrie's own novelization of it, Peter and Wendy. The music is mostly by Mark 'Moose' Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics were written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The original 1954 Broadway production, starring Mary Martin as Peter and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook, earned Tony Awards for both stars.
- 11/26/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc will continue its 2014 Unsung concert series at 54 Below with Unsung Bob Merrill and Unsung Carolyn Leigh, Vol. 2, following its recent sold-out, critically acclaimed Unsung Carolyn Leigh concert for Lincoln Center's American Songbook. The two all-new evenings are created and directed by Ben West Unsung Carolyn Leigh, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, At Home Abroad with musical direction and arrangements by Fran Minarik Unsung Carolyn Leigh, At Home Abroad.
- 11/20/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc continues its 2014 developmental reading series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center with a special presentation of I Had a Ball, the 1964 Coney Island musical comedy with a book by Tony Award winner Jerome Chodorov Wonderful Town and a score by Stan Freeman amp Jack Lawrence. The reading, directed by Ben West Unsung Carolyn Leigh, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, Make Mine Manhattan, will be held today, July 24 at 230 Pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.
- 7/24/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc continues its 2014 developmental reading series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center with a special presentation of I Had a Ball, the 1964 Coney Island musical comedy with a book by Tony Award winner Jerome Chodorov Wonderful Town and a score by Stan Freeman amp Jack Lawrence. The reading, directed by Ben West Unsung Carolyn Leigh, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, Make Mine Manhattan, was held earlier this week in the Bruno Walter Auditorium. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside the reading below...
- 7/22/2014
- by Kevin Thomas Garcia
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc continues its 2014 developmental reading series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center with a special presentation of I Had a Ball, the 1964 Coney Island musical comedy with a book by Tony Award winner Jerome Chodorov Wonderful Town and a score by Stan Freeman amp Jack Lawrence. The reading, directed by Ben West Unsung Carolyn Leigh, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, Make Mine Manhattan, will be held Thursday, July 24 at 230 Pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.
- 7/17/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc continues its 2014 developmental reading series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center with a special presentation of I Had a Ball, the 1964 Coney Island musical comedy with a book by Tony Award winner Jerome Chodorov Wonderful Town and a score by Stan Freeman amp Jack Lawrence. The reading, directed by Ben West Unsung Carolyn Leigh, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, Make Mine Manhattan, will be held Thursday, July 24 at 230 Pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.
- 7/7/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc will continue its 2014 Unsung concert series at 54 Below with Unsung Bob Merrill and Unsung Carolyn Leigh, Vol. 2, following its recent sold-out, critically acclaimed Unsung Carolyn Leigh concert for Lincoln Center's American Songbook. The two all-new evenings are created and directed by Ben West Unsung Carolyn Leigh, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, At Home Abroad with musical direction and arrangements by Fran Minarik Unsung Carolyn Leigh, At Home Abroad.
- 6/10/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc will launch its 2014 developmental reading series at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts with a special presentation of Peggy-Ann, the hit 1926 musical comedy with a book by Tony Award winner Herbert Fields Annie Get Your Gun and a score by the legendary songwriting team of Richard Rodgers amp Lorenz Hart Pal Joey, On Your Toes. The reading, directed by Ben West Unsung Carolyn Leigh, The Fig Leaves Are Falling, At Home Abroad, will be held Thursday, May 22 at 230 Pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.
- 5/19/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The York Theatre Company continues the 2013-2014 season with the world premiere of the new musical, Inventing Mary Martin, conceived, written and directed by Stephen Cole, with music supervision and arrangements by David Krane, music direction by Lawrence Goldberg, co-directed and choreographed by Bob Richard, and original music and lyrics by legendary composers Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers amp Oscar Hammerstein, Vernon Duke amp Howard Dietz, Kurt Weill amp Ogden Nash, Nol Coward, Irving Berlin, Jule Styne amp Carolyn Leigh, Howard Dietz amp Arthur Schwartz, and Tom Jones amp Harvey Schmidt, among others. The four-member cast will feature Cameron Adams, Jason Graae, Lynne Halliday, and Emily Skinner.THe company just met the press and BroadwayWorld takes you inside the special presentation below...
- 4/9/2014
- by Genevieve Rafter Keddy
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc is proud to present Unsung Carolyn Leigh, a special concert produced for Lincoln Center's American Songbook at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse tonight, April 5 at 8 Pm. The evening, showcasing songs by the Tony- and Grammy-nominated lyricist of Peter Pan, Little Me and How Now Dow Jones, is created and directed by Ben West The Fig Leaves Are Falling, At Home Abroad, Make Mine Manhattan.
- 4/5/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc is proud to present Unsung Carolyn Leigh, a special concert produced for Lincoln Center's American Songbook at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse on Saturday, April 5 at 8 Pm. The evening, showcasing songs by the Tony- and Grammy-nominated lyricist of Peter Pan, Little Me and How Now Dow Jones, is created and directed by Ben West The Fig Leaves Are Falling, At Home Abroad, Make Mine Manhattan.
- 3/31/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc has announced complete casting for Unsung Carolyn Leigh, a special concert produced for Lincoln Center's American Songbook at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse on Saturday, April 5 at 8 Pm. The evening, showcasing songs by the Tony- and Grammy-nominated lyricist of Peter Pan, Little Me and How Now Dow Jones, is created and directed by Ben West The Fig Leaves Are Falling, At Home Abroad, Make Mine Manhattan.
- 3/4/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The York Theatre Company continues the 2013-2014 season with the world premiere of the new musical , Inventing Mary Martin, conceived, written and directed by Stephen Cole, with music supervision and arrangements by David Krane, music direction by Lawrence Goldberg, co-directed and choreographed by Bob Richard, and original music and lyrics by legendary composers Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers amp Oscar Hammerstein, Vernon Duke amp Howard Dietz, Kurt Weill amp Ogden Nash, Noel Coward, Irving Berlin, Jule Styne amp Carolyn Leigh, Howard Dietz amp Arthur Schwartz, and Tom Jones amp Harvey Schmidt, among others.
- 2/26/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's Little Me, the opening production of New York City Center's 2014 Encores season, runs for seven performances, February 5 - 9. The show is directed by John Rando with music direction by Rob Berman and choreography by Joshua Bergasse.Little Me, Neil Simon's first musical, is the story of the glamorous Belle Poitrine Rachel York as young Belle, Judy Kaye as older Belle, a self-invented celebrity who has spent her life in pursuit of wealth, culture and social position. Tony Award-winner Christian Borle will play all six of Belle's oddball lovers, who range from an innocent college boy to an octogenarian lecher to the dying king of a tiny European country that doesn't seem to exist. BroadwayWorld brings you and exclusive sneak peek of the cast in action below...
- 2/5/2014
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's Little Me, the opening production of New York City Center's 2014 Encores season, runs for seven performances, February 5 - 9. The show is directed by John Rando with music direction by Rob Berman and choreography by Joshua Bergasse.Little Me, Neil Simon's first musical, is the story of the glamorous Belle Poitrine Rachel York as young Belle, Judy Kaye as older Belle, a self-invented celebrity who has spent her life in pursuit of wealth, culture and social position. Tony Award-winner Christian Borle will play all six of Belle's oddball lovers, who range from an innocent college boy to an octogenarian lecher to the dying king of a tiny European country that doesn't seem to exist. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the cast in action below...
- 2/5/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's Little Me, the opening production of New York City Center's 2014 Encores season, runs for seven performances, February 5 - 9. The show is directed by John Rando with music direction by Rob Berman and choreography by Joshua Bergasse.Little Me, Neil Simon's first musical, is the story of the glamorous Belle Poitrine Rachel York as young Belle, Judy Kaye as older Belle, a self-invented celebrity who has spent her life in pursuit of wealth, culture and social position. Tony Award-winner Christian Borle will play all six of Belle's oddball lovers, who range from an innocent college boy to an octogenarian lecher to the dying king of a tiny European country that doesn't seem to exist.The company met the press yesterday and BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was there to chat with them about the production. Check out what they had to say and watch a performance...
- 1/29/2014
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's Little Me, the opening production of New York City Center's 2014 Encores season, runs for seven performances, February 5 - 9. The show is directed by John Rando with music direction by Rob Berman and choreography by Joshua Bergasse.Little Me, Neil Simon's first musical, is the story of the glamorous Belle Poitrine Rachel York as young Belle, Judy Kaye as older Belle, a self-invented celebrity who has spent her life in pursuit of wealth, culture and social position. Tony Award-winner Christian Borle will play all six of Belle's oddball lovers, who range from an innocent college boy to an octogenarian lecher to the dying king of a tiny European country that doesn't seem to exist.The company met the press yesterday and you can check out the first photos of the whole gang below...
- 1/29/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. Umc just announced its 2014 season, which will launch on April 5 at 8pm with Unsung Carolyn Leigh, a special evening produced forLincoln Center's American Songbook at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse. Starring Obie Award winner Donna Bullock Ragtime, A Class Act, Rachel de BenedetCatch Me if You Can, Drew Gehling Jersey Boys, On a Clear Day, Autumn Hurlbert Legally Blonde, Drama Desk nominee Jenny Powers Donnybrook,Happiness, Megan Sikora Curtains and Max von Essen Evita, the concert, showcasing songs by the Tony- and Grammy-nominated lyricist of Peter Pan and Little Me, is created and directed by Ben West The Fig Leaves Are Falling, At Home Abroad, Make Mine Manhattan. Tickets, priced 30-50, are now on sale.
- 1/17/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1991, the second Broadway revival of Peter Pan opened at the MInskoff Theatre, where it ran for 48 performances. Peter Pan is a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and Barrie's own novelization of it, Peter and Wendy. The music is mostly by Mark 'Moose' Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics were written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The original 1954 Broadway production, starring Mary Martin as Peter and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook, earned Tony Awards for both stars.
- 12/12/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Lorna Luft at Birdland, NYC
Attending Lorna Luft's performance at Birdland last Monday night, a foreign tourist couple were seated next to my table. They happened upon the show when looking for a "jazz" club, and knew nothing of Ms. Luft previous to seeing this show. After the performance, they shared that they truly enjoyed the entire evening. I mention this because Ms. Luft, who cannot help but reside to some degree or another in the shadow of her mother, Judy Garland, and sister, Liza Minnelli, is very much a fine and talented entertainer, quite independent of those associations.
The theme of the evening was the men in Ms. Luft's life: the composers with whom she has worked (Burt Bacharach and Jerry Herman), and one who she honors a great deal (Larry Hart). Also the men who she adores working with, two of whom, David Elder and Tony Yazbeck,...
Attending Lorna Luft's performance at Birdland last Monday night, a foreign tourist couple were seated next to my table. They happened upon the show when looking for a "jazz" club, and knew nothing of Ms. Luft previous to seeing this show. After the performance, they shared that they truly enjoyed the entire evening. I mention this because Ms. Luft, who cannot help but reside to some degree or another in the shadow of her mother, Judy Garland, and sister, Liza Minnelli, is very much a fine and talented entertainer, quite independent of those associations.
The theme of the evening was the men in Ms. Luft's life: the composers with whom she has worked (Burt Bacharach and Jerry Herman), and one who she honors a great deal (Larry Hart). Also the men who she adores working with, two of whom, David Elder and Tony Yazbeck,...
- 2/15/2013
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
Today in 1991, the second Broadway revival of Peter Pan opened at the MInskoff Theatre, where it ran for 48 performances. Peter Pan is a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and Barrie's own novelization of it, Peter and Wendy. The music is mostly by Mark Moose Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics were written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The original 1954 Broadway production, starring Mary Martin as Peter and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook, earned Tony Awards for both stars.
- 12/12/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1991, the second Broadway revival of Peter Pan opened at the MInskoff Theatre, where it ran for 48 performances. Peter Pan is a musical adaptation of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan and Barrie's own novelization of it, Peter and Wendy. The music is mostly by Mark Moose Charlap, with additional music by Jule Styne, and most of the lyrics were written by Carolyn Leigh, with additional lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The original 1954 Broadway production, starring Mary Martin as Peter and Cyril Ritchard as Captain Hook, earned Tony Awards for both stars.
- 11/26/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Bigger and badder than anything Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum have done before, "21 Jump Street" is the kind of action comedy that is getting labels like "instant classic" thrown around (okay, maybe we said that). And while the movie has been marketed hard, one thing you won't be getting (oddly enough) is an official soundtrack or score (which is a pity because Mark Mothersbaugh of Wes Anderson-film fame composed the score), but not to worry because we got you covered there.
Below you'll see the list of every song featured in "21 Jump Street." It's a pretty diverse mix of stuff ranging from the classics (The Clash, N.W.A.) to the up-and-comers (Foster The People, Rye Rye), and we've included samples of the songs referenced in the movie including Pete Seeger's take on "Fifteen Miles On The Erie Canal Song" and Mary Martin's rendition of "I've Gotta Crow." All said,...
Below you'll see the list of every song featured in "21 Jump Street." It's a pretty diverse mix of stuff ranging from the classics (The Clash, N.W.A.) to the up-and-comers (Foster The People, Rye Rye), and we've included samples of the songs referenced in the movie including Pete Seeger's take on "Fifteen Miles On The Erie Canal Song" and Mary Martin's rendition of "I've Gotta Crow." All said,...
- 3/13/2012
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
UnsungMusicalsCo. Inc. www.UnsungMusicals.org has announced a special return concert engagement of the new musical song cycle Nothing is Forever by Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winner Morton Gould Billion Dollar Baby and Tony and Grammy Award nominee Carolyn Leigh Peter Pan, Little Me, Gatsby. Starring Obie Award winner Donna Bullock Ragtime, A Class Act, Astaire Award nominee Rachel de Benedet Catch Me If You Can, Adrift in Macao and Drama League nominee Kristin Maloney The Talk of the Town, the concert presentations will playMarch 11 amp 12 at the Connelly Theatre 220 East 4th Street.
- 2/29/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The new developmental production of How Now, Dow Jones starring Cristen Paige (Spelling Bee, The Visit, Cry-Baby), Colin Hanlon (Rent, I Love You Because) and Fred Berman (The Normal Heart, Room Service) will begin performances this Saturday at the Minetta Lane Theatre (18 Minetta Lane) as part of the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival. This new production will also restore an Elmer Bernstein-Carolyn Leigh cabaret favorite to the show: "Shakespeare Lied".
- 8/14/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
UnsungMusicalsCo. is proud to announce the development of a new production of How Now, Dow Jones (www.HowNowDowJones.com) starring Sarah Litzsinger (Beauty and the Beast), Colin Hanlon (Rent) and Fred Berman (The Normal Heart). With book by Max Shulman, music by Academy Award winner Elmer Bernstein and lyrics by Tony Award nominee Carolyn Leigh, this newly revised version will be presented as part of the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival.
- 6/16/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
There are indeed movies (usually quite a few) that "define every decade," and then there are movies like "Body Shots" -- the 900th sex comedy-drama to be released this year with the usual excitable ensemble cast and its own agenda that is minutely divergent from all the others.
Looking to get roughed up at the boxoffice, the New Line release directed by Michael Cristofer ("Gia"), who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for his play "The Shadow Box", is another pretentious, hard-to-sit-still-for investigation into the minds and bodily functions of dopey guys and dizzy gals in Los Angeles' young-adult singles scene, and it pretty much fails in the final act to tweak the agenda into a serious discussion of date rape.
Screenwriter David McKenna ("American History X") likes to have both male and female characters talk frankly about penises, ejaculation, fellatio, cunnilingus and so on, but nothing too graphic. From what guys want and what girls like to do to them (one guess) to what girls need and only a few guys seem to provide, the characters directly address the audience in one of many distracting stylistic dodges (along with highlighted sounds, titled camera angles, superimposed graphics, etc.) to cover up the shallowness of the material.
While the characters are not entirely reduced to emblems for their generation, it matters not because none of them is remotely believable to begin with. Handsome and scary, Jerry O'Connell ("Jerry Maguire") is one Michael Penorisi, a millionaire football player for the Raiders.
Sean Patrick Flanery plays his buddy, a lawyer, and they are joined by two other on-the-make guys (Ron Livingston and Brad Rowe) for a group date at a dance club with four lovely young ladies.
Leader of the femme pack is Amanda Peet, who has Flanery's semi-nice guy in her future plans, while youngest party babe Tara Reid starts off a mess when, in the first few moments of the film, she claims that O'Connell's smiley brute raped her. With a debt to but none of the depth of "Rashomon", the film is chronologically fractured and shows us several different versions of what becomes the central event of the story.
There's just nothing new about watching a group of hard-drinking, horny men converge with likewise double-minded women (make that triple-minded; these gals like to dance more than the guys) for a night of embarrassing and vaguely romantic bonding. Occasionally, a scene or shot will stand out -- Flanery urinating on a closed toilet seat, Rowe and wine-guzzling Sybil Temchen screwing in a parking lot, Livingston lying in the gutter and almost getting run over -- but on a basic storytelling level, one never gets to know half of these characters, including Emily Procter as another blond princess and Rowe's drug-and-drink fiend in denial.
BODY SHOTS
New Line Cinema
A Colomby/Keaton production
Director: Michael Cristofer
Screenwriter: David McKenna
Producers: Jennifer Keohane, Harry Colomby
Executive producers: Michael Keaton, Guy Riedel, Michael De Luca, Lynn Harris
Director of photography: Rodrigo Garcia
Production designer: David J. Bomba
Editor: Eric Sears
Costume designer: Carolyn Leigh Greco
Casting: Junie Lowry Johnson, Libby Goldstein
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rick Hamilton: Sean Patrick Flanery
Michael Penorisi: Jerry O'Connell
Jane Bannister: Amanda Peet
Sara Olswang: Tara Reid
Trent: Ron Livingston
Whitney Bryant: Emily Procter
Shawn Denigan: Brad Rowe
Emma Cooper: Sybil Temchen
Running time --- 100 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Looking to get roughed up at the boxoffice, the New Line release directed by Michael Cristofer ("Gia"), who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for his play "The Shadow Box", is another pretentious, hard-to-sit-still-for investigation into the minds and bodily functions of dopey guys and dizzy gals in Los Angeles' young-adult singles scene, and it pretty much fails in the final act to tweak the agenda into a serious discussion of date rape.
Screenwriter David McKenna ("American History X") likes to have both male and female characters talk frankly about penises, ejaculation, fellatio, cunnilingus and so on, but nothing too graphic. From what guys want and what girls like to do to them (one guess) to what girls need and only a few guys seem to provide, the characters directly address the audience in one of many distracting stylistic dodges (along with highlighted sounds, titled camera angles, superimposed graphics, etc.) to cover up the shallowness of the material.
While the characters are not entirely reduced to emblems for their generation, it matters not because none of them is remotely believable to begin with. Handsome and scary, Jerry O'Connell ("Jerry Maguire") is one Michael Penorisi, a millionaire football player for the Raiders.
Sean Patrick Flanery plays his buddy, a lawyer, and they are joined by two other on-the-make guys (Ron Livingston and Brad Rowe) for a group date at a dance club with four lovely young ladies.
Leader of the femme pack is Amanda Peet, who has Flanery's semi-nice guy in her future plans, while youngest party babe Tara Reid starts off a mess when, in the first few moments of the film, she claims that O'Connell's smiley brute raped her. With a debt to but none of the depth of "Rashomon", the film is chronologically fractured and shows us several different versions of what becomes the central event of the story.
There's just nothing new about watching a group of hard-drinking, horny men converge with likewise double-minded women (make that triple-minded; these gals like to dance more than the guys) for a night of embarrassing and vaguely romantic bonding. Occasionally, a scene or shot will stand out -- Flanery urinating on a closed toilet seat, Rowe and wine-guzzling Sybil Temchen screwing in a parking lot, Livingston lying in the gutter and almost getting run over -- but on a basic storytelling level, one never gets to know half of these characters, including Emily Procter as another blond princess and Rowe's drug-and-drink fiend in denial.
BODY SHOTS
New Line Cinema
A Colomby/Keaton production
Director: Michael Cristofer
Screenwriter: David McKenna
Producers: Jennifer Keohane, Harry Colomby
Executive producers: Michael Keaton, Guy Riedel, Michael De Luca, Lynn Harris
Director of photography: Rodrigo Garcia
Production designer: David J. Bomba
Editor: Eric Sears
Costume designer: Carolyn Leigh Greco
Casting: Junie Lowry Johnson, Libby Goldstein
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rick Hamilton: Sean Patrick Flanery
Michael Penorisi: Jerry O'Connell
Jane Bannister: Amanda Peet
Sara Olswang: Tara Reid
Trent: Ron Livingston
Whitney Bryant: Emily Procter
Shawn Denigan: Brad Rowe
Emma Cooper: Sybil Temchen
Running time --- 100 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 10/11/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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