BWW Flashback: END OF THE RAINBOW Closes on Broadway Today, Aug 19
by BWW Special Coverage
- Aug 19, 2012
The Broadway production of End of the Rainbow, written by Peter Quilter and directed by Tony Award winner Terry Johnson, will play its final performance today, Sunday, August 19, 2012. The production, which began performances on Monday, March 19 of this year and opened on Monday, April 2, will have played a total of 176 performances at Broadway's Belasco Theatre. With this flashback, BroadwayWorld remembers End of the Rainbow's run on the Great White Way.
SOUND OFF Special Interview: Rumer's BOYS DON'T CRY
by Pat Cerasaro
- Aug 15, 2012
Today we are talking to one of the most alluring and anomalous recording stars on the rise all about this week's US release of her sophomore album, BOYS DON'T CRY, a tribute to male songwriters of the 1970s - the ethereal Rumer. Discussing many aspects of this new release, as well as her previous studio work - such as her Burt Bacharach Christmas EP - Rumer sheds some light on what makes her such an arresting and intriguing performer to follow for the enthusiasts of intimate, revealing, performance-based artists around the world, as she herself reveals the early influences - Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Karen Carpenter most of all - that have shaped the unmistakable sound she continues to perfect on this moody, subdued and intoxicating new cover album. Plus, Rumer offers forth candid recollections of participating in recent gala concert presentations - none the least of which would be her superb "A House Is Not A Home" on the PBS Burt Bacharach edition of IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE - as well as recounts her own favorite performances, performers and albums and what she plans for the future; another new album is already in the ether! Additionally, Rumer also shares her thoughts on GLEE, provides amusing anecdotes about famous friends like Darryl Hall and Duffy, compares the recording industry now to the era BOYS DON'T CRY pays tribute to, recalls reactions to her dynamic new covers of these rare pop gems - all of that as well as much, much more!
Mark Nadler Brings CRAZY: 1961 to San Francisco's The RRazz Room, 8/31-9/1
by BWW News Desk
- Aug 13, 2012
The RRazz Room, San Francisco's premier nightclub, presents the return of three time MAC award winning singer and pianist, Mark Nadler, in his critically acclaimed one-man show "Crazy 1961: The Songs and Events of 1961." The show celebrates the extraordinary year that saw the first man orbiting the earth in outer space (not to mention the first monkey!), the first performance of The Beatles, the inauguration of President Kennedy, Barbra Streisand's first TV appearance and Judy Garland's big comeback concert at Carnegie Hall.
Review - Bullet For Adolf: Summer Of My German Soldier
by Ben Peltz
- Aug 10, 2012
Once upon a summer of '83, a young aspiring actor named Woody Harrelson became close pals with a Harlem-raised fellow named Frankie Hyman while they both worked a construction job in Houston. Eventually, they went their separate ways; one becoming famous for doing something other than playwriting and the other pursuing a career in writing, although these many years later he apparently hasn't written anything he would care to mention in a Playbill bio.
Review - The Best Man: Change We Can Believe In
by Ben Peltz
- Aug 8, 2012
Two days after the death of its author, I had the pleasure of taking in director Michael Wilson's outstanding revival of The Best Man – one of the best evenings Broadway had to offer last season – for the third time. Gore Vidal most certainly went out with a landslide victory.
CABARET LIFE NYC: Better Late Than Never Reviews - 10 Shows of a Cabaret Summer
by Stephen Hanks
- Aug 11, 2012
So many cabaret shows, so little time . . . to write reviews that is. During his almost two years as a cabaret reviewer, BroadwayWorld.com critic Stephen Hanks managed to do a pretty good job of writing critiques during a show's run or soon after the run ended. But this summer he just couldn't keep up. Finally, here are observations on 10 performances over the past two months.
END OF THE RAINBOW Receives German Premiere, Starring Katharine Mehrling
by Kelsey Denette
- Aug 10, 2012
Peter Quilters furioses Stück END OF THE RAINBOW kreist um die turbulenten letzten Monate im Leben der Judy Garland. Die alte Diva ist getrieben von dem Wunsch, ihr Image der allseits verehrten und geliebten, schillernden Entertainerin mit neuem Leben zu füllen. Judy gastiert für eine Serie von Comeback-Shows im „Talk of the Town“. Flankiert von ihrem Manager und neuen, mittlerweile fünften Verlobten Mickey sowie ihrem Pianisten und engsten Vertrauten Anthony, möchte sie es noch einmal wissen. Doch sowohl ihre Alkohol- und Tablettensucht, als auch ihre Liebe zu dem jüngeren Mickey, der nicht das erhoffte Glück zurück bringt, werden ihr zum Verhängnis…
THE ANARCHIST Moves to Golden Theatre; Opens 12/2
by Nicole Rosky
- Aug 6, 2012
Producers Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel and Howard & Janet Kagan announced today that THE ANARCHIST, a new play written and directed by DAVID MAMET starring PATTI LuPONE and DEBRA WINGER, previously announced to be presented at the Lyceum Theatre, will now be presented on Broadway at the newly refurbished Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street). All persons who purchased tickets prior to the venue change will be contacted by Telecharge.
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