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No more ”Hard Knock Life” for us! The 2012 revival of everyone’s favorite copper-topped orphan Annie has a new cast album featuring all of the…
Don’t let anyone tell you that EW doesn’t love The Broadway.
Everybody say yeah! Get ready to dig your heels into a 15-track exclusive first listen of the original cast recording of Kinky Boots, the high-energy…
I love that EW is now doing these regularly, but I wish they’d come up with a more listener-friendly format.
Few books have been as formative in my life as this one, and now I finally own my own copy.
Rocky The Musical is gonna fly now soon at the Wintergarden. Here’s one of the songs from the German production.
When did Andrea Martin begin receiving a mid-show standing ovation for Pippin? It didn’t happen when I saw the show in Boston. Now that the word is out that it’s happening, I suspect it will continue to happen because the audience has been prompted to expect it, and therefor participate it.
Certainly, that’s how I felt when Patti LuPone received her mid-show standing O in Gypsy. Don’t get me wrong, she deserved it, but it nonetheless felt… manufactured. I’m not really suggesting that one day someone from the Pippin team decided to stand and see if the rest of the audience would follow… but if that did happen, could you blame them? Now it feels like it’s become as much a part of the show as Charles Lowe leading the charge for Carol Channing…
Last night I saw the new documentary about Elaine Stritch, and it turned out to be the red carpet premiere of the film. Elaine sat in the row in front of me. Bernadette Peters was a few rows further up.
The film was great—I think even people who’ve never heard of Stritch will find it enthralling. Following the screening, there was to be a Q&A with the director and Ms. Stritch. Strich was helped to the front by her former costar/current best pal Hunter Ryan Herdlicka, and immediately asked (into the microphone) if there was a loo available. Herdlicka helped her find a place to pee, and I noticed Bernadette ducking out at the same time, presumably because someone like Bernadette Peters does not stick around for talk-backs.
The director, Chiemi Karasawa, invited Rob Berman, Stritch’s music director, up to the stage, and the two fo them answered questions while we awaited the return of Stritch. When Stritch returned, I noticed Bernadette slip back into the audience, at which point Stritch announced from the stage that she wasn’t the only one who needed to pee, “Bernadette Peters had to go too!”
The first question asked about how she became so fearless, and she answered simply: “Courage. You just gotta win.” She expressed gratitude to her audiences, both those present and those throughout her career, and got emotional: “I don’t think I feel like performing any more. I’ve had enough.” Then she announced that she was tired and hungry and hoped we could wrap this up quickly. After the first question, she strongly implied she was done, but the moderator took a second question. “What did you think of the film, and what are you going to do in Detroit when you get there?” Listen to her answer above.
Can check “witness marriage proposal on a Broadway stage” off my bucket list.
One of my friends had a death in the family and so can’t come to I’ll Eat You Last on Saturday night. We have the best possible of cheap full-price tickets, which is to say center mezz for $95. Any chance one of you wants to buy the ticket and join me and two of my other friends for a night of theater with Bette Midler?
