Issue #175: July 15, 2006
- Twyla Tharp’s latest project The Times They are
A-Changin’, the Bob Dylan coming of age musical, is scheduled
to open at the Brooks Atkinson Theater on October 26. Given the success
of Tharp’s Movin’ Out, based on the music of Billy Joel, hopes are high for a long run and an award winning future.
- Zoe Caldwell returns to Broadway in January in the
Classic Stage Company’s production of A Spanish Play directed by John
Turturro.
- Rita Wilson is having so much fun since her debut
on June 12 in the role of Roxie Hart in Chicago, that her
stint has been extended to August 20. Wilson comes by her
triple threat talent honestly….she trained at the London Academy of Music
and Dramatic Art before she married Oscar winner Tom Hanks.
- Vanessa Redgrave returns to Broadway in March when
she stars in Joan Didion’s adaptation of her autobiography The
Year of Magical Thinking.
- Kevin Kline returns to the stage this fall at the
Public Theater in a yet unnamed production. Speculation is it will be King
Lear which received positive feedback at a two-week workshop which
wrapped recently. If it is Lear it will be added to Kline’s Shakespearean
repertoire, which includes Richard III, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V and Hamlet.
- Now that The Lord of the Rings is set to move to
London after it closes in Toronto on September 3 there are rumblings that
the next musical to hit the city will be the rocker Queen musical We
Will Rock You, which has been enjoying packed houses in London since
it’s opening in 2002. Might I note that the reviews when this musical
first opened were scathing… which only goes to my previous comment that
critics don’t necessarily speak for the people.
- Look for an adaptation of award winning author Toni
Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes to premiere at Steppenwolf Theater
in Chicago before heading to Off Broadway’s New Victory Theater in
November.
- Frank Langella opens at the Donmar Warehouse on
August 10 in Frost/Nixon. He will play the disgraced U.S. president through to October 7.
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