Issue #189: March 15, 2007
- Thom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll is
scheduled to make the leap from the West End to Broadway in
the fall…with Trevor Nunn continuing his directing
duties.
- It was previously announced that John Glover would
take over the role as “Man in Chair” in The
Drowsy Chaperone now that Tony winner Bob Martin has
vacated for a long overdue rest before heading up the London
production which opens in May. At the moment Canadian
actor Jonathan Crombie is in the role for the next few
weeks before Glover takes over.
- Glamorous Scarlett Johansson looks to be in the running
to fill Nellie Forbush’s shoes when a revival of South
Pacific lands at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln
Center in February 2008. It is hard to believe but this
will be the first Broadway revival of this Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic
since its debut in 1949.
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- In more The Drowsy Chaperone news…the national
tour of the Tony winning musical will launch by making
a triumphant return to the city of its birth, Toronto. Talk
is that it will be in the fall with original cast member and
Tony winner Bob Martin reprising his role as “Man
in Chair.” This will all take place after he has
taken the West End by storm.
- You can catch Christine Lahti at LA’s Geffen Playhouse
from September 11 to October 28 when she stars in the late Wendy
Wasserstein’s play Third.
- It was art imitating life when Shubert head Gerald Schoenfeld played
the patron/landlord at a memorial for restaurateur Vincent
Sardi Jr. on the stage at the theatre named after Mr.
Schoenfeld on March 13. Sardi’s Restaurant
is a staple for all theatre people whether actor, producer,
tourist or just New Yorker’s to drink in the Broadway
spirit. And it was Vincent who created and maintained
the Broadway cachet many restaurants could only wish to capture. Sardi died
on January 4 at the age of 91…those toasting him at
this special send off were mostly Broadway royalty including Hal
Prince and Bebe Neuwrith. All in all, the
event was a fitting tribute to a man’s contribution to
a Broadway institution.
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