Issue #194: June 1, 2007
Read
the Toronto Star article on Camp Broadway!!
Read
the Toronto Sun article on Camp Broadway!!
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New York is buzzing with the Tony Awards just around the
corner…on June 10 from Radio City Music Hall. Some
of the categories to watch; best actor in a play stage veterans Christopher
Plummer for Inherit the Wind and Frank Langella for Frost/Nixon. A
possible nostalgic choice; Kander and Ebb’s final
musical Curtains and for the revival of A Chorus
Line? Speaking of nostalgia what about Angela
Lansbury for Deuce or Vanessa Redgrave for The
Year of Magical Thinking both up for Tonys. We’ll
have to wait and see what the voters say on the 10th. Oh,
and don’t forget to watch what Grey Gardens racks
up….the musical has 10 Tony nominations!
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When Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll lands
on Broadway from the U.K. next fall expect to see Rufus
Sewell reprise his role.
The Police
Concert Tickets are hot as well as Broadway theater shows like Jersey Boys
Tickets, Disney's Mary Poppins on
Broadway and classics like Wicked Tickets.
- That hugely popular High School Musical makes a stop
in Toronto at the Princess of Wales Theatre for a limited engagement
opening on September 4.
- It’s confirmed, the Broadway hit Jersey Boys will
be heading to Toronto next summer as part of the inaugural
season of new producer in town, Aubrey Dan of Dancap
Productions. The Canadian premiere will run at the not-much-used
Toronto Centre for the Arts for an extended run. There
is already a bit of Canadian content since the director Des
McAnuff and choreographer Sergio Trujillo are both
hometown boys.
- Although he may have been known as a fixture on many TV
game shows in the 70s and 80s, Charles Nelson Reilly was
also a Tony Award winner. The 76-year-old larger than
life personality died on May 25. In 1962 Reilly won
a Tony Award for the character Bud Frump in the original
Broadway production of How to Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying. As a director he skillfully guided Julie
Harris through the one-woman play The Belle of Amherst at
the Longacre Theater in 1976. Then twenty years later
he again directed Ms. Harris along with Charles
Durning in the revival of The Gin Game at the
Lyceum Theater for which he was nominated for best director
in 1997. His final work, a one-man show, Save It
for the Stage: The Life of Reilly was autobiographical
about his difficult childhood. I suspect he will be
fondly remembered at the Tonys on June 10th.
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