Anna Maria Perez de Tagle and the New Broadway Cast of Godspell | “Day By Day”

I just found out today that the first-ever Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz’s Godspell has been playing since last October! Where have I been?

What path do you choose when your desire to move forward clashes with the instinct to stay comfortably — or even uncomfortably — in place? I’m so grateful that I had the chance to see this quietly powerful play in its final week on Broadway, and so glad to have experienced it with friends who help me see the joy in life rather than the misery.

TIME STANDS STILL | A new play be Donald Marguilies | Directed by Daniel Sullivan

theeconomist:

A record number of shows are closing, with producers millions out of pocket. So where did it all go wrong?

For Tiffany: Matthew Morrison as Link Larkin in the OBC of Hairspray.

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Tonight’s the night: THE 64TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS!

Daniel Radcliffe visits Promises, Promises on May 9, 2010.

Promises, Promises stars Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes check out their portrait at Tony’s Di Napoli.

Lea Michele and Phoebe Strole attended a performance of American Idiot to support members of their former Spring Awakening family: Brian Charles Johnson, John Gallagher Jr. and Gerard Canonico.

Lea was also there to support her beau, Idiot ensemble member Theo Stockman.

The new commercial for Twyla Tharp’s dance-centric Broadway musical hit Come Fly Away. At the Marquis Theatre.

Last night, the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge opened at the Cort Theatre to rave reviews. This 1955 drama about a working-class Brooklyn family torn apart by lust and revenge stars Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber as Italian-American longshoreman Eddie Carbone and Scarlett Johansson, in her Broadway debut, as his 17-year-old niece Catherine whom he has raised since she was a child. The production, directed by Gregory Mosher, also stars Jessica Hecht, Corey Stoll, Morgan Spector, Michael Cristofer and Joe Ricci.

The Washington Post’s Peter Marks called the production “one of the most satisfying evenings of Miller in memory.”

The New York Times’ Ben Brantley praised Scarlett Johansson’s performance, writing that the actress “melts into her character so thoroughly that her nimbus of celebrity disappears. Her Catherine is a girl on the cusp of womanhood, feeling her way down familiar paths that have suddenly been shrouded in unfamiliar shadows.”

I hope to find myself inside the Cort Theatre one day soon!

The PROMISES, PROMISES marquee is revealed!

The musical is written by legends Neil Simon (book), Burt Bacharach (music), and Hal David (lyrics). Emmy Award winner Sean Hayes will make his Broadway debut starring in the role of Chuck Baxter opposite Tony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth, returning to Broadway as Fran Kubelik. Tony and Emmy Award winner Rob Ashford will also make his Broadway directorial debut and choreograph.

Based on the 1960 Academy Award-winning Billy Wilder film The Apartment that starred Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, PROMISES, PROMISES tells the story of the Consolidated Life Insurance Company and Chuck Baxter, one of its charming young employees. In an effort to advance at the company, Chuck lends executives his apartment for their extramarital romantic trysts. But things become slightly complicated when Fran Kubelik, the object of Chuck’s affection, becomes the mistress of one of his executives. With Simon’s funny and touching book and Bacharach and David’s hit-packed score (“I’ll Never Fall In Love Again,” “Promises, Promises,” and “Knowing When to Leave”), PROMISES, PROMISES is a unique and popular part of the musical theatre canon that will now return to the stage for the first time in over forty years, for a new generation of theatergoers.

Previews will begin on March 28th, 2010 with an opening night slated for April 25th, 2010.

Kristin Chenoweth as Sally Brown in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda in the original Broadway production of Wicked

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Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda at the 2004 Tony Awards

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“Showbiz - she’s a fickle vixen. She’ll ride you hard and throw you away…”
-Gene

Gene goes on a “memory mission” with the cast of RAGTIME, which closed its final Broadway curtain this afternoon.

Their Time, Our Time, Ragtime. You will be missed.