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William Gibson, Playwright (The Miracle Worker, Two for the Seesaw, Golda’s Balcony) 1914-2008 (above, with Anne Bancroft and wife Margaret) Gerald Schoenfeld, Chairman of the Shubert Organization, 1924-2008
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Published in Attitude: The Dancer’s Magazine, Fall 2008 When Broadway scavenges itself, theater lovers pounce. More than a new work or its cousin, the Movie-made-into-a-musical-or-play, revivals are as close to a sure thing as one gets. Hardly anyone revives a flop; since returning shows were usually hits the first time out, the producer’s job is an easier road as…
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Got shaken & stirred under the theater’s dark lights this weekend. Privileged to see the Steve Reich Evening at BAM, in collaboration with the choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Reich isn’t for everyone: subtle tonal graduations emerge from his rich rhythms almost imperceptively, requiring a meditative frame of patience to reap listening rewards. For me…
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Edie Adams, 1927-2008. Growing up Edie was everywhere: on television variety shows and especially commercials. In my head I still hear her voice, a jazzy belt that could make Muriel Panatella Cigars sound like the coolest thing on earth. Thanks to her, I’m sure that company made a lot of dough. RIP.
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At last night’s performance of Gypsy, the announcer informed us that Patti LuPone had hurt her foot, and would be performing in Isotoners—I thought it was a joke but sure enough, when her Madame Rose storms the stage, the sexy pumps familiar from publicity photos were nowhere in sight. What looked like house slippers proved…
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She would have turned 85 on July 25. Forever famous as Sophia on television’s The Golden Girls, but it was in Broadway’s Torch Song Trilogy (1982) that I first laid eyes on Estelle Getty. Thereafter, she was doomed to serve up variations on the cantankerous little old lady, but what’s to complain? After all, it…
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From my mezzanine seat, I felt unmistakable waves of love roll through the audience at a weekend performance of [title of show] at Broadway’s Lyceum Theater. The crowd confirmed what the critics decreed: this is a stunning, original piece of work, a tonic for those who bemoan the Great White Way’s recent worst tendencies–overpriced, over-hyped,…
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