Category: Theater
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The Greatest Showdown
For the last few years, I was wondering if, or when, someone would file a lawsuit against Actors Equity for defamation, or interfering with employment, or maybe intentional infliction of emotional distress. Frankly, I thought it would be an actor. Of course, the irony is not lost on me, and hasn’t been for quite a…
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Miss Otis Regrets…..
When the mob came and got her and dragged her from the jail,Madam,They strung her from the old willow cross the way.And the moment before she died,She lifted up her lovely head and cried,Madam.Miss Otis regrets she’s unable to lunch today. Cole Porter wrote “Miss Otis Regrets” in 1934… it’s been widely recorded and performed…
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On Broadway, Weighing the Risks and Rewards of Staging ‘Some Like It Hot’ | Vogue
If the idea of transformation is not the heart of Some Like It Hot, it is one of them. “The movie”—with its gangsters, its moonshine makers, its down-and-out jazz musicians, its struggling girl band, its lonesome heroine, its accidental cross-dressers, its unconventional millionaire—“seemed to me about people who are nonconformist in their nature,” says López.…
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No Whammies
It really has been a bad week for Broadway, but extra super-duper bad for Actors Equity. Like anybody needed it with dwindling box office and Covid-19 taking another curtain call. First, Patti LuPone withdraws from the union, and yesterday Garth Drabinsky sues AEA for 50 million bucks for defamation. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/theater/patti-lupone-broadway-labor-union.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare To save you the work,…
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Patti, wait for me.
Patti LuPone. When I was spinning the vinyl of “Evita” in the late 70’s, non-stop, her voice and persona simultaneously thrilled me, inspired me, and taught me to fucking sing with passion, hit those notes and get what was mine… and I’m a boy but that didn’t even matter. A few short and eternal years…
Robert DuSold 