"UP IN THE CHEAP SEATS"
Theatre yesterday and today
WHAT'S AN UGGAMS?
Yes, it's July. And even if Rodgers and Hammerstein's rousing song from Carousel is titled "June is Busting Out All Over," I will forever...
BUD & MLADEN
Hard to believe, but longtime friends Marlon Brando and Karl Malden died on the same date, July 1st. Brando in 2004, and Malden five...
AT THIS PERFORMANCE THE ROLE OF...
As famous theatre legends go, the one about the night Shirley MacLaine went on for Carol Haney in The Pajama Game is pretty much at the...
HUMMING SCENERY
This past Broadway season that ended with the Tony Awards two weeks ago, provided me with the chance to see more shows than I have in a...
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
In 1943, Agatha Christie, then at the height of her fame as a murder mystery novelist, had one of her most popular stories turned into a...
HELEN KELLER DAY
Today is Helen Keller Day. And that's no joke. Perhaps even mentioning this is not politically correct, but as far back as when I was a...
MAYBE NOT-SO-HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Today marks the day when in 1973 The Theater Development Fund opened the TKTS booth at Broadway and 47th street. This familiar site...
AND ROBERT MORSE
Yesterday I wrote about Sugar, the 1972 musical version of the classic 1959 comedy Some Like It Hot. By no means any sort of classic,...
DOIN' IT FOR SUGAR
In 1959, director Billy Wilder, along with his long-time writing partner I.A.L. (“Izzy”) Diamond, brought their screenplay Some Like It...
BYE BYE TO ALL THAT
On June 22, 2006, demolition began on the northwest corner of 46th Street and Broadway. This was a sad day for me, as well as for many...