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Frankenstein's Fuzzy Numbers Help Spike Broadway's $937.5 Million Season
Besides selling $450 tickets and mounting a Broadway musical comedy that most critics found mechanical, the producers of ``Young Frankenstein'' have something else to answer for: muddling the season's box-office statistics.
Toilet-Paper Satire on Business Rivals Touches French Nerve: Paris Theater
A 5-hour play about toilet paper seems a tad excessive. Michel Vinaver's ``Par-dessus bord'' (Overboard) at Paris's Theatre National de la Colline is nevertheless one of the hits of the season.
Variety
Melissa Gilbert back on 'Prairie'
Actress set for musical version of 'Little House'
Broadway box office stays strong
Total sales for season hit $937.5 million
Funnymen line up for comedy festival
Short, Fallon, Alexander to host Just for Laughs
Career rose in stalled elevator meeting
Hunter and Henley's collaboration lasts 25 years
Holly Hunter finds 'Grace'
Role latest in career spanning film, TV, theater
Review: Romeo and Juliet
Anything Des McAnuff directed would be expected to have a certain air of razzle-dazzle about it, but it's unlikely anyone in the opening-night audience at the Stratford Festival -- where he took over this year as artistic director -- was expecting his "Romeo and Juliet" to pack quite such a Red Bull-and-vodka feeling into its attention-grabbing start.
Review: The Visit
Call it "The Visit" revisited. The final production of the Signature Theater's Kander and Ebb festival is an extensive overhaul of the 2001 tuner that premiered at Chicago's Goodman Theater to mixed reviews and little follow-up interest. New contributions from the reassembled creative team include a modified book by Terrence McNally, reconceived staging by director Frank Galati, new choreography from Ann Reinking and even some original numbers written prior to lyricist Fred Ebb's death in 2004. The result is a deliciously dark and presumably more fluid tale that deserves renewed attention from the Broadway powers being eagerly courted.
Back Stage
A Political Party! reviewed by Paul Menard
Perhaps it's appropriate that the vapid political revue, A Political Party!, attempts to satirize current events but fails dismally to offer either laughs or insight.
Reuters
Strike stops Broadway from setting records
New York City's Broadway productions would have set box office and attendance records during 2007-08 if there had not been a 19-day stagehand strike in November, the Broadway League said on Wednesday.
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