“In an unusual bit of major star re-casting on Broadway, the actresses … will join the current revival of A Little Night Music in July to take over the roles of Desirée and Madame Armfeldt, now played by Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury.” Says Stritch of the idea, “No one is going to own up to it until they see how I do.”
Tag: 06.08.10
Is Glee This Decade’s Twin Peaks?
Matt Zoller Seitz: “That might seem an unlikely claim on first glance: Glee is a feather-light comedy at least 70 percent of the time, and a glib, mannered one at that. … What’s radical about the series … is its direct, at times nearly primordial sincerity, expressed mostly in its musical numbers.”
Roberto Bolle Pulls Out Of ABT’s Summer Season
Due to an ankle injury, the Italian ballet superstar has withdrawn from his scheduled appearances in Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet as part of American Ballet Theater’s spring/summer season at the Metropolitan Opera House.
Josephine Baker’s Château Becomes A Memorial
La Baker “is a gilded banana skirt and a feathery hairpiece, a spit curl and a sculpted brow – not the rumpled woman in a bathrobe, dark glasses, and shower cap in the photo in the kitchen at the Château des Milandes,” which had just been repossessed. The estate’s current owner has made the house into a monument to the singer and the extraordinary activities she undertook there.
Watching Paint Dry On Reality TV? No, It’s Worse Than That
Art critic Christopher Knight on Work of Art: The Next Great Artist: “Can a television series jump the shark in the first episode? Bravo’s new, awkwardly titled reality-contest show … doesn’t merely argue in the affirmative. The plot also gives new meaning to avant-garde, spinning off its axis before getting to the 10-minute mark.”
Escaping MP3s’ ‘Alien Digital Gloss’ With Books On Vinyl
“The Underwood discs, scheduled to appear twice a year, [represent] part of the growing resistance to the dematerialisation of art. By emphasising tactility, scarcity (each issue is limited to 1,000 copies) and physical beauty, it offers something that can’t be digitally replicated.”
Animation In Technicolor — And Made By It, Too
Aiming “to adapt to the digital revolution that is reshaping Hollywood and evolve from a provider of back-office services to the studios into a creator of content,” film processing company Technicolor, the “world’s largest producer of DVDs, is venturing into an improbable new business of producing animated TV series.”
Govt. Promises Funding To Upgrade Sydney Opera House
“$152 million to create underground truck access and new scenery lifts for the Opera Theatre will be confirmed in tonight’s NSW state budget. The work will take about three years to complete and performances will continue uninterrupted.”
Sydney Opera House, Safety Hazard
“Anyone who spends any time at the Opera House and here on the forecourt is aware of the multiple incidents that happen here on a daily basis,” Opera House CEO Richard Evans said. “There have been 200 reported incidents, many of which have necessitated ambulances coming … many of these people are tourists, and then ended up getting flown home. It’s really not a great situation.”
Love Story, The Musical (Tissues For Sale In The Foyer)
“[H]owever lethally misleading the famous line about love meaning never having to say you’re sorry, the story has legs. Mawkishness is counteracted by the timeless theme of defiant youth and the astringent stroppiness of the working-class heroine Jenny Cavilleri, taking on her preppy boy-man and slapping him about verbally until he grows up.”