Yahoo! News: Arts Fri, 09 May 2008 21:03:31 GMT

Keeping Score (Playbill)   - Playbill - Music director Rob Fisher says Ralph Burns was one of the reasons why it was easy for Encores! to say "yes, yes" to No, No, Nanette. Hitchcock's "The 39 Steps" Appears on TCM (Playbill)   - Playbill - Fans of Broadway's new comedy The 39 Steps can view the show's source material - Hitchcock's old black-and-white picture - at home on May 12. First Preview of 'Saved' Is Lost; Musical Will Start One Day Later (Playbill)   - Playbill - More tech time is necessary to launch the world premiere of the musical Saved, so the first preview on May 9 has been canceled, Playwrights Horizons announced. PLAYBILL.COM'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW: One and Done (Playbill)   - Playbill - I've never been one to make Tony Award predictions. To me, it's a game for chumps, bloviators and people with a penchant for embarrassing themselves publicly. (Sounds like a fair characterization of drama critics, actually.) But I'll make an exception here and put forth one prediction about the 2008 nominations, which will be announced on May 13: Glory Days will not be among the honored. Elizabeth Ashley Will Remember Tennessee Williams at NYC 'Eccentricities' Chat (Playbill)   - Playbill - Tony Award winner Elizabeth Ashley, a veteran actress of plays by the late Tennessee Williams, will talk about his life and work in a post-show chat at the May 10 matinee performance of The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, at the Clurman Theatre in New York City. 'Schmucks, Scorched, Hysteria' and Stoppard to Play Philly's Wilma (Playbill)   - Playbill - The Wilma Theater's co-artistic directors Blanka Zizka and Jiri Zizka announced May 8 that Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll - a play set partly in the Zizkas' homeland - would open their 2008-09 season in Philadelphia. Keenan-Bolger Is Among the 'Saved' in Musical About Devout High Schoolers (Playbill)   - Playbill - There is enough pressure in high school without the Lord appearing to you and telling you what to do - even if he does provide a divine setup for a song. That's the way it goes in the new affectionate, coming-of-age musical, Saved, getting its world premiere May 9 at Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons. Prior to Broadway, Musical '13' Comes of Age at Goodspeed (Playbill)   - Playbill - The Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, CT, will be teaming with teen spirit starting May 9, when the new musical 13, with music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, makes its East Coast premiere. PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: 'Top Girls' - Tony Girls? (Playbill)   - Playbill - Certainly - and suddenly! - Tony nominators have a super-arduous weekend of deliberation ahead of them, thanks to the 11th hour arrival of Top Girls May 7 at the Biltmore, serving up a mother lode of prime actress contenders for consideration. John F. Altieri, 'Jersey Boys' National Tour Actor, Dies at 38 (Playbill)   - Playbill - Actor John F. Altieri, who most recently performed the role of Bob Crewe in the first national tour of Jersey Boys, died of pneumonia on May 4 in Las Vegas, NV. He was 38. Eskelson, Moss-Bachrach, McNamara and Waterston to Star in Berman's 'Perfect Couple' (Playbill)   - Playbill - Brooke Berman's A Perfect Couple, a play about a turbulent weekend for three longtime friends, will get its world premiere Off-Broadway starting June 9, in a staging by Women's Expressive Theater (WET). MTC Gets 5,00 Grant to Foster New Plays (Playbill)   - Playbill - Manhattan Theatre Club announced that Bank of America has granted the company $225,000 to support a new playwright commissioning program. Rock On! After Hit Toronto Run, 'We Will Rock You' Will Close - and Re-Open (Playbill)   - Playbill - We Will Rock You will live again in Toronto, following a 61-week run that ends May 11 at the Canon Theatre. Producer David Mirvish announced May 7 that the show will resume July 16 at Toronto's Panasonic Theatre. Mirvish Plans to Buy Toronto's Canon and Panasonic Theatres; Dancap Bristles (Playbill)   - Playbill - Toronto producer David Mirvish is adding some real estate to his Ontario theatre empire. The man who already owns and programs the Princess of Wales and the Royal Alexandra Theatre has reached an agreement to purchase the Canon Theatre and the Panasonic Theatre. Dennis DeYoung's Revised 'Hunchback' Musical Premieres in Chicago (Playbill)   - Playbill - Come sail away - to Paris. Bailiwick Repertory Theatre's Chicago world-premiere production of rocker Dennis DeYoung's epic new musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame begins performances May 8. 'The 39 Steps', Broadway's Madcap Caper, Reopens at Cort (Playbill)   - Playbill - The tireless four performers who created a thickly populated world of intrigue in The 39 Steps earlier this year for The Roundabout Theatre Company resurfaced April 29 at Broadway's Cort Theatre for an open-ended run. The official opening of the commercial transfer is May 8. 'Romeo and Juliet', McAnuff's First Task as Stratford Artistic Director, Begins (Playbill)   - Playbill - Romeo and Juliet, Tony Award winner Des McAnuff's first production as artistic director at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, begins May 7 at the Ontario festival's flagship space - the Festival Theatre. New Broadway Musical 'Glory Days' Has Closed After One Performance (Playbill)   - Playbill - Glory Days, the new musical about four young men reuniting one year after high school, closed at Broadway's Circle in the Square May 6 following its opening-night performance, according to a production spokesperson. PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Christine Baranski (Playbill)   - Playbill - Television comedy mainstay Christine Baranski has not been neglecting the theatre in recent years. Casting Announced for Old Globe's Summer 'Pleasure' and 'Sight Unseen' (Playbill)   - Playbill - Patrick Page, late of The Old Globe's world-premiere production of Dancing in the Dark, will return there this summer to star in The Pleasure of His Company by Samuel Taylor and Cornelia Otis Skinner.