Many stars made themselves known this week – for shows we’ll be seeing after summer is over. One Broadway revival alone featured a rotating cast of nine little-seen celebrities including Carol Burnett, Mia Farrow and Diana Rigg. We found out who the Peter Pan will be on NBC. And we were awash in preview pictures – of An American in Paris, Into The Woods, even The Real Thing with Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal:
(There seems to be interest in this show; look how many people Retweeted the photograph.)
But it wasn’t all just future promise. Several (good!) shows opened this week: Sex with Strangers, Between Riverside and Crazy, and the Lightning Thief.
Fiddler on the Roof’s lyricist Sheldon Harnick, 90, reminisces as the show turns 50.
“People told us we were brave to be doing a very specifically Jewish show. I used to tell them I spent three years in World War II in the army fighting Hitler. Maybe that was brave: this was just Broadway.”
An actress for eight years, Ali Ewoldt earns as much as $100,000 some years and less than $30,000 other years. Because of this uncertainty, she works as a babysitter
Love Letters, the two-hander by A.R. Gurney returns to Broadway with a starry rotating cast
Cast Schedule:
Saturday, September 13, 2014, through Friday, October 10, 2014
Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow
Saturday, October 11, 2014, through Friday, November 7, 2014
Carol Burnett and Brian Dennehy
Saturday, November 8, 2014 through Friday, December 5, 2014
Alan Alda and Candice Bergen
Saturday, December 6, 2014, through Friday, January 9, 2015
Stacy Keach and Diana Rigg
Saturday, January 10, 2015, through Sunday, February 1, 2015
Anjelica Huston and Martin Sheen
It isn’t easy being 12 years old and a demigod with dyslexia. Percy Jackson may be the son of Poseidon, but that hasn’t stopped him from getting expelled from school after school. Jackson began life as the hero of a series of bedtime stories that Rick Riordan created for his son, then became the protagonist on the pages of Riordan’s bestselling novels, and graduated (or was demoted?) to screen time in a couple of blockbuster movies starring Logan Lerman. Now he is on the stage of the Lucille Lortel Theater, in a free, hour-long musical for children, alongside his best best friend Grover, a satyr (half man, half goat), and his rival/love interest Annabeth, the “half-blood” daughter of the goddess Athena.
Fiddler on the Roof’s lyricist Sheldon Harnick, 90, reminisces as the show turns 50.
