Archive for May, 2007
Photo Tease: Mimi’s Got a New Stylist!
May 30, 2007 9:06 pmAmerican Idol Season One favorite Tamyra Gray celebrated my birthday yesterday by making her Rent debut as Mimi at the Nederlander Theatre. With a Liza ‘do, racoon eyes and cover-up duds, she debuted a radical new look for everyone’s favorite heroin addict, getting fans buzzing from the second she stepped onstage. Check out these exclusive backstage shots of her first night in bohemia. Photos by Bruce Glikas for Broadway.com
Big Laughs for Little Edie
2:13 pm
Last night at Grey Gardens the following juicy line got a nice big laugh:
“They can get you in East Hampton for wearing red shoes on a Thursday. They can get you for almost anything. It’s a mean, nasty Republican town.”
Why, you ask? The First Lady herself, Laura Bush, was in the house! Unfortunately, she didn’t hang around to say hi to the two Tony nominated stars of the show, Christine Ebersole and Mary Louise Wilson. But we got this quick shot of her fleeing with daughter Jenna (sister Barbara got away before we snapped!) Photo by Bruce Glikas for Broadway.com…
Puttin’ It On in Times Square
May 24, 2007 11:55 am
I’m starting to get excited!
Photo Tease: Bobby Baby on the Wall
May 22, 2007 11:06 pmFresh off his Drama Desk Award win on Sunday night, Company star Raul Esparza received a possibly even greater honor earlier today: his very own Sardi’s caricature. At a private reception at the legendary theater district eatery, Esparza got choked up as he addressed his friends and family…while also noticing a family resemblance: “It looks like my father!” he laughed. Photos by Bruce Glikas for Broadway.com
Raul & Raul.
Esparza shows off his new likeness to Company co-stars in attendance.
Krieger & Shanley’s Poetry
8:06 pmOn Monday night, an eclectic group of performers took part in a reading of Romantic Poetry: The Musicale for the LAByrinth Theatre Company. The show, which will premiere at New York Stage & Film upstate this summer is a “soaring love song to impossible romance” according to its creators, playwright John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck, Doubt) and composer Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls, Side Show).
Krieger and Shanley. Photo by Bruce Glikas for Broadway.com
Shanley (lower left) poses with the cast of the benefit, including John Ortiz, Carlo Alban, Andy Karl, Mark-Linn Baker, Idina Menzel, Chris MGarry, Kim Director, Anastasia Barzee and Orfeh. Photo by Monique Carboni
Photo Tease: One for the Band
8:42 am
Max Crumm, who will soon start rehearsals to play Danny Zuko in Grease, got in on the act with the singing/dancing/tooting stars of Broadway’s Company the other night. Left to right: Kristin Huffman, Raul Esparza, Crumm, Kelly Jeanne Grant, Robert Cunningham and Amy Justman. Photos by Bruce Glikas for Broadway.com
Photo Tease: Outstanding!
May 21, 2007 2:45 amLast night, the Drama Desk gave out their annual awards, an offbeat event that fills up the auditorium of New York’s Laguardia High School of the Performing Arts with hundreds of Broadway’s best. Below are some photos of the winners by Broadway.com’s Bruce Glikas.
Legally Blind: Hostess Kristin Chenoweth with special guest Taco.
Donna Murphy (Outstanding Actress in a Musical winner for LoveMusik) and Frank Langella (Outstanding Actor in a Play for Frost/Nixon).
Raul Esparza (Outstanding Actor in a Musical for Company) and Audra McDonald (Outstanding Actress in a Musical for 110 in the Shade).
Duncan Sheik (Outstanding Music winner for Spring Awakening) and Steven Sater (Outstanding Lyrics winner for Spring Awakening.)
Vanessa Redgrave (Outstanding Solo Performance winner for The Year of Magical Thinking) and Boyd Gaines (Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play for Journey’s End).
Debra Monk (Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical for Curtains) and Gavin Lee (Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for Mary Poppins).
Eve Best (Outstanding Actress in a Play winner for A Moon for the Misbegotten) and Martha Plimpton (Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play winner for The Coast of Utopia).
At right, Michael Mayer (Outstanding Director of a Musical for Spring Awakening) celebrates with some of the young stars of Outstanding Musical Spring Awakening: Remy Zaken, Lilli Cooper, Lea Michele and Phoebe Strole.
Photo Tease: Mama Oprah Visits Purple
May 20, 2007 12:27 amOprah was in the house—the Broadway Theatre, that is—last night to check in on her musical The Color Purple and its new leading lady, Fantasia Barrino. Not that Miss Fantasia needs any checking up on… box office sales are through the roof and the critics have been raving. Still, who wouldn’t want a little one-on-one time with O? Exclusive photos by Bruce Glikas for Broadway.com
Fantasia and Oprah.
Oprah poses with the entire Purple family.
Oprah poses with her BFF Gayle King (left) and Fantasia.
Another star in the house: Jane Fonda gets waterworks from Fantasia.
Photo Tease: Luker’s Guido Drops In
May 19, 2007 9:22 pm
ER star (and Broadway vet) John Stamos met up with the fairer-skinned stars of Mary Poppins after today’s matinee. The connection? A few years back, Stamos romanced Poppins Tony nominee Rebecca Luker (right) when he replaced Antonio Banderas in the revival of Nine. Photo by Bruce Glikas for Broadway.com
Every year, the Tony brunch atop the Marriott Marquis Hotel is a chance to mingle and munch. Here’s a tease of some of the snaps we got at Wednesday’s starry, starry affair. Photos by Bruce Glikas for Broadway.com
Hollywood legends Angela Lansbury and Christopher Plummer. She’s nominated for Deuce, he for Inherit the Wind.
Two women making the Best Leading Actress in a Musical race very exciting this year: Christine Ebersole of Grey Gardens and Audra McDonald of 110 in the Shade.
Legally Blonde standout Orfeh, celebrating her first Tony nomination, meets up with downtown legends Justin Bond and Kenny Mellman, nominated for Kiki & Herb Alive on Broadway.
A year ago, 2007 Tony nominees Jennifer Ehle (The Coast of Utopia) and Liev Schreiber (Talk Radio), were gearing up to play the Macbeths in Central Park.
Coram Boy’s nominated Jan Maxwell catches up with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang co-star Raul Esparza, a Tony frontrunner for Company.
Spring Awakening’s two nominated stars, John Gallagher Jr. and Jonathan Groff, sandwich fellow nominee Laura Bell Bundy, Legally Blonde’s Elle Woods.
Redheads Julie White and Swoosie Kurtz woke up Tony nominees on Tuesday despite the fact that their shows (The Little Dog Laughed and Heartbreak House, respectively) ended their Broadway runs many months back.
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