Back in January you couldn’t watch any entertainment “news” show or read any Arts & Culture section of a newspaper without seeing something about the death of Broadway. There were so many shows closing all at once that the imminent
I’m tempted to brag about how close I was with my Tony Award Predictions and make that the biggest story coming out of Sunday’s Tony Award Show, but instead I’ll stay humble. From the perspective of the Broadway industry (the
Here at Big Hollywood, the film folks get all the fun by previewing film trailers in their posts. But, since the upcoming “Nine” is a film adaptation of a Broadway musical, I’m claiming this one! [youtube 55pDYPtL4g4 nolink] Directed by
Join Gary Graham, Tim Slagle, Moxie X. Cathedra, Stage Right and many more as Big Hollywood live-blogs the West Coast feed of the Tony Awards. Tonight, 8:00 PM Pacific Time, Telecast on CBS. It’s often said during Oscar season that
Pop some popcorn, tune in to CBS, and fire up the laptop… We’ll be live-blogging the Tony Awards during the West Coast tape delay starting at 8:00 PM Pacific Time, tomorrow night! Come and join me, Stage Right and a
– Summer, 1987: In a stunning and unprecedented move, President Walter Mondale has stepped in and saved the Broadway musical “42nd Street” from eviction at the Majestic Theatre. The theatre’s owners had earlier announced that they were using a standard
Here’s something you don’t hear from bloggers very often: “I was wrong!” Back in January I wrote about the announced revival of “Ragtime” at the Kennedy Center. I described the extreme leftist views of E. L. Doctorow upon whose novel
I’ve already risked losing any credibility I might have in the theatre community by defending Andrew Lloyd Webber and his conservative politics, but I have to go back to that well once again because Webber has written an op-ed piece
In what is becoming an annual rite of self-destruction, Broadway has once again chosen to snub many of the big-name stars who have put their film careers on hold to trudge onto the boards eight times a week, take a
1984’s landmark musical “Sunday in the Park with George” was one of the most polarizing and debated shows to reach Broadway in the past thirty years. It marked Stephen Sondheim’s first collaboration outside of the watchful artistic and commercial gaze
Part 1 of what I half-jokingly called my “Manifesto.” In a fiscal conservative’s utopian dreamworld, there would be no federal funding for the arts (or so many other government agencies or programs for that matter). This has been our position
March 16 will mark the 40th anniversary of the Broadway opening of “1776.” Written by Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone, it went on to run for 1,217 performances. It’s hard to believe that forty years ago it was still popular
There is a problem with the American Theatre. The vast majority of plays produced on our stages are intimidating, antagonistic and often downright offensive to 50% of Americans. I know this because I am one of them and I see
for the Tony Awards in June…. right?
and let him know that President Obama is AGAINST same-sex marriage? Will someone from the Hollywood Press Corps bring this up to him?
Shame on you people who did not want to change the millenia old definition of marriage… SHAME! You all deserve to lose your jobs! http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sright/2009/01/09/im-spartacus-no-im-scott-eckern/
… just sayin’
That looks like a back stage.. Why not just turn the worklights on and show everyone the backstage?
But, have you noticed how the slear facades on all of the railings in the interior of the Kodak match the podium and elements of the set design? That’s right they have replaced all of the railings and partitions in
FOr these exterior shots, how did they clear away the guy in the spangled thong who roller blades up and down the sidewalk in front of the Kodak…? Oh, that’s right, Gutfeld is here with us.
it’s 7:15 and already my children have seen men kissing on the lips, an award winner saying his mother was pressured not to love him because he is gay, and now a midget challenge their belief in God. Thank you
yeah yeah … it’s all about you Bill. Goog Lord how did this half-talent get up on the stage?
I’ll say it again… it’s time for you to write a rock musical!
That means Phoebe might be there….. Oh…. Phoebe….. Phoebe……
I think I’ll take this opportunity to re-watch that Mickey Rourke video Mason posted earlier today.
