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What's it like seeing Hugh Jackman play your collaborator Peter Allen on Broadway in The Boy from...
...this was not Broadway, where she played feisty, fun-loving Betty Rizzo in a Grease revival. This was not her G-rated TV chat show, which ran for six years and won her the sobriquet the Queen of Nice from Newsweek. This was New York State Supreme Court, and last week O'Donnell was testifying as the defendant in a $100 million suit brought by Gruner+Jahr USA, publisher of the short-lived monthly Rosie. The charge, as articulated by G+J CEO Daniel Brewster Jr.: she "walked away from her obligations" after a battle over editorial control...
Tales of O'Donnell's taut temper and bossy style--later reported in rancorous rehearsals for the Broadway version she is producing of the Boy George musical Taboo, scheduled to open this week--went public, further diminishing her likability quotient. Her LQ suffered another jolt last week when Cindy Spengler, G+J's chief marketing officer, testified that O'Donnell had called her a liar and added, "Liars get cancer." (Spengler is a breast-cancer survivor; Rosie later confirmed and apologized for the slur.) By the end, G+J had to be wondering, Why didn't we just start...
Thursday night, after a hard day in court, O'Donnell was on a more congenial stage--at Broadway's Plymouth Theater, to introduce the glittery, tres gay Taboo. "I don't know if you heard," she deadpanned, "but I have this little court case ..." From a front row, Donny Osmond bounded up, hugged her and proclaimed, "We love you, we support you, and we wish you all the best." For a moment, the years and tears dissolved into a time when Rosie O'Donnell was America's favorite big sister. --Reported by Andrea Sachs/New York
...Tony Award-winning Broadway musical makes its Harvard debut. Set against the colorful backdrop of World War II-era Hawaii, South Pacific confronts themes of love, fear and prejudice. Through Nov. 21. 8 p.m. Tickets $10; $5 students and seniors. Agassiz Theatre...