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...customers settle into their seats just before curtain time and hear a disembodied voice that warns members of the audience not to take photographs ... or phone calls. At the Neil Simon Theatre on New York's 52nd Street, as folks settle in to see the sassy, savvy, snazzy new Broadway musical "Hairspray," the announcer has a gentler way of telling the crowd to behave. He notes that the show "takes place in 1962, a time before there were cellular phones and beepers...
...just about the time when Broadway ceased to matter as a thriving popular art form. The 50s were the musical's last semi-golden age, the last decade of shows that are still lodged in the popular memory. "Guys and Dolls," "The King and I," "The Pajama Game," "Damn Yankees," "Bells Are Ringing," "My Fair Lady," "West Side Story," "The Music Man," "Gypsy," "The Sound of Music" - these were vital works of popular art, all quickly made into big-time movies. Revivals? Who needed revivals to get people humming tunes from the shows they'd just seen? Each of these...
...normally graces the stages of Broadway and the Hollywood screen—but last Friday, actor Mandy Patinkin simply relaxed in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. Patinkin, best known for his endearing roles as Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on “Chicago Hope” and Che Guevera in a Tony-award winning performance of Evita, spent two days at Harvard answering students’ questions and lending his expert advice in two master classes. While relating the ups and downs of his own path to success, Patinkin expressed a true desire...
Though Patinkin now seems the epitome of Broadway success, his opening remarks regarding his education in both the arts and academics revealed a truly self-made performer. Clad casually in jeans, sneakers and a button-down shirt, Patinkin first related his experience growing up on Chicago’s South Side as part of an observant Jewish family. As a child with dyslexia, Patinkin first discovered theater in a nearby youth center. Though initially “dragged there by this huge football player,” Patinkin fondly remembers the production of Carousel, as well as its director...
...Full Monty is really just a tease--the male strippers bare all at the end of the Broadway musical as blinding stage lights prevent the audience from seeing anything--but a well-traveled off-Broadway theatergoer these days is starting to feel like a voyeur in a Chelsea bathhouse. In just the past few months, we have had a naked Frankenstein's creature (Monster), a naked undercover cop (Blue Surge) and naked just about everybody (Mnemonic). Edie Falco and Stanley Tucci play a full-frontal nude scene at the start of the Broadway revival of Terrence McNally's Frankie...