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Newcomers to Broadway usually need a veteran hand to guide them along. Harry Connick Jr., like Mel Brooks, has grabbed hold of the best. The jazz singer, pianist and sometime actor is making his theater debut as the composer and lyricist for the new musical Thou Shalt Not. The show's director--and the reason it's the fall's most eagerly anticipated musical--is Broadway's current miracle maker, director-choreographer Susan Stroman, who won a Tony for staging Brooks' The Producers. It's not hard to see what attracted Connick to the show: it's an adaptation...
DIED. KIM STANLEY, 76, protean Broadway actress, most admired for portraying a dizzying range of characters--a tomboy kid sister in William Inge's Picnic (1953), a nightclub chanteuse in Bus Stop (1955)--with notable humor and pathos; in Santa Fe, N.M. Stanley also made a few scattered but striking film appearances, earning Academy Award nominations for her roles as a deranged psychic in Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and the tyrannical mother in Frances...
...whose performances in 70 feature films (from Singin' in the Rain to Nutty Professor II), hundreds of television shows and numerous plays made her trademark jowls and agitated expression unforgettable; of lung cancer; in New York City. She gave her final, Tony-nominated performance in The Full Monty on Broadway, finishing two shows just five days before her death...
...website for "The Mercury Theatre on the Air" has not the live performance but the dress rehearsal of the September 11, 1938 show, "Caesar," a shortened version of the company?s Broadway hit, now with radio commentator H.V. Kaltenborn barking out Suetonius? chronicle of the death of a dictator. CBS had renewed the Mercury?s contract for 13 more weeks; it would now be opposite Charlie McCarthy on Sundays at 8. Welles had an over-lapping commitment: "The Shadow" was on from 5:30 to 6:00. So he had less than two hours to get to the CBS studio...
...cornfields or gardens, or made of wood, stone, painted brick or canvas. They are showing up in hospitals, parks, prisons and schools. Some couples are getting married within ceremonial labyrinths. A new outdoor labyrinth at New York City's Trinity Church, at the frenetic intersection of Wall Street and Broadway, is popular with traders from the nearby stock exchanges. A Washington artist had a labyrinth installed on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol for part of the past Lenten season...