News - Joe DiPietro
Memphis, winner of four Tony Awards® including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book and Best Orchestrations, comes to THIRTEEN's Great Performances Friday, February 24 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). Featuring the original Broadway cast, including Tony nominees Chad Kimball and Montego Glover, as well as Derrick Baskin, J. Bernard Calloway, James Monroe Iglehart, Michael McGrath and Cass Morgan. Memphis
A Broadway revival of the musical Babes in Arms, starring actress and former TV talk show host Rosie O'Donnell, is in the works. Variety.com said Randy Skinner is attached to direct and choreograph the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart show, which has a new book by Joe DiPietro. O'Donnell has previously
By JIM BECKERMAN Not all monsters come from Transylvania. Some monsters come from New Jersey. In fact, no monster called the Toxic Avenger could really come from anywhere else.
By ROGER McBAIN Courier & Press staff writer 464-7520 or mcbainr@courierpress.com The theater marquee telegraphs the title, as well as the topic and the tone of Evansville Civic Theatre's first show of the season.
