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Natasha Richardson, Christine Baranski and Vanessa Redgrave have signed on to perform at a benefit concert reading of "A Little Night Music" in New York. Also slated to take part in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Jan. 12 gala fundraiser, featuring a reading of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning musical with a 27-member orchestra, are Victor Garber, Laura Benanti, Marc Kudisch and Steven Pasquale. Additional cast members will be announced shortly, the company said. The...
By Everett Evans, Houston Chronicle Jul. 17--Broadway's looking back in glory and forward in promise. That's the view from the Great White Way in summer 2008, especially regarding that beleaguered yet beloved art form, the American musical. The 2007-08 season's top triumphs in the musical field -- as reflected in last month's Tony Awards -- are Lincoln Center Theater's definitive revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic South Pacific, winner of seven Tonys including best...
By Lawson Taitte, The Dallas Morning News Jun. 16--There was nary a surprise in sight at the 2008 Tony Awards -- which was great news for the six favored nominees with Dallas connections, all of whom won handily. It was an enchanted evening for the Lincoln Center production of South Pacific. It picked up the most prizes -- seven, including best musical revival -- in Broadway's annual celebration of the best on the Great White Way, held Sunday at Radio City Music Hall. Dallas native...
NEW YORK _ Producers of tonight's Tony Award telecast (8 to 11 EDT on CBS) are planning, somehow, to sell Broadway with scenes from 13 musicals _ including the two biggies, "The Little Mermaid" and "Young Frankenstein," which got no major nominations and, traditionally, would get no national face time. We can only imagine how the mass marketing will slant coverage away from a season most notable for an astonishing number of serious plays and for the triumph of two unconventional young...
