Academy Award winner Jane Fonda will return to Broadway for the first time in 46 years. Fonda will star in “33 Variations,” a play by Moises Kaufman about a present-day musicologist and her study of Beethoven’s fascination with a particular piece of music. The play, which is being directed by Kaufman, will feature an on-stage pianist and is described as “a feast for the senses and the spirit.”
“I am very excited about being in Moises’ new play,” Fonda said in a statement. “I can’t wait to get back on stage with him in this role that I understand so well. It’s been 40-some years.”
Fonda made her Broadway debut in 1960 in the play “There Was a Little Girl,” for which she earned a Tony Award nomination. Her last appearance on Broadway was in the 1963 drama “Strange Interlude.”
“33 Variations” will open this winter at a theater and date to be determined.
Source: Broadway.com
Christine Ebersole will play ghostly Elvira in the spring 2009 Broadway revival of Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit”. The Tony Award-winning actress, who played dual roles in the musical “Grey Gardens”, will be joined by four-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury as psychic Madame Arcati and film star Rupert Everett, who will be making his Broadway debut playing the part of Elvira’s former husband, Charles Condomine.
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Bebe Neuwirth ( Lilith on Cheers and Frasier ), behind me at the checkout line of my neighborhood Food Emporium. She was seemingly enthralled by the cover of a magazine on the checkout rack, a tabloid perhaps. Among her food items: a box of Ritz crackers and Oreos. Bebe is currently starring in the revival of Chicago on Broadway.
Seems Broadway legend Carol Channing may not be as gay-friendly as she would have her gay fans believe. In a recent interview with The Gay People’s Chronicle, the 85-year-old Channing made some less than friendly comments in regards to her predominantly gay fan base.
When asked if she ever thought about why she had such a large gay following, Ms Channing stated “I don’t think about them. I’m grateful that they seem to like me. They’re terribly loyal to me. But I’m knee-deep in the Bible and you know what it says about that.”
Asked if she thought the things gay people are fighting for are important, she commented “I don’t think about it. If they can’t take care of their own problems, why should I bother. It’s not my problem.”
Channing’s publicist Harlan Boll later stated Ms. Channing did not know she was speaking with a gay publication, even though the interviewer identified himself as being from “The GAY People’s Chronicle”. he went on to say “she had gotten into another gay media fracas a month ago over things she said about gay marriage versus civil unions”.
It goes without saying Channing’s remarks have sent ripples through the gay community.
Source: The Gay People’s Chronicle
After enjoying an extended, sold out run off-Broadway at the Playwrights Horizon theatre, Grey Gardens, the critically acclaimed musical about real life mother and daughter eccentrics Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier, transfers to the Walter Kerr Theater on Broadway this fall.
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Julia Roberts ( wearing some really fugly “sensible” shoes ) greets fans outside the Jacobs Theater where she’s currently starring in her Broadway debut “Three Days Of Rain”.
Page Six reports Lee Radziwill “bolted” out of Tuesday’s night’s opening preview of “Grey Gardens” after the first act, when she “witnessed a little girl onstage playing a pre-pubescent version of herself, singing a song called “Being Bouvier” and expressing a wish to someday marry a prince.”
Among the audience members who attended the critically acclaimed musical adaptation of the Maysles Brothers 1975 documenatry of the same name, were fabled journalist Ben Bradlee and his wife Sally Quinn, who bought the historic East Hampton estate 25 years ago.
Also there was Albert Maysles himself, who along with his brother David Maysles, made the now cult classic documentary about the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.