With Funny Girl heading back to Broadway, we are taking a look at all Divas past and present who warned us not to rain on their parade. Which is Your Favorite?
Original Diva
Dreamgirl Parade
Gleefully Yours
Wicked Rain
Surrey With a Fringe On Top
Tickets are still available, but running out. Here are three more shows we think you’ll like. Go to www.fringenyc.org for more information
Veritas
Ryan J. Davis, Stan Richardson, and Nathan Vernon
Writer: Stan Richardson
Director: Ryan J. Davis
Inspired by true events, VERITAS is the story of a group of young men at Harvard in 1920 whose promising futures fell prey to Harvard’s “Secret Court”: a gay witch-hunt conducted by school administration to purge Harvard of all homosexuality.
When Last We Flew
DRD Theatricals & Eric Louie
Writer: Harrison David Rivers
Director: Colette Robert
After stealing his library’s only copy of Angels in America, misfit teenager Paul begins reading and discovers that his dull Midwestern life is about to take flight. WHEN LAST WE FLEW was developed at Lincoln Center and Sundance Theater Lab.
Dear Harvey
Diversionary Theatre
Writer: Patricia Loughrey, Music by Thomas Hodges
Stories of Harvey Milk – the people he knew, the lives he changed. Intimate, surprising stories based on interviews with Harvey’s nephew Stuart Milk, Harvey’s campaign manager Anne Kronenberg, AIDS Quilt founder Cleve Jones and other friends and activists.
More at The Fringe…
Hopefully, you’ve had the chance to see many of these great new works. For dates and times please visit each show’s website or go to www.fringenyc.org. Here are some more we are rooting for:
Ah Kua Show
Talk Sense Pte. Ltd.
Writer: Leona Lo
Director: Richard Chua
Definition: noun.& adj.: derog. 1)effeminate man 2)male transvestite. WRONG! Tender, raw, amusing, naughty, nice –the voice of Southeast Asia’s transgender women (formerly typecast as ladyboy showgirls) sets the record straight. We may be ladies – we are definitely not boys!
BUNKED!: A New Musical
Proctor and Kunin Productions
Writer: Alaina Kunin and Bradford Proctor, Music by Bradford Proctor
Director: Seth Sikes
Sponsored by LogoTV, Bunked features the exploits of five summer camp counselors as they embark on their first taste of adulthood. Fatal secrets, impassioned jealousy and triangular love trysts entangle the counselors as the bittersweet end of summer approaches.
PICTURE INCOMPLETE, a new musical! Starring Trent Armand Kendall
Onemoe Music, LLC in association w/originally produced at David A. Straz Jr. Center formerly TBPAC
Writer: Trent Armand Kendall (book & addt’l lyrics), Michael Polese (music & lyrics), Adam Klipple (Music Director & Arrangements)
Director: Greg Ganakas
Choreographer: Greg Ganakas with Trent Armand Kendall
PICTURE INCOMPLETE is the laugh out loud, soul-stirring, foot-stomping original One-Man Musical! Meet colorful characters as one New Yorker on the edge journeys through an insightful, but comedic full blown midlife crisis “FUNNKY, FIERCE & FABULOUS!” NEXT MAGAZINE
The New York International Fringe Festival Starts Today
It’s here, everyone’s favorite downtown festival, The New York International Fringe Festival (FringNYC) featuring over 1200 performances from over 200 companies worldwide. With the overwhelming choices, we will be selecting a few to keep your eye on. Purchase a very affordable ticket, and find dates and times by visiting the show pages at http://www.fringenyc.org/
Just In Time – The Judy Holliday Story
Writer: Bob Sloan
Director: Bob Sloan
A fast-paced romp through the life of the Original Dumb Blond and one of the funniest actresses of all time. Featuring such exalted cohorts as Orson Welles, Katherine Hepburn, Comden & Green, Gloria Swanson, and Jimmy Durante.
open heart
joes & co.
Writer: Joe Salvatore
Director: Joe Salvatore
What’s it like in a gay relationship that allows for outside sexual partners? Find out through the actual words of men who shared their personal stories and thoughts on monogamy, fidelity, sex, and open relationships.
Picking Palin
A Family Affair Films
Writer: Stephen Padilla
Director: Stephen Padilla
How did a certain first-term, little-known governor from Alaska become the 2008 Republican Vice Presidential candidate? The better question is why. Find out in this FringeNYC World Premiere.
Julius Caesar: The Death of a Dictator
The Gangbusters Theatre Company
Writer: Based on text by William Shakespeare, Adapted by Orson Welles, with Music by Metallica
Director: Leon Shanglebee
Choreographer: Nicole Langevin
The Gangbusters Theatre Company bring their trademark Speed & Violence to Orson Welles’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece. Set in a militant future and scored to the music of Metallica, this one-act production will punch you in the throat.
We will be featuring more shows next week!
Videos We Like
A Little Night Music’s Elaine Stritch is a Sondheim Broadway Legend. Take a look at this great behind-the-scenes footage of the recording of Ladies Who Lunch from Company, 30 years ago.
We’re Just Saying
A Look at Broadway’s Ups and Downs during the week
Broadway press covered the story that Diana DeGarmo (of American Idol fame) tweeted about starring in the 9 to 5 tour, prior to any press release of that announcement. In other confirmed news, Diana is enjoying Lipton Soup, Ben & Jerry’s and Listening to Parrish-Hundley’s new song on Myspace. Alert the press!
A new HBO series called The Miraculous Year, according to press notes is about a “manipulative, self-indulgent and wildly self-destructive Broadway composer.” Stephen Sondheim, whom the character is thought to resemble, has not commented publicly. Maybe that’s because the show’s name was changed from its original title, Everyday a Little Death.
Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party began its limited run on Theater Row this week. If this show transfers, we hope The Booth Theatre is not an option.
Nintendo Wii’s Dance on Broadway game teaches adults and kids alike how to Dance to popular Broadway songs like All That Jazz, You Can’t Stop the Beat, and Fame, just like they do on stage. For an extra $2.95 Hunter Foster will come to your home and teach you himself.
Videos We Like
They may not be on Broadway….yet… But these amateur YouTube stars are sure to be on their way. Here are just a few that we think you’ll like
Emily Kay Shrader sings “Defying Gravity” from Wicked
Sam Tsui sings Bryan Adams’s “Heaven”
Manny Garcia sings “Home” from The Wiz
Are you the next Broadway star? Send us your video link at contact@iBroadway.net and we may feature it here on the iBroadway blog!
We’re Just Saying
A Look at Broadway’s Ups and Downs during the week
Patti LaBelle is likely to replace Lillias White for a short while in FELA! on Broadway, while Lillias is away. Which leads us to ask, Gichie, Gichie, ya ya, yeah yeah?
Daniel Radcliffe is set to star in the second revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Radcliffe is not new to the NYC stage. Let’s just hope that this time succeeding in business does not involve blinding horses in the nude.
Open casting will take place for Puppetry of the Penis on July 27th. Actors are asked to come prepared with “genital arts” such as the hamburger, wristwatch, and lockness monster. We miss the days when your headshot, resume, and 16 bars were all you needed to get the part.
More superstars have been cast or rumored to appear in upcoming plays including Oscar Winner Halle Berry, Oscar Nominees Samuel L. Jackson and Will Smith, and Jada Pinkett Smith. Hunter Foster is gonna be pissed.
We’re Just Saying
A Look at Broadway’s Ups and Downs during the week
Hunter Foster started a Facebook campaign to “Give The Tonys Back to Broadway!” inspiring both praise and insult to many of this year’s winners. Debaters on both sides had one thing to say, who is Hunter Foster?
Both the shows Nunsense and Broadway Bares celebrated anniversaries this year, 25 and 20 years respectively. Together, these summer shows have been able to celebrate 45 years of Dancers with Naughty Habits.
Leap of Faith casting was announced with Raul Esparza and Legendary Film and TV Star Brooke Shields, to which Hunter Foster announced, that’s ok with me.
Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein have teamed up to write a musical based on the British Film, Kinky Boots, about a drag queen that helps save his father’s shoe factory. What? Did you expect those two to write a musical about a poor Midwestern family struggling in a bad economy?
After many entrances and exits, the remake of the film Footloose is a-go with a new up and coming star, Kenny Wormald, to which we wonder, how Six Degrees of Kenny Wormald sounds to the next generation?