Michael Friedman, a theatrical songwriter who died in 2017 at just 41, left behind a chorus of grieving friends and family. He also left a lot of music.
NEW YORK â Jonathan Groff, now starring as a hapless flower shop clerk in an off-Broadway revival of âLittle Shop of Horrors,â has a tiny confession to make.
NEW YORK â The first day of rehearsal on Broadway usually goes like this: Circle up. Make introductions. Offer thanks, express optimism, maybe crack a joke. Clear the room of onlookers, and off you go.
LONDON â Jack Thorne has no shortage of ways to characterize his own eccentricity. âIâm a slightly deranged adult.â âIâm not very good with other people.â âIâm mental.â
NEW YORK â After the talk of taxi ads and touring, what to do about scalpers and whatâs up with the cast recording and how much will the investors be repaid, the conversation turned, improbably, to artificial flowers.
Faye Dunaway, the Oscar-winning actress whose reputation has long been dogged by suggestions that she is difficult to work with, has been fired by the producers of a one-woman show that had been planning to come to Broadway this season.
NEW YORK â Jonathan Groff has never been in a production of âLittle Shop of Horrors.â Unless, that is, you count the hours in the kitchen of his childhood home, belting out âSkid Row.â
NEW YORK â Nightly at Broadwayâs Walter Kerr Theater, Hades, the king of an industrial underworld, boasts of his âpower chords and power linesâ before bellowing, as the lights flash, âI conduct the Electric City!â
NEW YORK â Tracy Letts is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (âAugust: Osage Countyâ) and a Tony Award winning actor (âWhoâs Afraid of Virginia Woolfâ).
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