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‘Paramour’ Lands On 42nd Street, One Small Step For Broadway, One Giant Leap For Cirque Du Soleil, Inc. – Review

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The lovestruck heart doesn’t merely leap in Paramour. It flips, flies, frolics, flits, flounces, trips to the moon on gossamer wings, beats like a boogie and jumps like a bean — everything exactly as one should expect from romance as filtered through the prism of Cirque du Soleil. Officially starting the 1016-2017 season, this is the show with which the Montreal-based global franchise plants its standard on Broadway, promising — and, in spades, delivering — a mashup of 42n… Read

‘Alice Through The Looking Glass’ Eyes Offshore Top Hat – Intl B.O. Preview

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There are a number of moving parts to the international box office this weekend with two new entries, and the second frame of last week's champ, X-Men: Apocalypse. The latest from Disney, Alice Through The Looking Glass, hits more than 50 territories offshore, including China on Friday, while Universal/Legendary's Warcraft boots up in 25 with France, Germany and Russia in the mix. XMA expands to Korea. Alice Through The Looking Glass is going day-and-date across most… Read

Broadway’s Miller Time Continues With Roundabout Revival Of ‘The Price’

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Broadway’s Arthur Miller revivalfest continues next season with the Roundabout Theatre Company production of Arthur Miller's 1968 drama The Price, directed by Steppenwolf co-founder Terry Kinney. Last seen on Broadway in 1999, the new staging will begin previews February 16, 2017 and open March 16 at the American Airlines Theatre for a limited engagement through May 7. When the Great Depression cost his family their fortune, Victor Franz gave up his dream of an education… Read

Tony Nominee George C. Wolfe On ‘Shuffle Along’ & The Problem Of Success – Deadline Q&A

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On the subject of success, George C. Wolfe has always been ambivalent. Wary. ”When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving, so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it,” he told me. “I came to New York to write and direct, and when I got here, a lot of my rage came out.” As it happens, he said that to me 30 years ago, shortly after the opening of his take-no-prisoners satire, The Colored Museum, at the Public Theater. In the three-decade interregnum, he… Read

‘The Fast And The Furious’ To Be Re-Released In Celebration Of Pic’s 15th Anniversary

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The Fast and the Furious, the film that started it all, will receive a limited release in about 1,500 theaters to celebrate the pic’s 15th anniversary on Wednesday, June 22. That’s the date when the Rob Cohen-directed movie opened in 2001. Universal made the news official this morning just as tickets are hitting the Fandango sales board. The Fast and the Furious was a surprise hit back in the summer 2001, starring a cast of largely unknowns. Prior to The Fast and the Furio… Read

Alamo Drafthouse Chief Tim League Shares Ideas For Gender-Neutral Restrooms At Austin Theater Location

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Alamo Drafthouse chief Tim League took to Facebook to discuss his concept and the architectural design for gender neutral restrooms at his theater chain’s upcoming Mueller location in Austin, Texas. League’s ideas come in the wake of a heated national debate over transgender rights in schools and public life. Close to two weeks ago, the Obama administration was embroiled in a legal standoff with North Carolina over its controversial House Bill 2, part of which has to do… Read

‘X-Men’ & ‘Alice’ To Boost Memorial Day Weekend After Last Year’s Holiday Apocalypse

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Franchises — big, strong four-quad ones — make all the difference over the Memorial Day weekend. While that might be a duh of a statement, consider how often studios have tried to launch original fare over the four-day holiday and flopped: Disney in 2010 with Prince Of Persia, or Warner Bros. in 2014 with Adam Sandler’s Blended. But not this time. After Disney and 20th Century Fox delivered some of the biggest duds at the Memorial Day box office last year with Tomorrowland… Read

Broadway’s ‘Tuck Everlasting’ Proves Mortal, Will Shutter On Sunday

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The Broadway cast of Tuck Everlasting got an early and unwelcome Memorial Day weekend gift this evening: They were told the musical will play its final performance on Sunday at 7:30 PM. It will have played 28 previews and 39 regular performances at the Shubert Organization's Broadhurst Theatre. The family-targeted show opened April 26 to mostly tepid reviews and failed to generate any box office heat. In the most recent week, Tuck sold $325.3K worth of tickets, well below… Read

‘Angels In America’ Opera, Hal Prince’s Staging Of ‘Candide’ Slated For Revived N.Y. City Opera Season

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Emerging from the ashes of bankruptcy and mismanagement, the revived New York City Opera will present a season beginning in September at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater and other venues, General Director Michael Capasso announced today. Among the offerings are two with strong roots on Broadway: The New York premiere, in a new production, of Péter Eötvös’ opera adaptation of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic Angels in America; and Harold Prince’s new… Read

‘Hadestown’ Brings New Orleans Style To Orpheus & Eurydice Tale – Review

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By sheer happenstance — because sometimes in New York it can seem that everything really is happening somewhere nearby — I saw a revival of Tennessee Williams’ lyrically overwrought drama Orpheus Descending in a tenderly lucid, gripping production staged by Austin Pendleton in a Christopher Street church, poor-theater style with not much more than a few sticks of furniture. The language and a fine company did the rest. That was just a few days before Hadestown, which… Read

Rajiv Joseph’s ‘Guards At The Taj’ Named Obie Awards’ Best New Play

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The 61st annual Obie Awards, established by the Village Voice to acknowledge achievement in off-Broadway theater, named Rajiv Joseph’s gripping drama with humor Guards at the Taj as the best new play of the season. Guards was presented by the Atlantic Theatre Company and the award includes a $1,000 prize to the playwright. The Obies, which sets no predetermined limit on the number of awards it will give out in any given season, also Monday evening presented awards in… Read

Broadway’s 2015-2016 Season Ends On $1.37B High Note

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Ticketbuyers clamoring to be in the room where it happens — namely the Richard Rodgers Theatre, home of the season’s runaway blockbuster Hamilton — helped push the Broadway box office to its highest tally ever as the 2015-2016 season came to a close on Sunday. Total attendance reached 13,317,980 and Broadway shows rang up $1,373,253,725 in grosses, making it the best attended and highest grossing season in Broadway recorded history. Adding to the record was the total of… Read

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