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5. Hairspray
6. 42nd Street
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9. Thoroughly Modern Millie
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The Cleveland Play House staged Lost Highway: The Music and Legend of Hank Williams, a musical tribute to the legendary country singer, which coincided with an exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The play ran through October 20, and the exhibit closed in January. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Friends star Matthew Perry will make his professional stage debut in May, headlining a London revival of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago with actors Hank Azaria and Minnie Driver. Previews started May 3 at the Comedy Theater, and the production opened its 13-week run May 12. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chandler is a big pervert. (But you already knew that.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is bringing his new musical, Bombay Dreams, to Broadway for the spring 2004 season. Webber will produce the show, which pays tribute to the Bollywood movie musicals of India. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| After 16 years and $400 million in ticket sales, Broadway is saying goodbye to a classic. Perennial hit Les Miserables closed its run with an invitation-only final performance on Sunday, May 18 at the Imperial Theater. | Hairspray dominated the Tonys June 8, winning 8 awards, including Lead Actress in a Musical, Lead Actor in a Musical and Best Musical. The Antonio Banderas-driven Nine picked up two trophies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Tony-nominated musical A Year With Frog and Toad, based on the children's books by Arnold Lobel, will close June 15 after a run of 73 performances. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Danny Glover has signed on to star in the upcoming revival of Master Harold... and the Boys, set to premiere at B-way's Shubert Theater on May 6. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tomei and Pacino get a little Wilde. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Simone star Al Pacino is with an all-star cast in a staged reading of Oscar Wilde's Salome. The legendary actor is joining Marisa Tomei, Dianne Wiest, Liev Shreiber, and David Strathairn in the Estelle Parsons-directed project an St. Anne's Warehouse in New York. Pacino portrays King Herod opposite the seductive titular princess (Tomei). Performances began in November. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ashley Judd will make her Broadway debut this fall as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, forgoing the chance to play Batman's nemesis Catwoman, which is a Warner Bros. movie slated to shoot at the same time the show starts. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Tony-winning producers of Urinetown and 42nd Street have snagged the stage rights to the Beach Boys' songs for a new Broadway production later this year. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The 2002-2003 Broadway season set a record with $705 million in ticket sales, up 9.8 percent from the previous year, which took a financial hit because of 9-11. However, the average ticket price saw its biggest increase in 20 years to $63.80. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Misc. Matters Casting Calls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disney's The Lion King marked its fifth anniversary on Broadway November 13. The Tony-winning show has been spawned into eight productions worldwide, been seen by more than 15 million people, and earned more than $900 million. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Mummy star Rachel Weisz is set to replace Natasha Richardson in Broadway's Miss Julie in 2003, starring opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| British comic Eddie Izzard is set to make his Broadway debut this March at the Roundabout Theater in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Peter Nichols' dark comedy about a handicapped child and the strain she puts on her parents' marriage. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chicago, Broadway's longest-running musical revival, is moving to the Ambassador Theater on January 29 after more than five years at the much larger Shubert Theater to make way for Bernadette Peters' revival of Gypsy, which opens next April. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. The Lion King 2. The Producers 3. Chicago 4. Mamma Mia! 5. Hairspray 6. 42nd Street 7. The Phantom of the Opera 8. Gypsy 9. Thoroughly Modern Millie 10. Aida |
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| Nicole Kidman, once described as "pure theatrical Viagra" when she appeared in The Blue Room four years ago, is in talks to star in director Trevor Nunn's London production of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady From the Sea. | |
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| Nominations for the Tony Awards came out styled by a little help from some Hairspray May 12. Hairspray dominated the nominations, tallying 13 nods, including Best Musical. The next best theatrical fiasco is Movin' Out - Twyla Tharp's song-and-dance take on Billy Joel's catalog is up for 10 awards. Next up is the Antonio Banderas vehicle Nine, with how many? You guessed it, nine. The winners (and the losers) were discovered June 8. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stylin' Tony (not Danza). Really. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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