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Richard Gehr | December 04, 2007
Broadway celebrated the end of the stagehands' strike on Friday with what sounds like a heckuva free show at the Marquis Theater. According to Playbill, "Broadway's Back!" opened with the Man in Chair from "The Drowsy Chaperone" discovering Bernadette Peters in his onstage refrigerator. And then:
Peters sat Martin back in his chair as she belted out 'There's No Business Like Show Business' from 'Annie Get Your Gun' (Peters performed that show on the Marquis stage a few years back). The fridge opened again, and (almost) all of Broadway poured forth, including cast members from 'A Chorus Line,' 'Rock 'n' Roll,' 'Spamalot,' 'Young Frankenstein,' 'Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas,' 'Chicago,' 'Jersey Boys,' 'Hairspray,' 'The Phantom of the Opera,' 'Avenue Q,' 'Rent,' 'The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,' 'Mamma Mia!,' 'The Seafarer,' 'Xanadu, Grease,' 'The Drowsy Chaperone,' 'Spring Awakening,' 'Les Misérables,' 'Legally Blonde' and 'Wicked.'
[via Blogway Baby]
Glen Campbell tells a joke or two in an interview ostensibly about "Good Times Again," a new DVD collection of highlights from his 1969-72 TV show, "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour."
Fearing that rock music is "an endangered species," "Sopranos" actor and E Street band member "Little Steven" Van Zandt has launched Little Steven's Rock and Roll High School. Van Zandt, founder of the Rock and Roll Forever Foundation, developed the curriculum with the help of MENC: The National Association for Music Education.
Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman discusses "Don't Look Back," "No Direction Home," "Renaldo and Clara," "The Other Side of the Mirror," and other movies by and about Bob Dylan that are reflected (and refracted) in "the movie of the year," Todd Haynes's "I'm Not There." Of the recent flood of Dylan movies and releases, Hoberman writes: "Bob Dylan may not be one to ever look back, but his past has never been more present. 'I'm Not There' is part of the larger, ongoing Dylan revival brilliantly orchestrated by his manager, Jeff Rosen."
More than 1,000 issues and 115,000 pages of Rolling Stone magazine are collected on "Rolling Stone Cover to Cover: The First 40 Years," consisting of three DVDs and an accompanying book.
[via Boing Boing]
