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Posted Dec. 15, 2009,
About Last Night... charity: water's Fourth Annual charity:ball
By Elizabeth Thompson
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Posted Oct. 13, 2009,
Overheard at the Hollywood Style Awards...
By J. Everette Perry
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L.A.’s sartorially savvy gathered at Sunday's’s Hollywood Style Awards, a fete recognizing Tinseltown’s best dressed, at the Armand Hammer Museum. Kelly Osbourne, Kim Kardashian, and David LaChapelle, all took home awards -- which included honors like "Style Ingenue" and "Young Hollywood Style Maker" -- and we've posted some of our favorite A-list quips overheard that night...
Kelly Osbourne: "Fashion is a way to let the outward reflect the inward."
Selena Gomez: "Three years ago I thought Christian Louboutin was Louvuitton."
Brody Jenner: "I never in my wildest thought I would be winning a style award."
David LaChapelle: "Never judge a book by its cover. Pamela Anderson taught me that."
Katie Cassidy , who presented Emma Trask, costume designer and stylist of "Melrose Place," with the award for TV's Most Stylish Show: "I'm so excited to go to work [Melrose Place] everyday just to see what my character will be wearing."
Hayden Panettiere: "After wearing cheerleading uniforms for a few years, I am grateful to wear any other outfit."
Jennifer Stone, who presented co-star Gomez her award: "I'm a Broadway person and would love to be in something like 'Spring Awakening.'"
Ms. California Tammy Farrell: "I think a pair of good jeans and heels go a long way."
Kristine Elezaj: "Style is timeless and presentation needs to be flawless."
Posted Sep. 8, 2009,
Peter Davis' Status Update: Fabulous at Flore
By Peter Davis
During my four days in Paris, I basically lived at Café de Flore which is up the street from The Hotel Bel Ami (sorry gays, no affiliation with the boy-porn DVD company of the same name). Café de Flore remains celeb-central in Paris. Wes Anderson even has a place upstairs. I spotted David Lynch smoking outside twice, Kristin Scott Thomas (with her puppy on her lap) eating with Joan Juliet Buck, fashion writer Karl Treacy, Pierre Berge, John Galliano and Karl Lagerfeld , who ruled a table in the back with his bodyguard/driver/social secretary Sebastian and his constant companion/muse model Baptiste Giabiconi (seen above looking very Karl).
Posted Sep. 2, 2009,
This Month in Theater: September 2009
By Tom Murrin
BYE BYE BIRDIE
This is the revival of a very popular, fun musical set in the ‘60s, inspired by Elvis Presley being drafted into the U.S. Army a decade before. Here, it’s Conrad Birdie as the singing superstar; his manager cooks up a going-away publicity stunt that will involve Conrad kissing a teen-age girl on the Ed Sullivan Show, and the lucky fan and her family get thrown into the spotlight. John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin and Jayne Houdyshell lead the cast, with Robert Longbottom directing the original creators’ work: book by Michael Stewart, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics be Lee Adams.
Henry Miller Theatre, 124 W. 43rd St., (212) 239-6200. Previews Sept. 10, opens Oct. 15–Jan 10.
A STEADY RAIN
Hunk alert! This two-character play stars Daniel Craig and Hugh Jackman as a pair of Chicago cops, lifelong friends, who make a serious error in judgment when they return a Vietnamese boy to a cannibalistic serial killer, and then differ in their stories as to what really happened. Keith Huff wrote the 90-minute drama, and John Crowley will direct it.
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, 236 W. 45th St., (212) 239-6200. Previews Sept. 10, opens Sept. 29–Dec. 6.
SUPERIOR DONUTS
A new play by Pulitzer winner Tracy Letts (August: Osage County) from Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater Company. Michael McKean (Spinal Tap) stars, and Tina Landau directs a cast of nine. McKean plays a change-resistant owner of a Chicago donut shop who becomes friends with a bright-eyed youngster (Jon Michael Hill) looking for a job. For years now, the working team of Letts and Steppenwolf have come up with some very exciting theater; this might be an occasion to beat the rush and catch a preview.
Music Box Theatre, 239 W. 45th St., (212) 239-6200. Previews Sept. 16, opens Oct. 1.
Posted May. 29, 2009,
This Month in Theater: June 2009
By Tom Murrin
THE TIN PAN ALLEY RAG
The Tin Pan Alley Rag is a musical about two heroes of American music, songwriter Irving Berlin and ragtime composer Scott Joplin. Playwright Mark Salzman imagines that the two men meet, and discover that the Russian Jewish immigrant (Berlin) and the son of a slave who had a conservatory education (Joplin) have a lot in common. Stafford Armia directs a cast of 12, with choreography by Liza Gennaro. Fittingly, all the music and lyrics are by Joplin and Berlin.
Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, 111 W. 46th St., (212) 719-3100. Previews June 12, opens July 14-Sept. 6.
TWELFTH NIGHT
This is one of the bard’s most popular romantic comedies, with cross-dressing and mistaken identity throughout. Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway plays Viola, who, along with her identical twin Sebastian, is shipwrecked on the enchanted dukedom of Ilyria. Speed the Plow’s Raul Esparza plays Orsino, and the rest of the cast is outstanding as well: Michael Cumpsty, Audra McDonald, Hamish Linklater, David Pittu and Jay O. Sanders as Sir Toby Belch. Daniel Sullivan directs.
Delacorte Theater, Central Park, (212) 539-8750. June 9–July 12.
Posted Apr. 7, 2009,
Stage Notes: Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them
By Tom Murrin
Christopher Durang, arguably America’s sharpest satirical playwright, is back with another of his timely comedies. This one revolves around a young woman who is worried that her new husband, whom she married when drunk, is actually a terrorist. She’s also not sure about her butterfly-collecting dad, who might be mixed up in some shadow government. And she doesn’t find much solace in her mom, who “enjoys going to the theater.” Directed by Nicholas Marti, the cast of this black comedy features seven fine actors, with Laura Benanti (Gypsy Rose Lee in the most recent Broadway production of Gypsy) playing the impetuous young woman. I spoke with two-time Obie Award winner, Kristine Nielsen, who has appeared in three Durang plays, and has a wonderful sense of humor herself.
Hi Kristine. I love the title.
Yes, it is catchy, and it sort of sums up the play. I’m one of the people who loves them.
You’re Luella, the mom.
I play the typical mother in a Durang play, who sort of experiences her family as the play unfolds.
So what’s your mother-daughter relationship like?
She comes to me for advice after she’s gotten married, after a one-night stand. My advice to her is just go to the theater. How wonderful the theater is, theater is life. I think that theater is based on life, and that life trumps theater.
Posted Apr. 2, 2009,
This Month in Theater: April 2009
By Tom Murrin
THE TOXIC AVENGER
Any fan of DIY King Lloyd Kaufman’s Troma Films knows this 1985 cult favorite already. And if this new musical has any of the low budget, gross, ridiculously wonderful shtick of the movie, this show could be a lot of fun. A nerdy earth scientist falls into a vat of radioactive goo and emerges as a seven-foot mutant superhero. The book is by Joe Di Pietro (who wrote the long-running I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change), and he co-wrote the lyrics with Bon Jovi’s David Bryan, who did the music. John Rando, of Urinetown fame, directs. (Pictured above.)
New World Stages, 340 W. 50th St., (212) 239-6200. Previews Mar. 18, opens Apr. 6.
CHASING MANET
Here is a new comedy by the very accomplished Tina Howe (Coastal Disturbances, Painting Churches), directed by Michael Wilson (who staged Horton Foote’s final play, Dividing the Estate), about two women: an iconoclastic painter and an exuberant lover of life, who meet in a nursing home, and plan an escape to Paris. Jane Alexander and Lynn Cohen play the adventurous duo, and the supporting cast is just as strong: Jack Gilpin, Julie Halston and David Margulies.
59E59Theaters, 59 E. 59th St., (212) 279-4200. Previews Mar. 24, opens Apr. 9-May 2.
Posted Nov. 13, 2008,
Brian d'Arcy James Becomes Shrek on Broadway
By Whitney Spaner
Brian d’Arcy James is a staple in the Broadway world. He’s kissed Kristin Chenoweth, starred in two shows with John Lithgow, and even fell in love while starring in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel with his co-star and now wife Jennifer Prescott. Last week he began previews for his ninth Broadway show – a little production based on a little movie called Shrek. Sarcasm aside -- the new musical has been one of the most buzzed about arrivals of the 2008-2009 theater season. Despite all d'Arcy James's Broadway experience, playing the lovable ogre is his most high-profile role yet. Even though after over an hour in makeup and wardrobe he's completely unrecognizable. After a fairly promising out of town tryout in Seattle, the musical -- also starring Sutton Foster as Princess Fiona, Daniel Breaker as Donkey and Christopher Sieber as Lord Farquaad -- will open on December 14th at the Broadway Theatre, just in time for all those holiday tourists. But hopefully for d’Arcy and crew, the New York audience will find some love in their hearts for the gentle giant as well. D’arcy seemed pretty confident when I got the chance to chat with him on the phone while he was in Seattle. Like that catchy Monkees cover from the film's soundtrack – “he’s a believer!”
Posted Sep. 4, 2008,
This Month in Theater: September 2008
By Tom Murrin
EQUUS
For those dying to see Harry Potter in the buff… Otherwise, this is a very serious play by Peter Shaffer (Amadeus) about a disturbed 17-year-old man, (played by Daniel Radcliffe), who puts out the eyes of horses, and the psychiatrist who tries to help him. In its initial Broadway run (a Tony-Award-winning best play in 1975), Richard Burton played the shrink; here it’s the formidable Richard Griffiths (Tony-winner for The History Boys). Kate Mulgrew (Captain Janeway on TV’s Star Trek: Voyager) has the leading female role. Thea Sharrock, who directed the SRO -fivemonth engagement in London’s West End, will be at the helm.
Broadhurst Theatre, 235 W. 44th St., (212) 239-6200. Previews Sept. 5, opens Sept. 25.
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
This was a very funny 1942 movie, starring the deadpan radio comic Jack Benny, who played the jealous ham actor/producer/husband to the star actress of a theater troupe in 1939 Warsaw during the German invasion. A handsome young RAF bomber pilot shows up, a German officer lusts after the actress, and there’s danger afoot; in the end, the tables are turned nicely on the Nazis. Nick Whitby has made it into a play and Casey Nicholaw (The Drowsy Chaperone) directs. David Rasche, Jan Maxwell and Peter Maloney head a cast of 12.
Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, 261 W. 47th St., (212) 239-6200. Previews Sept. 11, opens Oct. 2.
WHAT’S THAT SMELL: THE MUSIC OF JACOB STERLING
David Pittu has made a very nice career as a solid character actor, Tony nominated for both Is He Dead? and Love Musik; and now he debuts as a playwright and co-director (with Neil Pepe) in a “comedy with vocal selections.” Pittu plays the strange fictional lead character, a musical theater composer who is evidently very bad at his task. Peter Bartlett (The Drowsy Chaperone) co-stars alongside a three-character ensemble. Randy Redd composed the original music for Sterling’s questionable songbook.
Atlantic Theater Company STAGE 2, 330 W. 16th St., (212) 279-4200. Previews Sept. 2, opens Sept. 10-28.
Posted Aug. 8, 2008,
Fashion For All, Followed by a Virgins Free-For-All!!
By Paul Johnson-Calderon
Who will be the next Marc Jacobs? Tom Ford? Diane von Furstenberg? One never knows, but a few weeks ago, I met some of the bright young hopefuls at Milk Studios in celebration of this year's class of YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund Internship Award winners. Among the talented young men and women who have been working hard at schools like FIT, UPenn's Wharton School of Business, RISD, Pratt, and Parsons, were reality TV couple Sean Murray and Sarah Dennis-Browne (who are currently filming NYC's answer to Laguna Beach ), Michael Flutie, Sean Ramsay and David X Prutting with cute-heart gf, Chau Ngo. The party was DJ'd by the super hot Kristine Barilli (who can oft be found doing her thing at the Beatrice Inn). I met and spoke with future menswear designer Cinque Saunders (pictured above), who struck a pose as we spoke about style. If you'd like to know more about the YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund, or, better yet, help the cause, check them out at http://the-yma.com/. They're insuring that they future of fashion has a wide perspective and is accessible to everyone regardless to socioeconomic status (refreshing in an industry that notoriously caters to the elite).
After the party, I ran off to meet Maggie Gray and Hannah Bronfman at 303 Gallery for The Virgins show, where I ran into my first boss, Vogue's Stephanie LaCava, along with Rebecca Guiness, Geneieve Jones, Jessica Stam, Kirsten Dunst, Pamela Love and a chic looking Faran Krentcil. All in all it was a top night!
XxPJC
Photos from patrickmcmullan.com
Posted Jul. 21, 2008,
Peter Davis' Status Update: LnA’s Real(ity) Appeal
By Peter Davis
At the clambake in Malibu for Lia Sophia jewelry, reality TV yummies like Khloe (jail-babe) and Kourtney Kardashian, Kristin Cavallari and Britney Gastineau were loving LnA tees, which seem to have replaced C&C T-shirts as a Malibu uniform. Scandals not included.
Posted Jul. 8, 2008,
Hot off the Screen onto the Stage: Big Stars on Broadway
By Whitney Spaner
The stage will be star-studded this fall with big name celebrities flocking to up their theater cred on Broadway and the West-End. Some of the names you can see here and abroad are:
Jeremy Piven playing a producer torn between making art or making money in a Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Speed the Plow. The original production starred Madonna in 1988.
Peter Sarsgaard will be making his Broadway debut alongside Kristin Scott Thomas and Zoe Kazan in Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull about a bunch of artists living on a Russian estate -- and well, use your imagination about what happens there.
Katie Holmes will attempt to revive her career in the revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons also starring fellow screen stars -– but not stage strangers, Dianne Wiest, Patrick Wilson and John Lithgow.
Weeds star Hunter Parrish (he plays the hotter and older of Nancy's two sons) will be making his Broadway debut as the lead, Melchior, in Spring Awakening. He takes over for Jonathan Groff.
Hottie Josh Hartnett will be starring in the London production of the new stage adaption of Rainman. He’ll play the Tom Cruise role of course, and X-Files actress Gillian Anderson will also be seen on the West End this spring in a production of A Doll’s House.
Posted Jun. 2, 2008,
Paul Johnson-Calderon Chills Out, Then Goes Out
By Paul Johnson-Calderon
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Where does a B.Y.T. go for a little R & R other than rehab these days? Well, this one goes on yoga retreats. Did you miss me???
Here's what I've been up to for the past few weeks:
On May 9th, I attended the launch of Envirolution, a group that is pioneering "sustainability.” Essentially, sustainability attempts to meet society's present needs, "without compromising the needs of future generations." Founded by Yalies Alex Gamboa, Antuan Cannon, and Timothy Polmateer, the event was spearheaded by the group's fellow Yale graduate (and social butterfly) Stephanie Wei. In attendance were Francesco "Izzy Gold" Civetta, Ally Hilfiger, Everette Cook and his gorgeous girlfriend/Tibi PR girl Kristin Klonoski, Liam McMullan, Timothy Garcia and Chau Ngo, just to name a few out of the sea of bodies. When asked what they were working on next, the four told that they were "developing youth-based small business sustainability auditing programs... Esentially, students are trained to do a number of assessments of small businesses in order to recommend ways in which they can lessen their impact on the environment."
Three cheers for the green movement. It's chic to be conscientious these days... chic and necessary for human survival (no pressure)!
Posted Feb. 5, 2008,
Cornered Style at the Tents: It's a Cavalcade of Cuties!
By Lianna Tarantin
WHO: Kelly, Lucy, Hanna, Joyce
THE LOOK: Madewell
WHERE WE FOUND THEM: Promoting Madewell outside of the Tents
Posted Feb. 5, 2007,
Kristin Chenoweth Works the Runway (By Broadway Blogger Whitney Spaner)
By Mickey Boardman
Look at this cute pic of Kristin Chenoweth walking the runway with a little pooch at the Red Dress Fashion Show on Friday. She seems just as at home on the runway as she does on the Broadway stage! I love the long blond hair she's been sporting lately, she's like a miniature, classier version of Paris Hilton. If this picture isn't enough for you, she's currently starring in The Apple Tree on Broadway, where she plays three different characters in three separate acts. Looks like she can now add fashion model to her role-playing!
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Posted Dec. 14, 2006,
Kristin Chenoweth Back On Broadway (By Broadway Blogger Whitney Spaner
By Mickey Boardman
Roundabout Theatre's production of The Apple Tree, starring Kristin Chenoweth opens tonight at Studio 54. I saw it last week in previews and gained a whole new respect for the pint-sized Chenoweth. She looks so tiny on the Broadway stage but as soon as she opens her mouth she fills up the entire space plus some! Her voice is, of course, amazing but she's hysterically funny in a dry unobnoxious way, unlike her slew of Old Navy commercials which caused me to question the hype surrounding her as well as change the channel. At the end of the first act (there are three separate inextricably linked stories) I was crying! The next two acts were entertaining as well but the first remained my favorite. The score by the Fiddler on the Roof musical team Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock was endearing and Kristin's co-stars, Broadway vets Brian d'Arcy James and Marc Kudisch, were great accessories to Kristin's star performance. Strangely enough Marc and Kristin used to be engaged and you would think performing with him in such a close range on stage would be awkward but not so according to this article on Starpulse.com. "It's been full circle with us. We used to be engaged and now we're back together on stage and I'm loving him all over again."Ironically enough he plays the Snake to her Eve in the first act, which is based on The Diary of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain. Watch out Kristin don't give in if he's bad for you! (But if he's only a little bad by all means girl go for round two! There arent' that many handsome straights on Broadway!)
Here is a pic of The Apple Tree stars, Kristin, Brian d'Arcy James, Marc Kudisch, with director Gary Griffin.
Posted May. 1, 2006,
Legally Blonde Goes Legit (Guest Broadway Blog by Whitney Spaner)
By Mickey Boardman
Broadway Blonde!
As a blonde myself I felt it my duty to report this piece of Broadway buzz. A theatrical version of "Legally Blonde" is heading to Broadway next Spring with an opening set for April 26, 2007. The music and lyrics are written by Laurence O'Keefe and Neil Benjamin and book is by Heather Huch. Signed on to direct and choreograph is the Tony-winning choreographer of La Cage aux Folles Jerry Mitchell.
Does this idea ring a bell? A hit movie coming to the stage? Well, it should because it's happening all too often these days, "The Wedding Singer," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," "Hairspray" and just about every Disney animated film have made the transformation and apparently this is more than coincidental. In 2002, MGM, inspired by the Disney's Broadway hits, decided to pick a few of their own films to dazzle tourists with on the Great White Way. The project is called "MGM on Stage" and it's under this plan that "Legally Blonde" has become Broadway bound. Question is, who will be willing to take after Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon? Kristin Chenoweth? Sounds like a perfect match to me!
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Posted Apr. 3, 2006,
Kristin Chenoweth (Guest Broadway Blog By Whitney Spaner)
By Mickey Boardman
Hey BB's (Broadway babies) for those of you who didn't get enough of Kristin Chenoweth during her recent stint as an Old Navy spokesgirl, it has just been announced that she will sing for the LA Dodgers' Opening Day this Monday April 3rd. What could be better for an MMblog reader than being serenaded by cutie Kristin Chenoweth and then watching men run around in tight outfits... I mean uniforms? Really nothing, I would think.
Also it is rumored that her next B'way appearance will be in the revival of Harnick and Bock's "The Apple Tree,"which she starred in during its very limited run at the City Center last year, along with another one of our favorites Michael Cerveris!
Here's a fun pic of her looking wistful with Michael Cerveris in last year's production of "The Apple Tree."
Posted Sep. 20, 2005,
MM Hearts Kristen McMenamy!
By Mickey Boardman
This blog needs more party photos! Kim is making MMBlog look bad with all her luscious on-the-scene photos. MM needs to shake his puss and mix it up with more fun action shots. But this is just the beginning kids and MM still needs to figure out how to put his free Olympus camera on low-res. And to download the photos. Then the sky will be the limit!
In the meantime here's a cute party photo I took of the legendary model (that's pronounced mo-DELL) Kristin Mcmenamy at some party for photographer Ellen Von Underpants. How cute is Ellen? I love her. Anyhoo, Kristen was sashaying by with champagne and the second I held up my little nikon point and shoot, she struck a pose. This bitch knows how to work it!!! She gives it to you old school! Or as our friends of the hebrew persuasion like to say, old shule.