More rain Monday and still way too cold for the end of April. Since it was a Monday, most Broadway theaters were dark, but there is a complex of converted discount movie houses at West 50th Street that has a handful of auditoriums -- an off-Broadway multiplex, if you will -- and an engrossing new play by Jon Marans (Old Wicked Songs) called The Temperamentals, which turns out … [Read more...]
New Vista’s ‘Enter Laughing’ worth a few giggles
Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008 In 1976, Carl Reiner’s affectionate memoir of his earliest efforts to break into show business, Enter Laughing, was turned into a Broadway musical, redubbed So Long, 174th Street. Perennially boyish Robert Morse, then in his mid-40s, was miscast as teenage David Kolowitz — the Reiner character — and he became the scapegoat when the show closed two weeks … [Read more...]