Another year, another spring trip to Broadway, timed to coincide with the annual Easter Bonnet Competition, which in turn is timed to coincide with the end of the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS fund-raising period which, not coincidentally, occurs just before the season’s Tony Awards deadline. The Bonnet Competition — about which I will talk more in a few days — is a snarky … [Read more...]
Bulletin from Broadway No. 4: ‘The Addams Family’
After another downpour Tuesday morning, the rains ended but it got even colder. Don’t the weather gods realize that it is almost May? Nor did I have much luck with theater. I can be fairly Pollyanna-ish when it comes to refusing to believe the prevailing opinion about a bad show until I see for myself. And since Nathan Lane, Bebe Neuwirth and Kevin Chamberlin seem so perfectly … [Read more...]
Bulletin from Broadway No. 2: ‘Enron’ and a Busch-Halston cabaret
Well, so much for the nice weather. I had another great day Sunday in all respects except meteorologically. It rained most of this gray, dreary day and even when the rains halted briefly, it was cold and raw. Fortunately, I had excuses to stay inside for most the time. I went to a matinee of Enron, Lucy Prebble’s epically theatricalized chronicle of the Houston energy company … [Read more...]