Showing posts with label Grease. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grease. Show all posts

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Blonde Ambitions

For the first item in this week's From Screen to Stage, I'll channel big screen - to stage - to small screen star Elle Woods:

- "Ohmygod, you guys! It's only, like, one week until Legally Blonde - The Musical makes its TV debut on, like, MTV! The totally fab Broadway Blog thinks it's, like, an awesome idea, and check out all the pics and chat, like, live from the pink carpet!"

(Whew, that was exhausting ... how does Laura Bell Bundy do it every night?)

UPDATE: Ohmygod, they've postponed it! According to QueerSighted.com, Legally Blonde - The Musical won't air on MTV until Saturday October 13! A quick check of the MTV website confirms this -- so unfair! So, like, here's a montage of clips from the show to tide you over until then.

- New York movie musical fans take note: the "lost" Porgy and Bess movie (starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge) will be screened next week at the Ziegfeld Theatre. And this will be the rare original road show print, with overture, intermission music and exit music ... could a long-in-demand DVD be far behind?

- Speaking of older film favorites not on DVD, the movie version of The Ritz (starring original Broadway cast members Rita Moreno, Jack Weston, Jerry Stiller and F. Murray Abraham) will finally be released in January. This comes on the heels of the current revival starring Kevin Chamberlin and Rosie Perez. Meanwhile, Playbill.com's own Seth Rudetsky recounts his opening night trials and tribulations in his latest column.

- As Chicago celebrates its tenth year in London, could Tori Spelling and hubby Dean McDermott be Broadway's next Roxie and Billy?

- There are worse things Rizzo herself, Jenny Powers, could do then give fans a video backstage tour of Grease. In related news, Playbill News wonders "where are the You're the One That I Want stars now?", including Derek Keeling (smoldering up A Tale of Two Cities), Ashley Spencer (Hairspray's current Amber) and Kate Rockwell (Phantom's latest Christine).

- On the gay icons front: Rosie love Billy, Harvey has his Catered Affair and Ian rakes it in as King Lear. Plus: a "lost" Noel Coward play is found.

- Happy Days are here again - live and onstage. By the cast breakdown, it appears as if the new tuner is based on that episode where Fonzie and his newly reunited love Pinky Tuscadero take on the Malachi Brothers. Hey, at least it isn't the shark one.

- As I mentioned last week, West Side Story is turning 50 this year, and yet another album of its legendary score will be released to commemorate the occasion. But, unlike the previously mentioned (and already panned) compilation album, this will be a new recording, featuring opera singers in the lead roles. Uh, didn't they already try thatonce?

You can pre-order the West Side Story: 50th Anniversary Recordingfrom Amazon.com, available September 25, by clicking here.

- Are you itching to see the Cry-Baby musical? Well, here's our first look at the cast. Hey look, Harriet Harris!

- Those Dirty Rotten Scoundrels are going back on tour.

- Speaking of tours, Broadway World TV interviews The Color Purple tour star Jeannette Bayardelle.

- First, he was the King of Siam, now he's the Prince of Darkness. Ladies and gentlemen: Lorenzo Lamas is Dracula.

- "Why do you wear that stupid bunny suit?" Donnie Darko hits the stage.

- Sally Ann Howes, who you'll recall was Truly Scrumptious in every way in the classic movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, is now Mrs. Higgins in the acclaimed My Fair Lady tour.

- It will be a White Christmas in Toronto this holiday season.

- Über-producer Cameron Mackintosh will bring several musical theater classics to Chinese audiences, including the French Les Miserables, the Swedish Mamma Mia! and the British Mary Poppins.

- And finally: Mark your calendars for next year's Tony Awards.

Links via BroadwayMouth.blogspot.com, Broadway.com, Playbill.com, QueerSighted.com, YouTube.com, BroadwayWorld.com, MSNBC.msn.com and IHT.com.

Alice Ghostley: 1926 - 2007

Alice Ghostley, the beloved character actress who made a career out of playing flustered or dingy types, has died.

An accomplished stage performer (she won the Tony Award for the drama The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, and played Miss Hannigan in the original Broadway run of Annie), Ghostley was mostly known for her nearly 50 years on television.

Among her many appearances, Ghostley played an ugly stepsister to Julie Andrews' Cinderella, the bumbling Esmeralda on Bewitched, and eccentric Sugarbaker family friend Bernice Clifton on Designing Women, which earned her her one and only Emmy nomination. On film, she appeared in such classics as To Kill a Mockingbird, The Graduate and Grease.

Links via Imdb.com and NYTimes.com.

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Horse Play With Daniel Radcliffe

The weekly look at all that's in the works from Broadway to Hollywood and back again:

- For you muggles out there who couldn't make it to London for his au naturale performance in Equus, Daniel Radcliffe promises that he will soon be blinding horses stateside by the end of next year, if all goes well. Radcliffe's Harry Potter uncle Richard Griffiths (Tony winner for The History Boys) will co-star.

- Like, ohmygod! Taking their cue from Hairspray and Grease (both of which have been benefiting nicely from exposure in other mediums), Legally Blonde will soon be filmed live for a future broadcast on MTV. And if you so desire (and are willing to wear a pink shirt), you can even be in the audience.

- Speaking of Grease (and really, when are we not?), meet the revival's scene-stealing Rizzo, Jenny Powers, and check out the track list for the newest cast recording, on sale October 2 (Click here to pre-order the new albumfrom Amazon.com).

Meanwhile, Grease: You're the One That I Want hostess Denise Van Outen has (get this) been cast as the militant Maureen in London's Rent. Not to be catty, but isn't she a teensy bit past her prime mooing years?

- In more music news, original Maureen Idina Menzel has released a club mix of her big Wicked showstopper, the divalicious "Defying Gravity". Click here to purchase the CDfrom Amazon.com.

- As playwright Terrence McNally and stars Rosie Perez and Kevin Chamberlin chat up The Ritz, Seth Rudetsky dishes on his co-star/fellow "bathhouse patron" Ryan Idol. Seth also recounts his recent one-on-one with Xanadu hunk Cheyenne Jackson.

- Get ready to return to La Cage aux Folles, via a West End revival; no word yet if the star of the recent New York run, Gary Beach, will "strap on his fake boobs again" for it though.

Elsewhere, this is what the Episcopalians think about a high school musical about drag queens. Who woulda thunk it?

- Director Rob Marshall has revealed his star-studded, international cast for his big screen adaptation of Nine, although only one (Sophia Loren) is actually Italian.

- "They're the Dreamgirls ..." The originals, that is: Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine and Jennifer Holliday will reunite in LA for a "one night only" benefit performance. And I'm telling you, I'm going ... (OK, I'll stop now.)

- Tours from around the world: 42nd Street in China, Little Shop of Horrors in the UK and 12 Angry Men in the US of A.

- Billy Elliot, soon to be grande jeté-ing his way to Broadway, celebrates his 1,000th performance in London.

- Angela Arden has found her son. Charles Busch will be joined in Die Mommie Die! with current gay soap sensation Van Hansis (a.k.a. As the World Turns' Luke Snyder).

- In an unusual move, the producers of Young Frankenstein will reportedly not release the show's weekly grosses. Hmmm ...

- The 39 Steps is stepping closer to Broadway.

- In our Hairspray news of the week, the title of this Playbill article says it all: "Love Finds Beaver Cleaver".

- Do video games and show tunes mix? We'll find out when The Last Starfighter takes to the stage.

- Remember the opening number of the movie Hair, with all the hippies dancing about, all Twyla Tharp-y like, in the middle of Central Park? Well, now you'll be able to see that in person.

- While Claire Danes (who, having never seen My Fair Lady, must have had a really sad childhood) prepares for George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, John Lithgow mulls a return to Broadway with Arthur Miller's All My Sons.

- I don't know why but I don't care: the San Francisco Jersey Boys will perform on next Sunday's Emmy Award telecast. For a taste of the original Broadway Four Seasons, here's their electrifying performance at last year's Tony Awards.

Links via MoviesBlog.MTV.com, Playbill.com, Broadway.com, AfterEllen.com, AfterElton.com and YouTube.com.

Saturday, September 1, 2007

Oh, Mamma Mia!

This week's From Screen to Stage kicks off with two of the biggest mothers to hit Broadway:

- Yes, that is the first look at Meryl Streep in the upcoming movie version of Mamma Mia! As for the other "mamma" pictured? It is none other then Michael Ball as Edna Turnblad in the long-awaited London production of Hairspray.

Speaking of Hairspray, the tuner just celebrated its fifth anniversary on the Great White Way, and current Corny Collins Lance Bass will host the annual "Broadway on Broadway" concert in Times Square.

- After Variety chipped in with its two-cents, the sharks (namely, the New York Post) started circling Disney's The Little Mermaid.

- Elsewhere on the road to New York, Young Frankenstein gets some love from the Seattle Gay News prior to closing its pre-Broadway run.

- In tour news, Chicago ends its long trek as The Wedding Singer begins theirs; and legendary movie muse Marni Nixon joins My Fair Lady.

- Broadway.com shines the spotlight on three recent hits: Legally Blonde, The Lion King and Monty Python's Spamalot.

- Can't make it to New York to see Cheyenne Jackson and Kerry Butler in Xanadu? BroadwayWorld.com has an exclusive video preview just for you.

- Start that clock: Dolly Parton herself says the 9 to 5 musical will hit Broadway in 2009.

- Harvey Fierstein talks all about his Catered Affair.

- Everyone's favorite 70's sitcom neighbor Valerie Harper stars in the movie adaptation of Golda's Balcony.

- All About My Mother premieres in London, while the American musical Chaplin finds new life elsewhere in England. Plus: is it rumor or real -- a Harry Potter musical to fly onto the West End?

- In the works: stage musical versions of The Three Musketeers, Mask (the Cher movie, not the Jim Carrey one), To Kill a Mockingbird and The Grapes of Wrath, which is actually an opera.

- And finally: The latest incarnation of Forbidden Broadway (the twenty-fifth!), subtitled Rude Awakening, is now up and running, complete with spoofs of Grey Gardens, Mary Poppins, Legally Blonde and (easy target) Grease: You're The One That We Want.

Links via USAToday.com, MichaelBall.co.uk, Playbill.com, Variety.com, NYPost.com, SGN.org, Broadway.com, BroadwayWorld.com, SundayMirror.co.uk and Imdb.com.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

From Under the Sea

Three major openings this week - but only one on the Great White Way:

- Disney's The Little Mermaid and Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein officially opened on the same day in different cities (Denver and Seattle). The local critics have spoken, all citing that both shows need work before they reach Broadway. Uh, isn't that what they're there for?

- After televised auditions, a rehearsal period and previews, the much-publicized revival of Grease has finally opened on Broadway ... and the reviews were pretty much what we expected. However, considering the advance sales due to the TV show, the producers should be crying all the way to the bank. Broadway.com has opening night photos and video, while Broadway World introduces you to the Thunderbirds.

- Good news for Billy Elliot fans (the movie is one of my all-time favorites): signs (literally) are pointing to a Broadway bow next year.

- Could Hairspray movie star Nikki Blonsky be eyeing the Broadway version for her next Tracy Turnblad tour de force? Meanwhile, Lance Bass is Corny -- Collins, that is; and meet the latest Edna, MADtv's Paul Vogt, who dishes on the real reason why the Las Vegas production of Hairspray closed.

- More casting buzz for Rob Marshall's Nine movie, including Oscar winners Sophia Loren and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Oscar nominees Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz and future Oscar nominee Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose).

- As Kevin Kline, Jennifer Garner and Daniel Sunjata prepare for a Cyrano de Bergerac revival, George Hamilton returns to Chicago. And could Patrick Wilson, Anne Hathaway, John C. Reilly and Debra Messing be the latest Guys and Dolls?

- See who will take on the iconic movie roles played by Madonna and Hayley Mills in the West End Desperately Seeking Susan and the US tour Whistle Down the Wind.

- Feel the rhythm of South Africa with Disney's The Lion King.

- Enter the Broadway World time machine for a look back at the Xanadu movie. Elsewhere, Broadway.com has a lively chat with that scene-stealing evil muse, Jackie Hoffman.

- Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps and Jane Austen's Emma hit regional stages.

- Frost/Nixon closes on Broadway. What's next for Tony winner Frank Langella and Tony nominee Michael Sheen? Filming the movie version with director Ron Howard.

- The West End musical epic stage version of The Lord of the Rings extends through the end of September.

- The Ritz star Seth Rudetsky discusses briefs, towels and robes.

- Holy stage faves, Batman! Take a look at the Batman musical that never was.

- And finally: Avenue Q star Rod (just Rod, like Cher) sits down for a "Cue & A" with Playbill.com.

Links via Playbill.com, GoldDerby.LATimes.com, Broadway.com, BroadwayWorld.com, AccessHollywood.com and FilmJunk.com.

Saturday, August 18, 2007

Puttin' on the Ritz

All the scoop on everything from screen to stage:

- Yep, that's the first real look at Shuler Hensley as Young Frankenstein's monster above, with Roger Bart as the good doctor. For more official pics from the Seattle pre-Broadway engagement, including Megan Mullally in a fabulous red dress and Sutton Foster in a shocking blonde wig, head over to Broadway.com.

- Sutton's brother Hunter is keeping it in the family ... the Frankenstein family that is. He will play Dr. F in the Off-Broadway "serious" musical take on the story.

- Film and TV faves are popping up on stages all over the place: former Falcon Crest hunk Lorenzo Lamas is the King of Siam in The King and I, and Law and Order vet S. Epatha Merkerson will try to fill the house slippers of Shirley Booth in a revival of Come Back, Little Sheba.

Following his Tony win for Monty Python's Spamalot, Mike Nichols looks to be making a full-on comeback to Broadway with two star-studded productions in the works: a revival of The Country Girl starring Oscar-winners Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand and the debut of Farragut North with our guy Jake Gyllenhaal.

- Grease: You're the One That I Want continues to sprout success stories. First, "Ambitious Danny" Chad Doreck will join the Altar Boyz as Matthew.

Austin "Hot Danny" Miller and Kate "Serious Sandy" Rockwell will appear in the musical drama Tully (In No Particular Order).

And my personal favorite Danny, Derek "Wholesome Danny" Keeling is set to co-star in the new musical version of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities with James Barbour. With those two onboard, maybe they should call it A Tale of Two Hotties.

Meanwhile, "Slacker Danny" Max Crumm and "Small Town Sandy" Laura Osnes recently hit the studio to record the new Grease cast album.

- Fresh off the one-night wonder that was the American Idol musical (proof that there is a god) comes news that another Fox TV favorite, Family Guy, is hitting the stage.

- If you didn't get enough of High School Musical from this weekend's Disney Channel blitz for the new sequel (which was excellent, by the by, better then the original), then take a look at Broadway World's look backstage at all the various stage incarnations of the teen phenomenon that just keep coming (High School Musical on Ice, any one?).

- Get a double dose of Xanadu cutie Kerry Butler over at Playbill.com, with a Seth Rudetsky chat and a "brief encounter".

- For more diva darlings, see Broadway.com's interview with Legally Blonde's Laura Bell Bundy and another behind-the-scenes video for Disney's The Little Mermaid.

- Paging would be Inspector Clouseaus: Oscar-winning songwriter Leslie Bricusse is working on a Pink Panther stage musical.

- The new TV movie version of the Tony-winning revival of A Raisin in the Sun will air on ABC the day after the Oscars, while the Tony-winning The History Boys returns to the West End - with a new cast.

- Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story on Stage (yes, that's the title) has announced its first American tour.

- And finally: Charles Busch and Julie Halston, together again! The two cult superstars are back onstage in The Lady in Question.

Links via Broadway.com, BroadwayWorld.com and Playbill.com.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Still Waiting for That Close-Up

This week's column takes a look at the latest projects to travel From Screen to Stage and back again.

- A movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard musical was promised to us some time back, and now the project has resurfaced. Names attached to play Norma Desmond are the usual suspects: Glenn Close, Meryl Streep and Barbra Streisand (thankfully, Liza appears to be out of the running). Close, who won the Tony for her performance in the role on Broadway, has her hopes up that it will eventually be made ... with her in the lead.

- The Seattle pre-Broadway run of Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein has opened. Playbill.com has interviews with co-star Sutton Foster and co-librettist Thomas Meehan.

- Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! – The Musical will return to the New York stage just in time for (naturally) the holiday season.

- Mary Poppins herself, Ashley Brown, answers all your questions at Broadway.com.

- Good news for all you fans of "children's theater for 40-year-old gay men": Xanadu will tour, and may even head to London.

- In related news, The Wedding Singer is gearing up for their own tour, while Christian Slater prepares for the West End debut of Swimming With Sharks.

- Chazz Palminteri is readying his one-man show A Bronx Tale (which he directed and starred in as a film) for a limited Broadway run.

- Can you believe it? Soon there will be two musicals on the Great White Way based on John Waters movies: Hairspray and the upcoming Cry-Baby.

- Former Hairsprayer Harvey Fierstein will star in A Catered Affair, based on the Paddy Chayevsky teleplay that was turned into a movie starring Bette Davis (though not in the same role as Harvey).

- And rounding up the Hairspray-related news, that movie's producers, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, are returning to television with a new version of Peter Pan. And yes, the little boy who never grew up will again be played by a woman (no, not Harvey ... although he would make a great Captain Hook).

- In the works, as in workshops: musicals based on To Die For, Shrek and Saved!

- If your the kind to get your kicks from those old "women in prison" B-movies, then Slammer! is the musical for you.

- And finally: Grease is not only the word in New York, but also in London. If all that T-bird/Pink Lady action is too much for you though, then maybe what you need is a little Lube.

Links via Playbill.com, MoviesBlog.MTV.com, Broadway.com, Advocate.com and QueerSighted.com.

Saturday, August 4, 2007

Grease: The One We Didn't Want?

All the latest on new and ongoing productions 'From Screen to Stage':

- The newest revival of Grease has begun previews on Broadway. This is the production that found its Danny and Sandy on a television reality show and, thanks to America, we now have a brunette Sandy (Laura Osnes) and a dorky Danny (Max Crumm). Thanks, America. For opening night pics of the duo, visit Broadway.com.

- Hoping for another Producers, Mel Brooks brings another of his comedy classics to the stage with Young Frankenstein. In addition to Roger Bart, Megan Mullally and Sutton Foster, the tuner stars Wicked's Christopher Fitzgerald as Igor and Tarzan's Shuler Hensley as the Monster. And yes, the new musical will include the classic "Uttin' ona 'Itz" number.

- Mel's won't be the only stage adaptation of the legendary Mary Shelley story to hit New York in the near future: a "more serious" musical retelling of Frankenstein will be available Off-Broadway.

- Record companies are lining up to record the Xanadu cast album. One hitch: they want Cheyenne.

- And if you thought that Xanadu was the only 1980 movie musical bomb to creep its way onto the stage, think again: Can’t Stop the Music: The Musical?

- Want some camp with your cannabis? Then Reefer Madness: The Musical is just for you.

- For more squeaky-clean teen musical fare, you can't get more clean (or squeaky) then Disney's High School Musical, now on the national tour that almost wasn't.

- As if Ashlee Simpson as Roxie Hart wasn't bad enough: In more Chicago stunt casting gone amuck, 22-year-old Kelly Osbourne is the new Matron Mama Morton in the London production. I guess they are just going to ignore the "matron" and "mama" parts.

- More movie-to-musicals madness in the works: Honeymoon in Vegas, Pride & Prejudice, Of Mice and Men and Knute Rockne, All American.
- The long-rumored Broadway revival of West Side Story has jump-kicked its way closer to reality with the announcement that the show's legendary librettist Arthur Laurents is now onboard to helm it.

- Echo Magazine's Neil Cohen has a chat with former Trading Spaces star and current Sweet Charity tour headliner Paige Davis, who spills all the dirt on Doug and Hildy. (The article can be found under "Just a Stage" in the "Previews & Reviews" section.)

- If you're in Atlanta, you can see the newest production of The Wizard of Oz, directed by The Boy from Oz's Philip William McKinley.

- Although we haven't heard much lately about the upcoming movie version, Naked Boys Singing did recently start their ninth year Off-Broadway. (Be sure to check out that last link so that you can check out current star Timothy John Mandala).

- Jeff Goldblum recently starred in The Music Man in his home town of Pittsburgh and made a documentary all about it.

- Original Rent boys Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp (who also starred in the movie version) are now back in the Broadway production, while the West End prepares for the first restaging of the show.

- The first American tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman's Whistle Down the Wind (based on the Hayley Mills movie) is in the works.

- And finally: Who doesn't want to see classic Disney princess songs sung by a bearded adult gay man? Bill McKinley brings his Don’t Tell Walt: An Animated Evening of Adult Music to NYC's Metropolitan Room for two more nights next week. For more information, visit Bill's home page.

Links via Playbill.com, Broadway.com, BroadwayWorld.com, SFBayTimes.com, ChicagoTribune.com, EchoMag.com, NYBlade.com and BillMcKinley.com.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Xanadu Soars, Tarzan Falls and More

The big Broadway news lately is the phenomenal success story of Xanadu, the stage version of the camp flop movie we all secretly love. Not only has it received surprisingly great reviews, but it also set a record at the Helen Hayes Theater where it is currently playing to rapturous applause. Basking in the glow is our guy, Cheyenne Jackson, who tells AfterElton.com all about the ins and outs of roller skates and short shorts.

Also on that site, Michael Portantiere gives us a full review, while Steven Frank gives us his own hilarious (as usual) take on his experience at the show, including this bit overheard in the audience: "They made a musical from the book Wicked? Like, who doesn't know that?

And while we're in Valley speak mode, the cast album for the totally pink musical Legally Blonde (starring Laura Bell Bundy goes on sale today. And yes, there is a song titled "Bend and Snap". (Click the link to purchase the CD from Amazon.com.)

Miserably received, Disney's Tarzan, which starred hirsute hottie Josh Strickland, has closed, the first Broadway flop for the Mouse (but hey, it's HUGE in Holland). "Broadway Mouth" at the Broadway Blog provides an in-depth post-mortem on what went wrong.

Speaking of Disney, their first foray onto the Great White Way, Beauty and the Beast, is closing as well. But at least Belle, the Beast and all that cutlery were a little more successful. The long-running family hit will end July 29, to make way for the next Disney toon tuner, The Little Mermaid, which opens later this year.

Also closing on that day is the musicalization of the cult documentary film Grey Gardens. Rumor has it that they may film it for a future television broadcast and/or DVD release. That would be very S-T-A-U-N-C-H of them (I know that really doesn't make sense, but when you can quote Edie Beale, you quote Edie Beale).

Fantasia follows up her impressive Tony Award appearance with five more months in The Color Purple, while the tour for that show adds four additional weeks to their Chicago stay.

Hairspray the stage musical is benefiting from Hairspray the movie with a nice bounce in ticket sales. Celebs joining the cast include Jerry Mathers as the Beav ... oops, I mean Wilbur, Lance Bass as Corny Collins (starting August 14) and Grease: You're the One That I Want runner-up Ashley Spencer as Amber Von Tussle, effective July 24.

In other Grease news, the winning Sandy of that reality competition/casting session, Laura Osnes tells Playbill.com absolutely nothing about how disappointed I ... I mean, she was that total dreamboat Derek Keeler was not cast as Danny.

And here we go again: producers of the London run of Monty Python's Spamalot are planning another let's-let-the-people-(read: gay men)-decide television show to find their next Lady in the Lake.

In the latest screen to stage adaptations, we have Desperately Seeking Susan, All About My Mother, Ever After and Jane Austin's Emma, plus a new twist on the trend: musical stage versions of television shows. Yep, soon both Fonzie and Columbo will be warbling live on a Broadway stage sometime in the near future.

Rounding out the round up, we have:

  • Stars on the boards: Orlando Bloom in London and Claire Danes in New York.
  • Only in a musical could casting a male as Peter Pan be "untraditional casting".
  • "Broadway Bares", the raunchy annual fund-raiser created by Legally Blonde's Jerry Mitchell, may find a permanent home in Vegas, baby.
  • Whoopi Goldberg, of all people, will host the Fire Island Dance Festival.

And finally, Seth Rudetsky, our favorite musical/comedy guy, talks all about his trip on the Rosie Cruise, including a chat with original Annie Andrea McArdle, who discusses the pitfalls of M&M's and poppers on the Broadway stage.

Links via Playbill.com, AfterElton.com, BroadwayMouth.blogspot.com, SFGate.com, Broadway.com, BroadwayWorld.com, Derek-Keeling.com and RFamilyVacations.com.