AP - Apr 22, 2007
Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom said goodbye Sunday to Broadway, as The Producers, the hit Mel Brooks musical, ended its New York run after 2,502 performances. It was an emotional, highly charged matinee...
More »Reuters - Feb 6, 2007
Frankie Laine, the full-voiced singer who became one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s with such hits as I Believe, Jezebel and the theme to the TV Western Rawhide, died on Tuesday at 93....
More »E! Online - Dec 7, 2006
Here s the complete list of nominees for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards. The awards will be presented Feb. 11 in Los Angeles: Album Of The Year Taking the Long Way, Dixie ChicksSt. Elsewhere, Gnarls...
More »Reuters - Nov 2, 2006
Former Baywatch star David Hasselhoff will star in the Las Vegas production of the popular Broadway musical The Producers, the show s creator Mel Brooks said on Thursday. Hasselhoff, who has endured...
More »Reuters - Jun 22, 2006
A musical version of The Lord of the Rings is to open in London next year but the production has been reworked and cut after its world premiere in Toronto received some damning reviews. At a cost of...
More »Reuters - Nov 11, 2005
Much as Broadway s Chicago razzle-dazzled cinemas in 2003, two new transplants from the Great White Way are hoping to cause a sensation among holiday moviegoers. For soundtrack sales, the excitement...
More »AP - Sep 7, 2005
Yes, there will be more to Broadway s fall season than the Nathan Lane-Matthew Broderick revival of The Odd Couple, although judging from its mammoth advance sale, the Neil Simon comedy is the show a...
More »Reuters - Mar 2, 2005
By day, Steve Young toils as a comedy writer for David Letterman. By night, he s an archeologist, historian and sociologist of sorts. Or maybe he s just a demented, obsessed collector. Young has the...
More »Reuters - Mar 2, 2005
By day, Steve Young toils as a comedy writer for David Letterman. By night, he s an archeologist, historian and sociologist of sorts. Or maybe he s just a demented, obsessed collector. Young has the...
More »AP - Jan 20, 2005
Mary Poppins and The Producers led the nominations Thursday for this year s Laurence Olivier Awards, honoring achievement in London theater, opera, and dance during 2004. Mary Poppins had nine nominations...
More »AP - Dec 28, 2004
Back problems have forced Nathan Lane to quit the London West End run of The Producers almost two weeks earlier than planned. Lane has pulled out of five performances of the Mel Brooks musical since...
More »AP - Dec 8, 2004
Gift cards are everywhere this time of the year, so why should Broadway be excluded from what could be the perfect stocking stuffer this Christmas? Now, the League of American Theatres and Producers...
More »AP - Oct 18, 2004
LONDON (AP) Broadway star Nathan Lane is dashing over to Britain to reprise his Tony Award-winning role in the London production of The Producers after Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss pulled out...
More »AP - Jun 23, 2004
There s no song like Over the Rainbow. Kansas farm girl Dorothy Gale s wistful ditty in The Wizard of Oz led the American Film Institute s list of 100 best movie songs Tuesday, followed by As Time Goes...
More »AP - Feb 26, 2004
They re still looking. No replacements have been named yet for Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in The Producers, but the two stars definitely will leave the hit Broadway musical April 4. The producers...
More »AP - Jan 12, 2004
The winter chill has set in on Broadway, as business slid for the first full week following the Christmas-New Year s holidays, according to figures released Monday by the League of American Theatres and...
More »AP - Dec 31, 2003
It s springtime for Broadway once more: Nathan and Matthew are back together again. To roars of approval, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick , the original stars of The Producers, returned Tuesday night...
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