“It looks like Tony and Academy Award winner Al Pacino, who was most recently on Broadway in the 2003 revival of Salome, will return to the Great White Way in 2009 in the Broadway bow of Lyle Kessler’s taut three-hander, Orphans.
“This site last week made the not-too-risky prediction that author Tracy Letts‘ August: Osage County would win the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the first title with a colon to win since 1993’s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. The playwright, as well as his producers, were not willing to comment on the play’s chances of winning prior to the announcement, but you can bet they’ll be yakking up the news from now on!
The Tony Awards Administration Committee assembled for the third time this season to discuss the eligibility of seven Broadway productions for the 2008 Tony Awards, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing.
“Jane Krakowski, who won a 2003 Tony Award for her work as Carla in the Tony-winning revival of Nine, will play another stage siren in the upcoming City Center Encores! Summer Stars production of Damn Yankees.
“Producers Randall L. Wreghitt, Chris Presley and Ellen Rusconi are bringing a new country-flavored musical, Pure County, based on the 1992 George Strait movie of the same name, to Broadway in 2008-09.
“As previously reported, the Tony-winning hit Spring Awakening will launch its national tour this summer in San Francisco. Additional venues have also been announced for the tour of the Duncan Sheik-Steven Sater musical.
“News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.
“The Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production of the late Wendy Wasserstein’s Third begins previews March 21.
“The cast of the first Broadway revival of South Pacific ? including two-time Tony nominee Kelli O’Hara and renowned baritone Paulo Szot ? will head into the recording studio April 14 to preserve the classic Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II score.
“Roundabout Theatre Company will be above-the-title for a new 2009 Broadway production of Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, the kinetic revue of musical numbers created by the late master choreographer.
