Issue #203: November 15, 2007

Read the Toronto Star article on Camp Broadway!!
Read the Toronto Sun article on Camp Broadway!!

• Angelica Torn is currently starring off-Broadway in Edge, a one-woman play about the life of troubled American writer Sylvia Plath at the Theatres at 45 Bleecker Street from November 23 to December 16.

• Also on the off-Broadway front look for Kathleen Turner to return to the stage in the Roundabout’s production of Crimes of the Heart beginning January 18.

• With the stagehands on strike on Broadway… this will be a disaster financially since the holiday season is the most profitable time. However, there are eight shows still running, so business should be good for Cymbeline, Mary Poppins, Mauritius, Pygmalion, The Ritz, Young Frankenstein, Xanadu and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

• Patrick Marber (Notes on a Scandal) recently enjoyed a return to theatre with director Samuel West’s revival of his Dealer’s Choice at the Menier Chocolate Factory. However, the play about poker wraps on November 17… to make way for the revival of Jerry Herman’s La Cage aux Folles that will have Terry Johnson performing directing duties. La Cage opens on November 23 at the Factory.

• Another legendary star passed away recently… Deborah Kerr… most notably known for her beach scene with Burt Lancaster in the film From Here to Eternity and opposite Yul Brynner in the classic musical The King and I. However, Kerr did have a celebrated stage career beginning as a dancer in England with Sadler’s Wells Ballet Company. In 1953 she made her Broadway debut in Tea and Sympathy. Although most of her work was on the large screen she did return to the theatre later in life, most notably in Edward Albee’s Seascape, which ran on Broadway in the 1980s. Another classy star gone at the age of 86.