Issue #209: March 1, 2008
Read
the Toronto Star article on Camp Broadway!!
- Toronto’s Mirvish Productions unveiled its 2008-09 season recently
and has sent the subscription base buzzing. On the slate will be The
Sound of Music, which is being tied into a television reality series How
Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? which was the basis of the revival
in London a few seasons ago. Other productions include a rework of Andrew
Lloyd Webber’s The Beautiful Game which will
now go by The Boys in the Photograph; the touring productions
of A Chorus Line, Spring Awakening, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and
a return visit by Monty Python’s Spamalot.
- Tony award winning musical the Jersey Boys is confirmed for its
debut down under in March of 2009 where it will play at Melbourne’s
Princess Theater.
- Although he will forever be connected with the first ever mega movie Jaws,
actor Roy Scheider began his career on the stage. His debut
was in 1961 in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo
and Juliet. He was embraced by off-Broadway producing legend Joseph
Papp, which resulted in a decade of work in repertory theatre. In
1968 Scheider wrapped up his work with Papp in the production
of Stephen D a performance that garnered him an Obie award. Although
he continued working on stage through the years he moved into movies in 1964
with his debut in a low-budget horror film The Curse of the Living Corpse. We
got a first glimpse of him in a major film in the thriller Klute in
1971 followed by his role has Gene Hackman’s partner
in The French Connection. In 1979 his portrayal of Joel Gideon in All
That Jazz, a thinly masked autobiographical portrayal of Broadway great Bob
Fosse, may have been his greatest performance. His last stage performance
was in 1980 opposite Blythe Danner and Raul Julia in Harold
Pinter’s Betrayal. Roy Scheider died
on Sunday, February 10 at the age of 75.
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