Beetlejuice is currently playing on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre. The musical features a score by Eddie Perfect and a book by Scott Brown and Anthony King. Alex Timbers directs the production, which earned eight Tony Award nods including Best Musical earlier this year.
Kritzer is seen in the View performance as Delia Deetz, but she also makes a cameo in the show as a role familiar to fans of the original movie. Watch her quick transformation into Miss Argentina below.
1940Ethel Merman knocks ’em dead in Cole Porter’s Panama Hattie, which opens at the 46th Street Theatre for a 501-performance run that introduces the standard “Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please.”
1949 A new musical based on Alan Paton‘s novel Cry, the Beloved Country opens at the Music Box Theatre. Kurt Weill provides the music for Lost in the Stars, whose book and lyrics are by Maxwell Anderson. The story follows black suffering in South Africa and stars Todd Duncan, Leslie Banks, Warren Coleman, and Inez Matthews. Though the musical deals with racism, the theatre actually has a “no coloreds downstairs” policy, meaning blacks aren’t even allowed to sit in the orchestra section. Receiving a wide variety of reviews—with some critics loving it, and others called it “artful artlessness”—the show runs 281 performances.
1975Tom Stoppard‘s Travesties opens at the Barrymore Theatre. Running 156 performances, it stars John Wood and Tim Curry. It focuses on notables like James Joyce and Lenin passing through Zurich in 1917.
2001 A Halloween Eve resurrection for Broadway’s The Rocky Horror Show, which had suspended performances September 23, in the wake of the World Trade Center terrorist attack. The campy musical goes to to play another two months, finally closing January 6, 2002.
2003 The untold story of the witches of The Wizard of Oz lands on Broadway as Wicked opens at the Gershwin Theatre. Idina Menzel (who wins a Tony Award for her performance) and Kristin Chenoweth play the witches, with veteran Joel Grey hoofing as the Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The production also welcomes back to Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz.
2007Robert Goulet, the suave singer and actor who originated the role of Sir Lancelot in Camelot, dies at age 73 of pulmonary fibrosis while awaiting a lung transplant, in Los Angeles.
2012 Due to the severe damage caused by Hurricane Sandy and the resulting suspension of New York City’s public transportation, all Broadway shows are canceled. Performances were also canceled on October 28 and 29. Most Broadway shows resume on October 31.
2018 Cuban-American playwright María Irene Fornés, the recipient of nine Obie Awards and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, dies at age 88. Known to many as “Mother Avant-Garde,” she wrote and directed over 40 plays throughout her prolific career, was an inspirational teacher to many, and the director of the Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Laboratory at INTAR in New York City. Her plays included Letters From Cuba, Fefu and Her Friends, And What of the Night?, and The Office.
Maya Rudolph and Ana Gasteyer are coming to prepare you for the holiday season in their recently announced music-filled holiday comedy, HOLIDAY GREETINGS FROM SUGAR AND BOOZE.
Variety reports that musical theatre legend Stephen Schwartz will write the music for Disney’s upcoming musical film adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol.’ Bill Condon was announced as director.
The world premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ new play Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven will begin performances November 14 ahead of a December 9 opening. The drama, which is co-produced by Atlantic Theatre Company and LAByrinth Theater, will run at the Linda Gross Theatre through December 22.
The drama from the Pulitzer Prize winner explores the harrowing, humorous, and heartbreaking look at the inner workings of a women’s halfway house in New York City.
Flip through photos of rehearsal below
Check Out Photos of Rehearsals for Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven Off-Broadway
The show stars Victor Almanzar (Between Riverside and Crazy), David Anzuelo (Se Llama Cristina), Elizabeth Canavan (Between Riverside and Crazy), Lucille Lortel Award winner Sean Carvajal (Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, King Lear), Patrice Johnson Chevannes (TheHomecoming Queen), Molly Collier (Salutations! I’m Creative Dave), Liza Colón-Zayas (Mary Jane, Between Riverside and Crazy), Esteban Andres Cruz (Off-Broadway debut), Greg Keller (Do You Feel Anger?), Wilemina Olivia-Garcia (DutchHeart Of Man), Kristina Poe (The Idea of Me), Neil Tyrone Pritchard (The Stowaway), Elizabeth Rodriguez (The Motherf#cker with the Hat), Andrea Syglowski (queens), Benja Kay Thomas (Barbecue), Pernell Walker (Seed), Viviana Valeria (Off-Broadway debut), and Kara Young (The New Englanders).
Directed by John Ortiz, the production will feature scenic design by Narelle Sissons, costume design by Alexis Forte, lighting design by M.L. Geiger, and sound design and original compositions by Elisheba Ittoop. Casting is by Telsey + Company.
Follow Kate Rockwell as she navigates a two-show day as Karen Smith in the Broadway musical Mean Girls. Rockwell has portrayed Karen since the show’s out-of-town premiere at the National Theater in Washington, D.C.
Based on the Tina Fey-written film of the same name, Mean Girls follows new student Cady Heron as she navigates her new high school. Soon, this naïve newbie falls prey to a trio of frenemies led by the charming but ruthless Regina George. But when Cady devises a plan to end Regina’s reign, she learns the hard way that you can’t cross a Queen Bee without getting stung.
Directed by Casey Nicholaw, Mean Girls features a book by Tina Fey (30 Rock, Bossypants), music by Jeff Richmond (30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), and lyrics by Nell Benjamin (Legally Blonde).
Spend a 2-Show Day With Mean Girls’ Kate Rockwell
Spend a 2-Show Day With Mean Girls’ Kate Rockwell
31 PHOTOS
Good morning all, happy two-show Saturday! I know what you’re thinking. I look pale. But actually this is Bessie, she wakes up much prettier than me so we’re starting this feature with her! Also, I don’t believe in photos until I’ve had coffee, so….
OK, now we’re talking. Good morning, from me without any makeup or filter, and my coffee, and my heating pad, and my Mean Girls unofficial merchandise shirt! Two cups of coffee are a requirement for a matinee these days.
Breakfast of champions! I’ve fallen in love with Splendid Spoon smoothies for breakfast on two show days. My eating schedule is one of the weirdest parts of my job. I can’t eat much before a show because our costumes are so tight and we jump around A LOT, and I ALSO don’t like to eat right when I get up, so matinees are tricky. These have been a lifesaver because they’re filling enough without making me feel too full. Also, cameo by my little pup, Mabel, who doesn’t understand why I won’t share my smoothie with her.
Time to go to work! Last night I forgot to take my lashes off before I left so today I will wear them to work. With no other makeup. I try to make them last as long as possible so I’m not constantly throwing them away and opening new ones!
Here we are, home sweet home for the day (and the whole weekend, honestly)! I promise it looks beautiful normally. This scaffolding has been up all summer and we are so excited it’s finally coming down! I love our hot pink marquee.
Surprise! I walked into my dressing room and found these gorgeous fall flowers! But no signature… so they’re a mystery. They sure did brighten my morning!
Wig cap selfie! Krystina Alabado (Gretchen Weiners) and I share a dressing room and most of our stage time, so I call her my show wife. I see her way more than I see my husband!
There we go. Much better! Ready for Act 1. We don’t step onstage until about 15 minutes into the first act, so we took this photo during “Where Do You Belong,” which is when we go down to deck level. Backstage is a hive of activity all the time, so unless you need to be back there, you stay out of the way! Personally, I love having a few extra minutes to put all that makeup on.
And just like that it’s intermission. One quarter of the way done with the day! I’m very food-motivated so having little snacks to look forward to makes these long days move quick. Today it’s brie and some rice crackers.
A little fun backstage game we play! Sometimes people hide puzzles on the set in Regina’s bedroom during the first act, and I pick them up when I’m putzing around while Mrs. George is talking. This was my puzzle today, created by one of our swings, Aaron Alcaraz. Can you guess it? Hint: It’s a TV Show (think HBO).
