Sunday, November 28, 2010

SPIDER MAN GOES BROADWAY

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Tonight at 6:30 pm, New York Time, (that's 3:30 pm Pacific Time) the long awaited Broadway musical "Spiderman: Light Up The Dark...
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

99th BIRTHDAY OF DAVID MERRICK

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Today is the 99th birthday of the "Abominable Showman"-- none other than dear old David Merrick. This one producer who was respons...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

EDGAR ALAN AND POE --THE AFTERMATH

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Well, it has been a very long time since I've written here, but "Edgar Alan and Poe" turned out to be very blessed in some way...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

EDGAR ALAN AND POE GOES FORWARD

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Our newest musical "Edgar Alan and Poe" goes forward. We have about fifteen days before opening night and a lot of the show is rea...
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Sunday, October 03, 2010

RICHARD AND ROBERT SHERMAN MILESTONE

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Fifteen years ago this very day, my dear friends the Sherman Brothers had a very disconcerting event happen. I was representing Bob's yo...
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Saturday, October 02, 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GROUCHO MARX

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Today is Groucho Marx's one hundred and tenth birthday! He was born in 1890. What an absolutely amazing and legendary performer. Groucho...
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Thursday, September 30, 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FLINSTONES 50 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Today is Fred Flinstone's 50th birthday. it's also Barney's and Betty's and Wilma's and Pebbles and Bam Bam. God does th...
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Monday, September 27, 2010

TEA FOR TWO AND I WANT TO BE HAPPY

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Imagine being a songwriter with fewer than one hundred and ten tunes and having eighteen of them being considered as absolute standards of t...
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

A MAGNIFICENT COMPOSER AND A GENIUS POET

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On this day in the year 1888 two remarkable gentlemen were born. One was an incredible composer. One was a magnificent poet. The composer wa...
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

A SONGWRITER'S BIG DAY TO REMEMBER

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We begin the day by learning that the Titanic had an actual reason that she went down besides ramming randomly into a giant iceberg back in ...
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Monday, September 20, 2010

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Walter Winchell was an absolute legend in the newspaper journalism business and on this day in 1924 he wrote his first Broadway column ...
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Saturday, September 18, 2010

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Broadway made Stephen Sondheim cry this week, instead of the other way around. (His musicals aren't exactly feel-good affairs.) A choke...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

KING KONG ON BROADWAY-- SAY IT ISN'T SO!

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As my partner John Nugent and I try to attract investors and please the ones we have for our Broadway aimed musicals, I am so damn amused wh...
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

STEPHEN SONDHEIM IS HONORED TODAY

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Today at 3:30 PM Pacific Coast Time, I would like everyone I know to whistle, hum, or play on a piano a Stephen Sondheim tune. Because at th...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

WE REMEMBER PATRICK SWAYZE

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One year ago today we lost an amazing performer. Another Hollywood star victim to pancreatic cancer. The same cancer that killed actor Micha...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

MAURICE CHEVALIER AND FARWELL TO LIBERACE

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Today would have been the birthday of one of my all time favorite performers, None other than Maurice Chevalier. What an amzingly gifted and...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

WE REMEMBER 9/11

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This of course is the 9th anniversary of what might be called the second greatest day in infamy in American History-- the first being the at...
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

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We've been talking this week about how there is no guarantee anywhere in life. and yet some young actors insist upon it before they will...
Tuesday, September 07, 2010

EDGAR ALLEN AND POE

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Nothing goes smoothly in my life. There are always so many complications and the preparation to bring our latest musical to the stage is cer...
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