Playbill: 2007-2008 Tony Nominations Announced; In the Heights Earns 13 Noms.

2007-2008 Tony Nominations Announced; In the Heights Earns 13 Noms.

By Andrew Gans
May 13, 2008

The 2007-2008 Tony Award nominations were announced May 13 by Tony Award winners Sara Ramirez and David Hyde Pierce at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Nominees for Best Musical include Cry-Baby, In the Heights, Passing Strange and Xanadu.

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Chess

Until there's a better/clearer/less muffled audio to come out of the Chess: In Concert event at the Royal Albert Hall in London, I'm going to console myself by listening to not the two Elphabai (Idina Menzel and Kerry Ellis) but the one Elphaba version (Julia Murney) of Chess. :)

I managed to find (don't ask me how or when) this version of the 20003 Actor's Fund Benefit Concert which must have been ripped off of the DVD boot because the clarity is... so much better :)

Anyhow, I've tossed it back online, and take comfort in my hopes that there will be better audios from either last night or else tonight's performance of Chess.:)

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Playbill: Block, Broderick, Burns, Harada, Lewis, Sills and Von Essen Will Sing Comden & Green June

Block, Broderick, Burns, Harada, Lewis, Sills and Von Essen Will Sing Comden & Green June 9

By Andrew Gans
May 13, 2008

Comden & Green's New York: From Greenwich Village to the Great White Way is the title of an upcoming benefit for the Greenwich House Music School.

The June 9 benefit performance — directed and penned by Amanda Green, the daughter of the late Adolph Green — will be held at the Barrow Street Theatre. Phyllis Newman, Green's widow, is the evening's honorary chair. Jim Caruso produces.

Among those scheduled to perform the songs of Comden and Green are Michael Arnold, Kate Baldwin, Stephanie J. Block, Walter Bobbie, Matthew Broderick, Andrea Burns, Jonathan Dukochitz, Jonathan Freeman, Sean Martin Hingston, Ann Harada, Norm Lewis, Jessica Molaskey, John Pizzarelli, Douglas Sills, Mary Testa and Max von Essen.

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Shards..

When in doubt as to why I wear plated shoes... I am reminded that stepping on shards of steel is not exactly something to do with rubber soles either.

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