911 stories by "Michael Riedel"
Break out your tap shoes, Elsa, you're coming to Broadway! The Walt Disney Co. held a top-secret reading of the stage version of "Frozen" last week " and word around the Magic Kingdom is tha…
In 1942, Oscar Hammerstein II stood on the porch of his farmhouse in Doylestown, Pa., looking at a herd of cows on the side of a hill. He was working on a new show with Richard Rodgers about…
The out-of-town Tony voters are in New York to catch up on the nominated shows, and all they're talking about is a performer who's not up for anything this year. "Have you seen Heather He…
Around Broadway they're calling it James Dolan's revenge. Dolan, the head of Madison Square Garden, pushed his "Spring Spectacular" show at Radio City Music Hall into the summer this year, w…
Tony Award nominees are clutching their cellphones, anxiously awaiting the call " or rather, the summons " from Her Highness Anna Wintour. The Vogue editor-in-chief will once again dress sel…
The two women marched up the aisle at intermission and spotted a man lingering at the back of the theater. "Do you have anything to do with this show?" one woman demanded. "I'm the producer,…
That backlash against "Hamilton" I've been fomenting is really starting to take hold. In the past week, the musical won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, its advance sale hit $80 million, and it…
This is one Broadway show that's bound to have a very large costume budget: "Cher: The Musical." The pop icon tweeted a few years ago that she wanted to do a show about her life. She met wit…
The last time Nicole Kidman appeared on Broadway " in David Hare 's "The Blue Room" " she took off her clothes for, oh, about eight seconds and set box-office records at the Cort Theatre. Th…
Let's make a list of the best American musical comedies. "Guys and Dolls." "Kiss Me, Kate." "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." "The Producers." "The Book of Mormon." "The Sp…
I ran into Julie Taymor at a Lincoln Center library benefit a few months ago, and she looked relaxed and happy. "You look terrific," I said. "That's because I don't have any more stress!" sh…
"I'm reading my five-star reviews!" lyricist Don Black said Tuesday when I congratulated him on the triumphant opening of "Sunset Boulevard" at London's English National Opera. The revival, …
Everyone's raving about the Encores! production of "1776," at City Center through Sunday. It's one of my favorite musicals, with its catchy score by Sherman Edwards and its brilliant script …
I'm a huge Barbara Cook fan, so I was sad to learn this week that the off-Broadway show she was working on with James Lapine and Tommy Tune had been scrapped. "Barbara Cook: Then and Now" wa…
The abrupt cancellation on March 8 of the Broadway musical "Nerds" " about the rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates " shocked the cast and crew. They were rehearsing the show that very …
A few months ago while lunching at Sardi's, Broadway press agent Sam Rudy looked around at the caricatures of theater people lining the walls and wondered if there was one of his longtime cl…
When Danielle Brooks learned she'd been offered the role of Sofia in the Broadway revival of "The Color Purple," she burst into tears. This was the show, after all, that made her want to be …
If the fall was the season of "Hamilton," the spring will be the season of blood. And I don't mean the blood that will be spilled at the Gerald Schoenfeld, when "American Psycho" begins prev…
Goodbye, "Hughie"! The revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie," starring Forest Whitaker, will close March 27, The Post has learned exclusively. This dreary drama about a small-time hustler was…
Bruce Vilanch, one of the funniest writers in Oscar history, has no doubt Chris Rock will go for the, um, white elephant in the living room Sunday night. "There's no way he can ignore it," V…
Forest Whitaker's co-star for the first week of previews of "Hughie" on Broadway was . . . a water cooler. During those rocky early performances, Whitaker didn't stray too far …
Joel Grey won an Oscar for his performance as the creepy Emcee in the 1972 movie version of "Cabaret." But he did so in spite of " not because of " director Bob Fosse. In fact, as Grey write…
Johnny Carson's favorite singer was Marilyn Maye. The Kansas City mob loved her, too. Now 87, Maye is one of the last of the club singers who crisscrossed the country in the '50s and '60s, s…
There’s been a little distaff dust-up at "Waitress," the new musical slated to open on Broadway in the spring. The show's been touting its all-female creative team as a selling point "…
"Hail, Caesar!" " Joel and Ethan Coen's screwball comedy about the movie business, opening Friday " revolves around a deadly serious man. His name is Eddie Mannix, and his job is to make Hol…
