911 stories by "Michael Riedel"
The investors in Woody Allen's new musical are sweating bullets " "Bullets Over Broadway." Just when it looked as if Allen's new $15 million musical had a pretty clear shot...
Note to Bob Greenblatt, head of NBC Entertainment, and Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who produced the hugely successful live telecast of "The Sound of Music": For your upcoming "Peter...
Cyndi Lauper knows a thing or two about Broadway. She won a Tony for her score to "Kinky Boots," and Sunday night picked up a Grammy for it as well....
The villain of the hit Broadway musical "Matilda" is Agatha Trunchbull, headmistress of Crunchem Hall Academy. She's a brawny, scary tyrant who bullies her pupils, grabbing one little girl b…
It’s no secret that Woody Allen is secretive. An actor friend who's been in a few of his movies says that when you go in for the audition, you're given...
Hugh Jackman may have vanished from "Houdini," but he'll be materializing on Broadway next season in "The River," a play from London by Jez Butterworth. Jackman, Broadway's No. 1 box...
It'S going to be a few months before we get a clear idea of who the combatants will be at the Tony Awards, but there's one category that's quickly coming...
OK, baby boomers, dinner and a show on me if you can tell me where this joke came from: "Why, Sheriff Fate Thomas, what in the heck are you doin'...
The battle for legendary stage star Julie Harris' estate is heating up. Herbert Nass, a lawyer who represented Harris for many years until he was abruptly dismissed toward the end...
Let's salute some fine actors who died in 2013. Here they are, in their own words: James Gandolfini He'll forever be Tony Soprano, of course, but anyone who saw Gandolfini...
Pop quiz , 2014! Look into your crystal ball. What do you see? 1. NBC, riding high from the ratings success of "The Sound of Music," says it will broadcast...
You'll find Carole King's life onstage in "Beautiful," now in previews at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre. But don't look for King herself anywhere in the house. The reclusive "Tapestry" Âsi…
Peter O'Toole appeared on Broadway just once, as Henry Higgins in a 1987 revival of "Pygmalion." O'Toole, who died Saturday, was famous for his drinking, but it wasn't booze that...
Tom Hanks and Nora Ephron came up winners this year with "Lucky Guy," a play about a larger-than-life New York character, columnist Mike McAlary. Now comes word that another larger-than-life…
'Smash" wasn't, but "The Sound of Music" sure was.
More than 18 million people watched Rodgers and Hammerstein's beloved musical performed live on NBC Thursday night, which exceeded even th…
Ten years ago, Burt Bacharach sat through a performance of "The Look of Love," a revue featuring songs he wrote with lyricist Hal David. He was flanked by two friends,...
In the movie "All About Eve," the Broadway star Margo Channing befriends a stage-struck young woman named Eve Harrington. Eve insinuates herself into Margo's life, becoming an indispensable …
Michael Cohl, the producer of my favorite show of all time " "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" " told me the real reason the musical is closing in January: "We...
Hal Prince is 85, but retirement isn't for him. As I reported last month, he's off to Japan next year to oversee a $9 million musical based on his life...
The big boy's coming to Broadway. And I don't mean James Corden! The producers of "King Kong," a spectacle from Australia, will soon announce plans for a New York run...
One of my favorite Broadway shows is "Promises, Promises," with its gin and tonic of a score by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It was a great loss to the...
Out of nowhere " a hit! If you had said to me a few weeks ago that "After Midnight," the elegant and joyful celebration of the music of Duke Ellington...
I was chatting with Sting the other night " that sound you hear is a name being dropped " about his upcoming Broadway musical, "The Last Ship." We were backstage...
Every now and then I like to see how much people can make in the theater. And so I collect investment papers on upcoming Broadway shows and apply my celebrated...
Before there was Hugh Jackman, there was Billy Crystal. Jackman shattered box-office records a couple of years ago with his sensational one-man show at the Broadhurst. He opened with a...
