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BARBRA MANIA
BARBRA MANIA
DONNY Osmond brought down the house when he coaxed Nathan Lane onstage and sang him a love song from "Beauty and the Beast" at the Christopher Reeve Foundation fund-raiser at the Marriott Ma…
BIG TIME TRIUMPH FOR B'WAY BARES
Ninth item.
WE HEAR . . .THAT final callback auditions for the Broadway revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" were on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar . . .
There was rejoicing when it was announced that "The Producers" was going to be remade in New York. But when Richard Dreyfuss was fired from the London stage musical of the same title, Nathan Lane - slated to star in the movie with Matthew Broderick - had to fly across the pond to replace Dreyfuss.
The loss of Lane has put the picture, which is to be shot at the new Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, on hold.
WE HEAR . . .
SPALDING Gray, who committed suicide three years ago by jumping off the Staten Island ferry, was brutally honest about his deficiencies as a father.
How did Broadway's biggest choreographers waltz into the director's chair for two highly anticipated new movies?
WHAT can you say about the legendary playwright Edward Albee that hasn't been said before? "He's a thief," longtime producer Liz McCann announced at the New Dramatists lunch the other day.
LIZA TRYING TO EVICT STEPMOM
Is Oliver Stone looking to get into musicals?
MARTY Richards is heartbroken over Paul Newman's declining health.
THAT was some wardrobe malfunction yesterday in Bryant Park.