NEW YORK (AP) — The lavish revival of “South Pacific” took five prizes, including director of a musical, and “Boeing-Boeing, a 1960s sex farce filled with slamming doors and eager stewardesses, was named best-revival play, as the 2008 Tony Awards got under way Sunday….
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First up, the non-Tony items:It has been announced that Jennifer Ehle and Rosemary Harris will be presenters at the 2006-07 Theatre World Awards. Both mother and daughter are former winners of this prestigious award for Outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway Debut performances. The invitation-only ceremony will take place on June 5th. See BroadwayWorld, Playbill, or TheaterMania for more details and a list of this year's winners. At BroadwayWorld, you can see some video coverage of the Drama League Awards, which took place on May 11. The coverage starts about halfway through the video, and there are interviews with Utopians Ethan Hawke, Brian F. O'Byrne, and Billy Crudup, along with many other nominees. Adam Pincus of The New York Observer reports on some unresolved legal issues pertaining to the movie Pride and Glory. According to New Line Cinema, the film is still scheduled to be released Jan 4, 2008 despite these hiccups. And now on to the Tonys!All of our finger crossing was for na
News is thinning out at the moment, so apologies for the paucity of meaty links. At Stage Door Rants there's a recap from the Outer Critics' Circle awards, including Jack O'Brien's speech: [...] Jack O'Brien talked about the need for a national theatre here and mentioned creating a company where a group of amazing actors could come together and work and have a creative home. COAST was a very special, unique experience made possible by the extraordinary efforts of Lincoln Center but it shouldn't be - we should have a place where projects of this size happen because they have to and are good for the theatre. We all agreed. [...] BroadwayWorld has coverage of the same event, with a couple of cute photos of Martha Plimpton and Mr O'Brien. More photos at BroadwayWorld, this time from the Drama Desks press room and after-party.On the Tonys front, results from polling at Off-Off Broadway have Jennifer Ehle ahead of Ms Plimpton by a mere 7 votes, or 5%. It's going to be close! There'
Just a brief round-up for today:"How Did You Celebrate Your Tony News?" is what Broadway.com asked the nominees at the Press Reception. Watch the video to hear their responses. Unfortunately, Jennifer Ehle wasn't included in this one, but there should be more in the coming weeks. The Tonys site has a cute picture of Jennifer Ehle, David Pittu, and Martha Plimpton at the Press Reception. It can be found on the fourth page of the nominees gallery. Wire Image also has a couple of photos from the same event. The New York Times now has a poll where fans can vote for the Tony Nominees and view the current standings. Jennifer Ehle is currently leading her category with 36% of the votes, and Martha Plimpton is in second place with 25% of the votes. Note that The Coast of Utopia is leading in all of its categories save one! (Hopefully it will pan out this way on Tonys Night!) I don't believe this has been posted yet. Here is Brendan Lemon's latest post for the Lincoln Center backstage blog,
Getty Images has a couple more photos of Billy Crudup, Jennifer Ehle and Brian F. O'Byrne from the Leonard Leopate interview. Search for "coast of utopia".Randy Gener of the Star-Ledger interviews some of the understudies from Utopia. Much interesting quotage, such as this from Scott Parkinson who went on for Billy Crudup: [...] "Understudying is licensed stealing," says Parkinson. "It's one of the positions in the arts where you're expected to copy someone else's work. The job is to faithfully and truthfully recreate the performance of the actors you're covering. It's a meta-version of acting. ... It's almost a purer kind of acting, one step removed from yourself." [...]Tom O'Neil of the LA Times says that Coast of Utopia is the front-runner in the Best Play race, although there are some contenders that haven't opened yet.Marathon runner timaroosky hearts the play: [...] This show was the most brilliant thing that I have EVER seen on stage. The production values were the hi
A Variety article talks about how much of a blazing success CoU has been and talks Tonys and ticket sales.Dandelion Petals loved Voyage and wanted to hug Belinski.BroadwayWorld has a video with lots of clips from the play and of Jennifer Ehle. It also includes reasonably long interviews with the cast (unfortunately Ms Ehle is almost the only person they left out!).Dinner with Tom Stoppard? Yes please.If you'd like to have dinner with playwright Tom Stoppard, you might want to sign up for a panel hosted by the The Drama Desk on Monday, January 8 at Tony's Di Napoli (147 West 43rd Street). It's not a tête-a-tête but thes panels preceded by a buffet dinner (starting at 5pm) are friendly and informal. Moderating the conversation with Sir Stoppard will be Drama Desk's genial president William Wolf and author Margaret Croyden. Tickets are $25 for Drama Desk members and $45 for non-members. Reservations emailed to wolf@wolfentertainmentguide.com are a must
Praise for Shipwreck, especially Jennifer Ehle from Theatre Snobbery at its Finest (don't you just love that name?)
As usual, the brilliant Jennifer Ehle shines as his wife, Natalie; she gives a beautifully natural and heartbreaking performance. Watch out for her at Tony time.
He Who Laughs is not so enthusiastic. Actually, don't read it. It's mean. Let's just say the title of his post contains a fart joke.
The LCT blog has been updated- "Where are the Divas?"
