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Monday, June 11, 2012
Boneau/Bryan-Brown congratulates the winners of the 2012 Tony Awards!
Once, Clybourne Park, Porgy and Bess, Audra McDonald, Salesman Win 2012 Tony Awards
Playbill.com – by KENNETH JONES
Click the link below for Playbill’s wrap up and full list of winners
http://playbill.com/news/article/166897-Once-Clybourne-Park-Porgy-and-Bess-Audra-McDonald-Salesman-Win-2012-Tony-Awards
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#tonyawards cutest couple? RT @RealHughJackman: thanks to my amazing wife for presenting my award last night. • • • The ultimate post-Tony bash RT @BCEFA: Who’s ready for #BWAYBARES2012? It’s just under one week away! • • • ‘STOREFRONT CHURCH‘ writer & director John Patrick Shanley Back Stage feature • • • In case you missed the #TonyAwards ceremony planking. An astute person posted it to YouTube • • • Atlantic Theater’s ‘STOREFRON CHURCH‘ by John Patrick Shanley extended through 7/1 before opening tonight
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London Theater Journal: Another Prisoner of Noble Title
nyTimes.com/ArtsBeat Blog – by BEN BRANTLEY
What do you suppose she’s really thinking beneath the mask of majesty? All that nonstop pomp and pageantry must feel like a straitjacket. And surely she has disturbing things on her mind at the moment — worries about her husband, for one — as her reveling subjects pay such ostentatious tribute to her. Wouldn’t you just love to know what’s going on inside that serene head of hers?
No, not her. Not Queen Elizabeth II, though she has inspired many such questions in recent days. I arrived in London a few days too late to be a firsthand witness to the parades and parties and river flotillas that commemorated her 60 years on the throne. But I did manage to catch, just before she left town, another, livelier woman who could be said to be the prisoner of her title.
Her name? The Duchess of Malfi. And should the current queen of England have chosen to spend time with this entrapped creature, embodied with genuine tragic grandeur by Eve Best in John Webster’s 1613 play at the Old Vic Theater, she might have found a soul sister of sorts in a doomed Italian noblewoman of another age.
Or perhaps Queen Elizabeth’s thoughts would have turned to women in her family who were unlucky in love and paid a price, like her sister, Margaret, or her daughter-in-law Diana. Jamie Lloyd’s thrilling production of “The Duchess of Malfi,” which ended its limited run on Saturday, makes it all too clear that if you’re stuck on a world stage in a royal role, you had better keep your passions to yourself.
To read this article in its entirety, please click the link below
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/london-theater-journal-another-prisoner-of-noble-title/
Link to Broadway Grosses for the week ending June 10, 2012:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/166938-Broadway-Grosses-June-4-10
http://www.broadwayworld.com/grosses.cfm
Current week:
1. Wicked – $1,990,184
2. The Lion King
3. The Book of Mormon
4. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
5. Evita
Last week:
1. Wicked – $1,802,133
2. The Lion King
3. The Book of Mormon
4. Evita
5. Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark
5 Years Ago:
1. Wicked - $1,401,805
2. The Lion King
3. Jersey Boys
4. Mary Poppins
5. Mamma Mia!
10 Years Ago:
1. The Producers - $1,134,419
2. The Lion King
3. Mamma Mia!
4. Oklahoma!
5. Thoroughly Modern Millie
Opening this week:
Broadway
Harvey – Studio 54 – Thursday, June 14
Off Broadway
Storefront Church – Atlantic Theater Company – Monday, June 11
We Play For The Gods – Women’s Project at Cherry Lane Theatre – Monday, June 11
Rapture, Blister, Burn – Playwrights Horizons – Tuesday, June 12
Recall – The Wild Project – Tuesday, June 12
The Bad and the Better – Peter Jay Sharp Theatre – Thursday, June 14
Max Maven: Thinking In Person – Abingdon Theatre Arts Complex – Thursday, June 14
The Best of TheatreWorks!: Stories From the 99% – Dorothy Strelsin Theatre – Thursday, June 14
The Most Happy Fella – Dicapo Opera Theatre – Thursday, June 14
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom – Aaron Davis Hall – Saturday, June 16