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Day-By-Day – BROADWAY
DATE
SHOW
THEATER
OWN
LOCATION
PR
DETAILS
Now
ALL MY SONS
Gerald Schoenfeld
Shu
236 W 45 St.
Boneau/BB 212-575-3030
End Jan. 11
Now
AUGUST: OSAGE
Music Box Theater
Shu
239 W 45 St.
Jeffrey Richards: 212-489-6745
Open run
Now
AVENUE Q
Golden
Shu
252 W 45 St.
Sam Rudy 212-221-8466
Open run
Now
BILLY ELLIOT
Imperial
Shu
249 W 45 St.
Barlow-Hartman 398-1800
Open run
Now
BOEING-BOEING
Longacre
Shu
220 W 48 St.
Barlow-Hartman 398-1800
Open run
Now
CHICAGO
Ambassador
Shu
219 W 49 St.
Publicity Office 315-2120
Open run
Now
DIVIDING THE ESTATE
Booth
Shu
222 W 45 St.
Philip Rinaldi: 212-501-3201
Limited run
Now
EQUUS
Broadhurst
Shu
235 W 44 St.
Sam Rudy 212-221-8466
End Feb. 8
Now
GREASE
Brooks Atkinson
Ned
246 W 47 St.
Barlow-Hartman 398-1800
Open run
Guide- BROADWAY: Current
AMERICAN
PLAN, THE
1990 COMEDY-DRAMA. Auth: Richard Greenberg
Dir: David Grindley
Casting: MTC's Nancy
Piccione: 212-399-3000
Cast: Mercedes Ruehl,
Lily Rabe.
Plot:Girl with
dominating mother falls for a handsome man in the Catskills. History: Op 12/4/90 &
Cld 1/18/91 at off-Bway's MTC-Stage I.
Notes: Greenberg won a
Tony for penning Take Me Out. Rabe was in the 2006 Heartbreak Houserevival.
PROD: Manhattan Theater Club Productions
(Lynne Meadow, at dir; Barry Grove, exec prod): 311 W 43 St, 8th Fl, NYC
10036. 212-399-3000. Mtc-nyc.org.
GM:Flora Seery
ADV: SPOTco.
PR: Boneau/Bryan-Brown (Aaron Meier): 1501
Bway, #1314, NYC 10036. 212-575-3030.
Samuel J. Friedman Theater [MTC]: 236 West 47th Street
Prev: Jan. 2, 2009; Op: Jan. 22,
2009; Ltd run
GUIDE
– PRESS AGENTS
(The following list of theatrical press agents and
agencies is alphabetized by last name. Information is subject to change, and
staff lists are not complete)
Jim Baldassare:
201 West 70 St., #11B, NYC 10023. 212‑362‑3346; fx 787-1041;Jbpressrep@ aol.com.
Barlow‑Hartman Public Relations: 1560 Broadway, #909, NYC 10036. 212-398‑1800; fx
212-398-7110. Staff: John Barlow (john@ barhart.com), Michael Hartman (michael@
barhart.com), Wayne Wolfe, Dennis Crowley, Carol Fineman 212-354-7343.
carolf@ cfpublicity.com), Tom D’Ambrosio (tom@
barhart.com), Andrew Snyder, Gerilyn Shur
(gerilyn@ barhart.com), Leslie Baden, Jon Dimond (jdimond@ barhart.com). (Grease,Wicked
,Young Frankenstein.)
* * * * * * * * *
RUMORS
* THE ADDAMS FAMILY.Book: Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice. Score: Andrew Lippa, adapting
Charles Addams cartoons. Dir/Set: Phelim McDermott & Julian Crouch.
Choreog: Sergio Trujillo. Music Dir: Mary-Mitchell Campbell; Casting: Telsey +
Co. Cast; Bebe Neuwirth, Nathan
Lane (rumored). PROD: Elephant Eye
Theatrical (Stuart Oken, Michael Leavitt & Five Cent Productions). CAP:
$10m. GM: 101 Productions. Casting: Telsey + Co. PR: The Publicity Office (Marc
Thibodeau): mthibodeau@ publicityoffice.com.Notes: Workshops eyed for Jan. 2009 (PBOL 10/08). Capitalization in
place for tryouts and then Bway in 2009-10 season (NYPOST 6/08). Elice &
Brickman penned JerseyBoys. Lippa penned the off-Bway Wild Party. Chances: possible.
* DIRTY DANCING – The Classic Story On Stage. Musical. Book: Eleanor Bergstein,
adapting her 1987 screenplay. Songs: Period hits and new numbers by John
DeNicola, Donald Markowitz & Franke Previte. Dir: James Powell. Set: Stephen
Brimson Lewis; Light: Tim Mitchell; Sound: Bobby Aitken; Video: Jon Driscoll.
Cast: Josef Brown (Johnny), Amanda Leigh Cobb (Baby), Britta Lazenga (Penny).
Plot: At holiday camp, daughter meets dance teacher from the wrong side of the
tracks. PROD (UK): Jacobsen Entertainmentin assoc w/ Lions Gate Films & Magic Hour
Productions.Notes: Current staging at Chicago’s CadillacPalace (9/28-12/7/08) billed as pre-Bway
and eyeing the NeilSimonTheater for Fall 2009 (VAR, 10/08). Huge
sales for premiere at London's Aldwych (dirtydancinglondon.com;
3/07).Dodgers workshopped it in Aug.
2001, with Laura Breckenridge, Davis Robertson, Michael Rupert & Kaitlin
Hopkins. Chances: good.