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Day-By-Day – BROADWAY
DATE
SHOW
THEATER
OWN
LOCATION
PR
DETAILS
Now
BILLY
ELLIOT
Imperial
Shu
249 W 45
St.
Hartman
Group: 212-398-1800
Open run
Now
BURN
THE FLOOR
Longacre
Shu
220 W 48
St.
Boneau/BB
212-575-3030
To Jan. 3
Now
BYE BYE
BIRDIE
Henry
Miller's
Rou
124 W 43
St.
Boneau/BB
212-575-3030
Op Oct. 15
Now
CHICAGO
Ambassador
Shu
219 W 49
St.
Publicity
Office 315-2120
Open run
Now
GOD OF
CARNAGE
Bernard B.
Jacobs
Shu
242 W 45
St.
Boneau/BB
212-575-3030
Open run
Guide- BROADWAY: Current
SHOW & CREDITS
PRODUCER / PRESS
VENUE
DATES
AFTER
MISS JULIE
DRAMA. Auth: Patrick Marber (Agt: Judy Daish: 011-44-208-964-8811;
judy@ judydaish.demon.co.uk), adapting Henrik Ibsen's Miss Julie. Dir:
Mark Brokaw Cast: Sienna Miller (Julie), Jonny Lee Miller. Plot: Upper-class woman's tragic fling with a chauffeur, moved to England in 1945. Note: Marber wrote Closer & Dealer's Choice.
PROD:
Roundabout Theater Company (Todd Haimes, art dir; Julia C. Levy, exec dir; Harold
Wolpert, mgng dir; roundabouttheatre.org) in assoc w/ Sonia Friedman
Productions (c/o Duke of York’s, 104 St. Martin’s Lane, London, WC2N 4BG,
UK; 011-44-207-845-8750; soniafriedman.com) & Ostar Productions
(268 W. 44 St, NYC 10036. 212-719-5091). GM: Sydney Beers 212-719-9393.
ADV: SPOTCo 212-262-3355.
MKTG: Allied Live 212-302-2033
PR: Boneau/Bryan-Brown: 1501 Bway, NYC 10036. 212-575-3030
American
Airlines Theater [Rou]:
227 West 42 sSt. 212-719-1300
BILLY
ELLIOT
MUSICAL. Music: Elton John; Book/Lyrics: Lee Hall. Dir: Stephen Daldry, based on Daldry's 2000 movie. Choreog:
Peter Darling Set: Ian MacNeil; Cost: Sue Blane. Sound: Paul Arditti; Music
Sup: Martin Koch Casting: Tara Rubin (570 7th Ave, #401, NYC10018) / Nora Brennan. Cast: Gregory Jbara, Carole Shelley, Will Chase (Tony), Tommy
Batcherlor, Trent Kowalik, David Alvarez & Kiril Kulish (all play Billy),
Ann Emery, Haydn Gwynne (Agt: Markham & Froggatt: 011-44-207-636-4412). History:5/11/05-open run at UK's VictoriaPalace. Awd: 2009 DDesk: Musical, Mus (John),
BookMus (Hall), Orch (Koch), FeatActMus (Jbara), FeatActressMus (Gwynne),
DirMus (Daldry), Chor (Darling), Sound (Arditti), LightMus (Fisher). 2009
NYDramaCrixCirc: Musical. 2006 Olivier (UK): New Musical. 2009 OCC: BwayMus,
Score, DirMus (Daldry), Chor (Darling), Light (Fisher), FeatActorMus (Jbara),
FeatActressMus (Gwynne), SpecAchiev (Alvarez, Kowalik, Kulish). 2009 Tony:
Mus, MusBook (Hall), MusActor (Alvarez/Kowalik/Kulish), MusFeatActor (Jbara),
MusDir (Daldry), Choreog (Darling), Orch <tie> Koch, MusSet (MacNeil),
MusLight (Fisher), MusSound (Arditti). Plot: Boy in a depressed and
politically rife mining town has a talent for dancing.
PROD:
Universal Pictures, Working Title (Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner, chairs; Oxford House, 76
Oxford St, London, UK W1D 1BX. 011-44-207-307-3000; workingtitlefilms.com)
& Old Vic Productions (Lord Attenborough, chair; Sally Greene, CEO; The
Old Vic, The Cut, London, UK SE1 8NB; 011-44-207-401-3534;
oldvicproductions.com), Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Jon Finn, Sally Greene.
billyelliotthemusical.com. Exec Prod: Angela Morrison & David Furnish. GM: Nina Lannan Assoc. 212-221-1122
CAP: $18mil.
BIZ: $1.4m / 100% (8/23/09). PERFS: 40prev/244reg (6/14/09). PR: Hartman Group (Michelle Bergmann): 212-398-1800; michelle@
barhart.com
Notes: Won UK Evening Standard Award for Best
Musical. Jbara was in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Imperial
Theater [Shub]:
249 West 45 St. $111-41. TelChg 212-239-6200
Prev: Oct.
1, 2008;
Op: Nov. 13, 2008; open 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.