Nathan Lane News
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Hours after “The Testament of Mary” received a Tony nomination for Best Play of the 2012-13 season, the producers announced that the one-woman show will close this weekend following just 16 performances.
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With Broadway shows opening nightly ahead of the April 25 deadline for Tony Award eligibility, the musicals “Matilda” and “Kinky Boots” and plays starring Tom Hanks and Bette Midler had their best weeks yet.
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The first applause at “The Nance” is for the opening scene in an Automat surely inspired by Edward Hopper.
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Nathan Lane plays gay burlesque in “The Nance,” Pink rocks Madison Square Garden and Stockhausen’s other-worldly “Oktophonie” takes over the Park Avenue Armory this weekend.
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Film and sometime stage star Al Pacino is being paid a minimum of $125,000 a week for playing washed-up real estate huckster Shelly Levene on Broadway in “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
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“Wrath of the Titans” is a sequel to the 2010 “Clash of the Titans,” which was a remake of the 1981 “Clash of the Titans,” the last of the storybook spectacles whose effects, by the stop-motion specialist Ray Harryhausen, now lie shriveling in the memory of Boomers.
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“The Addams Family” opened on Broadway in April to horrible reviews and looked like a $16.5 million bomb. The musical’s prospects seemed to grow even dimmer when it was shut out at the Tony Awards in June.
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Hours after “The Book of Mormon” walked off with nine Tony Awards including best musical, Broadway’s biggest new hit set a record with a top ticket price of $487.25.
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“Fela!,” a Broadway musical about the Nigerian pop musician and activist Fela Kuti, and a downsized revival of “La Cage aux Folles” each earned 11 Tony Award nominations today.
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The last show of the Broadway season has opened, with Sherie Rene Scott ’s autobiographical entertainment, “Everday Rapture,” in which she makes the Band’s “The Weight” all her own.
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