Neil Simon News
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Jack Klugman, who played the sports- loving, slobby-living Oscar Madison on television and stage in “The Odd Couple” across from his close friend Tony Randall, has died. He was 90.
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The Mormons have been granted a reprieve with the arrival on Broadway of “Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson.”
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Marvin Hamlisch, the classically trained pianist who composed the music for shows including “A Chorus Line” and movies including “The Way We Were,” winning show business’s most sought-after awards by the armloads, has died. He was 68.
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A vixen inspires some hens to revolt against a bossy rooster. Cluck, cluck! They’re free! Then the vixen decapitates them. Euro-crisis leaders, take note.
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Grace Jones will be staring down London fans as they go dance crazy at the Lovebox Festival.
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Peter Falk, who played television’s rumpled detective Columbo for 30 years in an acting career that included 50 movies and spanned a half century, has died. He was 83.
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Mike Nichols is up for a ninth Tony award next week for his quietly devastating revival of “Death of a Salesman.”
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King Richard III has 1,171 lines in the drama Shakespeare named for him. Kevin Spacey mangles just about every one of them, beginning with “Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York” right through “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!” more than three hours later.
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Dark desires are sweeping through London’s theaters like a forest fire. There’s murderous incest at the National Theatre. There’s a nymphomaniac duchess at the Royal Opera. And a group of cynical whores are popping their corks at the Haymarket.
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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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