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‘NERDS’ PRODUCERS ACE ANGRY ANGELS IN COURT

October 21, 2020 by Philip Boroff

EXCLUSIVE: A New York State judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a dozen investors in Nerds,  a musical about the tech titans Bill Gates and Steve Jobs that collapsed weeks before its first scheduled preview on Broadway.Continue Reading

SCOTT RUDIN OWES SPOTCO $6.3 MILLION, AD AGENCY CLAIMS IN LAWSUIT

August 7, 2020 by Philip Boroff

SpotCo, a leading Broadway advertising and marketing agency, filed suit in New York State Supreme Court against producer Scott Rudin, claiming that he left the company on the hook for $6.3 million in unpaid fees.Continue Reading

SCOTT RUDIN TAGS DUSTIN HOFFMAN FOR POST-COVID ‘OUR TOWN’ REVIVAL (EXCLUSIVE)

June 30, 2020 by Philip Boroff

When the pandemic gives way to live performance, producer Scott Rudin plans to present an American classic about the gift of being alive.

Rudin is assembling cast and creatives for the first Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town  in nearly two decades, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. It’s to star Dustin Hoffman, whose last Broadway credit was The Merchant of Venice,  in 1989, the same year he won the second of his two Academy Awards, for Rain Man.  In 1984, he starred on Broadway as Willy Loman in a revival of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.Continue Reading

BROADWAY OFFICIALLY CANCELS ALL 2020 PERFORMANCES

June 29, 2020 by Philip Boroff

The Broadway League said theaters are offering refunds through Jan. 3, 2021, as the industry officially canceled performances for the rest of the year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Continue Reading

RUDIN CLOSES ‘VIRGINIA WOOLF’ REVIVAL

March 21, 2020 by Philip Boroff

With no indication of when New York and Broadway will reopen for business amid a worsening public health and economic catastrophe, producer Scott Rudin cancelled his revival of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

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CUOMO ORDERS BROADWAY SHUTDOWN AS MAYOR PREDICTS ‘LONG BATTLE’

March 12, 2020 by Philip Boroff

Broadway will go dark for at least a month — its longest shutdown in modern times — as U.S. performing arts and professional sports screech to a halt in an attempt to limit the public health threat of the coronavirus pandemic.

With Broadway in the thick of its annual spate of openings to qualify for Tony Awards, sixteen new productions — including Six, scheduled to have opened tonight — must reset as all eligible theaters go dark. Most off-Broadway shows also close beginning tonight.Continue Reading

BROADWAY GOES BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH ‘WEST SIDE STORY’: REVIEW

February 20, 2020 by Philip Boroff

Video has a starring role in the dazzling new revival of West Side Story.

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HUGH JACKMAN & SUTTON FOSTER ‘MUSIC MAN’ TIX TOP OUT AT $499 (FOR NOW)

August 22, 2019 by Philip Boroff

EXCLUSIVE: Scott Rudin knows the territory — the Broadway territory, that is. Visiting River City with Hugh Jackman in Rudin’s upcoming revival of The Music Man  won’t come cheap.Continue Reading

‘A STRANGE LOOP’ EXPANDS BOUNDARIES: REVIEW

June 18, 2019 by Philip Boroff

Did he really just say that? And sing that?Continue Reading

A NERD’S GUIDE TO THE 2019 TONY NOMINATIONS

April 30, 2019 by Philip Boroff

Santino Fontana & Lilli Cooper/Matthew Murphy

It’s been a few years since an old-fashioned mainstream comedy won best musical at the Tony Awards. Tootsie  could change that.

Its primary challenger appears to be the acclaimed New Orleans-infused folk opera Hadestown. But don’t count out the thriving Temptations musical, Ain’t Too Proud,  or the inclusive comedy The Prom.Continue Reading

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