Watch in this video as Tony winner Jonathan Groff and host Alex Timbers are joined by the rest of the cast of Just In Time (which also includes Erika Henningsen, Michele Pawk, Gracie Lawrence) to explain what the show is all about. Love Groff’s passion about this show and hope to see it!
Laverne Cox opens up about the importance of leaning on community amid the difficult climate LGBTQ+ youth are facing today, and she and Kelly Clarkson connect with The LGBT Community Center CEO Dr. Carla Smith, who is providing a safe space for just that in NYC. Laverne also dishes on her new series “Cleaning Slate,” and shares how she really feels about Valentine’s Day.
The legendary Bernadette Peters talked with Jimmy Kimmel last night about being on Johnny Carson’s show several times over the years, working in Las Vegas at 13 years old while performing Gypsy, opening for Bob Newhart, working on The Jerk, commuting to set with Carl Reiner and Steve Martin, her new musical “Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends,” and “Circus of the Stars.”
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Wishing a happy 38th birthday to the multi-talented Darren Criss who has been such a huge success in television ( The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, Glee, Hollywood) and on Broadway (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, American Buffalo). He is currently appearing on Broadway in the musical Maybe Happy Ending.
Waaaaaay back in 2010, he was named New Star of the Year when I was presenting the Greggy Awards each year. God that was a lot of work!
Anyway, he had just started on Glee that fall and his publicist had called to tell me how excited Darren had been by that. I found out how true this was a few months later when I ran into him at a little convenience store of the building that then housed Variety and O and he gave me a big, heartfelt hug. (We are pictured in 2013 at the Family Equality Awards).
So much has happened to Darren since Glee ended in 2015. He has starred on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Hedwig and the Angry Inch. He also debuted his indie pop band Computer Games along with his brother Chuck Criss and their EPs have made it to the top of the Billboard charts.
His most acclaimed acting triumph to date has been starring in Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace. His portrayal of spree killer Andrew Cunanan earned him an Emmy win for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. He also won the Golden Globe and SAG awards.
Happy birthday to Darren!
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Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award-winning theater legend Audra McDonald is the first Black woman to play the lead role in “Gypsy” on Broadway, where her performance as Mama Rose is said to have the impact of a whirling cyclone. “Gypsy” is on Broadway now at the Majestic Theatre and has just been extended through the summer. In this appearance last night with Stephen Colbert, McDonald shares how it was the late, beloved Broadway star Gavin Greel who first planted the seed for McDonald to take on the role.
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Still down for the count with a cough and congestion but the fever is done!
At least it gives me some time to pay tribute to one of the greats: Elaine Stritch. The great star of Broadway, television, cabaret and movies was born 100 years ago today. She left this earth in 2014 but left us with so much memorable work including the Tony Award-winning Elaine Stritch at Liberty which also won her an Emmy when it was made into a TV special. She won an Emmy Award in 1993 for her guest role on Law & Order and from 2007 to 2012, she had a recurring role as Colleen Donaghy on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, a role that won her a third Emmy in 2007.
She most certainly should have won more Tonys. She was nominated for the William Inge play Bus Stop (1956); the Noël Coward musical Sail Away (1962); the Stephen Sondheim musical Company (1970), which included her legendary performance of the song The Ladies Who Lunch; and for the revival of the Edward Albee play A Delicate Balance (1996).
Her final Broadway role was the revival of the Sondheim-Wheeler musical A Little Night Music from July 2010 to January 2011, succeeding Angela Lansbury in the role of Madame Armfeldt.
Let’s enjoy some memorable Elaine Stritch performances:
I’m under the weather with a cough, congestion and stuff so was YouTube surfing and came across THIS. What a little gem that I had never seen before. It’s an episode of the series Day by Day which ran less than two seasons in the late 1980s and was filled with established stars and future stars: Douglas Sheehan (Knot’s Landing, General Hospital, Clueless), Linda Kelsey (Lou Grant), Christopher Daniel Barnes (A Very Brady Movie), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld, Veep, New Adventures of Old Christine), Courtney Thorne-Smith (Melrose Place, Ally McBeal, World According to Jim), and Thora Birch (American Beauty, Ghost World).
This episode has Barnes, who would later play Greg Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel, dreaming he was part of the Brady family and making it all the more real are guest appearances by Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, Ann B. Davis, Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland. I’m not sure if the three absent Brady kids were not interested or not asked but it;’s interesting that all of their images are used in an opening sequence except for the performer who had portrayed Cindy. A generic little girl in braids was used and it doesn’t seem to make one bit of difference.
My favorite little details is the breathless cheerleading routine which, as eagle-eyed fans know, is an accurate recreation of the routine from the cheerleading competition Greg judged back in the day.
The previous year, the Brady cast had reunited (with a replacement Cindy) for the highly-rated TV movie A Very Brady Christmas. Then in 1990, the CBS drama The Bradys premiered with McCormick declining to do the show after having just given birth to her daughter. The show, a drama, lasted six episodes. You can do a Bradys reunion with a fake Jan and a replacement Cindy but you really do need the real Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
James Franciscus was a very handsome actor and tennis enthusiast who died far too young.
Today would have been his 91st birthday.
He was best known for his roles in such feature films as Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Amazing Dobermans and Great White and in four television series, Mr. Novak, The Naked City, The Investigators, and Longstreet.
Franciscus was also a Yale grad and was one of the best celebrity tennis players of the 1970s when the sport was at the peak of its popularity.
Sadly, he was just 57 when he died 1991 from emphysema. He left behind four children.
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