Bette Midler Coming to Broadway in April with New Play
Bette Midler’s going to play legendary super agent Sue Mengers in a new play coming to Broadway this April. “I’ll Eat You Last” is written by John Logan, directed by Joe Mantello, and produced by a group including Vanity Fair editor in chief Graydon Carter. Broadway is going to be full of stars this Tony season.
But Barry Levinson’s musical of “Diner” with music by Sheryl Crow has been postponed til fall. In a very unusual move, both James Nederlander Jr and his rival, the Shubert Organization, are listed as producers of the Midler show. It takes a village!
Anyway: this is Bette Midler’s year. Her movie “Parental Guidance” with Billy Crystal and Marisa Tomei is a big hit at the box office. All she needs is a new album and she’s on fire!
Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News. Friedman previously wrote the Intelligencer column at New York Magazine, He writes for Parade magazine and has written for Details, Vogue, the New York Times, Post, and Daily News and many other publications. He is the writer and co-producer of a film about R&B Music called “Only the Strong Survive,” which was released by Miramax in 2003 and was a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals.
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I love Bette Midler, and she should have won the Oscar for ” The Rose.” Hopefully, she can win the Tony.