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Broadway Season Comes to A Fun End with Laurie Metcalf in “A Doll’s House, Part 2”

Roger Friedman
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Broadway Season Comes to A Fun End with Laurie Metcalf in “A Doll’s House, Part 2”

You know how Oprah does those Where Are They Now? specials. That’s sort of what “A Doll’s House, Part 2” is. What happened to Nora after she left Torvald, their two sons, daughter Emmy, and Ann Marie, the nanny? Thanks to first time playwright (on Broadway) Lucas Hnath now we know they ended up in very funny tragicomedy.

The last time we saw these characters was in 20 years ago (it can’t be!) when Janet McTeer gave her mesmerizing performance in “A Doll’s House” directed by Anthony Page. Each won Tony Awards, as did the production for Best Revival of a Play, and Owen Teale as Torvald. When Nora shut that door and left her family, it was very final, and one of the best nights ever in theater.

So what happened? Well, it turns out Nora, now played by Laurie Metcalf, became a bestselling writer under a pseudonym. She’s made a ton of money. Fifteen years after leaving her family she returns because Torvald (Chris Cooper) forgot to divorce her. Ann Marie (Jayne Houdyshell) has stuck around for meager wages. Daughter Emmy (Condola Rashad) is engaged– to a man just like her father, of course. As Nora rebelled against marriage and domestic life, her kid– who had no mother– now wants the security of all the things Nora eschewed. Isn’t it always like that?

This quartet of a cast is a total winner, every one of them. It’s so nice to see Chris Cooper, the finest of movie actors, return to the stage and ace the whole deal. The ladies are all Broadway regulars, and already have a lot of acclaim. They excel here. It’s too most of America thinks of Laurie Metcalf as Roseanne’s sister from the TV show. She is really spectacular on stage. As Nora coming home to ask a favor of the man she left high and dry, Metcalf is a wondrous mix of hilarious, sad, and angry.

The audience was pretty interesting, too: Hugh Jackman, Bob Balaban, Brenda Vaccaro, Matthew Perry (of “Friends” fame), Samuel L. Jackson and LaTanya Richardson were among the guests. Sportscaster Ahmad Rashad, Condola’s dad, came to cheer her on.

“A Doll’s House Part 2” goes in the new play category for the Tonys, with all four actors definite nominees. Metcalf will go up against Allison Janney, Sally Field, Laura Linney, and either Jennifer Ehle or maybe Johanna Day from “Sweat.” There’s always a chance of Cate Blanchett, too, from “The Present.”

Fox News Under Fire: Watters Sent on Vacation After 2 Days, Kelly Wright Joins Lawsuit, “Law & Order” Airs Show Based on Sex Scandal

Roger Friedman
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Fox News Under Fire: Watters Sent on Vacation After 2 Days, Kelly Wright Joins Lawsuit, “Law & Order” Airs Show Based on Sex Scandal

It’s a bad week at Fox News, and not just because Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly are still in the news after leaving in disgrace over sex harassment charges.

Jesse Watters, reviled and obnoxious yet celebrated Fox News personality, has been sent on vacation just two days into the debut of his show “The Five” at 9pm. Watters is being criticized for an obscene gesture he made after showing a clip of Ivanka Trump. Frankly, it’s amazing he wasn’t fired on the spot by James Murdoch. It could be, like O’ Reilly, he won’t be returning from this sudden vacation. The gesture comes at the end of that clip:

Then Kelly Wright, much respected correspondent and one of the few African Americans at Fox, joined a racial discrimination suit against the network. For Wright to do this is fairly stunning. He’s been loyal to the company and never said a word against them. But he’s the only black anchor on Fox News, and he says that his repeated suggestions to broaden the range of reporting there has “fallen on deaf ears.”

At a press conference yesterday, Wright said: “It is indefensible and inexcusable when there are so many talented black men and women who are more than capable to fulfill that role. We have a culture of systemic and institutional racial bias… I can no longer sit in silence, collect my paycheck and act like I didn’t experience racial bias on my own level as an on-air personality. Behind closed doors I found myself confronted with race albeit in a more subtle but in a demeaning way and marginalizing my own growth and my development that would not only benefit me but benefit others.

And then last night, NBC aired the “Law & Order SVU” episode “The Newsroom” in which a national news anchor is accused of sexual harassment. The episode didn’t get a lot of promotion but it was excellent. Whatever its ratings were, “The Newsroom” will now be in the syndication system. As everyone knows, “SVU” is a constant in reruns. It’s not bio-degradable. All “Law & Order” lasts forever.

Here’s Kelly Wright’s press conference

Exclusive: Samuel L. Jackson Says He and Bruce Willis Are Ready to Shoot “Unbreakable” Sequel

Roger Friedman
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Exclusive: Samuel L. Jackson Says He and Bruce Willis Are Ready to Shoot “Unbreakable” Sequel

Whether we want it or not, M. Night Shyamalan is going to make a sequel to “Unbreakable.”

Samuel L. Jackson himself confirmed to me last night that he and Bruce Willis are signed, sealed and delivered.  They expect to start this summer after Jackson returns from making “Inversion” in Berlin with Peter Segal.

Jackson and his daughter Zoe were at last night’s premiere of “Six Degrees.” Absent was his wife and her mother, one of my favorite people, LaTanya Richardson. “Where is LaTanya?” I asked. Sam replied: “She’s home, enjoying herself!”  Richardson was recently killed off of “Grey’s Anatomy,” an egregious mistake. But Sam says, “She could turn up somewhere else in ShondaLand, I’m sure.” I hope!

As for “Unbreakable” : Released in 2000, it made $95 million US, foreign $153 million for a worldwide total of $248 million. It was nowhere as big as “The Sixth Sense” or even “Signs.” Soon after Shyamalan went into a fallow period. He recently resurrected himself with the thriller, “Split.”

Jackson, of course, has a bunch of films finished and more in pre-production. What’s he doing right now? “More Capital One commercials!” he said. “That’s my real job!”

Shock: Beloved Oscar Winning Director Jonathan Demme Dead At Age 73

Roger Friedman
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Shock: Beloved Oscar Winning Director Jonathan Demme Dead At Age 73

This is in the category of “not fair.” Jonathan Demme has died at age 73 from what seems to be esophageal cancer. Demme was among the loveliest people you could know or meet, a great gentleman, forever young in spirit, and a HUGE talent. He won the Oscar for “Silence of the Lambs,” but his credits go far beyond that movie. Demme moved easily back and forth between stunning narrative films and documentaries.

Demme combined those two talents in “Rachel Getting Married.” His other movies that will last and last are the Talking Heads documentary “Stop Making Sense,” two Neil Young films, and so many great features including “Something Wild” (really. please watch this movie), as well as “Philadelphia,” “Married to the Mob,” “Swing Shift,” the remake of “The Manchurian Candidate” with Meryl Streep and Denzel Washington, and “Rikki and the Flash” (an underpraised film).

And don’t forget the early, really brilliant films like “Melvin and Howard,” “Handle with Care,” and “Fighting Mad.”

He loved music, you can hear it and see it in all his films. He worked with the best musicians, from Neil Young to Chrissie Hynde, Bruce Springsteen, David Byrne, etc. All the best.

This is just a tremendous loss. Heartbreaking. Condolences to his family and friends. Jonathan’s legacy is so much love. I can’t think of a time when he wasn’t smiling a goofy grin. He was happy. And now we are very sad.

Allison Janney Could Win Tony Award for “Six Degrees of Separation,” and Maybe an Emmy Too for “Mom”

Roger Friedman
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Allison Janney Could Win Tony Award for “Six Degrees of Separation,” and Maybe an Emmy Too for “Mom”

Allison Janney leads a superb cast in the revival of John Guare’s “Six Degrees of Separation.” She, John Benjamin Hickey, and Corey Hawkins should all be up for Tony Awards, and Janney may very well win Best Actress in a Drama. (Her competition likely includes Sally Field, among others.) Janney is in “Six Degrees” during her off time from CBS’s hit comedy “Mom.”

For the first time since that show started Janney is putting herself in the Lead, not Supporting category for the Emmys. Could she end Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s winning streak? (JLD has won 6 times in a row!) Janney told me after last night’s opening: “It was time to to do it. We did the same thing on West Wing. It opens up possibilities for other actresses in supporting.”

She means her co-star Anna Faris would now have a clearer shot in the Supporting category. And don’t worry, Janney — a multi-threat actress, skilled in theater, movies and TV — has a bookshelf of Emmys already: two for supporting in “Mom,” two for supporting and two for lead in “The West Wing.”

Her Tony nomination is secure. (She was nominated yesterday for a prestigious Outer Critics Award.)

Great party at Brasserie 8 1/2 following the show— Amy Brenneman, Joe Mantello, Matthew Broderick among those who stopped in. Caroline Aaron, one of Woody Allen’s favorite actresses, is back in New York. Amazon has given a series she’s in a two year guarantee (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” from “GIlmore Girls” creator Amy Sherman Palladino.)

Back to “Six Degrees”:

The first time around, back in 1990, John Guare’s “Six Degrees of Separation” seemed so wonderful in its Broadway debut, you wouldn’t think anyone could reproduce that magic. Stockard Channing, John Cunningham and Courtney B. Vance were the main trio, and many awards followed. Channing even went on to an Oscar nomination for the movie version.

Twenty-seven years later,  Janney returns as Ouisa Kitteridge, the Upper East side wife of art dealer Flan, now played by John Benjamin Hickey. Corey Hawkins, of “Straight Outta Compton” and “24” is Paul “Poitier,” the black kid who insinuates himself into wealthy households. And the play? It has not been changed, it’s word for word, and now we know it’s timeless. It’s a little masterpiece. The cast is exceptional, the production is perfection.

Is it the actors? The words? The double sided Kandinsky that hangs over the stage? The way Guare has invested these self involved people with just enough empathy that they learn a little, we learn a lot, as “Six Degrees”– a concept that wound up finding its way into the American lexicon as if it had always been there–unravels.

Guare based his story on a real one. In 1983, a young black man posing as Sidney Poitier’s son “Paul” (but really named David Hampton) inveigled himself into a number of upper East Side homes. He said he was a college friend of the parents’ children, and they believed him. Of course, Poitier has no sons, but the real life version of the Kitteridges (Osborne Elliott, former dean of the Columbia School of Journalism)  and their friends (ex PBS chief John Jay Iselin) took him in and were fleeced emotionally and to some extent financially.

Janney’s Ouisa is a little more brittle than Channing’s. The latter played her a little like a woman child trying to make sense of it all. Janney is more direct and a little less enchanted with “Paul.” John Benjamin Hickey is just right as Flanders Kitteridge, trying to keep their lifestyle afloat by privately selling masterpieces for millions. I loved that you could see his virtual flop sweat and elation simultaneously,

And then Corey Hawkins shows up as “Paul” who in one night upends their lives.  You know him from the new “24” and from playing Dr. Dre so beautifully in “Straight Outta Compton.” Hawkins fills Vance’s big shoes (and surpasses the memory of Will Smith in the movie) beautifully. He makes Paul incredibly human (so important in a play in which that word is said often) and sympathetic.

What a night– a great night in the theater, not to be missed. And the Tony category of Best Revival of a Play now has some hot competition with this, “The Glass Menagerie,” and “Present Laughter.” (Go see Kevin Kline if you haven’t already!)

Singer Kesha Scores Small Victory as Sony Kicks Her Producer, Dr. Luke, to the Curb

Roger Friedman
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Singer Kesha Scores Small Victory as Sony Kicks Her Producer, Dr. Luke, to the Curb

Pop singer Kesha has finally scored a small victory against her producer, Dr. Luke, in her long running case against him. In court papers, Sony Music now says Dr. Luke is no longer head of Kemosabe Records, their label to which Kesha was signed.

The papers read: “Kemosabe Records is wholly-owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Lukasz Gottwald is no longer the CEO of Kemosabe Records and does not have authority to act on its behalf.”
And so Dr. Luke is jettisoned from Sony in one of the worst PR situations that could have occurred for the company. Kesha has accused him of many terrible things including rape, all of which he has denied. But the result has been not only the stalling of her record career, but also bestselling female artists from Taylor Swift to Adele to Lady Gaga decrying Sony’s role in this story.
Is Dr. Luke finished? Far from it. You know, if even Phil Spector had a hit record up his sleeve, he could make a comeback in the record business. Dr. Luke will have more hits. Just not at Sony. Now maybe Kesha can proceed in some way.
Stay tuned…

Unhappy Days: Erin Moran’s Husband Posts Statement About Her Rapid Throat Cancer and Untimely Death

Roger Friedman
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Unhappy Days: Erin Moran’s Husband Posts Statement About Her Rapid Throat Cancer and Untimely Death

For some reason, Erin Moran’s husband, Steve Fleischmann, has posted a statement about his wife’s death on Scott Baio’s Facebook page. This is basically after Baio said he thought someone who did drugs deserved what they got. Moran died of Stage 4 throat cancer. I wonder if Fleischmann knows what Baio said in the radio interview.

Anyway, here’s Fleischmann’s statement. What a tragedy.

Open letter from Steve. (Erin Moran’s Husband).

Erin and I met 4/22/1992 and parted ways 4/22/2017. We were planning to go to
Thunder Over Louisville to celebrate.
She was feeling fine on our anniversary
11-23-2016. Maybe four or five days after we got back Erin woke up and had about a dime size blood stain on her pillowcase. She said
I think i bit my tongue. A couple days go by and
there’s a bigger spot of blood. We get like 4 days into December, there’s more blood. I get a flashlight and say let me look.
It was not her tongue it was her tonsil on the left side. I thought it was tonsillitis.
So we went to an ENT who said they wanted to biopsy it. It came back squamous cell carcinoma. She started radiation and chemo. Five days a week radiation and chemo only on Thursdays. We did that the whole time. It got so bad so fast. By the
middle of February, Erin could no longer speak
or eat or drink. She had a feeding tube implant and i feed her 6 to 8 times a day. She was still happy, she was active, she texted people on her phone all day. On the 21st she was having trouble
breathing. She woke up on the 22nd, she was not 100%.
She needed Kleenex, so i went to the store and came
back. She was there watching T.V in bed. I
laid down next to her held her right hand in my
left. I feel asleep woke up about a hour later
still holding her hand and she was gone, she was
just gone.. Norton Cancer Institute never said how bad it was.. The coroner told me it was really really bad. It had spread to her spleen, she had alot of fluid in her lungs and part of her brain was
infected. The coroner said even if she was in the hospital being pumped full of antibiotics she still would not of made it. He said it was the best that she was with me and went in her sleep.
So that’s it.
PLEASE feel free to send the above to Any and ALL
news outlets The press has been relentless. they knock on the door constantly. Thank you Harrison County Sheriff’s I Called last night and they came out ran them off got up this morning
they were all back sheriffs ran them all off again. the last time two cop cars ran off the last ones right before it got dark. we will see what tomorrow brings….
PEACE my friends.

Tracy Morgan on His Time at “Saturday Night Live”: “I got to work with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Lorne Michaels, The Force was with me”

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Tracy Morgan on His Time at “Saturday Night Live”: “I got to work with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Lorne Michaels, The Force was with me”

Tracy Morgan, who promised to get “a whole lot of women pregnant” at the 2015 Emmy’s, looked terrific and told me he felt great Sunday evening at the Tribeca Film Festival world premiere of his new film “The Clapper.”
The “30 Rock” comedian entertained journalists on the red carpet where he introduced his “date” as Roz and said he’d get her pregnant right after the screening at the School of Visual Arts Theater.
Among other things, he riffed, “I don’t do the PC thing. I don’t do that. It’s straight up and down 6 o’clock. That’s how I do things.”
Then, “See my lady Roz? I have to get that knocked up.”

“Roz” looked suspiciously like his wife Megan Wollover, who Morgan married after a horrific crash in 2014 that put him in a coma. They have one child.

“The Clapper” is written and directed by Dito Montiel, which he adapted from his book of the same name. The film also stars Ed Helms and Amanda Seyfried. (Adam Levine also has a role.) The film’s described by Tribeca as “a charming and original romantic comedy for our modern, meme-obsessed moment.” (I couldn’t get into the movie, which was sold out and had a long rush line of people who eventually didn’t get in).

Among other things, on the red carpet Morgan talked about Richard Pryor’s influence: “He’s the Messiah! He’s the one who walked on water for us!”

On his stint at Saturday Night Life: “I got to work with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Lorne Michaels, the force was with me.”

On what he and “Roz” do on date night:

“We watch the championship fights. We love our boxing. We talk sports all the time. Me and my lady have things in common. We just don’t do it. We talk and all that. She made some lasagna the other night, six different cheeses.”

Morgan’s worked with Montiel before, in the 2011 Al Pacino cop drama, “The Son of No One.”

What was like working with Dito again?

“He bring out the best in me. I love him. I love him. Dangerous. If a script scares me than I’ll do it. If it don’t move me than I won’t do it. If a script scares me, when I saw this (I ask), can I do this character? If it challenges me, then I’m doing it.”

I asked what he learned about himself taking on the role and if there were any surprises?

“Well you always have surprises because you don’t know what’s inside. You gotta go inside. I learned this trip what connects me to my character? I gotta create a back story. How did he get there? If he’s messed up what made him messed up? All that’s in your head.”

It’s good to see Morgan looking so good and doing what he does best, or second best if you count making women pregnant.

I told him he looked great. How does he feel?

“I feel well. I’m eating a lot of protein.” Then he pointed to his “date” Roz and said, for the hundredth time or so: “Yeah I’m probably going to get her pregnant tonight.”

Was it something about the film that inspired that?

“Yeah, it makes me horny. I’m going to take her back of that school and get her pregnant,” he told journalists before making his way into the theater.

Montiel, who directed Robin Williams in his last film, “Boulevard” and the straight-to-DVD action film “Empire State” staring the Rock and Emma Roberts, may have a winner with “The Clapper.”

(He also made a wonderful film called “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints” which brought Channing Tatum and Shia LaBeouf to prominence. Trudie Styler, who produced “Guide,” was Montiel’s guest along with her husband rock star Sting.)

I asked Montiel, who wore a hoodie and did press long after Ed Helms and Morgan walked into the theater, if being a clapper was actually a profession.

“Now you’ll start noticing them,” he said, telling me the movie was inspired by his real-life experiences of going to L.A. from New York with his friend Eddie (Krumble) to look for jobs.

“He got a job as a clapper, a paid audience member, and he would just laugh on terrible shows and infomercials. He would get $75 a show. And then he got to answer a question on an infomercial and he got an extra $100. But because his face was exposed it screwed him up and he couldn’t get hired for two months,” he said. “The idea of fame screwing you up sounded like something that is kind of happening in the world these days as well, so it was an interesting route to go through.”

As for casting Ed Helms, who has a loopy grin and got famous with “Hangover” movies, he said, “ Ed’s a really great actor but he also brings a smile to it and we needed to have a little bit of a smile or else we can go down a dark hole.”

 

 

Broadway: Outer Critics Go For “Dolly,” “Anastasia,” Snub “Chocolate Factory,” “Bandstand”

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Broadway: Outer Critics Go For “Dolly,” “Anastasia,” Snub “Chocolate Factory,” “Bandstand”

The first Broadway nominations are here from the Outer Critics Circle. They already handled “Dear Evan Hansen” and “Natasha and Pierre” in off Broadway incarnations, so they’re not included. (I think they should change that rule, but no one asked me.) Because of that, next year’s big Broadway winner, “The Band’s Visit,” is going to get gypped when it comes to Broadway. I’ll bet that David Cromer wins Best Director of a Musical this year for its off Broadway debut.

Glenn Close already won Best Actress 23 years ago for “Sunset Boulevard,” so she’s out, too (and out of the Tonys, although she deserves to win again).

Without “Evan Hansen” the musicals are slight. But the group totally snubbed “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” which cost a fortune to mount, and “Bandstand,” which I’m kind of looking forward to. Best Actor in a Drama should go to Kevin Kline for “Present Laughter.” No awards should go to “Hello, Dolly!” for the obnoxious way they’ve treated the press.

Outstanding revival of a play should go to “Jitney.” I’d say “Othello,” which was magnificent, but few people got to see it.

Outer Critics Circle

2016-2017 Award Nominations

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY PLAY

A Doll’s House, Part 2

Indecent

Oslo

Sweat

OUTSTANDING NEW BROADWAY MUSICAL

Anastasia

A Bronx Tale

Come From Away

Groundhog Day

Holiday Inn

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY PLAY

If I Forget

Incognito

A Life

Linda

Love, Love, Love

OUTSTANDING NEW OFF-BROADWAY MUSICAL

The Band’s Visit

Hadestown

Himself and Nora

Kid Victory

Spamilton

OUTSTANDING BOOK OF A MUSICAL

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Terrence McNally     Anastasia

Itamar Moses     The Band’s Visit

Chazz Palminteri     A Bronx Tale

Danny Rubin     Groundhog Day

Irene Sankoff & David Hein     Come From Away

 

OUTSTANDING NEW SCORE

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Stephen Flaherty & Lynn Ahrens     Anastasia

Alan Menken & Glenn Slater     A Bronx Tale

Tim Minchin     Groundhog Day

Irene Sankoff & David Hein     Come From Away

David Yazbek     The Band’s Visit

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A PLAY

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

The Front Page

Jitney

The Little Foxes

Othello

The Price

OUTSTANDING REVIVAL OF A MUSICAL

(Broadway or Off-Broadway)

Finian’s Rainbow

Hello, Dolly!

Miss Saigon

Sunset Boulevard

Sweeney Todd

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A PLAY

Lila Neugebauer     The Wolves

Jack O’Brien     The Front Page

Daniel Sullivan     The Little Foxes

Rebecca Taichman     Indecent

Kate Whoriskey     Sweat

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR OF A MUSICAL

Christopher Ashley     Come From Away

David Cromer     The Band’s Visit

Darko Tresnjak     Anastasia

Matthew Warchus     Groundhog Day

Jerry Zaks     Hello, Dolly!

 

OUTSTANDING CHOREOGRAPHER

Andy Blankenbuehler     Bandstand

Warren Carlyle     Hello, Dolly!

Savion Glover     Shuffle Along

Kelly Devine     Come From Away

Denis Jones     Holiday Inn

 

OUTSTANDING SET DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

Alexander Dodge     Anastasia

Nigel Hook     The Play That Goes Wrong

Mimi Lien     Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

Scott Pask     The Little Foxes

Douglas W. Schmidt     The Front Page

 

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN

(Play or Musical)

Linda Cho     Anastasia

Susan Hilferty     Present Laughter

Santo Loquasto     Hello, Dolly!

Ann Roth     Shuffle Along

Catherine Zuber     War Paint

OUTSTANDING LIGHTING DESIGN

(Play or Musical)
Christopher Akerlind     Indecent

Donald Holder     Anastasia

Natasha Katz     Hello, Dolly!

Bradley King     Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

Kenneth Posner     War Paint

 

OUTSTANDING PROJECTION DESIGN

(Play or Musical)
Duncan McLean     Privacy

Jared Mezzocchi     Vietgone

Benjamin Pearcy for 59 Productions     Oslo

Aaron Rhyne     Anastasia

Tal Yarden     Indecent

OUTSTANDING SOUND DESIGN

(Play or Musical)
Gareth Fry & Pete Malkin     The Encounter

Gareth Owen     Come From Away

Nicholas Pope     Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812

Matt Stine     Sweeney Todd

Nevin Steinberg     Bandstand

 

OUTSTANDING ORCHESTRATIONS

Doug Besterman     Anastasia

Larry Blank     Holiday Inn

Bill Elliott & Greg Anthony Rassen     Bandstand

Larry Hochman     Hello, Dolly!

Jamshied Sharifi     The Band’s Visit

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A PLAY

Daniel Craig     Othello

Michael Emerson     Wakey, Wakey

Kevin Kline     Present Laughter

David Oyelowo     Othello

David Hyde Pierce     A Life

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Janie Dee     Linda

Sally Field     The Glass Menagerie

Allison Janney     Six Degrees of Separation

Laura Linney     The Little Foxes

Laurie Metcalf     A Doll’s House, Part 2

 

OUTSTANDING ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

Christian Borle     Falsettos

Nick Cordero     A Bronx Tale

Andy Karl     Groundhog Day

David Hyde Pierce     Hello, Dolly!

Tony Shalhoub     The Band’s Visit

 

OUTSTANDING ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Christy Altomare     Anastasia

Christine Ebersole     War Paint

Katrina Lenk     The Band’s Visit

Patti LuPone     War Paint

Bette Midler     Hello, Dolly!

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A PLAY

Michael Aronov     Oslo

Danny DeVito     The Price

Nathan Lane     The Front Page

Richard Thomas     The Little Foxes

Richard Topol     Indecent

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A PLAY

Johanna Day     Sweat

Jayne Houdyshell     A Doll’s House, Part 2

Katrina Lenk     Indecent

Nana Mensah     Man From Nebraska

Cynthia Nixon     The Little Foxes    

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTOR IN A MUSICAL

John Bolton     Anastasia

Jeffry Denman     Kid Victory

Gavin Creel     Hello, Dolly!

Shuler Hensley     Sweet Charity

Andrew Rannells     Falsettos

OUTSTANDING FEATURED ACTRESS IN A MUSICAL

Kate Baldwin     Hello, Dolly!

Stephanie J. Block     Falsettos

Jenn Colella     Come From Away

Caroline O’Connor     Anastasia  

Mary Beth Peil     Anastasia

 

OUTSTANDING SOLO PERFORMANCE

Ed Dixon     Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose

Marin Ireland     On the Exhale

Sarah Jones     Sell / Buy / Date    

Judith Light     All the Ways to Say I Love You

Simon McBurney     The Encounter

JOHN GASSNER AWARD

(Presented for an American play, preferably by a new playwright)

Jaclyn Backhaus     Men on Boats

Sarah DeLappe     The Wolves

Paola Lázaro     Tell Hector I Miss Him

Qui Nguyen     Vietgone

Bess Wohl     Small Mouth Sounds

“Bad Boy” Will Smith Added to Cannes Jury Along with Jessica Chastain, Jury President Pedro Almodovar

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“Bad Boy” Will Smith Added to Cannes Jury Along with Jessica Chastain, Jury President Pedro Almodovar

Cannes takes an odd turn next month. Will Smith, of all people, has been added to the main jury. Hmmm…Not exactly from the “arty” end of Hollywood, Smith should be an interesting choice. What will he make of films by Sofia Coppola or Noah Baumbach? Or, for that matter, what will he think of four films starring Nicole Kidman? That should be interesting.

More on target is the addition of Jessica Chastain, who will most definitely get “it.” Also director Paolo Sorrentino and Maren Ade, actress FanBingBing, France’s Agnes Jaoui, Park Chan-Wook, and composer Gabriel Yared.

Pedro Almodovar is the head of the jury for the 70th anniversary of Cannes. Unusual choices.
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