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And Mary Todd Lincoln made the Stylish List

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/style/best-dressed-people-2024.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fE4.vDSX.k_YKCUqIf7ZD

WSJ:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-best-theater-of-2024-surprising-stagings-and-new-perspectives-7a97f86f?st=1V8u3N

Fleetwood Mac Producer Settles Lawsuit Over Broadway's ‘Stereophonic’

 

https://www.billboard.com/pro/fleetwood-mac-rumours-producer-ken-caillat-settles-copyright-lawsuit/

https://deadline.com/2024/12/get-happy-broadway-ocrbin-bleu-stephanie-styles-1236189132/

Wicked’ Named Best Picture by National Board of Review

 

https://variety.com/2024/film/awards/national-board-of-review-winners-2024-wicked-1236225469

Hear Jonathan Groff Sing As Bobby Darin For the First Time

 

https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/hear-jonathan-groff-sing-three-new-songs-bobby-darin-billboard-exclusive-1235842531/

Broadway Star Gavin Creel Honored in Emotional Memorial Service

 

https://variety.com/2024/legit/news/gavin-creel-memorial-service-broadway-hello-dolly-hair-1236232299

Momma Rose’s Many Faces, From Ethel Merman to Audra McDonald

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/theater/gypsy-audra-mcdonald-broadway.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eU4.TBPJ.UmXLuDz74E2K

StylishCynic said: "Company (Marianne Elliott) had "I <3 NY" totes birthday party hats inside for both first previews. The ushershanded out balloons upon exit, also. The 2022 (second) first preview also included a Company face mask inside of the totes."

Sadly, too many people wore their hats when the show started, blocking the view of the stage from those around them.

 

Wicked Movie: All the Changes Made to Musical and Every Reference

 

https://variety.com/lists/wicked-movie-changes-musical-references/

'Wicked’ Box Office: All the Records the Movie Musical Shattered on Opening Weekend

 

https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/wicked-box-office-opening-weekend-records-1236222111/

 

Spencer Lawton Jr., D.A. in ‘Midnight in the Garden’ Case, Dies at 81

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/books/spencer-lawton-jr-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cE4.3Z2T.gYQrWYLHpytR

Box Office: Wicked Has $19.2 Million in Previews, Gladiator 2 at $6.5M

https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/box-office-wicked-gladiator-2-previews-thursday-1236217142/

NYT ‘The Piano Lesson’ Review: Ghosts in the Instrument

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/movies/the-piano-lesson-review.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b04.Y45V.1w-cV6NsNh_e

‘The Blood Quilt’ Review: An Elaborate Tapestry

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/theater/the-blood-quilt-review.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b04.2L8D.-0682_o2BnJF

MemorableUserName said: "Green in NYT is mixed. Positive on the stars, not the show

Review: In ‘Death Becomes Her,’ Spiking the Fountain of Youth

Hilarious star turns from Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard make the mostly unfunny 1992 film into an intermittently memorable Broadway musical.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/theater/death-becomes-her-review-hilty-simard.html

"Especially after the inventive first scenes, the show is a bit like that too: It keeps going despite being disconnected. At some point, even though I knew it well, I lost the thread of the story and found myself waiting for the musical numbers. Even then, the more-is-more physical production eventually started to cloy (purple sets by Derek McLane, saturated lighting by Justin Townsend, congested sound by Peter Hylenski), and a feeling of overfamiliarity set in as each new sororal torture was hymned.

Still, Hilty and Simard are tireless, forever pulling vocal drama and line-reading surprises out of their Swarovski-encrusted imaginations. You do not think too often, and probably not as much as you should, about the unfortunate tradition of catfights in Broadway musicals. (Listen to“Bosom Buddies” from “Mame”and“There’s Always a Woman” from “Anyone Can Whistle.”) In any case, by the finale — a smart wrap-up equivocally called “The End” — the spicy enmity between Madeline and Helen has long since cooked down to companionate carping. Tending their empty graves, they finally have a common enemy: their own immortality.""

Gift link

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/theater/death-becomes-her-review-hilty-simard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b04.phsW.50MZng-fg5ik

 

 

 

NYT: 6 Minutes. 62 People. 1 Epic ‘Sunset Boulevard’ Sequence.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/theater/sunset-boulevard-broadway-outdoor.html?unlocked_article_code=1.b04.UEP3.TkZUx7jI4tyL

4th and 5th row Orchestra Center still available for tonight. Price drop: $216.

Seven Elphabas from ‘Wicked’ talk going green and defying gravity

Washington Post gift link

https://wapo.st/4hZ8XG0