Famous Broadway Rivalries/Romances- Page 4

[lusciouslace]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 3:45am

Eris- Yep. I read about that on these boards, too. Did some searching and found the link from his former fiance's blog. You get a pretty idea of what happened there, at least from her side.

http://www.chrishell.net/pages/journal.htm

[Eris0303]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 4:19am

Gosh, well there's that. I don't keep on top of these things. I never know who's dating who or what not.

[Joshua488]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 5:52am

Ooh, she has no shame. I love it.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 6:33am

"Another incorrect entry in Wikipedia. The incident happened during the curtain call. Williamson negatively misinterpreted something he heard the innocent Handler say to a colleague while Nicol took his bow. Enraged, Williamson slapped him in full view of the cast and the audience.

J.M. Barrie
Kensington, London"

Mr. Barrie, I think you may be thinking of the incident that occurred during the run of Rex, when (or so the official story goes) a dancer named Jim Litten said, "That's a wrap" during a curtain call, and Williamson thought he'd said, "That was crap" and slapped him.

Herbert von Karajan
Salzburg, Austria

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 10:01am

I always hated your Teutonic style of conducting, Herbie.






A. Toscanini
Milan, Italy

[MungoGypsy8232]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 1:29pm

Kristin Chenoweth and Marc Kudisch would have made beautiful theatre babies if they hadn't broken their engagement

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 2:00pm

Hey, look who's back, said Mattbrain with ill disguised sarcasm.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 2:06pm

"I always hated your Teutonic style of conducting, Herbie.






A. Toscanini
Milan, Italy"

That is very disappointing since I had been led to believe from your own statements that you liked my 1947 recording of the German Requiem, not to mention that I have always revered your conducting and modeled my conducting largely on yours (far more than on Furtwängler's), albeit with my own style.

Nonetheless, I continue to regard as one of the greatest of all conductors.

Regards,
Herbert von Karajan
Milan, Italy (What can I say? They want me everywhere.)

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 2:12pm

"Kristin Chenoweth and Marc Kudisch would have made beautiful theatre babies if they hadn't broken their engagement"

I have a friend who was in Phantom with them at the North Shore Music Theatre (the Maury Yeston Phantom)

Updated On: 1/19/08 at 02:12 PM

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 11:04pm

"I had been led to believe from your own statements that you liked my 1947 recording of the German Requiem..."

I lied.





Arturo "I liked Guido Cantelli better" Toscanini
Milan, Italy

[Elphabuff2]

Posted: 1/19/08 at 11:15pm

vinnylin, thank you for posting that article. Very interesting, and you backed up your facts well. Thanks.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 6:23am

Ah, I greatly admired your protegé, Guido. His untimely passing was indeed a loss.

Yours,
Fluffy
Berlin (Like I said.)

[cfmiller]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 1:10pm

What about Sondheim and Neil Patrick Harris? Or is that just a rumor?

[DivaBrigader]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 1:24pm

Two of the showmance scandals I seem to remember was the affair between the married Rebecca Luker and the married Mark Jacoby in "Showboat" and Stanley Tucci briefly leaving his wife for Edie Falco during "Frankie and Johnny" but then going back to her.

[suicidalmickeymouse]

Posted: 1/20/08 at 1:26pm

Ahh....my fave B'way romance will always be Tidina... Taye and Idina fell in love while working on RENT! :)

[Queen of the Night]

Posted: 1/21/08 at 9:47pm

in the Broadway romance department, I can't believe that nobody's mentioned Charlotte d'Amboise and Terrence Mann, who've been married for years. Plus, Hugh Panaro was married for a time to Tracy Shayne--they played Marius and Cosette opposite each other and they were both in Phantom together (I think he was playing Raoul then to her Christine).

[winston89]

Posted: 1/21/08 at 9:59pm

I thought there was an interview with LBB on Broadway.com where she said that she met her current Boyfriend at a bar during tech for Hairspray.

This was the same infamous interview that got people to laugh at her because she says she goes into porn shops.


http://www.broadway.com/gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=551592&pn=2

Updated On: 1/21/08 at 09:59 PM

[The Distinctive Baritone]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 12:53am

Yes, (re: Frankie and Johnny) having a straight actor and a straight actress do a nude scene together might bring them to think, "Well at this point we might as well just go home together after the show and get it over with."

[dramaparoxysm23]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 2:14am

Did anyone mention ALW and Sarah Brightman?

[winston89]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 2:27am

No because people try to forget about that one.

The only reason she got cast in Phantom was because she was banging the composer.

[Joshua488]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 5:10am

Didn't he write the show specifically for her? I think that's one step above getting cast because you're sleeping with the composer.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 9:38am

With the Lloyd Webber/LuPone thing - I though part of the problem was that there wasn't a written contract saying she would open the US production, just an 'understanding'. When the American backers (NOT Lloyd Webber) demanded a bigger star for the lead, Glenn Close was brought it at Patti LuPone's expense. Unfortuntely, Lloyd Webber didn't have the grace to tell her and she found out second (or third) hand.

[nobodyhome]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 9:44am

"With the Lloyd Webber/LuPone thing - I though part of the problem was that there wasn't a written contract saying she would open the US production, just an 'understanding'. When the American backers (NOT Lloyd Webber) demanded a bigger star for the lead, Glenn Close was brought it at Patti LuPone's expense. Unfortuntely, Lloyd Webber didn't have the grace to tell her and she found out second (or third) hand."

I'm pretty sure LuPone had a contract.

For one thing, if she hadn't had one, they wouldn't have had to come to a settlement with her. As Sam Goldwyn reputedly said, a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 10:27am

Actually that would make more sense - especially as the out of court settlement was rumoured to be fairly sizable...

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/22/08 at 1:39pm

"Actually that would make more sense - especially as the out of court settlement was rumoured to be fairly sizable..."

Enought for Patti to put in a pool (or was it a fountain?).


And while we're talking romances, we can include David Mamet and Lindsay Crouse and David Mamet and Rebecca Pidgeon.