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Posted: 4/24/09 at 8:03am
According to Michael Reidel in The Post:
"The new Stephen Sondheim show with the title that makes me cringe -- "iSondheim" -- has been salvaged from the recession.
The show, fashioned around several on-camera interviews with the legendary songwriter about his life and work, was supposed to have had a pre-Broadway tryout in Atlanta this summer. But it was scrapped when the producers couldn't raise the $4 million capitalization.
Enter the Roundabout Theatre Company, which, given the critical drubbing it's taken this year for misfires such as "Pal Joey," could certainly use a winner.
The theater has picked up "iSondheim" and will produce it next year on Broadway, very possibly with Barbara Cook as the headliner..."
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04242009/entertainment/theater/cook_could_be_key_ingredient_for_isondhe_165862.htm
"The new Stephen Sondheim show with the title that makes me cringe -- "iSondheim" -- has been salvaged from the recession.
The show, fashioned around several on-camera interviews with the legendary songwriter about his life and work, was supposed to have had a pre-Broadway tryout in Atlanta this summer. But it was scrapped when the producers couldn't raise the $4 million capitalization.
Enter the Roundabout Theatre Company, which, given the critical drubbing it's taken this year for misfires such as "Pal Joey," could certainly use a winner.
The theater has picked up "iSondheim" and will produce it next year on Broadway, very possibly with Barbara Cook as the headliner..."
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04242009/entertainment/theater/cook_could_be_key_ingredient_for_isondhe_165862.htm
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
