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Posted: 6/10/09 at 12:16am
"Plans are afoot for a Broadway revival of 1937 Rodgers and Hart tuner "Babes in Arms" to star Rosie O'Donnell.
Randy Skinner, recently Tony-nommed as choreographer of "Irving Berlin's White Christmas," is attached to helm and choreograph the production, which has a new book by Joe DiPietro ("Memphis").
Producers Gerald Goehring, Pat Addiss and Michael F. Mitri organized private readings of "Babes" in Gotham last month with O'Donnell, last on Broadway in "Fiddler on the Roof" in 2005, and Shuler Hensley ("Young Frankenstein") among the cast.
Although no timeline for the brewing production has been nailed down nor has fund-raising begun, producers hope to have a plan in place by the end of the summer, according to Goehring (also producing the upcoming tuner version of "A Christmas Story") and Addiss ("Passing Strange," "The 39 Steps").
New version of "Babes in Arms" retains the storyline of the Depression-era original, in which a chorine (O'Donnell) helps a group of kids put on a show in order to keep them from being sent to a workfarm. Book was originally penned by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart..."
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004726.html?categoryid=15&cs=1
Randy Skinner, recently Tony-nommed as choreographer of "Irving Berlin's White Christmas," is attached to helm and choreograph the production, which has a new book by Joe DiPietro ("Memphis").
Producers Gerald Goehring, Pat Addiss and Michael F. Mitri organized private readings of "Babes" in Gotham last month with O'Donnell, last on Broadway in "Fiddler on the Roof" in 2005, and Shuler Hensley ("Young Frankenstein") among the cast.
Although no timeline for the brewing production has been nailed down nor has fund-raising begun, producers hope to have a plan in place by the end of the summer, according to Goehring (also producing the upcoming tuner version of "A Christmas Story") and Addiss ("Passing Strange," "The 39 Steps").
New version of "Babes in Arms" retains the storyline of the Depression-era original, in which a chorine (O'Donnell) helps a group of kids put on a show in order to keep them from being sent to a workfarm. Book was originally penned by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart..."
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004726.html?categoryid=15&cs=1
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.
