Schoenfeld Memorial
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Posted: 2/4/09 at 5:28pmMaybe.
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Posted: 2/9/09 at 4:08pm
Broadway royalty remembers Gerald Schoenfeld
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK -- Theater royalty from Angela Lansbury to Helen Mirren to Andrew Lloyd Webber turned out to remember Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman of the powerful Shubert Organization, Broadway's biggest landlord.
A celebrity-packed crowd - including Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters - filled the Majestic Theatre, home of "The Phantom of the Opera," one of Schoenfeld's biggest hits. Among the speakers Monday honoring Schoenfeld, who died last November, were Hugh Jackman, Jeremy Irons, Whoopi Goldberg and New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Between speeches, songs were heard from some of the Shubert Organization's biggest hits including "Cats" and "A Chorus Line," as well as from such shows as "Amour," "Chess" and "Passing Strange" - shows Schoenfeld loved and produced but were not commercial successes.
Schoenfeld Memorial
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#4re: Schoenfeld Memorial
Posted: 2/9/09 at 8:03pm
More details on how Hugh and the other actors regarded Gerry Schoenfeld.
He did seem like a proud parent!
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20257928,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines
And even more anecdotes --
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/126130.html
Updated On: 2/9/09 at 08:03 PM
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