Where's Michael Riedel?

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Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 2:14pm

Anyone else having issues finding his column on the Post today? My bookmark to the Theatre page of the Post takes me to the Entertainment page and I don't see his name listed as a columnist on the Entertainment page or the Page Six section. When I googled his name, the link to his page leads to an error message.

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Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 2:20pm

Did they recently change to that format? Could be bugs in the system.

I was able to access his articles via this link. Last one was posted yesterday.

http://nypost.com/author/michael-riedel/

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Updated On: 9/6/13 at 02:20 PM

Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 2:23pm

Thanks, son_of_a_gunn_25, this is the link that came up on Google and it led to an error message.
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Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 2:25pm

Something is wonky with that site. I couldn't get it with the usual link either.

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Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 2:31pm

They've totally redone the site to keep up with the other local papers, stole a bunch of people from other sites to make it happen. I like it does mean changing my Riedel Bookmark!

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Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 2:32pm

Yeah. Google probably hasn't indexed the new navigation yet. I found his articles by going to the NYP website, looking for any columnists name on the main page and clicked their link.

It showed http://nypost.com/author/firstname-lastname/ for that columnist so I just plugged in Michael Reidel's name.

I initially tried doing a search for him using the NYP site search, but only four results came up. So something wonky is definitely going on with their site.

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Updated On: 9/6/13 at 02:32 PM

Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 2:34pm

He's off having a threesome with Susan Haskell and John Simon.
He'll be back soon.... and Susan will have a new rug.

Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 2:45pm

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Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 2:52pm

The new design doesn't have the "columnists" tab so he's a little hard to find.

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Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 3:03pm

He went to Disneyworld

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#11

Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 3:18pm

Today I had to Google his name and then had to go to entertainment to find him.

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#12

Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 5:15pm

Here's the link to (what looks like) his most recent column, about Amanda Plummer's diva antics: http://nypost.com/2013/09/05/diva-amanda-plummer-a-nightmare-backstage/

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Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 5:19pm

Part of that article is wrong. The audience never got inside the theater. They were told about the cancellation by house mgmt. in the lobby. The house never opened.

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#14

Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 5:48pm

Would someone please copy and paste the article? I've been bounced around so many times thru the various links. Something is wonky. Much thanks.

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Where's Michael Riedel?

Posted: 9/6/13 at 5:57pm

Here is his Friday column:

Today’s special — diva dish! The diva is Amanda Plummer, one of our finest, if battiest, stage actors. And here’s the dish: Plummer received rave reviews as the demented actress in “The Two-Character Play,” an obscure Tennessee Williams melodrama running at off-Broadway’s New World Stages. The Times’ Ben Brantley described her character as a “raging paranoiac, blessed and cursed by a talent [she] can no longer control.”

That’s pretty much how people working on the show describe Plummer herself.

Since the production opened in June, nearly 15 performances have been canceled, several because Plummer refused to go on. Two weeks ago, she canceled the Wednesday matinee two minutes before the curtain went up because she saw particles of dust floating around in the lights. “It’s too distracting. I can’t perform with all this dust in the air,” she told the management. Her co-star, Brad Dourif, came onstage and told the sold-out house the show was off.

The pair didn’t show up for that evening’s performance either, so their woefully under-rehearsed standbys, Rob Sedgwick and Elize Russell, performed with scripts in hand. Russell wore Plummer’s costume, which was “too big and baggy for her,” says a source, and Sedgwick practically tripped over the furniture. Most of the paying customers left when they learned the stars were out. Sources say the standbys rattled around in front of about 13 people.

Plummer usually has Tuesdays off. But since the July Fourth weekend started on Thursday, the producers added a Tuesday performance. Plummer was having none of it. She missed her half-hour call and didn’t return several frantic messages from the stage manager. The performance was canceled.

Early in the run, she fell off the stage and injured herself — a legitimate reason to miss some performances. But with so many canceled shows, the producers are bleeding money and, sources say, decided to close the production at the end of the month. (Plummer and Dourif will miss performances Monday and Wednesday due to a death in Dourif’s family. Sources say she refuses to perform without him.)

Backstage, Plummer has been “a nightmare,” a source says. She refused to perform if the air conditioning was on, even in the middle of the summer. The management turned it way down, so she couldn’t hear it, but that led to complaints from sweltering audience members.

New World Stages is made up of several theaters, one of which is home to “iLuminate,” a hip-hop musical. Plummer hates noise backstage and “flipped out” one night because she could hear the bass player from “iLuminate,” says a source. She stood in front of the theater shouting, “I’m not doing the show until you turn off that music!” (Soundproof padding was hastily installed.)

Plummer has a reputation for being a diva. She’s been let go from shows in the past (“Art of Success” at Manhattan Theatre Club), and when she appeared in the off-Broadway play “Abundance,” Times reporter Alex Witchel described her as “someone who can call her own shots.” One night, Plummer took a strong dislike to her wig, delaying the 8 p.m. curtain nearly an hour. (At least there wasn’t a dust problem.)

“The Two-Character Play” has been troubled from the start. The director, Gene David Kirk, was let go during technical rehearsals after reportedly clashing with the stage manager. His picture was posted at the stage door with orders that he not be admitted to the theater. Shortly after, the lighting designer quit and, in a fit of pique, sources say, erased all the lighting cues.

Plummer refuses to speak to her producers, and sources say they’re considering lodging a complaint about her with Actors’ Equity.

Plummer was unavailable for comment.

In a statement, the producers said: “We offer no comment on these allegations. Ms. Plummer is the production’s ‘raison d’etre.’ When one desires to put on the best production possible, one hires the best .?.?. She is a theatrical treasure as her performance confirms and her reviews record.”

Plummer is from a storied theatrical family. Her mother is Tammy Grimes, and her father is Christopher Plummer. They divorced in 1960 and, as he wrote in his memoir, the family’s relationships were strained. Apparently, there’s still trouble with Mom. A source says Plummer “neglected” to leave a ticket for Grimes on opening night. (The box office managed to find her a seat.)

As for Dad, he attended a later performance — but left at intermission.

“I just have to go,” he muttered to a theater staffer. “Don’t let her know.”

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Updated On: 9/6/13 at 05:57 PM

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Posted: 9/6/13 at 6:18pm

I also tried typing in his name in the NYPost search bar and got articles from May even though I sorted it from newest to oldest, it was odd. Thanks again for the link. That Amanda Plummer column was typical juicy Riedel, he had been slacking off lately with columns like the one where he "previewed" the Fall season. I read Riedel for juicy, indulgent and sometimes enraging posts, not to get a preview of the Fall season.

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Posted: 9/6/13 at 6:20pm

Like Riedel or hate him, his brand of writing makes Broadway exciting to read about.

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#18

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Posted: 9/7/13 at 11:55am

Oh, and 15 performances have not been cancelled.

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Posted: 9/8/13 at 3:38pm

Oh my GOD! How delicious is that Amanda Plummer gossip? I love her! Not since Faye Dunaway toured in Master Class has there been such satisfying tea! Well, maybe Randy Quaid and his wife during the tryout of Lone Star Love!

Please God let my trusty bootleg source have Two-Character Play available soon.

If you've never seen Plummer in Butterfly Kiss or American Perfeckt give them a try. And please God will someone put Cattle Annie and Little Britches on DVD soon.

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Posted: 9/8/13 at 3:38pm

....Or maybe the best gossip since Joan Collins wrote that diary about working with Linda Evans on the LEGENDS tour!

Updated On: 9/8/13 at 03:38 PM

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