Gypsy News

Occasional contributor Bill Katz holds down the fort over at Urgent Agenda . In his column today, Bill draws in part on his experience working for The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson: Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Karl Malden, Michael Jackson.

The marquees of the Broadway theatres will be dimmed July 2 at 8 PM for one minute to pay tribute to the late actor Karl Malden, who died July 1 at age 97.

Karl Malden, a former steelworker who won an Oscar for his role as Mitch in the 1951 classic "A Streetcar Named Desire," died Wednesday, July 1, 2009.

Karl Malden, a versatile character actor who won an Academy Award for a role he created on the Broadway stage - Mitch in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire - died at his home in Los Angeles on July 1 of natural causes.

I was certain that veteran actor Karl Malden was immortal. I am sad to be wrong.

The Tibbits Professional Summer Theatre of Coldwater has a storied history of reviving old, sometime forgotten shows in its historic opera house.

Rose is "one of the few really great roles in musical theater,A' Arthur Laurents said of the character who sits squarely at the center of "Gypsy,A' the musical being revived -- yet again -- on Broadway.

Additional casting has been announced for the one-night-only benefit performance of the Jule Styne musical Funny Girl , which will be presented July 11 at the Paramount Theatre on the Boardwalk in Asbury Park, NJ.

Recent 2009 Tony Award Honor for Excellence in the Theatre recipient Shirley Herz is featured in a fanatstic article in The New York Times on the bygone days of the theatrical press agent.

Below are BroadwayWorld.com's most popular articles from Saturday, June 20, 2009.

The Alabama Symphony Orchestra concluded its Sounds For Summer series Friday night with something a bang -- this from a thunderstorm that sent audience members scurrying to their cars just minutes into the concert.

W hen I last went to Las Vegas almost four years ago, I made a list of reasons I'd never return: expensive; garish; badly dressed people; horrible traffic; too many ventriloquist, impressionist and magician shows; taxes and service charges on everything ; the feeling you're being had.

Chicago's Harris Theater for Music and Dance will welcome Tony Award winners Stephen Sondheim and Christine Ebersole in 2010.

Bay Area playwright Joel Roster has written a bouncy, sometimes bittersweet sort of musical homage to love and theater - and the love of theater.

Packing a big musical into a small theater is something the San Luis Obispo Little Theatre does well.

In the world of Broadway musicals, nobody leaves the theater humming the orchestrations.

MUSIC Sarasota Orchestra: 'Across America!' The Sarasota Orchestra has had a wonderful season with exciting concerts, fine performances and innovative programs.

There's not much to be said about almost everyone's favorite Broadway show, Gypsy , which brought Ethel Merman back to the great white way after an absence of several years.

Barbara Walsh and Tony Award winners Karen Ziemba and Adriane Lenox will headline the pre-Broadway production of The First Wives Club , which will be presented at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego July 15-August 23, directed by Francesco Zambello.

When she was an incorrigible 4-year-old, Tyne Daly recalls in her ebullient cabaret act "Songs," she was taken to see Jean Arthur in a Broadway adaptation of "Peter Pan" and afterward went backstage where she was shown all the trickery.