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| Friday night I had a chance to see The Light in the Piazza at Lincoln Center. It is a beautiful, romantic and lush musical. It won six Tony awards tonight. If you are in NYC this summer, go see it. Lincoln Center has $20 student tickets available for day of performance.
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| I saw two shows this week: Altar Boyz and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Both were great in very different ways.
Altar Boyz was a great parody of a Christian Boy Band. If you ever have listened to CCM then this show is for you if you can take some ribbing at the idea of the commercialization of the gospel through slick singing and dancing. To give you an idea of what the show is like, the Altar Boyz are named Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juan and Abraham (the Jewish one!).
Tickets only cost $21 for T, W, TR night performances if you buy your tickets between 6 and 8 pm at the box office.
Check it out: http://www.dodgerstages.com/4-altarboyz.htm
And remember: They Sing, They Dance, They Save!
Spelling Bee is nominated for Best Musical at the Tony Awards (which take place next Sunday evening). That tells you the caliber of show that it is. This show is also a parody but this one focuses on the nerdy/outsider middle school students of Spelling Bee mania. The performers are all adults, of course, but they really nail the insecurities and awkwardness of the wonder years!
This one has a lottery drawing like Wicked but unlike Wicked they start selling Standing Room Only Tickets after the daily drawing. Tickets are normally $95 but I saw it for $25 SRO.
Ask me about either of these if you are still in the city and want to see them. | | |
| This is the last I will post on this. It looks official:
Arrested Development's Coming Back!
Posted May 16, 2005, 10:49 AM ET by Karina Longworth
Filed under: Sitcom, FOX, Arrested Development  Thank you, Peter Liguori - thank you. Days before Thursday's "upfront" presentation of the fall schedule, the head of Fox Entertainment has announced that Arrested Development will definitely be back in the fall for a third season. E! Online's TV gossip Kristin had inferred last week that the network had perhaps ordered two full seasons - all this from a cryptic reference made by star Jason Bateman to "twins" - but, uh, no matter how much we love the Bluth family, that would have just been insane, and today's statement suggested a standard, 22-episode, one season pickup. Still - yay! Frozen bananas all around! Also back on the FOX schedule: Pam Anderson titcom Stacked, and, somewhat surprisingly, The Bernie Mac Show. According to Variety, "news doesn't appear to be good for laffers Quintuplets or Life on a Stick."
Man, I can't wait for the follow-up on George Michael and Maeby's kiss. What tenuous AD plot thread are you dying to get back to in season three?
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| This may be a bit premature as any sort of official announcement does not come out until sometime this Thursday but according to E online:
Hallelujah! Arrested Development fans, brace yourselves. I have some good news and--well, you might want to sit down for this--some mind-blowing, earth-shattering, out-of-this-world fantastic news.
Earlier this week, a friend here at E! interviewed Jason Bateman at a charity event with his good friend Ben Stiller. When asked the status of Arrested Development, he lit up like a banana stand: "Actually, great. Supergreat. There is a heartbeat. There is no flatline. And there may be twins. I'm going to let Kristin figure out what that means. I can't comment any further, but there will be an announcement next week."
After various calls to Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Pamela Anderson and Jennifer Garner's OB-GYN re "twins," I can tell you that Jason's little hint had nothing whatsoever to do with any of those things. And while there are 17 listings for a J. Bateman in the local Hollywood white pages, none of them know a damned thing about the fate of Arrested Development. But glory be, after much badgering and pestering, two rock-solid Fox sources, who have never failed me before, caved and gave me the lowdown.
Arrested Development is coming back! These highly placed sources confirmed late Friday it has been renewed for a full season of 22 episodes. How freaking fantastic is that?
Initially, Fox president Peter Liguori's plan was to order two seasons--hence, the "twins" reference--in order to keep the licensing fee down. But ultimately he went with a single season. And hey, I'll take it.
According to these insiders, even though the ratings weren't exactly American Idol numbers, Liguori, bless his perceptive little heart, has faith that the show will do well in a different time slot. He also wants to bring AD up to the magical episode number required for syndication and feels the show will do very well in repeats and also in DVD. Can I get a "Hell, yeah!"?
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