BROADWAY MAGAZINE- Midnight, and the critics are sleeping… On March 14, 1997,The New York Times prints an article praising Cats for being on the verge of becoming the longest-running show on Broadway at the time, surpassing A Chorus Line (the original, not the revival). In the Footlights section of the NYT’s On Stage, Off Stage feature, the Times reported:
On June 19, ”Cats” becomes the longest-running musical in Broadway history, overtaking ”A Chorus Line,” which ran for 6,137 performances. To mark the occasion, the show’s producers are bringing back Laurie Beechman in the role of Grizabella from May 16 to Sept. 14.
Now and Forever…almost.
-Ashley Trombley, Broadway Magazine
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“We need to work together to dispel this ignorance…and I know Jim Cameron would want people to know about it.”
Sigourney Weaver is the star of the biggest movie of all time, Avatar, which at last count has earned nearly 3 Billion dollars at the box office, not to mention winning big at the Academy Awards last week.Lastnight in NYC, Weaver was being honored for her work in the Lifetime movie Prayers For Bobby, the movie, about a boy’s suicide because he was gay, and a mother’s grief and longing to understand how she could change for the better, won the Glaad award for Outstanding TV Movie.
Sigourney starred in Prayers For Bobby a couple of years ago, and she could have never imagined how the success of Avatar would help in getting the message out that we are all equal.
Watch the inspiring video with Sigourney Weaver and why James Cameron’s Avatar has helped in more way’s than one, and why Jim would be proud that his film helped support Prayers For Bobby.
“It show’s that someone thinks I’m doing something good in this world.”"
Joy Behar is a passionate person, and Glaad coudn’t ask for a better advocate for equal human rights.
Behar spoke to on why she is so passionate about having a voice for people that feel powerless to stand up for themselves, why she loves Ellen on Idol, and why the kids from The Jersey Shore need help.
Watch to find out why the amazing Joy Behar received the Excellence in Media Award at the 2010 Glaad Awards.
Most know Reichen Lehmkuhl as the former Air Force Pilot, and season 4 winner of The Amazing Race where he and his partner were the first gay couple to win the reality series.
We caught up with Lehmkuhl at the 2010 Glaad Awards last night in New York and talked to him about his new Off-Broadway show.
We couldn’t be more excited for Lehmkuhl as he is about to star Off-Broadway in My Big Gay Italian Wedding.
The 2010 Glaad Awards was a star studded event, and one of the stud star’s we caught up with was Ugly Betty and Off-Broadway star of The Temperamentals, Michael Urie.
Urie and cast told us how much Glaad means to them, and why they love there Off-Broadway show The Temperamentals.
The cast also told us how excited they are for Vanessa Williams and her new Broadway show Sondheim on Sondheim.
In the last few weeks we have caught up with Sarah Paulson several times, at The Miracle Worker opening, A Behanding In Spokane opening, and lastnight at the 2010 Glaad Awards.
Paulson talked about her new Broadway show Collected Stories and her co-star Linda Lavin, and how much she loved Time Stands Still on Broadway, and why she is obsessed with the Real Housewives of New York City star Jill Zarin.
“Oh, Wow, Wow, Broadway..Well I’d Be There The 1st Day.”
Geoffrey Fletcher made history at the 82nd annual Academy Awards by winning an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” as the first African-American to do so.
We caught up with Fletcher at the 2010 Glaad Awards in New York lastnight.
Fletcher was pleasantly surprised when we asked him if he had thought of bringing Precious to Broadway.
See what Fletcher as a newly minted Oscar Winner had to say!
HAIR is one of our favorite Broadway shows, and we spoke with a few of the cast members at the 2010 Glaad Awards in NYC lastnight.
The cast told us what the Glaad Awards mean to them, how excited they are for HAIR London, and find out what Gavin Creel thinks of Sigourney Weaver as a blue Avatar!
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