Scenes from Matilda the Musical I got the chance to peek around backstage just before showtime and it was pretty cool — a window into the dark childhood landscapes of Roald Dahl. The show’s been one of the most highly-reviewed of the season. It’s up for 12 Tony awards, including Best Musical — pitting it against Kinky Boots, which is also up for a slew of awards and was scored by Cyndi Lauper (a Queens native).  One award it won’t claim at the Tonys is for Best Actress. The 4 girls who took turns playing Matilda were ruled ineligible for a joint award. Oddly enough, the 3 guys who played the lead role in Billy Elliot did win the best actor award in 2006.
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Scenes from Matilda the Musical I got the chance to peek around backstage just before showtime and it was pretty cool — a window into the dark childhood landscapes of Roald Dahl. The show’s been one of the most highly-reviewed of the season. It’s up for 12 Tony awards, including Best Musical — pitting it against Kinky Boots, which is also up for a slew of awards and was scored by Cyndi Lauper (a Queens native).  One award it won’t claim at the Tonys is for Best Actress. The 4 girls who took turns playing Matilda were ruled ineligible for a joint award. Oddly enough, the 3 guys who played the lead role in Billy Elliot did win the best actor award in 2006.
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Scenes from Matilda the Musical I got the chance to peek around backstage just before showtime and it was pretty cool — a window into the dark childhood landscapes of Roald Dahl. The show’s been one of the most highly-reviewed of the season. It’s up for 12 Tony awards, including Best Musical — pitting it against Kinky Boots, which is also up for a slew of awards and was scored by Cyndi Lauper (a Queens native).  One award it won’t claim at the Tonys is for Best Actress. The 4 girls who took turns playing Matilda were ruled ineligible for a joint award. Oddly enough, the 3 guys who played the lead role in Billy Elliot did win the best actor award in 2006.
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Scenes from Matilda the Musical I got the chance to peek around backstage just before showtime and it was pretty cool — a window into the dark childhood landscapes of Roald Dahl. The show’s been one of the most highly-reviewed of the season. It’s up for 12 Tony awards, including Best Musical — pitting it against Kinky Boots, which is also up for a slew of awards and was scored by Cyndi Lauper (a Queens native).  One award it won’t claim at the Tonys is for Best Actress. The 4 girls who took turns playing Matilda were ruled ineligible for a joint award. Oddly enough, the 3 guys who played the lead role in Billy Elliot did win the best actor award in 2006.
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Scenes from Matilda the Musical I got the chance to peek around backstage just before showtime and it was pretty cool — a window into the dark childhood landscapes of Roald Dahl. The show’s been one of the most highly-reviewed of the season. It’s up for 12 Tony awards, including Best Musical — pitting it against Kinky Boots, which is also up for a slew of awards and was scored by Cyndi Lauper (a Queens native).  One award it won’t claim at the Tonys is for Best Actress. The 4 girls who took turns playing Matilda were ruled ineligible for a joint award. Oddly enough, the 3 guys who played the lead role in Billy Elliot did win the best actor award in 2006.
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Scenes from Matilda the Musical I got the chance to peek around backstage just before showtime and it was pretty cool — a window into the dark childhood landscapes of Roald Dahl. The show’s been one of the most highly-reviewed of the season. It’s up for 12 Tony awards, including Best Musical — pitting it against Kinky Boots, which is also up for a slew of awards and was scored by Cyndi Lauper (a Queens native).  One award it won’t claim at the Tonys is for Best Actress. The 4 girls who took turns playing Matilda were ruled ineligible for a joint award. Oddly enough, the 3 guys who played the lead role in Billy Elliot did win the best actor award in 2006.
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Scenes from Matilda the Musical

I got the chance to peek around backstage just before showtime and it was pretty cool — a window into the dark childhood landscapes of Roald Dahl.

The show’s been one of the most highly-reviewed of the season. It’s up for 12 Tony awards, including Best Musical — pitting it against Kinky Boots, which is also up for a slew of awards and was scored by Cyndi Lauper (a Queens native). 

One award it won’t claim at the Tonys is for Best Actress. The 4 girls who took turns playing Matilda were ruled ineligible for a joint award. Oddly enough, the 3 guys who played the lead role in Billy Elliot did win the best actor award in 2006.

Gun control comes to Times Square

Choreographer Lorin Latarro and dancers from “Wicked,” “Chicago” and other Broadway shows swarmed Times Square over the weekend, conducting a flash-mob performance piece honoring the victims of the Newtown shootings.

“We took one of the most commercial spaces on earth,” said Latarro, “and transformed it for a few moments, into a silent, holy place.”

As half the performers lay down on the ground, the rest hovered over them, then outlined their bodies in white chalk. The performance took place while crowds of surprised tourists looked on, taking pictures, watching as the ‘victims’ slowly arose and words were written within the chalk outlines: “Ailene, age 6,” “AK-47,” “murdered,” “background check.

Although the video comes from “Artists in Support of Gun Control,” Latarro said her effort was “intended to hit deeper than politics.”

“Sometimes you can communicate more without a sound. As a dancer, I live in that realm.”

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Backstage at Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: Amy Morton (“Martha”) and Tracy Letts (“George”) Before they hit the stage, Broadway actors can often be found cocooned in their makeup rooms. What I’ve wondered is, what exactly do they do in there? The other day I headed to the Booth Theatre and met Amy Morton, who plays Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” It was just about an hour before showtime. Morton says that like all superstitious performers, she avoids EVER mentioning “that Scottish play” by name. Morton also tends to work on crossword puzzles in her makeup room to pass the time, but there’s one thing she really obsesses over. “I will not go on stage unless I have clean teeth. I have to have clean teeth to do a show. Otherwise I feel I can’t even talk. I feel like I can’t get my mouth around the words. That’s just a thing with me.”Morton’s co-star, Tracy Letts plays the part of George — he also wrote the excellent “August: Osage County.”  He’d just woken up from a nap in his makeup room and was in a subdued if still-articulate state of mind. Letts says he likes to rehearse certain passages of the script before he goes on stage — especially those dealing with science. And he wonders whether the role is starting to burrow its way into his real-world self.“I lost my temper here in the hallway the other night,” he said. “We had a malfunction on stage, and I rather childishly lost my temper backstage. I’m not really a tantrum-thrower by nature, but I did find myself hurling a vacuum cleaner sort of through the red mist, in front of my eyes. So I’d like to blame George for that more than I’d like to take the blame for it myself.”
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Backstage at Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: Amy Morton (“Martha”) and Tracy Letts (“George”) Before they hit the stage, Broadway actors can often be found cocooned in their makeup rooms. What I’ve wondered is, what exactly do they do in there? The other day I headed to the Booth Theatre and met Amy Morton, who plays Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” It was just about an hour before showtime. Morton says that like all superstitious performers, she avoids EVER mentioning “that Scottish play” by name. Morton also tends to work on crossword puzzles in her makeup room to pass the time, but there’s one thing she really obsesses over. “I will not go on stage unless I have clean teeth. I have to have clean teeth to do a show. Otherwise I feel I can’t even talk. I feel like I can’t get my mouth around the words. That’s just a thing with me.”Morton’s co-star, Tracy Letts plays the part of George — he also wrote the excellent “August: Osage County.”  He’d just woken up from a nap in his makeup room and was in a subdued if still-articulate state of mind. Letts says he likes to rehearse certain passages of the script before he goes on stage — especially those dealing with science. And he wonders whether the role is starting to burrow its way into his real-world self.“I lost my temper here in the hallway the other night,” he said. “We had a malfunction on stage, and I rather childishly lost my temper backstage. I’m not really a tantrum-thrower by nature, but I did find myself hurling a vacuum cleaner sort of through the red mist, in front of my eyes. So I’d like to blame George for that more than I’d like to take the blame for it myself.”
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Backstage at Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: Amy Morton (“Martha”) and Tracy Letts (“George”) Before they hit the stage, Broadway actors can often be found cocooned in their makeup rooms. What I’ve wondered is, what exactly do they do in there? The other day I headed to the Booth Theatre and met Amy Morton, who plays Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” It was just about an hour before showtime. Morton says that like all superstitious performers, she avoids EVER mentioning “that Scottish play” by name. Morton also tends to work on crossword puzzles in her makeup room to pass the time, but there’s one thing she really obsesses over. “I will not go on stage unless I have clean teeth. I have to have clean teeth to do a show. Otherwise I feel I can’t even talk. I feel like I can’t get my mouth around the words. That’s just a thing with me.”Morton’s co-star, Tracy Letts plays the part of George — he also wrote the excellent “August: Osage County.”  He’d just woken up from a nap in his makeup room and was in a subdued if still-articulate state of mind. Letts says he likes to rehearse certain passages of the script before he goes on stage — especially those dealing with science. And he wonders whether the role is starting to burrow its way into his real-world self.“I lost my temper here in the hallway the other night,” he said. “We had a malfunction on stage, and I rather childishly lost my temper backstage. I’m not really a tantrum-thrower by nature, but I did find myself hurling a vacuum cleaner sort of through the red mist, in front of my eyes. So I’d like to blame George for that more than I’d like to take the blame for it myself.”
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Backstage at Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: Amy Morton (“Martha”) and Tracy Letts (“George”) Before they hit the stage, Broadway actors can often be found cocooned in their makeup rooms. What I’ve wondered is, what exactly do they do in there? The other day I headed to the Booth Theatre and met Amy Morton, who plays Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” It was just about an hour before showtime. Morton says that like all superstitious performers, she avoids EVER mentioning “that Scottish play” by name. Morton also tends to work on crossword puzzles in her makeup room to pass the time, but there’s one thing she really obsesses over. “I will not go on stage unless I have clean teeth. I have to have clean teeth to do a show. Otherwise I feel I can’t even talk. I feel like I can’t get my mouth around the words. That’s just a thing with me.”Morton’s co-star, Tracy Letts plays the part of George — he also wrote the excellent “August: Osage County.”  He’d just woken up from a nap in his makeup room and was in a subdued if still-articulate state of mind. Letts says he likes to rehearse certain passages of the script before he goes on stage — especially those dealing with science. And he wonders whether the role is starting to burrow its way into his real-world self.“I lost my temper here in the hallway the other night,” he said. “We had a malfunction on stage, and I rather childishly lost my temper backstage. I’m not really a tantrum-thrower by nature, but I did find myself hurling a vacuum cleaner sort of through the red mist, in front of my eyes. So I’d like to blame George for that more than I’d like to take the blame for it myself.”
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Backstage at Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: Amy Morton (“Martha”) and Tracy Letts (“George”) Before they hit the stage, Broadway actors can often be found cocooned in their makeup rooms. What I’ve wondered is, what exactly do they do in there? The other day I headed to the Booth Theatre and met Amy Morton, who plays Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” It was just about an hour before showtime. Morton says that like all superstitious performers, she avoids EVER mentioning “that Scottish play” by name. Morton also tends to work on crossword puzzles in her makeup room to pass the time, but there’s one thing she really obsesses over. “I will not go on stage unless I have clean teeth. I have to have clean teeth to do a show. Otherwise I feel I can’t even talk. I feel like I can’t get my mouth around the words. That’s just a thing with me.”Morton’s co-star, Tracy Letts plays the part of George — he also wrote the excellent “August: Osage County.”  He’d just woken up from a nap in his makeup room and was in a subdued if still-articulate state of mind. Letts says he likes to rehearse certain passages of the script before he goes on stage — especially those dealing with science. And he wonders whether the role is starting to burrow its way into his real-world self.“I lost my temper here in the hallway the other night,” he said. “We had a malfunction on stage, and I rather childishly lost my temper backstage. I’m not really a tantrum-thrower by nature, but I did find myself hurling a vacuum cleaner sort of through the red mist, in front of my eyes. So I’d like to blame George for that more than I’d like to take the blame for it myself.”
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Backstage at Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: Amy Morton (“Martha”) and Tracy Letts (“George”) Before they hit the stage, Broadway actors can often be found cocooned in their makeup rooms. What I’ve wondered is, what exactly do they do in there? The other day I headed to the Booth Theatre and met Amy Morton, who plays Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” It was just about an hour before showtime. Morton says that like all superstitious performers, she avoids EVER mentioning “that Scottish play” by name. Morton also tends to work on crossword puzzles in her makeup room to pass the time, but there’s one thing she really obsesses over. “I will not go on stage unless I have clean teeth. I have to have clean teeth to do a show. Otherwise I feel I can’t even talk. I feel like I can’t get my mouth around the words. That’s just a thing with me.”Morton’s co-star, Tracy Letts plays the part of George — he also wrote the excellent “August: Osage County.”  He’d just woken up from a nap in his makeup room and was in a subdued if still-articulate state of mind. Letts says he likes to rehearse certain passages of the script before he goes on stage — especially those dealing with science. And he wonders whether the role is starting to burrow its way into his real-world self.“I lost my temper here in the hallway the other night,” he said. “We had a malfunction on stage, and I rather childishly lost my temper backstage. I’m not really a tantrum-thrower by nature, but I did find myself hurling a vacuum cleaner sort of through the red mist, in front of my eyes. So I’d like to blame George for that more than I’d like to take the blame for it myself.”
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Backstage at Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: Amy Morton (“Martha”) and Tracy Letts (“George”)

Before they hit the stage, Broadway actors can often be found cocooned in their makeup rooms. What I’ve wondered is, what exactly do they do in there?

The other day I headed to the Booth Theatre and met Amy Morton, who plays Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” It was just about an hour before showtime.

Morton says that like all superstitious performers, she avoids EVER mentioning “that Scottish play” by name. Morton also tends to work on crossword puzzles in her makeup room to pass the time, but there’s one thing she really obsesses over.

“I will not go on stage unless I have clean teeth. I have to have clean teeth to do a show. Otherwise I feel I can’t even talk. I feel like I can’t get my mouth around the words. That’s just a thing with me.”

Morton’s co-star, Tracy Letts plays the part of George — he also wrote the excellent “August: Osage County.”  He’d just woken up from a nap in his makeup room and was in a subdued if still-articulate state of mind. Letts says he likes to rehearse certain passages of the script before he goes on stage — especially those dealing with science. And he wonders whether the role is starting to burrow its way into his real-world self.

“I lost my temper here in the hallway the other night,” he said. “We had a malfunction on stage, and I rather childishly lost my temper backstage. I’m not really a tantrum-thrower by nature, but I did find myself hurling a vacuum cleaner sort of through the red mist, in front of my eyes. So I’d like to blame George for that more than I’d like to take the blame for it myself.”

The Subway Sings West Side Story

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Mashup: MTA x West Side Story

Newer MTA subway trains play a three-note sound as they are leaving the station. We think it sounds like the first three notes of “Somewhere” from West Side Story. Judge for yourself.

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