“I am very excited about being in Moises’ new play,” Fonda said in a statement. “I can’t wait to get back on stage with him in this role that I understand so well. It’s been 40-some years.”

Fonda made her Broadway debut in 1960 in the play “There Was a Little Girl,” for which she earned a Tony Award nomination. Her last appearance on Broadway was in the 1963 drama “Strange Interlude.”

“33 Variations” will open this winter at a theater and date to be determined.

Source: Broadway.com

Christine Ebersole will play ghostly Elvira in the spring 2009 Broadway revival of Noel Coward’s “Blithe Spirit”. The Tony Award-winning actress, who played dual roles in the musical “Grey Gardens”, will be joined by four-time Tony Award winner Angela Lansbury as psychic Madame Arcati and film star Rupert Everett, who will be making his Broadway debut playing the part of Elvira’s former husband, Charles Condomine.

In Blithe Spirit, one of Coward’s biggest successes, novelist Condomine, living with his second wife, Ruth, invites a local medium, Madame Arcati, to his house. His intention is to do some research into the spirit world for his new book. But he gets more than he bargained for when Arcati conjures up the ghost of Charles first wife, Elvira. Caught between one live wife and one dead wife — both jealous of the other — Charles thinks matters couldn’t be worse.

The original Broadway production starred Clifton Webb as Charles, Peggy Wood as wife Ruth and Leonora Corbett as Elvira. Mildred Natwick was eccentric medium Madame Arcati. The play originated in London, with Coward starring as Charles.

Michael Blakemore will direct “Blithe Spirit” which is scheduled to begin preview performances on February 26, 2009, with regular performances starting in March at the Shubert theater.

Source: Playbill

Bebe Neuwirth ( Lilith on Cheers and Frasier ), behind me at the checkout line of my neighborhood Food Emporium. She was seemingly enthralled by the cover of a magazine on the checkout rack, a tabloid perhaps. Among her food items: a box of Ritz crackers and Oreos. Bebe is currently starring in the revival of Chicago on Broadway.

When asked if she ever thought about why she had such a large gay following, Ms Channing stated “I don’t think about them. I’m grateful that they seem to like me. They’re terribly loyal to me. But I’m knee-deep in the Bible and you know what it says about that.”

Asked if she thought the things gay people are fighting for are important, she commented “I don’t think about it. If they can’t take care of their own problems, why should I bother. It’s not my problem.”

Channing’s publicist Harlan Boll later stated Ms. Channing did not know she was speaking with a gay publication, even though the interviewer identified himself as being from “The GAY People’s Chronicle”. he went on to say “she had gotten into another gay media fracas a month ago over things she said about gay marriage versus civil unions”.

It goes without saying Channing’s remarks have sent ripples through the gay community.

Source: The Gay People’s Chronicle

After enjoying an extended, sold out run off-Broadway at the Playwrights Horizon theatre, Grey Gardens, the critically acclaimed musical about real life mother and daughter eccentrics Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier, transfers to the Walter Kerr Theater on Broadway this fall.

Previews begin Tuesday, October 3rd 2006 with regular performances commencing on Thursday, November 2nd 2006. Original cast members Christine Ebersole and Mary-Louise Wilson will once again reprise their much-lauded performances as Little Edie and Big Edie Bouvier Beale.

If you get the chance to see “Grey Gardens,” run, don’t walk to see it. I can’t recommend this show highly enough, it is undoubtedly one of the best productions to hit the New York stage in quite some time. The performances, particularly by Ebersole and Wilson, are nothing short of amazing.

Julia Roberts ( wearing some really fugly “sensible” shoes ) greets fans outside the Jacobs Theater where she’s currently starring in her Broadway debut “Three Days Of Rain”.

Among the audience members who attended the critically acclaimed musical adaptation of the Maysles Brothers 1975 documenatry of the same name, were fabled journalist Ben Bradlee and his wife Sally Quinn, who bought the historic East Hampton estate 25 years ago.

Also there was Albert Maysles himself, who along with his brother David Maysles, made the now cult classic documentary about the eccentric aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.