A walk on role in a Broadway show. A hard-to-get Sondheim ticket. A garment signed by two hunks. Stars and auction lots have been revealed for the 24th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, set for Sept. 26 in Shubert Alley. The event raises money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Say all you like about shattering dramas, rollicking comedies and the cultural frisson imparted by a ballyhooed British import — a big, bright, shining new musical is still usually the center of excitement of any new Broadway season.
We listen to the first-time-on-CD releases of the 1959 Jones Beach cast recording of the Wright & Forrest (& Grieg) Song of Norway and the original London cast album of Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella.
Tony and Emmy winner Cherry Jones abandons her post as commander-in-chief of TV's "24" to return to the stage in one of theatre history's most shocking roles.