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...DIED. EILEEN DARBY, 87, photographer of Broadway stars; in Long Beach, New York. Known for her snapshots of Broadway sets and stars for publications like Life magazine, Darby often put her subjects' interests above her own-refusing once to photograph Ingrid Bergman for fear of passing on a cold. Darby stopped taking photos in 1968, saying she had lost her enthusiasm for the theater after seeing the musical Hair...
Before his musical Assassins makes its long-awaited Broadway debut next week, Stephen Sondheim has one piece of friendly advice for New York City theatergoers. Leave town...
...show that has been the unwanted child in a brood of Sondheim hits that stretch from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum to Into the Woods. No, he's raising the alert level for good, practical reasons. Back in 1991, just before Assassins opened off-Broadway, the first Gulf War broke out. The patriotic climate was not ripe for a musical that showcased nine killers and would-be killers of U.S. Presidents; the show got mixed reviews and never moved to Broadway. A decade later a new, Broadway version was gearing up to open...
...padding around his ritzy Manhattan town house (Katharine Hepburn used to live next door) on a recent weekday afternoon, looking a bit scruffy in an oversize T shirt but talking animatedly about the show that he was always surprised got such a "virulent" negative reaction. The most celebrated Broadway composer of the past 30 years hasn't had a new show on Broadway in 10--since Passion, which ran for eight months in 1994. The days when Sondheim shows like Company and Follies seemed to be opening doors for musical theater are long gone. After years of work, Sondheim...
Richard Sabonjin, owner of Broadway Market, watches and listens by the front door, which in mere hours has transformed his grocery into a teeming hip hop powerhouse...