The Day's Odds and Ends

Just some random things at the end of the day that have caught my eye.  First off, two Broadway shows have entered the Twitter-verse.  The Normal Heart can be found at @TheNormalHeart  and Jerusalem is @JerusalemBWY.  Both are part of the Broadway twitter feed here on ATW.

Elsewhere, this one came as news to me...The Kings Speech seems to have started as a play and there are plans afoot to produce it in London and on Broadway.  Further, Geoffrey Rush has announced that neither he nor Colin Firth have plans to appear in the piece onstage.  This was announced at a dinner at Brooklyn Academy of Music the other night and then, reported on Bloomberg.com.  To read the full story, click here.

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark continues to generate buzz everywhere you turn.  Here are a few articles that I found particularly interesting:

From New York Magazine: Stage Dive: Turning Off Julie Taymor’s Dark Spider-Man for Good

From Showbiz411 comes:  Exclusive: Julie Taymor Will Remain “Spider Man” Director and Co-Author

From The Wall Street Journal comes: The Many Trials of ‘Spider-Man’

While those are all about the state of the union for the show, the NJ Star-Ledger took a different approach, profiling the show's choreographer and stunt designer, Daniel Ezralow (read it here).

And, finally, I'm sort of fascinated by this new musical about what many consider to be the first American musical, The Black Crook, that's opened at the Signature Theatre in Virginia.  The Washington Post review of the show ran this morning, if you've not read, you can find it here.

There's lots more and that would be what you'd find in the usual newslinks, but I'm testing out what this sort of more free-form 'top news' feels like.

Any comments?

---- Andy Propst