Broadway
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Tony Award winner Brian Bedford dies
The great British classical stage Tony Award winning actor Brian Bedford who was a star on and off-Broadway for years, has died at the age of 80. He was a protégé of John Gielgud and a theater-school classmate of Alan Bates, Albert Finney and Peter O’Toole, but because he performed only occasionally in movies and on television…
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THE STANDBYS
There cannot possibly be any other job in Show (or any other) Business where you need the patience of a Saint, be as tough old nails, and as resilient as a rubber band whilst possessing enough talent to substitute for a Broadway Star at the drop of a hat. This is of course the role…
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Broadway Idiot
In 2007 director Michael Mayer won his Tony Award for ‘Spring Awakening’ the exhilarating rock musical based on an obscure 19th German play that re-defined Broadway musicals for a new a generation. It was a hard act to follow but Mayer had the inspired idea to develop a new Musical based on the punk group…
