Monster Mash: Broadway ticket sales get an Easter lift; George Hamilton to star in ‘La Cage’ national tour
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Box-office bump: Sales for Broadway tickets saw a healthy jump during the Easter weekend. (Variety)
Leading man: George Hamilton will star in the national tour of ‘La Cage aux Folles,’ scheduled to appear at the Pantages Theatre in July 2012. (Playbill)
Stymied: Musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which recently filed for bankruptcy, are grappling with the organization’s many problems. (Associated Press)
Equal opportunity: The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles has welcomed two openly straight members. (Los Angeles Times)
Honored: The winners have been announced for the Helen Hayes Awards, honoring excellence in theater in the Washington, D.C., area. (Washington Post)
Caveat emptor: Counterfeit tickets are being sold for the Broadway musical ‘Book of Mormon.’ (New York Times)
Delicate: More than 100,000 toothpicks have been used to create a kinetic sculpture of San Francisco. (SFist)
Familiar name: Bill Watterson, the creator of the ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ comic strip, has donated a new painting for Parkinson’s Disease research. (New York Press)
Stage to screen: Broadway theaters are jumping into the trend to simulcast live productions to movie theaters. (Reuters)
Dancing drama: In New York City Ballet’s production of Kurt Weill’s ‘The Seven Deadly Sins,’ Wendy Whelan is dancing and Patti LuPone is singing. (Wall Street Journal)
Passing: Eldon Davis, the influential architect known for the ‘Googie’ coffee-shop design, has died at 94. (Los Angeles Times)
Also in the L.A. Times: A review of Neil Simon’s ‘The Prisoner of Second Avenue,’ starring Jason Alexander, at El Portal Theatre; two dancers withdraw from the ‘Tour de Force II’ production at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts; reviews are mixed for Ben Stiller and Edie Falco in ‘The House of Blue Leaves’ on Broadway.
-- David Ng
