{"id":3247,"date":"2009-01-30T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3247"},"modified":"2009-01-30T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T19:15:00","slug":"all-the-chum-thats-fit-to-oh-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3247","title":{"rendered":"All The Chum That\u2019s Fit To&#8230; Oh, Right&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few tidbits of theatre news, noted over lunch:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>You Rang<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> There appears to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01302009\/entertainment\/theater\/up__addams_152662.htm\" target=\"_blank\">good response at the latest workshop of the &#8220;Addams Family&#8221; musical<\/a>. What&#8217;s interesting is that they are not drawing on either the movies <i>or<\/i> the TV show, but going back to the original source cartoons. The musical is set in the present day, and the Addams family lives in a spooky castle in the middle of Central Park. The plot is a bit like &#8220;Meet the Parents,&#8221; with Gomez and Morticia throwing a dinner party for the parents of their daughter Wednesday&#8217;s boyfriend. Casting, at least for the workshop, featured Nathan Lane (Gomez), Bebe Neuwirth (Morticia), Kevin Chamberlain (Uncle Fester), Marylouise Burke (Grandmama) and Terence Mann and Jan Maxwell as a &#8220;normal&#8221; couple. Book is by Rick Elice and Marshall Brickman, who wrote &#8220;Jersey Boys&#8221;. Music is by Andrew Lippa (The Wild Party). The show will debut in Chicago in November, with a Broadway opening in April 2010.\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Do you feel lucky, punk?<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> There\u2019s a possibility that \u201c<i>Magnum Force<\/i>\u201d the sequel to <i>Dirty Harry<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadway.com\/Is-Dirty-Harry-Headed-for-Broadway-\/broadway_news\/5020341\" target=\"_blank\">may be headed to Broadway as a musical<\/a>. English singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock, an admitted Magnum Force obsessive, will compose the score and intends to produce the show with MTV executive Bill Flanagan.\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Still Waiting For The Cast Album<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> The musical \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sisteractthemusical.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sister Act<\/a>\u201d, which we enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/cahwyguy.livejournal.com\/482205.html\" target=\"_blank\">when we saw it at the Pasadena Playhouse a few years ago<\/a>, is getting another production: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbill.com\/news\/article\/125749.html\" target=\"_blank\">This time in London\u2019s West End<\/a>. No word on whether this will be recorded, although I hope it is. But then again, I\u2019m still waiting on a recording of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimwann.com\/theplays_detail.asp?id=4\" target=\"_blank\">The People Vs. Mona<\/a>\u201d. We saw this at the Pasadena Playhouse in the 1990s, and there was a concert cast recorded in April 2008 but has no release date.<\/ul>\n<p>Moving to the \u201c<b><i>Decline and Fall of the Newspaper Empires<\/i><\/b>\u201d Department, it looks like the Los Angeles Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2009\/01\/los_angeles_times_kills.php\" target=\"_blank\">is dropping the <del>Metro<\/del> <u>California<\/u> section soon<\/a>&#8230;. and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/cat_los_angeles_times.php\" target=\"_blank\">once great LA paper declines some more<\/a>. [ETA: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2009\/01\/lat_to_cut_70_more_in_new.php\" target=\"_blank\">And they\u2019re cutting 70 newsroom positions, and 300 staff overall<\/a>.] I\u2019d switch over to the Daily News, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2009\/01\/week_without_pay_for_lang_1.php\" target=\"_blank\">they are even worse<\/a> (as <a href=\"http:\/\/poynter.org\/forum\/view_post.asp?id=13785\" target=\"_blank\">BANG folks should know<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few tidbits of theatre news, noted over lunch: From the \u201cYou Rang\u201d Department: There appears to be good response at the latest workshop of the &#8220;Addams Family&#8221; musical. What&#8217;s interesting is that they are not drawing on either the movies or the TV show, but going back to the original source cartoons. The musical <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3247\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[273,301],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre","category-lj-xfer","tag-media","tag-theatre-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}