Julie Harris News

From Folsom to wholesome, from divas in dresses to lads in distresses: Hit List is rocking this week with leather, boas, strings, sopranos and old fishy friends.

It started with Alan Rust casually saying to his friend Julie Harris , "I was going to ask you if you'd like to do 'The Effect of Gamma Rays on the Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds,' but I didn't have the heart to ask ...

Kansas-born Shirley Knight originally intended to be an opera singer until she saw a touring company of "The Lark" starring Julie Harris and switched to acting.

BEACON PHOTO/PAT HATFIELD Mad cow - Meet Bossie, star of the movie Cud, which is in pre-production. You don't want to meet Bossie on a dark night.

These days, not too many original stars of Broadway productions tour with their hit shows.

Posted by Michael H. Kleinschrodt, DVD columnist May 16, 2008 5:00AM Categories: New on DVD Running away to join the circus is a tempting idea when life gets too complicated, but few act on the impulse. via NOLA.com

“Everybody who's in the band has this desire to play a really diverse set of music”

It will practically be old home week when the classy pop band Pink Martini plays the Majestic Theatre on Monday. via MySanAntonio.com

“You're the man, show'em what you're made of. You're no longer daddy's boy. You're the man that they're all afraid of, but you're only Cheney's toy.”

Circus film arrives on DVD If ever a DVD movie were a "must-see," it's "The First of May." Not only has it won an impressive list of awards at film festivals around the world, but also it has the added ... via The News-Journal

River City Rep, now in its second season, is Shreveport's first professional theatre company sanctioned by Actors' Equity. via Playbill

“Thurgood.'" He was a fan of Fishburne finding him to be "a strong and natural presence onstage. He captures the justice's drive and everyday essence as well as his wry -- if sometimes crass -- wit. 'Thurgood”

Portraying Thurgood Marshall: Tonys bait for Fishburne? Playing decades older Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall in the one man show "Thurgood" could well win Laurence Fishburne his second Tony Award. via Glodderby

“Father Jon made the suggestion to interview some homeless people. We hope that a portion of all proceeds garnered from performances of Beatitude Mass will be used to raise funds for organizations that support people in need.”

Henry Mollicone's opera The Face on the Barroom Floor became America's most-performed opera soon after its premiere in 1978, and went on to productions around the world. via Monterey County Weekly

“And he reminds Cory, who has just struck out and is quite dejected, that lots of great players struck out a lot. In fact, one of them struck out 1,300 times but also happened to hit 714 home runs. And that guy was Babe Ruth.”

Two hundred and forty-eight bucks. That's what the "modified low-budget agreement" for the Screen Actors Guild amounted to in October 1997 when Joe DiMaggio signed up for a bit part in the independent family ... via Major League Baseball

“Funny Face.") "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T”

This month's column discusses the Stanley Kramer Collection, including the indescribably fascinating "5,000 Fingers of Dr. via Playbill

“I'll put up my salary as collateral. Will you do the same?”

Forty years ago, Stanley Kramer expected trouble when he made Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, a movie about the consequences of a black man marrying a white woman. via Palm Beach Post

Monday, February 4, 2008; Posted: 2:31 PM - by BWW News Desk The Actors Company Theatre/TACT will celebrate its 15th Anniversary with a Crystal Gala honoring renowned star of stage and screen, Julie Harris . via BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

“The Member of the Wedding"; Feb. 8-9, "Modern Orthodox”

Winter theater has two main faces on Cape Cod: the comfortable and familiar versus the new and untried. via Cape Cod Times

“Only 20 percent of these cases [in the report] said they were aware there was a connection between Salmonella infection and reptile exposure”

Small pet turtles were to blame for 103 cases of Salmonella infection in the second half of last year, mostly in young children, U.S. health officials said Thursday. via HON

“Part biography, part murder-mystery, the play pits the envious composer, Salieri, against the young genius, Mozart, in a fight to the finish with 18th century Austria as the dramatic backdrop.”

Tony Abatemarco is Antonio Salieri and Harris Doran is Mozart in the new Pittsburgh Public Theater production of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus , starting previews Jan. via Playbill

“We need to attach his Christianity to a worldly cause either patriotism or pacifism, it doesn't matter which and then we've got him back to Hell.”

For three decades, Atlanta actor, playwright and Theatrical Outfit artistic director Tom Key has taken on the alter ego of C.S. Lewis, the popular English theologian and author of the Narnia books. via Creative Loafing