Broadway

I still remember the day when Martial Law was declared in the Philippines. My whole family was glued to the TV set when then-President Ferdinand Marcos sternly announced Proclamation No.

Broadway and Hollywood are two of the biggest entertainment industries in the world, inseparable partners that constantly feed - and criticize - each other, exchanging talents, always adapting and inspiring in all ways. The Tony Award, Broadway’s main honor since 1947, and the Golden Globes, created in 1943, have always had a shared path.

A tiger, a young Indian castaway, a boat, an ocean: those are certainly not the typical ingredients of a Broadway show, but the new production Life of Pie made it possible. The stage play Life of Pi is based on the book written by Canadian writer Yann Martel.

“The viewing of too many musical comedies with sentimental and over romantic plots may cause serious and sometimes incurable damage to the playgoer and the critics’ standards. Therefore, what you are about to see is an almost plotless musical.

Nathan Lane, one of the most versatile Broadway and Hollywood actors, and star of numerous plays, musicals, TV shows, and animated and live-action movies, is back on the stage with “Pictures From Home,” his 25th Broadway play. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey on February 3, 1956, Lane has appeared in more than 35 films, garnering two nominations for Golden Globes as a leading actor in the musical/comedy category for The Birdcage (1997) and The Producers (2006).

A family, a piano: a classic home combination. Add some ghosts and the signature of August Wilson (1945-2005), and the result is a Pulitzer Award drama (1990) that Broadway just reprised, and has been announced as an upcoming movie with the same stage cast.

“Nobody is perfect,” says the closing line of the classic film Some Like It Hot. True, but some movies are.

“Allow me to explain about the theater business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster… Strangely enough, it all turns out well… How? I don't know.

Few people noticed Cameron Crowe when he attended the last Broadway preview of Almost Famous, a musical based on the movie he wrote and directed, partially based on his last teen’s years. There in the audience, he politely, if tangentially, answered one question.

“I (saw) All that Jazz as a teenager, I think I was 15 or 16,” Steven Levenson told HFPA journalists at a recent press conference for Fosse/Verdon, the FX miniseries which revisits the relationship between director and choreographer extraordinaire Bob Fosse and his wife and collaborator – and Broadway superstar in her own right – Gwen Verdon. Levenson is the showrunner for the series starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams; All That Jazz is the 1979 movie directed by Fosse covering some of the same autobiographical ground that the series explores in depth.