On Monday, January 14, the amazing Chita Rivera performed two sold-out shows as part of the Broadway at Birdland series as benefits for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Among the many theater folk who came out to support the beloved stars were fellow Tony Award winners Barbara Cook and Celeste Holm…
…two-time Tony nominee Raul Esparza, on his night off from The Homecoming…
…Tony winner Phyllis Newman and her equally talented daughter, Amanda Green, who will appear at Birdland on January 28…
…fan favorite Barrett Foa, who will star later this season in The Drunken City at Playwrights Horizons…
… multiple Tony Award-winning director, choreographer, and actor Tommy Tune…
… and another Tony-winning director/choreographer, Legally Blonde‘s Jerry Mitchell, and actor Max von Essen, soon to appear in Jerry Springer — The Opera at Carnegie Hall.
On Monday night, John Schneider returned to Broadway as Billy Flynn in the long-running revival of Chicago. After the show, he posed with his lovely leading ladies, Brenda Braxton and Bianca Marroquin.
Last week, The New York Times sponsored its popular Arts and Leisure Week. One of the main attractions was a panel devoted to the Broadway hit Young Frankenstein. Here’s the lovely Megan Mullally, who scores nightly as Elizabeth…
…and here’s author Mel Brooks, director Susan Stroman, and star Roger Bart.
Another popular panel focused on the hit AMC series Mad Men. Here’s stars Jon Hamm — who just won the Golden Globe Award as Best Actor — and January Jones who play Don and Betty Draper.
Also on hand were two of the show’s co-stars: Off-Broadway veteran Vincent Kartheiser, who plays Pete Campbell…
…and Broadway and television star John Slattery, who plays Roger Sterling.
Finally, on January 4, the cast of the now-closed The Drowsy Chaperone gathered at Sardi’s as Bob Saget, the final Man in Chair, had his caricature added to the restaurant’s fabled walls.
Joining Saget for the ceremony were co-stars Danny Burstein — who will next be seen as Luther Billis in Lincoln Center’s revival of South Pacific — and Cindy Williams…
…and Tony winner Beth Leavel, whose upcoming projects include the musicals Dancing in the Dark, at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater, and No No Nanette! at City Center Encores!
