Exclusive: Five days to go until the Tony Awards (Sunday, 8-11 Pm, CBS) and it’s about time we heard from Phyllis Newman, who has been known by many names but these days calls herself the Wicked Widow Of Central Park West. “Being the keeper of the flame, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. No matter how you slice it, they don't want you around.” A favored and frequent visitor to Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show set, Broadway star, womens’ health activist and mother…...
- 6/3/2015
- Deadline TV
Show business' brightest stars memorialized one of their own yesterday, at A Tribute to Polly Bergen, at the American Airlines Theatre 227 W. 42nd Street. An Emmy Award-winning actress and singer, Ms. Bergen's career spanned more than six decades in films, TV, Broadway musicals and concerts. She passed away from natural causes September 20 at age 84. A Tribute to Polly Bergen, produced by Rex Reed and Michael Alden with creative consultant Deborah Grace Winer, celebrated her life and career with a star studded lineup of participants. They included Christine Andreas, Harry Belafonte, Arlene Dahl, Raul Esparza, Michael Feinstein, Gregory Harrison, Judith Ivey, Chris Matthews, Phyllis Newman, Kelli O'Hara and cast members from the 2001 revival of Follies.
- 3/27/2015
- by Stephen Sorokoff
- BroadwayWorld.com
Show business' brightest stars memorialized one of their own yesterday, at A Tribute to Polly Bergen, at the American Airlines Theatre 227 W. 42nd Street. An Emmy Award-winning actress and singer, Ms. Bergen's career spanned more than six decades in films, TV, Broadway musicals and concerts. She passed away from natural causes September 20 at age 84. A Tribute to Polly Bergen, produced by Rex Reed and Michael Alden with creative consultant Deborah Grace Winer, celebrated her life and career with a star studded lineup of participants. They included Christine Andreas, Harry Belafonte, Arlene Dahl, Raul Esparza, Michael Feinstein, Gregory Harrison, Judith Ivey, Chris Matthews, Phyllis Newman, Kelli O'Hara and cast members from the 2001 revival of Follies.
- 3/27/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Show business' brightest stars memorialized one of their own yesterday, at A Tribute to Polly Bergen, at the American Airlines Theatre 227 W. 42nd Street. An Emmy Award-winning actress and singer, Ms. Bergen's career spanned more than six decades in films, TV, Broadway musicals and concerts. She passed away from natural causes September 20 at age 84. A Tribute to Polly Bergen, produced by Rex Reed and Michael Alden with creative consultant Deborah Grace Winer, celebrated her life and career with a star studded lineup of participants. They included Christine Andreas, Harry Belafonte, Arlene Dahl, Raul Esparza, Michael Feinstein, Gregory Harrison, Judith Ivey, Chris Matthews, Phyllis Newman, Kelli O'Hara and cast members from the 2001 revival of Follies.
- 3/27/2015
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
Robert Harling's screenplay to the iconic film The First Wives Club will come alive in New York on October 13th, 2014 at 8pm for a one night-only benefit reading in the Mainstage Theater 416 West 42nd Street, directed by Trip Cullman and featuring an all-star cast. The reading has been rescheduled from the original date of July 7th due to scheduling conflicts. All proceeds will benefit The Actors Fund's Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative, which provides a safety net and a place to turn when women in the creative community are faced with critical health concerns. The evening is produced in arrangement with Paramount Pictures by The Indigo Theatre Project Nick Gereffi, Artistic DirectorRachel Sussman, Executive Producer, a theater company that strives to unite passion with purpose by producing high-profile readings to benefit relevant charitable organizations. The First Wives Club is Line Produced by Allison Bressi and Associate Produced by Shoshana Feinstein.
- 9/8/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Robert Harling's screenplay to the iconic film The First Wives Club will come alive in New York on July 7th, 2014 at 8pm for a one night-only benefit reading in the Mainstage Theater 416 West 42nd Street, directed by Trip Cullman and featuring an all-star cast. All proceeds will benefit The Actors Fund's Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative, which provides 'a safety net and a place to turn when women in the creative community are faced with critical health concerns.'...
- 5/13/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
For the second week in a row, Lorna Luft brought her fund-raising Pink Party to the Broadway at Birdland stage with thrilling results. After a recent bout with breast cancer, the award-winning performer decided to 'give back' with two sold-to-the-walls events benefitting The Actors Fund's Phyllis Newman Womens Health Initiative and the Tower Cancer Research Foundation's Dr. Philomena McAndrew Fund. Check out a look back...
- 10/22/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
There's no business like show business, and there's no performer quite like Liza Minnelli. The legendary singer was ever the consummate professional as she shared the stage with half-sister Lorna Luft at NYC's iconic Birdland jazz club on Monday, Oct. 14 -- despite having a broken wrist. Minnelli, 67, went against doctor's orders in order to show her support for Luft at The Actors Fund's Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative and Tower Cancer Research Foundation's Dr. Philomena McAndrew Fund event, keeping her left wrist temporarily stabilized with [...]...
- 10/15/2013
- Us Weekly
Judy Garland’s daughters Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft will perform together for the first time in 20 years to raise money for breast-cancer research. They will give two concerts at Manhattan’s Birdland on Oct. 14 and Oct. 21 at Birdland, titled “Nothing Like a Dame – Lorna’s Pink Party.” The shows will benefit the Phyllis Newman Women’s Health Initiative and the Dr. Philomena McAndrew Fund of Tower Cancer Research Foundation. The last time the sisters performed together was at the 1993 Tony Awards. See video: ‘Breaking Bad’ Musical Definitely Isn’t the Same Old Song & Dance Other guest performers will include Newman,...
- 9/5/2013
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
The Actors Fund, the nationwide human services organization that helps all professionals in performing arts and entertainment, will present the 2013 edition of Nothing Like a Dame Lorna's Pink Party, a benefit for the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative and the Dr. Philomena McAndrew Fund of Tower Cancer Research Foundation. This highly anticipated event, starring entertainment legend Lorna Luft with her special guest Liza Minnelli will take place for two nights only on Monday, October 14th at 7 pm, and Monday, October 21st at 7 pm, at Birdland, 315 West 44th Street, New York City.
- 9/5/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
A bevy of fabulous Broadway, Off-Broadway and Downtown performers gather together raise funds and awareness at Over It A Benefit For Ovarian Cancer Awareness. Held at the Laurie Beechman Theater, whose namesake lost her battle with ovarian cancer, the evenings proceeds will go to the Phyllis Newman Womens Health Initiative. Singing the songs that inspire them most, the roster of singers includes Brian Bailey Cats, The Wizard of Oz, Jennifer Bennett Cats, Anne BrummelWicked, Canadian singing sensation Michael Hughes, Liana Hunt Mamma Mia, Lisa Karlin The Addams Family, Ragtime, Eric Michael Krop Godspell, Annalyse McCoy 23 Goat, Cedric Neal Porgy and Bess, Christine Pedi Forbidden Broadway, Newsical, Molly Pope The Material World, Allison Rogers Giant, Gabrielle Ruiz In The Heights, A Chorus Line, Lara Siebert A Christmas Story, Hugh Jackman's Back on Broadway, Young Frankenstein Antoine L. SmithMemphis and The Manhattan DollsSarah Drake, Annemarie Rosano, Christine Tucker. Jason Wetzel serves...
- 9/12/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Which is more shocking: the fact that Barbra Streisand turns 70 years old today, or the fact that she's been famous for more than 50 of them? Bottom line, everything about Barbara Joan Streisand is astounding, and we've compiled 70 accomplishments, songs, performances, and trivia items to celebrate about the most accomplished female vocalist of the past century. Don your naughtiest Owl and the Pussycat lingerie and jump along with us through a haphazard history of the woman who dazzled Broadway, dumbfounded Ryan O'Neal (I am obsessed with What's Up, Doc?), and has remained larger than life for longer than anyone else.
1. "People"
2. Geri Cusensa invented the crimping iron for and because of Barbra Streisand.
3. She played opposite Joan Rivers (in a pseudo-lesbian role) in an off-off-Broadway drama called Driftwood.
4. The cover of 1978's Superman album is flawless.
5. Her spitfire comic delivery and amazing tan in What's Up, Doc?
6. "Get Happy/Happy Days...
1. "People"
2. Geri Cusensa invented the crimping iron for and because of Barbra Streisand.
3. She played opposite Joan Rivers (in a pseudo-lesbian role) in an off-off-Broadway drama called Driftwood.
4. The cover of 1978's Superman album is flawless.
5. Her spitfire comic delivery and amazing tan in What's Up, Doc?
6. "Get Happy/Happy Days...
- 4/24/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
HollywoodNews.com: Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick learned a lot about dinosaurs last night. So did about 200 people who came to the American Museum of Natural History to support Mike Nichols and Cynthia O’Neal‘s 20 year old charity, Friends in Deed. Legendary composer Stephen Sondheim created a treasure hunt game with the museum folks, and he was there to watch as all of us scurried through the various dino halls to figure out answers to things like “parrot beak” and “giant sloth.” Once you found the appropriate fossil and filled in the blanks of its name on clue cards, the answers were then drafted down to a single sentence.
Team Number 8–with writer Patti Bosworth, Broadway legend Phyllis Newman, and man about town Joe Armstrong–kept colliding with Team 4– Sjp, Broadway star John Benjamin Hickey, and Bravo’s Andy Cohen. Phyllis Newman, luckily, goes back a long way...
Team Number 8–with writer Patti Bosworth, Broadway legend Phyllis Newman, and man about town Joe Armstrong–kept colliding with Team 4– Sjp, Broadway star John Benjamin Hickey, and Bravo’s Andy Cohen. Phyllis Newman, luckily, goes back a long way...
- 10/4/2011
- by Roger Friedman
- Hollywoodnews.com
On a visit to Cafe Reconcile, the cast of The Young And The Restless saw how popular the show is in New Orleans.
"I feel like I've already been here a week in what I've done in 24 hours," said actress Sharon Case. "It's been great. It's been grand."
"Everybody wants their picture made, and there's food every where you turn," said actress Michelle Stafford, who plays Phyllis Newman. "There's food in New Orleans everywhere you go."
They started off with Breakfast at Brennan's, with fellow cast member and New Orleans native Christian LeBlanc, showing off his home town.
"If it wasn't tied down, we've been eating it," said LeBlanc, who plays lawyer Michael Baldwin. "If it's slower than we are, and has smaller teeth, it's food, and that is a good New Orleans attitude to have."
Watch the full Wwl feature below.
"I feel like I've already been here a week in what I've done in 24 hours," said actress Sharon Case. "It's been great. It's been grand."
"Everybody wants their picture made, and there's food every where you turn," said actress Michelle Stafford, who plays Phyllis Newman. "There's food in New Orleans everywhere you go."
They started off with Breakfast at Brennan's, with fellow cast member and New Orleans native Christian LeBlanc, showing off his home town.
"If it wasn't tied down, we've been eating it," said LeBlanc, who plays lawyer Michael Baldwin. "If it's slower than we are, and has smaller teeth, it's food, and that is a good New Orleans attitude to have."
Watch the full Wwl feature below.
- 11/2/2010
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
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