| 'Color Purple' coming to Detroit
Detroiters on Monday heard something that New Yorkers haven't heard since Broadway stagehands went on strike Saturday: someone from "The Color Purple" cast singing a song from the show. Montego Glover, who plays the main character, Celie, at Wednesday matinees on Broadway, was at the Fox Theatre to launch the publicity campaign for the national tour of "The Color Purple," which will play the Fox May 20-June 1. Glover is scheduled to star as Celie when the show plays Detroit. .
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DETROIT | Detroit pushed past St. Louis and became the nation's most dangerous city, according to a private research group's controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual FBI crime statistics. Kansas City ranked the 18th most dangerous city, and Kansas City, Kan., ranked 25th. | B2 2. MISSOURIANS MAKE RHODES SCHOLARS LIST CHICAGO | Two Missourians, from Columbia and Springfield, were among 32 Americans selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2008, the scholarship trust announced Sunday. | B2 3. PRESSURE ON FOR BROADWAY SOLUTION NEW YORK | Broadway stagehands and theater producers met again Sunday, the second day of intense negotiations to find a solution to a strike that has shut down 27 plays and musicals for more than a week. Pressure has mounted for a solution to the work stoppage, which began Nov.
Broadway Talks To Resume This Weekend
NEW YORK (AP) — Striking stagehands and Broadway producers are going back to the bargaining table, less than a week before the start of the lucrative Thanksgiving holiday weekend when most plays and musicals experience a box-office bonanza.
Negotiations will resume this weekend "at an undisclosed place and time," the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and the League of American Theatres said Wednesday. "No comment from either organization will be issued until further notice," both sides said in a joint statement.
Was there pressure to return to the talks before Thanksgiving, when the city is filled with visitors here for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the start of the Christmas shopping season?
"It was a factor," said Norman Samnick, an entertainment lawyer who specializes in labor relations for Bryan Cave LLP.
Broadway talks to resume this weekend
NEW YORK (AP) -- Striking stagehands and Broadway producers are going back to the bargaining table, less than a week before the start of the lucrative Thanksgiving holiday weekend when most plays and musicals experience a box-office bonanza. Negotiations will resume this weekend "at an undisclosed place and time," the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and the League of American Theatres said Wednesday. "No comment from either organization will be issued until further notice," both sides said in a joint statement. Was there pressure to return to the talks before Thanksgiving, when the city is filled with visitors here for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and the start of the Christmas shopping season? "It was a factor," said Norman Samnick, an entertainment lawyer who specializes in labor relations for Bryan Cave LLP.
Off-Broadway Is Up and Running During Strike
When you think of theatre in New York City, the first thing that may leap to mind is Broadway. But in light of the Nov. 10 stagehands strike against most Broadway shows, the producers and artistic directors of the Off-Broadway community have a message: Our doors are open. In the hours leading up to the launch of the strike, which began with the 11 AM shuttering and union picketing of an early matinee of Broadway's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, press agents for Off-Broadway shows were e-emailing reminders that Off-Broadway plays and musicals continue as usual. The stagehands union works under a separate agreement with Off-Broadway theatres and producers, and the strike only impacts Broadway. Off-Broadway theatres and producers participate in the informational site, www.OffBroadway.com.
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