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20 June 2008 9:14 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Broadway musical A Catered Affair will become the second New York show to close after failing at the Tony Awards.

The theatre adaptation of the classic 1950s movie opened in April to mixed reviews, but attracted eight nominations at last weeks (beg09Jun08) Tonys.

The show's producers walked away empty handed, and just days later bosses have announced it will close on 27 July after 116 performances at the Walter Kerr Theatre.

Writer and star Harvey Fierstein claims the show was too complicated for Broadway audiences: "A lot maybe thought it was too challenging or didn't get it at all. It took some people multiple viewings to get it."

The news comes just days after John Waters musical Cry-Baby was axed.

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19 June 2008 10:37 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

John Waters' second attempt to transpose one of his quirky movies into a Broadway musical has failed. Producers of Cry Baby announced Wednesday that they plan to shut down the show on Sunday after 113 performances. The production had been unable to report a profit for any week since its opening in April. Bloomberg News indicated that the musical will likely lose its entire $10-million-plus capitalization. While personnel connected with the production said that word of mouth was positive, the show never was able to overcome dreadful reviews. Referring to Waters' earlier success with Hairspray, Bloomberg's John Simon had concluded, "Lightning does not strike twice." Ben Brantley in the New York Times dismissed it as "tasteless."

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18 June 2008 6:38 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

John Waters' Broadway musical Cry-Baby is closing in New York, just a week after flopping at the Tony Awards.

The show, based on the 1990 Johnny Depp-starring movie, was performed just 68 times in the Big Apple since opening in April.

It was nominated for four awards at the Tonys on Sunday, but left empty-handed.

The final performance will take place at the Marquis Theatre on Sunday.

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3 June 2008 7:20 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Michael Atkinson

One of the pioneering wagon-train movies of the inaugural, New York-based independent film movement, predating Jarmusch's "Stranger than Paradise," Bette Gordon's "Variety" (1983) comes off in retrospect as a veritable time capsule of post-punk downtown coolness. Just read the credits: screenwriter Kathy Acker (experimental novelist), star/photog Nan Goldin (famed shutterbug and model for the Ally Sheedy role in "High Art" 15 years later), soundtrack composer John Lurie (of Jarmusch movies and The Lounge Lizards), cinematographer Tom Dicillo (director of "Living in Oblivion," etc.), producer Renee Shafransky (Spalding Gray's longtime girlfriend), co-star Luiz Guzman, bit players Spalding Gray and Cookie Mueller (veteran of John Waters's universe), production assistant Christine Vachon, and so on. Where is Cindy Sherman? The grungy vibe of "Variety" is itself a window on the past . only at the nascent launch of a Diy indie wave in the post-'60s period could you,

Michael Atkinson

8 May 2008 6:19 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey have joined the cast of John Waters's Fruitcake, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film, which takes place at Christmas, follows a boy named after his favourite dessert who runs away from home after he is caught shoplifting. He then encounters another runaway, a girl being raised by two gay men who are looking for her birth mother.

Knoxville launched his career starring in the extreme . . .

Simon Reynolds

5 articles from 2008