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Johnny Brown was an actor and comedian best known for his starring role in “Good Times,” playing building superintendent Nathan Bookman.Brown got his start doing comedy, including winning an amateur night at the Apollo Theater. He worked on Broadway and had a recording career with songs including “Walkin’, Talkin’, Kissin’ Doll” before getting his break on TV.

many COVID-19 mandates starting Monday.“Our current guidance is through April 30, and we are scheduled to update that guidance on April 1,” Broadway League president Charlotte St. Martin said in a statement.

Instagram page.She began in their post, alongside a photo of her father: “Our family is devastated. Devastated. Devastated.

James Earl Jones, the Shubert Organization announced Wednesday.Beyond appearing in more than 100 films such as “Star Wars” and “Coming to America” during his storied career, Jones, 91, has been on Broadway in 21 shows. The man with one of stage and screen’s “most memorable voices” made his main-role debut in 1958’s “Sunrise at the Campobello” — in the very theater that will soon bear his name.  “For me, standing in this very building 64 years ago at the start of my Broadway career, it would have been inconceivable that my name would be on the building today,” Jones said in a statement.

Broadway’s real-life Max Bialystock.After producing “Ragtime” and “Show Boat” in the 1990s, Drabinsky was thrown behind bars in 2009 for keeping two sets of books for his Broadway production company Livent. In doing so, he misled investors into believing that money-losing flops were really big hits, bilking them out of some $500 million. The Canadian crook was only allowed to cross the border into the United States again in 2019 after charges here were dismissed with prejudice because he served time in Canada.

Wicked. Like thousands of performers and crew members she was sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic shuttering theaters across the nation when she found out she’d landed the role. “I was in my apartment in LA sitting peacefully,” she told ESSENCE. Minutes later, she was living the dream she spent hours manifesting mimicking Mariah Carey as a child.

those regular slumber parties with 8-year-olds at the home of the world’s most famous man that the press so “twisted” do not come up in the musical. Fine.Still, the singer keeps decrying “the constant noise, the media, the lies.” Michael complains to MTV about journalists and to his business manager about tour costs.

2 hours 45 minutes, with one intermission. At the Vivian Beaumont Theater, 150 West 65th St.Being the only sober person in a room full of drunks is never any fun.

Netflix and viewers experienced the bonkers lyrics (“I could use a prince to save me from my prince”) and soap-opera-scale scenes, the show has turned into a camp event.On Friday night, the man’s foul-mouthed outburst came after Diana (Jeanna de Waal) and Charles had a spat in the first act, during which the petulant prince sang to his wife, “The only thing you’ve ever done is marry me!”Whereas on “The Crown,” Josh O’Connor’s Charles is somewhat sympathetic, in the musical the prince is framed as a cruel, adulterous villain from start to finish.When their fight song ended, there was silence and then a clear-as-a-whistle expletive.

“Diana: The Musical,” (premiering Nov.

took to Instagram on Friday, defiantly sharing her full story for the first time: “Today I woke up angry. Because I’m not a nice girl anymore. I am a grown-ass woman.”Benanti — who hit Broadway back in the late 1990s, when she was still a teenager — says she suffered the serious injury in her early 20s.

were posted on Instagram describing kinky sex acts and cannibalism.“I am 100 per cent a cannibal. I want to eat you,” one message read.In the wake of the allegations, the actor departed the movie “Shotgun Wedding” and released a statement.

I found Ben Power’s play pretty dull at the UK’s National Theatre in 2018, and was bored out of my mind for most of its flight-to-the-Bahamas runtime. But back then it was performed in a cavernous space that swallowed it whole. Deadly.

adaptation of his original production of “Cats” flopped in theaters in 2019, receiving a litter of scathing reviews.The film was so bad that it made composer Lloyd Webber get a therapy dog.In an interview with Variety, the Broadway director said the movie was “off-the-scale all wrong.”“I saw it and I just thought, ‘Oh, God, no,’” he said. “It was the first time in my 70-odd years on this planet that I went out and bought a dog.

bombshell report in April from The Hollywood Reporter, which chronicled allegations of a history of bullying, including claims that the “unhinged” producer once attacked an assistant, Rudin stepped away from the play and other projects, such as the “The Music Man,” starring Hugh Jackman.In an interview with Vanity Fair published Thursday, Sorkin explained why he took the news of Rudin’s alleged abuse “personally” and why he didn’t speak up sooner in the wake of the report.“Had I known, there’s no chance I would’ve tolerated it, there’s no chance [director] Bart Sher would’ve tolerated it, that Jeff Daniels would’ve tolerated it. So we didn’t know.

There is going to be fury on Broadway tomorrow, and a lot of sighing, privately, from the people who run the real show.The Great White Way has been under fire since Black Lives Matter for it’s supposed lack of diversity. There have been diversity initiatives, diversity committees and a great deal of “soul searching” about how to make the theater more welcoming to minorities.And yet for all of that, the shock at the Tony Awards last night was that “The Inheritance,” a play about gay men (of all ethnicities) beat out “Slave Play,” Jeremy O.

more than two years ago, in June 2019, and therefore some of the shows being honored this year are that old, too. Now, they’re finally getting their moment in the sun.

Peter Palmer was an actor who starred in the title role of “Li’l Abner,” both on Broadway and in the 1959 movie adaptation.Palmer was a college football star at the University of Illinois before his acting career. A music major, he also sang the national anthem in his full football uniform before some games he played in.

reopen at 100 percent capacity Tuesday evening for marquee Broadway shows like “Hamilton,” “Wicked,” “The Lion King,” and “Chicago,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. “When Broadway is up and running, it says so much about New York City,” de Blasio said at his daily press briefing, held remotely from City Hall.

“The Crown” hitting the platform next year, the streaming giant has new royal content to keep fans going. “Diana: The Musical” will be coming on Oct.

two major musicals had performances for the first time since theaters were shut down way back in March 2020: “Waitress,” starring Sara Bareilles, and the 2019 Tony winner for Best Musical, “Hadestown.”In the latter show, which runs at the Walter Kerr Theatre, Tony Award winner André De Shields plays Hermes, the storyteller who guides the audience through the updated myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.The indomitable De Shields, 75, is excited, if cautious, about returning to the neighborhood where he’s wowed audiences for decades in “The Wiz,” “The Full Monty,” “Ain’t Misbehavin'” and more.Here, he tells The Post what it’s like getting back on the boards.You’re returning to Broadway this week after more than a year away. How does that feel?It’s