Alvin Deutsch, the attorney who represented singer Peggy Lee in her landmark victory over Walt Disney Productions and more recently tangled with Broadway producer Scott Rudin and the estate of author Harper Lee over rights to a stage production of To Kill A Mockingbird, died Oct. 6 at his home in New York City. He was 89.
The Deutsch family announced his death just yesterday, shortly following his win, in arbitration, against the Lee estate. The Deutsch family says it chose to wait until the Lee verdict was rendered before making his death public.
An internationally renowned expert in copyright law, Deutsch also represented a lengthy roster of entertainment and cultural figures throughout his career, including author Tom Wolfe (a client for 50 years), the Broadway composing team of Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, librettist Michael Stewart, songwriter Irving Burgee (“Day O...
The Deutsch family announced his death just yesterday, shortly following his win, in arbitration, against the Lee estate. The Deutsch family says it chose to wait until the Lee verdict was rendered before making his death public.
An internationally renowned expert in copyright law, Deutsch also represented a lengthy roster of entertainment and cultural figures throughout his career, including author Tom Wolfe (a client for 50 years), the Broadway composing team of Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, librettist Michael Stewart, songwriter Irving Burgee (“Day O...
- 2/11/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The 5th Avenue Theatre presents an exciting new 'revisal' of the sweeping saga Lerner amp Loewe's Paint Your Wagon. Featuring an all-new book by Pulitzer Prize nominee John Marans, this show has taken an incredible journey over the last five years from developmental workshops to The 5th Avenue stage this season. And BroadwayWorld is happy to report that the company has just announced the full cast and creative team.
- 6/9/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
You know how books supposedly sometimes "speak" to their readers? In Bob the Book, a hilarious new comic novel by David Pratt (Chelsea Station Editions, $16), books definitely do speak — to each other, if not always to the humans they're trying hard to communicate with. In other words, in the world of this novel, books have literal personalities and identities, falling in love with each other, even if they're ultimately powerless, unable to move, and often whisked away from friends and lovers by unknowing humans.
Bob the Book tells the story of one book, Bob, a scholarly work on vintage erotic photographs that's on sale in a Greenwich Village gay bookstore. He falls hard for a nearby book, Moishe, a tome about homosexuality in orthodox Jewish cultures (naturally, he's pessimistic and guilt-ridden). But before Bob and Moishe know it, the two books are sold to different owners.
So begins a long...
Bob the Book tells the story of one book, Bob, a scholarly work on vintage erotic photographs that's on sale in a Greenwich Village gay bookstore. He falls hard for a nearby book, Moishe, a tome about homosexuality in orthodox Jewish cultures (naturally, he's pessimistic and guilt-ridden). But before Bob and Moishe know it, the two books are sold to different owners.
So begins a long...
- 3/3/2011
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
Cheyenne Jackson, Michael Urie
When asked to comment on Ramin Setoodeh's recent article about how openly gay actors can't convincingly play heterosexual roles, Cheyenne Jackson and Michael Urie straight-out called the Newsweek entertainment writer an ''asshole'' who's ''unconscionable.'' The two out actors were speaking at a talkback after Monday's performance of The Temperamentals, Jon Marans' acclaimed Off-Broadway play about early gay rights activists in the 1950s.
After moderator Frank DeCaro asked Jackson what he thought of Setoodeh's piece, the Broadway star of Finian's Rainbow and TV guest star of 30 Rock said:
It was infuriating on so many levels. Not only does [Setoodeh] say that a gay man can't play straight, he got personal, picking on Sean Hayes in Promises, Promises, [pointing out] certain scenes where he thinks [Sean] is stiff and uncomfortable. And then he picks on Jonathan Groff, who just came out. He's a young teen heartthrob [in Glee]. He's so talented and...
When asked to comment on Ramin Setoodeh's recent article about how openly gay actors can't convincingly play heterosexual roles, Cheyenne Jackson and Michael Urie straight-out called the Newsweek entertainment writer an ''asshole'' who's ''unconscionable.'' The two out actors were speaking at a talkback after Monday's performance of The Temperamentals, Jon Marans' acclaimed Off-Broadway play about early gay rights activists in the 1950s.
After moderator Frank DeCaro asked Jackson what he thought of Setoodeh's piece, the Broadway star of Finian's Rainbow and TV guest star of 30 Rock said:
It was infuriating on so many levels. Not only does [Setoodeh] say that a gay man can't play straight, he got personal, picking on Sean Hayes in Promises, Promises, [pointing out] certain scenes where he thinks [Sean] is stiff and uncomfortable. And then he picks on Jonathan Groff, who just came out. He's a young teen heartthrob [in Glee]. He's so talented and...
- 5/11/2010
- by Wayman Wong
- The Backlot
"The Temperamentals" the critically acclaimed and award-winning play by Jon Marans ,Off Broadway at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) will close on May 30th. Daryl Roth, Stacy Shane and Martian Entertainment are presenting the new American play. Thomas Jay Ryan (recently on Broadway "In The Next Room") portrays Harry Hay. Michael Urie (from TV's "Ugly Betty") is Rudi Gernreich. Arnie Burton (an original cast member of Broadway's "39 Steps") joined the cast in multiple roles. Rounding out the cast of five multiple talented actors are Matthew Schneck, and Sam Breslin Wright. It is directed by Jonathan Silverstein. The Set & Costume design is by Clint Ramos, lighting by Josh Bradford and Daniel Kluger is the sound designer.
- 5/5/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Lucille Lortel Awards nominations for best work done off-Broadway are in. The awards will be handed out Sunday, May 2. Here are the nominees in major categories: Outstanding Play: Clybourne Park; Playwrights Horizons, Producer; Written by Bruce Norris. The Brother/Sister Plays; The Public Theater in association with McCarter Theatre, Producers; Written by Tarell Alvin McCraney. The Orphans' Home Cycle; Signature Theatre Company and Hartford Stage, Producers; Written by Horton Foote. The Temperamentals; Daryl Roth, Stacy Shane and Martian Entertainment, Producers; Written by Jon Marans. When The Rain Stops Falling; Lincoln Center Theater, Producer; Written by Andrew Bovell Outstanding Musical: Click, Clack, Moo; Theatreworks USA, Producer; Book by [...]...
- 4/1/2010
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline Hollywood
Maintaining truthfulness and avoiding stereotypes are the major challenges when playing racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities.Consider the daunting task that Tamer Aziz faces in tackling a character who is gay, Iranian, and Muslim in Jay Paul Deratany's fact-based play "Haram Iran" (now at the Celebration Theatre in Hollywood). Or the issues that black actors deal with in enacting a brutal racist episode within the context of a minstrel show in John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical "The Scottsboro Boys" (currently at New York's Vineyard Theatre). Justin Huen also has his work cut out for him playing Oedipus in Luis Alfaro's play "Oedipus el Rey," a retelling of Sophocles' tragedy set in a Los Angeles barrio (playing the Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena, Calif.). Jennifer Lim grapples with a fully assimilated and not very sensitive Asian American in Lauren Yee's satire "Ching Chong Chinaman" (now at New York's...
- 3/31/2010
- backstage.com
There will be a Special Easter Sunday, April 4rh, 3:00 pm performance of the critically acclaimed hit show "The Temperamentals" by Jon Marans at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street). All tickets are only $29 and this includes a drink coupon. Plus there will be at 2:30 an Easter Bonnet contest, The judges will be announced soon There will be prizes for the winners: including tickets to "Love, Loss and What I Wore."...
- 3/23/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Temperamentals
As was recently pointed out in a New York Times article, this theater season is loaded with productions that explore gay themes. They range from such musicals as the off-Broadway Yank! and a Broadway revival of La Cage Aux Folles to off-Broadway plays old (a revival of The Boys in the Band) and new (The Pride), plus a new play that has made the move from off-Broadway to Broadway (Next Fall), just to name a few. Another entry is Jon Marans’s fine and intriguing play The Temperamentals, which had an off-off-Broadway run last summer and has now opened for a commercial run at the New World Stages.
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As was recently pointed out in a New York Times article, this theater season is loaded with productions that explore gay themes. They range from such musicals as the off-Broadway Yank! and a Broadway revival of La Cage Aux Folles to off-Broadway plays old (a revival of The Boys in the Band) and new (The Pride), plus a new play that has made the move from off-Broadway to Broadway (Next Fall), just to name a few. Another entry is Jon Marans’s fine and intriguing play The Temperamentals, which had an off-off-Broadway run last summer and has now opened for a commercial run at the New World Stages.
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- 3/5/2010
- by James Miller
- www.culturecatch.com
When the series finale of ABC's "Ugly Betty" airs April 14, devoted viewers of the dramedy will see Michael Urie as the flamboyant Marc St. James for the last time. Any of those fans who are regular New York theatergoers, however, will still be able to see him as fashion designer Rudi Gernreich at New World Stages in "The Temperamentals." In fact, it's possible some saw Urie as the Viennese gay activist and creator of the monokini even before he was Vanessa Williams' scheming assistant, because he's been doing readings of Jon Marans' play for six years."When Michael did the first reading, he hadn't been on 'Ugly Betty,' " Marans says. "This was just after he'd gotten out of Juilliard [in 2003]. So he was an actor who was looking for a job.""From the first time I read it, six years ago," Urie says, "I was like, 'This play is really good.
- 2/18/2010
- backstage.com
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