Richard Schiff
arts & entertainment
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The Great White Way
Heading to the Big Apple? Here, a collection
of wintertime shows with a Jewish connection.
Alice Burdick Schweiger
The Assembled Parties, written by
Special to the Jewish News
Richard Greenberg, directed by Lynne
Meadow and starring Judith Light,
Jessica Hecht, Mark Blum, Jeremy
Shamos and Jason Robards (son of
BROADWAY
The Anarchist, a two-woman drama writ-
ten by David Mamet and starring Debra
Winger and Patti LuPone, is set in a
women's prison as a longtime inmate, once
part of a radical group, pleads for parole.
Through Dec. 16.
At the John Golden Theatre. 252 W. 45th
St. (212) 239-6200.
Ann, a one-woman show about the late Texas
governor Ann Richards, comes to Broadway
starring Holland Taylor and directed by
Benjamin Endsley Klein. In 2009, he
received the Emerging Artist in Theatre
Award from his alma mater, the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor. Previews begin Feb.
18; the show opens March 7.
At the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. 150
West 65th St. (212) 239-6200.
Annie, set in the 1930s and based on the
comic strip Little Orphan Annie, won
seven Tony Awards when it opened in
1977. Now in its third Broadway incarna-
tion and creatively staged with a new look
by its director, James Lapine, it's received
rave reviews. With music by Charles
Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin.
At the Palace Theatre. 1564 Broadway at
47th St. (800) 745-3000.
Jews
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Lauren Bacall), tells the story of an afflu-
ent New York Upper West Side Jewish
family in 1980, where a house guest joins
them for a holiday dinner. Twenty years
later, there are repercussions. Previews
begin March 19; the show opens April 17
and closes June 2.
At the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. 261
West 47th St. (212) 239-6200.
Bring It On, a high-energy musical that
tells the story of challenges and bonds
formed in the competitive world of high
school cheerleading, features music by
Tom Kitt (Next to Normal) and lyrics
by Amanda Green, daughter of actress
Phyllis Newman and the late composer
Adolph Green. Through Dec. 30.
At the St. James Theatre. 246 West 44th
St. (212) 239-6200.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof stars Scarlett
Johansson as Maggie and Benjamin
Walker (he's Meryl Streep's son-in-law)
as Brick in Tennessee William's Pulitzer
Prize-winning play about a dying cotton
tycoon owner, his dysfunctional grown
children and the inheritance to come.
Previews begin Dec. 18; the show opens
Jan. 18 and closes March 30.
Nate Bloom
wife, U-M grad Julie Deborah Brown,
Special to the Jewish News
also is Jewish.
Also opening on Dec.14 is Any Day
Now, directed by Travis Fine, 44, and
inspired by a true story that touches
on legal and social issues that are in
the headlines today. The film is set in
late 1970s West Hollywood, where a
teenager with Down syndrome named
Marco (Isaac Leyva, who in real life
has Down syndrome) has been aban-
doned by his mother. He is taken in
by a committed gay couple, Rudy
(Alan Cumming, who plays Eli Gold on
CBS's The Good Wife) and Paul (Garret
Dillahunt). With them,
he finds the love,
acceptance and fam-
ily he's never had, but
the couple must fight
a biased legal system
to adopt him.
Opening on
Fine
Wednesday, Dec.19,
New Flicks
The Central Park Five, opening Friday,
Dec.14, is a documentary about five
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arrested in 1989 for raping a white
female jogger in Central Park and how
they were exonerated after five years
in jail.
The film is co-directed by David
McMahon and Ann Arbor-raised
documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.
It's based on a bestselling book by
Sarah Burns, 30,
Ken's daughter and
McMahon's wife.
Sarah's Jewish
mother is documen-
tary filmmaker Amy
Stechler Burns,
Sarah Burns
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Ken's first wife. His
second (and current)
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At the Richards
Rodgers Theatre. 226
West 46th St. (800)
745-3000.
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Cinderella, the fairy tale with music and
lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein II, was written for televi-
sion in 1957 as a vehicle for Julie Andrews
and is making its Broadway debut with
some new twists (including a new book by
Douglas Carter Beane). Previews start Jan.
24; the show opens Feb. 24.
At the Broadway Theatre. 1681
Broadway at 53rd St. (212) 239-6200.
Glengarry Glen Ross, written by David
Mamet and starring Al Pacino in the dra-
matic revival about real estate salesmen
fighting to hold on to their jobs, features
a cast including Jeremy Shamos and
Richard Schiff. Through Jan. 20.
At the Gerold Schoenfeld Theatre. 236
West 45th St. (212) 239-6200.
Golden Boy, the 1937 Clifford Odets
drama set during the Great Depression
about a young man's struggle to choose
between a career as a musician or a shot at
being a boxer stars Danny Burstein as the
young man's trainer. Through Jan. 20.
At the Belasco Theatre. 111 West 44th St.
(212) 239-6200.
is a 3-D reissue of the 2001 Pixar ani-
mated classic Monsters, Inc. and The
Guilt Trip, a comedy about a Jewish
mother named Joyce Brewster
(Barbra Streisand, 70) and her inven-
tor son, Andy (Seth Rogen, 30).
The two lead monsters in Monsters,
Inc. are voiced by Billy Crystal, 64,
and John Goodman. The film was co-
directed by David Silverman, 55, and
Lee Unkrich, 45, who went on to win
an Oscar for directing/producing Toy
Story 3 in 2011.
In The Guilt Trip, Streisand and
Rogen take a 3,000-mile road trip
from New Jersey to San Francisco,
discussing "everything" as they
drive. Rogen told reporters at a pre-
view showing that he and Streisand
never sang together during filming.
But she did regale him with stories —
like smoking pot with the late Peter
Sellers and turning down a proposi-
tion from Marlon Brando.
Grace is a dark comedy about a young
couple, played by Paul Rudd and Katie
Arrington, who risk it all to start a new
life by opening a chain of gospel-themed
motels. Ed Asner co-stars. Through Jan. 6.
At the Cort Theatre. 138 W 48th St.
(212) 239-6200.
The Heiress, a revival of the play about
a sheltered daughter caught between her
domineering father and a mysterious,
handsome stranger, stars Jessica Chastain,
Dan Stevens (Matthew on Downton Abbey)
and David Strathairn and is directed by
Moises Kaufman (The Laramie Project).
Through Feb. 10.
At the Walter Kerr Theatre. 219 West
48th St. (212) 239-6200.
Kinky Boots, with a book by Harvey
Fierstein and music by Cindi Lauper,
is about a man who inherits his father's
almost-bankrupt shoe factory; he becomes
inspired by an entertainer in need of sti-
lettos. Previews begin March 3; the show
opens April 4.
At the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. 302 West
45th St. (212) 239-6200.
The film's director, Anne Fletcher
(27 Dresses and The Proposal), 46,
was born and raised in the Detroit
area. Dan Fogelman, 40, wrote the
screenplay.
II Divo
On Sunday, Dec.16, at 9 p.m., pop
singer Adam Lambert, 30, will host
the 2012 edition of VH1 Divas, a live
concert on VH1 featuring perform-
ers including Miley Cyrus, Demi
Lovato, Kelly Rowland, Ciara and
Jordin Sparks and honoring the late
divas Whitney Houston and Donna
Summer. The annual
event raises funds
for the network's
VH1 Save the Music
Foundation, a group
that aids music edu-
cation in American
public schools.
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Lambert