Hello, diva lovers. I'd like to dedicate today's column to one of the most gifted comedic actresses of her time, Madeline Kahn, who lost her battle with ovarian cancer last week. Kahn, who received a Tony Award for her riotous portrayal of Dr. Gorgeous Teitelbaum in Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, was equally at home on the stage or on screen, earning Tony nominations for her work in In the Boom Boom Room, On the Twentieth Century and Born Yesterday while meriting Academy Award nominations for such screen roles as "Blazing Saddles" and "Paper Moon." Though difficult to choose from her eclectic array of characters, I think my favorite Kahn performance was in the aforementioned "Paper Moon" as the good-bone-structured Trixie Delight, opposite the father-and-daughter team of Ryan and Tatum O'Neill. The operatically-trained performer had the ability to make you laugh with a simple inflection of the voice, and she could also move you in both song and the spoken word. This unique, multi-talented actress will be much missed. In lieu of flowers, Kahn's family asks that donations be made to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (One Penn Plaza, Suite 1610, New York, NY 10001).

Hello, diva lovers. I'd like to dedicate today's column to one of the most gifted comedic actresses of her time, Madeline Kahn, who lost her battle with ovarian cancer last week. Kahn, who received a Tony Award for her riotous portrayal of Dr. Gorgeous Teitelbaum in Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, was equally at home on the stage or on screen, earning Tony nominations for her work in In the Boom Boom Room, On the Twentieth Century and Born Yesterday while meriting Academy Award nominations for such screen roles as "Blazing Saddles" and "Paper Moon." Though difficult to choose from her eclectic array of characters, I think my favorite Kahn performance was in the aforementioned "Paper Moon" as the good-bone-structured Trixie Delight, opposite the father-and-daughter team of Ryan and Tatum O'Neill. The operatically-trained performer had the ability to make you laugh with a simple inflection of the voice, and she could also move you in both song and the spoken word. This unique, multi-talented actress will be much missed. In lieu of flowers, Kahn's family asks that donations be made to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (One Penn Plaza, Suite 1610, New York, NY 10001).

Playbill.com posed this question to over 100 theatre actors: If you could star in a Broadway revival of any play or musical, which show and role would you choose?

Vocal trouble had forced her to miss three performances, but Betty Buckley will return tonight, Sept. 18, to the role of Mama Rose in Gypsy at NJ's Paper Mill Playhouse, according to associate producer Roy Miller (Sept. 18). "She'll be back tonight in all her talented glory," Miller said.

While New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse gears up for the Sept. 20 opening of Gypsy, with Betty Buckley and Deborah Gibson, changes have been made to two shows on the 1998-99 season schedule. A production of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's The Man Who Came To Dinner was supposed to run Jan. 6-Feb. 14, 1999, but the comedy was scratched because the star Paper Mill wanted has been ill. Instead, a new revuesical, Up Up And Away: The Songs of Jimmy Webb, conceived & directed by artistic director Robert Johanson, will take Dinner's place. The show, still in development, will feature such Webb songs as "MacArthur Park," "Galveston," "Up Up And Away," "Didn't We" and "Wichita Lineman."

The highly-anticipated Betty Buckley/Deborah Gibson Gypsy opens Sept. 20 at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse. Rehearsals started Aug. 20 and previews began Sept. 9 for a run through Oct. 25 The classic musical features lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, a book by Arthur Laurents and music by Jule Styne.

Boeing-Boeing was the ding-dong that opened the doors of the landmark Longacre Theatre to $12 million of renovations May 4. Inside, over the next two hours, a lot of doors on stage opened and closed, the show being an aggressively old-fashioned, door-slamming sex-farce in two acts and three holding patterns.

Boeing-Boeing was the ding-dong that opened the doors of the landmark Longacre Theatre to $12 million of renovations May 4. Inside, over the next two hours, a lot of doors on stage opened and closed, the show being an aggressively old-fashioned, door-slamming sex-farce in two acts and three holding patterns.

In an intimate conversation with Wicked producer Marc Platt, Idina Menzel reveals details about her upcoming album, her relationship with her son, her real thoughts about being called “Adele Dazeem” and more.

These directors are making waves in the field—and none of them have yet directed for Broadway.

In 1995 Stritch returned to Broadway in Harold Prince’s revival of Show Boat and reflected on a lifetime in show business in this no-holds-barred interview.

The second coming of the Age of Aquarius in a tad over two years dawned July 13 at the St. James Theatre, the revival of the Tony-winning revival of 2009's Hair.

The second coming of the Age of Aquarius in a tad over two years dawned July 13 at the St. James Theatre, the revival of the Tony-winning revival of 2009's Hair.

The latest recording in Scott Siegel's acclaimed Broadway By the Year series, "The Broadway Musicals of 1930," is now available on CD on the Original Cast Records label.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.

News, views and reviews about the multi-talented women of the musical theatre and the concert/cabaret stage.