A Catered Affair – A New Broadway Musical Starring Faith Prince, Tom Wopat and Harvey Fierstein

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Damn, Yankees, How Am I Going To Fit It All In (Or Pay For It All)?
Published 4/11/2008 by Vance at Tapeworthy
... (Opens Apr. 24 though bad rumours are that the closing will be soon after), A Catered Affair (Opens Apr. 17 though apparently it's pretty slow), and ...

Tune in to TCM: The Catered Affair
Published 4/24/2008 by Kirby at Movie Dearest
Harvey Fierstein, currently on Broadway in the stage musical adaptation of this film, says it best (by way of Entertainment Weekly): "Bette Davis considered her performance, as a Bronx housewife who insists on giving her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not, one of her career best. What more do you want? Well, let me tell you what more The Catered Affair offers: there's a beautifully modulated dramatic acting job by Debbie Reynolds, proving she ...

Harvey Fierstein, Actor
Published 5/14/2008 by John Del Signore at Gothamist
... It says a lot about Harvey Fierstein's distinctiveness that it's almost impossible to even say the name 'Harvey' without thinking of that endearingly gravelly voice. Whether you know him as Homer Simpson's assistant Karl, Robin Williams's brother in Mrs. Doubtfire, or Hairspray's Edna Turnblad, the Brooklyn-born actor's uninhibited, self-assured persona is thoroughly his own. Now the four-time Tony winner is back on Broadway with A Catered Affair, the musical adaptation of ...

MD Poll: From Screen to Stage, Class of 2007-2008
Published 5/23/2008 by Kirby (noreply@blogger.com) at Movie Dearest
With the 2007-2008 Broadway season now at its end (and the Tony Awards just around the corner), the latest MD Poll asks you to take a look at the six "screen to stage" productions that have trod the boards of the Great White Way over the past year and asks "which is your favorite?" Five musicals (A Catered Affair, Cry-Baby, The Little Mermaid, Xanadu and Young Frankenstein) and ...

Reel Thoughts: Harvey's Affair
Published 23 days ago by Kirby (noreply@blogger.com) at Movie Dearest
... Even factoring in nostalgia for a simpler time, the plot of A Catered Affair (now playing at the Walter Kerr Theatre) doesn’t cry out for a musical version. Eager to impress others, Aggie, an otherwise loving mother (Faith Prince), wants to give her daughter a huge wedding, no matter what the financial and emotional cost. Harvey Fierstein wrote the book and a juicy role for himself as gay Uncle Winston, but his Torch Song Trilogy-worthy reaction to being excluded from the big day is totally ...