Ming Cho Lee, an innovative and influential scenic designer whose career of more than 60 years included unforgettable creations for Broadway, Off Broadway, regional theater, opera and dance, died Oct. 23. He was 90.
A cornerstone of the Yale School of Drama for 48 years beginning in 1969, Lee taught and mentored generations of students who would take their own places on Broadway. According to the school, Lee taught and mentored more than 300 designers by the time he retired in 2017.
Clint Ramos, a Tony-winning costume and set designer, remembered Lee by noting, “Because you were — we are.”
Jeremy O. Harris, author of Broadway’s Slave Play, tweeted about Lee, “one of the great gifts of my 3 years at Yale was watching you do Saturday crits at a full 88 years of age. Even after seeing 100s of thousands of design ideas in your life you treated these new ones with passion and reverence for the form.
A cornerstone of the Yale School of Drama for 48 years beginning in 1969, Lee taught and mentored generations of students who would take their own places on Broadway. According to the school, Lee taught and mentored more than 300 designers by the time he retired in 2017.
Clint Ramos, a Tony-winning costume and set designer, remembered Lee by noting, “Because you were — we are.”
Jeremy O. Harris, author of Broadway’s Slave Play, tweeted about Lee, “one of the great gifts of my 3 years at Yale was watching you do Saturday crits at a full 88 years of age. Even after seeing 100s of thousands of design ideas in your life you treated these new ones with passion and reverence for the form.
- 10/26/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
A part-time Broadway usher who recently worked at two theaters has tested positive for coronavirus, the theater owners have confirmed, as both shows – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Booth Theatre and Six at the Brooks Atkinson – continued performances Wednesday night.
According to a joint statement from the Shubert Organization, owner of the Booth, and the Nederlander Organization, owner of the Brooks Atkinson, both venues were set to undergo deep cleanings by Wednesday night. The highly anticipated musical Six opens at the Brooks Atkinson tonight.
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Both shows are offering ticket exchanges. “Any ticketholder that prefers to attend a future performance of ‘Virginia Woolf’ or ‘Six’ will be provided the opportunity for...
According to a joint statement from the Shubert Organization, owner of the Booth, and the Nederlander Organization, owner of the Brooks Atkinson, both venues were set to undergo deep cleanings by Wednesday night. The highly anticipated musical Six opens at the Brooks Atkinson tonight.
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Both shows are offering ticket exchanges. “Any ticketholder that prefers to attend a future performance of ‘Virginia Woolf’ or ‘Six’ will be provided the opportunity for...
- 3/12/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Broadway producers are “cautiously optimistic” as attendance figures for last week show little, if any, immediate impact from the global coronavirus scare.
Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League trade organization representing producers and theater owners, said in a conference call with reporters this afternoon that she was “even a bit surprised” with today’s box office figures indicating an increase in total Broadway attendance last week over the previous week.
“I look very carefully at the year over year” figures, St. Martin said, “and history says last week and the week before are two of the traditionally worst weeks we have every year” partially due to winter weather and families gearing up for spring break. She indicated last week’s figures were encouraging, “but we know it could possibly not be [like] this every week.”
According to the League’s weekly box office report released today, total attendance for...
Charlotte St. Martin, president of the Broadway League trade organization representing producers and theater owners, said in a conference call with reporters this afternoon that she was “even a bit surprised” with today’s box office figures indicating an increase in total Broadway attendance last week over the previous week.
“I look very carefully at the year over year” figures, St. Martin said, “and history says last week and the week before are two of the traditionally worst weeks we have every year” partially due to winter weather and families gearing up for spring break. She indicated last week’s figures were encouraging, “but we know it could possibly not be [like] this every week.”
According to the League’s weekly box office report released today, total attendance for...
- 3/9/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Broadway box office was down 11% last week, but don’t jump to any coronavirus conclusions: Attendance was down a small 3%, and the slide in receipts can be chalked up at least in part to theater-going children.
With more than a dozen productions participating in the annual Kids Night On Broadway – children free with paying adults – and To Kill A Mockingbird giving up an entire night of paying audiences for the 18,000 students filling Madison Square Garden Feb. 26 – total box office receipts for the week ending March 1 slipped to $26,109,419, from $29M the previous week.
Attendance of 244,515 for the 28 productions was off 3% from the previous week’s 250,954.
All of the productions participating in Kids Night – Ain’t Too Proud, Aladdin, Beetlejuice, Chicago, Come From Away, Frozen, Jagged Little Pill, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lion King, Mean Girls, Moulin Rouge!, The Phantom of the Opera, Six and Wicked – reported box office slips. Harry...
With more than a dozen productions participating in the annual Kids Night On Broadway – children free with paying adults – and To Kill A Mockingbird giving up an entire night of paying audiences for the 18,000 students filling Madison Square Garden Feb. 26 – total box office receipts for the week ending March 1 slipped to $26,109,419, from $29M the previous week.
Attendance of 244,515 for the 28 productions was off 3% from the previous week’s 250,954.
All of the productions participating in Kids Night – Ain’t Too Proud, Aladdin, Beetlejuice, Chicago, Come From Away, Frozen, Jagged Little Pill, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lion King, Mean Girls, Moulin Rouge!, The Phantom of the Opera, Six and Wicked – reported box office slips. Harry...
- 3/2/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Nederlander National Markets LLC, a stand-alone company that’s part of Broadway heavyweight Nederlander Organization, and Chicago-based theater presenter Jam Theatricals have combined to create a new entity that will retain the Nederlander National Markets name.
Jam’s 26-city subscription theater circuit will now be part of Nederlander National Markets, a James L. Nederlander Company under the Nederlander Organization umbrella. Since Jam manages and operates Washington D.C.’s historic National Theatre, the venue, built in 1835, will now be managed by the new entity.
The new Nederlander National Markets will operate under the direct leadership of Nederlander President James L. Nederlander and Executive Vice President Nick Scandalios. Jam’s Steve Traxler, co-founder, President & CEO, will continue in the new company as Director of Strategy and Integration, overseeing the subscription seasons in 26 cities as well as the management of the National Theatre.
The 184-year-old National is considered the nation’s oldest theater presenting touring Broadway productions.
Jam’s 26-city subscription theater circuit will now be part of Nederlander National Markets, a James L. Nederlander Company under the Nederlander Organization umbrella. Since Jam manages and operates Washington D.C.’s historic National Theatre, the venue, built in 1835, will now be managed by the new entity.
The new Nederlander National Markets will operate under the direct leadership of Nederlander President James L. Nederlander and Executive Vice President Nick Scandalios. Jam’s Steve Traxler, co-founder, President & CEO, will continue in the new company as Director of Strategy and Integration, overseeing the subscription seasons in 26 cities as well as the management of the National Theatre.
The 184-year-old National is considered the nation’s oldest theater presenting touring Broadway productions.
- 11/26/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Sara Bareilles, will return to Waitress in the role of Jenna, joined by Tony Award-winner, Gavin Creel as Dr. Pomatter for a limited engagement January 7 to February 3, 2019. The two are getting ready to take to the Brooks Atkinson stage and telling us all about why they can't wait to star opposite each other. Watch below as they tell us all about it...
- 1/4/2019
- by TV - Press Previews
- BroadwayWorld.com
Tony and Grammy Award nominee Sara Bareilles, the composer and lyricist of the Broadway smash hit Waitress, returned to the Brooks Atkinson stage this evening. To celebrate Sara's big return to the diner, the production dropped a surprise stream of Sara's first curtain call back along with a fun duet with co-star Jason Mraz on excited fans everywhere. See the stars take on their Act 1 duet, 'Bad Idea' below...
- 1/17/2018
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
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