Activity Planner Arrival: Category: All Adoption Arts and Crafts Auctions Auditions Awards Shows/Banquets Bulletin Board Cabaret Charitable Events Charity Events Classes for kids Classes for parents Comedy Concerts Cultural Arts Dance Expectant Parents Fairs/Festivals Film Food and Drink Food and Drink Fun for Kids Galleries Historical Holiday Celebrations Holiday Celebrations Lectures/Debates Library Activities Literary Marathon Mini-Camps Movietime Museums Museums/Art Galleries Music Nature/Outdoors Nature/Outdoors Open Houses Parades Religious Scavenger Hunts Science Shopping Shopping Showtime Signings and Appearances Signings/Appearances Speakers Sports Story hours Street Fairs Support Groups Television Programming Theater Tournaments Tours Trade Shows Departure: For anyone who fell in love with Cynthia Nixon in her Tony-winning performance in last season’s Rabbit Hole, you have until Nov. 11 to catch her in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie at Theatre Row’s Acorn Theater. Movie buffs will recall that Maggie Smith played the role of the charismatic schoolteacher in the 1969 film version, though it’s pretty much a given that Nixon’s take on the character will be totally her own. My Name Is Rachel Corrie, the critically acclaimed British import adapted from the writings of a young American activist crushed under an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza, has finally arrived Off-Broadway. Controversy surrounding the show was ignited earlier this year when the New York Theatre Workshop withdrew it from its March roster amid accusations of censorship. Producers Pam Pariseau and Dena Hammerstein — a close friend of Alan Rickman, who created the play with London newspaper editor Katherine Viner — refused to give up on a New York production and located a new home for the play: The Minetta Lane. Previews begin Oct. 5. Theatergoers with a passion for the unconventional take note: Starting Oct. 11, New World Stages is serving up a “nouveau musical” about an Idaho housewife who chucks it all for Paris, Mimi le Duck, starring cutting-edge rocker-turned-actress Annie Golden and featuring the eternally sultry Eartha Kitt. Just a reminder: Eartha’s got a lot of groupies, so you may want to score your tickets early. In the market for an audio preview of A Chorus Line 2006? The CD of the red-hot revival hits stores Oct. 3 with a bonus track: “The Overture That Never Was,” arranged and performed on two pianos by Marvin Hamlisch. What’s more, the previously unrecorded musical number “And” can be downloaded exclusively through iTunes. Or, you can simply see the show the first: It officially opens Oct. 5 at the Schoenfeld. Ever wonder what happened to Manu Narayan, who was so winning as the hero in Bombay Dreams? He’s back on the New York stage, this time in Second Stage’s first production of the season: Eric Bogosian’s subUrbia, about a day in the life of nine young Americans. In keeping with the play’s youth-centric gestalt, Second Stage is setting aside a limited number of $25 tickets for patrons under 25 at every performance. And no, you don’t to wait in a rush line to get them — they can be purchased in advance, but you do have to show an I.D. upon pick-up at the box office. Good news for those who missed Alan Bennett’s The History Boys (it ended its limited run at the Broadhurst Oct. 1). By the end of the year, you’ll be able to catch the film version — also directed by Nicholas Hytner — with the entire original stage cast intact. IN AND OUT “SNL”’s Ana Gasteyer, most recently seen as Mrs. Peachum on Broadway in The Threepenny Opera, is turning green on Oct. 10 when she replaces Eden Espinoza as Elphaba in Wicked. Gasteyer isn’t exactly a newcomer to the role, however: She received critical accolades when she originated the part in the Chicago production. When Mamma Mia! celebrates its fifth anniversary on Broadway on Oct. 18, it will be actress Carolee Carmello playing the mom with a past and an ABBA repertoire. Carmello, who left the role to costar in Lestat (2006 Tony nomination), returned to the show in late Sept. On Oct. 31, Broadway veterans Marin Mazzie (Kiss Me, Kate) and Jonathan Hadary (Awake and Sing!) will assume the roles of the Lady of the Lake and King Arthur in Spamalot. They will be taking over for Lauren Kennedy and Harry Groener. Celia Keenan Bolger, originator of the role of Olive Ostrovsky in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, has been cast as Eponine in the upcoming Broadway revival of Les Misérables. Bolger’s replacement at Circle in the Square is Jessica-Snow Wilson, last seen on Broadway in Good Vibrations. FUTURE STOCK January: Playwrights Horizons will debut Frank’s Home, a new play by Tony-winner Richard Nelson (James Joyce’s The Dead) starring Peter Weller and Harris Yulin as Frank Lloyd Wright and his mentor, Louis Sullivan, respectively. And in March, PH moves on to the world premiere of resident playwright Adam Rapp’s (Red Light Winter) Essential Self-Defense. February: Liev Schreiber is set to star in the first Broadway staging of Eric Bogosian’s Talk Radio, loosely based on the life of Alan Berg, the Denver talk-show host gunned down in 1984. March: Second Stage Theatre has announced a March 2007 debut for Terrence McNally’s Some Men, originally scheduled for November. Meanwhile, at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Stage I, Jeff Daniels will begin performances in the New York premiere of David Harrower’s Blackbird, directed by two-time Tony-winner Joe Mantello. IN DEVELOPMENT Disney Theatrical Productions is developing a new musical based on Jules Feiffer’s The Man in the Ceiling about a boy cartoonist who dreams of becoming a successful artist. “From the moment I first read this book, I knew it could be a spectacular musical,” says Andrew Lippa, who’s been recruited to write the music and lyrics. Feiffer, who’ll be penning the book, adds, “I’ve been a great fan of Andrew’s work since The Wild Party…Working with [him] and the Disney organization on this very personal story of childhood, creativity, family and failure is a dream come true.” Also on the Disney drawing board for future stage productions: The Little Mermaid, featuring music by Alan Menken. Reader Feedback - 0 Replies Be the first to kick-start this discussion Join the discussion To register, please click here