The Orlando production of “The Blue Lagoon: A Musical” opens Saturday, Jan. 9, at the Footlight Theatre at the Parliament House Resort. Jane Horwitz mentions the show in today’s Backstage column in The Post, which also features a nice photo of exceptional New York talents Shayna Albertson and Anthony Johnson, who are reprising their CringeFest […]

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Anthony Johnson and Shayna Albertson in “The Blue Lagoon: A Musical,” opening July 22 at the Producers’ Club Grand Theater in New York.

Photo by Tony Spinosa

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“The Blue Lagoon: A Musical,” a subversively funny take on the classic tale of shipwrecked teen cousins in lust, will open on July 22 at the Producers’ Club Grand Theater in Manhattan. The show is slated for four performances as part of International CringeFest, a three-week celebration of naughtily bad plays, musicals and films.
“The Blue […]

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I enjoyed the New York Times obituary for Gale Storm, the actress whose career peaked in the 1950s on sitcoms “My Little Margie” and “The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna.” The title character of the latter, writes Anita Gates, “was a social director on a cruise ship who, with her beautician sidekick (ZaSu Pitts), regularly […]

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What’s the best way to get to “Witch Mountain”? I’ll take the flying Winnebago.

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Television-loving child that I was in the ’70s, I still somehow managed to completely miss Mitzi Gaynor’s specials. How deprived was I? Quite, it seems, after watching a PBS pledge-drive program tonight: “Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years.” Wow. Good stuff.

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Paul Benedict, 1938-2008
I was saddened to read the obituary for Paul Benedict, the actor who played Mr. Bentley on “The Jeffersons.” Benedict made the strongest impression on me, though, earlier than that — as the Mad Painter on “Sesame Street.” This is my favorite sequence: the one where he uses condiments to paint the number […]

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Well. Would you look at that? If it isn’t July already… You might say that I’ve been closed for renovations. Yes, I know — the site looks the same. But, if we were to run into each other for the first time since December, you might notice that I’m 87 pounds lighter. That little project […]

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(Wagner. Who else?) In the September 9 edition of The Washington Post, I consider NBC’s “Bionic Woman” series in relation to the ’70s original and its gay fan base, many of whom are less than thrilled with the addition of a certain “f”-slur-slinging actor to the new show. Read “The Bionic Woman’s Toughest Mission.”

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