When one thinks of legendary restaurants associated with the world of theater, there is a venerable stalwart that stands out from the rest. Joe Allen, on Restaurant Row (46th between 8th and 9th Avenues), has been serving upscale fare to the theatrical community for over 44 years. The walls are adorned with posters from notorious Broadway flops like On the Waterfront, Dance of the Vampires and Got tu Go Disco.



My personal favorite poster is from the first… Continue

What do you do when your night job quits you?



Two days after the Tony Awards, we all started getting phone calls from the general manager of Guys and Dolls, Frank Scardino. The general manager is essentially the CFO of the company that is a Broadway show. They act on the behalf of the producers of a show and run the payroll, crunch the numbers and are the center of the central nervous system of the business end of the show. Now when you’re an actor on a show, you… Continue

So much to discuss this week! As you must know by now, Guys and Dolls, the Broadway revival and my current gig, is closing this Sunday. It is never easy to get that kind of news and I am going to write all about it next week…but this week, THE TONYS!!!!



As a kid, the Tonys were my yearly chance to see what was going on in the world of Broadway. It was my opportunity to see performers do what they do best in a medium that, except for Tony Day, could only be viewed live and in… Continue

Hey BroadwaySpacers! Another week of pre-Tony madness has passed. You’d think rehearsing a number for the Tonys would be easy – I mean we do the same show every night – but one little-known secret is that performances on the actual awards show are usually different than those seen eight times a week.



Sometimes the changes are significant, (i.e. doing a medley of songs from a show as opposed to doing just one song), other times the changes are relatively minor. In any case, time… Continue

Hello friends. Because of rehearsals for the Guys and Dolls appearance on the Tony awards, I had no time this week to have lunch with a strange and interesting person of the theater. Instead, I’ve been backstage at the Nederlander Theatre rehearsing all day long with about 30 strange and interesting people of the theater.



This will be my third time appearing at the Tony’s. When Spamalot won for Best Musical, we performed “Find Your Grail.” If you watch the clip on… Continue