Harvey's Broadway Blog: The Run Has Begun!

Welcome to the debut of a very special new series on BroadwayWorld.com - four time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein's personal MySpace blog of bringing his brand new musical, A Catered Affair to Broadway. We'll be exclusively picking up Harvey Fierstein's blog as he shares his first hand reports from rehearsals, to out-of-town tryouts to Opening Night (and beyond).  A CATERED AFFAIR also features a score by John Bucchino and is being directed by Tony Award-winner John Doyle. Prior to Broadway, the new musical will play at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre beginning September 20th and then hit the Great White Way at the  Walter Kerr Theatre with previews beginning on begin March 25. The cast includes Broadway favorites Faith Prince, Tom Wopat, Harvey Fierstein, Leslie Kritzer and Matt Cavenaugh. Group tickets for the show are now on sale. 

HELLO EVERYBODY!

Sorry that I haven't posted in more than a week, but we've been settling into our run out here at The Old Globe.

It was sad to see our director, producers, all of our designers and support help slowly leave after the opening night but it's just the natural order of things. Now is the time for us to band together as a company and take to the stage giving the audience a great show eight times a week.

As I write this I am glancing at a calendar where I can clearly see that our time out of town is half-over. We'll all be back in less than 5 weeks. Amazing.

And the show is going great. Nightly the audiences come and allow us to take them on our very special journey. We've participated in two "talk-backs" thus-far and it's wonderful to hear the feedback from the audience. They are definitely getting what we are doing and taking it to heart. They talk about having never seen a show quite like this. They talk about the emotional impact it has on them. They talk about the truth of what they are seeing onstage. They even talk about how wiped out they feel after just 95 minutes in the theater. They really seem to come along with us on the roller coaster of emotion that we put up on that stage nightly. I have to tell you, doing A Catered Affair is truly an experience for us onstage. And that seems to cross the footlights for the audience as well.

THE PRESS

I received a request this morning from a newspaper in Staten Island that's doing a story on movies being turned into musicals. They needed to make a fast deadline and so I only had a few minutes to write something out, but sometimes that's the best way to see what you're really thinking. Know what I mean? So, I thought I'd share the paragraph I sent back to that reporter with you: