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.
THE REVIEWS ARE IN AND THEY ARE RAVES!!!!
Four of the five reviews that I've seen are just wonderful.
They love the show, they congratulate us on its intelligence and humility and
emotional truth and daring. Then they go on to rave about all of the wonderful
performers. Looking over the reviews I see that not a single actor was left out
for commendation. I'm so excited.
When you take the chance to do something new, to be the
"un-cola", there is an extra special sweetness to having the work
appreciated. John Bucchino, John Doyle and myself stepped off that ledge of
safety and today I am more happy than ever that we did. It looks like we are
creating something NEW that is reaching people and touching them in a very
special way. YES!
Of course raves for Faith Prince and Tom Wopat and the rest
of the cast are sweet as well since those great artists have forfeited more
profitable work to dedicate these months in an out-of-town tryout. Both
personally and professionally I'm thrilled the wager has paid off for them.
They deserve every word of praise that they've garnered.
And The Old Globe appears to be very happy with the show's
reception as well. Their season ticket holders are joyously embracing our show,
and new audience is coming to the theater seeking to find out what all the
hoopla is about. VERY EXCITING TIMES!!!
PREJUDICE IS THE GREATEST ENEMY OF ART:
BUT in life there is always one badly behaved guest at the
party and in this case it was the reviewer from the LA Times. The man begins his piece by telling us that he hates the
original film, hates the original teleplay, has no respect or even like for the
work of Paddy Chayefsky, dislikes social drama in general, and downright
loathes me. He then wastes the rest of his newspaper's space trying to justify
his loathsome opinion. I'm sorry, friends, that's not reviewing, that's simply
proselytizing.
