Harvey's Broadway Blog: Hello from Crazy Town!

Harvey Returns! Welcome to the return of 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 Opening Night (and beyond). Check back for updates as rehearsals get underway!

Hello my darlings!

I promise that I have not forgotten you. But life is starting to pick up steam here and I'm finding it a little hard to focus on the simple pleasures like keeping up with my blog and TIVO. My TIVO, in fact, erased a few shows that I never got to watch just because it needed room for more shows. So if it's this bad now, what's going to happen when I start back to work in two weeks?

That's right, kids, TWO WEEKS until we're back in rehearsal! YIKES! AND...

THE BOX OFFICE IS OPEN! That's right. You can buy tickets to A Catered Affair at the lovely Walter Kerr Theater on the Broadway of New York City. Exciting? I should say.

Meanwhile, between the show and starting with press and all... here is a photo of me doing the "Joan Hamburg Show" live from Sardi's Restaurant last week.

I have known Joan for a hundred years and love her. In fact, I played a role in her son's very first outing as a film director, Safe Men. Check it out. I play a heterosexual mobster very well.

After I left Sardi's I was whisked off for an hour's lunch and chat with Barbara Hoffman of The New York Post. Anyone in the city can check out Saturday's Library page of the Post and see what's on my night table.

Then it was off to the Delta Lounge on 57th Street where we announced the launch of our show's website:
www.ACateredAffairOnBroadway.com

Here is a photo of me and two of my lovely producers, Richie Jackson and Jordan Roth, as we lounge in a Delta Airlines row of seats.

Here what I looked like checking out the site.

And here's what the audience looked like at that event:

Among the press in attendance was legendary Village Voice columnist Michael Musto who wrote a very funny piece about our interview in this week's Voice. If you are interested, you can read it online, I believe. Just Google him. But, for the record, here's what he looks like at a press event.

So, other than a new Broadway show, building a house, trying to sell my current house, shopping for the stuff I need for the new house... I'm basically resting. So that's why I haven't been great about getting these updates to you. But know that I know you all are out there and I' promise to keep you up to date as best I can.

Check out the ads for the show in this weekend's New York Times, New Yorker Magazine and listen to the radio for our ads to begin on Monday. Kids... WE IS COMING TO TOWN SO... STAY TUNED!