NATHAN LANE OPENS IN BROADWAY PLAY "BUTLEY"
Actor Nathan Lane takes his opening night curtain call bows in the Simon Gray play "Butley" which opened on Broadway at the Booth theatre on October 25, 2006. (UPI Photo/Ezio Petersen)
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Elaine Stritch, Nathan Lane and Chad Kimball performed at the White House in Washington Monday in "A Celebration of the Music of Broadway."
About 200 guests, including President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama, attended the standing-room-only event in the White House's East Room.
The show is to air as "In Performance at the White House" Oct. 20 on PBS stations in the United States.
Obama noted that many of Broadway's biggest stars arrived in this country as poor immigrants and said that, at their best, Broadway musicals have not just served as entertainment, but also raised social consciousness, challenged stereotypes and helped shape "our opinions about race and religion, death and disease, power and politics."
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UPI Almanac for Friday, Feb. 3, 2012.
NEW YORK, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Broadway icon Nathan Lane has signed on to star in a pilot for a half-hour comedy series, USA Network said Tuesday.
NEW YORK, April 1 (UPI) -- Brooke Shields has signed on to replace Bebe Neuwirth as macabre matriarch Morticia Addams in the Broadway musical "The Addams Family."
WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- Elaine Stritch, Nathan Lane and Chad Kimball performed at the White House in Washington Monday in "A Celebration of the Music of Broadway."
NEW YORK, April 9 (UPI) -- "The Addams Family," a new musical starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, officially opened on Broadway Thursday night after a month of preview performances.
NEW YORK, March 8 (UPI) -- Bebe Neuwirth and Nathan Lane are set to begin preview performances of the new Broadway musical "The Addams Family," show representatives said.
NEW YORK, July 23 (UPI) -- "The Addams Family," a new stage musical starring Bebe Neuwirth and Nathan Lane, is scheduled to open on Broadway next April, show representatives said.
NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Tony Award-winning actors Bill Irwin and Nathan Lane have signed on to star in the new Broadway production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot."
NEW YORK, June 26 (UPI) -- U.S. stage and television actress Bebe Neuwirth reportedly is set to play Morticia in a new $10 million Broadway musical version of "The Addams Family."
UPI Almanac for Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008.
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