• The historical importance of Princess Beatrice’s wedding bouquet

    The historical importance of Princess Beatrice’s wedding bouquet

    All civilization knows Princess Beatrice, daughter of dandy randy handy bandy Prince Andy, of whom we and Ghislaine won’t speak, just married businessman Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi on Windsor’s Royal Lodge grounds. Because of the coronavirus, not Andrew, only 20 guests including Her Majesty. The wedding bouquet contained myrtle. In 1840, when Queen Victoria married Albert, …
  • Broadway pros fuming after CBS replaces Tonys with ‘Grease’ singalong

    Broadway pros fuming after CBS replaces Tonys with ‘Grease’ singalong

    Broadway types are fuming after CBS announced that a singalong version of the 1978 film “Grease” will replace the Tony Awards on the network next month. One theater insider even sent us an email with the eye-catching subject line “Grease is the turd!” — adding, “a rough season for Broadway types just got a whole …
  • CBS will air singalong ‘Grease’ instead of the Tony Awards

    CBS will air singalong ‘Grease’ instead of the Tony Awards

    It’s not so much the one that we want, but the one that we got saddled with. CBS announced Friday that a musical will, indeed, fill the June 7 time slot vacated by the 2020 Tony Awards this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. It just won’t be live — or new. Instead, the network …