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David Krumholtz spends about 4 1/2 hours getting the prosthetic makeup required to turn him into the elderly widow Gertrude Rotblum, who has discovered her dead husband had a secret bank account and now is living large in IFC’s Gigi Does It. Asked about his initial reaction to seeing himself in the makeup for the…

The Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical will play its final performance on Sunday, June 21 at the Neil Simon Theatre. The show began previews on March 19 and opened April 8 to mostly middling and negative reviews, though Hudgens got props for her game performance as a young Parisian girl who balks at her…

Broadway this week welcomed a pair of lavishly produced revivals of 1950s musicals that were processed by MGM’s Arthur Freed unit into hugely popular movie musicals, both directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Leslie Caron: An American In Paris (six Oscars in 1951, including Best Picture), and Gigi (nine Oscars in…

“Money, Money, Money” goes the Abba ditty that will certainly become Mamma Mia‘s swan song as it begins its long goodbye leading up to shuttering on Labor Day. It’s a pretty good anthem for this week’s box office report as well: Heading into the season’s final stretch, the total tally was flat from last week ($29.4…

UPDATE Sunday 8:30 P.M.: Adds Gigi review, following An American In Paris, below. In the weird time warp that Broadway sometimes can be, this season offers Betty Comden and Adolph Green owning 42nd Street with concurrent revivals of<a title="Sexed-Up 'On The Town's A Helluva Show; Carol Burnett Burnishes 'Love…

Louis Jourdan, the suave and dapper French actor who made memorable appearances in such films as Gigi and Octopussy, has died. A family friend said Jourdan died Saturday at his Beverly Hills home. He was 93. Jourdan was born Louis Gendre on June 19, 1921 in Marseilles. He was educated in France, Britain and Turkey and…

Thank heaven for not-so-little girls. A revival of the Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe musical Gigi, starring Disney-minted and Spring Breakers starlet Vanessa Hudgens, has booked the Neil Simon Theatre and will begin previews on March 19, with an official opening on April 8. The theater became available when the produ…

High School Musical alum Vanessa Hudgens will headline another musical — this time playing the title role in a new Broadway production of Lerner and Loewe's Gigi. The musical is set to hit the Great White Way next year after a pre-Broadway engagement at Kennedy Center in D.C. from January 16-February 12, 2015. Tickets…