Best of Broadway Spokane announces 2010-11 season

Oct. 6-9, 2010
South Pacific

Oct. 18
Liza Minnelli

Oct. 27
The Capitol Steps

Nov. 5
Stomp

Dec. 1
Spring Awakening

Feb. 10-13, 2011
Legally Blonde: The Musical

March 24-27
9 to 5: The Musical

April 22-23
Cats

May 15-29, 2011
Wicked


Well, for one night in December and a couple of weeks in May 2011, Bobo and plenty of musical theater fans got their wishes granted. (Makes us feel downright "Popular.")

But are we legally required to sit through weeks of dreck to get there? Cats feels like a nasty, recurring skin rash.

And I'm pretty sure they got the date and venue wrong for Liza Minnelli, because just two weeks from now at the Arena is that Walking with Dinosaurs thing.

Patty will be in town

In his curtain speech for the opening of Interplayers' 29th season, new artistic director Reed McColm announced that that the previously announced *Actors Studio*-style interview of Patty Duke, intended as a fund-raiser for IPT, will take place after Duke has concluded her run as Madame Morrible in *Wicked* -- that is, sometime after February.
[photo: Patty Duke as Madame Morrible, from the San Francisco Sentinel]

Two musicals on the way

A Variety article indicates that Universal Pictures has acquired the movie rights for *In the Heights* and *Wicked.*
Lin-Manuel Miranda (pictured) created a musical story, with book by one-time Pulitzer finalist Quiara Alegria Hudes -- about a guy in a multiethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn's Washington Heights neighborhood who wins the lottery but then decides that staying home is more attractive than moving somewhere else to live large.