Saturday, November 27, 2010

Sir Howard Stringer: Spiderman Comes to Broadway

from CBS Eye to Sony Watchman...
Even the Chairman of Sony America has to use the w.c. once in a while, and so it came to be that Welsh mogul Howard Stringer - legendary CBS producer/executive & Sony paternoster of Spiderman 1-2-3 and (coming 2012!) 4 - and I shuffled together into the loo at the Broadhurst Theater on 44th street last night, before watching intense Al Pacino shred the stage as the magnificent Shylock in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.

This Cardiff-lad-by-way-of-Oxford has a stake in everything you do, from listening to Taylor Swift to watching The Social Network, to looking forward to your new PSP Phone (coming December 9?). No doubt he'll be back on Broadway tomorrow evening for preview night of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.

The Spider and The Fly:
Little Jeff & Big Fan, 2005
In an occurrence unprecedented in Broadway history, the line for the Men's Room extended past that for the Women's Room during intermission in The Merchant of Venice.  Also on hand, and gently pulled from the line by my wife for an autograph: Jeff Goldblum, whom we'd "met" just next door in 2005 during his run as Tupolski in The Pillowman.

Yes, Men's Room @ The Broadhurst: The Place To Be!!!
 





11/29 Update: Oy... first reviews not so hot. "Give it up for Natalie Mendoza!"...
                       Mendoza receives concussion in rehearsal...
                       ...and, like Jeff G., let's not for 1 minute forget Laura Dern's beauty

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

nice job, but why lump Jeff Goldblum in with Stringer? seems to me you could have given him his own separate post...not that he really deserves it!

Tom Porter said...

But... do they deserve each other? Probably not. It was Jeff's misfortune to show up in line for the same men's room as Stringer, on the same night, or he'd have eventually received his own post for the 2005 hit-and-run.

Don't forget Goldblum's "high-profile romance" with Jurassic park co-star Laura Dern (http://bit.ly/Dern2010).