Diner

Update: DINER Officially Postpones Opening Night; Now Aiming for Fall 2013

Approximately one in four Broadway shows will be profitable, and in a bid to join those ranks, the producers of several upcoming shows have delayed their opening nights on Broadway to work on improving the show and to raise additional funds. (more...)

Breaking News - DINER Postpones San Francisco Engagement for New, More Intimate Workshop; Will Open on Broadway April 10, 2013

BASE Entertainment (Co-CEOs Scott Zeiger and Brian Becker) announced today that the new musical Diner has postponed its previously announced pre-Broadway engagement scheduled to play San Francisco's SHN Curran Theatre from Tuesday, October 23, 2012, through Sunday, November 18, 2012, to retool the production for a more intimate Broadway venue. (more...)

Kathleen Marshall-Helmed DINER Heading to Broadway in Spring 2013!

BASE Entertainment has just announced that Diner, a new musical based on the critically acclaimed 1982 film with a book by Academy Award winner and original Diner screenwriter Barry Levinson and music & lyrics by 9-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, will have its pre-Broadway world premiere at San Francisco's SHN Curran Theatre (445 Geary Street). Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall, Diner will play a strictly limited four week engagement from Tuesday, October 23, 2012, through Sunday, November 18, 2012, with an opening night of Friday, November 2, 2012. Due to these confirmed San Francisco dates Diner will now bow on Broadway in the spring of 2013, instead of the fall of 2012 as previously announced. Design team and casting will be announced at a later date. (more...)

Kathleen Marshall-Helmed DINER to Play SHN in October 2012

SHN today announced the complete five-show 2012-2013 Season under the direction of Carole Shorenstein Hays. Productions joining the previously announced engagement of 2011 Tony Award-Winning Best Musical - THE BOOK OF MORMON are: the pre-Broadway world premiere of Diner, Disney's THE LION KING, the Tony Award-winning revival of ANYTHING GOES and Bay Area favorite WICKED. (more...)

Sheryl Crow and Barry Levinson to Make Broadway Debuts with New Musical DINER in Fall 2012; Marshall to Direct

BASE Entertainment (Co-CEO's Scott Zeiger and Brian Becker) announced that Diner, a new musical inspired by the critically acclaimed 1982 film, will come to Broadway in the fall of 2012. With a book by Academy Award and Emmy Award winner Barry Levinson and music & lyrics by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, Diner will be directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall. Diner marks the Broadway debut of both Barry Levinson and Sheryl Crow. Prior to its Broadway bow, Diner will play a limited out of town engagement in a city TBD in the summer of 2012. Design team and casting will be announced at a later date. (more...)

Sheryl Crow to Compose Score for 'Diner' Adaptation on Broadway?

TVNZ reports that Cheryl Crow may be at work on a Broadway score for a stage adaptaton of the film, Diner. The songstress recently contributed a strip-tease number to the New York stage show. Revealing few details, Crow remarked: 'A friend of mine has asked me to write the music for the Broadway musical version of the film 'Diner...' There's a scene where these three women do a striptease and I came up with the music for it. It's so good I could strip to it. And I'm 48.' (more...)