Theater Headliners

• Jake Gyllenhaal may be heading to Broadway in the fall. Pardon me while I swoon...The play is a political drama entitled Farragut North, and Gyllenhaal was featured in a private reading earlier this year. While Gyllenhaal has appeared onstage in London in Kenneth Lonergan's revival of This is Our Youth, Farragut North would mark his Broadway debut.
• The June 26th opening of Xanadu: The Musical has been postponed (with no alternate date announced) after one of the shows stars, James Carpinello, sustained a foot injury while rehearsing, you guessed it, on roller skates. Carpinellos understudy has stepped in for two performances, and there is no word as to the degree or length of the injury or recovery. Maybe Xanadu will turn in to Xanadon't.
• In a huge bloodbath of closing notices, Company (which won Best Musical Revival last weekend at the Tony's), Radio Golf (August Wilson's final play), and Mayumana's Be will all play their final performances on July 1. I know Company has been struggling at the box office, but I've never seen a show win a Tony and then close down a few weeks later!
• Andrew Lloyd Webber doesn't know how to take a hint. His new kitten, Otto, somehow succeeded in destroying the music he has written for the sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, brilliantly titled Phantom in Manhattan. That's right, I said Phantom in Manhattan. Guess it's his payback for Phantom to surpass Cats as the longest running musical in history. Or a hint to give up on the sequel. You pick.