Dori Berinstein, Bonnie Comley

Film aficionados at Time Warner’s Screening Room at the Time Warner Center were all business—show business, that is. Husband-and-wife Broadway production team Stewart Lane and Bonnie Comley screened their first film, a documentary aptly titled Show Business, followed by an after-party at Providence. The film chronicles the behind-the-scenes drama of staging four productions during the 2003-2004 Broadway season: Boy George’s clunker, Taboo; the quietly popular Avenue Q; Stephen Sondheim’s magical Oz musical, Wicked; and the hit Caroline, or Change. The no-holds-barred doc captures everything from the first time Wicked star Idina Menzel had her face spray-painted green to the hustle and bustle inside the Times Square TKTS booth to the announcement of this year’s Tony nominations. The film premiered earlier in the year at the Tribeca Film Festival and got rave reviews—a vote of confidence for Lane and Comley’s next film project, Brooklyn Rules, a friendship-and-the-Mob drama starring Alec Baldwin, Freddie Prinze Jr., and Mena Suvari. (Look for it in theatres this fall!).

Sneaking an inside peek: Phil and Tricia Smith, The Friars Club’s Randie Levine-Miller, Show Business writer/director Dori Berinstein, Drama League VP Cece Black, producer Jamie DeRoy, 1010 WINS’ Lee Harris and Carol Crespo, lyricist David Zippel, and writer Marshall Brickman. There’s no business like show business!



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Photos by Joan Jedell and Rob Rich

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