Results tagged “chakakhan”

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian struck on Woodward Ave. and Cornelia St. in Queens, a burn victim on West 52nd St. in Manhattan, and a carjacking on 141st St. and Riverside Drive in Manhattan.
• Chaka Khan joins the cast of the Broadway musical The Color Purple. I feel for you, ticket holders.
• Tomorrow is your last chance to register for voting in New York's February 5th primary.

There was a bit of drama Friday at the Broadway theater where The Color Purple performs, just not onstage. The lobby of the theater was mobbed by disgruntled ticket holders demanding refunds when ex-American Idol Fantasia, who stars as Celie, failed to turn up for work. Lobby spies for Post columnist Michael Riedel witnessed an 8-year-old girl “sobbing uncontrollably when she heard Fantasia was not going to be in the show.” But it seems there...

2007 is just around the corner, and we've got a little tip sheet on where to be when the clock strikes midnight.