Broadway Friday

-Hail Xenu. The revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons opens tonight starring Dianne Wiest, John Lithgow, and Mrs. Tom Cruise. Will Anonymous be protesting outside?

-Tony winners Bill Irwin and Nathan Lane will star in a revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot. Previews begin April 10th at Studio 54. Anthony Page will direct.

-Liza Minneli is negotiating a return to Broadway for limited engagement tribute to her godmother, Kay Thompson. Possibly to take place at the Palace Theater in December.

-Sony BMG Masterworks has launched a podcast series to highlight their upcoming 4-disc release, Stephen Sondheim: The Story So Far, which features 81 tracks from 15 shows. The podcasts feature Bernadette Peters, Angela Lansbury, Len Cariou, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, James Lapine, Lonny Price, Paul Gemignani, Hal Prince and many others.

-The Actors Fund will present an all-star benefit reading of All About Eve on November 10th at the Eugene O’Neill Theater. Reading will be Angela Lansbury, Cynthia Nixon, John Slattery, Peter Gallagher and Brian Bedford, Annette Bening. Tickets $100-$300.

-Indie film hit Once, which won the 2007 Oscar for Best Original Song, is set to become a Broadway musical. Producers are aiming for the 2010-2011 season.

– The new TKTS discount tickets booth opened in Times Square yesterday.

The booth’s function remains the same — to provide the public with cheap tickets to Broadway and Off-Broadway attractions. Its form, however, is something else altogether. Gone are the familiar canvas banners emblazoned with red letters reading “TKTS.” In its place is a glowing red staircase 27 steps high and a fiberglass ticket office that looks something like space module. While some may miss the old banners (which have been donated to the Museum of the City of New York), other eliminated elements of the old booth with probably not be mourned, including: the paucity of sidewalk space; the staff’s inability to take credit cards; the lack of anywhere to sit; and the cramped booth itself.