Hello, everyone. First off, I hope everyone enjoys the new layout. It’s clean and should last quite a while. If there’re any complaints or personal comments you’d like to make, please drop me a personal e-mail and I’ll be more than happy to respond.

In addition to switching layouts, I also updated each of the career pages. For example, if you head over to the King Arthur page, I added preview images of what you could look at if you entered the gallery. I also added Eddie Redmayne to Regular Co-Stars. He stars beside Hugh in both Elizabeth I and Savage Grace. I plan to update Quotes About Hugh today with Jeff Sharp’s comments about Hugh in Evening.

HDi has a new SOTM for June: Claire Danes Fan. I also went through old affiliates and cleared out just a few: BrandonRouth.us, Billie Online (Billie Piper), and Simply Dreams (Charmed). If you close your website, please drop HDi an e-mail in advance and specify if you’re a Top Affiliate as well.

Almost finished! Right. PLEASE VOTE FOR HUGHDANCY.INFO! Get this website into the Top 10 and tell your friends! Not only is it more exposure for here but also for Hugh! Thank you!

Finally, here’s what’s been added to the gallery. Let it also be known that gallery registrations are now CLOSED. I’ll reopen them July 3rd, a month and two days from now, and I will only add people to the gallery via exception, not rule.

• 01 x April 23rd: BroadwayCares Easter Bonnet
• 01 x Journey’s End: Stage Photos
• 03 x Blood and Chocolate: Promotional Stills

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Anna
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Thanks to regular contributor Pat, HDi has two new studio sessions. He looks like a classic English boy! Thank you! I also added one new studio shot from PAPER.

Journey’s End jumped 11% in sales, too, which is bittersweet. But at least it’ll go out with dignity.

• 01 x PAPER Magazine, May 2007
• 02 x Session 17

Posted on May 30, 2007 by Anna
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AS plays go, “Journey’s End” seems to have it all - some of the best reviews of the year, six Tony nominations and hunky Hugh Dancy.

Everything, that is, except an audience.

So barren has the Belasco Theatre been for this British band-of-brothers drama that the cast jokes about it. In a skit they did for a recent fund-raiser, they called their show “intimate,” as in “Every night, it’s 11 of us and 11 of them.”

They’re not exaggerating - much. This prize-winning WWI story about men behind the front lines often plays to about 20 percent capacity.

So saying, the end of “Journey” is set for June 10, the night the Tonys are announced.

Meanwhile, its all-male cast soldiers on, with the gallows humor typical of the play itself.

“When the lights came up the other night, there were, like, 10 seats in the middle that were empty,” says Stark Sands, who’s up for a Tony as the boyish Lt. Raleigh.

“I said, ‘Wow, it looked like some of those mortars landed in the orchestra!’ ”

Sands says the producers warned them from the start that the play - with, as their skit put it, “no gimmicks, no TV stars, no fancy-pants dance numbers” and no women - was a tough sell.

“The country’s in the mood for pink cotton candy, and we served them rare porterhouse,” says producer Bill Haber, in a jab at “Legally Blonde.”

“Every morning you wake up and read in the paper about 10 dead American kids,” adds Haber, whose previous productions include the hits “History Boys” and “Spamalot.”

(more…)

Posted on May 22, 2007 by Anna
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Hey guys, I’m finally back.

First of all, Savage Grace debuted at the Cannes Film Festival to good reception. Granted, it’s not a movie you’ll want to take your mom and grandma to once it hits a release. It’s said to be a highly steamy movie covering uncomfortable territory (one including incest). Hugh plays a character that seduces both Julianne Moore and Eddie Redmayne, the latter more than the former. I personally can’t wait. I love to see him branch out and play characters that break the mold.

Journey’s End also picked up 3 awards at the 2007 Drama Desk Awards: Best Play Revival, Best Sound Design, and Best Featured Actor for Boyd Gaines. Congratulations! The Drama Desk Awards are to the Tonys what the Golden Globes are to the Oscars.

I also have the OUT Magazine article that I’m planning to add to the Press section some time today. I’ll hopefully be able to pick up the magazine some time this week or at least receive scans from one person I know. With finals coming up, I really have to set my priorities.

Here comes the gallery editions from the last two days. Thank you to GlobeTrotters.com for their great photo of Hugh at the stage door. Feel free to donate YOURS if you’ve met him and snapped a photo!

• 01 x Journey’s End: Stage Door
• 02 x May 7th: “Poiret: King Of Fashion” Costume Institute Gala

Posted on May 21, 2007 by Anna
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I saw this Boyd Gaines excerpt on Broadway.com and thought others would appreciate reading it. He strikes me as a great, humble, and completely generous guy. Congratulations again, Mr. Gaines!

It’s a great honor. I think when I was young, I may have had a distorted view of what the Tonys meant—good, bad and indifferent. I think when I won the first one [1989 Featured Actor for Heidi Chronicles], not that I had illusions of grandeur, but I thought I would somehow be transformed. But then you wake up the next day and you put your pants on and go to work. When the second one came around [1994 Best Actor for She Loves Me], I was just so much more able to enjoy it, as it stood as a really relished symbol of a time. And now I’ve really come to see a Tony nomination for what it is: that a group of people are making this really lovely statement about you. Because as you get older, you become more and more aware of the limits of your talents. And two things can happen. You can start to think of yourself in a very limited way, which is something you fight—you’re always fighting the perception that you’re limited—and then, the reality is, that when you get older you have fewer and fewer opportunities to do things. The vast source of the material is just for younger people. That’s just where the business lies. But like this one, where I get to do something that is perceived as something different than I normally do, that has been incredibly sweet. It’s a fantastic part. And that’s also where the Tonys have been so wonderful for me, because they’ve helped people see that I can do a show on Broadway. And with this production, what can I say…I look around me, and it’s just such an ensemble piece lead by Hugh Dancy, who just rips his guts out every night, it’s hard not to go, “Well, he should be recognized.” Not that I’m trying to bite the hand that feeds me, because it’s always incredibly gratifying to be recognized by your peers, but I just feel so fortunate to be part of this exceptional group of people of Journey’s End.

Posted on May 16, 2007 by Anna
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