Quick Takes: ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’ cancels performance after backstage death

On what would have been its 100th performance at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, the Broadway musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” was canceled Wednesday night after a backstage worker was found dead from a possible drug overdose minutes before showtime.

Several packets of heroin were found “in the vicinity” of the 29-year-old male, according to one law enforcement official, but the cause of death remained under investigation Thursday.

Police were called to the theater at 7:55 p.m. Wednesday after the man, a carpenter whose name was not released, was found in cardiac arrest backstage.

He was taken to a hospital and was dead on arrival, said police spokesman Paul J. Browne.

The packed house had been waiting for the show to begin when its stars, “Harry Potter’s” Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette, who won a Tony earlier this month for featured actor in a musical for his portrayal of the business executive J.B. Biggley, appeared onstage and announced that “a tragedy” had occurred backstage. They didn’t provide details.

“How to Succeed” opened on Broadway on March 27 and received eight Tony nominations, including for musical revival. This production won just one, for Larroquette’s performance.

— Tina Sussman

Bonnie, Clyde shoot and sing

A musical about the bank-robbing lovers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow is targeting Broadway.

Producers said Thursday that “Bonnie and Clyde” starring Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan will begin previews on Nov. 4 and open on Dec. 1 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.

It has a book by Ivan Menchell, who wrote “The Cemetery Club,” music by Frank Wildhorn, of “Jekyll & Hyde” fame, and lyrics by Don Black, who did the same for “Sunset Boulevard.”

Versions of the production have previously been mounted at the La Jolla Playhouse and the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Fla.

Osnes is currently starring as Hope Harcourt in “Anything Goes” and was in the recent revival of “South Pacific.” Jordan was in “West Side Story” and “Rock of Ages.”

— Associated Press

Reggae singer gets 10 years

Reggae performer Buju Banton was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in federal prison after being convicted of three counts related to cocaine trafficking.

Banton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, has been in custody since his arrest in December 2009 in Miami after he allegedly attempted to buy a large amount of cocaine from an undercover officer. He could have been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.

After a mistrial in September, Banton in February was acquitted of attempted possession with the intent to distribute but found guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense and using a telephone to facilitate a drug trafficking offense.

The convictions came less than two weeks after Banton, a previous Grammy nominee, won a Grammy Award for best reggae album, “Before the Dawn.”

— Christie D’Zurilla

Adele returns to fulfill tour dates

Adele is back in action and has resumed the North American tour that was abruptly halted earlier this month by a bout of laryngitis.

The British soul singer, whose sophomore album “21” topped the U.S. sales chart for 10 weeks, has rescheduled 14 dates she called off because of illness, and added six more to the itinerary.

She’ll make up her missed performance at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Aug. 15 and her date at the Hollywood Palladium on Aug. 17, two of 10 shows she’ll play in August, beginning Aug. 9 in Vancouver, Canada.

The other 10 will move to October, wrapping up Oct. 21 in Grand Prairie, Texas.

The six new dates will take her to Las Vegas; Atlantic City, N.J.; Durham, N.C.; Orlando, Fla.; Miami; and Spring, Texas.

Pioneering rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson, who had been slated to open most of Adele’s tour, will appear on the bill for her August dates, but not for the October leg, according to a spokesman for Sony Music, Adele’s label.

— Randy Lewis

‘Thrones’ adds ‘Tudors’ actress

When one sword chops a head off, another head is added to the mix.

HBO’s “Game of Thrones” has enlisted Natalie Dormer for its cast, the network confirmed Thursday.

Dormer, who can be seen in the big-screen superhero adventure “Captain America: The First Avenger” later this summer, is probably best known for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in Showtime’s “The Tudors” — that is, before she too lost her head.

She’ll play Margaery Tyrell, a young woman from the influential House of Tyrell, when the HBO fantasy drama returns for a second season.

In its first season, a number of key characters were killed off.

— Yvonne Villarreal