Ordinary daughters ameliorate their lot

Enthusiastic Met intermission commentator Blythe Danner and her Oscar-winning daughter/blogger Gwyneth Paltrow are on the short list…

…not to be the next music directors at the Met, though at this point nothing would surprise La Cieca — but rather to go into the above-the-title slots in Broadway’s A Little Night Music when Angela Lansbury and Catherine Zeta-Jones bow out following the Tony Awards in June. [Roger Friedman’s Showbiz 411]