Hottest Articles on BWW 3/25/2008 - 4/1/2008

Below are BroadwayWorld.com's most popular articles from 3/25/2008 - 4/1/2008. Catch up below on anything that you might have missed from the past week on BroadwayWorld.com!

1) BWW TV: Mamma Mia! Movie Trailer
by BWW News Desk - March 26, 2008
If you've missed it on TV, BroadwayWorld has your chance to see the new trailer for the movie based on the international sensation, Mamma Mia! Click below to watch now! (more...)

2) Broadway Bullet 205: Dirt, The Optimist, Xanadu, More!
by Michael Gilboe - March 28, 2008
We have a chat with Jace Alexander and Jason Chimonider from the newest venture from Ground Up Productions, THE OPTIMIST, to fill us on in on what happens during the weekend their play is set. Also Christopher Domig, the star and only actor from DIRT, comes by to tell us about what it's like to play an Arab immigrant. This episode also includes the songs, "Evil Woman" from XANADU and "Nothin' Hurts Like Love" from CUPID. And The Actor's Company Theatre comes in to talk about their production of the Tennessee Williams play, ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE. (more...)

3) Photo Coverage: 'Gypsy' Opening Night Curtain Call
by Walter McBride - March 28, 2008
Producers Roger Berlind, The Routh Frankel Baruch Viertel Group, Roy Furman, Debra Black, Ted Hartley, Roger Horchow, David Ian, Scott Rudin and Jack Viertel present a new Broadway production of the great American musical Gypsy, starring Tony Award winner Patti LuPone. (more...)

4) Photo Coverage: Opening Night 'Gypsy' Party At The Mansion
by BWW - March 28, 2008
On Thursday, March 27th the musical Gypsy opened at the St. James Theater. The after party was held ad the NYC club "The Mansion" Gypsy tells the dramatic musical tale of the legendary stage mother of Gypsy Lee Rose and June Havoc, a woman who drove her two daughters into show business with a misguided and terrifiying passion. The classic musical is a journey that travels from the slowly fading vaudeville venues of yesterday to backstages of it's often unseemly replacement the strip-tease house. Gypsy starsTony Award winner Patti LuPone. The Broadway production reunites LuPone with her City Center co-stars Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti. (more...)

5) Photo Coverage: GYPSY - Opening Night Arrivals
by Walter McBride - March 28, 2008
Producers Roger Berlind, The Routh Frankel Baruch Viertel Group, Roy Furman, Debra Black, Ted Hartley, Roger Horchow, David Ian, Scott Rudin and Jack Viertel present a new Broadway production of the great American musical Gypsy, starring Tony Award winner Patti LuPone. Gypsy will reunite LuPone with co-stars Boyd Gaines and Laura Benanti. (more...)

6) West Side Story Revival To Include New Songs By Sheik/Sater
by Michael Dale - April 01, 2008
According to the musical's bookwriter, Arthur Laurents, the Broadway revival of West Side Story projected for the 2008-09 season will feature a revised score with new songs by the Spring Awakening team of composer Duncan Sheik and lyricist Steven Sater. (more...)

7) BWW TV: Dolly Parton Looks to Broadway with '9 to 5'
by James Sims - March 29, 2008
BroadwayWorld's own James Sims was on hand for the 9 to 5 House of Blues event, getting a chance to speak with Dolly Parton and stars Megan Hilty, Stephanie J. Block, Allison Janey and Marc Kudisch about creating this musical based on the motion picture that earned Parton an Academy Award nomination and launched the classic song "9 to 5" ... (more...)

8) 'A Tale of Two Cities' to Open on Broadway Sep 18; Previews Aug. 19
by BWW - March 25, 2008
BroadwayWorld.com has learned the the Jill Santoriello penned A Tale of Two Cities, which played the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida in the Fall of 2007 will open on Broadway at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on September 18, 2008. (more...)

9) 'Rent' Final Performance Extended to Sunday, Sept 7th!
by BWW News Desk - March 26, 2008
The producers of Rent have announced that due to ticket demand, the landmark Broadway musical will extend its run at the Nederlander Theatre through Sunday, September 7, and will close following that evening's 6:30pm performance. (more...)

10) Sherie Rene Scott: You May Now Worship Her
by Eugene Lovendusky - March 28, 2008
On Monday, March 31, 2008, Broadway belter Sherie Rene Scott, currently starring as the notorious eight-armed sea-witch Ursula in Disney's "The Little Mermaid," will concoct an experiment in truth-telling in her new and original one-woman show "You May Now Worship Me." The one-night-only concert at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the Phyllis Newman Women's Health Initiative. (more...)