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Photo Coverage: SPIDER-MAN, PORGY AND BESS and More at Broadway in Bryant Park!
by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - Jul 12, 2012
The best of Broadway will be presented FREE on six consecutive Thursdays this summer with "106.7 Lite FM's Broadway in Bryant Park 2012" - a lunchtime series beginning today, July 12 at 12:30 p.m. on the Bryant Park Stage. Sponsored by Resorts World Casino New York City and hosted by Lite FM's on-air personalities, the twelfth annual presentation of open-air, On- and Off- Broadway lunch hour performances will run through August 16.
BroadwayWorld was there for the festivities, and we bring you complete photo coverage below! (more...)
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Photo Coverage: PORGY AND BESS Welcomes New York City Educators!
by Jennifer Broski - Mar 14, 2012
Producers of The Gershwins' PORGY AND BESS just announced that thanks to a generous donation from the families of George and Ira Gershwin, 2,250 high school students from New York City Public Schools will be coming to see the show on Wednesday matinees from March through May. The event kicked off yesterday, March 13, with a special event that involved both cast members and teachers and city officials. BroadwayWorld was there for the festivities, and we bring you full photo coverage below! (more...)
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Photo Coverage: FINIAN'S RAINBOW Closing Night Party
by Linda Lenzi - Mar 30, 2009
Tony Award-winners Philip Bosco, Jim Norton and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, as well as Cheyenne Jackson, Kate Baldwin, and Jeremy Bobb starred in Finian's Rainbow, the final production of New York City Center's 2008-09 Encores! season, preformances ran from March 26 - 29. BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to celebrate with the cast at the closing night party! (more...)
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'STRANGERS AND OTHER ANGELS' Takes To The Streets On 12/6
by BWW News Desk - Dec 06, 2008
Medieval Mystery Plays Get Modern Twist for Christmas in the Streets of New York for Strangers and Other Angels
Theatre-lovers, theologians, strangers and other angels are invited into the streets of New York for a free theatrical event that mines the story of the first Christmas and celebrates the abundance of community. Starting at the Museum of the City of New York (located at 5th Avenue at 104th Street) on Saturday, December 6th at 4 p.m., Compagnia de' Colombari, an international collective of performing artists, including Tony and Obie Award-winners and acclaimed musicians, will present Strangers and Other Angels, the medieval mystery play vividly re-imagined for the 21st century. (more...)
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'STRANGERS AND OTHER ANGELS' Takes To The Streets On 12/6
by BWW News Desk - Nov 24, 2008
Medieval Mystery Plays Get Modern Twist for Christmas in the Streets of New York for Strangers and Other Angels
Theatre-lovers, theologians, strangers and other angels are invited into the streets of New York for a free theatrical event that mines the story of the first Christmas and celebrates the abundance of community. Starting at the Museum of the City of New York (located at 5th Avenue at 104th Street) on Saturday, December 6th at 4 p.m., Compagnia de' Colombari, an international collective of performing artists, including Tony and Obie Award-winners and acclaimed musicians, will present Strangers and Other Angels, the medieval mystery play vividly re-imagined for the 21st century. (more...)
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Photo Coverage: York Theatre Presents The Lady In Penthouse B
by Genevieve Rafter Keddy - Jul 28, 2008
THE LADY IN PENTHOUSE B opened on July 25th, 2008 with book & lyrics by Peter Napolitano and music by Matthew Ward. The cast features Nancy Dussault (Into the Woods, Side by Side by Sondheim, Do Re Mi (Tony Nomination, Theatre World Award) and Bajour (Tony nomination), TV's 'Too Close for Comfort') as Lady Susan with Stephen Bienskie (Chess and Cats), Michael Cone (La Boheme, Rags and Brigadoon) Gordon Stanley (Cabaret, Ragtime and Beauty and the Beast), JD Webster (Wonderful Town, Ragtime and Showboat) and Sally Wilfert (Assassins). The show ran until July 27th. (more...)
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Photo Flash: 'The Lady in Penthouse B' at the York
by BWW News Desk - Jul 24, 2008
The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) is delighted to announce rehearsals have begun for the second presentation in the New2NY series, which presents st aged concerts of musicals in their NYC premieres. (more...)
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'The Lady in Penthouse B' Begins Rehearsals
by BWW News Desk - Jul 21, 2008
The York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) is delighted to announce rehearsals have begun for the second presentation in the New2NY series, which presents staged concerts of musicals in their NYC premieres.
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Encores! Follies, with Clark, Murphy, Etc., Runs Feb. 8-12
by BWW News Desk - Jan 25, 2007
New York City Center's Encores! 2007 Season pays tribute to the 100th Anniversary of the first Ziegfeld Follies, kicking off the celebration with Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's legendary 1971 multiple Tony Award-winner, Follies, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, with music direction by Eric Stern. Follies will play for six performances, from February 8 - 12 at New York City Center, 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. (more...)
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