John Wilkes Booth News

BroadwayWorld.com has learned that Donna Lynne Champlin is likely to star as Pirelli and Fogg in the Sweeney Todd Revival.

Reported first here on BroadwayWorld, Michael Cerveris is now confirmed, and Patti LuPone is said to be next for the Sweeney Todd revival.

New York City Center Encores! Artistic Director Jack Viertel and Music Director Rob Fisher have announced that Tony® Award nominee Malcolm Gets and Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris will join the previously announced Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth in The Apple Tree, the final Encores! presentation of the 2004-5 Season.

Michael Cerveris has written music for Nick Philipou (The Art Party) and Michael Tisdale's adaptation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. The new play with music receives its premiere at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts in the Burrows Theater.

Ars Nova presents the third and final installment of Voices for Change, featuring performances from Broadway's leading musical actors, including Alfred Molina, Michael Cerveris, Cady Huffman and Karen Mason, among others. Friday, October 10th at 7 PM at Ars Nova (511 West 54th Street, just west of 10th Ave.).

Concerts for Change, a national campaign holding fundraising events to raise money for Democratic efforts, announces the lineup for the third and final installment in its Voices for Change series, which features performances from Broadway's leading musical actors, including several Tony winners and nominees.

NEXT Magazine sponsored an exclusive post-show party for the Roundabout Theatre Company 'Gay & Lesbian Series' with Assassins.

Assassins opened on Thursday night, April 22nd at Studio 54 and then celebrated the opening at the China Club. BroadwayWorld was there to cover it!

Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's musical drama finally arrives on Broadway. Ironically, the two-year delay of the Roundabout's revival of Assassins might have been the best thing for the show. Fractured though political thought has always been, the recent political dilemmas and scandals have created deep schisms in the American psyche, with violently passionate emotions on each side.