Michael D'Angora News

Check out photos from opening night of two of Off-Broadway’s biggest hits, the award-winning NEWSical The Musical and the fan-favorite, A Musical About Star Wars, which both opened this week at The V Theater, located at The Miracle Mile Shops inside Planet Hollywood.

The traditional gift for those celebrating a 19th Anniversary is bronze. Not surprisingly, no bronze was given during Jim Caruso’s Cast Party anniversary celebration, but the packed house was certainly entertained by performers with hearts of gold. Check out photos from the night here!

The Off Broadway Alliance, an organization of Off-Broadway producers, theaters, general managers, press agents, and marketing professionals, today released photos of the 11th Annual Off-Broadway Alliance Awards, honoring commercial and not-for-profit productions that opened Off Broadway during the 2021-2022 season.

Harmony: A New Musical, starring musical theatre icons Chip Zien (Into the Woods, Caroline, Or Change) and Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid, The Phantom of the Opera), has announced the recording of their original cast album, to be produced by Barry Manilow and co-produced by Lawrence Manchester. Jill Dell'Abate is the Production Manager.

Harmony: A New Musical, starring musical theatre icons Chip Zien (Into the Woods, Caroline, Or Change) and Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid, The Phantom of the Opera), opens this Wednesday night to a sold-out crowd at National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.

The 5th longest-running musical in Off-Broadway history and 2011 winner of the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical, NEWSical The Musical, begins performances tonight at the Majestic Repertory Theatre for a limited three-week engagement.

Harmony: A New Musical, starring musical theatre icons Chip Zien (Into the Woods, Caroline, Or Change) and Sierra Boggess (The Little Mermaid, The Phantom of the Opera), opens in previews this Wednesday, March 23, 2022, for a limited, seven-week run.

Tom D’Angora and Michael D’Angora, the award winning producing team behind some of off-Broadway’s longest running hits like NEWSical The Musical and Naked Boys Singing, are celebrating a major milestone on February 20th, 2022: the couple's 20th anniversary (10 years married) as a couple and as producing/directing partners. 

Winners have been announced for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Las Vegas Awards. The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Producer Tom D'Angora posted a video to his Facebook page celebrating the understudies of Broadway. The video, titled 'At This Performance' stars Christine Pedi as Liza Minnelli, inserting herself into all of the currently running shows.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year in Las Vegas – as the casts of two of the hottest shows, Naked Boys Singing! and This Is Christmas,  celebrated each other on Sunday night.  With American Idol alums and local Vegas performers in both shows, no introductions were needed between these very friendly casts.

Our readers set the nominees, and now voting is open for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Las Vegas Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Off-Broadway's hilariously irreverent musical comedy; A Musical About Star Wars, which was forced to close in 2020, is excited to announce they are returning for a strictly-limited two week engagement at The American Theatre of Actors.  With performances beginning Friday, Dec 17th the musical comedy celebrates the blockbuster film franchise, nerd culture, cosplay, and comic-con in a show-within-a-show that is a little meta and hella rad.

Save the Date! The Theatre World Awards Board of Directors, Dale Badway, President, has announced, today, the return to a live in-person presentation of the 76th Annual Theatre World Awards Ceremony that will take place on Monday evening, June 6, 2022 beginning at 7:00PM. Theater venue will be announced in spring 2022.

The all-male, all-nude musical revue features a gorgeous and talented cast of familiar faces from the small screen and social media favorites including Louis D'Aprile, David Hernandez, Matthew Ludwinski, ,Chris Salvatore and Marcus Terell with Jaden Lux serving as the show's understudy.

After shattering records with its twenty-year off-Broadway run, Naked Boys Singing! will begin its 12-week Las Vegas residency at The Jewel Box Theatre on Sept 8th, starring pop and tabloid sensation Aaron Carter!  

De Shields will be joined by vocalists Kimberly Marable, Lori Tishfield, and Freida Williams, with Music Director Sean Mayes on piano and Rudy Bird on percussion.

After fifteen months of unwanted hiatus, host/producer Jim Caruso brought his notorious 'Cast Party' back to it's home on the Birdland stage. July 5 marked the return of the wildly popular weekly open mic/variety show that has been bringing Broadway glitz and urbane wit to the historic music room every Monday since 2004.

A GoFundMe campaign has been set up to raise the needed funds and has already raised $45,000.00 of the $75,000.00 goal.

The York Theatre Company is back in action! Just last night, friends of the York gathered for its first in-person event in 15 months- Reunion on the Rooftop.