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 MARY POPPINS to Battle Voldemort at 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
by BWW News Desk - July 25, 2012
According to the Sunday Times of London, the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics on Friday will prove to be quite a performance. It is rumored to include a choreographed hospital bed dance by approximately 100 children, dancing villians like Cruella De Vill, and then finally a 40-foot Voldemort arriving with dozens of Dementors who will battle about 30 Mary Poppins' flying in on umbrellas to save the day. (more...)
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 Exclusive: Crawford, Barrett, Halston, Page Join Tveit, Lansbury, Lazar in ANASTASIA Reading!
by BWW News Desk - July 28, 2012
As first reported exclusively by BroadwayWorld, ANASTASIA - A New Musical is being brought to the stage in a 29-hour reading, which entered rehearsals last week, based on the hit 1997 animated motion picture from Fox Animation Studios. The musical, which is in its Early Stages of development, will feature the five songs from the film along with fifteen new songs written for the stage. Joining the creative team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty will be bookwriter Terrence McNally and music director Ben Cohn. Joining the previously announced cast is Kelli Barrett in the title role of Anya (Anastasia). Patrick Page once again dons the role of the villain, Vladimir. Angela Lansbury will reprise her role from the film as the Empress Maria, and Aaron Tveit will play Dimitri. (more...)
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 A CHRISTMAS STORY, The Musical! to Play Lunt-Fontanne for 2012 Holidays
by BWW News Desk - July 26, 2012
Christmas Story, The Musical! will arrive on Broadway at The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre just in time for the 2012 holiday season. The producers have announced that the new musical, based on the 1983 movie perennial, will play a November 5 – December 30 holiday engagement. Opening night is Monday, November 19.
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 Sanaa Lathan to Lead BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK at Geffen Playhouse; Full Cast Announced!
by BWW News Desk - July 26, 2012
Stage and screen star Sanaa Lathan (A Raisin in the Sun, Contagion) returns to the title role in Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark for its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse. Lathan, who originated the character of Vera Stark in the critically acclaimed New York run, will once again take the stage as the 1930's era maid turned movie star, reunited with original cast member Kimberly Hebert Gregory (Spike Lee's Red Hook Summer) reprising her role as fellow aspiring African American actress Lottie. Broadway vet and Geffen alum Merle Dandridge (Spamalot, Rent, Aida) will take on the spicy role of Anna Mae, who fakes a Brazilian accent for a slice of fame, and former leading lady of ABC's Man Up, Amanda Detmer, will portray Gloria Mitchell, the white starlet dubbed "America's little sweetie pie" and Vera's first employer. Helmed by award-winning director Jo Bonney, the West Coast premiere cast also features Kevin Carroll (Paid in Full, Being John Malkovich), Spencer Garrett (Iron Man 3, Air Force One) and Geffen alum Mather Zickel (Extraordinary Chambers, Rachel Getting Married). (more...)
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 BWW TV: John Lloyd Young on His Return to JERSEY BOYS, Finding His 'Purpose,' His New Album and More!
by Backstage With Richard Ridge - July 27, 2012
On July 3, the Broadway company of JERSEY BOYS welcomed back John Lloyd Young, who created the role of Frankie Valli in the original Broadway company and on the Grammy-winning, platinum cast album. For his performance, Mr. Young won Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award for Leading Actor in a Musical and a Theatre World Award. In this edition, Richard chats with the star about his return to the show and so much more! (more...)
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 FREEZE FRAME: First Look at Public Theater's INTO THE WOODS in Central Park; Family-Friendly Matinee 8/22
by BWW News Desk - July 30, 2012
The Public Theater announced today that there will be a special family-friendly matinee of the free Shakespeare in the Park production of INTO THE WOODS on Wednesday, August 22 at 3 p.m. at the Delacorte Theater. This matinee is designed to engage younger audiences and to serve families unable to attend evening performances. The 95-minute production will comprise act one only of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's beloved musical INTO THE WOODS. There will still be an 8 p.m. evening performance of INTO THE WOODS on August 22.
BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the production with a photo preview of the cast in action below! (more...)
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 STAGE TUBE: LEGALLY BLONDE Castmates Get Engaged on Stage!
by Stage Tube - July 30, 2012
Audience members got an extra surprise at after a recent regional production of LEGALLY BLONDE. The Youtube description reads: "My friends are both actors for the local theatre group, and the show was Legally Blonde. Chris plays the UPS guy, and his girlfriend plays Paulette. Chris plays his part while proposing to his girlfriend by 'delivering a package' after the show ends. They get married in the show, and then engaged in real life!"
Check out the adorable proposal below! (more...)
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 STAGE TUBE: Steven Sater, Christopher Ashley and NIGHTINGALE Team Address Color-Blind Casting
by Stage Tube - July 24, 2012
Currently playing at the La Jolla Playhouse is The Nightingale, by the creative team behind the Tony Award-winning musical Spring Awakening: Steven Sater (book and lyrics) and Duncan Sheik (music). Directed by Tony Award nominee Moises Kaufman (33 Variations, I Am My Own Wife), the production runs July 10 – August 5, 2012 in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. The theatre recently held an open discussion about the color-blind casting of the show, which has gotten attention amoungst the Asian-American community. Here what they had to say about the subject in the full panel video below. (more...)
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 SOUND OFF: 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony
by Pat Cerasaro - July 27, 2012
Theatricality does not come on a scale much grander - and available to an audience much wider and larger, natch - than by way of the heady and hallucinogenic images concocted by visionary, Academy Award-winning British director Danny Boyle for the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony tonight. A hill, a heath, dozens of sheepherders and milkmaids below a large, looming tree set the scene for the start of the big, big show - and it was definitely very, very big. All of this countryside accoutrement signaled the entrance for Sir Kenneth Branagh, with sharp top hat and lit cigar, portraying noted industry king Isambard Kingdom Brunel, as he physically and metaphorically ushered in the new age in this culturally and historically-inspired phantasmagoria - setting the proceedings into high gear with a particularly impassioned and spine-tingling reading of one of the most moving and memorable passages from all of literate in a thrilling Prospero moment from Shakespeare's THE TEMPEST. And that was just the first five minutes!
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 STAGE TUBE: Liz Callaway and More in Pittsburgh CLO's SUNSET BOULEVARD
by Stage Tube - July 27, 2012
Pittsburgh CLO presents the debut production of Sunset Boulevard, now playing through July 29 at the Benedum Center. Tony Award nominee Liz Callaway, critically-acclaimed star of Love Changes Everything, returns to the Pittsburgh CLOstage as eccentric Hollywood actress Norma Desmond. Check out the video we have of the production below. (more...)
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BWW TV: JERSEY BOYS Performs at Broadway in Bryant Park 2012!
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STAGE TUBE: Meet the New Cast of MAMMA MIA!
GHOST to Play Final Broadway Performance on August 18 - National Tour Launches in Fall 2013!
STAGE TUBE: Cast of ONCE Performs on 'America's Got Talent'
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[title of show] Aiming for West End in 2013 with Original Cast
STAGE TUBE: THE NORMAL HEART at 