BWW Reviews: E. Faye Butler in Concert at Center Stageby Charles Shubow - May 18, 2012Baltimore welcomes E. Faye Butler in her all-new act, "What a Difference a Diva Makes". (more...)
BWW Recaps: Christine Ebersole Returns to Landmark On Main Streetby Melissa Giordano - May 16, 2012At the Jeanne Rimsky Theatre at Landmark on Main Street in Port Washington, Christine Ebersole joked that the theme of the evening was "death of cabaret". It was hard to believe her as the Tony winner fantastically entertained the audience, choosing selections spanning her career on the stage as well as familiar favorites. (more...)
CARRIE to Be Licensed by R&H; Published by Imagemby BWW News Desk - May 15, 2012The legendary stage musical CARRIE will soon be available for licensing from R&H Theatricals, and its score will be published by Imagem Music, each a division of the Imagem Music Group. Based on Stephen King's best-selling novel, CARRIE features music by Academy Award winner Michael Gore (Fame, Terms of Endearment), lyrics by Academy Award winner Dean Pitchford (Fame, Footloose), and a book by Lawrence D. Cohen (screenwriter of the classic film). (more...)
FLASH FRIDAY: The Titanic Talent Of Brian D'Arcy Jamesby Pat Cerasaro - May 11, 2012In a correlative column to this weekend’s extensive and exclusive InDepth InterView, tonight we are shining a special solo spotlight on the vast multitude of talents possessed by one of Broadway’s brightest stars - known best to theatre fans for his tremendous turns in Maury Yeston’s TITANIC, Andrew Lippa’s THE WILD PARTY, the original musicals SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, SHREK and NEXT TO NORMAL as well as original dramas such as TIME STANDS STILL - who now can now regularly be seen on NBC’s hit music drama series SMASH, and, starting this Sunday in a three-episode arc on Showtime‘s THE BIG C with fellow Broadway notable Tammy Blanchard - the one and only Brian D’arcy James. While you will have to wait until tomorrow for the career-spanning conversation that covers his experiences working on those thrilling original musicals as well as reflections on collaborating with the starry array of cast members and creatives on the Steven Spielberg-produced SMASH and what lays ahead for Season Two, now is an absolutely ideal opportunuity to reacclimatize ourselves. Just what can’t Brian d’Arcy James do? As this spell-binding collection of clips prove - everything; and then some. (more...)
Nominee Reactions: Kathleen Marshall - '10 nominations is a really nice round number'by BWW - May 1, 2012"I'm so excited for the show! 10 nominations is a really nice round number. My husband and I were watching NY1 this morning and simultaneously trying to get our twins out the door to go to music class. So, we were wrangling them and watching the nominations at the same time. My husband Scott Landis is a producer for NICE WORK and for VENUS IN FUR so we were especially thrilled. We're a quadruple nomination household! The cast is performing on David Letterman on Thursday so we have a rehearsal for that. I'm thrilled that i'll get to see them!"
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Rachel York to Set Sail in ANYTHING GOES National Tour; Kicks Off October 2by BWW - Mar 27, 2012Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that critically acclaimed Broadway actress Rachel York will star as “Reno Sweeney” in the national tour of the 2011 Tony® Award winning Anything Goes. Presented by Roundabout Theatre Company, the national tour will set sail in Cleveland this fall. Anything Goes is the winner of three Tony® Awards including Best Musical Revival.
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Kathleen Marshall-Helmed DINER Heading to Broadway in Spring 2013!by BWW News Desk - Mar 20, 2012BASE Entertainment has just announced that DINER, a new musical based on the critically acclaimed 1982 film with a book by Academy Award winner and original DINER screenwriter Barry Levinson and music & lyrics by 9-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, will have its pre-Broadway world premiere at San Francisco’s SHN Curran Theatre (445 Geary Street). Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall, DINER will play a strictly limited four week engagement from Tuesday, October 23, 2012, through Sunday, November 18, 2012, with an opening night of Friday, November 2, 2012. Due to these confirmed San Francisco dates DINER will now bow on Broadway in the spring of 2013, instead of the fall of 2012 as previously announced. Design team and casting will be announced at a later date. (more...)
Foothill Music Theatre Presents ALL SHOOK UP, 2/23-3/11by BWW
News Desk - Mar 11, 2012Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents ALL SHOOK UP, featuring hit songs made famous by Elvis Presley and a book by Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro (Memphis; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change). (more...)
Musical Legacy of Garland and Rooney Spotlighted in BABES IN HOLLYWOOD at Gaslight Theatreby BWW
News Desk - Mar 10, 2012The musical review was created by David Grapes (the former artistic director of Tennessee Repertory Theatre), with musical arrangements and medleys by Andrew Philip Herron, and traces the careers of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney from early on, as the two made their way to Hollywood and became America’s Sweethearts, through their sensational careers both in Hollywood and on Broadway.
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Roberta Flack Performs With the Pacific Symphony, 2/9-11by BWW
News Desk - Feb 9, 2012Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Pacific Symphony fills the hall with love songs featuring legendary vocalist Roberta Flack singing sweet and sultry ballads from her chart-topping career. Internationally hailed as one of the greatest songstresses of her generation, Flack effortlessly traverses a broad musical landscape from pop to soul to folk to jazz. One of only two artists to win back-to-back Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Flack has immortalized the songs, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” which she performs along with such hits as “Where Is the Love,” “Tonight I Celebrate My Love” and more. (more...)
BWW Reviews: BABES IN HOLLYWOOD Takes Audiences On a Nostalgia-Fueled Sentimental Journeyby Jeffrey Ellis - Feb 28, 2012Granted, Babes in Hollywood isn’t for all theater audiences—although, frankly, it should be…what’s with you people?—and you’ll certainly love it more if you’re at least somewhat informed about the Garland/Rooney film oeuvre or the legendarily close relationship the two young stars forged as children and continued throughout their lives. Although that friendship was abruptly ended in 1969 when Garland died in London (I remember reading the news in the Memphis Press-Scimitar as a sixth grader), I’ve no doubt Mickey Rooney still has conversations with his old pal, somewhere within the recesses of his memory and his heart. (more...)
Local Professional Acting Classes Offered at Rubicon Theatreby BWW
News Desk - Feb 27, 2012Rubicon offers process-oriented acting classes for kids (beginning at age five) and adults. (more...)
DID YOU KNOW...The Most Interesting Message Board Topics of the Week, February 18-24by BWW - Feb 24, 2012These days, in the new age of social media revolution, the best source of information is YOU. Each day, fans of BroadwayWorld post tens of thousands of comments on our multiple message boards (main and local), weighing in on the latest news, rumors, reviews, stars and more. Each week, we find a few stand-out threads - those that have sparked particularly interesting discussion that we've decided to shine a light on each week in our newest feature: DID YOU KNOW...The 10 Most Interesting Message Board Topics of the Week, brought to you by YOU!
Be sure to check back each week to see if YOUR thread made the list! (more...)
Foothill Music Theatre Presents ALL SHOOK UP, 2/23-3/11by BWW
News Desk - Feb 23, 2012Multi-award winning Foothill Music Theatre presents ALL SHOOK UP, featuring hit songs made famous by Elvis Presley and a book by Tony Award winner Joe DiPietro (Memphis; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change). (more...)
CCM Musical Theatre Presents INTO THE WOODS, 2/23-3/4by BWW News Desk - Feb 15, 2012In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Patricia A. Corbett Distinguished Chair of Musical Theatre, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) Mainstage Musical Theatre Series continues its 2011-12 season with Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. The award-winning pairing of new and existing fairy-tales with Sondheim’s witty music and lyrics runs Feb. 23-26 and March 1-4 in Patricia Corbett Theater in CCM Village. (more...)
Musical Legacy of Garland and Rooney Spotlighted in BABES IN HOLLYWOOD at Gaslight Theatreby Jeffrey Ellis - Feb 14, 2012Dickson’s Gaslight Dinner Theatre kicks off 2012 by bringing Hollywood and Broadway legends Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney to life via the musical revue Babes in Hollywood: The Music of Garland and Rooney, February 14-March 10.
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Roberta Flack Performs With the Pacific Symphony, 2/9-11by BWW
News Desk - Feb 11, 2012Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Pacific Symphony fills the hall with love songs featuring legendary vocalist Roberta Flack singing sweet and sultry ballads from her chart-topping career. Internationally hailed as one of the greatest songstresses of her generation, Flack effortlessly traverses a broad musical landscape from pop to soul to folk to jazz. One of only two artists to win back-to-back Grammy Awards for Record of the Year, Flack has immortalized the songs, “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” which she performs along with such hits as “Where Is the Love,” “Tonight I Celebrate My Love” and more. (more...)
BWW Reviews: Boy Wonder Nicolas King Conquers The Iridiumby Stephen Hanks - Apr 4, 2012On Tuesday night at the Iridium Jazz Club, precocious, yet polished 20-year-old crooner Nicolas King conquered a packed room filled with freshly-minted MAC Award winners, veteran cabaret performers, a burgeoning legion of fans, beaming family members, and his mentor and friend Liza Minnelli (who attended the show with actor Tony Danza). (more...)
BWW Reviews: BABES IN ARMS, Union Theatre, April 24 2012by Gary Naylor - Apr 26, 2012Gary Naylor sees a musical full of classic songs. (more...)
Rachel York, Aaron Lazar and More Join Megan Hilty in Encores! GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDESby BWW News Desk - Apr 12, 2012Rachel York will join Megan Hilty in the Encores! production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, opening May 9 at New York City Center. York will play the brunette, Dorothy Shaw, best friend of Lorelei, the diamond-loving blonde played by Hilty. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes will be directed by John Rando with music direction by Rob Berman and choreography by Randy Skinner and will play for seven performances, May 9 – 13, at New York City Center, 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. (more...)
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