SPAMALOT Starring Marcus Brigstocke and Jon Culshaw Plays West End, July 24-Sep 9by BWW News Desk - May 28, 2012Howard Panter (Mr West End himself) for The Ambassador Theatre Group presents Monty Python’s Spamalot, a new musical lovingly ripped off from Monty Python and the Holy Grail by Eric Idle and John Du Prez, directed by Christopher Luscombe. Galloping into the West End for a truly bespoke season at the Harold Pinter Theatre (long pause) Tuesday 24 July – Sunday 9 September 2012 (press night Tuesday 31 July). Tickets on sale now. (more...)
Lillias White Celebrates THE NIGHT AFTER THE TONYS at Catalina Jazz Club, 6/11by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2012Chris Isaacson Presents and Upright Cabaret proudly present Broadway diva Lillias White: The Night After The Tonys, as she belts out the best of Broadway and Jazz, at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood, for one performance only, on Monday, June 11. Showtime is 8pm, with cocktail and dinner service beginning at 6:30pm. (more...)
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR's Lee Siegel and More Set for BROADWAY SESSIONS, 5/31by BWW News Desk - May 27, 2012This Thursday, May 31st, Broadway Sessions welcomes Lee Siegel, Carly Sakolove and Alexis Smith to The Laurie Beechman Theater. (more...)
Photo Flash: First Look at Sally Struthers and Carter Calvert in ALWAYS PATSY CLINEby BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012The 80th Anniversary Season at the Ogunquit Playhouse kicked off with Always, Patsy Cline on May 23, and we have the production photos below, starring Carter Calvert as Patsy Cline and Sally Struthers as Louise Seger. Check them out! (more...)
JCS Broadway: This One's Got Swag, And Three Filipinos In Itby Oliver Oliveros - May 25, 2012My first dose of musical theater was through my uncle’s old screechy phonograph recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s hippie, loud, angst-laden rock musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” (JCS). The classic stage hit, which was originally a concept album before evolving into a full-blown Broadway musical that follows the passion and death of Jesus Christ as seen through the eyes of Judas Iscariot, had completed its three-year run on Broadway (1971-1973), and its first commercial movie release (1973) by the time I got to experience JCS’s electrifying, personally-impactful songs in the ‘80s though. So when the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Toronto, Canada announced late last year that its critically-acclaimed, deemed revolutionary production of JCS, directed by Tony winner Des McAnuff, was coming to Broadway, I was delighted to hear the news; and more so when I learned that three Filipino-Canadian musical theater artists – brothers Julius and Jason Sermonia, and Laurin Padolina – are part of the show.
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LES MIS Movie Teaser Trailer Set for Release May 30!by BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012Not only did Hugh Jackman and producer Cameron Mackintosh give Les Misérables movie fans a Friday treat with this picture, taken on the Les Mis set, they have also revealed that the first movie teaser trailer will be available next Wednesday, May 30! (more...)
Bloomington Civic Theatre Opens 2012-2013 Season With 42ND STREET, 8/17-9/16by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2012Bloomington Theatre and Art Center (BTAC) today announced the tap dancing musical 42nd Street. This Bloomington Civic Theatre (BCT) production will run August 17 – September 16, 2012. 42nd Street will be directed and choreographed by Michael Matthew Ferrell, with music direction by Anita Ruth. The cast of 24 includes Larissa Gritti as ‘Peggy’, C. Ryan Shipley as ‘Billy’, Michael Fischetti as ‘Julian Marsh’, and Bonnie Erickson as ‘Dorothy Brock’. (more...)
LES MISÉRABLES, Starring Peter Lockyer, Returns to 5th Avenue Theatre, 6/27-7/8by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2012Due to popular demand, Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed new production of Les Misérables returns to Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre for a spectacular two-week engagement, June 27-July 8, 2012. (more...)
Cortland Repertory Theatre Wins 2/3 Summer Production SALT Awardsby BWW News Desk - May 22, 2012Cortland Repertory Theatre's 2011 production of the musical Chicago “razzle dazzled ‘em” at the Syracuse Area Live Theatre (SALT) Awards, winning in two out of the three Summer Production categories. The awards were presented on Sunday, May 20 at the Palace Theatre in Syracuse. Hosted by the Syracuse New Times, the SALT Awards recognize professional, summer and community theatres, each in their own categories. (more...)
Ethan Hawke to Direct and Star in Jonathan Marc Sherman's CLIVE at New Group in 2013!by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2012Off-Broadway’s The New Group has just announced its 2012-2013 season, featuring three world premiere productions. As the season launch in Fall 2012, Scott Elliott, Artistic Director of The New Group, directs Francine Volpe’s The Good Mother, featuring Gretchen Mol. Jonathan Marc Sherman’s new work Clive arrives in Winter 2013, directed by and featuring Ethan Hawke in the title role. Spring 2013 ushers in the premiere of a new musical at The New Group, Bunty Berman Presents..., by Ayub Khan Din (music, book, lyrics) and Paul Bogaev (music), directed by Scott Elliott. (more...)
BWW Reviews: 3 Paws Way Up for CATS at Gateway Playhouseby Estelle Hallick - May 22, 2012This past weekend, Gateway Playhouse in Bellport, New York jumpstarted their 2012 season with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats. The winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical in 1982, Cats still holds the distinction for second longest running musical on Broadway despite the fact that the show closed in 2000. (more...)
Andrea McArdle, Constantine Maroulis, et al. Set for LOST IN LOVE Reading at the Triad, 6/5by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2012LOST IN LOVE- a new musical based on the hit songs of Air Supply, which held an industry-only reading in April, will play again at the Triad Theatre on June 5. Returning to the production, will be Andrea McArdle, Constantine Maroulis and Justin Matthew Sargent. (more...)
CRT's MAN OF LA MANCHA, Featuring Terrence Mann, Alix Paige, et al., Opens 6/7by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2012Connecticut Repertory Theatre (CRT) launches its 2012 Nutmeg Summer Series with Man of La Mancha, running June 7 – 16 in the intimate Harriett S. Jorgensen Theatre (lower Jorgensen Auditorium) on the UConn campus, Storrs. (more...)
2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown - Day 9: Divas Times Three (Plus Rosie)by Pat Cerasaro - May 20, 2012Today we celebrate Broadway’s best and brightest moments at the Tony Awards - looking ahead the 2012 Tony telecast on June 10 on CBS - with this tremendous trio of triple-threat talents; all recreating the iconic roles and songs that brought them to Tony Award glory: Jennifer Holiday with “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from DREAMGIRLS, Patti LuPone with “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” from EVITA and Betty Buckley with “Memory” from Cats. All original leading ladies; all performing the songs they introduced on the Great White Way - all as fabulous as always, if not more so. (more...)
Andrew Lloyd Webber to Write Profumo Scandal Musicalby BWW News Desk - May 20, 2012According to a report by BBC News, Andrew Lloyd Webber will follow his ITV talent show SUPERSTAR with a new musical about Stephen Ward, who was linked to the Profumo scandal in the '60s that caused War Minister John Profumo to resign after an affair with Christine Keeler. (more...)
Pittsburgh CLO Announces Full Casts of Local Productions - Starring Sally Struthers, Hunter Herdlicka, Liz Callaway and More!by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2012Pittsburgh CLO has announced casting for its summer season, which includes six shows, featuring the national tours of Come Fly Away and The Addams Family, and CLO original productions of A Chorus Line, Annie, Fiddler on the Roof and Sunset Boulevard. Notably, A CHORUS LINE brings on board a slew of the show's national tour veterans, ANNIE stars Sally Struthers as Miss Hannigan, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF features Broadway's Lewis J. Stadlen, Susan Cella, Hunter Herdlicka, Joel Robertson, Emily Shoolin and Kay Walbye. Liz Callaway and Walter Charles are set to star in SUNSET BOULEVARD. (more...)
Exclusive InDepth InterView: Tammy Blanchard On HOW TO SUCCEED, THE BIG C, GYPSY, Judy Garland & Moreby Pat Cerasaro - May 19, 2012Today we are talking to one of the stars of the hit revival of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING - which will be closing this Sunday after a 16-month run, so catch it while you can - who has also carved out an astonishingly accomplished resume on film and TV since her stunning, Emmy-winning small screen debut in a lead role as the young Judy Garland in ME & MY SHADOWS: LIFE WITH JUDY GARLAND - the beautiful and tremendously talented Tammy Blanchard. Touching on many of her most memorable big screen and small screen roles and sharing her experiences of working with many of her impressive co-stars and creative collaborators - Bernadette Peters, Jessica Lange, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, Sam Mendes, and her co-star on two films, the late Brittany Murphy - Blanchard eloquently illustrates her rise to stardom and the roles and performances she has given that she is fondest of - GYPSY to BELLA to THE GOOD SHEPHERD and beyond. Additionally, Blanchard clues us in on what we can expect from her multi-episode character arc on Showtime’s hit dramedy series THE BIG C and what it was like to play such a unique and unusual character - as well as her feelings on sharing the screen (and the onscreen bedroom) with previous InDepth InterView participants John Benjamin Hickey and Brian d’Arcy James. Plus, Blanchard shares how her new role as a mom has shaped her craft and career as well as future plans post-HOW TO SUCCEED, observations on GLEE and SMASH and much, much more! (more...)
BWW Reviews: ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE at Theater Schmeaterby Jay Irwin - May 19, 2012England in the 1960’s may not have been able to get away with overt displays as we can today but that doesn’t mean they were any less randy. And that’s half the fun with Joe Orton’s play, “Entertaining Mr. Sloane” currently playing at Theater Schmeater. They can’t come right out and say what they all want from Mr. Sloane but the double and sometime triple entendres and skirting of the real issue makes for a naughtily fun evening.
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Paul Rodriguez to Perform at the Opening of The Laugh Factory at Tropicana 5/23-24by BWW News Desk - May 18, 2012The renowned Laugh Factory, which has been hailed by USA Today as “the #1 comedy club in the country,” is proud to announce its Grand Opening at the New Tropicana Las Vegas with special guest headliner Paul Rodriguez, May 23-24. (more...)
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