THE CONFESSION ROOM Concept Recording Released, With Casey, Chisnall, Gaumond & Hunterby BWW News Desk - May 24, 2013SimG Records, the leading independent British label devoted to new musical theatre writers and artists, is to release the concept recording of the new British musical The Confession Room, on Friday 31st May 2013. (more...)
Photo Flash: First Look - Surflight Theatre's THE BOY FRIEND, 5/25-6/16by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2013Surflight Theatre, under the leadership of Executive Director Ken Myers presents the 1920s musical comedy The Boy Friend, from May 25 through June 16. Check out a first look at the cast in action, below! (more...)
2013 FREDDY Awards Announced - All the Winners!by BWW News Desk - May 23, 2013The 2013 FREDDY Awards recipients were announced tonight, May 23rd, during the 11th Annual live ceremony from the State Theatre, broadcast on WFMZ Channel 69 and wfmz.com. For more information, visit www.freddyawards.org. Scroll down for the full list of winners! (more...)
Spring 2013 SpotLight Program Honorees Announced by Hennepin Theatre Trustby BWW News Desk - May 22, 2013Hennepin Theatre Trust today announced the new spring 2013 honorees from Minnesota high schools recognizing musical theatre accomplishments by school and category for the 2012-13 SpotLight Musical Theatre Program. Now in its eighth successful year, SpotLight is Hennepin Theatre Trust's flagship educational initiative which honors and supports Minnesota high school musical theatre students and programs. This year, 56 schools, including nine from greater Minnesota, are presenting musicals made possible by the collaboration of almost 5,000 students and annually seen by an estimated 105,000 audience members. (more...)
Shakespeare on the Sound to Stage AS YOU LIKE IT, 6/13-30by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2013Connecticut's premier outdoor Shakespeare will present As You Like It, June 13-30, 2013. The show is one of Shakespeare's most beloved and pastoral comedies. Claire Shannon Kelly, currently the Director of Youth Programming for Shakespeare on the Sound and the director of the company's touring educational program, 'Speaking Daggers,' will direct. Kelly previously worked at the Ordway Theater, the Guthrie Theater, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and the George Street Playhouse. She is a resident of New Canaan. (more...)
Breaking News: 2014 ENCORES! Announced - LITTLE ME with Christian Borle, THE MOST HAPPY FELLA with Shuler Henlsey & IRMA LA DOUCEby BWW News Desk - May 21, 2013The 2014 season of New York City Center's Tony Award-winning Encores! series will open with Little Me directed by John Rando and starring Christian Borle ('Smash,' Peter and the Starcatcher) on February 5, 2014. The season will continue with The Most Happy Fella, directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw and starring Shuler Hensley (Oklahoma!, The Whale), followed by Irma La Douce, directed by John Doyle. Encores! Music Director Rob Berman will helm all shows. (more...)
Photo Flash: PEEPSHOW's Surprise Onstage Proposalby BWW News Desk - May 21, 2013Audience members were treated to a wonderful surprise as they were on-hand to witness the first onstage marriage proposal at PEEPSHOW at Planet Hollywood on May 18. Ensemble cast member Sophia Monica, who performs the "Teddy" number in Vegas' only striptease spectacular, in addition to filling in for the "Bo Peep" role when headliner Coco is out of the show, was caught off guard as her long-time partner and father of her son, Etienne Carreira bent down on one knee and proposed to her onstage in front of the PEEPSHOW cast and audience. Carreira is a professional break dancer and is also a trained dancer. To celebrate, Sophia also did an impromptu back flip (in heels) at the end, which made the audience go crazy with joy and excitement. Congrats to the newly engaged couple! (more...)
Orfeh, Patti Murin and More to Bring Adele to Life at THE POP SHOW, 6/10by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2013Farah Alvin (Nine, Grease!, The Marvelous Wonderettes) , Anika Larsen (Avenue Q, Rent, Closer Than Ever, Xanadu), Patti Murin (Wicked, Lysistrata Jones), Samia Najimy Finnerty, N'Kenge (Motown: The Musical, Sondheim on Sondheim), Orfeh (Legally Blonde, The Gershwins' Fascinating Rhythm, Love, Janis, Saturday Night Fever), Jarrod Spector(Jersey Boys, Les Miserables) and American Idol Finalist Erika Van Pelt will comprise the lineup for the June 10 edition of The Pop Show, part of the Broadway at Birdland series at Birdland Jazz Club. The 7pm concert will feature the songs of Adele. (more...)
Christian Borle Signs On for Michael Mann's Upcoming Cyber Thrillerby Movies News Desk - May 20, 2013The Tony-winning actor, who recently starred on NBC's SMASH, has officially signed on for Michael Mann's upcoming, untitled cyber thriller set in China, according to Deadline. Borle joins Chris Hemsworth, Viola Davis and Holt McCallany for the film from Legendary Pictures. Mann penned with the script alongside Morgan Davis Foehl. (more...)
Pittsburgh CLO Opens 42ND STREET, 5/31by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2013 Audiences will be left tapping their toes all summer long with Pittsburgh CLO's production of 42nd Street, May 31-June 9 at the Benedum Center. The production will feature *N SYNC legend, Joey Fatone, musical theater veteran Patrick Ryan Sullivan, and an incredible supporting cast including Pittsburgh CLO veterans. (more...)
Laura Benanti, Frances Ruffelle and More Set for 54 Below, Now thru 6/1by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2013Coming up at 54 BELOW, the performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond. 54 Below also launched its series of late night events. Joining Tuesday nights' popular "Backstage" with Susie Mosher is the "54 Piano Bar," a new vocal competition - 'The Callback," and more, including: stage and television star Laura Benanti, High Fidelity in Concert, WGBO Jazz Series: Karrin Allyson Quartet, Tony winner Frances Ruffelle, Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band, Sondheim Unplugged and Simply Streisand. (more...)
It's Official! Ambassador Theatre Group Acquires The Foxwoods Theatreby BWW News Desk - May 20, 2013As we reported yesterday, it's now official that the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG), the UK's largest theatre owner/operator and a multi award winning theater production group, has through its subsidiary, Lyric Theatre LLC, acquired The Foxwoods Theatre from Live Nation Entertainment. (more...)
NIGHT OF A THOUSAND JUDYS Will Feature Carolee Carmello, Telly Leung and More, 6/17by BWW News Desk - May 20, 2013The third annual "Night of A Thousand Judys" - presented by The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre - has added Carolee Carmello(Tony Award nominee for Scandalous), Justin Vivian Bond (Tony Award nominated performance artist), Lea DeLaria (acclaimed comedian and jazz vocalist), Jaime Cepero ("Smash"), Telly Leung ("Glee," Godspell), Scott Matthew (Shortbus), Natalie Joy Johnson (Silence!, Legally Blonde) and Nancy Anderson (Wonderful Town, A Class Act) to the lineup of talent for the show on Monday, June 17. (more...)
BWW TV Exclusive: Meet the 2013 Tony Nominees- KINKY BOOT's Annaleigh Ashford on Her Tonys Powerball Win!by BroadwayWorld TV - May 18, 2013BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was thrilled to sit down and speak with nearly all of this year's Tony Award nominees at the official Tonys Meet & Greet on May 1, 2013, and we will be bringing you special coverage on all of them throughout the awards season. Today we bring you Annaleigh Ashford, a nominee for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for Kinky Boots. Check out what she had to say below! (more...)
NATALIE JOY JOHNSON'S TIME OF THE MONTH Comes to Joe's Pub, 5/27by BWW News Desk - May 17, 2013Are you cramping? Is your job giving you a heavy flow? Is PMS making you a total bitch? In her own twisted take on the old-school variety hour, Natalie Joy Johnson has the remedy you've been waiting for: 'Natalie Joy Johnson's Time Of The Month.' The Show will play Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street) on Monday, May 27th at 9:30 p.m. Tickets: $20. (more...)
54 Below Announces Late Night Events for This Weekby BWW News Desk - May 17, 2013For those craving a show after the show, stop by 54 BELOW, the performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street. (more...)
Michael Urie, Annaleigh Ashford, Kristine Nielsen and Lewis J. Stadlen Earn Actors' Equity Foundation's Richard Seff & Clarence Derwent Awards!by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2013Kristine Nielsen and Lewis J. Stadlen have been named to receive the annual Richard Seff Award presented by the Actors' Equity Foundation. The award honors a veteran female and male character actor for the best performance in a supporting role in a Broadway or Off-Broadway production. The announcement was made by Arne Gundersen, president of the Actors' Equity Foundation, which administers the Award. (more...)
Westchester Broadway Theatre Opens THE SOUND OF MUSIC, 6/20by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2013One of the world's best loved musicals, based on the memoir of Maria Von Trapp; The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Maria is a young, aspiring but quirky, nun whose love of freedom makes it obvious to her superiors that she is not suited for religious life. Thus, she is sent off to be the governess to Captain von Trapp's seven troublesome children. Unlike previous governess', Maria becomes friends with the children due to their mutual love of music. She fills the lives of the Von Trapp children with "The Sound of Music" and captures the heart of their stern and lonely father. But, will their harmonious lives be torn apart when their beautiful homeland is ravaged by war? Rodgers and Hammerstein's Tony Award-winning musical delights audiences with the uplifting story and an irresistible score: "Climb Every Mountain," "Do-Re-Mi," "Edelweiss" and "My Favorite Things." (more...)
PIPPIN Cast Recording Track Listing Announced; Bonus Tracks Included!by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2013Ghostlight Records will present the New Broadway Cast Recording for Roger O. Hirson and Stephen Schwartz's beloved coming-of-age musical comedyPIPPIN with a digital release on June 4 and the CD in stores on July 9. The acclaimed revival has been hailed as 'astonishing' by The New York Times, 'amazing and eye-popping' byEntertainment Weekly and 'the season's best musical, jazz hands down' by USA Today. The show, which was nominated for 10 Tony Awards including 'Best Musical Revival,' is now playing at the Music Box Theatre (239 West 45th Street). The album is co-produced by composer Stephen Schwartz and Kurt Deutsch with Howard and Janet Kagan serving as executive producers. For updates on the album, please visit www.sh-k-boom.com/pippin.html. (more...)
Cast Announced for NOBODY LOVES YOU at Second Stage Theatre - Rory O'Malley, Leslie Kritzer, Lauren Molina and More!by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2013Second Stage Theatre has just announced the casting for its upcoming production of the new musical comedy, NOBODY LOVES YOU. The company will feature HEATH CALVERT (world premiere of Nobody Loves You at the Old Globe Theatre), BRYAN FENKART (Memphis), ROE HARTRAMPF (Second Stage Theatre Uptown's The Bad Guys), AUTUMN HURLBERT(Legally Blonde), LESLIE KRITZER (Legally Blonde, A Catered Affair), LAUREN MOLINA (Sweeney Todd, Rock of Ages), RORY O'MALLEY (Tony nominee for The Book of Mormon) and ALEQUE REID (Really Really). (more...)
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