Patrick Cassidy Joins Upright Cabaret's VIVA LAS VEGAS, 6/8by BWW News Desk - May 26, 2012Chris Isaacson has announced that Upright Cabaret’s AMERICAN ICON Series ends another stunning season with VIVA LAS VEGAS - a presentation of personality and pop that honors the flashiest performers of all time: Elvis, Cher and Elton John. Joining the group of all-star performers will be Patrick Cassidy. (more...)
Porters of Hellsgate Presents MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, 6/15-7/22by BWW News Desk - May 25, 2012The Porters of Hellsgate present William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Charles Pasterna, running June 15 through July 22 at The Whitmore Theatre in North Hollywood. (more...)
Dorothy Marcic Brings WHAT WE DO FOR LOVE TO Bleeker Street Theater, 6/13by BWW News Desk - May 24, 2012Dorothy Marcic (SISTAS, RESPECT) brings her newest musical, What We Do For Love Or Other Desperate Measures to the Upstairs Theater at the Bleeker Street Theater (45 Bleeker Street) on Wednesday, June 13th (7PM) for six performances as part of the 4th annual Planet Connections Festivity. The cast will include: Gilbert Bailey, Natalie Hill, Simon Pearl, Morgan Reed,Carla Stewart and Ryan Williams. (more...)
Royal Albert Hall to Screen WEST SIDE STORY with Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra 22-4 Juneby BWW News Desk - May 23, 2012Fifty years after its release, the MGM re-mastered film returns to the big screen in high definition with its original vocals and dialog intact. This classic romantic tragedy and the bitter battle between the Jets and the Sharks as Leonard Bernstein’s seminal score, featuring the much loved ‘America’, ‘Somewhere’ and ‘Tonight’, is dramatically brought to life on stage by The Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra conducted by Jayce Ogren at the Royal Albert Hall for four performances on the 22nd to the 24th of June, 2012. (more...)
Leslie Uggams, Wesley Taylor, David Alan Grier and More Announced as Theatre World Awards Presentersby BWW News Desk - May 23, 2012The 68th annual Theatre World Awards will be held Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 at The Belasco Theatre, 111 West 44th Street, NYC. The 2 pm by-invitation-only ceremony will also include presentation of the 4th Annual Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence. This year The Theatre World Awards will have ASL interpretation. (more...)
Peter Mac Celebrates Bea Arthur and Judy Garland's 90th Birthdays, 5/27by BWW News Desk - May 22, 2012Bea Arthur would have turned 90 years old on May 27, 2012. To celebrate her birthday, actor D.J. Schaefer is transformed as Bea Arthur and will join Judy Garland played by rewound tribute artist, Peter Mac in a very special show Bea Arthur and Judy Garland: Tribute Artists Celebrate 90th Birthdays. (more...)
BWW Reviews: Peter Mac Rocks with JUDY AND COMPANYby Don Grigware - May 22, 2012Judy and Company with Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Peggy Lee, Tallulah Bankhead and Katie Hepburn, ladies of screen, theatre and TV all sharing top billing, as usual is a joyous Peter Mac show. At the all new Peter Mac Supper Club in Hollywood, Garland opens and closes with a bevy of her hits including, "Almost Like Being in Love", "This Can't Be Love", "The Man That Got Away", "The Trolley Song" and "By Myself" from the film I Could Go On Singing. Garland is in rare form, never missing a beat, even getting in a dig about losing the Oscar for Star to Grace Kelly. Next comes Miss Tallulah Bankhead SINGING an outrageous "Everybody's F------But Me" and "Como te gusta mi pinga...", with Spanish making the obscenity sound acceptable, actually quite delicious. Jokes fly out of her trashy mouth, and there's even a raunchy Snow White fable. Following Tallu comes a hilariously, talk about stoned, Peggy Lee who gives her all to "Is That All There Is?" and the politically incorrect "Manana". Lee's synthetic blonde wig gives Mac some great dish lines. Then, like a tornado from QVC, in flies the one and only Liza Minnelli - ablaze in red sequins - giving us not two but three numbers "Say Yes", "Liza with a Z" and "Maybe This Time" with quite an interesting anecdote about how the former was actually written for Kaye Ballard but became a big hit in theCabaret film for Liza. The final guest is Kate Hepburn who treats us to her inimitable rendition of "Coco" and "The Glory of Love" echoing her unusual 27 year extra-marital relationship with Spencer Tracy. (more...)
STAGE TUBE: Liza Minnelli Talks CD Release, Marriage, and More on FOX & FRIENDSby Stage Tube - May 22, 2012“Fox & Friends” this morning welcomed the legendary Liza Minnelli. Minnelli was a guest on the Fox News Channel program to talk about her new CD Liza Minnelli Live At The Winter Garden which was recently released by Masterworks Broadway. While she was there, she was even asked about her thoughts on END OF THE RAINBOW, the Broadway play based on her mother's life. Hear what she had to say in the full interview below! (more...)
Photo Flash: George C. Wolfe, Daryl Roth, et al. at STARLIGHT Benefitby BWW News Desk - May 21, 2012Last night The Stella Adler Studio of Acting held its Seventh Annual Stella by Starlight Benefit Gala at The Players Club in New York City. This year’s honorees included Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Daryl Roth, Ed Schultz and Masa Tanaka. Notable attendees included co-chair of the evening, Kate Mulgrew, and Broadway director George C. Wolfe who presented producer Daryl Roth with her award. Check out photos from the event below! (more...)
Dance Theatre Piece POOR LIZA Comes to New York and Boston in Juneby BWW News Desk - May 21, 2012One of Russia’s most famous actressses, Chulpan Khamatova, along with Bolshoi Theater soloist Andrei Merkuriev, will play for audiences in New York and Boston with POOR Liza, based on the novel by Nikolay Karamzin. This envelope-pushing choreographed theatrical performance was dreamt up by lauded choreographer Alla Sigalova and composer Leonid Desyatnikov, and produced by Russia’s Theatre of Nations. Maestro Artist Management will present the performances in the US. (more...)
Liza Minnelli to Visit 'Fox & Friends' Tomorrow!by BWW News Desk - May 21, 2012“Fox & Friends” will welcome the legendary Liza Minnelli on Tuesday, May 22. Minnelli will be a guest on the Fox News Channel program to talk about her new CD Liza Minnelli Live At The Winter Garden which was recently released by Masterworks Broadway. (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...)
Sizzling, Song Filled Summer At The Colony Hotel Palm Beachby Beau Higgins - May 19, 2012Fast-Rising Cabaret Stars Will Dazzle Royal Room Fans from Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day: Carole J. Bufford, Nicolas King, Jennifer Sheehan, Wayne Hosford & Ariana Savalas
The Colony Hotel – which The Palm Beach Post has hailed as “probably the best place for cabaret on the planet” – plans another sizzling, song-filled summer with some really hot and fast-rising performers straight from Manhattan’s leading cabarets – several of whom are making their Royal Room debut and other performers who are returning favorites for loyal fans of the Royal Room Supper Club.
The Colony Hotel’s world famous Royal Room is widely celebrated for presenting “immaculately staged cabaret performances” by well known Grammy- and Tony-winning stars (Condé Nast Traveler, February 2011).
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2012 Tony Awards Clip Countdown - Day 6: ROCK OF AGES Rocks Radio Cityby Pat Cerasaro - May 17, 2012Today’s memorable Tony Awards moment for the ages comes courtesy of a former AMERICAN IDOL contestant-cum-Broadway leading man - Constantine Maroulis, who was nominated for Best Actor In A Musical at the 2009 Tony Awards ceremony - leading a cast of 80s mall-hair-ed New Jerseyians all armed with a song a prayer in a performance from the Tony-nominated 80s stadium metal jukebox hit ROCK OF AGES. (more...)
Photo Flash: FORBIDDEN BROADWAY In Manilaby Oliver Oliveros - May 17, 2012Theater actor, writer, and director Gerard Alessandrini’s brainchild, the 30-year-old Off-Broadway hit parody series FORBIDDEN BROADWAY, finally premiered at Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza in Makati City last weekend. Joel Trinidad, Upstart Productions’ president and the show’s director, had picked FORBIDDEN BROADWAY'S GREATEST HITS, which has two volumes to date, and features some of the more popular spoofs of Broadway musicals and theater legends culled from more than a dozen FORBIDDEN BROADWAY editions. (more...)
SHOWTIME to Celebrate Gay Pride Month With Three Films, 6/7by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2012In honor of June, Gay Pride Month, SHOWTIME will air three documentaries focusing on issues affecting the LGBT community. All three films air on Thursday, June 7 beginning at 7 PM ET/PT on SHOWTIME. Below is the schedule of films. (more...)
Showtime Documentaries to Salute 'Gay Pride Month' 6/7by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2012In honor of June, Gay Pride Month, SHOWTIME will air three provocative and compelling documentaries focusing on issues affecting the LGBT community. All three films air on Thursday, June 7 beginning at 7 PM ET/PT on SHOWTIME. (more...)
Chita Rivera, Susan Sarandon et al. to Help Honor Jason Alexander at 2012 Actor's Fund Tony Awards Party, 6/10by BWW News Desk - May 16, 2012On June 10, 2012, The Actor's Fund will present its 16th Annual Tony Awards party at the Skirball Center, this year honoring Jason Alexander with the Julie Harris Award for Lifetime Achievement.. Scott Bakula will host the gala and this year's Honorary Celebrity Committee includes: Julie Bowen, Nancy Dussault, Dann Florek, Elliott Gould, Steve Guttenberg, Garry Marshall, Chita Rivera, Susan Sarandon, Holland Taylor and Zachary Quinto. The event includes cocktails and a silent auction followed by ainner and a live telecast of a live feed of the Tony Awards as they happen in New York. (more...)
STAGE TUBE: Liza Minnelli Talks Mariage, Lady Gaga, and More on THE TALKby Stage Tube - May 16, 2012“THE TALK” just welcomed the legendary Liza Minnelli for the first time yesterday, May 15. While she was there, Minnelli chatted about her new CD Liza Minnelli Live At The Winter Garden which was recently released by Masterworks Broadway. Check out her full appearance below! (more...)
Tom Gabbard, Wayne McWorter, et al. Win 2012 Broadway League Awardsby BWW News Desk - May 15, 2012The honorees of the Broadway League Awards, honoring excellence and achievement for Touring Broadway, were announced today during the Broadway League’s 2012 Spring Road Conference. First presented in 1992, the Broadway League Awards recognize the contributions of those who have displayed exemplary service to the Broadway industry and are considered innovators of their craft. (more...)
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