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Around the Broadway World: Regional Highlights for the Week of 11/19

Sit back and enjoy a recap of this week's most-read stories in BroadwayWorld's regional markets! Browse over to your favorite far-away city/country to see what's making news, see what productions are playing around the country and overseas and get to know new performers! (more...)

BWW Blog: Molly Tynes of A.R.T.'s PIPPIN - PIPPIN Goes to the Circus - Literally!

We have talked a lot in rehearsal about the traditional perception of the traveling circus troupe - about the ways in which we romanticize that life. In a way everyone secretly wishes he or she could run away with the circus and perform some unimaginable feat few others would dare even attempt. We've talked about the transient nature of the circus - how suddenly it bursts into town thrilling audiences with colorful displays and inexplicable tricks, and then just like that, it is gone again. There is an element of mystery in all of that. You find yourself wondering, "Who are these people? What do they do when they are not flying through the air or jumping throughburning hoops? Do they eat? Do they sleep? Do they perform ordinary daily tasks just like the rest of us?" They become almost superhuman figures existing outside the constraints of regular life. (more...)

Around the Broadway World: Regional Highlights for the Week of 11/12

In this week's edition of 'Regional Highlights of the Week', we bring you the most-read stories for the week of November 12. Enjoy and check back next week for another recap! (more...)

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/5/13

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 5/5/2013. (more...)

INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 5/6

Welcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights! Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, 5/5/2013. (more...)

Review - Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 5/5/13 & Theatre Quote of the Week

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FLASH SPECIAL: Magic To Do! PIPPIN Prepares For First Broadway Revival

"We've got magic to do, just for you!" sing the weird and slightly worrisome band of players in the uniquely compelling 1970s classic PIPPIN, by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson. While the creation of the original Broadway production in 1972 was plagued with problems - none the least of which being the composer/lyricist, Schwartz, and the show's choreographer/director, Bob Fosse, failing to see eye to eye on virtually anything, resulting in Schwartz's barring from rehearsals and much of his input denied - it went on to become a Tony Award-winning mega-hit, running for nearly 2000 performances before it closed in 1977. The score even had a few crossover pop/rock bids thanks to the Jackson 5 and The Supremes utilizing the sounds of Schartz's contemporary and radio-friendly score, with a cast album on the Motown record label, no less (and some funky new arrangements and orchestrations augmenting the sterling Ralph Burns originals, as a result). Starring Fosse muse Ben Vereen in one of his most sensational and unforgettable musical roles - which is really saying something - PIPPIN is an indescribable musical in many ways, but the powerful pull that the music and Fosse's original staging had, mixed with the narcissistic flower power message at the core, made it a hit. While the book may have its flaws - and, believe me, it does - the sassy, spunky, try-anything vibe of the show makes it an endearing, playful, and, ultimately, rewarding theatrical experience. With news coming this week that the new Boston Conservatory production of PIPPIN is coming to Broadway later this season, directed by lauded HAIR revival helmer Diane Paulus and produced by CHICAGO super-producers Fran and Barry Weissler, 2013 will mark the first time Charlemagne's son will had treaded the boards in almost forty years. From Pippin, Pippin at Carnegie Mellon in 1967, written by Schwartz as an undergrad at Carnegie Mellon, through to the Broadway production in 1972, titled PIPPIN: HIS LIFE & TIMES, and, now, with the new Paulus circus-style staging (choreographed "in the style of Bob Fosse", natch, by Chet Walker), PIPPIN is poised to come alight once more - and, based on the preliminary reviews, the new production seems to be more than merely "on the right track", to crib a phrase from the musical's hit-packed song stack. Come the dawn of some say this spring, "Morning Glow" will be here, once more… at last. (more...)

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/7/13

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 4/7/2013. (more...)

Review - Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/7/13 & Theatre Quote of the Week

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/28/13

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 4/28/2013. (more...)

INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Pre-Tonys Weekly Grosses Analysis - 4/29

Welcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights! Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, 4/28/2013. (more...)

Review - The Assembled Parties & Macbeth

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Review - Motown, the musical: A Tale of Two Cities

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/21/13

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 4/21/2013. (more...)

INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 4/22

Welcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights! Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, 4/21/2013. (more...)

Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/14/13

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 4/14/2013. (more...)

Review - Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 4/14/13 & Theatre Quote of the Week

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Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/31/13

Grosses for all the Broadway shows for the week ending 3/31/2013. (more...)

INDUSTRY INSIGHT: Weekly Grosses Analysis - 4/1 - Spring Hits Broadway!

Welcome to this week's edition of our new WEEKLY GROSSES ANALYSIS, part of our new Industry Insights section that will feature insider industry information, commentary and insights! Read on for all the weekly grosses statistics for the movers and shakers from the latest grosses, 3/31/2013. (more...)

Review - Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 3/31/13 & Theatre Quote of the Week

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