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Photo Coverage: Michael Douglas, Tommy Tune & More Gather to Remember Marty Richards

Last night, April 8th, producer Marty Richards' feast of friends and loved ones gathered in celebration of his extremely accomplished life at The Edison Ballroom (240 West 47th Street) where they were entertained by a star-studded retrospective of show-stopping numbers from Mr. Richards' acclaimed Broadway musicals including Chicago, On The Twentieth Century, The Life, Grand Hotel, Sweeney Todd, La Cage Aux Folles, Sweet Smell Of Success, The Will Rogers Follies and Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life. BroadwayWorld was there for the special celebration and you can check out who was there to celebrate the legend below! (more...)

Photo Coverage: Chita Rivera and More Tribute Marty Richards

Last night, April 8th, producer Marty Richards' feast of friends and loved ones gathered in celebration of his extremely accomplished life at The Edison Ballroom (240 West 47th Street) where they were entertained by a star-studded retrospective of show-stopping numbers from Mr. Richards' acclaimed Broadway musicals including Chicago, On The Twentieth Century, The Life, Grand Hotel, Sweeney Todd, La Cage Aux Folles, Sweet Smell Of Success, The Will Rogers Follies and Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life. BroadwayWorld was there for the special celebration and you can check out photos from inside the concert below! (more...)

Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of Porchlight Music Theatre's PAL JOEY

Porchlight Music Theatre presents Pal Joey, book by John O'Hara, music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, April 20 - May 26, at Stage 773, 1225 West Belmont Ave. Directed by Porchlight Music Theatre's Artistic Director, Michael Weber with music direction by Porchlight Artistic Associate Doug Peck (reuniting with Weber for the first time since their collaboration on Porchlight's triumphant production of Assassins) and choreography by Porchlight Artistic Associate Brenda Didier, Pal Joey stars Adrian Aguilar, 'Joey Evans,' Susie McMonagle, 'Vera Simpson,' Laura Savage, 'Linda English,' Matt Orlando, 'Ludlow Lowell' and Sharriese Hamilton, 'Gladys Bumps.' Meet the cast in the photos below! (more...)

Photo Coverage: Remembering Marty Richards

As BroadwayWorld reported earlier today, producer Marty Richards passed away today after a long battle with cancer. He was 80 years old. We celebrate the life and career of the legend below (more...)

Photo Coverage: Tommy Tune Brings Solo Show to Feinstein's!

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY continues its Fall 2012 season with the New York solo debut of Broadway legend Tommy Tune. Broadway's tallest tapper takes to the city's smallest stage, dancing, singing and tale-telling through 50 years of big time showmanship, all on only 4 square feet! This intimate evening - featuring Musical Director Michael Biagion piano - runs for six shows on three nights: November 18, 25, and 26 at the Loews Regency Hotel (540 Park Avenue at 61st Street). Check out photos from his first concert below! (more...)

Photo Flash: First Look at Circle Theatre's PIPPIN: A BOLLYWOOD SPECTACULAR

Meshing Bollywood's bursting colors and rich style with Artistic Director Kevin Bellie's inventive choreography, Stephen Schwartz's Pippin explodes on the Circle scene in a brand-new light. Pippin has music & lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Roger O. Hirson. (more...)

Photo Coverage: Brent Barrett Previews 54 Below Show

One of Broadway's favorite leading men, Brent Barrett has delighted audiences of the Great White Way and London's West End in Dance a Little Closer, Grand Hotel, Chicago, Candide, Kiss Me Kate and Annie Get You Gun, among others. As a soloist, Brent has appeared at Carnegie Hall, The Royal Albert and Royal Festival Halls in London, and with symphonies and Philharmonics ranging from the Boston Pops and the Berlin Philharmonic to Opera Pacific and the Birmingham Symphony. This October, Brent makes his 54 Below debut with Musical Director Christopher Denny in a new show titled Night Songs - think everything from Music of the Night to Rhythm of the Night to You and the Night and Music - and you've got the idea! BroadwayWorld brings you complete coverage of Barrett in action at a preview for the concert below! (more...)

Photo Flash: Killian Donnelly and More Join West End's BILLY ELLIOT THE MUSICAL

From 12 November 2012 Killian Donnelly will join the cast of Billy Elliot the Musical to play Billy's brother Tony. He will perform alongside Gillian Bevan (Mrs. Wilkinson), Deka Walmsley (Dad), Ann Emery (Grandma), Sean Kearns (George), Kay Milbourne (Dead Mum), Simon Ray Harvey (Mr. Braithwaite), Barnaby Meredith (Older Billy) and new ensemble members Matthew Dale, David Muscat, Nic Greenshields, Ruri James and Spencer Stafford who join Craig Armstrong, David Bardsley, Paul Basleigh, Dawn Buckland, James Butcher, Spencer Cartwright, Lucinda Collins, Gillian Elisa, Helen French, Sergio Giacomelli, Ian Gareth Jones, Connor McAllister, Steve Paget, Steph Parry and Mike Scott. (more...)

Photo Coverage: Brent Barrett Brings 'Night Songs' to Helsinki Hudson

CLUB HELSINKI in association with SHOWSTOPPERS NY is proud to present some of Broadway's top performers on Sunday nights at seven in a new series called HELSINKI ON BROADWAY. Broadway's Brent Barrett was featured in last night's show and you can check out photos of him in action below! (more...)

Photo Flash: Jordin Sparks & More at SPARKLE Film Screening in NYC

The stars came out last night to attend the screening of SPARKLE at the Tribeca Grand Hotel in New York City. In addition to the film's cast members Jordin Sparks, Tika Sumpter, Carmen Ejogo and Derek Luke, attendees included Academy Award nominated actress Gabourey Sidibe, Memphis' Montego Glover and SMASH's Jaime Cepero. Check out photos from the event below! (more...)

Photo Blast From The Past: David Carroll!

Today, we bring you David Carroll circa 1986. Carroll was nominated for two Tony Awards as Best Actor in a Musical: in 1988 for Chess and again in 1990 for Grand Hotel. Carroll also received three Drama Desk Awards nominations as an Outstanding Actor in a Musical: La bohème (1984), Chess (1988), and Grand Hotel (1990). Carroll passed away from a pulmonary embolism in 1992. (more...)

Photo Flash: Original Hannibal Lecter Brent Barrett Visits SILENCE! The Musical

Brent Barrett, SILENCE! The Musical's original Hannibal Lecter, returned to check out the show this past Saturday, May 19th and reunited with his old friends afterward. See below for a photo of Barrett and the cast! (more...)

Photo Coverage: Peggy Herman's HERMAN ON HERMAN Plays Feinstein's

Peggy Herman released a brand new recording of "Herman on Herman," her tribute to Broadway legend Jerry Herman, at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency, on Sunday May 6. The one-night-only concert featured many of the songs from the show's premiere in May of last year, plus additional material that was added to the project in the intervening months. Check out photos from the concert below! (more...)

Photo Flash: Opening Night of Drury Lane's HAIRSPRAY!

HAIRSPRAY, the Tony Award-winning musical, is presented at Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, opening April 19 and running through June 17, 2012. (more...)

Photo Flash: Drury Lane's HAIRSPRAY Plays in Chicago

HAIRSPRAY, the Tony Award-winning musical, opens tonight at Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, and runs through June 17, 2012. Check out production photos of the cast below! (more...)

Photo Coverage: Whoopi Goldberg et al. Attend Liliane Montevecchi at Feinstein's at Loews Regency

Whoopi Goldberg, Arlene Dahl, Mario Buatta and more made an appearance at Liliane Montevecchi's performance at Feinstein's at Loews Regency last night, April 9. Best known for her Tony Award-winning role in Tommy Tune's NINE and in GRAND HOTEL, Montevecchi's career spans four decades. (more...)

Photo Coverage: Inside the BROADWAY BEARS XV Grand Finale!

The 15th and grand finale edition of THE BROADWAY BEARS, the annual auction of handmade, one-of-a-kind, theatrically costumed teddy bears, raised a record-setting $198,300 on Sunday, benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Broadway lovers and teddy bear collectors came together yesterday, March 18 at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill (237 West 42nd Street) for one last time to bid on - and bid adieu to - museum-quality bears representing legendary theatrical characters and autographed by the stars who made those characters famous. The cumulative fundraising total for the 15 editions of THE BROADWAY BEARS auctions is a remarkable $2,048,427. The previous fund-raising record was $170,000 set in 2002. (more...)

Photo Blast From The Past: Karen Akers

Welcome to BroadwayWorld.com's newest photo series 'Photo Blast From the Past'. Featuring some of the collected theatre gem's of BroadwayWorld's own senior photographer Walter McBride, the series will feature images from his archives of theatre and Hollywood related gems. Today, we bring you Karen Akers, who starred on Broadway in the original productions of Grand Hotel and Nine. Check her out in 1984 below! (more...)

Photo Coverage: Emery, Bevan and Walmsley Join Cast of BILLY ELLIOT

On 14 November 2011 Gillian Bevan (Mrs Wilkinson) and Deka Walmsley (Dad) will join the West End production of Billy Elliot the Musical along with Ann Emery who returns to the cast to play Grandma, the role she originated on stage at the Victoria Palace in 2005 and played until 2010. They will be joined by new principal cast members Michael Peavoy (Tony), Sean Kearns (George) and Simon Ray Harvey (Mr. Braithwaite). (more...)

Photo Flash: Carol Channing & More At Palm Springs EMMY Night Party

Veterans of the Great White Way, such as Kaye Ballard, as well as new comers to the boards of Broadway like Alison Arngrim, joined legend Carol Channing for a Palm Springs EMMY night party with a New York theatrical twist, featuring performances by Tony nominated Jonelle Allen (Two Gentlemen of Verona) singing 'Stormy Weather' and Kamilah Marshall's (Hairspray & Rent) moving rendition of 'Orange Colored Sky,' while Rex Smith (The Scarlet Pimpernel, Grand Hotel & Pirates of Penzance) offered 'This Is The Moment' and Davis Gaines (The Phantom of the Opera & Camelot) revived his role of Cornelius Hackle opposite Ms. Channing by singing 'It Only Takes A Moment,' as well as the still powerful voice of former Vegas and Playboy Club headliner, Barbara Van Orden, whose return to the stage gave patrons a bold and bawdy rendition of Chicago's 'When You're Good To Mama.' (more...)