'Legally Blonde The Musical' Graduates To Broward Center Tuesday Night!November 9, 2009In its first year on Broadway, LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL earned seven 2007 Tony Award nominations, ten 2007 Drama Desk Award Nominations, a 2007 Outer Critics Circle Award and the chorus of the musical was honored by Actors' Equity Association's Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs (ACCA) with the first ever ACCA Award. The musical also ranked in the top ten list of the most requested Ticketmaster 'Arts & Theatre Events' for 2007. LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL received three 2009 Touring Broadway Awards in New York City on May 4, 2009. The show won awards for Best New Musical, Best Production Design and Best Choreography of a Touring Production. The Awards, presented by The Broadway League, honor excellence in Touring Broadway. It is the only such national award.
Lake Worth Playhouse Auditions For Two Upcoming ProductionsNovember 7, 2009Auditions for two upcoming Lake Worth Playhouse productions will be held in the month of November. Auditions for ONCE UPON A HOLIDAY will take place on November 15 at 7:00 p.m. SWING auditions take place on November 30 and December 1 at 7:00 p.m. All audition sessions will be conducted at the Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Avenue in downtown Lake Worth. These are open casting calls. All are invited to audition, and no appointment is necessary.
Kids Komedy Club At Florida Studio TheatreNovember 5, 2009Florida Studio Theatre brings a giggling and guffawing program designed just for kids to the Goldstein Cabaret. The Kids Komedy Club will bring sketch comedy and improvisation written for kids, by kids and rated 'K' for kids of all ages to the stage every Saturday morning beginning November 7.
The Lake Worth Playhouse presents 'Fall In: A Veterans Day Tribute Concert' November 3, 2009The 57th season of the Lake Worth Playhouse opened with the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical OKLAHOMA! (October 9-25, 2009). The next main stage production is Neil Simon's bittersweet comedy BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS (November 20 - December 13, 2009) followed by Broadway dance sensation SWING (January 22 - February 7, 2010), Agatha Christie's THE MOUSETRAP (March 5-21, 2010) and Andrew Lloyd Webber's JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT (April 16 - May 2, 2010).
Assume Crash Positions For 'Boeing-Boeing' At Florida RepNovember 1, 2009All Florida Rep regulars, Powers has appeared in Doubt, The Glass Menagerie and the Rep's nationally acclaimed, Dancing at Lughnasa, while Gibson appeared in Almost Maine and, most recently, opposite Powers in Born Yesterday. Both Lomax and Phillips are back onstage at the Rep after having previously appeared together as featured dancers in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
'Legally Blonde The Musical' Graduates To Broward Center October 29, 2009In its first year on Broadway, LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL earned seven 2007 Tony Award nominations, ten 2007 Drama Desk Award Nominations, a 2007 Outer Critics Circle Award and the chorus of the musical was honored by Actors' Equity Association's Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs (ACCA) with the first ever ACCA Award. The musical also ranked in the top ten list of the most requested Ticketmaster 'Arts & Theatre Events' for 2007. LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL received three 2009 Touring Broadway Awards in New York City on May 4, 2009. The show won awards for Best New Musical, Best Production Design and Best Choreography of a Touring Production. The Awards, presented by The Broadway League, honor excellence in Touring Broadway. It is the only such national award.
Murder With A Smile - 'The Walworth Farce' Visits The ArshtOctober 29, 2009THE WALWORTH FARCE was written by Enda Walsh, one of Ireland's hottest young playwrights, and is a commission of the renowned Druid Theater Company. One of the most innovative and thrilling playwrights of his generation and Edinburgh Fringe First Winner (2007 and 2008), Enda Walsh is internationally celebrated for his exhilarating wordplay and the visceral power of his stories. His newest play The New Electric Ballroom, also presented by Druid, has enjoyed similar global success and is on tour this autumn in Ireland and the US.
'The Color Purple' - Hallelujah! I Loved ItOctober 28, 2009Based on Ms. Walker's novel and the masterful Steven Spielberg film, 'The Color Purple' has been turned into a glorious musical that will likely have anyone cheering near the beginning and crying and cheering at the end. Certainly not a musical designed for children, the heart of the story is Celie's separation from her sister Nettie and the brutality Celie suffers from her forced husband known as Mister
'The Color Purple' - An Oprah Musical Comes To Arsht CenterOctober 27, 2009Oprah Winfrey, Scott Sanders and the producing team of the Broadway smash hit THE COLOR PURPLE, The Musical about Love, are proud to announce that Mia mi will host the first North American touring production of THE COLOR PURPLE from Tuesday, October 27-Sunday, November 1 at the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House in the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
'Bubbling Brown Sugar' Sizzles At Broward Stage Door TheatreOctober 25, 2009Stage Door producers Derelle Bunn and David Torres brought in Mark Goodman, a Broadway orchestrator who had worked on such shows as 'Zorro' with Anthony Quinn, 'Mame' with Juliet Prowse, and 'Woman of the Year' with Lauren Bacall to recreate the orchestrations and write out the books for the musical parts. Meanwhile, director Dan Kelley painstakingly transcribed lyrics from old recordings.
Prelude By Barton G. - Despite Warehouse Fire - Arsht Restaurant Opens Tonight!October 23, 2009Events impresario/restaurateur Barton G. Weiss brings his signature style to downtown Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (www.arshtcenter.org) with PRELUDE BY BARTON G. (www.preludebybartong.com). Opening to the general public on October 23, 2009, PRELUDE BY BARTON G. will give arts patrons, locals and tourists alike the opportunity to dine in style in the heart of Miami's cultural hub. The restaurant will be open for business six days a week.
David Mamet's Sexual Perversity In ChicagoOctober 18, 2009The Alliance Theatre Lab is proud to announce its latest production, the David Mamet contemporary classic Sexual Perversity in Chicago, opening November 5, 2009, and running through November 22, 2009.
Prelude By Barton G. - Fine Dining With Your Theater At Arsht CenterOctober 15, 2009Events impresario/restaurateur Barton G. Weiss brings his signature style to downtown Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts (www.arshtcenter.org) with PRELUDE BY BARTON G. (www.preludebybartong.com). Opening to the general public on October 23, 2009, PRELUDE BY BARTON G. will give arts patrons, locals and tourists alike the opportunity to dine in style in the heart of Miami's cultural hub. The restaurant will be open for business six days a week.
Kander & Ebb's 'Flora The Red Menace' At Rising Action TheatreOctober 9, 2009From Kander and Ebb, the composers of Cabaret, Chicago and New York, New York comes their first seldom seen collaboration; Flora the Red Menace. It starred a young Liza Minelli and earned her her first Tony Award for best actress at the age of 17 in 1965.
Topol in 'Fiddler' - A Goose Bump Inducing Musical MiracleOctober 7, 2009Thank the theatrical Gods that this production is a recreation of the Jerome Robbins original. I can not think of any production of any musical anywhere that comes close to what Mr. Robbins accomplished here around forty five years ago. I shall not be presumptuous and foolish and pick apart any individual pieces of 'Fiddler.' It was established decades ago by writers greater than I that Robbins' staging of 'Fiddler' was groundbreaking and established a new form of musical theater. Robbins' staging is indeed amazing.
Topol In 'Fiddler On The Roof' Masterpiece Opens TonightOctober 6, 2009Revisiting one of the great performances in the history of modern American musical theater, local theater devotees will have the opportunity to once again experience the brilliant TOPOL as he performs his Oscar-nominated role of Tevye in his farewell tour of the multi Tony Award-winning Broadway musical FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Playing Tuesday, October 6 through Sunday, October 18, FIDDLER marks the opening show of the Broadway Across America-Ft. Lauderdale 2009-2010 season which will present six-major musical productions presented by Florida Theatrical Association at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
Currently spending his time between New York and Florida, Beau was born to a theatrical family in Brooklyn. He studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and at HB Studios. He studied theater singing with Julia Sperratore and Helen Gallagher. Beau later taught drama at the Lincoln Center Square for the Arts. It was at this time Beau began working with the Theater Development Fund and helped found New York's famed HALF PRICE TICKET BOOTH. Early in his career, Beau was screen tested and contracted for Warner Brothers. He co-hosted, an early cable variety series on Manhattan's Teleprompter channel. At this time he directed the Johnny Specca musical, SEX IS..? at the Lincoln Center Library Theater. Beau has performed Off-Broadway in FAT FELL DOWN, The Comic Strip Theater's LITTLE LULU AND THE INVISIBLE INK and WILL THE REAL ZOOPERMAN PLEASE STAND UP. Around the country he has delighted audiences with his performances in ANYTHING GOES, THE APPLE TREE, GUYS & DOLLS, and HELLZAPOPPIN! He sang for New York audiences at such cabarets as The Duplex and Upstairs at the Downstairs. He has had numerous television appearances but is most proud to have been a winning contestant on the game shows JACKPOT and THE $20,000 PYRAMID.