URBAN STAGES WINTER RHYTHMS Returns In December
New York's Urban Stages has announced the 16th annual awarding-winning cabaret series, Winter Rhythms, with performances from Wednesday, December 4th through Sunday, December 15th. This celebrated series will benefit Urban Stages' Outreach, Arts in Education programs.
COME FROM AWAY Comes To Alaska Center for the Performing Arts This Fall
COME FROM AWAY, the Tony & Olivier Award-winning musical, is now on sale and the tour cast has been announced. Tickets are available at www.CenterTix.com and www.BroadwayAlaska.com. The touring production will begin performances in Anchorage, AK on November 29, featuring a talented cast including Danny Arnold, Kathleen Cameron, Trey DeLuna, and more.
Full Cast Revealed for COME FROM AWAY 2023-24 Tour
Get the latest scoop on the upcoming Come From Away 2023-24 tour, including the unveiling of the talented cast, tour dates, and locations. Find out when and where you can catch this heartwarming musical phenomenon that has touched audiences around the world.
Review: THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY: The Legend and the Legacy Live in MSMT's New Production
There are certain moments of history that become emblazoned in our collective human psyches. Fans of American popular music all remember with a searing certainty the day when Charles Hardin Holley was killed in a plane crash at age twenty-two, his pioneering meteoric rock ‘n’ roll career brought to a tragic end. But if Feb 3,1959, was “the day the music died “ - as Don McLean wrote - MSMT’s Buddy Holly STORY turns that trope on its head. The new production, staged by Angela C. Howell makes clear that the legacy of Buddy Holly lives, and if MSMT’s production of the jukebox musical about Holly’s legend and his legacy rocks the Pickard Theater to the rafters with its visceral musical energy, it also speaks volumes about the warmth and heart of the Holly story.
Interview: A Conversation with BUDDY HOLLY's Andrew Harvey and Jayson Elliott
“To do this show, you’ve got to have a bag of tricks. Everybody in the cast has to be multi-instrumentalists, as well as actors and singers.” Actor Jayson Elliott is talking about the complexities of performing THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY, which MSMT will present on its main stage beginning June 28. Elliot is reprising his role of J.P. Richardson, known as “The Big Bopper,” and he and MSMT newcomer, Andrew Harvey, who essays the title role, are discussing the intricacies and appeal of this juke box musical and its inspiration, rock and roll legend, Buddy Holly.
Harvey and Elliott have worked together before on this show with director Angela C. Howell at Tuacahn Amphitheatre in Utah, and both actors have considerable experience with their roles. Elliott says he has played The Big Bopper some twenty times; Harvey has four productions under his belt, and they both note that the MSMT cast of eighteen can cumulatively claim to have performed in some one hundred productions. Harvey says, “ I have worked with quite a few of these people before, and I am enjoying being together again. They are all insanely talented musicians – which you have to be in this kind of juke box musical.”
Review: BUDDY - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY at Washington Pavilion
The touring company BUDDY - THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY is flush with musical talent. Every performer is an actor and a musician. We are introduced to a 19 year old Buddy Holly and his bandmates/friends as they start to introduce their 'own kind of music' which happens to be rock and roll, on a country radio station program in Lubbock, Texas. Therein lies the first big conflict of the Buddy Holly Story to overcome.