BWW Review: SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD By TAMK Musical Students
by Rosanna Liuski - Mar 3, 2022
I got invited to the TAMK's musical students' premiere of Song For a New World. It's been directed by a leading musical actor Petrus Kähkönen who now took the job of a director. He had a challenge of arranging a show that was originally performed by four people in a form of a concert now into a musical for 15 performers. He did well. Let's dig into the review:
Teatro San Diego Announces SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD Cast
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 18, 2021
Teatro San Diego has announced casting for their inaugural production of Songs For A New World. Music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, original orchestration by Brian Besterman & Jason Robert Brown.
BWW Review: SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD at Gloucester Stage
by Nancy Grossman - Aug 13, 2016
There's good news and bad news in the Gloucester Stage production of Jason Robert Brown's SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD. The inspiring song cycle from 1995 shows the composer's promise that has been fulfilled, as evidenced by his three Tony Awards, and there is much to enjoy in both the music and lyrics (when you can hear them). The five-member cast features quality vocalists, but they often lose focus while they are busily moving around the stage in Director Robert Walsh's zeal to substitute action for the nonexistent connective libretto.
Macy's 7/4 Features Soundtrack with Rose, Young, Salonga
by BWW News Desk - Jun 18, 2007
Tony Award-winners Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls film, Caroline, or Change), Lea Salonga (Les Miserables, Miss Saigon) and John Lloyd Young (Jersey Boys) - backed by the New York Pops - will perform as part of the Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Celebration in New York City at 9 PM.
Camp Broadway Holds Auditions for Macy's Parade Number
by BWW News Desk - May 30, 2006
Camp Broadway, the award-winning theater arts education company, is auditioning and looking for 600 performance-loving kids, ages 11-14, to perform an original opening number--entitled 'Give me A Drum'--live in the Opening Number of the 80th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade