Photo Coverage: Inside Opening Night of BENNY AND JOON, Starring Bryce Pinkham, Hannah Elless, and More at Paper Mill Playhouse
Paper Mill Playhouse presents the East Coast premiere of Benny & Joon with book by Kirsten Guenther, music by Nolan Gasser, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein, based on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture written by Barry Berman and Leslie McNeil. Benny & Joon began performances Thursday, April 4, 2019, and will continue through Sunday, May 5, 2019, at Paper Mill Playhouse (22 Brookside Drive, Millburn, NJ). Benny & Joon is presented by special arrangement with Larry Hirschhorn.
Honeck-Moss Productions Announces IN THE WORKS at The Duplex Cabaret
Honeck-Moss Productions is proud to present "In The Works." This exciting series is in it's second season was conceived as an opportunity for composers to try out new work in front of an audience and see how it plays in a supportive environment. It is also an opportunity to create community among the composers and their performers.
Oklahoma City University's New York City Alumni Chapter to Host AN EVENING WITH THE STARS Benefit Cabaret
Oklahoma City University has amassed an immense pool of Broadway talent, currently represented this season in Allegiance (Manna Nichols, Belinda Allyn), On Your Feet (Jennifer Sanchez), Shuffle Along (Richard Riaz Yoder), Les Miserables (Matt McMahan), Matilda (Lauralyn McClelland), among others. These artists, along with other OCU alumni & friends, will be performing in AN EVENING WITH THE STARS, a cabaret benefiting OCUNYC (OCU's New York City alumni chapter), Monday, January 25th at 9:00pm.
Carson Kressley Stars in DAMN YANKEES at Ogunquit Playhouse, 7/25-8/18
The devilishly sexy Damn Yankees (the new Boston Red Sox version) is on stage at the Ogunquit Playhouse from July 25 - August 18. A bewitching seductress, America's favorite pastime and Satan himself mix it up in this popular Adler and Ross musical comedy starring Carson Kressley (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy) as Applegate-one stylishly sassy devil!
Musicals Tonight! to Revive All American at The Lion Theatre, 10/25-11/6
Only Charles Strouse and Mel Brooks can mix Physics and Football and get musical comedy. Their 1961 show All American takes place at a college known more for its football team than its Physics Department but Dean Hawkes-Bullock (Kate Marilley) changes all that by hiring Professor Fodorski (Matt Wilson) from Vienna.
Musicals Tonight! to Revive All American at The Lion Theatre, 10/25-11/6
Only Charles Strouse and Mel Brooks can mix Physics and Football and get musical comedy. Their 1961 show All American takes place at a college known more for its football team than its Physics Department but Dean Hawkes-Bullock (Kate Marilley) changes all that by hiring Professor Fodorski (Matt Wilson) from Vienna.
Philip Morgaman To Present REUNITED At Studio Theatre 9/8
Philip Morgaman (Tony-nominated producer for Cry-Baby) will present and direct a by-invitation-only reading of ReUNITed, a new comedy by Vance Stringer, starring Stephanie Gibson (currently seen on Broadway in The Addams Family) and Sam Prince (Girl Crazy at Encores!) as former flames that are 'reunited' at a Manhattan Mini Storage unit following a bitter break-up two years prior.
TV: Robin and the 7 Hoods at the Old Globe!
The World Premiere of Robin and the 7 Hoods - A New Musical featuring a book by Tony Award winner Rupert Holmes and songs by four-time Academy Award winners Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen. Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, with musical supervision and vocal and incidental arrangements by John McDaniel, the Broadway-bound musical comedy will run in the Old Globe Theatre through August 29. For more information, visit www.TheOldGlobe.org.
RIALTO CHATTER: Cahn Widow Determined to Bring ROBIN AND THE 7 HOODS to Broadway
Michael Riedel reports in the New York Post this morning that make no mistake about it - Robin and the 7 Hoods, which opened at San Deigo's Old Globe Theatre last Friday, July 30, is coming to town, at least if the widow of the show's lyricist has anything to do with it. Robin and the 7 Hoods, which garnered lukewarm reviews out west, features the music of Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen, including the songs 'My Kind of Town,' 'Call Me Irresponsible,' 'Ain't That a Kick in the Head,' 'All the Way' and more. Cahn was Frank Sinatra's preferred lyricist and member of the famed 'Rat Pack.'