The Guild Opera Company to Stage RIGOLETTO
On March 18th and 20th, Guild Opera Company tells the tragic story of sacrifice, jealousy and vengeance. Giuseppe Verdi’s ground-breaking three act opera Rigoletto is a wonderment of famous arias, duets and ensembles. It features “La donna è mobile” “Caro nome” and Rigoletto’s heartbreaking “Cortigiani.”
Throwing Out My CDs by Ben Rimalower: INTO THE WOODS
Well, my little piggies and wolves, the next CDs I'm eliminating from my apartment are all the recordings of all the versions of Into The Woods. I'm talking London cast, movie version, Broadway revival and ouch, the one that's gonna leave a gaping hole in my heart, that beautiful Original Broadway Cast Recording starring Joanna Gleason, Chip Zien, Tom Aldredge, Robert Westenberg and above them all as the Witch (receiving the deal-breaking top billing the producers previously refused Patti LuPone when they offered her the role) Bernadette Peters.
BWW Interviews: Angela Lansbury
La legendaria actriz, famosa por el papel de Mrs Lovett en Sweeney Todd, entre otros roles dentro de los musicales de Stephen Sondheim, nos habla de su trabajo con el compositor y sobre su vida en el teatro.
SPOTLIGHT ON NY POPS: Angela Lansbury Talks Sondheim, GLEE & More
Legends aren't born, or merely made - they are created; and, so very, very carefully crafted. In equal parts due to her incomparable stage work creating roles in musicals by Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman, to her film work encompassing John Frankenheimer and Vincente Minnelli, to name but two, as well as a smash-hit television series - MURDER SHE WROTE - and hosting duties at various Tony Awards and Academy Awards broadcasts over the last half century, have certainly cemented her place in our hearts, minds and entertainment history itself - I am speaking, of course, of the simply exquisite Ms. Angela Lansbury. In this enlightening discussion conducted yesterday we dissect many of her most treasured roles and performances, and Ms. Lansbury provides many warm and wonderful recollections of her astonishingly varied and accomplished tenure onstage and onscreen over the course of her sixty-year-plus career. ANYONE CAN WHISTLE to SWEENEY TODD; MAME to GYPSY; BEDKNOBS AND BROOM STICKS to SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE to the forthcoming MR. POPPER‘S PENGUINS co-starring Jim Carrey - plus, acting with Bette Davis in DEATH ON THE NILE - and much, much more in this special interview! This is all coming in anticipation of Ms. Lansbury's tribute to Bob Hope at the NY Pops gala on May 2, which will also feature performances by Kelli O'Hara and more - whom we continue our SPOTLIGHT ON NY POPS series with later next week. Don't miss them! Further information about the NY POPS event - including tickets - is available here.