Jerry Mitchell to Lend Talents to Phantom Sequel 'LOVE NEVER DIES'by Eddie Varley - March 16, 2009Tony winning Broadway director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell, fresh off the recent news of his joining the creative team of the upcoming Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman musical Catch Me If You Can, will also be bringing his inspired choreography to Andrew Lloyd Webber's sequel to his mega hit The Phantom of the Opera, PHANTOM: Love Never Dies. UK's WhatsOnStage Awards Take Place 2/15, Event Almost Sold Outby BWW News Desk - February 15, 2009The Press notes have announced that James Corden shocked the audience at last year's Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards with a steamy on-stage kiss with Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe - a moment that made headlines around the world. What will happen this Sunday when Gavin & Stacey's Corden and Two Pints of Lager's Sheridan Smith host the 2009 Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards, at the Prince of Wales Theatre? UK's WhatsOnStage Awards Take Place 2/15, Event Almost Sold Outby Eddie Varley - February 9, 2009The Press notes have announced that James Corden shocked the audience at last year's Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards with a steamy on-stage kiss with Harry Potter' star Daniel Radcliffe - a moment that made headlines around the world. What will happen this Sunday when Gavin & Stacey's Corden and Two Pints of Lager's Sheridan Smith host the 2009 Whatsonstage.com Theatregoers' Choice Awards, at the Prince of Wales Theatre? RIALTO CHATTER: Will the PHANTOM 'Sing Once Again' with...Sierra? by Eddie Varley - February 6, 2009Sierra Boggess is currently singing 'Music In The Air' as part of the cast of the new Encores! production, will she soon be singing 'The Music of the Night' in the upcoming sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, 'Love Never Dies'?
If The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye has his facts correct, then she will indeed be portraying the Phantom's true love, Christine Daae, a role she played in the Las Vegas presentation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber mega hit musical. Long & Crowley Among 4 Recipients Of Irene Sharaff Awardsby Gabrielle Sierra - February 4, 2009Legendary designers WILLIAM IVEY LONG and BOB CROWLEY are among the four recipients of the 2009 TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards. Five-time Tony Award winning costume designer William Ivey Long will receive the 2009 TDF/Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award for theatrical costume design, and, for his achievements as both a costume and scenic designer, Bob Crowley (also a five-time Tony Award winner) will receive the TDF/Irene Sharaff Awards' special Robert L. B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in Theatrical Design at a ceremony on Friday, March 27, at the Hudson Theatre in New York City. From Broadway to Beijing, Producers Look to Asia in '09by Eddie Varley - January 5, 2009Newsday and various other news outlets are reporting that 'Fame', the Broadway musical about high school students aspiring to stardom is being prepped by U.S. producers for a Chinese audience, with a full Chinese cast talking, singing and presumably dreaming in Mandarin. West End musicals 2008: The Year of Musical Non-thinkingby Robert Gould - January 4, 2009In a year when new musical theatre productions in London consisted of juke box transfers, classic revivals, whimsical adventure stories and majestic failures, one might be forgiven for thinking that the age of great new musicals exists merely in days of Auld Lang Syne. So let's pause and think back over the year's musical fayre. Lloyd Webber Reveals New Details On PHANTOM: LOVE NEVER DIESby Eddie Varley - December 29, 2008The Times of London has reported some new details regarding PHANTOM: LOVE NEVER DIES, Andrew Lloyd Webber's upcoming sequel to the mega hit musical The Phantom of the Opera. Most interesting so far is that Lloyd Webber hopes is to have a simultaneous premiere of the musical sequel on three continents, a first in the history of the theatre. Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group Launches New Web Siteby BWW News Desk - November 13, 2008Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group is offering theatre lovers the ultimate interactive experience with the launch of a new and improved website. So whether its booking tickets for a West End show or ordering interval drinks it can all now be done at the click of a mouse.
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