Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy on Video - 2013

A new musical, Arnold! Da Schwarzenegger Musical Parody is holding an invited reading in New York on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023, featuring Andy Karl as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Merritt David Janes as Middle Arnold, and Jaxon James as Young Arnold.

AMT Theater will debut the new musical, On The Right Track, with music by Al Tapper and a book by Tony Sportiello; it will be directed by celebrated Mexican director Mauricio Cedeño with music direction by Katie Coleman.

AMT Theater Productions, the new Off Broadway company located in the heart of the theater district, has announced that its first show will be 'On The Right Track', a new musical by Al Tapper and Tony Sportiello, scheduled to open in November of 2022. 

AMT Theater has unveiled the look of its stunning new 99 seat Off Broadway home at 354 West 45th Street, scheduled to open in June of 2022.  AMT plans to use the venue as a launching pad for shows to move on to Broadway, as well as provide a new, permanent home for artists and residents in the theater district. 

Al Tapper, the entrepreneur behind the hit documentaries 'Broadway: The Golden Age' and 'Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy' announced he will be opening a new Off Broadway theater at 354 West 45th Street.

Emmy, Grammy, and six-time-Tony-Award-winning Broadway star, Audra McDonald, will headline the Theatre Under The Stars Gala 2020 at The Omni Houston Hotel on Saturday, March 28 at 6:30pm.

Gypsy, starring Olivier Award-winner Imelda Staunton as Rose, is streaming now through July 31 on Great Performances on PBS.

I must applaud Everyman Theatre's Artistic Director Vince Lancisi for having the brilliant idea of ending its season with two plays by Caleen Sinnette Jennings in repertory: QUEENS GIRL IN THE WORLD and QUEENS GIRL IN AFRICA. What a genius!

The National Pastime has been a fan favorite for movie buffs since the infancy of the two American institutions.  The annual celebration of that connection returns this week in Cooperstown at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum's 13th Annual Film Festival.  Ted Williams: “The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived” headlines the Film Festival, which begins on Friday, Sept. 21.   The film was produced by Al Tapper, composer and lyricist of the Off Broadway hits 'Sessions', 'An Evening at the Carlyle', 'All Aboard!' and 'National Pastime,' the baseball musical which has played all over the world.  Tapper's latest musical 'The Paparazzi', opens in Guadalajara October 19th.  Tapper has also produced the hit documentaries 'Broadway: The Golden Age' and 'Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy'.  'Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy' won the 2013 Peabody Award.

Point Park University's Conservatory of Performing Arts is proud to welcome two new faculty members beginning with the fall semester.

The book and songs for the new musical 'The Paparazzi' are being written in Manhattan but the director, actors and designers who are going to bring it to life are three thousand miles away. Mau Cedeno is currently in Guadalajara, Mexico, directing rehearsals for the brand new show with songs by Al Tapper and book by Tony Sportiello, who reside in New York, Utilizing email and Facebook the collaborators work on the show daily despite being in two separate countries. 'The Paparazzi' is scheduled to open at the Vivien Blumenthal Theatre in Guadalajara this October,

During his remarkable career with the Boston Red Sox, Ted Williams earned many nicknames - The Kid, The Splendid Splinter and Teddy Ballgame, but the only nickname that he wanted was “the greatest hitter who ever lived.” In that pursuit, he combined his preternatural gifts with a fierce work ethic to become widely regarded as one of the greatest ever to play the game of baseball and in the process elevated the science of hitting in ways still emulated today.