The Off-Broadway company of the new musical Once gathers Jan. 17 to record a cast album of the unique ensemble-driven show based on the hit indie film.
Today in 1964, Hello, Dolly! opened at the St. James Theatre, where it ran for 2844 performances. The show features lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955.
In celebration of this day, we bring you Carol Channing's performance of 'Before the Parade Passes By' at the 1964 Tony Awards. Click below to check it out!
Following a sensational sell-out season at The Courtyard Theatre, the RSC's production of MATILDA THE MUSICAL transferred to London's West End and opened November 24 to tremendous critical acclaim, and according to Whatsonstage, plans will soon be made concerning bringing the new musical to Broadway.
Texas' Alley Theatre is currently presenting a revised version of The Toxic Avenger starring Tony nominee Constantine Maroulis, and featuring several new songs and revised book by the Tony Award-winning creative team of Memphis, Bon Jovi founding member and keyboardist David Bryan and Joe DiPietro. John Rando (Tony Winner for Urinetown) returns to the Alley to reinvent his hilarious 2009 Off-Broadway staging of The Toxic Avenger, and according to an interview with chron.com, he's hoping to squeeze the new version of the show into the 2012 Broadway season before the deadline for this year's Tony Awards.
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning Passion, the musical of romantic obsession, will return to New York City in 2013 in the intimate setting of Classic Stage Company's 199-seat home in the East Village, the not-for-profit company...
http://www.playbill.com/video Theatre legends and lifelong friends Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin reunite for the first time on a Broadway stage since their...
Tony winner John Doyle (Sweeney Todd, Company) will direct a revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony-winning musical Passion at off-Broadway's Classic ...
Playbill kicks off its first-ever "Broadway Belt-Off Challenge," pitting the casts of Anything Goes and Mamma Mia! against each other in a vocal duel hosted by Lance Bass. Playbill posed the following challenge to both Wendy Bobbitt Cavett, music director of Mamma Mia!, and James Lowe, music director of Anything Goes: Create an entirely new, a cappella arrangement of songs from your score and enlist the help of your cast to show off the music in an innovative and exciting way. The team with the most votes will be crowned the winner of the first round of the "Broadway Belt-Off Challenge" and will go on to compete with the winner of Round Two.
Please note that this list reflects selections of new cast albums submitted for review in the calendar year 2011. Here we go, not ranked in order of preference, but in alphabetical order.
A one-night only concert reading presentation of the parody Twilight: The Musical is being presented by Ulmer Theatricals, Moxyrah Productions, and Dreamcatcher Entertainment, January 16th, 2012 at 8pm to benefit the national charity organization Blessings in a Backpack. BroadwayWorld.com got an exclusive sneak peek at the show's dress rehearsal today.
Broadway’s landmark musical event THE LION KING welcomes PATRICK R. Brown as Scar, beginning performances Monday, January 16. Making his Broadway debut, Brown previously played the role of Scar in the Singapore production of THE LION KING.
Oscar-winning Hollywood legend Liza Minnelli has signed up to appear at a major charity gala in London on 29 April 2012 to celebrate the work of legendary songwriters Kander & Ebb.
After we broke the news on Saturday that the Les Miserables original cast are currently locked in a row regarding royalty payments on their recording, actors' union Equity have responded to First Night Records' accusation that the original contract was "silly"
The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (The Rep) opened Sunday in the Park with George, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, on the Browning Mainstage of the Loretto-Hilton Center for the Performing Arts on January 4.
http://www.playbill.com/video With a book by James Goldman, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and directed by Chicago Shakespeare Theatre's associate arti...
Kristin Chenoweth demonstrating her various vocal exercises (I favorited a @YouTube video http://t.co/VdGKAiRj Kristin Chenoweth - vocal exercises...)...
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning Passion, the musical of romantic obsession, will return to New York City in 2013 in the intimate setting of Classic Stage Company's 199-seat home in the East Village, the not-for-profit company...
Negotiations are underway to bring members of the creative team of an acclaimed outdoor London staging of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Into the Woods to New York City to mount the musical at the Delacorte Theater this summer, a London...
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