'SPRING AWAKENING' Cast To Visit Good Morning America 12/30
Tuesday, December 23, 2008; Posted: 12:12 PM - by BWW News Desk
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 Cast members from the Tony © Award- winning Best Musical Spring Awakening, including Hunter Parrish, Alexandra Socha, Gerard Canonico, Matt Doyle, Emily Kinney, Zach Reiner-Harris, Morgan Karr, Frances Mercanti-Anthony and others will appear on ABC-TV's GOOD MORNING AMERICA on Tuesday, December 30th, as part of the "Warm Coats, Warm Hearts Coat Drive," from their Times Square Studios. The 2nd Annual "Warm Coats and Warm Hearts Drive," sponsored by Burlington Coat Factory, to benefit the nonprofit organization, One Warm Coat, kicked off its 2nd annual drive last month on the popular morning show. Each of the cast members will bring one or more coats and make a donation. (GMA airs 7am-9am weekdays on ABC-TV).
Having just celebrated its second Anniversary on Broadway, this fall also marked the launch of the First National Touring Company of Spring Awakening, which premiered at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, and kicks-off an engagement in Tampa on that same day, December 30. The tour's upcoming schedule also includes Des Moines, St. Louis, Cleveland, Toronto, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC among many other stops and is currently booked through the end of 2009. International productions are set in 2009 for London, Vienna, Toronto, Helsinki, and Seoul.
Spring Awakening broke barriers when it opened off Broadway at the Atlantic Theatre and then subsequently moved to Broadway and its home at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
When Spring Awakening closes on January 18, it will have played 859 performances and 29 previews. Its eight 2007 Tony© Awards, including Best Musical, made Spring Awakening one of the biggest Tony winners in the past decade. In addition to the Tony Award wins, Spring Awakening won four Drama Desk Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, and the NY Drama Critics Award for Best Musical, the Drama League award for Distinguished Production of a Musical, and the 2008 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, among other notable citations.
Spring Awakening's current performance schedule is as follows: Tuesday & Sunday at 7 pm, Wednesday-Saturday at 8 pm, Matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 2pm. For information and tickets, call Telecharge.com at 212 239-6200. The musical is playing at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, 230 West 49th Street.
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SPRING AWAKENING Makes UK Premiere as Part of Lyric's 2009 Spring Season on 1/23
The Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Spring Awakening will receive its UK premiere at London's Lyric Hammersmith, 1/23-2/28 as part the Lyric lineup.The Lyric will also be presenting the Gecko's production of Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat 3/20-4/11, dance piece Hang On, a collaboration of Theatre-Rites and award-winning aerialists Ockham's Razor 4/15-4/25 and finally Deepak Verma's musical adaptation of the classic novel Wuthering Heights re-set in India 4/29-5/23 2009. This fall marked the launch of the First National Touring Company, which premiered at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco and just completed an engagement in Los Angeles at the Ahmanson Theatre.The tour's upcoming schedule includes Tempe, AZ, Chicago, Boston, Tampa, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Washington, DC among many other stops and is currently booked through the end of 2009. International productions are set in 2009 for London, Vienna, Toronto, Helsinki, and Seoul.
'SPRING' Star Hunter Parrish Profiled in NYT Feature
Spring Awakening star Hunter Parrish was featured in the New York Times theater section yesterday, the WEEDS actor gives a brief interview about performing the Broadway show and how the stage continues to inspire him. Parrish has been a wonderful addition to the Great White Way these last number of months, bringing dynamic energy to the production and giving of his time and talents to the entire Broadway community. The Times piece is a great profile on an inspired young actor.
Hennepin Theater Trust Presents RAIN And Stephen Lynch
RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles Presented by Hennepin Theatre Trust will play on 3/22/2009 at 3:00 P.M. and 7:00 P.M. at the Orpheum Theatre
All the music and vocals are performed totally live! RAIN covers the Fab Four from the earliest beginnings through the psychedelic late 60s and their long-haired hippie, hard-rocking rooftop days. RAIN is a multi-media, multi-dimensional experience...a fusion of historical footage and hilarious television commercials from the 1960s lights up video screens and live cameras zoom in for close-ups.
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