Andrew Lloyd Webber News

The 5th Avenue Theatre announces new dates for two of its 2007-2008 season musicals.

After talking with this 'gentleman' from Texas you soon find out his plate has been full of wonderful entertainment experiences and he's no where ready to slow up yet.

'The greatest story ever set to music' or 'a rock musical about a man persecuted for his deeds', Jesus Christ Superstar will always be known as one of Webber & Rice's best works!

Acclaimed singer/songwriter Tori Amos, who recently released the album American Doll Posse, recently said that she has been writing a musical.

The Storefront recently announced a return engagement of MAC, Bistro, and Presidential Medallion Award-winning playwright Phil Geoffrey Bond's My Friend, The Cat, which will enjoy two 8PM performances on Fridays, May 11th and 25th at The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

After last weeks' formulated drama, there were nerves all round as Andrew Lloyd Webber and his team continued to search for a leading man to star in the new West End production of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Australian-born actor/singer Andrew Bevis will play the title role of Martin Guerre in Craig Revel-Horwood's re-invention of the Boublil and Schonberg musical at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury from July 11 to September 1. Having begun his career as a musician and musical director, Bevis first gained attention down under as a musical theatre performer when he was cast in a revival of 'Hello Dolly', playing alongside Warren Mitchell and the grande dame of Australian musical theatre, Jill Perryman. In the West End he played star-crossed lover Romeo in the ill-fated Gerard Presgurvic/Don Black musical 'Romeo and Juliet', Marius in 'Les Miserables' and wowed audiences as the 'chick with a dick' in 'Jerry Springer, the Opera'.

Super Summer Theatre announced its 32nd annual lineup of shows under the stars featuring Ragtime, 110 in the Shade, Jesus Christ Superstar, the Jazz Festival featuring the Las Vegas Jazz Society and Johnny Guitar

Toronto's Encore Entertainment presents a minimalist staging of Willy Russell's popular musical. * * * * 1/2 (OUT OF 5)

On July 18th, a revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - produced by Webber - will open in the West End. Starring in the musical will be the performer who wins 'Any Dream Will Do,' a new BBC One reality talent search that began airing on March 31st. Glenn Meads presents a new series of 'Any Dream Will Do' recaps as the show gets closer to filling out its 'Dreamcoat' with one lucky triple threat...

Anthony Warlow and Ana Marina will headline the cast of the upcoming Australian production of The Phantom of the Opera, which will open at the Princess Theatre in Melbourne on July 19th.

Beginning Monday, April 30, Gary Mauer will step into the title role of The Phantom of the Opera- the longest-running show in Broadway history - for three weeks at The Majestic Theatre

At the opening night of his current show at Feinstein's at the Regency, Donny Osmond announced that he will return as Gaston for the final performance of Beauty and the Beast on Sunday, July 29th.

Christiane Noll and Michael Minarik, co-stars of the Urinetown National Tour, will reunite in a by-invitation only reading of the new musical Ethan Frome: An American Romance on Sunday, May 6.

The West Bank Café announces upcoming performances to be presented in The Laurie Beechman Theatre. The West Bank Café is located at 407 West 42nd. St., at Ninth Avenue.

With a recent interview in the UK's Glamour, Scarlett Johansson continues to attach her name to the upcoming Lincoln Center revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic South Pacific

Brian Charles Rooney, who made his Broadway debut last season as the fabled 'Lucy Brown' in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of The Threepenny Opera, will perform his first New York solo show on April 30

The Storefront will present a return engagement of My Friend, The Cat, described as 'Phil Geoffrey Bond's tale of the blessings we receive from the four-legged friends who grace our lives.'

Producers of the upcoming London revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat are searching for Elvis impersonators to play the role of Pharaoh in the show.

Never has a political mockery been more in need than in these turbulent, and let's face it, horrendously tragic times. And when the Commander-in-Chief is a 'smirking chimp' with a weaker grasp of the English language than a fifth grader, there is no better way to stick it to the man than with a sharp-witted musical. Strike up the spin...