Photo Flash: Bob Fosse Featured on New Postage Stamp!
by Nicole Rosky
- Jul 30, 2012
On July 28, 2012 - National Dance Day - the U.S. Postal Service® paid tribute to four influential choreographers who changed the art of dance: Isadora Duncan, Jose Limon, Katherine Dunham, and Bob Fosse. Designed to look like posters advertising a performance, the stamp art captures the luminosity and mystery of a live dance performance.
Check out the new Fosse stamp below!
Suzanne Carrico & Joi Danielle Price Perform GREAT EXPECTATIONS at the Metropolitan Room Tonight, 7/29
by BWW News Desk
- Jul 29, 2012
When award-winning cabaret singer Suzanne Carrico & Broadway actress Joi Danielle Price both found themselves "in the family way," they did the only thing they could. They decided to spend their summer with GREAT EXPECTATIONS, for three every Sunday, beginning tonight, July 29 and continuing August 5 and 12, at Metropolitan Room. They will be accompanied on this musical journey through nine months of waiting, not by a midwife, but by Musical Director, Don Rebic, with Special Guest, Tracy Stark on the piano on August 5th and 12th.
Bob Fosse, Katherine Dunham Postage Stamps Released 7/28
by Nicole Rosky
- Jul 27, 2012
On July 28, 2012 - National Dance Day - the U.S. Postal Service® will pay tribute to four influential choreographers who changed the art of dance: Isadora Duncan, Jose Limon, Katherine Dunham, and Bob Fosse. Designed to look like posters advertising a performance, the stamp art captures the luminosity and mystery of a live dance performance.
The stamp design for Isadora Duncan reflects her interest in classical Greek dance forms and shows the seemingly effortless style that she developed. Radical for its time, her linking of movement and expressiveness garnered her worldwide critical acclaim.
Carolyn Kirsch Directs and Stars in Newington Mainstage's DRIVING MISS DAISY, 9/14-16
by BWW News Desk
- Jul 26, 2012
Driving Miss Daisy, one of modern American theatre's most touching and irresistible stories, will kick off Newington Mainstage's second season September 14-16 at its brand new home at the Newington Town Hall. Directed by and starring Broadway veteran Carolyn Kirsch, this Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winning comedy-drama is sure to warm your heart with its message of friendship, understanding and hope.
Photo Flash: Sneak Peek at Spencer Kiely, Bernard Dotson & More in ReVision Theatre's PIPPIN, Opening Tonight
by BWW News Desk
- Jul 26, 2012
ReVision Theatre Presents PIPPIN, with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Roger O. Hirson and Bob Fosse (uncredited) and directed by Bob Angelini with choreography by Mark Moreau, musical direction by Andrew Hertz and casting by Erin Brautigan. The show features Brett Colby, Bernard Dotson, Spiro Galiatsatos, Spencer Kiely, Jeanne Montano, Katherine Pecevich, and Hannah Shankman at Theatre at St. George, 700 Grand Ave, Asbury Park, NJ. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the cast below.
ReVision Theatre Presents PIPPIN, Now thru Aug 12
by BWW News Desk
- Jul 26, 2012
Not seen on Broadway since its five year run in the 1970's; a workshop production just announced at American Repertory Theater with buzz of Broadway producers closely watching - Revision Theatre presents a revival of Pippin starting tonight, July 26, 2012.
Peter Mac's LIZA, JUDY GARLAND LIVE Now Playing at Supper Club Theater
by Caryn Robbins
- Jul 25, 2012
Peter Mac, tribute artist performs as: Liza Minnelli every Thursday & Friday nights at 8pm and Judy Garland every Saturday at 8pm and Sunday nights at 6pm at the Peter Mac's Supper Club Theater located inside The French Market Restaurant in West Hollywood, CA.
Geri Jewell Visits Peter Mac's LIZA: LIVE IN CONCERT
by Caryn Robbins
- Jul 24, 2012
Actress & Author, Geri Jewell was at last weeks opening night performance of Peter Mac as Liza Minnelli in LIZA: LIVE IN CONCERT. Jewell is best known for her character Cousin Geri on 'The Facts of Life'.
10 Top Stage Actors Selected for Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program with Joel Grey
by BWW News Desk
- Jul 22, 2012
Ten Chimneys Foundation has announced the ten actors who will participate in the 2012 Lunt- Fontanne Fellowship Program, a widely acclaimed national program to serve the future of American theatre. Today, July 22-July 29, the Lunt-Fontanne Fellows will join Broadway legend Joel Grey for an intensive, weeklong master class and immersion experience at Ten Chimneys, the National Historic Landmark estate of Broadway legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in Genesee Depot, Wisconsin.
InDepth InterView: Patricia Kelly Discusses GENE KELLY @ 100, Lincoln Center Shows, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN HD & More
by Pat Cerasaro
- Jul 20, 2012
Today we are talking to Patricia Kelly, the widow of one of the most iconic and influential performers in entertainment history, Gene Kelly, all about her husband's incomparable career on Broadway and in Hollywood, in honor of his centennial. Tracing Gene Kelly's journey from his theatre roots starring in Cole Porter's LEAVE IT TO ME!, Rodgers & Hart's PAL JOEY and William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE on Broadway to his unforgettable screen appearances in many of the greatest movie musicals ever made - COVER GIRL, SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, THE PIRATE, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS and many more included - Mrs. Kelly gives us a look into the life of one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. In addition to behind-the-scenes stories involving Kelly's frequent collaborators - such as esteemed director Vincente Minnelli, songwriter and producer Arthur Freed, arranger Saul Chaplin and others - Mrs. Kelly also shares candid anecdotes involving her husband's involvement with directing Rodgers & Hammerstein's FLOWER DRUM SONG on Broadway, helming the feature film adaptation of HELLO, DOLLY! starring Barbra Streisand, as well as his appearing in two idiosyncratic movie musicals later in his life, LES DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT (THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT) for Jacques Demy, as well as his au revoir to movie musicals in form of the Olivia Newton-John roller disco starrer XANADU. Additionally, Mrs. Kelly fills us in on all the details about this weekend's two-night Gene Kelly retrospective celebration, which she leads and narrates, as part of GENE KELLY @ 100 and her future plans for the multimedia presentation - each evening titled AN EVENING OF GENE KELLY and CHANGING THE LOOK OF DANCE ON FILM, respective - as she begins to tour the show across the country. Plus, reflections on SINGIN' IN THE RAIN's 60th anniversary and the recent Fathom HD premiere presentation in theaters, the impact of Kelly's work behind the camera, his choreographic legacy, what a legend is like at home, memories of attending the opening night of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (starring HELLO, DOLLY! lead Michael Crawford), what the master would say about GLEE, SMASH, BUNHEADS and today's movie musical renaissance, as well as much, much more!
Peter Mac's Liza Minnelli Comes to the French Market, Beg. Tonight, 7/19
by BWW News Desk
- Jul 19, 2012
Start spreading the news…because Liza Minnelli is making her debut at Peter Mac's Supper club inside the French Market. The show stars critically acclaimed and renowned Tribute Artist, Peter Mac. Mac is best known for his loving and sympathetic portrayal of Minnelli's "Mama", Judy Garland. This time Mac is taking over the role the lady who Fred Astaire once dubbed as "Hollywood's Crown Princess".
Washington Crossing Open Air Theatre Opens CHICAGO, 7/20
by Kelsey Denette
- Jul 17, 2012
The longest running American musical in Broadway history, Chicago, comes to the Washington Crossing Open Air Theatre for two weekends. Set for six performances, Chicago will be performed on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 from July 20 through July 29, 2012.
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