Christopher Gattelli News

Disney Theatrical Productions has announced the Broadway cast of Newsies. Joining the previously announced Jeremy Jordan as Jack Kelly are John Dossett (2003 revival of Gypsy) as Joseph Pulitzer, Kara Lindsay (Little House on the Prairie) as Katherine Plumber, Ben Fankhauser (Spring Awakening national tour) as Davey, Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Mary Poppins) as Crutchie, and Lewis Grosso (Mary Poppins), and Matthew Schechter (Elf) alternating the role of Les. Dossett, Lindsay, Fankhauser and Keenan-Bolger will all reprise the roles they created in the Paper Mill Playhouse production last fall. Casting for the role of Medda will be announced shortly.

The 1991 thriller The Silence of the Lambs has just been selected for preservation on the National Film Registry's annual list of 25 "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant films."

Producer Ken Davenport is pleased to launch a new 11-week post-show talkback series at Broadway's hit new revival of Stephen Schwartz's legendary rock musical GODSPELL. The new 'Tuesday Night Talkbacks' series will commence immediately after the 7 p.m. performance on Tuesday, January 17.

Newsies, the new American musical, will move to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre (208 W 41st St) for a strictly limited 101 performance run following its critically-hailed stint at Paper Mill Playhouse earlier this fall.

Goodspeed Musicals will host a developmental production of THE GREAT AMERICAN MOUSICAL, based on the book of the same name by Julie Andrews and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton, late this year.

Producer Ken Davenport is pleased to launch a new 11-week post-show talkback series at Broadway's hit new revival of Stephen Schwartz's legendary rock musical GODSPELL. The new 'Tuesday Night Talkbacks' series will commence immediately after the 7 p.m. performance on Tuesday, January 17.

Though you probably read the news exclusively here on BroadwayWorld.com back on January 4, it's now official - Jeremy Jordan, who created the role of rebellious newsboy leader Jack Kelly in Newsies last fall, will play the role when the show moves to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre March 15th for a strictly limited 101 performance engagement.

SILENCE! The Musical, the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs, with book by Hunter Bell, music & lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan, and direction & choreography by Christopher Gattelli, is set to begin a new winter playing schedule beginning tonight.

The original cast recording of SILENCE! The Musical, starring Brent Barrett and Jenn Harris, is set to be released in stores and through Amazon.com today, January 10th.

The original cast recording of SILENCE! The Musical, starring Brent Barrett and Jenn Harris, is set to be released in stores and through Amazon.com today.

SILENCE! The Musical, the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs, with book by Hunter Bell, music & lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan, and direction & choreography by Christopher Gattelli, opened on July 9, 2011, recently celebrating its 100th performance at The 9th Space Theatre at Performance Space 122, 150 First Avenue (at 9th St.)

The original cast recording of SILENCE! The Musical, starring Brent Barrett and Jenn Harris, is set to be released in stores and through Amazon.com this Tuesday, January 10th.

SILENCE! The Musical, the unauthorized parody of The Silence of the Lambs, with book by Hunter Bell, music & lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan, and direction & choreography by Christopher Gattelli, is set to begin a new winter playing schedule beginning January 12th at The 9th Space Theatre at Performance Space 122, 150 First Avenue (at 9th St.) SILENCE! The Musical opened July 9, 2011 to unanimous rave reviews, led by David Cote of Time Out and New York 1 News who said, "Pungent, punchy and raunchy, with a sheepish chorus to boot, the consummately silly SILENCE! will leave you stuffed and wanting mutton more." The show immediately became a sold-out smash hit and was just selected by Time Magazine as one of the year's Top 10 Plays and Musicals along with such lofty company as The Book of Mormon and War Horse.

As previously announced, Newsies will move to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre for a strictly limited 101 performance run following its critically-hailed run at Paper Mill Playhouse earlier this fall. The musical, featuring a score by eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Sister Act) and Jack Feldman, and a book by four-time Tony Award® winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy), will play its first Broadway preview on March 15th prior to its March 29th opening night; the final performance is scheduled for June 10th. The marquee is up and BroadwayWorld brings you a look at the finished theater exterior below!

David Garrison, Hanibal Lecter in SILENCE! The Musical visited Good Day New York on 12/26.

2012 is quickly approaching, and in celebration of the new year, BroadwayWorld will celebrate 2011 with lists of our biggest features of the year! Below are BroadwayWorld.com's most popular videos from 2011 (in no particular order)! Catch up below on anything that you might have missed from the past year on BroadwayWorld.com!

The cast of GODSPELL recently stopped by Sirius XM for anecdotes, song performances and more. Check out some clips below!

On Twitter Watch, Alan Menken wrote ' LONG TIME NO TWEET! Up to my eyeballs in MIRROR MIRROR scoring, new NEWSIES songs, LEAP OF FAITH possibilities and...oh yeah...the HOLIDAYS! '