Dan Pardo News

The Weston Playhouse Theatre is thrilled to present the five-time Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home to its new flexible 140-seat Second Stage, Weston Playhouse at Walker Farm. Refreshingly honest and wildly innovative, Fun Home is based on Vermont author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel's acclaimed graphic memoir. Audiences will follow Bechdel at three different life stages as she grows and grapples with her uniquely dysfunctional family, her sexuality, and her father's secrets.

Powerhouse vocal harmony group Marquee Five pays tribute to Stephen Sondheim with original arrangements of favorites from Into The Woods, Company, Sweeney Todd, Anyone Can Whistle, and more.

As we approach TONY Awards weekend, we thought we'd catch up with Broadway veteran Baayork Lee, who last week proudly brought her National Asian Artists Project (NAAP) Chorus to the Lillian Booth Actors Home of The Actors Fund, in Engelwood, NJ, on Thursday, May 31. The revered Fund's Home takes care of our own in the industry, whether actor, stagehand, usher, company manager, producer, etc. The Chorus loves going there. This was their second year and, next year, they hope to go twice a year, as it's such a satisfying exchange on both sides. Among the many residents of interest are Fran Liebergall, former assistant to Marvin Hamlisch and Billy Porter's Mom, Cloerinda Ford.

Powerhouse vocal harmony group Marquee Five pays tribute to Stephen Sondheim with original arrangements of favorites from Into The Woods, Company, Sweeney Todd, Anyone Can Whistle, and more.

International theater and concert headliner ISAAC SUTTON will welcome Broadway Star Carrie St. Louis (Kinky Boots, Wicked and Rock of Ages) as a very special guest at Northshore Tower Theater in NYC on May 6. 

Deaf West/Broadway Spring Awakening and Big River stars, Amelia Hensley, Alexandria Wailes & Melissa van der Schyff, reunited last week  for this groundbreaking original musical centering on a Deaf heroine, directed by Drama Desk nominee Kim Weild (Fetes De La Nuit, Soot and Spit) with Artistic Sign Language by Alexandria Wailes (Children Of A Lesser God, currently on Broadway).

Following hot on the success of its previous five installments, the non-profit group founded to showcase multi-ethnic talent in an industry starved for diversity will come together once more to represent and raise their unique voices.

Deaf West/Broadway Spring Awakening and Big River stars, AMELIA HENSLEY, ALEXANDRIA WAILES & MELISSA VAN DER SCHYFF, reunite for this groundbreaking original musical centering on a Deaf heroine, to be directed by Drama Desk nominee KIM WEILD (Fetes De La Nuit, Soot and Spit) with Artistic Sign Language by ALEXANDRIA WAILES (Children Of A Lesser God, currently on Broadway).

The Segal Centre is proud to bring the English-language world premiere of The Angel and the Sparrow to Montreal from April 15 to May 6, 2018. Based on the true story of Marlene Dietrich and Edith Piaf, two indomitable women of incomparable talent, this new musical drama is an intimate and entertaining portrait of the fascinating friendship between show business legends that began under the most unlikely of circumstances and lasted their entire lives.  

This year's Rough Draft Festival at LaGuardia Performing Arts features a vast array of new work that are various stages of development

PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES is an amazing country musical with comedy and a talented cast who play their own instruments, telling the story, mostly through song. The Connecticut Cabaret Theatre, in Berlin, CT, has once again put together a first rate cast. For a night of great music and entertainment, I highly recommend PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES.

Start off your Singles Awareness Day-After the right way at The Green Room 42 with the ladies of Always Andrews - A Musical Tribute to the Andrews Sisters with their style, glam, and pizzazz right before the big, brawny, baritones of BariToned storm the stage and confirm your current feelings with their hit show, perfect for your Valentine's Day Hang-Over - 'I HATE MEN: The Tough Broads & Loose Women of Musical Theatre'!

Prospect Theater Company, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Cara Reichel and Managing Director Melissa Huber, will present MONUMENT, a collection of new mini-musicals in concert, the culmination of Prospect's 2018 Musical Theater Lab. MONUMENT, the company's 12th lab performance, will be presented on February 3, 2018 at 8pm at The TimesCenter (242 West 41st, NYC).

Following their sold-out debut performance at the Duplex, the Ethnic Chameleons are thrilled to bring their show, Re:Mix, to The Green Room 42 today, January 19th at 7:00 P.M., located at 520 Tenth Avenue, inside Yotel (4th Floor).

Prospect Theater Company, under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Cara Reichel and Managing Director Melissa Huber, will present MONUMENT, a collection of new mini-musicals in concert, the culmination of Prospect's 2018 Musical Theater Lab. MONUMENT, the company's 12th lab performance, will be presented on February 3, 2018 at 8pm at The TimesCenter (242 West 41st, NYC).

BariToned is BACK by popular demand returning to The Green Room 42 on Sunday January 21, 2018 at 7pm with their hit show 'I HATE MEN'. This farcical concert trio, starring Joe Hager, Edward Miskie, and Caleb Albert, with music direction and arrangement by Dan Pardo (Amazing Grace, Come From Away), will take you on a hunky-hilarious tour through the tough broads and loose women of musical theatre; twirling, and kick-line'ing through favorites such as Everybody's Girl, I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair, Bring On The Men, That'll Show Him, Big Spender, Gorgeous, and many more.

Following their sold-out debut performance at the Duplex, the Ethnic Chameleons are thrilled to bring their show, Re:Mix, to The Green Room 42 on Friday, January 19th at 7:00 P.M., located at 520 Tenth Avenue, inside Yotel (4th Floor).

A one-night only original cabaret, ReMix: Ethnic Chameleons , will be presented today December 5th at 9:30pm at the Duplex Theatre and Cabaret, 61 Christopher Street.

A family classic has been given a fresh twist in Connecticut's own A Connecticut Christmas Carol by LJ Fecho and Michael O'Flaherty. Goodspeed Musicals continues its commitment to fresh, innovative works with this new musical infused with Connecticut flavor. A Connecticut Christmas Carol runs now through December 30, 2017 at The Terris Theatre in Chester, Conn.

The new musical A CONNECTICUT CHRISTMAS CAROL has extended due to popular demand through December 30th at Goodspeed. This family classic has been given a fresh twist in Connecticut's own A Connecticut Christmas Carol by LJ Fecho and Michael O'Flaherty.