Emma Hunton News

After the wildly successful 'Broadway Loves Britney' and 'Broadway Sings The 90's' concerts, 'The TRL Generation' returns to the Canal Room on Sunday, November 10th with 'Broadway Loves the Spice Girls,' a 'Girl Power'-filled song and dance extravaganza paying tribute to the Fab Five. The 9:30PM concert is musically directed by Benjamin Rauhala, directed by Kyle Fox, and produced by Shoshana Feinstein.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) announced the winners of the MITF 2013 Season Awards. The Award ceremony was held on Monday, September 30, 2013 at 7pm at The Actors Temple Theater, 339 W. 47th Street, NYC.

Emma Hunton (Spring Awakening, Next To Normal), Drew Gasparini (NBC's SMASH), Molly Hager (Fat Camp), and more will join up and coming musical theatre writer Zack Zadek in a concert of his music at Highline Ballroom on Monday November 11, at 8PM. Also in the lineup are: Lauren (Lolo) Pritchard (Spring Awakening), Andrew Kober (Hair), Nik Walker (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots), Sedona Schat and Taylor Noble.

Bailey House formally announces its line up for their exciting new fundraising benefit, which is taking place tonight, September 27, 2013 at LQNY in Manhattan.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival (MITF) presents their Thirteenth Annual Season AWARDS CEREMONY on Monday, September 30, 2012 at 7pm at The Actors Temple Theater, 339 W. 47th Street, NYC. Tickets are $15 and are available now at www.midtownfestival.org by phone at 866-811-4111. Each paid admission includes tickets redeemable for one refreshment, beer, wine, or soft drink. Doors open at 7pm; awards begin at 8pm.

Raging Squid Ink and Eric Schmalenberger have announced the Raging Squid Ink and Eric Schmalenberger have announced the world premiere production of Jake Thomas' THE DEAD DREAM MACHINE, video art directed by Sean Gill and directed and choreographed by Rachel Klein. THE DEAD DREAM MACHINE will play a limited engagement at La Luz (135 Thames Street, Brooklyn, NY). Performances begin tonight, September 18 and continue through Saturday, October 13. Opening Night is Friday, September 20 (8 p.m.). Press are invited tonight, September 18 at 8 p.m., Thursday, September 19 at 8 p.m. and Friday, September 20 at 8 p.m. (and any subsequent performance).

Bailey House formally announces its line up for their exciting new fundraising benefit, which is taking place on Friday, September 27, 2013 at LQNY in Manhattan.

Broadway's Frankie James Grande returns to his home town of New York with his one-man show 'Living La Vida Grande' at the Laurie Beechman Theater this weekend, September 13th-15th, 2013.

Broadway's Frankie James Grande returns to his home town of New York with his one-man show 'Living La Vida Grande' at the Laurie Beechman Theater on September 13th-15th, 2013.

Composer Alexander Sage Oyen's new musical MOMENT BY MOMENT made its world premiere at 54 Below on August 31, 2013. Scroll down for photos from the concert!

54 Below will present a concert of Alexander Sage Oyen's Moment by Moment tonight, August 31st at 11PM.

Check out composer Alexander Sage Oyen perform 'Incense', a song from Oyen's musical Moment by Momen below! Hear more of Oyen's music when his new musical Moment by Moment makes it's world premiere in a 54 Below concert version, coming up this Saturday, August 31 at 11PM.

Coming up this week, 54 BELOW, the performance venue located just below the legendary Studio 54 at 254 West 54th Street, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz and beyond. 54 Below also launched its series of late night events. Joining Tuesday nights' popular 'Backstage' with Susie Mosher is 15:54, and more:

This week's CEC feature is by a very talented songwriting team from Canada, Akiva Romer-Segal and Colleen Dauncey. 'It's Been a While' was performed by Wicked's Derek Klena and Next to Normal's Emma Hunton at our CEC concert at NYMF 2012. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

Below, watch Sarah Daniels perform 'This Girl', a song from Oyen's musical MoneyShot! (music and lyrics by Oyen, book by Christopher Metz and James Presson)! Hear more of Oyen's music when his new musical Moment by Moment makes it's world premiere in a 54 Below concert version, coming up on August 31 at 11PM.

Click below to watch Alexander Sage Oyen perform 'Funny', a cut song from the song as a promo for Oyen's 54 Below concert version of his song cycle Moment by Moment, coming up on August 31 at 11PM!

54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, has announced plans to augment its diverse programming with a varied new series of in-house productions including a new interview series, a new musicals-in-concert series (following-up on the success of the club's wildly successful High Fidelity in Concertevent), and a program for new composers. The venue will continue to present its popular Sondheim Unplugged series featuring some of Broadway's brightest stars sharing performances and behind-the-scenes anecdotes from their favorite Sondheim musicals.

Tony Winner Alice Ripley, Tony Nominee Robin de Jesus, Richard H. Blake, Krystal Joy Brown, Nick Cartell, Laura Dreyfuss, Rebecca Faulkenberry, Jason Gotay, Emma Hunton, Corey Mach, Taylor Noble, Lauren Pritchard, Preston Sadleir, Coleen Sexton, Kacie Sheik, Adrienne Warren, Grace Weber and NYC a 'capella group BLACKOUT. Bobbie L. Crow III on cello, Rick Ippolito on bass, Simon Kafka on guitar and Cody Rahn on percussion.

Last night, a slew of Broadway favorites took part in Twenty-Somethings at The Highline Ballroom, featuring music by up-and-coming songwriters Blake Pfeil, Zoe Sarnak and Drew Overcash. BroadwayWorld was there for the sound check and you can check out highlights of the performers in rehearsal below!