Harold Prince News

Beginning Monday, October 3, Howard McGillin, Broadway's longest-running Phantom, will return to the title role in THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA at The Majestic Theatre.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and Executive Director Kathy Evans announced the Directors Slate for its 17th Annual FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSICALS, to be held at Dodger Stages.

Producers for the upcoming spring 2006 London revival of Evita are desperately seeking Madonna for the title role

LESTAT stars Hugh Panaro in the title role, Carolee Carmello as Gabrielle, Jack Noseworthy as Armand, Jim Stanek as Louis, Roderick Hill as Nicolas, Michael Genet as Marius and Allison Fischer as Claudia.

The musical - now in its 18th year on Broadway at The Majestic Theatre, having given an astonishing 7,325 performances (as of 8/21/2005) - has played to 99.2% capacity audiences this summer and has consistently been among Broadway's highest-grossing shows.

Director Michael Grandage, choreographer Rob Ashford and designer Christopher Oram are now attached as the major creative team of the upcoming London revival of Evita

Amanda McBroom's new musical A Woman of Will will begin its off-Broadway run on September 15th and open on October 2nd

Tony Award-winner Rob Ashford will choreograph the London revival of Evita, which will open in spring of 2006

Composer/lyricist/performer Jason Robert Brown will play gigs in Washington D.C. (on August 5th, 6th and 7th) and in New Orleans (on August 15th)

Marin Mazzie and Douglas Sills have been cast as the bickering leads of On the Twentieth Century in an Actors' Fund of America benefit concert that will be held at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Sept. 26

A Woman of Will, Golden Globe-winner Amanda McBroom's new musical, will begin previews off-Broadway on September 15th before opening on October 2nd

Carol Woods will once again play Matron 'Mama' Morton in Chicago, beginning on July 26th

Composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown will travel to both Los Angeles and Washington, DC to perform in concert venues--on July 30th in LA, and from August 5th-7th in DC

The T Fellowship, developed by T. Edward Hambleton and Harold Prince, among others, will involve would-be Broadway producers in a two-phase program

Jason Robert Brown will perform with a host of guest stars, including Jessica Molaskey and Lauren Kennedy at the Le Jazz au Bar from June 27th to July 3rd to celebrate the release of his new CD before joining Jen Colella in a Virginia concert on July 12

Jason Robert Brown's Parade will make its UK debut at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from August 9th to 28th

The staging of Sweeney Todd that was to have starred Betty Buckley and Shuler Hensley at the Ector Theatre in Odessa, TX has been cancelled

Producers of the 59th Annual American Theatre Wing's Tony Awards announced today that their official website, www.TonyAwards.com, will offer exclusive access via live (streamed) video to the first 9 awards from the stage of Radio City Music Hall.

On Monday, June 6, 2005, The York Theatre Company will present the international stage and film designer Tony Walton with the fifteenth Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre at its annual spring benefit at Broadway's Hudson Theatre, 145 West 44th Street.