Jerome Kern News

Carol Fredette will perform Thursday, March 4th at 7 PM at the Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture at the Brooklyn Public Library as a part of the 'Brooklyn Sings, Brooklyn Swings Series.'

Greg MacKellan, artistic director of 42nd Street Moon, and Stephanie Rhoads, producing director, today announced details of the upcoming 2010-11 season of uncommon musical theater. For its eighteenth season, merriment abounds in a season rife with Lovers, Liars and Clowns at the Eureka Theatre. The great American composers, lyricists, and librettists featured in 2010-11 are Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, John Kander and Fred Ebb, George S. Kaufman, Stephen Sondheim and more.

It's about time there was a stage show about Ginger Rogers, the name that has become synonymous with dancing on the silver screen. Though her films, particularly those partnered with Fred Astaire have become iconic, most people tend to forget that she got her start and ultimately built her career treading the boards on the vaudeville circuit and on Broadway. Rogers was a lady of the stage, with a catalogue of standards attached to her name from the Gershwins, Jerome & Kern, and Irving Berlin just to name a few. If the biographies of Patsy Cline and Buddy Holly have the makings of a hit Broadway musical, surely a tribute to Ginger Rogers would glide right past them. Unfortunately, Backwards in High Heels is rather unfitting, possibly even embarrassing tribute to a one of America's greatest stage and screen legends.

Legendary star Ginger Rogers is long overdue for a musical show in her honor. Overshadowed by dancing partner Fred Astaire, she was known to have said 'I did everything he did only backwards in high heels'. Thus, we have the basis for the title of this classy, snappy new musical at ICT which is an instant audience pleaser.

Casting has been announced for several upcoming productions from the American Musicals Project. The group will hold productions of Fiorello! on March 1st, Oklahoma!/Paint Your Wagon on March 8th, 'From On the Town to South Pacific' on March 15th, and The American Musicals Project Annual Gala Benefit's production of Show Boat on March 22nd.

Casting has been announced for several upcoming productions from the American Musicals Project. The group will hold productions of Fiorello! on March 1st, Oklahoma!/Paint Your Wagon on March 8th, 'From On the Town to South Pacific' on March 15th, and The American Musicals Project Annual Gala Benefit's production of Show Boat on March 22nd.

An enchanting evening of music from The American Songbook, with tunes from Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley, is on tap for Saturday, February 20 at 7:30 pm at UConn's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.

As reported here previously, the Menier's production of Sweet Charity, starring Tamzin Outhwaite, is to transfer to the Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Dirigido por Jorge Takla e com direção musical do maestro Jamil Maluf, O REI E EU (THE KING AND I) finalmente estreia no proximo dia 27 de fevereiro em São Paulo.

Lincoln Center's acclaimed series American Songbook finishes up its twelfth season celebrating the diversity of American popular song with a final week of different and dazzling concerts. For 16 nights of pop, folk, cabaret, country, rock, and show tunes, the series explored the best of the golden age of musical standards through to today's most dynamic contemporary songwriting.

WESTCHESTER BROADWAY THEATRE's 'For Lovers Only (Love Songs...Nothing But Love Songs)' will close on February 14, 2010.

If you love musical theatre, you'll absolutely fall in love with The Drowsy Chaperone, the fun and frothy show now holding sway in Andrew Jackson Hall at Nashville's Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Winner of five Tony Awards (more than any other musical in the 2005-'06 season), The Drowsy Chaperone plays like a love letter - a true valentine, if you will - to that uniquely American art form, the musical comedy. Could anything be more apropos during this season of hearts and flowers?

WESTCHESTER BROADWAY THEATRE is proud to present 'For Lovers Only (Love Songs...Nothing But Love Songs)' from February 11 through February 14, 2010.

Share this fabulously romantic show with someone you love! It is perfect fare for a Valentine's celebration At WBT! Love is in the air with this romantic musical, featuring 100 well known love songs woven into a fast paced show.

42nd Street Moon's Ira Gershwin Celebration kicks off with one of the earliest Gershwin hits: Lady, Be Good!, the first smash hit the Gershwin brothers enjoyed in New York. It opens at the Eureka Theatre on Saturday, April 3, with three low-priced previews on March 31, April 1 and 2, and runs through April 18.

Julie Budd in a Tribute to Dorothy Fields on February 6, 2010.

Spring is in the air and flowers are beginning to bloom. Feed your creativity at Brooklyn Public Library (BPL).

An enchanting evening of music from The American Songbook, with tunes from Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley, is on tap for Saturday, February 20 at 7:30 pm at UConn's Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts.

Dame Edna Everage and Michael Feinstein have welcomed Gregory Butler, Jodi Capeless, and Jon-Paul Mateo to their upcoming extravagant Broadway musical entertainment ALL ABOUT ME, directed by three time Tony Award-nominee Casey Nicholaw.

This Week @ The Rrazz Room: January 31 - February 6, 2010