Laurence Rosenthal News

There are certain performances from Broadway history that can never be replicated, one of which is Robert Preston's star turn as the flimflamming boys band sales man Harold Hill in the 1958 Tony Award winning musical The Music Man. It was a bit of a shock when it won best musical that year because it beat out the revolutionary West Side Story. Ah well, commercialism nearly always wins.

BuySoundtrax Records is proud to announce the release of two new recordings on Film Music For a New Age Vol. 1 and Cinema Classics for Solo Piano (performed by Mark Northam). Both of these albums will be available digitally on March 19, 2013.

Screen Actors Guild Awards Committee Chair JoBeth Williams and Awards Committee Member Scott Bakula, will announce the recipients of Screen Actors Guild's Honors for Outstanding Action Performances by Film and Television Stunt Ensembles from the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®' red carpet during the live SAG Awards digital pre-show which will be webcast on TNT.tv, TBS.com and People.com on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012 beginning at 6 p.m.

Screen Actors Guild Awards Committee Chair JoBeth Williams and Awards Committee Member Scott Bakula, will announce the recipients of Screen Actors Guild's Honors for Outstanding Action Performances by Film and Television Stunt Ensembles from the 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®' red carpet during the live SAG Awards digital pre-show which will be webcast on TNT.tv, TBS.com and People.com on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012 beginning at 6 p.m.

September 24 was the AMPAS Celebrates The Career Of Alex North in Beverly Hills, California. Those in attendance included Journalist/Film-Music historian Jon Burlingame and Sanya Henderson. Broadwayworld brings you coverage of the event below.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will celebrate the career of Alex North (1910-1991), the 15-time Oscar®-nominated composer, with a centennial salute featuring a screening of "The Misfits" (1961) on Friday, September 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences will celebrate the career of Alex North (1910-1991), the 15-time Oscar®-nominated composer, with a centennial salute featuring a screening of "The Misfits" (1961) on Friday, September 24, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

I recently had the chance to sit down with Bruce Kimmel and ask him a plethora of questions. Bruce is used to putting others in the proverbial hot seat on his website - but as they say...turnabout is fair play!