Leslie Bricusse News

Jekyll & Hyde in Concert, starring Rob Evan, Kate Shindle and Brandi Burkhardt, is on a national tour through May

The national tour of Doctor Dolittle, starring director Tommy Tune and Dee Hoty, will launch in Houston, TX on January 17th

Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy's Rudolf--The Last Kiss, will open in Budapest in May and in Vienna next year

Variety reports that Jekyll and Hyde is headed to the big screen, courtesy of The Hatchery.

Dee Hoty will star opposite Tommy Tune in the new national tour of Doctor Dolittle, for which full casting is now complete

Tommy Tune is likely to star in Doctor Dolittle on Broadway after playing tour dates in Houston, Hollywood and other cities across the country

The producers of Dr. Dolittle announced today that nine-time Tony Award-winner Tommy Tune will star and direct as the beloved veterinarian who talks to the animals in an extraordinary new musical based upon Leslie Bricusse's 1967 Oscar-winning movie of the same name, and 'The Doctor Dolittle Stories' by Hugh Lofting. Performances begin on January 17, 2006 at the Hobby Center in Houston.

Due to poor ticket sales, the national tour of Dr. Dolittle will shutter on October 2nd in Hershey, PA

Frank Wildhorn and Jeremy Roberts have created GlobalVision Records, a new label for contemporary theatre recordings

Frank Wildhorn & Friends was presented at Joe's Pub on Monday, September 5, 2005 and will be repeated on September 12th, and 19th. The September 12th concert takes place at 7:00PM, on September 19th, the show will be performed at 7:00PM, and 9:30PM.

Robert Evan, Kate Shindle and Brandi Burkhardt will headline a national tour of Jekyll & Hyde--The Concert, which will play a variety of venues around the country from September 10th, 2005 to May 7, 2006

The performers from Naked Boys Singing! will perform a clothed concert of mostly musical theatre songs on August 22nd

An up close and personal chat with the creative team of 'Waiting For The Moon,' a new musical journey about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayer.

Tom Hewitt and Nancy Anderson are some of the performers who will star in the Pittsburgh CLO's touring production of Dr. Doolittle, which is now fully cast

Ewan McGregor opens in Guys and Dolls, Scrooge fills a festive gap, Mackintosh brings the RSC to London, Spamalot plans a transfer and Michael Ball returns to the radio..

The Music of Frank Wildhorn will play four shows at Joe's Pub throughout September

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts today announced details of the 2005-06 Kimmel Center Presents Broadway at the Academy series. Four spectacular family musicals, including two of Broadway's biggest smash hits, will highlight the 2005-2006 season. The new 2005-06 Broadway at the Academy season will include: DOCTOR DOLITTLE (Sept. 21 - 25, 2005); ANNIE (November 22 - 27, 2005); WICKED (limited engagement begins March 22, 2006; subscribers' week March 22 - 26) and THE LION KING (limited engagement begins June 8, 2006; subscribers' week June 13 - 18).

Franc D'Ambrosio, who starred in the title role of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tony Award winning musical The Phantom of the Opera for over six years, has just completed a special musical guest star appearance on the NBC Network special Brian Boitano's Skating Spectacular which first aired January 1, 2005 and has been scheduled for rebroadcast on January 29, 2005, 2:00 - 4:00 pm EST. In promotion of the special (preceding its first airing), Brian Boitano chose to perform to D'Ambrosio's extraordinary vocal rendition of 'What Kind of Fool Am I?' on The Today Show in late December, 2004.