Madeline Kahn News

Theatre A La Carte Presents ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY July 16 through 25.

Camp Broadway®, Broadway's Original Summer Camp, is presenting three five-day musical theatre camps for children ages 6-9, 10-13 and 14-17 at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts during July and August 2010. New facility owner and producer, Bill Hanney invited Camp Broadway® to offer its acclaimed program at the theatre this summer as the first step in his long-range commitment to restore quality theatre arts programming for young audiences. Registration begins July 19 for more information and to register visit www.CampBroadway.com/NorthShore.

Theatre A La Carte Presents ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY July 16 through 25.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Penguin Rep Theatre, in association with Chase Mishkin, to AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY with the New York City premiere of FREED, written by Charles Smith and directed by Joe Brancato. FREED begins previews on Friday, June 11 for a limited engagement through Saturday, July 3.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Penguin Rep Theatre, in association with Chase Mishkin, to AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY with the New York City premiere of FREED, written by Charles Smith and directed by Joe Brancato. FREED begins previews on Friday, June 11 for a limited engagement through Saturday, July 3.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Penguin Rep Theatre, in association with Chase Mishkin, to AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY with the New York City premiere of FREED, written by Charles Smith and directed by Joe Brancato. FREED begins previews on Friday, June 11 for a limited engagement through Saturday, July 3.

Showtunes Theatre Company presented their first concert production in their new home at Seattle's Moore Theatre with the seldom produced, "Follies" from Stephen Sondheim. But then, that's what Showtunes does and does well. Take musical theater gems that for one reason or another don't see as much action as they should, and put on wonderful staged concerts of them. And their outing with "Follies" was no exception.

Actress/singer/dancer Lesli Margherita is a super talented artist. She's been in The Grave White Way, Beehive, Zorba for Reprise!, among many other shows. And...she's already won an Olivier Award (Great Britain's Tony) for Featured Actress in a Musical - unusual for an American artist - and is currently finishing up her run in the controversial world premiere of Michael LaChiusa's See What I Wanna See on Sunday May 30 at the Blank Theatre. On Tuesday June 8 she will perform her acclaimed one-woman show All Hail the Queen once more for one night only at Level 3 in Hollywood. We talked about her theatrical successes here and abroad.

Camp Broadway®, Broadway's Original Summer Camp, is presenting three five-day musical theatre camps for children ages 6-9, 10-13 and 14-17 at the North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, Massachusetts during July and August 2010. New facility owner and producer, Bill Hanney invited Camp Broadway® to offer its acclaimed program at the theatre this summer as the first step in his long-range commitment to restore quality theatre arts programming for young audiences. Registration begins July 19 for more information and to register visit www.CampBroadway.com/NorthShore.

Theatre A La Carte Presents ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY July 16 through 25.

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Penguin Rep Theatre, in association with Chase Mishkin, to AMERICAS OFF BROADWAY with the New York City premiere of FREED, written by Charles Smith and directed by Joe Brancato. FREED begins previews on Friday, June 11 for a limited engagement through Saturday, July 3.

Joy Behar will host the 9th Annual 'Stand Up For Madeline and OCRF' today, May 11, 2010, with Susie Essman, Judy Gold, Jessica Kirson, Robert Klein, James Smith, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, Rich Voss and special surprise guests at Carolines on Broadway from 6:00PM-8:30PM.

Written and produced by Academy Award®-winner* Mel Brooks, High Anxiety, History Of The World Part I and Robin Hood: Men In Tights arrive on Blu-ray Disc May 11 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Each film is available separately for the suggested retail price of $24.99 U.S./ $25.99 Canada.

According to a report from Showbiz411.com Chris Noth is confirmed to star on Broadway in BORN YESTERDAY.

Today, we are taking a listen to ANYONE CAN WHISTLE and COMPANY, two of the most genre-bending and revolutionary musicals of the latter twentieth century, both boasting Sondheim's strongest songs of the sixties. These recordings contain some of the most legendary and illustrious Broadway casts of all time and include the names Angela Lansbury, Lee Remick, Bernadette Peters, Elaine Stritch, Raul Esparza, Dean Jones, Larry Kert and Jane Krakowski, just to name a few...

The Magic Castle offers yet another great Broadway star to the stage of Cabaret at the Castle with Lee Roy Reams. The man who columnist Liz Smith called 'Broadway's Darling' and the New York Times hailed as 'Broadway's song and dance man nonpareil' is scheduled to appear for one night only. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Sealed With A Wish Foundation, Inc.

LEGACY: THE MUSICALS OF OFF-BROADWAY, Concert Presentations of Landmark Off-Broadway Musicals, will present PROMENADE as its first offering, on Monday April 12th at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) as a benefit for The Off-Broadway Alliance.

LEGACY: THE MUSICALS OF OFF-BROADWAY, Concert Presentations of Landmark Off-Broadway Musicals, will present PROMENADE as its first offering, on Monday April 12th at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) as a benefit for The Off-Broadway Alliance.

LEGACY: THE MUSICALS OF OFF-BROADWAY, Concert Presentations of Landmark Off-Broadway Musicals, will present PROMENADE as its first offering, on Monday April 12th at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues) as a benefit for The Off-Broadway Alliance.

Baz Bamigboye is reporting in the UK Daily Mail that Garson Kanin's classic comedy Born Yesterday, an enduring story of a corrupt tycoon and his not-so-dumb blonde girlfriend is in talks to head back to the Broadway stage this fall, starring Hayley Atwell and Sex and the City star Chris Noth.