Marcia Seligson News

The West Coast Premiere of Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn, will grace the stage of The Covina Center for the Performing Arts as part of the Festival of New American Musicals.

The West Coast Premiere of Make Me A Song: The Music of William Finn, will grace the stage of The Covina Center for the Performing Arts as part of the Festival of New American Musicals.

The 2009 Festival of New American Musicals, a four-month musical theatre festival, will be held in April through July, 2009, throughout Southern California. Marcia Seligson, Bob Klein, and Linda Shusett are the Executive Producers of the second annual Festival.

The Festival of New American Musicals which officially launched throughout Southern California on May 1 will officially end on July 10-13th with a staged reading of the new musical, DANCE WITH ME, based on the lives and romance of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. The Festival has included 158 performances of 43 musical theater events in 36 theaters stretching from Santa Barbara to San Diego, reaching an estimated 122,000 theatergoers.

'Norman's Ark' is an unprecedented production that includes over 100 children from all over greater Los Angeles.

The 2007-2008 Reprise Theatre Company season will end with 'Flora, the Red Menace,' John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb's first Broadway musical. Eden Espinosa stars as Flora, opposite Manoel Felciano as Harry.

The Festival of New American Musicals, a two-month musical theatre festival, will be held in May and June, 2008, throughout Southern California. Marcia Seligson and Bob Klein are the Executive Producers of the Festival.

The LA Times reports that Tony Award-winner Jason Alexander, who played George on TV's 'Seinfeld' and won a Tony for his performance in Jerome Robbins' Broadway, is the new artistic director of Reprise! Broadway's Best, the Los Angeles-based non-profit theater known for its staged concert productions of both Broadway classics and rarities

The theatrical industry was abuzz Wednesday morning as a smattering of Broadway's most successful American composers gathered in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion's Founder's Room in downtown Los Angeles, kicking off the Festival of New American Musicals...

Reprise! Broadway's Best will treat audiences to staged concerts of My One and Only, Sunday in the Park with George and No Strings during its 10th anniversary season of staged readings at UCLA's Freud Playhouse

Los Angeles' Reprise! will offer its outdoor Best of Broadway at the Ford Amphitheatre on July 30th at 8:30 PM