Maria Friedman News

Maria Friedman, accompanied by an 11-piece band, will play just twenty-five performances of her most recent solo show Maria Friedman: Re-arranged at the Trafalgar Studios from 27 November 2008 - 4 January 2009.

The acclaimed Monday Nights, New Voices series continues October 27th at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre.

Multi-award-winning leading lady Maria Friedman returns to the West End for one night only to headline this year's instalment of Christmas in New York, the annual celebration of classic carols and seasonal show-stoppers, at the Lyric Theatre on Sunday 7 December 2008, alongside Avenue Q's Julie Atherton, Wicked's Oliver Tompsett and Ashleigh Gray, Spamalot's Michael Xavier and a full supporting cast including Adrian Hansel, Zoe Rainey, Richard Reynard and Lorna Want.

The Duplex presents The Sum of Our Hearts- An Evening of Songs by 2008 Jonathan Larson Award Winners Jeff Thomson and Jordan Mann on Monday, October 20th, 2008, at the Duplex, 61 Christopher Street, New York.

The Stage News is reporting that National Theatre Artistic Director Nicholas Hytner, actress Maria Friedman and Blood Brothers writer Willy Russell for the next round of the Shaw Theatre's SPOTLIGHT ON SERIES

The acclaimed Monday Nights, New Voices series continues October 27th at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre.

The Duplex presents The Sum of Our Hearts- An Evening of Songs by 2008 Jonathan Larson Award Winners Jeff Thomson and Jordan Mann on Monday, October 20th, 2008, at the Duplex, 61 Christopher Street, New York.

13, A New Musical, with music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, officially opens at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre tonday, Sunday, October 5, 2008.

On Sunday 14th September, Radio 2 continues its celebration of the leading lights of musical theatre with Andrew Lloyd Webber's Birthday In The Park.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com announce 'THE JEFF BLUMENKRANTZ SONGBOOK' Monday, September 8, 2008 at 7:00p.m., as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

Daniel Evans who recently starred in the Broadway production of Sunday In The Park With George, will be re-uniting with Oliver Award Winner Maria Friedman in Swell Party. Swell Party is a concert celebrating the life of musician Cole Porter at London's Cadogan Hall. The concert will run for four nights only, August 6th-9th 2008.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com announce 'THE JEFF BLUMENKRANTZ SONGBOOK' Monday, September 8, 2008 at 7:00p.m., as part of the long-running, Nightlife Award-winning concert series Broadway at Birdland.

13, A New Musical, with music and lyrics by Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown, will begin previews on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 and officially open at The Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (242 W. 45th Street) on Sunday, October 5, 2008.

Daniel Evans who recently starred in the Broadway production of Sunday In The Park With George, will be re-uniting with Oliver Award Winner Maria Friedman in Swell Party. Swell Party is a concert celebrating the life of musician Cole Porter at London's Cadogan Hall. The concert will run for four nights only, August 6th-9th 2008.

One of England's finest treasures, Maria Friedman, came to Broadway a short while back in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White. During the process she was diagnosed with cancer and persevered through the opening. Here at the Nothin' Like A Dame benefit she talks about here ordeal and how she overcame it.

On Friday, December 21, BBC Radio 2 hosts 'Music Night' with a special tribute to Jerry Herman.

The Prince Edward theatre, currently the home of 'Mary Poppins', witnessed another piece of magic on Sunday 23 September, when it became the venue for a star-studded gala tribute to legendary Broadway lyricist/tunesmith, Jerry Herman - a show scheduled to be aired on BBC Radio 2's Friday Night Is Music Night just before Christmas. From the moment the BBC concert orchestra conducted by Larry Blank and the highly accomplished chorus of Capital Voices launched into Herman's blockbuster, 'Tap Your Troubles Away' (from 'Mack and Mable') the audience knew they were in for a rare treat of musical theatre showstoppers. And for the next 2 hours the cast of John Barrowman, Maria Friedman, Debbie Gravitte and Clarke Peters never failed to deliver.

Olivier Award-winner Maria Friedman and Welsh opera star Bryn Terfel will star in the Royal Festival Hall's production of the macabre Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler classic Sweeney Todd

After last year's successful collaboration on How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria, the BBC and Andrew Lloyd Webber have once again forces in launching Any Dream Will Do, a nationwide talent search to find a male lead for the West End's Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Exclusive footage of the twelve finalists for the role of Joseph is now available at www.andrewlloydwebber.com.