Marvin Hamlisch News

The award winning San Diego Musical Theatre announces its 2010-2011 of Broadway musicals, which includes SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE, THE STORY OF MY LIFE, and A CHORUS LINE. Show times are Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. All productions will be at the Lyceum Theatre is located at 79 Horton Plaza. There is four hours of free parking at Horton Plaza with the purchase of tickets.

Tony Award-winning actress, singer, and songwriter Idina Menzel, star of Broadway's Wicked and the original stage production of Rent, will make her New York Philharmonic debut Saturday, February 5, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. The concert, a benefit for the New York Philharmonic, will be conducted by multi-award-winning conductor/composer Marvin Hamlisch. Ms. Menzel - who appeared in the hit television show Glee - will perform a repertoire of classic pop, musical theater favorites (including hits from Wicked and Rent), as well as selections from her album of original songs, I Stand.

Renowned flutist Sir James Galway will share his insights, experiences, and fascinating life story in a rare interview with Nancy Shear, as part of Music For All Seasons' popular and acclaimed 'Conversations' series, now in its fifth season. The event will launch the 2011 series, and will be held on Thursday, March 3, from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m., at The William Bennett Gallery, 65 Greene Street (between Broome & Spring Streets) in SoHo, New York City. This season will also include Conversations with the entire Juilliard String Quartet in the Spring and with distinguished pianist Byron Janis in the Fall of 2011.

What do you get when you take a great selection of songs, a terrific sense of humor, a lovely voice, serious acting chops, and top-notch delivery? Answer: One of the most exciting cabaret debut shows in recent memory, courtesy of Katharine Luckinbill in LOVE (or lack thereof), which is being produced by Michael Alden. Backed by a stellar trio (Dave Ostrem on bass, Sam Lazzara on drums and musical director Lilli Wosk on piano), Katharine wound her way through a voyage of self-discovery via countless failed relationships.

Providing its region with a cultural attraction of world-class quality and scale, the multi-venue Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana - just outside of the state capital of Indianapolis - opened the first of its venues on January 29, 2011, with an inaugural concert at its state-of-the-art concert hall The Palladium. The Center's other venues, now under construction, will be a 200-seat studio theater (opening in March 2011) and The Tarkington, a 500-seat proscenium theater (opening in August 2011).

Fifty years after her legendary Carnegie Hall debut, The New York Pops remembers Hollywood icon Judy Garland with a song-for-song re-creation of the 1961 performance that is referred to by so many as "the greatest night in show business history".

Erich Steinbock (Managing Director) is pleased to welcome back world-renowned baritone and Tony Award-winner (South Pacific) Paulo Szot to the legendary Café Carlyle for a two-week return engagement.

Growing up as the daughter of one of the most iconic comediennes of all time could not have been easy, yet Melissa Rivers has managed to carve her own place in the Hollywood landscape as a producer and television personality herself, coming after nearly a decade of co-hosting the red carpet fashion rundowns on E! and the TV GUIDE channel with her mother Joan. Her (mostly) behind-the-scenes work as a producer on E!'s weekly FASHION POLICE show starring Joan is just half of her duties, as she also stars in and produces the new WE reality series JOAN & MELISSA: JOAN KNOWS BEST? Also, she manages to find the time to be a single mom and confidant to her legendary mother - and clean up after camera crews. I was lucky enough to speak to Melissa over the weekend in anticipation of tonight's special edition FASHION POLICE: SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS on E! and Tuesday's JOAN KNOWS BEST? on WE. Also, be sure to check out my weekend feature interview with Joan Rivers, as well.

Come to laugh so hard, you may cry!

Linda Eder reunites with Frank Wildhorn on the new album, NOW, marking the musical return of this legendary team.

The GRAMMY® Award-winning Nashville Symphony continues to celebrate its triumphant return to Schermerhorn Symphony Center with the announcement of its 2011/12 season. Beginning with a special appearance by Yo-Yo Ma on September 9, 2011, and culminating with a performance of Orff's enduringly popular Carmina Burana on May 31-June 2, 2012, the season will feature a wide array of world-class guest artists, including banjoist Béla Fleck, electric violinist Tracy Silverman, vocalists Wynonna and Kathy Mattea, trumpeter Chris Botti, guitarist Larry Carlton and The Cleveland Orchestra. One very special highlight for the orchestra will be a performance at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, May 12, 2012. Details will be announced in mid-February.

Linda Eder reunites with Frank Wildhorn on the new album, NOW, marking the musical return of this legendary team.

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta on Thursday, March 17, 2011 through Sunday, March 20, 2011. Tickets are on sale now at the Cobb Energy Centre's Bank of North Georgia Box Office, 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway, all Ticketmaster outlets, online at ticketmaster.com or by calling 800-745-3000. Group orders for 10 or more may be placed by calling 770-509-2301.

According to the NY Tmes, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Washington National Opera will merge this July. The financially troubled National Opera will still have its own board and receive its own donations, but all other funds will be merged with the Kennedy Center's.

Today, we have perhaps the biggest Broadway star of the modern era, having appeared in the three most iconic theatre-related enterprises in entertainment in each of the last three decades, having lead roles in the original casts of Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1996 rock musical RENT, a Best Actress Tony Award for her work in Stephen Schwartz's megahit WICKED, and now a recurring role on Fox's hit 2011 Golden Globe-winning musical comedy series GLEE - the amply gifted and endearing Idina Menzel. In this exclusive interview we discuss her US concert tour with Oscar-winning maestro Marvin Hamlisch - as well as what she will be singing in their NY Philharmonic performance on February 5th - as well as new motherhood, new music and what she would like to do on the future - on Broadway, on GLEE and beyond! Plus, what does she think of TV daughter Lea Michele taking on her signature RENT tune coming up on GLEE?

Howardashman.com, a website celebrating the life and art of lyricist, writer and director, Howard Ashman announced its launch today.

William Atherton, Matt Cavenaugh, Lisa O'Hare, Carol Lawrence, Millicent Martin and Jason Graae are the acclaimed film, Broadway and West End stars who will lead the cast of Reprise Theatre Company's second production of the 2010-2011 season, 'Gigi', playing February 15 to February 27, 2011 (press opening February 16, 2011) at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. The musical - with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe -- will be directed by veteran musical theatre director David Lee, with choreography by Peggy Hickey and musical direction by Steve Orich.

The Metropolitan Room hosts a showdown of stunning proportions on Saturday January 8 as Philip Fortenberry tickles the ivories in the early show (at 7pm) and Steven Brinberg grabs the spotlight as Barbra in the late show (at 9:30pm).

The Metropolitan Room hosts a showdown of stunning proportions on Saturday January 8 as Philip Fortenberry tickles the ivories in the early show (at 7pm) and Steven Brinberg grabs the spotlight as Barbra in the late show (at 9:30pm).

The Metropolitan Room hosts a showdown of stunning proportions on Saturday January 8 as Philip Fortenberry tickles the ivories in the early show (at 7pm) and Steven Brinberg grabs the spotlight as Barbra in the late show (at 9:30pm). The one-two punch of Fortenberry, the concert pianist and Broadway conductor, and Brinberg, the embodiment of haute divadom in his latest edition of the mega-popular 'Simply Barbra' comes courtesy of KMP Artists, as part of the APAP artists and presenters conference January 8 through 11.