Mel Brooks News

While football and baseball have been slugging it out for decades for the title of America's Most Popular Sport, there's no doubt that the latter is Broadway's baby, boasting Tony-winners Damn Yankees and Take Me Out.  Aside from inspiring amusing songs for Wonderful Town and High Button Shoes, football's longest Broadway run was the short-lived musical All-American, which featured the unlikely combination of Ray Bolger acting in scenes written by Mel Brooks.  Heck, even basketball (That Championship Season) and rugby (The Changing Room) have fared better on Broadway than football.

Now celebrating its Fifth Anniversary Season, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County announced - as a special addition to the Broadway in Miami 2010-2011 Season - the return of the beloved hit FORBIDDEN BROADWAY. After breaking box office records at the Center in 2008, FORBIDDEN BROADWAY is set to leave its uproarious mark on Miami once again, on stage in the intimate Carnival Studio Theater from December 14 - 26, 2010. Roasting and toasting Broadway hits - including those on the current Adrienne Arsht Center lineup, from In the Heights to Jersey Boys - the show promises two straight weeks of non-stop laughs.

The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical theatre star Sutton Foster will perform her one-woman cabaret 'An Evening with Sutton Foster' on Monday, November 15, 2010 at 7:30pm at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA as a benefit for the Huntington Theatre Company. Tickets for An Evening with Sutton Foster begin at $150. The performance will be preceded by intimate pre-show dinners at South End restaurants and private homes, and will be followed by a VIP Post-Show Cast Party with Sutton and Friends. Tickets for the pre-show dinner and the performance cost $250; tickets for all three events are $350. Proceeds from the events will benefit the Huntington's world-class productions and award-winning youth, education, and community programs.

Thrills, Chills and Music are all part of the Sands Theater Company's 2010-2011 Season. Here is what we have planned.

Led by the two most recent Tony® Award winners for Broadway's Best Musical, the 2010/11 Duke Energy Broadway Lights Series presented by the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center features a fantastic lineup of Broadway's most popular and critically acclaimed shows.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre has been one of the most unique entertainment venues in the region since it first opened.

The award-winning York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director) is pleased to announce the star-studded roster of performers for its 19th Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre. The award will be presented to Tony Award-winning librettist Thomas Meehan (Annie, The Producers, Hairspray, Elf) on Monday, November 22, 2010. As previously announced, the evening is directed by Tony-winning director/lyricist/librettist Richard Maltby and the award will be presented by Alice Hammerstein Mathias, daughter of Oscar Hammerstein II.

The Way Off Broadway Children's Theatre first opened in 1996 and since then has become a popular entertainment destination for families looking for a fun weekend activity, it has also become a great spot for birthday parties and school trips. In all of that time, there has only been one open casting call for Children's Theatre productions, as the casts are usually made up of performers who are invited to join a cast. In addition, the cast for the Children's Theatre productions is made up of professional adult actors. For the first time in its history, the Way Off Broadway Children's Theatre is holding an open casting call for children performers.

Nick Padgett, Producing Artistic Director of Padgett Productions, based of Union Station in Kansas City, is bringing Academy Award and nine-time Emmy winner, Cloris Leachman to Kansas City in her critically-acclaimed one-woman show, CLORIS! I'm Eighty F*ing Four & Still Going Strong, for two performances only Nov 7 through 8 (Sun 3pm and Mon 8pm) to Union Station, 30 West Pershing Rd Kansas City, MO, 64108. Tickets $65 and include both the show and after-party with Cloris. For tickets and information please call 816.460.2020 or visit http://www.unionstation.org/cloris.html

The Marcus Center and the Blood Center of Wisconsin are hosting a special Blood Drive in conjunction with the Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, in the Marcus Center's Rehearsal Hall A on Monday, November 1 from 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Way_Off_Broadway_Theatre_Presents_DIRTY_ROTTON_SCOUNDRELS_Sept_10_Nov_7_20010101 The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre will once again bring an area premiere production to the Frederick-area stage. Having been the first to bring shows such as Jerry Herman's La Cage aux Folles, Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl - The Musical, Mel Brooks' The Producers, as well as a regional theatre premiere production of The Wedding Singer to western Maryland audiences, Way Off Broadway is adding the musical comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels to the list of firsts. The outrageously funny musical opens September 10th and will run through November 7th.

The Way Off Broadway Children's Theatre, the only theatre of its kind in the area - offering lunch matinee shows geared for children and their families, continues its fifteenth year of bringing children's stories to life with the classic tale of Charlotte's Web.

2010-2011 will be a dream season at The Orpheum Theatre. Filled with Tony® Award-winners, audience favorites, stunning classics, and amazing spectacle, the 2010-2011 Broadway season is full of fun, passion, and excitement.

Broadway Across America is thrilled to announce the 10/11 Cincinnati season sponsored by Fifth Third Bank. Season tickets will go on sale Monday, March 29th. Select seats in person at the Broadway Across America Cincinnati Box Office in the Mercantile Center downtown at 120 East Fourth Street, Monday - Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm. Season tickets can be purchased online at BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com or by calling the Broadway Across America toll-free Cincinnati Season Ticket Hotline at 800-294-1816.

Way Off Broadway's Actors' Studio was created in the fall of 2003 as an extension of the theaters wildly popular Children's Theatre Summer Camp program. While the camps would continue to having acting and musical sessions during the summer, the Actors' Studio would be able to offer classes during the spring and fall.

The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre has been one of the most unique entertainment venues in the region since it first opened. Offering a fantastic dinner combined with a Broadway-style show, the Way Off Broadway experience is a full evening of leisure and entertainment. But the dinner theatre is only on piece of what makes up Way Off Broadway. In 1996, the theatre opened, what has become, it's wildly popular Children's Theatre. To this day, the Way Off Broadway Children's Theatre is the only children's lunch matinee offered in the area.

Nick Padgett, Producing Artistic Director of Padgett Productions, based of Union Station in Kansas City, is bringing Academy Award and nine-time Emmy winner, Cloris Leachman to Kansas City in her critically-acclaimed one-woman show, CLORIS! I'm Eighty F*ing Four & Still Going Strong, for two performances only Nov 7 through 8 (Sun 3pm and Mon 8pm) to Union Station, 30 West Pershing Rd Kansas City, MO, 64108. Tickets $65 and include both the show and after-party with Cloris. For tickets and information please call 816.460.2020 or visit http://www.unionstation.org/cloris.html

Way Off Broadway's Actors' Studio was created in the fall of 2003 as an extension of the theaters wildly popular Children's Theatre Summer Camp program. While the camps would continue to having acting and musical sessions during the summer, the Actors' Studio would be able to offer classes during the spring and fall.

The Marcus Center and the Blood Center of Wisconsin are hosting a special Blood Drive in conjunction with the Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, in the Marcus Center's Rehearsal Hall A on Monday, November 1 from 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a new musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony Award winning smash The Producers, will begin performances in Milwaukee on November 2 and run through November 7.