Moss Hart News

Lee Wilkof, Judy Kaye, Jeffry Denman, Walter Bobbie and Meredith Patterson recently took part in a press rehearsal for the upcoming Encores! presentation of Irving Berlin's Face the Music

New York City Center Encores! will continue its 2007 season with the first full-scale restoration of Irving Berlin and Moss Hart's 1932 musical, Face the Music, starring Judy Kaye, Walter Bobbie and Lee Wilkof

Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director; Barry Grove, executive producer) is pleased to announce full casting for the world premiere of LoveMusik, a new musical featuring the songs of Kurt Weill, starring Tony Awardâ winners Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy.

More stars have signed on to The New York Philharmonic's presentation of Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady, which will play four semi-staged performances, March 7-10, 2007.

Broadway song and dance man Jeffry Denman has been cast as the romantic lead in the Encores! staged concert version of Irving Berlin and Moss Hart's Face the Music.

Kristin Chenoweth and Roger Bart will headline 'Stairway to Paradise: An Original Encores! Production: 50 Years of Revues in Review.'

The New York Philharmonic presents Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady in four semi-staged performances, March 7-10, 2007. The musical - a New York Philharmonic premiere - will star Kelli O'Hara, Kelsey Grammer, Charles Kimbrough, Brian Dennehy, Marni Nixon and Tim Jerome.

On November 16th, on what would have been his 117th birthday, the first official website for America's greatest comic dramatist, George S. Kaufman, was launched.

The classic comedy You Can't Take It With You is in excellent form at Garland Civic Theatre.

Part III features ON THE LINE - The Creation of A CHORUS LINE, MOSS HART: A PRINCE OF THE THEATRE, A FINE ROMANCE HOLLYWOOD/BROADWAY The Magic. The Mayhem. The Musicals, SECOND ACT TROUBLE Behind the Scenes at Broadway's Big Musical Bombs, and THE LONGEST LINE Broadway's Most Singular Sensation: A CHORUS LINE.

As the theatre season gets back into gear, BroadwayWorld.com tallies up some numbers that are quite impressive. Their biggest story to date has been an ongoing piece this summer titled 'What's on Your iPod?.' It boasts a host of theatre celebrities, singers and well-known industry professionals listing what they're listening to on their iPod. Due to the feature's huge popularity, it was extended to continue for over 40 days, concluding this Saturday, September 9, 2006.

Kitty Carlisle Hart will return to Feinstein's at the Regency (540 Park Avenue at 61st St.) from September 26th through 30th for 'I Walk with Music'

Aeschylus' The Persians, Encores! and MTC shows will be the highlights of City Center's 2006-2007 season

Oscar-winning actor and comedian Red Buttons, who appeared on Broadway in numerous shows in the '40s, has passed away at the age of 87

Arlene Shuler, President and CEO of New York City Center, announced today that the 14th season of its acclaimed ENCORES! series will celebrate the great Broadway revue, a form that flourished from just before 1900 until the early '50s.

Feature a report on 'without you' by Anthony Rapp, 'til the fat girl sings' by Sharon Wheatley, 'Female Brando: The Legend of Kim Stanley' by Jon Krampner, 'The Importance of Being Barbra' by Tom Santopietro and 'TIME STEPS ? My Musical Comedy Life' by Donna McKechnie with Greg Lawrence.

The legendary Kitty Carlisle Hart will perform at North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre on August 4th and 5th at 8 PM, and August 6th at 3 PM

A number of June events will celebrate books released by Back Stage Books; among the stars set to participate are Kitty Carlisle Hart, Shirley Knight and Julie Wilson

On May 18th, Chita Rivera will be presented with the New Dramatists' 2006 Career Achievement Award at a luncheon featuring dozens of stars