Richard Rodgers News

BASE Entertainment (Co-CEO's Scott Zeiger and Brian Becker) announced that DINER, a new musical inspired by the critically acclaimed 1982 film, will come to Broadway in the fall of 2012. With a book by Academy Award and Emmy Award winner Barry Levinson and music & lyrics by Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, DINER will be directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall. DINER marks the Broadway debut of both Barry Levinson and Sheryl Crow. Prior to its Broadway bow, DINER will play a limited out of town engagement in a city TBD in the summer of 2012. Design team and casting will be announced at a later date.

The Tony Award winning actress Yvonne Constant premieres a brand new club act, 'La Différence,' in her sixth engagement at the Metropolitan Room since she began appearing at the intimate concert venue in 2008.

The Project Rushmore Theatre company will present Bob Ader's one man show FIFTY YEARS IN THE BUSINESS (the musical memoirs of an overgrown, 50+ year old child actor) on Monday 9/26 at the Pearl Studios, 500 8th Ave., Studio 1209.

Reprise Theatre Company presents An Evening With Liz Callaway. It will have one performance only on Monday, September 19 at 8:00 pm, at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.

Upcoming MTI Shows - 9/18 for Toronto

VITAL THEATRE COMPANY the award-winning theatre company and producer of the long running family show PINKALICIOUS, THE MUSICAL, and HIT Entertainment, a leading provider of quality children's entertainment, are pleased to announce ANGELINA BALLERINATM THE MUSICAL will continue performances at The Theatre at Saint Peter's, September 17th through October 16th, 2011. Book and lyrics by Susan DiLallo , music by Ben Morss and directed and choreographed by Sam Viverito based on the famous dancing mouseling and her friends created by Katharine Holabird and illustrated by Helen Craig. Performances are Saturdays at 12pm and Sundays at 2pm. ANGELINA BALLERINATM THE MUSICAL will return to VITAL THEATRE COMPANY October 21st, 2011 with performances on Fridays at 4:30pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 3:30pm.

Theare legend Stephen Sondheim took soe time out of his busy musical-writing schedule back in 1968 to write a series of crossword puzzles for New York Magazine. The collection was published in 1980, but has been out of print since, making it difficult for theatre lovers to track them down. Now, according to the New York Times, a website has just shared 19 scans of real Sondheim puzzles!

McCarter Theatre Center will open its 2011/2012 season with John Doyle's Ten Cents A Dance: The Music of Rodgers and Hart Friday, September 16 and runs through Sunday, October 9. Ten Cent A Dance is a co-production with Williamstown Theatre Festival where it recently completed a successful run. The show previews Friday, September 9 through Thursday, September 15.

The American Repertory Theater of Western New York will kick off its 2011-12 season with the Buffalo premier of FLOYD COLLINS September 16-October 2.

The new musical TAKE ME AMERICA follows seven desperate refugees seeking political asylum in the United States, and the three government agents who bear the responsibility of determining their fate.

42nd Street Moon, the company renowned for presenting uncommon musical theater, begins its 2011-12 season with a salute to the legendary Cole Porter.

The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) has announced its fall schedule of major performances.

Producers Jeffrey Richards and Jerry Frankel in association with the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) have announced that the estates of George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, and DuBose and Dorothy Herward have enthusiastically endorsed THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, officially greenlighting the sold-out A.R.T. production to come to Broadway. Below are the full supporting letters from the estates.

STAGES ST. LOUIS today announced its 26th season! The season is a journey into the luminous sounds of the American composer. The season begins with the Tony Award-winning Best Musical, Ain't Misbehavin', The Fats Waller Musical, which explores the ground-breaking time of the Harlem cultural renaissance in the 1930s and 1940s.

Bill Nabel; a veteran actor of eight Broadway shows with 30 plus years on Broadway with over 9400 performances, a member of the original casts of '42nd Street' and 'Beauty and the Beast' - the latter of which he was the only cast member to do the entire 13 year run; has switched hats and will now see two of his many works mounted within weeks of each other. Utah Shakespeare Festival will present the World Premiere of Mr. Nabel's new play LYING TO SPIELBERG at the Auditorium Theatre (351 West Center Street) in Cedar City, Utah on August 11, 12 and 31. And the Village Theatre will present the West Coast Premiere of TAKE ME AMERICA, a new musical with book and lyrics by Mr. Nabel and music by Bob Christianson from September 14 through November 20 at the Village Theatre of Issaquah, WA and the Village Theatre of Everett, WA.

NETworks Presentations presents a new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical SOUTH PACIFIC, which launches its national tour at the Boston Opera House, for one week only September 27 - October 2, 2011.

Straight, a new play co-authored by Scott Elmegreen and Drew Fornarola, with direction by Tony Award-winner Andy Sandberg (Hair; The Last Smoker in America), will present two invitation-only readings in New York on Monday, September 26, 2011.

Singing OnStage Productions will present Side By Side By Sondheim, a fundraiser launching the company's inaugural season of shows. Artistic Director Richard Biever will direct a cast of three, including Sally Wilfert* (B'way: Assassins, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) Kate Wetherhead* (Legally Blonde, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) with the third cast member to be determined.