Rocco Landesman News

Tony Award-nominee Hunter Foster will reprise his performance as Leo Bloom opposite John Treacy Egan's Max Bialystock in The Producers beginning July 27th

Tony Award-winner Roger Bart will reprise the role of Leo Bloom in Broadway's The Producers beginning Tuesday, May 16th

Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Jersey Boys, Daniel Jenkins, Kate Burton, Lynn Redgrave and Matthew Broderick took part in the Actors' Fund's May 8th gala, and BroadwayWorld was there!

Audra McDonald, Kate Burton, Brian Stokes Mitchell and Matthew Broderick will be among the stars taking part in the Actors' Fund's gala on May 8th

Ken Page and Natascia Diaz were among the winners of the first annual Kevin Kline Awards for St. Louis theatre

The Actors' Fund will honor producer Rocco Landesman at their May 8th gala

The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) is seeking submissions for its 2006 Next Link Project season

THE PRODUCERS the new MEL BROOKS musical proudly announces that John Treacy Egan will become the newest 'Max Bialystock' on Broadway, beginning Tuesday, October 25. In other casting news, 'Queer Eye For The Straight Guy' culture maven, Jai Rodriguez, returns to Broadway, stepping into the role of 'Carmen Ghia', beginning Tuesday, November 1.

Jed Bernstein, the president of the League of American Theatres and Producers, will leave his post at the end of the current Broadway theatre season

Broadway producer/theatre owner Rocco Landesman, president of Jujamcyn Theatres, will be presented with a special award by the Times Square Alliance for his longtime support of design, as part of the Alliance's Design Times Square initiative.

Brad Oscar will mark his one thousandth performance as Max Bialystock in The Producers on September 1st

Single tickets for the 2005 New York Musical Theatre Festival will go on sale to the general public on August 29th

The Great American Trailer Park Musical, currently in previews at Dodgers Stages, will give a benefit performance for the New York Musical Theatre Festival on September 12th

The Producers has just recouped its £5,500,000 capitalisation and the musical has now been seen by well over 550,000 people in London since it started performances on 25 October 2004.

Brad Oscar and Hunter Foster will once again charm audiences as Bialystock and Bloom in The Producers, beginning on July 5th

Tony-winner Bart will reprise his 'Leo Bloom' opposite Richard Kind's Max Bialystock beginning May 3, 2005

On Sunday evening, November 21, 2004, The Metropolitan Opera Guild will honor Kitty Carlisle and Moss Hart at a gala benefit program and dinner at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. This unique double tribute --- affectionately entitled HART TO HART --- will celebrate the achievements and contributions of these two icons from the worlds of film, opera, radio, television, theater, and politics.

Co-hosts for the evening will be Julie Andrews and Beverly Sills. Appearances and performances will be by Jane Alexander, Orson Bean, Polly Bergen, Steven Blier, Mario Cuomo, Michael Feinstein, Robert Goulet ,Denyce Graves, Rosemary Harris, Celeste Holm, Audra McDonald, Sylvia McNair, Anna Moffo, Rise Stevens and Kitty Carlisle Hart, plus many more surprise guests.