Roger Bart News

Red Branch Theatre Company (RBTC) will host playwright, dramaturg, and fiction author James Magruder during the run of their upcoming production of Triumph of Love.

CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY comes to Feinstein's at the Nikko this weekend, September 20 & 21. Acclaimed character actor, Tim Bagley ('Will and Grace,' 'Monk,' 'Knocked Up,' 'Web Therapy'), will be joining the cast.

Actors & Others for Animals presents a unique theater experience, CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, featuring Roger Bart, Mindy Cohn, Florence Henderson, Lainie Kazan, Laraine Newman, Eugene Pack, Dayle Reyfel, Steven Weber, Fred Willard and A&O President, JoAnne Worley, on Monday, October 13, 2014 at the El Portal Theatre.

Due to a scheduling conflict, Roger Bart will no longer be performing in CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY at Feinstein's at the Nikko on September 20 & 21. Acclaimed character actor, Tim Bagley ("Will and Grace," "Monk," "Knocked Up," "Web Therapy"), will be joining the cast.

The Daily Mail writes that director Jamie Lloyd has 'amicably' left the team of the new BACK TO THE FUTURE musical adaptation, just before the show was set to begin workshops in Los Angeles and London. Lloyd and Bob Gale -- screenwriter for the three BACK TO THE FUTURE films -- 'disagreed over the production's direction.'

The Friday, August 15 (8:00 p.m.) premiere of the Disney Channel Original Movie 'How to Build a Better Boy,' headlined by Disney Channel and Disney XD sitcom stars China Anne McClain ('A.N.T. Farm') and Kelli Berglund ('Lab Rats'), delivered 4.6 million Total Viewers, ranking as Friday's #1 cable TV telecast and the #1 TV telecast among Kids 2-11 (2.5 million/6.2 rating), Kids 6-11 (1.9 million/8.2 rating) and Tweens 9-14 (1.7 million/7.1 rating).

Entertainment Weekly, brought a whole roundup of casting news this week, featuring big name stars, indie films, and more.

Recording artist China Anne McClain (Hollywood Records' McCLAIN and Disney Channel's 'A.N.T. Farm') and Kelli Berglund (Disney XD's 'Lab Rats') star as tech whizzes who computer-program the perfect boy and in the process trigger a national incident in 'How to Build a Better Boy,' a Disney Channel Original Movie premiering TONIGHT, AUGUST 15 (8:00 p.m., ET/PT) on Disney Channel.

New York's 2009 Drama Desk Award winner CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY is coming to San Francisco's Feinstein's at the Nikko (222 Mason Street) for two performances only - Saturday, September 20 (7 p.m.) and Sunday, September 21 (7 p.m.). Tickets for CELEBRITY AUTOBIOGRAPHY range in price from $35 - $50 and available now by calling 866.663.1063 or visiting www.ticketweb.com.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? This weekend's big news: Acclaimed choreographers Jerry Mitchell and Larry Keigwin co-host the 2014 Fire Island Dance Festival, Zach Braff's WISH I WAS HERE hits the big screen, a starry production of CATS opens in Pittsburgh, iLUMINATE marks one year, and DROP DEAD PERFECT opens off-Broadway this Sunday!

According to a Tweet by Baz Bamigboye, theatre columnist for the Daily Mail, there is a rumor floating around that Roger Bart will play 'Doc Brown' in the upcoming workshop of the new BACK TO THE FUTURE musical by Jamie Lloyd.

On a November Saturday afternoon in 2007, I anxiously entered the Hilton Theatre in New York. I love exaggerated, well-conceived and performed farce. I was going to see 'Young Frankenstein' by the king of farce and parody, Mel Brooks. Yes, 'Young Frankenstein,' officially known as 'The New Mel Brooks Young Frankenstein,' was the Broadway follow-up to 'The Producers,' by the comedy madman and his writing sidekick, Thomas Meehan.

Recording artist China Anne McClain (Hollywood Records' McCLAIN and Disney Channel's 'A.N.T. Farm') and Kelli Berglund (Disney XD's 'Lab Rats') star as tech whizzes who computer-program the perfect boy and in the process trigger a national incident in 'How to Build a Better Boy'

The cast for the upcoming Broadway musical, Finding Neverland, has begun rehearsals; but, according to Deadline, Roger Bart has backed out of the production. He was set to play Charles Frohman, an American theatre producer from the turn of the century nineteenth century.

Today in 1999, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown closed at the Ambassador Theatre, where it ran for 149 performances. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts. The revival cast featured Anthony Rapp as Charlie Brown, Kristin Chenoweth as Sally and Roger Bart as Snoopy.

Popular stage and screen crossover stars Jeremy Jordan and Laura Michelle Kelly were announced earlier today as the headliners of the highly anticipated stage adaptation of the hit PETER PAN-centric film FINDING NEVERLAND and the pair have been spotted on social media sharing a few selfies.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: On this lovely Father's Day weekend, BUYER & CELLAR celebrates 400 performances off-Broadway, Lesli Margherita addresses her subjects at 54 Below tonight, Sandra Oh, known to most as 'Cristina Yang' from GREY'S ANATOMY, stars in DEATH AND THE MAIDEN in Chicago, and Jessica Grove leads a starry cast in THE LITTLE MERMAID in Houston!

There may not have been 76 trombones, but Florence Henderson and Constantine Maroulis did excellent impersonations of librarian Marian Paroo and Harold Hill of 'The Music Man' fame, as they lead a 28 piece marching Broadway band into the Skirball Cultural Center in the new Guerin Pavilion/Herscher Hall to begin an evening of co-hosting for the Actors Fund's 18th Annual Tony Awards® Party. Check out the photos below!

Hudson, along with Alica Keys and Taylor Swift, will most likely be involved in a 'Finding Neverland' concept album, set to be released shortly before the show comes to Broadway.