Tommy Tune News

Nine-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune in Steps in Time: A Broadway Biography in Song and Dance Featuring The Manhattan Rhythm Kings will perform on Thursday, August 11 at 7:30pm at The Colonial Theatre.

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) will open its 2011-2012 season with the golden age, swing-era musical comedy Guys and Dolls, a Tony Award winner for Best Musical and Best Musical Revival.

The University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Theatre Arts presents its 2011-2012 Season which kicks off on September 14, 2011 with Night Train to Bolina, a play written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Miami native Nilo Cruz.

The Broadway Theatre Project (BTP) is proud to have just completed its 21st consecutive phenomenal three week intensive training program developing key aspects of the Performing Arts and teaching critical life skills for extraordinary theatrical young people on the campus of University of South Florida.

The Art Directors Guild (ADG) Film Society and American Cinematheque will screen the original widescreen color 'directors cut' of Ken Russell's 'The Boy Friend' (1971), an all but lost treasure with few surviving prints, on Sunday, July 31 at 5:30 p.m. at the Aero Theatre (1328 Montana Avenue, Santa Monica).

This is the final week for the showcase of 'A Strange and Separate People' by Jon Marans. It is presented by Stacy Shane, the original producer of Marans' critically acclaimed, award-winning play, The Temperamentals.

Theatre Under The Stars' (TUTS) Humphreys School of Musical Theatre (HSMT) will develop and present the Southwest regional premiere of VOTE! A New Musical, a high-energy musical that takes a look at the good, the bad, and the funny of high school student council elections.

This is the final week for the showcase of 'A Strange and Separate People' by Jon Marans. It is presented by Stacy Shane, the original producer of Marans' critically acclaimed, award-winning play, The Temperamentals.

BONNIE & CLYDE, which will open this fall on Broadway, has just launched its official website! Additionally, the new site features song previews from the show including: 'Bonnie,' 'Made in America,' 'Dyin AInt So Bad,' 'What Was Always Good Enough,' 'You Can Do Better,'You're Goin Back to Jail,' 'You Love Who You Love,' and more! The production will play at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 West 45th Street), beginning previews on Friday, November 4th and opening on Thursday, December 1st. BONNIE & CLYDE has direction by JEFF CALHOUN, music by FRANK WILDHORN, lyrics by DON BLACK, book by IVAN MENCHELL and music supervision/orchestrations/arrangements by JOHN McDANIEL. Visit the all new website by clicking here!

The University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Theatre Arts presents its 2011-2012 Season which kicks off on September 14, 2011 with Night Train to Bolina, a play written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Miami native Nilo Cruz.

Boomermania Productions is thrilled to announce that the West Coast Premiere of its smash-hit, brand new musical, BOOMERMANIA - The Musical about the Baby Boomers!, written and directed by Debbie Kasper & Pat Sierchio, with choreography by Edward Carignan, musical direction by Mary Ekler and produced by Michael Anthony Gremo just keeps on "BOOM-ING" and is EXTENDING again and will now play through Sunday, July 24 at the El Portal Forum Theatre, 5269 Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood.

Dubbed 'The greatest white female singer in the world' by none other than Aretha Franklin, star vocalist Marilyn Maye will make her Provincetown debut at The Art House on August 11th and 12th at 7:00PM featuring Billy Stritch on the piano.

Broadway Star Marc Kudisch (9 to 5, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Assassins) will offer a musical theatre master class on Monday, August 29th from 6:30 to 10:30pm at the Davenport Studio in Midtown Manhattan.

Nine-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune in Steps in Time: A Broadway Biography in Song and Dance Featuring The Manhattan Rhythm Kings will perform on Thursday, August 11 at 7:30pm at The Colonial Theatre.

Paper Mill Playhouse has just announced the full creative team behind its season opener, the premiere of a new Disney stage musical, Newsies. Featuring music by eight-time Academy Award®-winning composer Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Sister Act, The Little Mermaid), lyrics by Jack Feldman and a new book by four-time Tony® Award winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy), Newsies is adapted for the stage from the 1992 live-action Disney feature film musical. The show begins performances on Thursday, September 15. The official press opening is scheduled for Sunday, September 25.

Susan Anton is announced to join the cast of HAIRSPRAY at the Hollywood Bowl as Velma Von Tussle. The production reunites the original Broadway stars Harvey Fierstein and Marissa Jaret Winokur; and includes Corbin Bleu, Drew Carey, Diana DeGarmo, Mo Gaffney, Nick Jonas, Darlene Love, Tara Macri, Michael McDonald and John Stamos. Anton co-starred as Velma Von Tussle in the Las Vegas production of the Broadway musical, Hairspray, opposite Harvey Fierstein. HAIRSPRAY is at the Hollywood Bowl for three performances only, August 5, 6, and 7.