Tommy Tune News

Everyone's favorite Hebrew School Dropout is back! Cape May Stage, South Jersey's premier Equity theater, is pleased to welcome back Dave Konig, writer and star of last summer's Hebrew School Dropout, Or: How I Converted from Judaism to Catholicism and Back to Judaism AND Lost Those Stubborn Last 10 Pounds! His hilarious and touching one-man show had Cape May Stage audiences in stitches during a sold out performance last June. This time, Konig will have you splitting your sides with The Further Adventures of a Hebrew School Dropout, detailing all new exploits.

The singer-actress Peggy Herman is making a splashy return to performing in New York City in a new club act conceived and directed by Peter Glebo and the nine-time Tony Award-winner Tommy Tune. She debuts 'Herman on Herman... with a Touch of Merman,' a tribute to the Broadway legend Jerry Herman, at the Metropolitan Room at The Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street. The final performance will take place on Sunday, June 5. Music director Alex Rybeck accompanies on piano.

Goodspeed Musicals will proudly honor the tremendous creative team that introduced the world to Annie nearly 35 years ago when it debuted at the Goodspeed Opera House. The incomparable team of Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin will be celebrated at a Gala evening on Saturday, June 4, 2011 when they will each receive The Goodspeed Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre in recognition of their extraordinary careers. Previous award recipients include Julie Andrews, Ira Gershwin, Jerry Herman, William Ivey Long, Michael P. Price, Gerald Schoenfeld, Stephen Schwartz, Susan Stroman, Tommy Tune and Paul Williams. Proceeds from the Gala will support Goodspeed Musicals' Education Programs through The Max Showalter Center for Education in Musical Theatre.

Goodspeed Musicals will proudly honor the tremendous creative team that introduced the world to Annie nearly 35 years ago when it debuted at the Goodspeed Opera House. The incomparable team of Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin will be celebrated at a Gala evening on Saturday, June 4, 2011 when they will each receive The Goodspeed Award for Outstanding Contribution to Musical Theatre in recognition of their extraordinary careers. Previous award recipients include Julie Andrews, Ira Gershwin, Jerry Herman, William Ivey Long, Michael P. Price, Gerald Schoenfeld, Stephen Schwartz, Susan Stroman, Tommy Tune and Paul Williams. Proceeds from the Gala will support Goodspeed Musicals' Education Programs through The Max Showalter Center for Education in Musical Theatre.

Before the presentation of the first of the final 7 of our Tony Awards clips beginning tomorrow, today we have one of the true standouts of Tony Awards lore, and one of those clips to show the theatrically uninitiated who ask you, "What are the Tony Awards anyway?" Well, honey, this is the Tony Awards. Furthermore, this is the Tony Awards at their very best - and most moving and most theatrical - DREAMGIRLS. Here is the Michael Bennett-directed original cast in a medley specifically devised by Bennett for the Tony Awards telecast - just as he had done for the sequences from A CHORUS LINE featured on the 1976 Tony Awards, choreographing the camera shots and cuts to, and on, the quick - and the original Broadway cast led by that year's Tony-winners Jennifer Holliday and Sheryl Lee Ralph alongside Loretta Devine and Obba Babatunde. There had never been a score or a show quite like DREAMGIRLS on Broadway before and there has not been one yet since - unless the blatant homages in last year's Best Musical MEMPHIS somehow count as soul and originality. This is soul. This is originality. This is genius. And, this is the Tony Awards at their utmost best.

Cape May Stage, South Jersey's #1 professional Equity theatre, is pleased to announce a production of Theresa Rebeck's hilarious The Understudy.

Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston is alive with the sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein this summer as its 43rd consecutive season features the first and last Broadway collaborations of this legendary composing team.

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) will present ROCK OF AGES at Hobby Center for the Performing Arts from May 31 to June 12, 2011.

Tony Yazbeck achieves lift-off as lovestruck aviator in S'wonderful revival of 'My One and Only' at Goodspeed Musicals.

With an uneventful 6pm coming and going on the evening of May 21st, I rested comfortably that night secure in the knowledge that any predictions of the arrival of Judgment Day were, at the very least, miscalculations.  But the next evening, as I sat watching David Burnham, Sally Mayes, Howard McGillin, Billy Stritch, Lillias White and Rachel York perform eight-five minutes of songs composed by Broadway's heppist hepcat, Cy Coleman, you'd have a tough time convincing me I'd not been raptured into Heaven.

As a super-special Spring extension of BroadwayWorld's SOUND OFF column, every day until the Tony Awards on June 12 we will be presenting a spectacular new entry in the SPOTLIGHT ON THE 2011 TONY AWARDS series featuring a particularly entertaining, interesting, relevant and exciting Tony Awards-related clip from the last sixty-three years of the ceremonies (and subsequent seasons on Broadway) with a rundown and commentary on the sights, sounds and showmanship on display in each carefully chosen selection - all, of course, coming in anticipation of Broadway's biggest night, which will be broadcast on CBS this year, as always. Once again this year, BroadwayWorld is the official home of the 2011 Tony Awards and we will also be featuring exclusive interviews, articles, photos, video content, interactive features and more in the coming days and weeks leading up to the event so be sure to check back daily for your theatre fix!

Unless the names 'Noel' and 'Coward' are involved, I tend to be a bit wary about musicals with the book, music, lyrics and direction all by the same person, but Willard Beckham makes a very entertaining go of it with his campy, country/western musical comedy, Lucky Guy.

Theatre Under The Stars (TUTS) will present Urban Cowboy: The Musical from July 14 - 19, 2011.

Everyone's favorite Hebrew School Dropout is back! Cape May Stage, South Jersey's premier Equity theater, is pleased to welcome back Dave Konig, writer and star of last summer's Hebrew School Dropout, Or: How I Converted from Judaism to Catholicism and Back to Judaism AND Lost Those Stubborn Last 10 Pounds! His hilarious and touching one-man show had Cape May Stage audiences in stitches during a sold out performance last June. This time, Konig will have you splitting your sides with The Further Adventures of a Hebrew School Dropout, detailing all new exploits.

It will be the definitive jam session of the summer when Theatre Under The Stars' Humphreys School of Musical Theatre presents FREE performances of Disney's Camp Rock: The Musical at Miller Outdoor Theatre June 8 - 10, 2011 at 11:00 a.m.

"A Strange and Separate People" by Jon Marans will be presented Off Broadway at Theatre Row - Studio Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street, beginning July 14th and Opening Tuesday, July 19th.

'A Strange and Separate People' by Jon Marans will be presented Off Broadway at Theatre Row - Studio Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street, beginning July 14th and Opening Tuesday, July 19th. Daryl Roth and Stacy Shane / ManUnderdog Prods., the original Off Broadway producers of Marans critically acclaimed, award-winning play from last season, The Temperamentals are producing the play. It will be directed by Jeff Calhoun.

The Dallas Opera Guild's 23rd Annual Vocal Competition for young opera singers concluded on a high-note this evening when ten outstanding finalists (with Texas connections) were awarded a total of $20,500 in prize monies. The historic evening marked the first time this much-anticipated spring musical event has graced the stage of the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Downtown Dallas.

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 is EXTENDING through Sunday, May 15th at the El Portal Forum Theatre, 5269 Lankershim Blvd. in North Hollywood.