Victoria Huston-Elem News

Bronx-based queer composer Karl Saint Lucy presents Different Stars: A Reckoning with Time, Trauma, and Circumstance on the evening of Saturday, August 15 at 7:00 p.m. (EDT).

Three new releases now available on digital platforms today via Broadway Records, Broadbend, Arkansas (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording), The Perfect Fit a?" The Musical (The Remote Album), and the re-release of Golden Boy of the Blue Ridge (Original Cast Recording). You can buy or stream all three where digital musical is sold.

Alternately funny and touching, Artists in Residence is a reminder that, even in frustrating days, creativity and community shine a light.

Need something new to listen to or watch? Check out this week's list of new and upcoming releases, including Robbie Rozelle's 'Songs From Inside My Locker', Our Table (Melissa Errico, Constantine Maroulis, and more), and many others

Broadway Records and producer Andrew Gerle have announced the full roster of performers who will premiere the 14 new songs on the upcoming album 'Artists in Residence,' to benefit the Actors Fund and the Dramatists Guild Foundation.

Seduction. Betrayal. Revenge. Murderinos of Broadway is BACK with a special show for Valentine's Day Weekend: Crimes of the Heart! Created by Christopher & Kevin Metzger-Timson, Murderinos of Broadway: A a?oeMy Favorite Murdera?? Tribute brings the hit true crime podcast to life with a laugh and a song. Featuring a slew of MFM fans from the Broadway community, Murderinos of Broadway will feature performers giving you their best Karen or Georgia by telling you their favorite hometown murders AND serenading you with a song on the side. So come celebrate Valentine's Day Weekend with your fellow Murderinos! And remember: Stay out of the forest (even if you need to go a?oeInto the Woodsa??). SSDGM!

New York Theatre Barn will produce a reading of the new musical A Complicated Woman: The John Kenley Show on February 27th, 2020 in New York City. The reading will be directed by Jeff Calhoun (Newsies, Bonnie and Clyde, Big River). New York Theatre Barn serves as a home for new musicals during incubation.

ThreeTimesFast, a new musical by Teresa Lotz and Naomi Matlow, held industry readings on February 3rd and 4th, 2020 in New York City. ThreeTimesFast features music by Teresa Lotz, lyrics by Naomi Matlow, and book by Lotz and Matlow. The reading was directed by Michael Bello (Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, We Are The Tigers), with music direction by Elizabeth Doran (Mean Girls) and dramaturgy by Jessica Kahkoska (Agent 355). Stage Management was by Helen Irene Muller, with casting by Kate Lumpkin Casting.

On March 20 and 21, vocalists James Jackson, Jr. (A Strange Loop at Playwrights Horizons), Danielle Buonaiuto, and Victoria Huston-Elem will join composer and vocalist Karl Saint Lucy in Orion's Belt: Selections from Different Stars at Pangea. The concert is a 60-minute cut of Saint Lucy's queer song cycle, Different Stars, and marks the first time the songs have been performed together as a set.

Is there a better way to celebrate the birth of one of the greatest living songwriters than with song itself? I think not. And Feinstein's/54 Below clearly felt the same last night when it brought some of Broadway's greatest voices together to celebrate the birthday of one Miss Dolly Parton. The woman who gave us 'I Will Always Love You', 'Jolene', '9 to 5' and so much more is not only one of the greatest singers, songwriters, and entertainers of all time, but one of those rare artists who has the ability to reach across barriers and touch everyone from drag queens, to Middle America, to the mass public, and bring them all together in celebration of beautiful music.

Dee Roscioli (Wicked, The Cher Show), Nicole Vanessa Ortiz (Smokey Joe's Café), Ben Clark (The Circus in Winter, Skin and Bones), Gregory Driscoll (Fab The Duo), Victoria Huston-Elem (Finding Neverland), Jenna Najjar (54 Sings Ed Sheeran), Marissa Rosen (Kristin Chenoweth: For The Girls), Ian Shain (Dolly Parton's Smokey Mountain Christmas Carol), Pearl Sun (Come From Away), Kuhoo Verma (Octet), Sarah Warrick (Kristin Chenoweth: My Love Letter to Broadway), Jacob Keith Watson (Carousel, Violet), and Eli Zoller (First Date) round off the cast of 54 Sings Dolly Parton at Feinstein's/54 Below, Sunday, January 19th, 2020 at 7:00PM & 9:30PM.

If you're in the mood to treat yourself to a wonderful piece of regional theatre this holiday season, look no further than Flint Repertory Theatre's production of Into The Woods. With just five more shows until this Sunday, December 15th, make sure you go on and purchase your tickets now.

Flint Repertory Theatre presents the Tony Award winning musical “INTO THE WOODS”, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by James Lapine. Performances are Friday, December 6 through Sunday, December 15. Tickets are now on sale.

Following over two months of weekly staged readings of developing and classic plays, The Circle Series announces their first staged reading of a musical.

Meet the cast of SUNSET BOULEVARD at North Shore Music Theatre, which stars Alice Ripley as the fading Hollywood star, Norma Desmond

In the annals of musical theater, Norma Desmond is one of those larger than life characters, like Mame Dennis, Dolly Levi, and Eva Peron, who cries out for an actor with a specific and rare combination of skills to play the role. Tony Award-winner Alice Ripley ascends to playing the faded silent-screen star in the North Shore Music Theatre production of SUNSET BOULEVARD, after originating the role of Betty Schaefer in the 1994 original Broadway cast which starred Glenn Close. In so doing, Ripley joins the pantheon of singular talents who have put their personal stamp on the musical iteration of Norma, stepping out of the shadow of the indelible mark Gloria Swanson made on celluloid in Billy Wilder's 1950 film.

North Shore Music Theatre has announced complete casting for the upcoming production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's masterwork, SUNSET BOULEVARD, which will star the previously announced Alice Ripley as the fading Hollywood star, Norma Desmond.

The Green Room 42, Brian Calì presents Harmony POP! on August, 5th at 9:30pm. Join some of the best in the Broadway Community for an evening of Harmony. Jake Odmark is back at it. This time, taking your favorite POP melodies and reimagining them through his epic harmonies.

Ben Clark is still a largely unknown composer, unless you've heard his unforgettable music. A new voice in American musical theatre, for the past decade Clark has contributed music and lyrics for three musicals: The Circus in Winter, Skin and Bones, and the very recent Bruno and the Gospel of Infinity. Composing on guitar, drawing influence from artists like Jeff Buckley, Dave Matthews, and Martin Sexton, Clark's writing style is a story-driven blend of folk, Americana, and rock. A new voice with traditional roots needs a venue to match, and there is no better place to make his New York City debut than The Green Room 42.