Good News is a musical with a book by Laurence Schwab and B.G. DeSylva, lyrics by DeSylva and Lew Brown, and music by Ray Henderson. The story is set in the Roaring Twenties at Tait College, where football star Tom Marlowe falls in love with studious Connie Lane, who is tutoring him so he can pass astronomy and be eligible to play in the big game.
After three years of sold-out shows, performing to an audience of over 2,000,000, WICKED remains the most 'Popular' show in all of Oz and has changed Chicago 'For Good.'
Westport Country Playhouse and Westport Arts Center will co-present two award-winning legends - playwright Edward Albee and film and theatre actor Kathleen Turner in 'Artists in Conversation,' a casual, intimate talk between two theatre professionals who also happen to be good friends, on Monday, June 23, 8 p.m., at the Playhouse.
Andrea Marcovicci Returns to 'Lyrics & Lyricists'™ with an evening of gems from the post-1965 repertoire to refute the notion that rock 'n' roll killed the art of songwriting. At the final 'Lyrics & Lyricists' of the 2009 season - Did the American Songbook Really End in 1965?
The Broadway musical WICKED will welcome two former cast members back to the blockbuster hit this spring. Beginning Wednesday, May 14, KENDRA KASSEBAUM
will return to the role of Glinda the Good Witch and beginning Tuesday, June 17, JAYNE HOUDYSHELL will return to the role of Madame Morrible.
Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director; Ellen Richard, Executive Director) has announced that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's new play, GOOD BOYS AND TRUE, will begin preview performances on Wednesday, April 23 at Second Stage Theatre (307 West 43rd Street, just west of Eighth Avenue).
The number one news story of 2007, for this critic, is the arrival of a fresh, daring new theatre company.
The cast of Altar Boyz, the acclaimed musical comedy at New World Stages, will perform a special rendition of the holiday classic, 'Silent Night' with an Altar Boyz arrangement (by Musical Director Jason Loffredo) on Fox 5's 'Good Day New York' on Christmas morning, Tuesday, December 25
Second Stage Theatre has announced that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's new play, Good Boys and True, will be the third production of its current season. Directed by Tony Award-nominee Scott Ellis, Good Boys and True will begin previews in late April and will officially open in mid-May.
Actor and comedian Bob Saget, who recently made his Broadway debut in the Tony Award winning musical Te Drowsy Chaperone, will visit Fox 5's 'Good Day New York' and NBC's 'The Today Show' studios on Tuesday, November 6.
Ravinia Festival has commissioned award-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones, who most recently won a Tony for his choreography for Spring Awakening, to create a new full-evening work, tentatively titled A Good Man, inspired by Abraham Lincoln and celebrating the slain president's 2009 bicentennial.
New this week! Best Bet: Titanic: The Musical! News of Everyman Explore! Series! CENTERSTAGE Events! Baltimore Shakespeare Festival Fund Raiser! Much more!
Elton John and Lee Hall's multi award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical, directed by Stephen Daldry, will celebrate its 1000th performance at the Victoria Palace Theatre on October 4, 2007 after opening in March 2005. Additionally, two new Billys will join the cast shortly.
This week: Best Bet: Rep Stage's Mrs. Farnsworth! Spotlighters goes dark! BPF to perform at the Kennedy Center! News of The Wedding Singer and My Fair Lady tours!
Elton John and Lee Hall's multi award-winning Billy Elliot The Musical, directed by Stephen Daldry, has been playing at the Victoria Palace Theatre since March 2005 where it continues to break box office records and has now taken over £50 million.
Fox 5's Good Day New York Anchors Jodi Applegate and Ron Corning, along with the Good Day Team of Lucy Noland, Anne Craig, Katherine Creag and Mike Woods, will serve as Media Ambassadors for SINGLES' NIGHT ON BROADWAY, a new pilot audience development program of The League of American Theatres and Producers, Inc.
According to the new study 'The Economic Impact of Touring Broadway,' touring productions are in good shape and bringing in much money to Broadway
The grosses, attendances and playing weeks of the 2005-2006 season set several records, indicating that Broadway is in very good health
James Badge Dale ('24'), Emmy and Golden Globe Nominee Wendie Malick ('Just Shoot Me'), Mark Moses ('Desperate Housewives') and Ashley Williams ('Huff,' 'Good Morning Miami') will star in the U.S. premiere of BURLEIGH GRIME$.
Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced additional casting and new details for the company's final production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season, the World Premiere of THE BUSY WORLD IS HUSHED, a new play by Keith Bunin (The Credeaux Canvas and The World Over, both at Playwrights Horizons).
Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced complete details for the fifth production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season, the World Premiere of PEN, a new play by David Marshall Grant.
Playwrights Horizons (Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director) has announced that Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning star Christine Lahti will make her eagerly-awaited return to the stage in the company's final production of its 2005/2006 35th Anniversary Season,
Come see the cast of ALTAR BOYZ in person when they appear live on 'Good Day NY' (Fox 5) from the world famous Madame Tussaud's in Times Square (234 West 42nd Street), on Tuesday January 31st between 6:30 am to 8 am. The event will kick off KIDS NIGHT ON BROADWAY.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) is seeking submissions for its 2006 Next Link Project season
The cast of the hit off-Broadway musical Bingo will appear on 'WB-11 Morning News' on December 30th
On Monday, January 2, 2005, Broadway's Jessica-Snow Wilson (Little Shop of Horrors, Good Vibrations) will join the cast of BINGO, the winning new musical hailed by The New York Times as 'fun-loving musical theatre.'
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