A Weekly Theater Column for the Baltimore/Washington Area
The national tour of the hit 'Hairspray' returned to Los Angeles
a year after its first engagement on Tuesday evening, and even after criss-crossing the country and casting changes in the lead roles, this show still pleases the senses, providing a joyous and ebullient evening of theatre!
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Steven Baruch, Marc Routh, Richard Frankel and Thomas Viertel announced
today that they will present a new production of THE FANTASTICKS, the
world's longest running musical, beginning preview performances on Friday,
July 28, 2006 and opening on Thursday, August 17 at New York's brand new
Snapple Theater Center (210 West 50th Street at Broadway).
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's THE PIRATE QUEEN, the spectacular new musical from the authors of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, will play a pre-Broadway, World Premiere engagement in Chicago from October 3rd through November 26th, 2006.
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Hairspray star John Hill is returning to the Duplex with his new show Skinny Corpse for four performances only from May 15th through June 5th
San Francisco's Best of Broadway 2006-07 Season features many highly-anticipated theatre events! Including 'Jersey Boys,' 'The Light in the Piazza,' 'Legally Blonde,' 'Edward Scissorhands,' 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,' 'Doubt,' and 'Altar Boyz.'
A Chorus Line, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical, proudly
announces the 2006 cast.
Hal Luftig, Fox Theatricals and Dori Berinstein, in association with MGM Onstage, Darcie Denkert and Dean Stolber, are psyched to announce LEGALLY BLONDE, the musical, based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture. Previews begin on March 30, 2007 and opening night is set for April 26, 2007 at a Broadway theatre to be announced. LEGALLY BLONDE will play a world premiere, pre-Broadway engagement in San Francisco at The Orpheum Theatre January 2007.
BroadwayWorld.com has learned that Caissie Levy, currently in the National Tour of 'Hairspray' will make her Broadway debut as Penny Pingleton from May 23rd - August 31st, 2006
The Helen Hayes Awards honor achievement, celebrate, and promote the Washington D.C. professional theatre.
Masterworks Broadway proudly releases the original cast recording of the new
Broadway musical The Wedding Singer on June 6, 2006, marking the first CD
from this new label.
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Multi-talented actor/writer Harvey Fierstein, who recently returned to his award-winning role of Edna Turnblad in the Las Vegas company of Hairspray after completing a year as Tevye in the record-breaking Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof, will host The 51st Annual DRAMA DESK AWARDS on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 9:00 PM
The 5th Avenue Musical Theatre Company's high-profile 2006-2007 season will include several touring shows, some classic musicals and one world premiere, Broadway-bound musical.
The 5th Avenue Musical Theatre Company's high-profile 2006-2007 season will include several touring shows, some classic musicals and one world premiere, Broadway-bound musical--Cry-Baby
According to The New York Post's Michael Riedel, producers are bidding for the rights to produce John Doyle's critically acclaimed Cincinatti production of Company, starring Raul Esparza, in New York during the 2006-2007 season
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NETworks will send off new national tours of The Producers and Hairspray in the 2006-2007 theatre season
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Two new productions of operas by Rossini and Puccini will be helmed, respectively, by The Light in the Piazza's Bartlett Sher and Dirty Rotten Scoundrel's Jack O'Brien as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 2006-2007 season
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