Make an appointment to see Dr. Dolittle, staged by and starring Tommy Tune, in Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theatre for a limited engagement July 18-30, 2006. The Internet, video games…These days, all this 'interactive' entertainment can get in the way of actually interacting with your kids.
This week: Best Bets for theatre, theatre books, theatre classes and theatre recordings! More Sissies News! Exclusive Discount continues! Plus news of Cockpit-in-Court, Everyman and Vagabonds!
In this edition: A Baltimore.BroadwayWorld exclusive discount for readers of this column! Murder mysteries circle the beltway! Cockpit has Monty and Plaza Suite! CSC has Lear and Shrew in outdoor venue! Toby’s Baltimore opens a new show! Sissies take on Gay Pride at Spotlighters! Plus some Post-Tony thoughts and a special thank you.
In this edition: Local audiences treated to a variety of great theatre – Shakespeare in Ellicott City, Gay Boys in Mt. Vernon (Surprise!), Flappers in Columbia, 80’s Teens in Baltimore! Plus acclaimed runs end this week at Fell’s Point Corner Theatre and CenterStage and classics continue at Everyman and Vagabonds! Plus new Broadway reviews added to list.
Inside this edition: Kids free for Shakespeare in the park! New shows at Spotlighters and Vagabond Players! Acclaimed runs continue at Mobtown and Fell’s Point Corner Theatre! Stage Management Workshop offered! New York reviews for Baltimore audiences!
BroadwayWorld.Baltimore's first contest was a huge success!
Joan Ryan, Kathy Buckley and Amick Byram are among the performers who will take center stage at Stirling's Upstairs in L.A.
Win tickets to Baltimore's newest theatrical attraction - Toby's Dinner Theatre of Baltimore!
A Chorus Line, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical, proudly
announces the 2006 cast.
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Wicked, Avenue Q, Caroline or Change, Evita and Spamalot join a long list of musical productions opening in 2006..
In October of 2006, the stage musical version of Dirty Dancing will open in the West End
Mill Mountain Theatre is pleased to welcome to the stage a musical version of a Dickens' classic. Edwin Wilson (book and lyrics) and Doug Katsaros (music) have adapted GREAT EXPECTATIONS to create a new musical which will premiere on Mill Mountain Theatre's Trinkle Main Stage on February 22 and continue until March 12, 2006.
The following is an interview I conducted in Chicago, Illinois, with the beautiful and multi talented Gwen Hollander who is currently on tour playing Amy March in the National Touring Company of Little Women-The Broadway Musical. Gwen's character, Amy, is described as the baby of the March family and is popular, artistic and loves material possessions, which creates the conflict in the musical as she is the polar opposite of her sister Jo on their views on how a woman should live their life.
Altar Boyz' Danny Calvert will be among the performers in In the Name of Love, a February 13th benefit for God's Love We Deliver
The world premiere of Jewsical-The Chosen Musical--by the creators of Ruthless!--will play one performance on January 13th
Dee Hoty will star opposite Tommy Tune in the new national tour of Doctor Dolittle, for which full casting is now complete
The production will star Josh Strickland as Tarzan, Jenn Gambatese as Jane, Merle Dandridge as Kala, Shuler Hensley as Kerchak, Chester Gregory II as Terk, Timothy Jerome as Professor Porter and Donnie Keshawarz as Clayton. Daniel Manche and Alex Rutherford will alternate in the role of Young Tarzan.
Tickets for this year's 'Kids' Night on Broadway: 10th Birthday Edition' -- that once-a year-opportunity for young people, age 6-18, to attend a Broadway show for free when accompanied by a full-paying adult - are on sale for select shows from now through December 15.
The Theatreworks/NYC production of A Christmas Carol will run December 10th through 31st off-Broadway
The Great American Trailer Park will be recorded by Sh-K-Boom records, with the cast going into the studio on October 26th; it will be released online in December and commercially in early 2006
Anika Noni Rose has been cast as Lorrell Robinson in the upcoming film version of the musical Dreamgirls
The cast includes Jill Clayburgh (Bess), Richard Thomas (Jeffrey), Matthew Morrison (Thad), Susan Kelechi Watson (Juliet), James Yaegashi (Bill), Leslie Ayvazian (Elaine) and Ann Guilbert (Sadie).
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