Anything Goes Revival 2006 - Articles Page 19

In November, Kristin Huffman made her Broadway debut as Sarah (flute, piccolo and sax) in John Doyle's production of Company. The actress, with a new series of tales that go inside the making of Company from an actor's perspective, starting at the Cincinnati Playhouse and on to New York, continues her stories about a 15-year career that has led her to the door of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Broadway's Tony Award-winning hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone will welcome Broadway veteran Gerry Vichi to the cast on Tuesday, June 5th at the Marquis Theatre

We take you to the recording studio as the Original Cast Album of 'High Fidelity' is being recorded. We have interviews with Will Chase, Jen Colella, Tom Kitt, Amanda Green, Rachel Stern, John Patrick Walker, Christian Anderson and Jay Kleitz. Plus, you'll hear parts of many of your favorite songs from the show including the full length versions of 'She Goes' and 'Turn the World Off (And Turn You On).'

In November, Kristin Huffman made her Broadway debut as Sarah (flute, piccolo and sax) in John Doyle's production of Company. The actress, with a new series of tales that go inside the making of Company from an actor's perspective, continues her stories about a 15-year career that has led her to the door of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.

Following its staging of the UK premieres of musicals 'Tick, Tick Boom' in 2005 and 'The Last Five Years' in 2006, the Menier Chocolate Factory will go one better this summer by staging the World Premiere of the new Maltby and Shire musical, 'Take Flight' from July 25 to September 22 (previewing from July 13). The Menier will hope to repeat the success of its other 2005 musical production, 'Sunday In the Park With George', as 'Take Flight' reunites the artistic team that presented the award winning Sondheim revival - director Sam Buntrock and designer David Farley.

Broadway's five-time Tony Award-winning hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone will welcome a trio of leading ladies in the coming months.

Multi award-winning actress and recording artist Elaine Paige will return to the West End to take the title role in the Broadway smash hit musical, The Drowsy Chaperone. Directed and choreographed by Casey Nicholaw, with music by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison and book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, the five-time Tony Award winning musical will preview at the Novello Theatre from 14 May, with press night on 5 June and opening night on 6 June.

Dominic, who quit his H.S. baseball and hockey teams to concentrate on theater, is playing more than half a dozen characters in his Broadway debut.

Tony nominee Rebecca Luker, currently starring in the critically acclaimed production of MARY POPPINS, will be a guest on XM Radio's 'Downstage Center' Friday, January 5 at 6:00PM.

Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's in Studio City, CA - which presented its first talent search entitled LA's Next Great Stage Star November 20 through December 12, 2006 - is pleased to announce that after over a hundred submissions and auditions to become one of 17 contestants in what will become an annual talent competition, Merissa Haddad was voted LA's Next Great Stage Star

Victor Garber and Mimi Hines are the latest stars to sign onto the upcoming Encores! staged concert production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, presented from February 8th through 11th, 2007 at City Center

The Williamstown Theatre Festival (2002 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre) will salute the three-time Tony Award-winng playwright and Academy Award-winning film writer Tom Stoppard (The Real Thing, Travesties, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) at a Gala to benefit the Festival on Monday, November 13, 2006 in New York.

Actors Patti LuPone, George Hearn and Elizabeth Wilson, playwright Brian Friel, costume designer Willa Kim and scenic designer Eugene Lee, as well as late playwrights August Wilson and Wendy Wasserstein, will be inducted into the 2006 Theater Hall of Fame

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BroadwayWorld.com is proud to introduce its newest site feature...Broadway Art by Norn Cutson!

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.

The Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced that tickets for its 2006 season will be available online at wtfestival.org beginning Friday, June 9

The dynamic duo of The Pajama Game, nominated (respectively) for Best Lead Actor and Actress in a Musical talk to BroadwayWorld about awards, their replacements and lots more...

John Barrowman will star in a holiday pantomime of Jack & the Beanstalk in Wales from December 16th, 2006 through January 27th, 2007

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.