Award-Winning Book, Adapted Into Family Musical, Performs in Montclair, N.J. For Holidays
Paper Candles: How Courage and Goodness Triumphed in an American Town recounts the unforgettable true story of events that occurred in Billings, Montana, when a group of bigots targeted the town's tiny Jewish population for acts of hate during the 1993 Christmas and Hanukkah season. Inspired by the 1943 rescue of the Danish Jews by their Christian fellow citizens in Nazi occupied Denmark, town residents of all colors and religions came together to take a stand in a way that has become a model for communities across the nation.
'A Moon for the Misbegotten,' written between 1941-1943 was performed for the first time in Columbus, Ohio in 1947. The play premiered on Broadway in 1957 and has been revived four times, winning multiple Tony Awards. The most recent production starring Kevin Spacey and Eve Best in 2007 came to Broadway after its run at the Old Vic Theatre in London.
On Sunday, November 9, the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and 75 years since Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust and The Royal Conservatory of Music, Canada, will launch 'Music in Exile-Emigré Composers of the 1930s,' a five-day series of concerts, talks, and a music-theater piece celebrating the music of Jewish composers forced to flee the Third Reich and German composers who resisted the Nazi regime.
'A Moon for the Misbegotten,' written between 1941-1943 was performed for the first time in Columbus, Ohio in 1947. The play premiered on Broadway in 1957 and has been revived four times, winning multiple Tony Awards. The most recent production starring Kevin Spacey and Eve Best in 2007 came to Broadway after its run at the Old Vic Theatre in London.
On Sunday, November 9, the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, and 75 years since Adolf Hitler's rise to power, the Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in association with Canada's Royal Conservatory of Music, will launch 'Music in Exile-Emigre Composers of the 1930s,' a five-day series of concerts, talks, and a music-theater piece celebrating the music of Jewish composers forced to flee the Third Reich and German composers who resisted the Nazi regime.
MEL MILLER, Producer and Artistic Director of MUSICALS TONIGHT! has announced casting for THE HAPPY TIME, running March 6th through March 18th.
78th Street Theatre Lab will present The Nibroc Trilogy-- three Off-Broadway plays, set between the start of World War II and early 1950s, chronicling the love story of recurring central characters, May and Raleigh -- with previews set to begin March 17, prior to an official press opening Sunday, April 1 at the 78th Street Theatre Lab in Manhattan
In 2006, four new Broadway by the Year concerts will feature songs from the musicals of 1930, 1956, 1968 and 1978
Marc Kudisch, Sutton Foster and Nancy Anderson are some of the stars featured on the latest CD release of Broadway by the Year
The lavish, new production of Rodger's & Hammerstein's The King & I, starring Sandy Duncan and directed by Baayork Lee, will grace the stage of Boston's Wang Theatre for one week only, when it opens on Tuesday, October 12 and plays through Sunday, October 17, 2004. Press night is scheduled for Wednesday, October 13 at 7:00 PM.
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