Spring Awakening Tour 2010 - Articles Page 14

Michael Mayer is this year's recipient of the 2010 Drama Desk Award for Best Direction of a Musical for American Idiot.

'I murdered Mozart!' rings out across Europe from Composer Antonio Salieri on his death-bed. Salieri had been the toast of Europe. He had been a devout Catholic all his life. He made a pact with God that he would be the vessel through which God's music would spring. All was good until Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in Vienna. In horror Salieri determines that it is Mozart instead who is his God's chosen voice.

Subscriptions to the Signature Theatre Company (Founding Artistic Director James Houghton; Executive Director Erika Mallin) 2010-2011 season celebrating Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner sold out in less than 24 hours after going on sale to the public on Tuesday, May 18.

The League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW), a non-profit organization committed to promoting visibility and increasing opportunities for women in the professional theatre, is pleased to recognize the talents of two outstanding women: the Ruth Morley Design Award will be given to Tony Award-winning costume designer Susan Hilferty, and the LPTW Lucille Lortel Award and accompanying grant will be presented to director and actor Rebecca Patterson.

Final casting is announced for the special one-night-only reading of Stan Richardson's VERITAS to benefit Lambda Legal. Two new cast members - Chase Peacock (Broadway: American Idiot, Papermill: High School Musical) and Chad Hoeppner (Broadway: Come Back Little Sheba, Butley) join Matt Doyle (Broadway: Spring Awakening, Bye Bye Birdie), Tate Ellington (Broadway: The Philanthropist; Film: Remember Me), Eric Nelson (Broadway: 13), Mitch Dean (Altar Boyz), Blake Daniel (Broadway: Spring Awakening), Matt Steiner (The Acting Company's Jane Eyre), Wayne Wilcox (Broadway: Coram Boy, TV: Gilmore Girls), and Christian Coulson (Film: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets).

Casting for the third and fourth weeks of American Ballet Theatre's 2010 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie. The full details of the casting is included below. Tickets for American Ballet Theatre's 2010 Metropolitan Opera House season, priced $20-$111, are available online, at the Met box office or by phone at 212-362-6000. The Metropolitan Opera House is located on Broadway between 64th and 65th streets in New York City. For more information, visit ABT's website at www.abt.org.

Broadway's elite will gather to honor Nancy Coyne of Serino Coyne at UJA-Federation of New York's Entertainment, Media, and Communications Division's 2010 Excellence in Theatre Award Dinner on Monday, May 24, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. at The St. Regis New York, Fifth Avenue & East 55th Street, Manhattan.

TPAC is located in the James K. Polk Cultural Center at 505 Deaderick Street in downtown Nashville, occupying an entire city block between 5th and 6th Avenues and Deaderick and Union Streets. Also housing the Tennessee State Museum, the cultural center adjoins the 18 story James K. Polk Office Tower.

As BroadwayWorld reported back in April, Terminator Salvation director McG is in talks to bring the 'Spring Awakening' to the big screen, developing it with original book and lyrics writer Steven Sater.

Broadway Theatre League is pleased to announce the 2010/2011 SEASON! The purpose of the Broadway Theatre League of Huntsville is to provide professional live theatre for citizens of the Tennessee Valley area to complete a well-rounded educational and cultural program and to provide students of the Tennessee Valley area a special opportunity to develop an appreciation of, and love for, live theatre through these educational experiences.

Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Managing Director) is proud to announce casting, dates and a director for the American premiere of Olivier Award nominee Moira Buffini's award-winning play GABRIEL, which will mark the final main stage production of Atlantic's 2009-2010 season.

This show does things that your traditional musical does not do. That is where I begin to be perplexed. SPRING AWAKENING has what we might term traditional Broadway songs, including ballads and tuneful melodies. This is where Duncan Sheik on music and Steven Sater on lyrics certainly let us down. It also has some of the most exciting, and fetching rock songs or ‘indie rock' ever presented on a Broadway stage. This is where Sheik and Sater make SPRING AWAKENING a rock concert with theatrical surroundings. Or, perhaps they made a theatrical show and infused it with a rock concert sensibility.

Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years is coming to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Spring Awakening, the 8-time Tony Award® winning Broadway musical, will open on May 11, 2010 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County and play for eight performances through May 16th. Spring Awakening is presented by the Adrienne Arsht Center and Broadway Across America-Miami.

The 2010 Festival of New American Musicals, a three month musical theatre festival, will be held May 16 through August 21 2010, throughout Southern California. Marcia Seligson, Bob Klein, and Linda Shusett are the Executive Producers of the annual festival, now in its third year.

Broadway's most talked about new musical and the biggest Tony Award®-winner in years, Spring Awakening, is coming to Detroit's Fisher Theatre April 20 - May 9, 2010.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), under the Artistic Direction of Diane Paulus, is pleased to announce its 2010/11 Season.

Casting for the first two weeks of American Ballet Theatre's 2010 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House was announced today by Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie.

Two stars of stage and screen were on hand on Tuesday morning, May 4 to announce the nominations for the American Theatre Wing's 2010 Tony Awards. Jeff Daniels, a 2009 Tony Award-nominee for his performance in God of Carnage, joins 'Glee' and Spring Awakening star Lea Michele did the honors in a live webcast on TonyAwards.com.

Two stars of stage and screen will be on hand on Tuesday morning, May 4 to announce the nominations for the American Theatre Wing's 2010 Tony Awards. Jeff Daniels, a 2009 Tony Award-nominee for his performance in God of Carnage, joins 'Glee' and Spring Awakening star Lea Michele to do the honors in a live webcast on TonyAwards.com.

Nominations for the American Theatre Wing's 64th Annual Antoinette Perry 'Tony' Awards were announced May 4, 2010 by Broadway Star Lea Michele and Tony Award Nominee Jeff Daniels.

On May 3 at 11:30pm, The Addams Family's Wesley Taylor will play Joe's Pub in concert with friends Matt Doyle (Spring Awakening, Bye Bye Birdie), Mitch Jarvis (Fiddler on the Roof, Rock of Ages), Lauren Molina (Sweeney Todd, Rock of Ages), and Krysta Rodriguez (In the Heights, The Addams Family.

Ann Arbor is soon to welcome a new addition to the theatre scene. The New Theatre Project is a professional production company with the mission to create new plays, restore established plays for a new audience, explore newer and largely undiscovered texts and present plays that created new theatrical revolutions. TNTP is committed to ensemble work that uses non-traditional, non-hierarchical ways of organization to produce theatre.

Tennessee Performing Arts Center has announced its event calendar for the 2010-2011 season.

Matt Doyle (Spring Awakening, Bye Bye Birdie), Emma Hunton (Spring Awakening) and Krysta Rodriguez (The Addams Family) and will join previously-announced headliners Kelli O'Hara, Steven Pasquale, De'Adre Aziza and Greg Naughton for the NewMusicalTheatre.com Launch Concert on Monday, April 26, 2010 at 10pm at NYC's (Le) Poisson Rouge.

AMERICAN IDIOT began performances at the St. James Theatre on March 24, 2010 and opened on Broadway on April 20, 2010 to a great set of reviews! Here's a sneak peek at Broadway Beat's openight night coverage of the show!