Fiorello! launched the Encores! musical theater series in 1994. It tells the story of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia's rise from an immigrant's son to the feisty congressman whose guts and determination to fight corruption brought down the crooked Tammany Hall political machine. (He's also the man singularly responsible for saving City Center from the wrecking ball and transforming it into Manhattan's first performing arts center.)
Legendary producer/director Harold Prince--who currently has twenty Tony Awards (including two Special Tony Awards) on his mantle--will add a Tony for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre
Tony Award-winner Tom Bosley and TV and theatre veteran Michael Learned have been announced as replacements for Richard Chamberlain and Hayley Mills in the upcoming national tour of Ernest Thompson's On Golden Pond
A performance of Encores!' Of Thee I Sing will follow City Center's benefit gala on May 15th
Showtunes! Theatre Company will present the classic Coleman, Comden, and Green Musical On the TwentiethCentury in conert for 2 performances only.
The show, will begin previews on April 3, 2006 and will open on May 1, 2006.
New York City Center's 2006 Encores! Season will open on February 9 with the six-time Tony Award-winning Kismet, starring Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie.
Variety reports that Harold Prince has lined up two new tuners to work on, LoveMusik, followed by Paradise Lost.
Performances of THE PAJAMA GAME will begin Friday, January 27th on Broadway at the American Airlines Theatre with the official opening set for Thursday, March 2nd. The limited engagement is scheduled to run 20 weeks through June 18th, 2006.
The Encores! production of The Apple Tree runs May 12-16 at the NY City Center.
BroadwayWorld brings you a sneak peak at The Apple Tree rehearsals with Kristin Chenoweth, Michael Cerveris, and Malcolm Gets.
Gemignani will succeed Rob Fisher, who has been music director for the entire 12-year history of Encores!.
New York City Center Encores! Artistic Director Jack Viertel and Music
Director Rob Fisher have announced that Tony® Award nominee Malcolm Gets and
Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris will join the previously announced Tony
Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth in The Apple Tree, the final Encores!
presentation of the 2004-5 Season.
The show runs May 12-16, and features Rob Fisher as Music Director.
On Tuesday, May 3, the NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG salutes Harold Prince with a benefit concert titled A PRINCE OF A FELLA beginning at 7 p.m. at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall. The performance will be followed by a seated dinner beginning at 8:30 p.m. at Shelly's New York, 104 West 57th St.
Paper Mill Playhouse will present the musical The Baker¹s Wife with Book by Joseph Stein and Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, Godspell) based on the film 'La Femme du Boulanger.'
Adam Arkin, currently starring in Manhattan Theatre Club's BROOKLYN BOY, will be featured on NY-1's 'OnStage' this weekend, beginning March 5th. 'On Stage' airs Saturdays and Sundays from 9:30-10:00 AM and from 7:30-8:00 PM, as well as Mondays from 9:30-10:00 PM and 12:30-1:00 AM.
Guild Hall of East Hampton, the premier cultural institution of its kind in the area, has announced the honorees for its 20th Annual Lifetime Achievement Awards Gala to be held on Monday, March 14, 2005 at the Rainbow Room, New York City. The distinguished honorees for the year 2004, selected by the 200 member Guild Hall Academy of the Arts, are composer/lyricist Sheldon Harnick for Performing Arts, novelist Louis Begley for Literary Arts, photographer/artist Cindy Sherman for Visual Arts and real estate developer and philanthropist Marshall Rose for Lifelong Patron of the Arts.
Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) is pleased to announce full casting for their upcoming world premiere production of BROOKLYN BOY by Donald Margulies, directed by Daniel Sullivan. The production is being co-produced with South Coast Repertory.
Catch George Dvorksky and Michele Ragusa in She Loves Me at Paper Mill Playhouse.
Like fine wines, there are some years in Broadway history where one finds a better vintage than others. Just today, for instance, I was playing a selection of tunes from shows that opened in 1966...
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