First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb is a tribute to Broadway's most celebrated songwriting partnership - from Cabaret to Chicago to Curtains! First You Dream is Broadway razzle dazzle! With six performers and a 19 piece-orchestra, Kander and Ebb's canon of work is brought to exciting life with over 35 songs discovered and reinvented for this theatrical event. Audiences will hear new discoveries as well as the amazing songs that everyone knows - with brand-new orchestrations and vocal arrangements - this is Kander and Ebb like you've never heard before!
The 2009 session of Broadway Theatre Project culminates in an exciting new festival taking place in Theatre 1 at USF from July 30th to August 1st. Numbers in the four festival performances have been directed and choreographed by members of the BTP faculty including Artistic Director Debra McWaters, So You Think You Can Dance's Ryan Kasprzak, Radio City Rockette Kelly King, and Broadway Fight Director Ron Piretti (West Side Story, In the Heights).
Signature Theatre, the recipient of the 2009 Tony Award® for Outstanding Regional Theatre, celebrates the best in musical theater and drama at its Target Open House on Saturday, August 8 from noon ? 9:30 pm. Free and open to the public, this fun-filled Signature event is 9½ hours of exciting performances, and fascinating master classes, demonstrations, and exhibits, plus kids? offerings, all offered in Signature?s swanky two-theater complex. Events begin every 15 minutes. Located in the Shirlington Village area of Arlington, VA just off I-395, Signature Theatre is approximately nine minutes from downtown Washington, D.C. Free parking is available in two adjacent public garages.
Eric Schaeffer, Artistic Director of the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre, today announced casting for the world premiere theater event 'First You Dream': The Kander & Ebb Concert, September 10 through 27, 2009.
The 2009 session of Broadway Theatre Project culminates in an exciting new festival taking place in Theatre 1 at USF from July 30th to August 1st. Numbers in the four festival performances have been directed and choreographed by members of the BTP faculty including Artistic Director Debra McWaters, So You Think You Can Dance's Ryan Kasprzak, Radio City Rockette Kelly King, and Broadway Fight Director Ron Piretti (West Side Story, In the Heights).
The 2009 session of Broadway Theatre Project culminates in an exciting new festival taking place in Theatre 1 at USF from July 30th to August 1st. Numbers in the four festival performances have been directed and choreographed by members of the BTP faculty including Artistic Director Debra McWaters, So You Think You Can Dance's Ryan Kasprzak, Radio City Rockette Kelly King, and Broadway Fight Director Ron Piretti (West Side Story, In the Heights).
Eric Schaeffer, Artistic Director of the Tony Award®-winning Signature Theatre, today announced that Signature Theatre is expanding its American Musical Voices Project (AMVP) for a fourth year with the commission and production of a new musical by Adam Guettel for its 2011-2012 season. Also announced as part of The Next Generation segment of the AMVP were two additional musical commissions awarded to Peter Foley and Marisa Michelson as well as honoree grants given to Chris Miller and Scott Davenport Richards for the development of future musical ideas. Signature, with the support of The Shen Family Foundation, has awarded $595,000 to artists in honors and commissions in the past three years. The American Musical Voices Project is the largest single musical theater commissioning and producing initiative at any non-profit theater in America.
Signature Theatre, recipient of the 2009 Regional Theater Tony Award®, opens its 20th anniversary season on August 11 with the Broadway hit Dirty Blonde, a comedy with music about the notorious film legend Mae West.
Signature Theatre, winner of the 2009 Regional Theatre Tony Award®, celebrates its 20th anniversary this season from August 11, 2009 through June 20, 2010. The season begins with the Broadway hit Dirty Blonde, a comedy with music about the notorious film legend Mae West starring Tony Award®-nominee Emily Skinner.
THE FIRST WIVES CLUB is getting a new wife. For personal reasons, Adriane Lenox will not be a part of the musical production. Tony Award nominee Sheryl Lee Ralph has stepped in to the role of 'Elyse'.
Previews for the world premiere of The First Wives Club - A New Musical are now set to begin July 17, 2009. The schedule was changed to accommodate a revised rehearsal/technical schedule.
Old Globe Executive Producer Lou Spisto is pleased to announce the complete cast and design team for its world premiere of The First Wives Club - A New Musical, as part of the Globe's 2009 Summer Season.
Two-time Tony Award winners NATHAN LANE (The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) and BEBE NEUWIRTH (Chicago, Sweet Charity) will star as Gomez and Morticia in THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a new musical based on the bizarre and beloved family of characters created by legendary cartoonist Charles Addams. Produced by Stuart Oken, Roy Furman, Michael Leavitt and Five Cent Productions, by special arrangement with Elephant Eye Theatrical, THE ADDAMS FAMILY will open on Broadway Thursday, April 8, 2010 at a Nederlander theatre to be announced. Previews will begin Thursday, March 4, 2010 following a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre in Chicago that begins November 13.
Andrea Martin, Michael Cumpsty and Tony Yazbeck have been cast in On the Town, the opening production of New York City Center's 2008-09 Encores! season, running November 19 - 23. On the Town, the first Broadway musical written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green with a score by Leonard Bernstein, will be directed by John Rando with music direction by Todd Ellison and choreography by Warren Carlyle
On the Town, the first Broadway musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, will open the 2008-2009 Encores! season at New York City Center, running November 19 - 23.
New York City Center Announces 16th Encores! Season opening with 'On the Town.'
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announced a new Off-Broadway production of David Rabe's award winning drama Streamers, directed by Scott Ellis.
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