A Year with Frog and Toad 2003 - Articles Page 10

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.

Matthew Morrison will be featured in 'Sky,' a new pilot for NBC written by A Year with Frog and Toad's Willie Reale

Anne Nelson's new play Savages will receive its world premiere off-Broadway on March 8th

The production will star Josh Strickland as Tarzan, Jenn Gambatese as Jane, Merle Dandridge as Kala, Shuler Hensley as Kerchak, Chester Gregory II as Terk, Timothy Jerome as Professor Porter and Donnie Keshawarz as Clayton. Daniel Manche and Alex Rutherford will alternate in the role of Young Tarzan.

Kate Reinders, Chicago's Glinda has fractured her foot during a recent performance and will be out of the show for a few weeks.

Maria Friedman, the leading lady of the British musical theatre, makes her Broadway debut in London's smash hit musical, THE WOMAN IN WHITE, opening on Broadway Thursday, November 17th at the Marquis Theatre (211 W 45th St).

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.

PS CLASSICS has announced plans to record JASON DANIELEY and MARIN MAZZIE, 'Broadway's golden couple' (The San Francisco Chronicle), in a studio recording drawn from their acclaimed evening of duets, 'Opposite You.'

Awaken to a sinister and surreal fairytale world with the acclaimed Young Vic Theatre Company's reinterpretation of SLEEPING BEAUTY.

Tonight (Monday, November 1th) the Drama Book Shop (250 West 40th Street) will celebrate the publication of BROADWAY MUSICALS: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time by Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnik with a Foreword by Jerry Orbach. The public is invited this evening from 6:00 - 8:00 pm. Refreshments will be served and the authors and special guests will be autographing the magnificent book. RSVP by phone to (212) 944-0595 x417 or you can e mail info@dramabookshop.com

The Drama Book Shop (250 West 40th Street) will celebrate the publication of BROADWAY MUSICALS: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time by Ken Bloom and Frank Vlastnik with a Foreword by Jerry Orbach this coming Monday, November 15th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.

The always innovative and endlessly endearing Theater Terra makes their long awaited return to The New Victory Theater with the 2003 Dutch 'Tony' Award-winning musical, KIKKER.

There were no refunds requested when six Broadway understudies sang from the roles they cover in the first edition of Musical Tonight!'s series featuring those performers who come to the rescue

Keep reading, and you could win a PRIZE!!!

In which we 'fix' what's wrong with the Tony Awards and whine about the lack of a radio area in the press room thereof. OK, so nobody asked me. Like that's ever stopped me from expressing an opinion. But you know it and I know it. The Tony Awards are not the most compelling TV show on the early summer schedule.