On day three, we celebrate one of the first Tony sightings of a Best Featured Actress in a Musical nominee, Lindsay Mendez, who stopped by the 2010 ceremony to back up Sherie Rene Scott in their number from Everyday Rapture.
A WWHL caller asks singer Osmond, a Mormon, if she's seen the hit Broadway show THE BOOK OF MORMON and Marie explains why she will not be seeing it.
Below, GREASE: LIVE! music supervisor Tom Kitt takes you behind-the-scenes of the iconic music from this Sunday's live broadcast on FOX.
Tomorrow night, FOX will transport viewers back to Rydell High for GREASE: LIVE, airing January 31 (7PM ET live/PT tape-delayed). BroadwayWorld just met with director Thomas Kail, who told us all about how things are coming together on set and what could be up next!
Amy Adams stopped by last night's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC. To her surprise, host Jimmy Fallon had unearthed an old bank commercial featuring Adams performing a Grease parody - check it out below!
On tonight's episode of GLEE, titled, 'Glease,' Rachel and Kurt pay a visit to Lima as the glee club launches its production of "Grease." Meanwhile, Cassandra July returns to shake things up in Rachel's life, and Santana comes back to lend a helping hand. Check out photos and full tracks from the episode below!
On tonight's episode of GLEE, titled, 'The Role You Were Born to Play,' the school production of Grease is underway, and Marley (Melissa Benoist), Jake (Jacob Artist), Kitty (Becca Tobin) and football player Ryder (Blake Jenner) compete to play "Danny" and "Sandy." Meanwhile, former Glee clubbers Mercedes (Amber Riley) and Mike (Harry Shum Jr.) return to cast the play, and Mr. Schuester (Matthew Morrison) struggles with a difficult decision. Check out photos and tracks from the episode below!
Marisol Otero realizo el profesorado de canto en el Conservatorio Nacional Ward becada por la Fundacion Bernardo Houssay. Su vasta trayectoria como actriz y cantante incluye recordados exitos: 'La Bella y la Bestia' (Bella en 1998 y Sra. Potts en 2010); la representacion de Belle en el Palace Theatre de Nueva York, en representacion de Latinoamerica y a beneficio de la UNESCO, en el 5to aniversario de "Beauty and the Beast" en Broadway (1999) ; 'Grease' (Sandy); 'Jesus de Nazareth' (Maria); 'El violinista en el tejado' (Lodel); 'Sorpresas' (Sor Amnesia), representada en Miami, USA); "Peter Pan' (Wendy) ;'El mago de Oz" (Dorita); "Borges Para Niños" (protagonico); entre otros. Fue elegida para cantar el tema 'Un mundo mejor' ante el Papa Benedicto XVI, en la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud, Alemania, en 2005. Actualmente dirige su propia escuela de Comedia Musical y es aclamada por la critica y el publico por su trabajo en el rol de Donna, en "Mamma Mia!".
Happy Birthday Sherie Rene Scott! On Broadway Scott has starred as Christine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, garnering nominations for a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award; Amneris in Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida (2000), for which she won the Clarence Derwent Award and was a Drama League Honoree; Sally in Tommy (1993); Marty in Grease (1995-96); Maureen in Rent (1997); and originated the role of Ursula in The Little Mermaid (2007). In 2010 Scott starred in the critically acclaimed production Everyday Rapture, which Scott wrote with co-author Dick Scanlan. She most recently starred as Pepa in the musical adaptation of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
Tonight on GLEE, the New Directions start out the new year, which is also the last semester for McKinley High seniors. Will proposes to Emma in a very spectacular way and Sam Evans joins McKinley's synchronized swim team. The episode will include such songs as 'Wedding Bell Blues,' 'The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face,' 'We Found Love,' and 'Moves Like Jagger.' Check out audio clips and photos from the episode below!
GLEE returns from its holiday hiatus on January 17, and in the episode the New Directions start out the new year, which is also the last semester for McKinley High seniors. Will proposes to Emma in a very spectacular way and Sam Evans joins McKinley's synchronized swim team. Hear one of the upcoming songs - GREASE's 'Summer Nights' - below!
Broadway favorites and real-life couple Matt Cavenaugh (West Side Story) and Jenny Powers (Grease) performed 'Direct From Broadway,' a concert to benefit Hartford Children's Theatre,on October 28. Check out a video of their appearance on CTNow, below!
2010 Jonathan Larson Grant Winners Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond celebrated the release of their new album Out of Our Heads: The Music of Kooman and Dimond yesterday, July 18th with a one night only concert at Birdland, produced by MNA Entertainment Inc. The concert featured Patina Miller (Sister Act), Julia Murney (Wicked, Lennon), Anderson Davis (Les Miserables), Matt Doyle (War Horse, Spring Awakening), Jeremy Jordan (Rock of Ages, West Side Story), Kyle Dean Massey (Next To Normal, Wicked), Phoebe Strole (Spring Awakening), Laura Osnes (Anything Goes, South Pacific, Grease), Zak Resnick (Lucky Guy), Jose Llana (Wonderland, Spelling Bee, Rent), Allison Case (Hair, Mamma Mia!) and more. BroadwayWorld was on hand and brings you concert highlights below!
Though the previously rumoured 'Suddenly Seymour' duet was cut from their opening number, that doesn't mean that the Franco and Hathaway are giving up on a bit of musical flair; Franco posted a short video of the duo dressed in Danny and Sandy's iconic outfits from GREASE! Is this a hint that the opening number will include a bit from the 1950s-set musical? It won't be long to find out - the Oscars air this Sunday at 8pm EST.
BroadwayWorld TV was bigger than ever in 2010, covering the world of theatre from GLEE to the Hollywood Bowl to Broadway to London and Beyond! Take a look back at some of 2010's most watched videos!
'Thirteen Stories Down - the songs of Jonathan Reid Gealt' will be released worldwide on Itunes December 14, 2010 on Sh-k-Boom/Ghostlight Records.
Asolo Repertory Theatre recently announced the complete cast of its upcoming production of Bonnie & Clyde a thrilling new musical with book by Ivan Menchell (The Cemetery Club, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang); music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel); lyrics by Tony Award-winner Don Black (Sunset Boulevard, Song and Dance); Music Supervision, Arrangements and Orchestrations by John McDaniel; and direction and musical staging by Tony Award- winner Jeff Calhoun (Deaf West's Big River and Pippin, Grease!). The production runs from November 16 - December 19, 2010 on the Asolo Rep mainstage-The Mertz Theatre. The press opening is November 19, at 8 p.m. Last week, BroadwayWorld presented the show's first official behind-the-scenes videos of the production, hosted by Asolo Rep's David J. Valdez! Today, we bring you the latest from Sarasota, a look at the show's road to Asolo and a peak into the cast costume fitting!
Last week, Asolo Repertory Theatre announced the complete cast of its upcoming production of Bonnie & Clyde a thrilling new musical with book by Ivan Menchell (The Cemetery Club, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang); music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel); lyrics by Tony Award-winner Don Black (Sunset Boulevard, Song and Dance); Music Supervision, Arrangements and Orchestrations by John McDaniel; and direction and musical staging by Tony Award- winner Jeff Calhoun (Deaf West's Big River and Pippin, Grease!). The production runs from November 16 - December 19, 2010 on the Asolo Rep mainstage-The Mertz Theatre. The press opening is November 19, at 8 p.m. We're very excited to present the show's first official behind-the-scenes videos of the production, hosted by Asolo Rep's David J. Valdez!
Dallas Theater Center opened IT'S A BIRD...IT'S A PLANE...IT'S SUPERMAN, starring Matt Cavenaugh as Clark Kent/Superman and Patrick Cassidy as arch-villain Max Menken on June 18, 2010. The production will run through July 25 at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theater at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. SUPERMAN cast member Andrew Keenan-Bolger recently recored his experience backstage for MTI on their MTISpaceshow.com network. Click below to take his tour and meet the cast.
Dallas Theater Center opened IT'S A BIRD...IT'S A PLAN...IT'S SUPERMAN, starring Matt Cavenaugh as Clark Kent/Superman and Patrick Cassidy as arch-villain Max Menken on June 18, 2010. The production will run through July 25 at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theater at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. Click below for a first look at Cavenaugh in performance as Superman.
Rydell High's most famous graduating class is going back to school. A newly restored print brings the highest-grossing musical of all time, GREASE (1978), to the big screen as a sing-along. Join Danny and Sandy with your own crew of T-Birds and Pink Ladies for a carnival ride back to those amazing summer nights!
BroadwayWorld's Audra Stafford highlights the theatre stars who appear in this summer's blockbuster films!
The York Theatre Company today announced that their hit production of David Zellnik and Joseph Zellnik's musical, Yank! A World War II Love Story, will be extended for an additional two weeks due to it's box office success. Performances began at the York Theatre at Saint Peter's on February 16 and will now continue through April 4, 2010. BroadwayWorld brings you a second inside look behind the scenes, as the cast readies to perform at Splash.
Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria Parker and her husband, San Antonia Spurs guard, Tony Parker have launched a new GREASE contest for fans, the pair announced today. Fans are challenged to spoof famous scenes from the 1978 movie musical and submit their renditions online via Tony's official website. The winners, selected by Longoria Parker and Parker, will be flown out to meet the pair and watch one of Tony's games before the 2010 playoffs.
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