On WOR's "The Joan Hamburg Show," on Friday, March 31st from 9:00-11:00AM (710 AM), the Roundabout Theatre Company's 40th anniversary season will be celebrated. Roundabout's Artistic Director Todd Haimes and many stars currently performing on Roundabout stages will be on-hand to discuss the Roundabout's spring productions.
The Threepenny Opera, starring Tony Award-winner
Alan Cumming (Macheath), Tony Award-winner
Jim Dale (Mr. Peachum), Grammy and Emmy Award-winner
Cyndi Lauper (Jenny),
Ana Gasteyer (Mrs. Peachum) and
Nellie McKay as (Polly), is the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's classic musical. The show, directed by
Scott Elliott and choreographed by Aszure Barton, began previews Friday, March 24th,and opens officially on Thursday, April 20th, 2006 on Broadway at Studio 54 (254 West 54th Street).
"The Threepenny Opera serves up a deliciously dark satire of 'respectable' society, with dashing thieves, saucy prostitutes, and lingering melodies. Based on Elizabeth Hauptmann's German translation of
John Gay's eighteenth-century
The Beggar's Opera, The Threepenny Opera thrusts the audience into the seedy underworld of Mack the Knife, a dapper criminal and his wry love affair with Polly Peachum," state press notes. The show plays a limited engagement through June 18, 2006.
The Pajama Game, starring
Harry Connick, Jr. (Sid Sorokin), Kelli O'Hara (Babe Williams) and
Michael McKean (Hines), directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner
Kathleen Marshall, plays at the American Airlines Theatre (227 West 42nd Street) through June 11th.
The Pajama Game features a book by George Abbott and Richard Bissell, based on Bissell's novel
7 1/2 Cents, and music and lyrics by
Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. The book has been adapted for this production by Peter Ackerman.
The Pajama Game, features the classic songs "Hey There," "Steam Heat" and "Hernando's Hideaway," among others.
Entertaining Mr. Sloane, featuring
Alec Baldwin, Chris Carmack,
Richard Easton and
Jan Maxwell, is Roundabout's Off-Broadway production of Joe Orton's classic dark comedy, directed by Roundabout Associate Artistic Director
Scott Ellis. The play "centers on a handsome stranger with a secret, his libidinous landlady, her gender-bending brother and geriatric father. Kath's (Maxwell) language may be prim but her intentions are blatant when she picks up Mr. Sloane (Carmack) and takes him in as a lodger. Attractive, mischievous and dangerous, Sloane eventually has Kath, her brother Ed (Baldwin) and their father Kemp (Easton) eating out of his hand as they all compete for his favors. Together they play out a sexual tug of war, sparking a series of murderously funny events in this survival of the fittest power struggle where they will resort to anything to get what they want." The show is currently playing at the Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46 Street) through Sunday, May 21, 2006.
Tickets for all Roundabout productions are available by calling Roundabout Ticket Services at (212)719-1300 or online at
www.roundabouttheatre.org.
