STAGE TUBE: Meet the NEWSIES- Ryan Breslin (Race)March 3, 2012Newsies will move to Broadway's Nederlander Theatre for a strictly limited 101 performance run this spring, following its critically-hailed run at Paper Mill Playhouse in fall 2011. The musical, featuring a score by eight-time Academy Award® winner Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Sister Act) and Jack Feldman, and a book by four-time Tony Award® winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage aux Folles, Torch Song Trilogy), will play its first Broadway preview on March 15th prior to its March 29th opening night; the final performance is scheduled for June 10th.
STAGE TUBE: Megan Mullally Serenades Justin Beiber!March 3, 2012Megan Mullally stopped by the Ellen Degeneres Show and serenaded Justin Beiber for his 18th birthday. She sang him her version of 'Fever' which she appropriately changed to 'Beiber.' Check out the performance below!
Lin Esser's Exhibit 'Unconventional Tableaux' Opens at AFAMarch 3, 2012Lin Esser's new exhibition, 'Unconventional Tableaux,' began, in part, as an effort to replace a Dia de los Muertos box lost during childhood. Further inspired by the eccentric subjects of English symbolism, sinister figures of the renaissance and the anthropomorphic tableaux of Victorian naturalism, Esser soon found himself caught up in the creation of an entire body of three-dimensional works that he later began calling 'tableaux.' His dark introspective vision and extensive experience with film and theater lend a sense of the dramatic to these macabre yet playful narratives about the joys and sorrow of everyday life and beyond.
Idina Menzel Performs at Gallo Center for the Arts, 6/5March 3, 2012Tony Award-winning actress, singer and songwriter Idina Menzel, star of Broadway's Wicked and the original stage production of Rent, will make her debut at the Gallo Center for the Arts at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, June 5, performing her brand new live show. Tickets, on sale beginning today, can be purchased by calling (209) 338-2100, online at GalloArts.org or IdinaMenzel.com, or in person at the Center's ticket office, 1000 I Street in downtown Modesto.
The Wednesday Repertory Co. Presents 'Under the Table' Showcase, 3/22-4/1March 3, 2012The Wednesday Repertory Company and Artistic Director Bruce Ornstein present: Under the Table. This marks the third showcase performed by the Wednesday Repertory Company. Under the Table features a diverse group of over 20 actors in a series of original one-act plays. All plays are written, directed, and performed by members of the Wednesday Repertory Company. It will be a night of comedy and drama and everything in between!
Pacific Symphony Presents 'Casablanca' With Score Performed Live, 3/15-17 March 3, 2012Pacific Symphony Pops sweeps the audience off to a world of romance, wit, intrigue and remarkable music as the orchestra recreates the score-live!-to the classic film, "Casablanca," shown on the big screen. Led by Principal Pops Conductor Richard Kaufman, the Symphony delivers the emotion captured in the triumphant soundtrack created by old Hollywood's best-known composer Max Steiner. Featuring the popular song "As Time Goes By," played by Sam (Dooley Wilson), the 1942 film is one from the Golden Age that has captured America's hearts for decades with the nostalgic love affair between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman's characters. Set in exotic Morocco during World War II, with memorable characters, quotable dialogue-"We'll always have Paris," "Here's looking at you, kid"-and a beloved score, the film was an instant success, winning three Academy Awards including Best Picture and a nomination for Best Score.
Lampkin Music Group Presents 'Charles West... Feeling Good,' 3/12March 3, 2012Lampkin Music Group presents an encore performance of 'Charles West…Feeling Good!' starring Charles West at the Metropolitan Room. Street, NY. Monday, March 12th at 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $20.00 with a two drink minimum. There is a $5.00 discount for MAC members. RSVP at (212)206-0440.
HOW I GOT THAT STORY Opens at Mo' OleloMarch 3, 2012Mo' Olelo Presents HOW I GOT THAT STORY through March 18, 2012. It is written by Amlin Gray and directed by Seema Sueko. The production stars Greg Watanabe and Brian Bielawski.
John Doyle's MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Opens in Cincinnati March 3, 2012Tony Award-winning director John Doyle, who has previously staged Broadway revivals of Stephen Sondheim's SWEENEY TODD and COMPANY directs the composer-lyricist's musical MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park which opens tonight. The production will run through March 31.
STAGE TUBE: Inside Rehearsals of JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR!March 3, 2012Get a sneak peek of The Stratford Shakespeare Festival's hit production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, which began previews at the Neil Simon Theatre on March 1. Directed by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Artistic Director Des McAnuff, JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR will open on March 22. Watch as the cast rehearses and hear what they have to say about the production below!