FOR THE RECORD: Series Explores the Making of SWEENEY TODD Cast AlbumSeptember 13, 2016In The Jonathan Channel's new special series 'For The Record:' Thomas Z. Shepard and Julian Fleisher explore the making of five seminal Broadway cast albums. Listeners will hear how these albums were made, and what it was like working with some of Broadway's biggest stars. Plus we'll answer the question everyone is dying to ask: what exactly does a record producer do, anyway?
Angela Lansbury to Guest Star in GAME OF THRONES Season 7?September 2, 2016Just after the news that fellow theatre vet Jim Broadbent will appear in the final season of HBO's GAME OF THRONES, Express writes that stage and screen legend Angela Lansbury is in talks for a guest role for the 7th installment of the cult series.
Tony Winner Mel Brooks Appears at Radio City Music Hall TonightSeptember 1, 2016The Madison Square Garden Company and Mills Entertainment previously announced that Mel Brooks would take the Radio City Music Hall stage tonight, September 1, 2016 at 7:30PM for an exclusive inside look at his storied career and the making of the legendary and groundbreaking movie Blazing Saddles.
IndiMusic TV Welcomes New VJ Host Ally MelendezAugust 26, 2016IndiMusic TV - the #1 Worldwide Independent Music Video TV Channel and Social Network dedicated to the independent musician - recently welcomed new Personality/Journalist and VJ Ally Melendez to their team!
VIDEO: Watch the First Trailer for HURRICANE BIANCA, Featuring Alan CummingAugust 24, 2016The new feature-length comedy HURRICANE BIANCA follows a New York teacher who moves to a small town in Texas, gets fired for being gay, and returns disguised as a mean 'lady' to get revenge on the people who were nasty to him. It's described as Tootsie meets Revenge of the Nerds, or Mrs. Doubtfire for the Jackass generation. Check out the first trailer for the film, featuring stage vet Alan Cumming, below!
HAMILTON and MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Documentaries to Premiere at 2016 NYFFAugust 23, 2016Special Events will feature the world premiere of Lonny Price's Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened, a nonfiction account of Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince's 1981 musical-flop-turned-cult-favorite Merrily We Roll Along, with Price and theater luminary Sondheim in person. Thirty-five years later in the world of musicals, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton is a Broadway sensation. Alex Horwitz's Hamilton's America goes behind the history of the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning production, and makes its world premiere at NYFF with the director and special guests to be announced.