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re: THE SHOWGIRL of 52nd STREET, Festival of New Musicals in LA, August 25 Aug 25
2007, 04:54:08 PM
SHOWGIRL plays tonight at 8pm Pacific Time and Wednesday, 8/29, at 8pm in Burbank. Playbill article linked below.
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THE SHOWGIRL of 52nd STREET, Festival of New Musicals in LA, August 25 & 29 Aug 20
2007, 09:52:19 AM
THE SHOWGIRL OF 52nd STREET, a new musical by Charles Leipart and John Kroner, may be seen in 3 concert performances in two separate venues from August 25-29th in the L.A. area.
I want to share news of an opportunity to see one of several new musicals performing in Los Angeles beginning next weekend as part of The Theatre League's Festival of New Musicals.
SHOWGIRL was enthusiastically received in Chicago and Kansas City earlier this summer. Karen Mason can be heard on BWW Radio singing one of the songs from the score, All That I Am, on the Lyrics by Leipart recording. I hope you can see it and/or recommend it to your L.A. friends and associates.
For more information and tickets please visit these websites below.
Cheers!
José
Festival of New Musicals
Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza
2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd.
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
(off Ventura Freeway)
Saturday, August 25th at 2pm & 8pm
http://www.anmt.org/festival.asp
AND
The Colony Theatre
555 N. Third Street, Burbank, CA
Wednesday, August 29th at 8pm
http://www.anmt.org/event_details.asp?EventID=64
THE SHOWGIRL OF 52nd STREET
A New Musical
Winner of the Kleban Foundation Award for
Outstanding Libretto to a Musical
Book & Lyrics by Charles Leipart
Music by John Kroner
New York City, February, winter, the early 1990’s: Billie Shay, the panhandling baglady living on a bench in the public park space on East 52nd Street, has a past that no one would imagine. In vivid memories, Billie confronts her younger self “Young Billie” over the life choices they have made. Together they bring alive the glamour and betrayals of a lost career in the 1950's New York nightclub world and in Hollywood.
The Academy for New Musical Theatre Festival at Thousand Oaks
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TEA FOR TWO (1950) film based on NO, NO NANETTE tonight at 10pm TCM Aug 11
2007, 09:41:08 PM
Staying at home tonight?
Join Doris Day, Gordan MacRae, Gene Nelson, Eve Arden, S.Z. Sakall in Warner Brothers 1950 film version of NO, NO NANETTE. Supplementing the Youmans-Caesar score are songs by Rodgers & Hart, the Gershwins, Warren & Dubin, and others. Technicolor, 97 minutes.
It's toe-tapping, tap-dancing film fun for the entire family!
TCM says...[SPOILERS ahead]
"When teenagers Lynne and Richard dress up in their parents' cloth
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re: In Chicago? Leipart & Kroner's THE SHOWGIRL OF 52nd STREET plays Chica Aug 8
2007, 02:23:23 PM
Yes, I have seen an earlier presentation of the show. Unfortunately, I won't be in Chicago to catch this one.
There is a terrific recording of one of the songs from the show, "All That I Am," by Karen Mason which can be found on BWW Radio (Web Radio under "Multimedia" on the left). Select the album "Lyrics By Leipart" from the Library.
BTW, on BWW Radio you can also hear Rachel York singing "When The Camera Isn't There," a song from LADY ON A CAROUSEL; Greg Jbara singing "I
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In Chicago? Leipart & Kroner's THE SHOWGIRL OF 52nd STREET plays Chicago Stages 2007 Aug 8
2007, 08:26:54 AM
In Chicago this weekend?
THE SHOWGIRL of 52nd STREET, book & lyrics by Charles Leipart and music by John Kroner, is being performed this weekend as part of Theater Building Chicago's Stages2007 the annual festival of new musicals. SHOWGIRL centers on a homeless woman in NYC who was once a New York nightclub dancer and Hollywood starlet and who gave a daughter up for adoption.
Previously this summer SHOWGIRL was a highlight of The Theatre League's Kansas City Musical Festival. I
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WEST SIDE STORY at 50 From The London Times Jul 28
2007, 06:55:24 PM
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re: Judy Blazer in LADY ON A CAROUSEL Jul 14
2007, 03:12:27 PM
Judy has several songs to sing in the new musical LADY ON A CAROUSEL. She is singing and playing opposite Michael Rupert the private reading in late July.
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THE SHOWGIRL of 52nd STREET selected for 3 musical festivals this summer Jul 13
2007, 11:36:35 PM
THE SHOWGIRL of 52nd STREET, book & lyrics by Kleban Award winner Charles Leipart and music by John Kroner, was selected for 3 musical festivals this summer.
Kansas City * Chicago * Los Angeles
From Playbill.com
New Musicals Showgirl, Grouch's Daughter, Maccabeat!, I Come for Love Get Thousand Oaks Test
By Kenneth Jones
13 Jul 2007
Theater League, the organization responsible for touring Broadway presentations in a number of pe
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LADY ON A CAROUSEL, complete reading cast Jul 12
2007, 10:01:35 PM
Here's an update on a BWW news item of yesterday...
The late July by-invitation-only reading cast will be:
Meredith Patterson (White Christmas; 42nd Street)
Robb Sapp (Wicked)
Nathalie Paulding (Les Miz)
Judy Blazer (Love Musik)
Michael Rupert (Legally Blonde)
J. Robert Spencer (Jersey Boys)
Rachel Coloff (Lestat)
Bobby Daye (The Color Purple)
Eric Michael Gillett (The
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Broadway history & costumes for less than the cost of a movie ticket! Jun 21
2007, 10:53:22 PM
Here's a very interesting theatre-related outing.
The Museum of the City of New York contains the largest collection of New York stage and Broadway memorabilia.
There is a permanent installation on "Broadway" located on the 3rd floor. It includes history, artifacts, anecdotes, costumes, a set design or two, and props. One can see the store-bought puppet used to audition for the original cast of AVENUE Q, various costumes from RENT, a finale top hat from the original pro
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Streisand in Zurich -- Early review Jun 19
2007, 12:31:08 AM
From The Times
June 19, 2007
Barbra Streisand
Clive Davis at the Hallenstadion, Zurich
The royal tour of Europe starts here. After all the sound and fury over those extravagant ticket prices, Barbra Streisand finally set about the business of proving that she really does deserve all that financial support. Though there were no signs of rampant Barbra-mania in the cavernous, 13,000-capacity Hallenstadion before the orchestra struck up the overture from Funny Girl, a ruthlessl
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re: why no 'Where's Charley?' recording? Jun 16
2007, 11:31:42 AM
There are two WHERE'S CHARLEY recordings available.
1. The 1958 London West End cast starring Norman Wisdom. This was released on LP and released on an Angel CD, available from Amazon.
2. The 1952 British film version of the musical entitled CHARLEY'S AUNT stars two of the original Broadway cast: Ray Bolger and Allen Ann McLerie. Songs from the soundtrack were released on a commercial LP by an independent label, ECNAD.
Hope that information helps you.
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Keep the CORAM BOY Alive May 20
2007, 10:59:13 AM
CORAM BOY is stunning and deserves support.
There is a semi-bare stage, some lighting, a few props, inventiveness, intelligence, humor, accessible language, good acting, an engaging story, breath-taking stagecraft and a glorious chorus.
It's a down-right good time. It's why one goes to the theatre.
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Hey, Look Me Over - A Broadway Musical Cabaret, 5/19 & 5/19, 3pm May 13
2007, 07:18:03 PM
There will be a performance of songs inspired by the exhibition "Costumes and Characters: The Designs of Alvin Colt." Mr. Colt designed for such original productions as ON THE TOWN, GUYS AND DOLLS, FANNY, THE GOLDEN APPLE, WILDCAT, DESTRY RIDES AGAIN, among many, many others.
On Saturday, 5/19 and Sunday, 5/10, The Museum of the City of New York is hosting a cabaret featuring Lewis J. Stadlen, Cady Huffman, Nikki M. James and T. Oliver Reed, under the direction of Michael Montel, and L
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RADIO GOLF - Not a musical but It makes one's heart sing.. May 11
2007, 11:53:30 PM
a real play written in real language about real people in a real situation.
Doing the right thing is never easy.
A worthy evening of theatre.
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re: I Miss Margo... May 7
2007, 09:13:16 PM
I suspect that Margo is doing fine. She is healthy and has use of her fingers to type as she posted on at least one other site just two days ago. Perhaps she simply needs a break from BWW. It happens.
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re: CORAM BOY - Not to be missed. (NO spoilers here) Apr 30
2007, 11:20:18 PM
Roscoe, Shame on you for insisting on posting spoilers. You, too, Testing1232.
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re: CORAM BOY - Not to be missed. (NO spoilers here) Apr 29
2007, 03:58:32 PM
Bumping for the Sunday evening crowd...
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re: CORAM BOY - Not to be missed. (NO spoilers here) Apr 29
2007, 11:01:28 AM
Bumping for the day posters...
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CORAM BOY - Not to be missed. (NO spoilers here) Apr 29
2007, 12:37:01 AM
CORAM BOY is what sets theatre in general apart from other media and performing arts. This import from London's National Theatre is mesnmerizing, affecting and theatrical. The Imperial was SRO, and the audience gave the show a long, loud, and an honest-to-goodness well-deserved standing ovation at this evening's performance. I'll leave the review for the reviewers. I will say, however, that CORAM BOY is a theatre experience akin to the RSC'S NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, and it is not to be missed. My
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