BroadwayWorld Interviews - Page 51

I sat with Brian Stokes Mitchell on the lobby steps of Carnegie Hall, where one week from tonight, he will make his solo debut on the world's most famous stage with a 42-piece orchestra. Here's what he had to say......

Annaleigh Ashford made her Broadway debut as Margot in the Tony Award-nominated musical Legally Blonde. Prior to this engagement, she was a bright 20-year-old spinning in a grandiose green dress on-stage in the first national tour ensemble of Wicked. Some nights on the road, she would cover the rol...

A few weeks back, BroadwayWorld.com's international sources tipped us off to the fact that composer Frank Wildhorn was having quite the European adventure this past summer, with new productions of Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel and Rudolf, taking the continent of Europe by storm in Ge...

From Cadillac yak-yak-yak to rama lama lama ka-ding: Former 'Movin' Out' star Green has joined the Rydell High gang. ...

Dylan Baker returns to Manhattan Theatre Club in Mauritius, a new play by Theresa Rebeck currently in previews, opening October 4. Baker earned a Tony Award-nominated performance in La Bete and has had over a dozen Off-Broadway turns. In Mauritius Baker stars as stamp-collector Philip, opposite Al...

Joan Rivers, the legendary American TV and celebrity personality, is workshopping her new original play The Joan Rivers Theatre Project at San Francisco's Magic Theatre. BroadwayWorld.com's News Desk Editor, Eugene Lovendusky (a native of San Francisco), had the fortunate opportunity to chat with Ri...

In Legally Blonde, Sorority star Elle Woods doesn't take 'no' for an answer. So when her boyfriend dumps her for someone 'serious,' Elle puts down the credit card, hits the books, and sets out to go where no Delta Nu has gone before: Harvard Law. Along the way, ElleSample Image proves that being tru...

We talk to, and hear from, the wonderful Stephanie Block! Most recently seen as Grace O' Malley in The Pirate Queen, you might also remember her as Liza Minnelli from The Boy from Oz, with Hugh Jackman. Add to that a 2006 Helen Hayes award for Outstanding Actress for her performance as Elphaba in ...

Well, as all of us had expected at BroadwayWorld.com, everyone at UGLY BETTY loves musicals and everyone who loves musicals, happens to love UGLY BETTY......

With the overwhelming success of the original High School Musical, it was only a matter of time before Disney delivered what the millions of fans were begging for - the highly anticipated sequel, High School Musical 2 which debuts on the Disney Channel on Friday, August 17th. BroadwayWorld sat down...

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Ovation Award winning director Kristin Hanggi (bare, Rock of Ages) is back in New York, directing CATCH THE FISH, a clever new play written as a response to the popular Vanity Fair Article 'Rich, Jaded and Lost in L.A.' The show plays at the New York Fringe Festival August 18-26 and I recently had t...

This California girl changed coasts 2 years ago, after touring Europe with 'Grease' and the U.S. and Japan with Brian Setzer....

We sit down for an Interview with Will Brumley (Co-creator) and Allison Guinn (actor). ...

We interview Naomi Emmerson (Actor/Producer/Director), and Stephanie Layton (Actor/Accompanist). They perform two songs, in-studio. For those who have loved, suffered and survived, come share a cocktail with a French legend, as she shares her passion for music, men and morphine! 'Top Ten of the 200...

My First Time, a new play in the style of The Vagina Monologues, features four actors, reciting hysterical and heartbreaking stories about first sexual experiences, written by real people - just like you. ...

BroadwayWorld.com chats with Mara Davi, who has joined the cast of multi-Tony Award-winning musical 'The Drowsy Chaperone' as Janet Van De Graaff, after making her Broadway debut in 'A Chorus Line' last season....

We talk to, and hear from, actor/writer/composer Grant James Varjas, actor John Good, and actor/co-composer/arranger Preston Clarke. They perform 'Now That it's Over' and 'Low to the Ground'....

Stephen Lang, who gives not one but eight tour de force performances in 'Beyond Glory,' discusses his craft and the multiple personality disorders of actors....

Sitting at a local Seattle coffee shop, Christopher Fitzgerald, along with his newborn baby, talked with BroadwayWorld's James Sims about his vaudeville like beginnings, leading to a role in the original Broadway cast of Wicked, and now as Igor in Young Frankenstein......

We meet with Jim Wann, the composer/lyricist/co-author of the book, and with director/producer, Kate Middleton. Daniel Bailey accompanies Mariand Torres and Richard Binder in three songs: 'Tippo', 'Lockdown Blues', and Come on Down to Tippo'. This is Jim Wann's first musical since the award-winning ...

One of the Broadway's Young Frankenstein stars, Fred Applegate, who will play Inspector Kemp, recently spoke, in between rehearsals in Seattle, to BroadwayWorld's James Sims about the monster musical and his experiences working with Mel Brooks in The Producers......

Many 'American Idol' alumni have recently performed on Broadway, but now the show has inspired a musical of its own. This week we talk to Idol the Musicals' producer, Todd Ellis, composer/lyricist/performer, Jon Balcourt, and performers, Babs Rubenstein, Jennie Riverso, Courtney Ellis, and Roy Georg...

Laura Bell Bundy (Legally Blonde), celebrating the release of her debut country album entitled 'Longing for a Place Already Gone,' discusses her original music, her new record label and recounts her Broadway experience....

Martin Vidnovic, a Father in the current revival of 'The Fantasticks,' and father to Laura Benanti, discusses the theatre experiences that have collected into his new and original cabaret debut 'What Matters to Me' at the Metropolitan Room July 16-August 6....

Having moved gracefully through the moral shadowlands of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Doubt, acclaimed actress Adriane Lenox now finds herself in a lighter realm - that of Noel Coward's hilarious classic Blithe Spirit, which plays the Williamstown Theatre Festival from July 18t...

Best known for her portrayal of the innocent good girl roles, Andrea sinks her teeth into her dream role. ...

With a resume of leading roles as long as a football field, there's only a handful of leading roles this 'baritenor' has not played over many years on stages across the country and the world....

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, under their Storyline Entertainment banner, are the producers of critically acclaimed and award-winning feature films, television movies and series. The dynamic duo sat down for a phone interview with BroadwayWorld.com to discuss their latest collaboration on HAIRSPRAY. ...

Three time Tony Award-winner Boyd Gaines discusses his varied acting career, as well as his next role as Herbie in Encores! Summer Stars Gypsy, opposite Patti LuPone! ...

Nikki Blonsky sits down at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills to discuss her role in the upcoming musical film 'Hairspray.'...

We talk to Julia Murney, who is currently starring as Elphaba in the hit Broadway musical, Wicked. We also listen to two songs from her solo CD, I'm Not Waiting: The title track, 'I'm Not Waiting' by Andrew Lippa, and 'Perfect' by Tom Kitt....

Tony Award-winning producer, Stewart F. Lane (Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage aux Folles) and co-owner of The Palace Theatre, introduces his new book 'Let's Put on a Show!' an engaging and entertaining reference guide for theatrical producing novices....

BWW salutes 'Beauty' in its final month on Broadway with a profile of the man inside one of the Enchanted Objects....

Michelle Pfeiffer sits down at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills to discuss her role in the upcoming musical film 'Hairspray.'...