The fact that Jonathan Larson won two posthumous Tony Award for writing and composing Rent is certainly bittersweet, but the fact that for one of those awards he bested the also posthumously nominated Rodgers and Hammerstein is just plain weird. But the last-minute addition of Rent to the 1995-96 Broadway season seemed to be the catalyst for one the oddest Tony nights ever.
Tony-nominee and Obie and Theatre World Award winner Adam Pascal, has created some of the most memorable roles in recent Broadway history.
New Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale launches his first season at the helm of The Art House with a new concert series hosted by Broadway and Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky.
This summer, Broadway actors Darlene Love, Julia Murney, Anthony Rapp and Matt Dengler star in 'Free to Dream: New Songs for the American Journey,' a concert specially adapted for Colonial Williamsburg. Television personality Willard Scott also lends his recorded voice to the program, which showcases the people and places that make up the fabric of America with musical styles from country, rock and pop to swing and the blues. It is a compilation of pieces by Grammy-winning composer Doug Katsaros and two-time Emmy-nominated lyricist William Schermerhorn. A nine-piece band accompanies the singers.
New Producing Artistic Director Mark Cortale launches his first season at the helm of The Art House with a new concert series hosted by Broadway and Sirius XM Radio Star Seth Rudetsky.
Bay Street Theatre is pleased to announce a very special performance on Monday, June 13 at 8 pm. ADAM & ANTHONY LIVE! In Concert! For the first time, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, the stars from 'RENT,' are embarking on a National Concert Tour. Their only 2011 Long Island stop will be at Bay Street Theatre!
Bay Street Theatre is pleased to announce a very special performance on Monday, June 13 at 8 pm. ADAM & ANTHONY LIVE! In Concert! For the first time, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, the stars from 'RENT,' are embarking on a National Concert Tour. Their only 2011 Long Island stop will be at Bay Street Theatre!
Bay Street Theatre is pleased to announce a very special performance on Monday, June 13 at 8 pm. ADAM & ANTHONY LIVE! In Concert! For the first time, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, the stars from 'RENT,' are embarking on a National Concert Tour. Their only 2011 Long Island stop will be at Bay Street Theatre!
Christine Ebersole and Edward Hibbert sold out their performance of Love, Noël: The Letters and Songs of Noël Coward and delighted the audience on May 28 at Bay Street Theatre.
The 2011 Tony Award nominees were announced live from the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on Tuesday, May 3, 2011. The next day, proud nominees gathered at the Millenium Hotel in Times Square to celebrate and meet the press. Broadway Beat was on hand, of course, to speak with all of the proud nominees. In anticipation of Tony night on June 12, 2011, BroadwayWorld will be bringing you new clips of the stars in conversation each week so be sure to check back! Below, we bring you Norbert Leo Butz, Best Actor in a Musical nominee for Catch Me If You Can. Butz made his Broadway debut as Adam Pascal's replacement as Roger Davis in Rent in 1996. Additional Broadway credits include Enron, Thou Shalt Not for which he received a Tony Award nomination, Wicked, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Freddy) for which he received the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical, a Drama League Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award. Off-Broadway credits include The Last Five Years, Songs for a New World, Saved, and Juno and the Paycock (Jerry Devine), and he has toured as the Emcee in Cabaret and as Freddy in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
A slew of Broadway veterans are set to perform at Provincetown Massachusetts' BROADWAY AT THE ART HOUSE Series. Kicking off with a perfomance from Seth Rudetsky (June 23-September3), the summer schedule is as follows:
Queen legend Brian May and West End and Broadway singing sensation Kerry Ellis are to perform the live version of their hit album, ANTHEMS, in a special Royal Albert Hall concert next Spring on the May Bank Holiday Sunday after the Royal Wedding.
Hartt celebrates its Jazz alumni on Monday, April 25, when several alumni of Hartt's Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz join together for a concert and evening of fond reminiscence, followed by a special dessert reception.
Taye Diggs, who began his rise to fame after starring in the original cast of RENT, is preparing for a solo show at Prelude by Barton G at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. According to an article from the Miami Herald, Diggs is both excited and terrified about the show. 'I was 175 percent petrified out of my gourd. But then I thought, ‘If I can do this, then f**k the world!' Part of it was that this is Idina's thing. But she was 100 percent supportive,' said Diggs.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the award-winning worldwide smash hit Broadway musical, is coming to Fort Worth as part of Broadway at the Bass.
TAYE DIGGS, undoubtedly one of the entertainment world's hottest stars, will hit town Friday and Saturday, April 29 and 30 when he performs as the big finale of the Prelude By Barton G Presents Spring performance series presented at Prelude By Barton G restaurant/supper club located in the Ziff Ballet Opera House of the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, 1300 Biscayne Boulevard.
Hartt celebrates its alumni this spring with two alumni reunion concerts. On Monday, April 21, three alumni of the Vocal Studies Division perform at 7:00 PM in Wilde Auditorium on the University of Hartford's main campus, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford.
Bay Street Theatre is pleased to announce a very special performance on Monday, June 13 at 8 pm. ADAM & ANTHONY LIVE! In Concert! For the first time, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, the stars from 'RENT,' are embarking on a National Concert Tour. Their only 2011 Long Island stop will be at Bay Street Theatre!
Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the award-winning worldwide smash hit Broadway musical, is coming to Fort Worth as part of Broadway at the Bass.
Ignition Theatre is proud to present Tony Award Nominee, Adam Pascal, April 14th-16th, 2011 as a part of its 'Live From New York' series.
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