Alexander Borodin News

Israel Musicals will present its production of Kismet at various venues in Israel, November 16-29, 2010.

The Gateway Festival Orchestra will launch its 47th season of free Sunday-evening concerts at Washington University July 11 with 'Music for the Night,' a program of works on nocturnal themes. Musical director James Richards will conduct the performance, which will open with the 'witches' Sabbath' scene from Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain (1867). Next up will be American composer Arthur Foote's A Night Piece (1918), featuring solo flutist Jan Scott, professor emerita at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Concluding the program will be a medley of works from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Phantom of the Opera (1986) and from Johannes Brahms' Orchestral Serenade No. 1 in D Major (1857).

The Gateway Festival Orchestra will launch its 47th season of free Sunday-evening concerts at Washington University July 11 with 'Music for the Night,' a program of works on nocturnal themes. Musical director James Richards will conduct the performance, which will open with the 'witches' Sabbath' scene from Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain (1867). Next up will be American composer Arthur Foote's A Night Piece (1918), featuring solo flutist Jan Scott, professor emerita at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. Concluding the program will be a medley of works from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Phantom of the Opera (1986) and from Johannes Brahms' Orchestral Serenade No. 1 in D Major (1857).

Media City Ballet will host an Open Rehearsal for members of the press and invited guests.

Media City Ballet (MCB), Natasha Middleton, Artistic Director, will open the company's Seventh Annual Season with a program entitled 'Ballet Russe Remembered,' to be presented at the Alex Theatre, 216 N. Brand Boulevard, Glendale, CA on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The All-Russian program will feature Principal Dancers from Media City Ballet. The Maple Youth Ballet, Charles Maple, Director, as will appear as a Guest Ballet Company.

Tony Award-winner Faith Prince (Guys & Dolls, Bells are Ringing, TV's 'Spin City' and 'House') will make her London stage debut as 'Lalume' in the new English National Opera (ENO) production of Kismet at the London Coliseum.

Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble, one of NYC's longest-running experimental theatres, will present The Happiest Girl in the World, the 1961 Broadway musical comedy adapted from Lysistratra

English National Opera announces that Michael Ball will perform the role of Hajj/Poet in the new production of Robert Wright & George Forrest's KISMET. Based on themes of Alexander Borodin and the play by Edward Knoblock, the book is by Charles Lederer & Luther Davies. This is the first new West End production for almost 30 years.

Toronto Operetta Theatre's production is a feast for the ears, though the show still creaks. * * * 1/2 (out of 5)

This musical Arabian night is more of a tired businessman show gleefully passing itself off as high art

On February 9th, the Encores! production of Kismet, starring Brian Stokes Mitchell as Hajj the Poet and Marin Mazzie as the seductive Lalume, will open to run through February 12th

Tom Aldredge, Danny Gurwin, Marcy Harriell and more will join Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie in the star-studded Encores! presentation of Kismet from February 9th through 12th

New York City Center's 2006 Encores! Season will open on February 9 with the six-time Tony Award-winning Kismet, starring Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie.

Victor Garber will play John P. Wintergreen in the Encores! production of the Gershwins' Of Thee I Sing, which will run from May 11th through 14th, 2006

The Gershwins' satiric musical Of Thee I Sing will be the third entry in City Center's Encores!' 2006 season

Frequent co-stars Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell will once again team up for the Encores! production of Kismet, which will open in February of 2006

Robert Wright, whose musicals with George Forrest gave a Broadway voice to classical composers, passed away on July 27th at the age of 90