Barbara Walsh News

“We should not do a show more often,” quipped Ryan Silverman as he an Jill Paice took in the appreciative applause of the Town Hall audience before even singing a note of the Broadway musical they were expected to star in this season, Rebecca.  Host Scott Siegel had just recapped the story of the show's numerous delays, fake investors, missing funds and the fact that an estimated 150 theatre professions had either turned down work or stopped seeking immediate employment because of their expectation to be working on Broadway by Christmas.

OBIE and Drama Desk Award-winning Transport Group presents the world Premiere of HOUSE FOR SALE, the first of any work by National Book Award novelist and Pulitzer finalist Jonathan Franzen (FREEDOM, THE CORRECTIONS) to be presented on stage. The show is playing The Duke on 42nd Street (229 West 42nd Street, Times Square, NYC), and opened last night October 24, running through November 18, 2012. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from opening night below!

The only trouble with these 90-minute musicals that start at 7pm is that I really can't get all that enthused over the big 8:15 number.

The Town Hall presents THE EIGHTH ANNUAL BROADWAY CABARET FESTIVAL, created especially for Town Hall by Scott Siegel. The annual Broadway Cabaret Festival returns this October 13, 21 & 26, 2012. Experience an extravaganza of Broadway talent in three extraordinary cabaret concerts from classic favorites to contemporary Broadway, from the newest stars to venerated icons, this is the Festival New York theatre fans have been waiting for. Check out photos from last night's event below!

The Town Hall, New York City's landmark theatre and concert venue (123 West 43rd Street) honors two influential individuals: Dr. Charlotte K Frank, Senior Vice President of McGraw Hill and Chair of the Town Hall Arts and Education Committee, and Marvin Leffler, in recognition of 34 years as President of The Town Hall. They will receive The Town Hall's 'Friend of the Arts' Award tonight, October 21st, 2012.

Broadway stars Barbara Walsh (Company) and Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Avenue Q) join Bill Connington, the star of ZOMBIE, in performing in a benefit reading of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy, The Importance of Being Earnest ("A Trivial Comedy for Serious People"). Also in the cast are William Connell (The Coast of Utopia), Vivienne Cleary (Peace Warriors), Annmarie Benedict (Robeson), D.H. Johnson (Dodsworth), and Oliver Houser (Spring Awakening, Virginia Rep).

The Town Hall, New York City's landmark theatre and concert venue (123 West 43rd Street) honors two influential individuals: Dr. Charlotte K Frank, Senior Vice President of McGraw Hill and Chair of the Town Hall Arts and Education Committee, and Marvin Leffler, in recognition of 34 years as President of The Town Hall. They will receive The Town Hall's 'Friend of the Arts' Award on Sunday, October 21st, 2012.

Due to overwhelming popular demand, the producers of Gerard Alessandrini's brand- new FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING have announced the show will be extending its run at the 47th Street Theatre (304 West 47th Street - just west of Eighth Avenue) through April 28th, 2013. The production is co-directed by Phillip George. FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: ALIVE AND KICKING opened on September 6th after a three-year absence from New York.

The National Playwrights Conference and the National Music Theater Conference, programs of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, will be the focus of an evening at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the City University of New York. The event, on Monday, October 15th, is free and open to the public and begins at 6:30pm at the Martin E. Segal Theater Center at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York.

Broadway Ballyhoo has announced its cast for tonight, Thursday, Sept. 13th at 11 PM at Feinstein's at Loew's Regency. The evening will feature Tony nominee Barbara Walsh (Falsettos, Company), Drama Desk nominee Kevin Earley (Death Takes a Holiday), Nightlife Award winner Mark Nadler and Ryan Knowles (Newsical the Musical).

A little over thirty years ago Gerard Alessandrini was just another struggling young musical theatre actor who enjoyed doing what a lot of struggling young musical theatre actors do in between summer stock and dinner theatre gigs; write parody lyrics of famous showtunes.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is extending the submission deadline for the 2012TRU Voices New Musicals Reading Series to August 23 (for musicals without a producer) and August 30 (with a producer attached). Two to three musicals will be chosen and read on Mondays in December at a theater to be confirmed. Submission guidelines are available at www.truonline.org/Musicals12guidelines.htm.

The Broadway Ballyhoo continues with the announcement that Tony Nominee CHAD KIMBALL (Memphis)is performing in this week's Broadway Ballyhoo.

Dentro del show Scott Siegel Presents... Broadway Ballyhoo en el conocido Feinstein's At Loews Regency de Nueva York, Laura Enrech será una de las invitadas esta noche tras su actuación en el concierto Broadway Rising Stars en el Town Hall el pasado lunes.

The touching new play SPRING AT THE WILLOWBROOK INN by Jonathan Van Dyke and Douglas C. Evans, will make its NY premiere as part of The Fresh Fruit Festival tonight, July 26-July 29.

The touching new play 'Spring at the WIllowbrook Inn' by Jonathan Van Dyke and Douglas C. Evans, will make it's NY premiere as part of The Fresh Fruit Festival July 26-29. 'Spring at the Willowbrook Inn' follows the lives of Cooper Stanwyk and Joshua Hill from their first meeting in 1967 at a motivational conference. This unlikely pair develop a deep relationship based on mutual understanding and love as their lives unfold separately. Through correspondence and decades of meeting at the Willowbrook they become a pivotal role in each others lives, supporting each other through the unpredictabilities each one faces.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will continue its Summer 2012 season with a full week of Scott Siegel's BROADWAY BALLYHOO FESTIVAL. The popular and critically acclaimed fixture BROADWAY BALLYHOO, which has played the last eight months every Thursday night at 11:00 PM, will move to primetime at 8:00 PM for one week only from tonight, July 17 through Saturday, July 21.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY will continue its Summer 2012 season with a full week of Scott Siegel's BROADWAY BALLYHOO FESTIVAL. The popular and critically acclaimed fixture BROADWAY BALLYHOO, which has played the last eight months every Thursday night at 11:00 PM, will move to primetime at 8:00 PM for one week only from Tuesday, July 17 throughSaturday, July 21.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed "Best of New York" by New York Magazine and "an invaluable New York institution" by The New York Post will continue its Summer 2012 season with a full week of Scott Siegel's BROADWAY BALLYHOO FESTIVAL.

According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, the US-born The First Wives Club and Dream Lover may be heading to Sydney for further development in the near future.