Barbra Russell News

Last night, April 17th 2008, A Catered Affair opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre. A Catered Affair has a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, score by John Bucchino and direction by Tony Award-winner John Doyle. A Catered Affair marks Mr. Bucchino's Broadway debut.

PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, will record the original Broadway cast recording of A Catered Affair next Monday (April 7), it was announced today by the show's producer, Jordan Roth and Tommy Krasker, co-founder of PS Classics.

Three-time Emmy Award-winner Edie Falco, Tony Award-winner Dick Latessa, Tony Award-nominee Brooks Ashmanskas and A Catered Affair's Matt Cavenaugh have joined the line-up of performers participating in the upcoming New York Times 'TimesTalk event,' 'Harvey & Family,' celebrating the career of four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, at the new TimesCenter (242 West 41st St.) on Tuesday, April 1st at 6:00 p.m.

A Catered Affair, Broadway's newest musical, will begin preview performances next Tuesday, March 25 at 8:00 p.m. With a book by four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein, score by John Bucchino and directed by Tony Award-winner John Doyle, A Catered Affair will play the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street). Opening night is set for 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, according to producer Jordan Roth (Vice President, Jujamcyn Theaters).

Executive Producers Barbra Russell and Ron Sharpe and Producers Sharon A. Fordham, Theatre Associates/David Sonnenberg, The Monagle Group, Fanok Entertainment and Vincent Russell have announced the final casting for Jill Santoriello's sweeping musical epic, A Tale of Two Cities, which will celebrate its World-Premiere-Pre-Broadway-Tryout at Sarasota's acclaimed Asolo Repertory Theatre with two Premiere Galas - Friday, October 26th and Saturday, October 27th

A Tale of Two Cities, which is now slated for a December '06 Broadway Run, has found a choreographer and design team

A Tale of Two Cities, which is now slated for a December '06 Broadway Run, has found a choreographer and design team

Theatre and opera director Michael Edwards has signed on to stage the Broadway-bound musical A Tale of Two Cities

The departure of director/choreographer David H. Bell has resulted in an extension of the workshop of the Broadway-bound musical A Tale of Two Cities

The musical version of A Tale of Two Cities will be workshopped in Manhattan this summer before opening in Chicago next year