What makes a great song a 'hit'? What makes a hit song 'great'? Bobby Taylor, an award winning top-10 Billboard country and musical theater songwriter will dig into these questions and many more in his new songwriting classes: 'Building a Songwriting Toolbox,' followed by 'Song Workshop and Collaboration.' Each class will run for four weeks, for a total of eight weeks.
Over its 17 year history, the revival production of Chicago has had its share of ups and downs, but if the current tour is any indication, the show's back on an upswing. If you've been unfortunate enough to see a lesser cast of Chicago in the past, you owe it to yourself to catch the current tour.
Producer Dito Godwin is working with new Indie artists. He recently produced recordings for two dynamic rising L.A. based indie artists, rock/soul singer/songwriter Rolan Bolan—son of late glam rock legend Marc Bolanand Grammy winning Motown singer and composer Gloria Jones—and 'horror rocker” Characula.
A raw recording appears to have leaked via YouTube user 'LeakableMusics' of pop star Miley Cyrus singing a stripped down version of the LES MISERABLES tune 'On My Own'. Is Eponine in her future?
Teen pop impresario and songwriter Brian Lukow has concluded an agreement for independent film director Martin Guigui to helm the feature film Crazy For The Boys, a musical dramedy which was written by Lukow, and is aimed at the burgeoning, lucrative tween and teen audience. Based on the fictional back story of the five-member girl group Drama Drama, the film will be produced by Michael Z. Gordon, a BMI Award-winning songwriter who founded surf-sound pop groups The Marketts and The Routers, and whose film and television composing credits include Pulp Fiction, Everybody Loves Raymond and Ally McBeal.
Buffets, Inc. is proud to announce its latest tie-in with country music, this time with the singer/songwriter/actor Billy Ray Cyrus and his 13th studio album, Change My Mind. Beginning April 11, guests can pick up Cyrus' latest CD at Ryan's, Country Buffet, HomeTown Buffet, Old Country Buffet and Fire Mountain for a special $8.99 price, while supplies last. Proceeds from the CDs will support the Armed Services YMCA() (ASYMCA) for Operation Outdoors, a camp program that assists the children of military personnel during deployment.
In the spring of 1993 Jason Nodler, Tamarie Cooper, and a group of friends got together to put on Nodler's musical play In the Under Thunderloo in a punk rock club--and they have been freaking out Houston audiences ever since.
BroadwayWorld's Senior Photographer Walter McBride has picked his favorite onstage photos from the year and you can check out his full collection below! CLICK HERE to check out Part 2.
2012 is coming to a close, and from BILLY ELLIOT's final curtain call in January to this season's holiday hit A CHRISTMAS STORY - and everything in between - BroadwayWorld has you covered. Take a look back at some of the memorable curtain calls from Broadway and beyond below!
Yesterday, December 20, Broadway's globally acclaimed revival of the Tony Award-winning musical CHICAGO celebrated another momentous milestone and record-breaking when it played performance #6,681. With that 8 p.m. performance at the historic Ambassador Theatre, CHICAGO surpassed the original Broadway production of Les Miserables to become the third longest-running show in Broadway history. Check out photos from the celebration below!
On Thursday, December 20, 2012, Broadway's globally acclaimed revival of the Tony Award-winning musical CHICAGO will celebrate another momentous milestone and record-breaking when it plays performance #6,681.
On Christmas Day, Broadway's acclaimed record-breaking revival of the Tony Award-winning musical CHICAGO is pleased to welcome back two-time Tony Award nominee Christopher Sieber to the role of 'that silver-tongued prince of the courtroom,' Billy Flynn.
The 24th Annual GYPSY OF THE YEAR Competition, the culminating celebration of six weeks of fundraising by 51 participating Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies, raised $3,902,608 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Check out photos from inside the big event below!
The 24th Annual GYPSY OF THE YEAR Competition, the culminating celebration of six weeks of fundraising by 51 participating Broadway, Off-Broadway and national touring companies, raised $3,902,608 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.
Pepperdine University presents 'An Evening with Melora Hardin,' an evocative, intimate, and fun evening featuring song standards, Broadway favorites, and original numbers, at 8 p.m. on Thursday, January 10, at Pepperdine's Raitt Recital Hall.
Hosted by award winning songwriter Victoria Shaw, Under The Covers has become a favorite recurring highlight at Birdland, featuring a wide variety of top-selling songwriters and musical acts from across the pop, rock and country worlds, and offering intimate acoustic performances of huge hit songs - along with the little-known stories behind them. This event is part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series.
"Extra's" special correspondent Alecia Davis sat down with Billy Ray Cyrus, the father of Miley Cyrus who opened up about his celebrity daughter, his music and his marriage. To read the full report, click here.