Broadway Across America News

Broadway's Tony Award® winning hit PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL joins official wine sponsor Wily Jack® for post Priscilla ‘Safe Ride' bar nights to extend the party that begins at the Palace Theatre this summer!

The tour of the smash hit Broadway revival of WEST SIDE STORY is coming to Tempe. WEST SIDE STORY will open at ASU Gammage on September 27 and runs through October 2, 2011. Tony Award-winning librettist Arthur Laurents' Broadway direction will be recreated for the tour by David Saint, the Associate Director on Broadway. The original Jerome Robbins choreography is reproduced by Tony Award-nominee Joey McKneely (The Boy from Oz, The Life).

The cast of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL performed on the premiere results show of season 6 of NBC's hit summer talent competition series 'America's Got Talent' last night. Tony-nominee Will Swenson led the cast in a diva-tastic medley of some of Priscilla's most popular songs - 'Finally,' 'Shake Your Groove Thing,' and 'MacArthur Park' - featuring the show's trademark 2011 Tony-winning costumes designed by Oscar and Tony-winning designers Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner.

Tune into NBC tonight to catch the cast of PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL performing on the premiere results show of season 6 of NBC's hit summer talent competition series 'America's Got Talent.' Tony-nominee Will Swenson will lead the cast in a diva-tastic medley of some of Priscilla's most popular songs - 'Finally,' 'Shake Your Groove Thing,' and 'MacArthur Park' - featuring the show's trademark 2011 Tony-winning costumes designed by Oscar and Tony-winning designers Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner.

Priscilla Queen Of The DeserT, presented on Broadway by 'The Divine Miss M,' producer Bette Midler, will perform on the first live premiere results show of season 6 of NBC's hit summer talent competition series 'America's Got Talent.' Tony-nominee Will Swenson will lead the cast in a diva-tastic medley of some of Priscilla's most popular songs - 'Finally,' 'Shake Your Groove Thing,' and 'MacArthur Park' - featuring the show's trademark 2011 Tony-winning costumes designed by Oscar and Tony-winning designers Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner.

PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT has just debuted a brand new TV commercial, featuring a voice-over by the show's producer, Bette Midler. The ad focuses on three best friends on a road trip of a lifetime, one searching for fame, one for love and one for home. To view the new spot, click below.

Following hit productions in Australia, London and Toronto, PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL opened to critical acclaim on March 20 at the Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway). In the video below, the cast of Priscilla (led by John Brannoch) perform their homage to Glee in their own unique way.

West Side Story, the new hit Broadway revival of the groundbreaking Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim musical, will play Hennepin Theatre Trust's Orpheum Theatre, July 12-17, 2011. This 2009 Tony-nominated and 2010 Grammy Award-winning production features a score considered to be one of Broadway's finest, with such classics of American musical theatre as 'Something's Coming,' 'Tonight,' 'I Feel Pretty' and 'Somewhere.'

The New York Civil Liberties Union today announced a star-studded lineup of award-winning performers for Broadway Stands Up for Freedom, its annual benefit show scheduled for Monday, July 25 at the NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts.

The New York Civil Liberties Union today announced a star-studded lineup of award-winning performers for Broadway Stands Up for Freedom, its annual benefit show scheduled for Monday, July 25 at the NYU Skirball Center for Performing Arts.

Priscilla Queen Of The DeserT, presented on Broadway by 'The Divine Miss M,' producer Bette Midler, will perform on the first live premiere results show of season 6 of NBC's hit summer talent competition series 'America's Got Talent.' Tony-nominee Will Swenson will lead the cast in a diva-tastic medley of some of Priscilla's most popular songs - 'Finally,' 'Shake Your Groove Thing,' and 'MacArthur Park' - featuring the show's trademark 2011 Tony-winning costumes designed by Oscar and Tony-winning designers Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner.

The producers of MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET are thrilled to announce that original cast members Eddie Clendening (Elvis Presley), Lance Guest (Johnny Cash), and Robert Britton Lyons (Carl Perkins) will be joining the cast of the hit musical when it resumes performances at its new home at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street) on Thursday, July 28. They will be joined by MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET alums David Abeles (Jerry Lee Lewis), Victoria Matlock (Dyanne), and James Moye (Sam Phillips).

The Boston Herald reports today that Boston's famed Colonial Theater, at which such classics as PROGY AND BESS, FOLLIES, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, OKLAHOMA! and more received their premieres, will close down indefinitely due to lack of occupancy. The theater will reportedly close following the final performance of WEST SIDE STORY this Saturday, July 9. The theater, which is operated by Emerson College had long been the home for Broadway Across America Boston.

PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT's Oscar and Tony Award® winning costume designer Lizzy Gardiner gives MORE Magazine a special look backstage at the Tony-winning hit Broadway musical, sharing the inspiration behind her and partner Tim Chappel's internationally-acclaimed costume designs and offering some personal fashion advice. Click below to watch the video!

The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center has invited anyone interested in 2011/12 Kimberly-Clark Broadway Across America - Fox Cities Season Ticket Packages to visit the Center on Tuesday, July 12 from 4-7 p.m. for a special Summer Seat Sale.

The Tony® and Grammy®-Award-Winning musical, WICKED, which ran June 1 - June 26 at Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Theatre has once again shattered its own record. For the week ending June 26th, the musical grossed $2,030,245 CDN over 8 performances, making it thehighest-grossing week for a touring Broadway show in Canadian history.

RAIN - A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES and CATS, the musical that revolutionized American theater, have been added to the 2011-2012 Broadway series presented by Omaha Performing Arts and Broadway Across America.

Tickets are now on sale for MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the 2010 Tony nominated Best Musical, at its new home at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street). The production will resume performances Thursday, July 28.

Grammy and Emmy Award winner, Tony Award nominee and multi-platinum recording artist Harry Connick, Jr. will star in a reimagined production of ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER opening fall 2011 on Broadway at a theatre to be announced. The delightful Tony Award nominated score by Burton Lane (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) is enhanced by classics from their film scores for On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970) and Royal Wedding (1951). With a new book by Peter Parnell based on the original book by Alan Jay Lerner, the musical is reconceived and directed by Tony Award winner Michael Mayer. Further casting and creative team to be announced shortly.

Broadway's Tony Award winning hit musical PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT showed their true colors with a 'journey to the heart of fabulous' on a Priscilla bus float at this Sunday's Pride parade. Catch an inside look at the bus' trip through Manhatten by clicking below!