Broadway Across America News

The stars of Broadway's new hit PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL will appear at a special live performance at Barnes & Noble's upper east side flagship location (150 East 86th Street at Lexington Avenue) on Thursday, April 7 at 5:00pm to celebrate the release of the musical's Original Broadway Cast Recording.

The stars of Broadway's new hit PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT THE MUSICAL will appear at a special live performance at Barnes & Noble's upper east side flagship location (150 East 86th Street at Lexington Avenue) on Thursday, April 7 at 5:00pm to celebrate the release of the musical's Original Broadway Cast Recording.

The tour of the current smash hit Broadway production of WEST SIDE STORY is coming to PlayhouseSquare May 3 through 15.

BroadwayWorld presents the cast of the Royal Court Theatre's JERUSALEM on Broadway! Today we feature Barry Sloane, who stars as Troy Whitworth. Learn all about him here...

Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions bring the 2009 Tony Award-winning Best Musical Billy Elliot the Musical to ASU Gammage from April 26- May 8. Based on the international smash-hit film and featuring music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall, choreography by Peter Darling and direction by Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot the Musical has earned critical acclaim on Broadway including 10 Tony Awards. Tickets are on sale now.

Four-time Tony Award-winner Harvey Fierstein will be featured tomorrow, Wednesday, March 30 on 'The Wendy Williams Show.' Fierstein won a 1984 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for the original production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. Now, 28 years later, he is starring as Albin in the Tony Award-winning revival of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street), which just re-opened to rave reviews.

IN THE HEIGHTS, winner of four 2008 Tony Awards® and the 2008 Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, is coming to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County from March 29 - April 3. Tickets are on sale now and are available at the Adrienne Arsht Center box office by calling (305) 949-6722, or online at www.arshtcenter.org.

Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' MAMMA MIA!, the smash hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, returns to Pittsburgh's Heinz Hall April 19-24, 2011.

BroadwayWorld presents the cast of the Royal Court Theatre's JERUSALEM on Broadway! Today we feature Mark Rylance, who stars as Johnny 'Rooster' Byron. Learn all about him here...

The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein, a musical comedy from the creative team of the 12-time Tony®-Award winning smash The Producers, is coming to Omaha, Tuesday, March 29 through Sunday, April 3, 2011. The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein will be presented at the Orpheum Theater by Omaha Performing Arts and Broadway Across America.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the award-winning worldwide smash hit Broadway musical, is coming to the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center as part of the M&I Bank Broadway Across America - Fox Cities Series. Produced by NETworks Presentations, this elaborate theatrical production will come to life onstage at March 29 - April 3, 2011. For information on the production, visit BeautyAndTheBeastOnTour.com.

Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the award-winning worldwide smash-hit Broadway musical, is coming to the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center as part of the M&I Bank Broadway Across America - Fox Cities Series.

DreamWorks Theatricals and Broadway Across America have canceled all previously scheduled performances of 'Madagascar Live!' in Detroit at the Fox Theatre. The show's final performance will be held at New York's Radio City Music Hall on April 24, 2011.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING opened Sunday, March 27, 2011, at Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th Street). Check out producer Candy Spelling talking about the revival on the Today Show.

The Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) and Broadway in Columbus (BIC) today announced a six-show, seven-week Broadway season for 2011-12. Subscriptions for the Fifth Third Bank Broadway Series go on sale today, and features three Columbus premieres-Billy Elliot, Shrek, and Memphis.

BroadwayWorld presents the cast of the Royal Court Theatre's JERUSALEM on Broadway! Today we feature Harvey Robinson, who stars as Mr. Parsons. Learn all about him here...

South Florida theater goers are in for a parade of solid hits direct from Broadway and South Florida premieres with the announcement that the current smash hit, THE ADDAMS FAMILY, opens the all musical Broadway in Miami 2011 - 2012 season at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County. Scheduled as a lead-up to Halloween, from October 25 - 30, THE ADDAMS FAMILY will be followed by SHREK THE MUSICAL, a pre-holiday show that is great fun for ogres and ogresses of all ages, December 6 - 11; MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, introduces families to one of the greatest moments in rock ‘n' roll history, set to bring in the New Year, December 27 - January 1; and Twyla Tharps's loving ode to Frank Sinatra, COME FLY AWAY, locked in as the spring entry, March 20 - 25. For the first time in Miami, Disney's THE LION KING, the recordbreaking musical set in the African pride lands, will play May 15 - June 10 as the season's stunning finale.

Tickets for Cameron Mackintosh's new 25th anniversary production of LES MISÉRABLES are now on sale for the premiere Omaha engagement at the Orpheum Theater. The all new production of LES MISÉRABLES features glorious new staging and spectacular reimagined scenery inspired by the paintings of Victor Hugo. The production will run in Omaha Tuesday, April 26 through Sunday, May 1, 2011 and is being presented as part of the Omaha Performing Arts and Broadway Across America Broadway Series. Tickets for LES MISÉRABLES start at $25 and can be purchased at the Ticket Omaha Box Office in the Holland Performing Arts Center, 13th and Douglas streets, Omaha, Neb.; online at TicketOmaha.com; or by calling 402-345-0606. For group sales call 402-661-8516 or toll-free at 866-434-8587.

Daniel Radcliffe will make his Broadway musical debut as J. Pierrepont Finch in a new production of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical comedy HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING opening at Broadway's Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th Street) tonight,, March 27, 2011, at 5pm.

BroadwayWorld presents the cast of the Royal Court Theatre's JERUSALEM on Broadway! Today we feature Molly Ranson, who stars as Pea. Learn all about her here...