Broadway Across America News

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY proudly announces the upcoming release of the New Broadway Cast Recording of PROMISES, PROMISES. The recording is available nationwide physically and digitally on June 22, 2010 and is produced by Grammy Award winners David Caddick and David Lai. For the first time in over forty years PROMISES, PROMISES returns to the stage starring Emmy Award winner Sean Hayes and Tony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth. Directed and choreographed by Tony and Emmy Award winner Rob Ashford, this new production of PROMISES, PROMISES, with Neil Simon's funny and touching book and Burt Bacharach and Hal David's hit-packed score, opened at the Broadway Theatre on Sunday, April 25, 2010.

Fiddler on the Roof has captured the hearts of people all over the world with its universal appeal and timeless message. The North American Tour continues the tradition of the 1964 Jerome Robbins Tony® Award-winning production playing at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center May 11-16, 2010. Robbins won twin Tony awards for his direction and choreography of Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof. In this national tour, both are faithfully recreated by Director Sammy Dallas Bayes, choreographer of the Broadway reviv

The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to the Bass Concert Hall in Austin for a limited one-week engagement May 11-16, 2010. Tickets are on sale now.

The First National Tour of Legally Blonde: The Musical will begin performances at the Aronoff Center, on May 11, 2010 and run through May 23, 2010 as a Fifth Third Bank Broadway Across America 09/10 Season Presentation.

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America bring Storytime Live! to Raleigh from May 15-16. Storytime Live! is the first-ever live family theatrical tour featuring characters from four of the current top-rated preschool shows on television today : Dora the Explorer, The Backyardigans, The Wonder Pets! and Ni Hao, Kai-lan;. Preschoolers and their parents can see their favorite Nick Jr. characters come to life in one action-packed on-stage adventure hosted by Nick Jr.'s Moose A. Moose and Zee.

Tickets are now on sale through Sunday, November 21, 2010 for MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, the Tony nominated Best Musical, currently playing at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre (208 West 41st Street).

The New York Post is reporting that while pop star Justin Timberlake was backstage with girlfriend Jessica Biel at MEMPHIS on Broadway last week, that he told the show's composer, Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan that 'he's interested in turning the show into a movie.' Timberlake, aged 29 was born in Memphis, Tennessee where the show takes place.

On Monday, May 10, the cast of MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET will perform on CBS' 'The Late Show with David Letterman' between 11:35AM-12:35AM on channel 2.

PNC Broadway Across America - Pittsburgh - presented by The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Broadway Across America, proudly announces the return of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, directed by Harold Prince, to the Benedum Center from August 25th through September 19th, 2010, as a 2010-11 Season Special.

The NY Post spoke with Tony Award-winning actor Harvey Fierstein about his upcoming guest role on 'Nurse Jackie.' In the interview, Fierstein addresses perception of his unique voice, personal loses and politics.

FIRST NATIONAL TOUR OF LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL will begin performances at Clowes Memorial Hall, on May 4, 2010 and run through May 9, 2010 as a Broadway Across America 09/10 Season Presentation.

In a recent Newsweek article, author Ramin Setoodeh asks 'Heterosexual actors play gay all the time. Why doesn't it ever work in reverse?' Hayes' co-star, stage and screen favorite Kristin Chenoweth has authored a response to the Newsweek article, which she refers to as 'horrendously homophobic.'

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America bring STORYTIME LIVE! to PPAC on May 7 and May 8, 2010

The critically acclaimed production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, which this week was nominated for 11 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, will launch a National Tour in the fall of 2011. The tour will feature the work of the production's entire Tony-nominated creative team: director Terry Johnson, choreographer Lynne Page, set designer Tim Shortall, costume designer Matthew Wright, lighting designer Nick Richings, sound designer Jonathan Deans and orchestrator/musical supervisor Jason Carr. Further details for the National Tour will be announced soon.

Nickelodeon and Broadway Across America bring STORYTIME LIVE! to PPAC on May 7 and May 8, 2010

Disney's Beauty and the Beast, the award-winning worldwide smash hit Broadway musical, presented locally by Omaha Performing Arts and Broadway Across America, is coming to Omaha. Produced by NETworks Presentations, this elaborate theatrical production will come to life on stage at the Orpheum Theater, Tuesday, June 22 through Sunday, June 27, 2010.

On Monday, May 10, the cast of MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET will perform on CBS' 'The Late Show with David Letterman' between 11:35AM-12:35AM on channel 2.

Two-time Tony Award-nominee Christine Andreas, who is currently starring in the critically acclaimed new production of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES on Broadway, will be a guest on 'The Today Show' on Thursday, May 6. She will be participating in the 'Everyone Has a Story' segment in the 10:00 AM hour. 'The Today Show' airs locally on WNBC-TV, Channel 4. Check local listings.

Broadwway veteran Harry Connick Jr. will go down in American Idol history when he becomes the first Idol mentor to arrange and orchestrate the songs for the contestants as well as perform.

Now celebrating 13 glorious years of girls, glitz, and glamour on the Great White Way, CHICAGO, the record-breaking, smash hit musical and sixth longest-running production in Broadway history, will make a stop in Columbus at the Palace Theatre as part of its national tour.