York Theatre Company (James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director), will present three offerings in its acclaimed Developmental Reading Series: Harold and Maude (today, October 11), Civil War Stories (October 15), and Leni Riefenstal is Going to Tell You the Truth (October 19).
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) announced today updated casting for the 24th Annual Festival of New Musicals and for the Songwriters Showcase that Tony nominee Nancy Opel and Tony winner and NAMT alum Joe DiPietro (O. Henry's Lovers '98) will host as part of the Festival on Friday, October 12 from 1:20-2:30pm at New World Stages (340 West 50th Street).
American singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles recently appeared as a celebrity speller in "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Auburn, N.Y. This production is part of the inaugural season of the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival. Check out the picture below of Bareilles with the cast of "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."
Watching six kids all vying for a spelling bee championship title will make the audience realize that they are indeed, not smarter than a fifth grader.
The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival presents SPELLING BEE at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, now playing through September 29. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production below.
The Philadelphia based duo DRGN King has announced their signing to Bar None Records. Through this new partnership, the band is gearing up for the release of their debut full-length studio album Paragraph Nights in January 2013.
The Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival and Merry Go Round Theatres presents MY FAIR LADY, now playing through August 15. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the production photos below.
The Barnstormers Theater opens Friday with An Angel in the Park written and directed by R. Bruce Warren. This 'feel good original comedy' features four separate visits to Bench Number 14 in the park. It's a family friendly show at The Barnstormers just in time for the springtime.
The Barnstormers Theater opens Friday with An Angel in the Park written and directed by R. Bruce Warren. This 'feel good original comedy' features four separate visits to Bench Number 14 in the park. It's a family friendly show at The Barnstormers just in time for the springtime.
The Milk Carton Kids announce the second leg of their Prologue Release Tour, celebrate 10,000 free downloads of Prologue in under a week, still reach Top 10 on iTunes Singer/Songwriter Chart.
The Milk Carton Kids announce the second leg of their Prologue Release Tour, celebrate 10,000 free downloads of Prologue in under a week, still reach Top 10 on iTunes Singer/Songwriter Chart.
Just off from his Broadway engagement in La Cage Aux Folles, Auburn native Todd Lattimore joins an all-star cast, including Bruce Warren and Julie Cardia of last season's The Drowsy Chaperone and Kimberly Burns of Meet Me in St. Louis, in the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse production of Anything Goes. Bringing together this fantastic cast is Producing Artistic Director Ed Sayles, Choreographer Lori Leshner, and Musical Director Corinne Aquilina.
Metropolis Opera Project presents The 2nd Annual One Act Festival, April 8th thru 10th at Medicine Show Theatre.
Metropolis Opera Project presents The 2nd Annual One Act Festival, April 8th thru 10th at Medicine Show Theatre.
Metropolis Opera Project presents The 2nd Annual One Act Festival, April 8th thru 10th at Medicine Show Theatre.
The cast of the Off-Broadway production of the new true musical comedy, The Road to Qatar!, featuring book and lyrics by Stephen Cole and music by David Krane, heads into the recording studio to lay down tracks for Jay Records on March 7th. No release date has been announced.
On February 28, Golden Rivet Productions and Irondale Ensemble will hold an industry backers audition for the new musical adaptation of TREASURE ISLAND. The production began previews February 15 and will open March 5.
The cast of the Off-Broadway production of the new true musical comedy, The Road to Qatar!, featuring book and lyrics by Stephen Cole and music by David Krane,heads into the recording studio to lay down tracks for Jay Records on March 7th. No release date has been announced.
Name your musical The Road To Qatar! and in less than five words and an exclamation point you've communicated to your audience what to expect; a zany, lightweight, tuneful fish-out-of-water comedy set in an exotic locale featuring a Bob Hope/Bing Crosby-ish pair with a healthy dose of sex and romance provided by a Dorothy Lamour-ish babe. And for a good deal of their pocket-sized ninety-minute musical, Stephen Cole (book and lyrics) and David Krane (music) deliver as promised. At its best, The Road To Qatar! is a funny, breezy musical comedy hoot with some legitimately toe-tapping melodies. But while enjoyable, the material isn't quite memorable, though the current production at The York has the feel of an early version of something that could be whipped into a pretty terrific show.
In April of 1949, Rodgers and Hammerstein shocked the Theatre World by writing a song for their new musical professing that humans developed racial prejudice by nurture and not by nature. Later that same year, a scene in the new musical by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill showed two racially different young boys innocently striking up a quick friendship, unaware of why anyone would object.
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