Burt Bacharach News

Jan Abrams Returns Home To NYC For Performance At The Met Room 5/9

by BWW News Desk — May 9, 2009

She's coming home.

Maxyne Lang Given Abe Olman Publisher Award During Hall Of Fame Awards Gala 6/18

by Gabrielle Sierra — May 8, 2009

Hal David, Chairman/CEO of the Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF), today announced that Maxyne Lang will receive the Abe Olman Publisher Award to be presented at the 2009 Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards 40th Anniversary gala, slated for Thursday, June 18th, at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel.

Photo Flash: Reprise Theater Company's THE FANTASTICKS

by Gabrielle Sierra — May 7, 2009

Eric McCormack, Emmy Award winner for 'Will & Grace,' will play El Gallo, Lucas Grabeel from 'High School Musical' will play Matt, and Broadway star and Tony nominee Harry Groener will play Bellomy in 'The Fantasticks,' which concludes the 2008-2009 Reprise Theatre Company at the Freud Playhouse May

Jill O'Hara Releases New CD And Performs At Bacharach Tribute 5/18

by Reynard Loki — May 4, 2009

Praised by Backstage Magazine for 'one of those rare voices with a soothing, almost hypnotic quality' award winning vocalist and actress Jill O?Hara, the original female lead in the Burt Bacharach-Hal David-Neil Simon Broadway musical Promises, Promises, reunites with Burt Bacharach at the annual sp

McCormack, Grabeel, Groener Set for Reprise's 'THE FANTASTICKS' 5/5 - 5/17

by BWW News Desk — May 5, 2009

Eric McCormack, Emmy Award winner for 'Will & Grace,' will play El Gallo, Lucas Grabeel from 'High School Musical' will play Matt, and Broadway star and Tony nominee Harry Groener will play Bellomy in 'The Fantasticks,' which concludes the 2008-2009 Reprise Theatre Company at the Freud Playhouse May

92nd Street Y Celebrates Burt Bacharach With What The World Needs Now Gala 5/18

by Gabrielle Sierra — April 29, 2009

On Monday, May 18 at 8:00 pm, the 92nd Street Y celebrates the music of Burt Bacharach in the cultural center's annual Gala Benefit, 'What the World Needs Now.

Jan Abrams Returns Home To NYC For Performance At The Met Room 5/9

by Gabrielle Sierra — April 24, 2009

She's coming home.

Samaro, Butler, Swain Make Debuts At Sterling's Upstairs At Vitello's In May

by Gabrielle Sierra — April 23, 2009

The award-winning Sterling's Upstairs at Vitello's in Studio City, CA, adds sizzle to its May headlining roster when regional musical theatre star Shaun Samaro, Television and Broadway star Dean Butler, and Theresa Anne Swain, winner of LA's Next Great Stage Star 2009, make their cabaret debuts at t

'SHOUT!' Makes West End Premiere at Arts Theatre 4/17 - 6/28

by BWW News Desk — April 17, 2009

SHOUT! will get its West?End premiere at the Arts?Theatre in a 10-week season from Friday April 17 - Sunday June 28.

'Back to Bacharach and David' to Have Run at Music Box April 15 - May 17

by BWW News Desk — April 15, 2009

March 2, 2009 Los Angeles - The Off-Broadway hit ?Back to Bacharach and David? will have a short 23 performance engagement at The Music Box @ Fonda April 15 to May 17 (opening April 19).

THE SELDON Announces 2009-2010 Season Of Concerts With Jazz, Folk & More

by Gabrielle Sierra — April 6, 2009

The Sheldon is proud to announce the 2009 - 2010 season of outstanding concerts in the intimate and acoustically perfect Sheldon Concert Hall.

BROADWAY IN CONCERT! With Welkin & Watson Hits The Canyon Stage 4/5

by BWW News Desk — April 5, 2009

On April 5, 2009.

Baby Jane Dexter, Anna Bergman Come To The Metropolitan Room In April

by Gabrielle Sierra — April 2, 2009

This month the Metropolitan Room welcomes back two great singers with vastly different styles and personas - the garrulous blues mamma Baby Jane Dexter, who reprises 'If' by popular demand for nine shows from April 16 to May 2, and the cosmopolitan chanteuse Anna Bergman, who brings her Richard Rodg

McCormack, Grabeel, Groener Set for Reprise's 'THE FANTASTICKS' 5/5 - 5/17

by Eddie Varley — March 31, 2009

Eric McCormack, Emmy Award winner for 'Will & Grace,' will play El Gallo, Lucas Grabeel from 'High School Musical' will play Matt, and Broadway star and Tony nominee Harry Groener will play Bellomy in 'The Fantasticks,' which concludes the 2008-2009 Reprise Theatre Company at the Freud Playhouse May

Photo Coverage: Amas Musical Theatre 40th Anniversary Gala

by Peter James Zielinski — March 31, 2009

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director; Rosetta LeNoire, Founder), celebrated its 40th Anniversary with a Gala evening on Monday, March 30th featuring a special 'Blast from the Past' concert of songs and numbers from four decades of Amas Musicals, including Bubbling Brown

BROADWAY IN CONCERT! With Welkin & Watson Hits The Canyon Stage 4/5

by Gabrielle Sierra — March 30, 2009

On April 5, 2009.

GIRL CRAZY, FANNY and ANYONE CAN WHISTLE Set for Encores! 2009/10 Season

by Eddie Varley — March 30, 2009

Girl Crazy, with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan, will open New York City Center's 2009-2010 Encores! season on November 19, 2009.

Photo Coverage: FINIAN'S RAINBOW Closing Night Party

by Linda Lenzi — March 30, 2009

Tony Award-winners Philip Bosco, Jim Norton and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, as well as Cheyenne Jackson, Kate Baldwin, and Jeremy Bobb starred in Finian's Rainbow, the final production of New York City Center's 2008-09 Encores! season, preformances ran from March 26 - 29.

Photo Coverage: Encores! 'FINIAN'S RAINBOW' Curtain Call

by Walter McBride — March 30, 2009

Tony Award-winners Philip Bosco, Jim Norton and Ruben Santiago-Hudson, as well as Cheyenne Jackson, Kate Baldwin, and Jeremy Bobb starred in Finian's Rainbow, the final production of New York City Center's 2008-09 Encores! season, preformances ran from March 26 - 29.

Amas Celebrates 40th Anniversary W/ Benefit Gala 3/30

by BWW News Desk — March 30, 2009

New York: Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director; Rosetta LeNoire, Founder), will celebrate its 40th Anniversary with a Benefit Gala on Monday, March 30th, 2009.