Christopher Gattelli News

The League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers presented the 23rd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway on Monday night, May 5, 2008 at the Union Square Theatre.

Sunday in the Park with George is playing a limited engagement through June 29th, 2008 at Studio 54 on Broadway (254 West 54th Street).

Roundabout Theatre Company is thrilled to announce an exclusive, live online chat with legendary composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim (Sunday in the Park with George) and Roundabout's Artistic Director Todd Haimes on Tuesday, May 6th at 7:00pm.

Neil Haskell, from Fox's hit reality show 'So You Think You Can Dance,' will join the cast of Altar Boyz, the acclaimed musical comedy at New World Stages, taking over the role of LUKE, beginning Tuesday, April 22nd.

On Monday, April 21st the Outer Critics Circle Nominees were announced at the Algonguin Hotel in Manhattan. The Outer Circle Awards are chosen by a group a theater critics and writers covering Broadway for publications outside of the New York City area.

Sam Buntrock, director of Roundabout Theatre Company's Sunday in the Park with George, will be featured on NY1's 'On Stage' this weekend beginning Saturday, April 12th on channel 1 and repeated six times throughout the weekend. Sam sits down with NY1's Patrick Pacheco to discuss the critically acclaimed and technologically advanced production of Sunday in the Park with George.

BroadwayWorld.com is proud announce that we will be launching the first Godspell teaser ads. If you go to http://www.broadwayworld.com/gs/gs.cfm and register your name, e-mail and tell us your favorite Godspell songs, you will receive up to date information about casting and special offers, including a chance to attend the demo recording session!

Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway production of the Menier Chocolate Factory's Sunday in the Park with George has been extended an additional two weeks through Sunday, June 29th! This Olivier Award winning production of Stephen Sondheim & James Lapine's Pulitzer Prize winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, is directed by Sam Buntrock with musical staging by Christopher Gattelli.

Ken Davenport and Robyn Goodman proudly announce that Neil Haskell, Fox's hit reality show 'So You Think You Can Dance,' will join the cast of Altar Boyz, the acclaimed musical comedy at New World Stages, taking over the role of LUKE, beginning April 22nd. He replaces Jesse JP Johnson.

The cast and crew of South Pacific celebrated their opening night in style. The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic opened its first ever revival on April 3.

Laura Griffith received the ceremonial Gypsy Robe as the cast member of South Pacific with the most ensemble credits under her belt. Griffith was previously in The Sweet Smell of Success, Oklahoma! and The Light in the Piazza.

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director), is thrilled to announce the launch of CONNECT: The Dot Project. By logging on to www.sundaydots.com, fans & friends of the show can easily create their own 'dot' which then becomes a part of George Seurat's famous painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

Sony BMG Masterworks proudly announces the upcoming release of the New Broadway Cast Recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific. The CD will be available nationwide on May 27, 2008.

Loretta Ables Sayre will be the subject of profile feature on NBC's 'Today Show' by national news correspondent Jamie Gangel, during the 8:30 to 9AM half hour this Thursday, April 3 - the morning of her Broadway debut as 'Bloody Mary' in Lincoln Center Theater's new production of Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein's prize-winning musical classic SOUTH PACIFIC, which opens that evening at 6:30PM at the Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Seventeen different stage productions were honored at the third annual Kevin Kline Awards ceremony. Ten St. Louis area theater companies - double the number of last year's recipients - were recognized with awards. Four of those ten theaters were multiple award winners.

Sunday in the Park with George's Olivier Award winning stars Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell will be featured on WNYC's 'The Leonard Lopate Show' on Friday, March 21st from 1:40-2:00PM on 93.9FM and AM 820. Tune in to hear Daniel and Jenna discuss their journey from London to New York in this critically acclaimed Broadway revival.

Sunday in the Park with George's authors Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine and Olivier Award winning stars Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell will be featured on ABC's 'Good Morning America' this Monday, March 17th from 7-9AM on channel 7. 'Good Morning America's' Diane Sawyer talks to Sondheim, Lapine, Evans and Russell about this critically acclaimed and unique Broadway revival.

In celebration of the Broadway production of 'Sunday in the Park with George', Olivier Award winners Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell will appear at Barnes & Noble (Broadway and 66th Street) on Tuesday, March 11th for a special performance and CD signing beginning at 5:30pm. Doors open at 5:00pm.

Broadway diva Bernadette Peters and multiple Tony Award-winning legendary composer Stephen Sondheim visited the cast of Sunday in the Park with George on Wednesday, March 5 at Studio 54. Bernadette Peters created the role of Dot/Marie in the original Broadway production, penned by Sondheim. Current stars, Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell met the dynamic duo backstage.

New York Theatre Barn, who will be celebrating their first anniversary on April 14, announces the addition of five new members to its advisory board.