Craig D'Amico News

Vicki and Chris Le Vine, along with The Broadway Dreams Foundation, presented the third annual White Christmas at Sweetwater Farm and Grace Winery (50 Sweetwater Road, Glen Mills, PA) on Sunday, December 16. The festive old-fashioned piano party and cabaret featured performances by Broadway's brightest stars and talented local BDF students. Each year hundreds of students received valuable musical theatre training through BDF programs offered in partnership with Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Check out photos from the event below!

Broadway Dreams Foundation, a national non-profit organization dedicated to providing training, mentoring and career opportunities to the next generation of musical theater performers, visited the NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square on Wednesday, December 12, 2012. In honor of the occasion, Broadway Dreams Founder and Executive Director Annette Tanner rang the Closing Bell along with Broadway teaching artists Tony Vincent (American Idiot, NBC's 'The Voice') and Craig D'Amico (Annie Get Your Gun), as well as BDF's brightest students and rising stars. Check out photos from the festivities below!

Vicki and Chris Le Vine, along with The Broadway Dreams Foundation, present the third annual White Christmas at Sweetwater Farm and Grace Winery (50 Sweetwater Road, Glen Mills, PA) on Sunday, December 16, 2012. The festive old-fashioned piano party and cabaret will feature performances by Broadway's brightest stars and talented local BDF students. Each year hundreds of students receive valuable musical theatre training through BDF programs offered in partnership with Philadelphia's Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Proceeds from White Christmas at Sweetwater Farm and Grace Winery will help to fund scholarships for worthy aspiring performers.

The Broadway Dreams Foundation held its second annual Champagne & Caroling Gala last night at Celsius, a restaurant, bar and event space within Citi Pond at Bryant Park (5th Ave and 42nd Street) on Monday, December 10. At this one of a kind urban winter wonderland in of the heart of midtown Manhattan, Broadway's brightest stars and patrons of the arts joined together for a festive celebration of the country's premier musical theatre training program. Check out photos from the event below!

Philadelphia's Broadway dreams came true for the fourth consecutive summer when The Broadway Dreams Foundation (BDF) partnered with The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts to present their Summer Performing Arts Intensive, July 30 through August 5, 2012. Jason Robert Brown, Tony Award-winner for Parade, and a faculty of Broadway professionals taught master classes during the week to aspiring Philadelphia area students interested in pursuing a career in musical theatre. Check out photos of Brown in workshop and the faculty and students performing in concert below!

Philadelphia's Broadway dreams will come true for the fourth consecutive summer when The Broadway Dreams Foundation (BDF) partners with The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts to present their Summer Performing Arts Intensive July 30 through August 5, 2012. Jason Robert Brown, Tony Award winner for Parade, and a faculty of Broadway professionals will teach master classes during the week to aspiring Philadelphia area students interested in pursuing a career in musical theatre. A week's end, the Broadway faculty will perform alongside BDF students in "Express Yourself," a unique concert event directed by acclaimed New York director Matt Lenz (Hairspray, Beauty and the Beast) at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts' Perelman Theater on Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 3 pm and 8 pm. Tickets range from $23 - $76 and are available now online at www.kimmelcenter.org, by calling 215-893-1999 or by visiting the Kimmel Center Box Office (260 Broad Street).

In its Los Angeles Regional Premiere, the Tony Award winning musical The Light In The Piazza will offer special discounted tickets for the Thursday, February 12th and Friday, February 13th performances at the Covina Center for the Performing Arts. All remaining seats for these performances of this critically acclaimed production are $15. In a statement, Phil Miller, Artistic Producing Director of CCPA said 'we are very pleased to be able to offer these discounted to seats to theatre fans throughout Los Angeles during these challenging economic times. Ensuring that all fans of Piazza will be able to see this acclaimed Los Angeles Regional Premiere.'

In its Los Angeles Regional Premiere, the Tony Award winning musical The Light In The Piazza will offer special discounted tickets for the Thursday, February 12th and Friday, February 13th performances at the Covina Center for the Performing Arts. All remaining seats for these performances of this critically acclaimed production are $15. In a statement, Phil Miller, Artistic Producing Director of CCPA said 'we are very pleased to be able to offer these discounted to seats to theatre fans throughout Los Angeles during these challenging economic times. Ensuring that all fans of Piazza will be able to see this acclaimed Los Angeles Regional Premiere.'

In its Los Angeles Regional Premiere, the Tony Award winning musical The Light In The Piazza will open at the Covina Center for the Performing Arts on January 23, 2009. The Covina Center for the Performing Arts is proud to present a brand new production of this Tony award winning musical. The Light In The Piazza takes place in Italy in the summer of 1953. Margaret Johnson, the wife of an American businessman, is touring the Tuscan countryside with her daughter, Clara. While sightseeing, Clara - a beautiful, surprisingly childish young woman - loses her hat in a sudden gust of wind. As if guided by an unseen hand, the hat lands at the feet of Fabrizio Naccarelli, a handsome Florentine, who returns it to Clara. This brief episode, charged with coincidence and fate, sparks an immediate and intense romance between Clara and Fabrizio. Margaret, extremely protective of her daughter, attempts to keep Clara and Fabrizio apart. As the story unfolds, a secret is revealed. In addition to the cultural differences between the young lovers, Clara is not all that she appears to be. Unable to suppress the truth about her daughter, Margaret is forced to reconsider not only Clara's future, but her own. Directed by Brady Schwind. The Light In The Piazza will feature Brooke Tansley as Clara Johnson (Broadway: Belle in Beauty In The Beast, Penny Pingleton in Hairspray); Christopher Callen as Margaret Johnson (Broadway: Fiona in Brigadoon, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof with Zero Mostel, Lend Me A Tenor and 1776); and Craig D'Amico (Broadway: Tommy Keeler in Annie Get Your Gun with Reba McEntire, Vladek in Fiddler On The Roof with Harvey Fierstein) as Fabrizio Naccarelli in their CCPA debuts. Joining this trio of Broadway performers will be David Fairchild (Signor Naccarelli); Lois Bourgon (Signora Naccarelli); Eric Snodgrass (Giuseppe Naccarelli); Abigail Kinnahan (Franca Naccarelli); and Michael Tatlock (Roy Johnson). Mark Gamez, Matt Ervien, Karin Frasier, Marisa Copeland, Taylor Tracey and Madelyn Jones comprise The Light In The Piazza ensemble.

In its Los Angeles Regional Premiere, the Tony Award winning musical The Light In The Piazza will open at the Covina Center for the Performing Arts on January 23, 2009. The Covina Center for the Performing Arts is proud to present a brand new production of this Tony award winning musical, directed by Brady Schwind.

In its Los Angeles Regional Premiere, the Tony Award winning musical The Light In The Piazza will open at the Covina Center for the Performing Arts on January 23, 2009.

In its Los Angeles Regional Premiere, the Tony Award winning musical The Light In The Piazza will open at the Covina Center for the Performing Arts on January 23, 2009. The Covina Center for the Performing Arts is proud to present a brand new production of this Tony award winning musical. The Light In The Piazza takes place in Italy in the summer of 1953. Margaret Johnson, the wife of an American businessman, is touring the Tuscan countryside with her daughter, Clara. While sightseeing, Clara - a beautiful, surprisingly childish young woman - loses her hat in a sudden gust of wind. As if guided by an unseen hand, the hat lands at the feet of Fabrizio Naccarelli, a handsome Florentine, who returns it to Clara. This brief episode, charged with coincidence and fate, sparks an immediate and intense romance between Clara and Fabrizio. Margaret, extremely protective of her daughter, attempts to keep Clara and Fabrizio apart. As the story unfolds, a secret is revealed. In addition to the cultural differences between the young lovers, Clara is not all that she appears to be. Unable to suppress the truth about her daughter, Margaret is forced to reconsider not only Clara's future, but her own. Directed by Brady Schwind. The Light In The Piazza will feature Brooke Tansley as Clara Johnson (Broadway: Belle in Beauty In The Beast, Penny Pingleton in Hairspray); Christopher Callen as Margaret Johnson (Broadway: Fiona in Brigadoon, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof with Zero Mostel, Lend Me A Tenor and 1776); and Craig D'Amico (Broadway: Tommy Keeler in Annie Get Your Gun with Reba McEntire, Vladek in Fiddler On The Roof with Harvey Fierstein) as Fabrizio Naccarelli in their CCPA debuts. Joining this trio of Broadway performers will be David Fairchild (Signor Naccarelli); Lois Bourgon (Signora Naccarelli); Eric Snodgrass (Giuseppe Naccarelli); Abigail Kinnahan (Franca Naccarelli); and Michael Tatlock (Roy Johnson). Mark Gamez, Matt Ervien, Karin Frasier, Marisa Copeland, Taylor Tracey and Madelyn Jones comprise The Light In The Piazza ensemble.

In its Los Angeles Regional Premiere, the Tony Award winning musical The Light In The Piazza will open at the Covina Center for the Performing Arts on January 23, 2009. The Covina Center for the Performing Arts is proud to present a brand new production of this Tony award winning musical, directed by Brady Schwind.

In its Los Angeles Regional Premiere, the Tony Award winning musical The Light In The Piazza will open at the Covina Center for the Performing Arts on January 23, 2009.

Obie Winner, Christopher Shinn's searing drama, DYING CITY will receive its premiere Los Angeles performance, Tuesday, November 18th as part of the Neighborhood Playhouse's Fall Play Reading Festival

Obie Winner, Christopher Shinn's searing drama, DYING CITY will receive its premiere Los Angeles performance, Tuesday, November 18th as part of the Neighborhood Playhouse's Fall Play Reading Festival

Almost a full decade after its initial Broadway production, the powerful award winning musical 'Parade' by Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry will receive its first fully staged professional production in Los Angeles at the Neighborhood Playhouse.