Daniel Marcus News

February of 2008 has turned out to be a heck of a terrific month for non-traditional and daring Off-Broadway musicals. (Do we have any more opening by tomorrow night?) Following the exhilarating Next To Normal and the entrancingly Dadaist The Blue Flower we now have Joshua Schmidt (music and libretto) and Jason Loewith's (libretto) haunting chamber piece, Adding Machine, based on Elmer Rice's 1923 Expressionist drama. To call it 'old-fashioned' would be misleading, but one of the pleasures of Adding Machine is that it recalls a time when political and social protest musicals were not uncommon among Gotham's theatrical offerings.

The season's critically acclaimed and multi-awarded 'BEST MUSICAL'*, Adding Machine, will celebrate the release of the show's cast recording tomorrow (Tuesday, June 3) by giving everyone in the audience a free copy of the PS Classics recording of the show.

The critically acclaimed Off Broadway hit Adding Machine will extend through August 31 at the Minetta Lane Theatre (18 Minetta Lane), it was announced today by the show's producers.

PS Classics, the label dedicated to the heritage of Broadway and American popular song, will record the original Off Broadway cast recording of Adding Machine on Monday, April 14, it was announced today by the show's producers, Scott Morfee, Tom Wirtshafter and Margaret Cotter, and Tommy Krasker, co-founder of PS Classics.

The featured cast of the New York Premiere of Adding Machine has been announced. Adding Machine features a score by Joshua Schmidt and a libretto by Jason Loewith and Mr. Schmidt. David Cromer directs. Performances begin at the Minetta Lane Theatre on February 7, 2008, with an opening night set for Monday, February 25 (this is a change from the previously announced date of February 26).

Tony nominees Manoel Felciano (Sweeney Todd, Trumpery) and Melissa Errico (Amour, My Fair Lady, Dracula) will star in a private reading of Bloom, a brand-new musical comedy, on November 12 at New York's Pearl Studios.

The Joseph Stein/Kander & Ebb musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's 'The Skin of Our Teeth' lacks the sharp bite of the ground-breaking Pulitzer Prize-winning original

Connecticut's Westport Country Playhouse is presenting the highly anticipated new Kander and Ebb musical, All About Us, April 10 through April 28.

Connecticut's Westport Country Playhouse is presenting the highly anticipated new Kander and Ebb musical, All About Us, April 10 through April 28.

Westport Country will present the new Kander and Ebb musical, All About Us, opening the Playhouse 2007 season and running April 10 through April 28!

Westport Country Playhouse's 2007 announces April Season Lineup

Jessica Grové, Dorothy Stanley, David Furr and more will star in the Neil Berg musical 'Tim and Scrooge' in Queens

Tony Award-nominee Marla Schaffel has been cast in the title role of the York Theatre Company's 'Musicals in Mufti' presentation of Carmelina, which will take place from October 20th through 22nd

Lisa Brescia, Stephen R. Buntrock, Kenita R. Miller and more will take the spotlight in At This Performance--which features Broadway understudies and standbys--on March 26th

The colorful Gypsy Robe, embellished with mementos from Broadway musicals, is presented to the cast member who has the most Broadway chorus credits. For The Woman in White, the Robe was presented to Elena Shaddow.

Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Woman In White' now has its full cast.

James Barbour, star of Urinetown, Jane Eyre, Beauty and the Beast, Carousel and soon to be ASSASSINS talks about his fans, favorite times on stage and lots more...