Danny Kaye News

We are going two by two today because we are talking, in two parts, to Two by Two star, Tony nominee Walter Willison. In Part 1 of our interview with Walter, we look back on his beginnings in California, followed by the touring life, before appearing in such Broadway shows as Norman, Is That You, Two by Two, Pippin, Wild and Wonderful, and Grand Hotel.

Ridgefield fiber artist, and owner of Zenweave, Lisa Kuller will exhibit her wares prior to the 1940s musical review, In The Mood, at The Ridgefield Playhouse Sunday, April 28 at 4pm, part of Ridgefield Magazine's Broadway & Cabaret Series and Moffly Media Evening of Art, Wine & Jazz Series, sponsored by Arthur Murray Dance Centers of Danbury, and partially underwritten by Westy Self Storage.

Hal Cazalet is a leading operamusical theatre actor and singer in the UK and US. He now turns to directing his musical adaption of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince. 

Complete with the String of Pearls Orchestra and singers & dancers, In The Mood, a 1940s musical revue, creates a nostalgic atmosphere that transports the audience back in time - a time when everyone was singing and dancing to the same kind of music. See In The Mood as it marks its 25th Silver Anniversary at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Sunday, April 28 at 4pm, part of the Ridgefield Magazine Broadway & Cabaret Series, Moffly Media Evening of Art, Wine & Jazz Series and partially underwritten by Westy Self Storage. Join us in the lobby at 3:15pm for a free Italian wine tasting by Pera Wines and an art exhibit by Lisa Kuller. Visit Dimitri's Diner (16 Prospect St, Ridgefield) before or after the show and enjoy 10% off your meal when you show your ticket! Media partner for this event is WSHU Public Radio.

Hal Linden, one of TV iconic personalities, will join the internationally acclaimed attraction "In the Mood" when its 25th Silver Celebration Tour rolls into Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, from April 23-27. "In the Mood" is being presented as part of Bucks County Playhouse's Visiting Artists Series.

Atlanta Lyric Theatre presents this stunning classic April 12-28, 2019.  The "Greatest Movie Musical of All Time" is faithfully and lovingly adapted by Broadway legends, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, from their original award-winning screenplay in SINGIN' in the RAIN. Each unforgettable scene, song and dance is accounted for, including the show-stopping title number, complete with an onstage rainstorm and three Broadway alums! SINGIN' in the RAIN performs at the Jennie T. Anderson Theatre (548 South Marietta Pkwy., Marietta).

 Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) continues its Spring 2019 season on Friday, April 12, 2019 at 7:30pm with a performance by St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble +Adam Rosenblatt, percussionist, at BAC's Jerome Robbins Theater (450 W. 37th Street). Rosenblatt will perform Belgian composer Thierry de Mey's theatrical and dramatic piece Light Music, in which movements and gestures produce light and sound through interactive technology. This interdisciplinary solo performance will be bookended by Viennese classics - Joseph Haydn's festive Divertimento for Strings from 1754 and Joseph Lanner's charming 19th century waltzes, performed by the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble. These virtuosic musicians make up the artistic core of the renowned Orchestra of St. Luke's - who share the performing arts complex with BAC at 450 W. 37th Street.

The National Museum of American Jewish History (NMAJH) is pleased to announce its next special exhibition Sara Berman's Closet: a small and monumental story by Maira Kalman and Alex Kalman. An installation of one immigrant woman's belongings as re-created by Sara's daughter and grandson - the acclaimed artist and writer Maira Kalman and designer and curator Alex Kalman - the project will feature the Museum's first-ever public art installation on its Kimmel Plaza, on the corner of 5th and Market Streets. An accompanying art exhibition will continue in the Museum's special exhibition gallery, featuring new paintings by Maira Kalman and new sculptures by Alex Kalman and will include interventions throughout the core exhibition, as well as in-person appearances by the Kalmans throughout the run. Sara Berman's Closet will be on view April 5 through September 2, 2019.

Producer Ken Davenport (Once on This Island, Spring Awakening) has obtained the Broadway stage rights to the life story of the great American singer, songwriter, actor and activist, Harry Belafonte.

Playlight Theatre Company (Artistic Director, Ben Tostado) is presenting a staged reading of a new dark musical, McGurk's Suicide Hall on December 10 at 7:30PM at the Tada! Theater, 15 West 28th Street.

Curious about how a popular song became a cherished film and a Broadway musical? We've got the full story! Check out our in-depth timeline of how White Christmas came to be below!

The LA Phil's Deck the Hall concerts feature performances by an eclectic array of artists who bring the joy of the holiday season to concert-goers during this special time of year. Featured holiday concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall are: the rich harmonies of Chanticleer (Dec 19); the irresistible double bill of Herb Alpert & Lani Hall and The Manhattan Transfer(Dec 20); 10-time GRAMMY® winner Arturo Sandoval and his swinging big band(Dec. 21); the family-friendly fun of the annual Holiday Sing-Along (Dec 22); and the heartwarming White Christmas Sing-Along (Dec 23). Deck the Hall festivities culminate with a raucous New Year's Eve celebration featuring Pink Martini and a rare joint appearance by singers China Forbes and Storm Large (Dec 31).

The 6th Annual Chanukah with Elli theKingOfBroadway and Friends 2018 comes to the Triad, Sunday, December 2nd (1st Light Chanukah) @ 7:00pm.

This winter, Fathom Events presents moviegoers with a lineup of holiday favorites in movie theaters nationwide: Die Hard's 30th anniversary; a new adult-themed holiday tradition with A Bad Mom's Christmas; the enchanting, music-filed Buttons: A New Musical Film, the evergreen classic White Christmas; two heartwarming films in Jim Henson's Holiday Special; and beloved holiday favorite The Nutcracker, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet.

If there is a musical theater moment more joyous that what occurs at the top of Act Two in Irving Berlin's White Christmas, then we must respectfully demand it be performed in front of us as quickly as possible. Certainly, we recognize there is much joy to be found in musical theater, but sitting in the audience at Tennessee Performing Arts Center's Andrew Jackson Hall - six years to the day we last found ourselves awash in the nostalgia and sentimentality so abundant in this particular holiday favorite - we simply couldn't recall anything more engaging or more entertaining than watching Jeremy Benton and Kelly Sheehan, backed by a cadre of 12 other fleet-footed dancers, tapping their hearts out to "I Love a Piano.'

This week finds Jeremy Benton - Broadway's favorite tap-dancing man - in Paducah, Kentucky, with the rest of the cast and crew of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, preparing for tonight's opening performance of the quintessential holiday season musical. He's spent so many holiday seasons performing in White Christmas, in fact (he joined the show back in 2005 and has been a part of the company off and on ever since) that it's become second nature to him now.

This winter, Fathom Events presents moviegoers with a lineup of holiday favorites in movie theaters nationwide: Die Hard's 30th anniversary; a new adult-themed holiday tradition with A Bad Mom's Christmas; the enchanting, music-filed Buttons: A New Musical Film, the evergreen classic White Christmas; two heartwarming films in Jim Henson's Holiday Special; and beloved holiday favorite The Nutcracker, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet.

This week finds Jeremy Benton - Broadway's favorite tap-dancing man - in Paducah, Kentucky, with the rest of the cast and crew of Irving Berlin's White Christmas, preparing for tonight's opening performance of the quintessential holiday season musical. He's spent so many holiday seasons performing in White Christmas, in fact (he joined the show back in 2005 and has been a part of the company off and on ever since) that it's become second nature to him now.

Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) presents the November Panel:General Manager and Attorney, and the Early Development of New Work on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 7:30pm (networking at 7pm) at The Actors' Temple, 339 West 47th Street, New York, NY 10036. This panel is free for TRU members;$12.50 for non-members in advance ($15 at door).Please reserve using the bright red reservation box at https://truonline.org/events/general-manager-and-attorney/ or e-mail TRUStaff1@gmail.com.

FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club, presents 54 Sings As Thousands Cheer on May 24, 2018 at 9:30 PM. Before there was SNL, The Daily Show, and Last Week Tonight, there was As Thousands Cheer, Irving Berlin and Moss Hart's famed musical revue. Opening on Broadway in September 1933, As Thousands Cheer brought laughter and joy to audiences at the Music Box Theatre. Now, 85 years after its Broadway premiere and 20 years since its last production in New York, Feinstein's/54 Below and a cast of New York's finest perform Irving Berlin's score. With classic songs including "Easter Parade," "How's Chances?," "Heat Wave," and "Harlem On My Mind,"  As Thousands Cheer will be a delightful evening of comedy, politics, showstopping songs, and everything in between!