Along with contempt, familiarity is also pretty good at breeding hit Broadway musicals. Take The Wiz, for example; the perfectly pleasant but sketchily written 1975 Tony winner for Best Musical that, if it weren't based on L. Frank Baum's classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (which became an iconic American story once MGM got its hands on it), would probably leave audiences completely baffled as to what the devil was going on.
Today, Tuesday, Nov. 3, Columbia Records and Twentieth Century Fox Television releases 'Glee: The Music, Volume 1,' the first in a series of soundtracks that feature some of the music heard in the first season of the critically acclaimed series on FOX. 'Glee: The Music, Volume 1' features spectacular renditions of several chart-topping hits, including Queen's 'Somebody to Love' and Neil Diamond's 'Sweet Caroline.'
The New York premiere of Orpheus X, with original music and text by 2007 Pulitzer Finalist Rinde Eckert, video by Denise Marika and directed by Robert Woodruff, draws from several literary and poetic sources, including the Sixth Century Greek poet Ibyous and the Roman poets Virgil and Ovid. Messrs.
The cast of the Fox hit GLEE performed the National Anthem before game 3 of the World Series. The cast sang before the game which was played at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.
GLEE star and BWW favorite Matthew Morrison spoke to Access Hollywood's Billy Bush about a number of topics including the hit FOX show and his upcoming solo CD.
The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary for a limited one-week engagement October 27 through November 1, 2009.
One more weekend to see Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's innovate staging of Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR.
The new production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical A CHORUS LINE comes to the Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Calgary for a limited one-week engagement October 27 through November 1, 2009.
Certain small, old towns of the Northeast are full of time warps. People crossing the street can seem like they sprang from decades past and certain buildings are forgotten relics, unseen and unnoticed. As a boy, playwright/director Jim Farmer saw 'The Sound of Music' in a large, decrepit movie theater in Hawley, PA, near Lake Wallenpaupack. The movie palace's sad and spooky overtones brought back feelings he had as a younger child, when he was taken by his parents to a supper club in Bayonne NJ, his hometown. Surrounded by its scratchy jazz band and eerie, wrinkled comics, Farmer knew that he wasn't experiencing a 'Jack Benny Show' of the past but a David Lynch moment of the future.
The upcoming GLEE episode 'Wheels' episode of GLEE airs Wednesday, Nov. 11 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. You can see some sneak peek images of the hit show right here on BWW!
This week's issue of Entertainment Weekly confirms the news that Tony-winner Kristin Chenoweth, who made a guest appearance on the fourth episode of the FOX series GLEE, in which she played April Rhodes, a boozy former classmate of Will's (Matthew Morrison), who has an eye for really young men, will return to the show during the show's final nine episodes of the season.
Josh Groban has revealed to Access Hollywood that he'll be returning to GLEE to do one more episode. 'I had a great time with that cast, coming from a theater background,' he said. 'It's so nice to see so many theater actors being hired for mainstream television. And also, being a member of the choir club as a kid, just to see that group of people being represented in mainstream culture is really, really so great.'
Billboard is reporting this morning that while plans are already underway for the GLEE cast to do a concert tour of the country in the summer of 2010, that also part of Columbia Records deal with FOX is that the label has options to sign the cast members to solo deals, though they aren't immediately rushing to do this.
Go behind the scenes with GLEE stars Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch as they rehearse their big swing dance number for the show. You can check it out right here on BWW TV!
The cast of GLEE is featured on the cover and inside the newest Entertainment Weekly.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch spotlights the cast of Fox's GLEE as they pick their favorite movies and music!
GLEE star Lea Michele is featured singing WICKED's powerful anthem 'Defying Gravity' in a new vocal snippet from the hit Fox series. You can check it out right here on STAGE TUBE!
Certain small, old towns of the Northeast are full of time warps. People crossing the street can seem like they sprang from decades past and certain buildings are forgotten relics, unseen and unnoticed. As a boy, playwright/director Jim Farmer saw 'The Sound of Music' in a large, decrepit movie theater in Hawley, PA, near Lake Wallenpaupack. The movie palace's sad and spooky overtones brought back feelings he had as a younger child, when he was taken by his parents to a supper club in Bayonne NJ, his hometown. Surrounded by its scratchy jazz band and eerie, wrinkled comics, Farmer knew that he wasn't experiencing a 'Jack Benny Show' of the past but a David Lynch moment of the future.
Columbia Records and Twentieth Century Fox Television released select songs featured in new GLEE episodes, including cast versions of Jill Scott's 'Hate On Me' and The Supremes' 'You Keep Me Hangin' On,' Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown's 'No Air' and Avril Lavigne's 'Keep Holding On.' You can also watch a sneak peek of Matthew Morrison singing 'The Thong Song' right here on STAGE TUBE!
Columbia Records and Twentieth Century Fox Television released select songs featured in new GLEE episodes, including cast versions of Jill Scott's 'Hate On Me' and The Supremes' 'You Keep Me Hangin' On,' Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown's 'No Air' and Avril Lavigne's 'Keep Holding On.' You can also watch a sneak peek of the cast singing 'Bust A Move' right here on STAGE TUBE!
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