David Engel News

The antique barge that houses the Waterfront Museum will travel by tugboat to Tribeca's Hudson River Park Pier 25 for two weekends of fun maritime activity in May. Featured will be free open barge tours, a Pirate Show, a teen comic book launch, folk music, school visits and two "tug & barge" fundraiser cruises.

Musical Theatre West has announced the opening of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: GREATEST HITS, VOLUME 2; previewing April 13th, with opening night April 14th and running for an additional 12 performances through April 29, 2012.

Paul Garman, Executive Director/Producer, and Steven Glaudini, Artistic Director, have announced the cast of FORBIDDEN BROADWAY: GREATEST HITS, VOLUME 2, previewing April 13th, with opening night April 14th and running for an additional 12 performances through April 29, 2012.

Check out this sneak peek of David Engel's one-man family vaudeville show, PIRATE SCHOOL! which plays aboard the historic Waterfront Museum Showboat Barge for one-day only, Saturday May 12, 2012 at 1 & 4 pm. Note that this show aboard the Waterfront Museum normally in Red Hook will be docked at Hudson River Park Pier 25 at the foot of N. Moore Street.

David Engel performs one-man family vaudeville show, PIRATE SCHOOL! aboard the historic Waterfront Museum Showboat Barge on one-day only, Saturday May 12, 2012 at 1 & 4 pm. Note that this show aboard the Waterfront Museum normally in Red Hook will be docked at Hudson River Park Pier 25 at the foot of N. Moore Street.

The hit Broadway comedy, 'Boeing-Boeing' is coming in for a landing at the Norris Theatre in Rolling Hills Estates, for nine performances, January 27 through February 12. The spirited farce won the 2008 Tony award for Best Revival of a play, and has left Broadway and London audiences airborne with laughter. 'Boeing-Boeing' is the prequel to the popular comedy, 'Don?t Dress for Dinner,' which was presented by the Norris four years ago.

Almost ten years after its triumphant debut on Broadway, the eight-time Tony Award-winning musical HAIRSPRAY is making quite a resurgence lately, thanks to the plethora of regional theaters across the country that now have licenses to mount their own versions. It's a good thing, too, because the show is one of the funniest and most entertaining stage musicals of the modern era, and one that deserves an afterlife with a new crop of the nicest kids in town. Bursting with laughs and ear candy from heel to coif, the wonderful folks over at Musical Theatre West have put on a very worthy, slam-dunk of a revival, recreating HAIRSPRAY with impressive moxie and a staggeringly talented cast. The show continues its brief run at the Carpenter Center for the Performing Arts in Long Beach, California through November 13.

Hairspray, can't get enough of that Hairspray! 60s girls lacquered up their dos - hair, that is, with oodles and oodles of it until their hair was a sticky, gooey mess; well, the musical of the same name has been seen close to a half dozen times in the last several months, and few seem to tire of it...why? It's a stroll down memory lane, it's nostalgia... that is pleasant - even when it's about issues that aren't... like segregation, it's a far cry from the unpleasantness in today's world, so it goes down easier... and, it has all those crazy song and dance tunes of the era...well, an original score by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, but one that sounds exactly like the hit tunes of the 60s. Musical Theatre West's (MTW) current production of the now classic Hairspray is about the best there is or has been, bar none! With an evenly spectacular cast, super direction by Larry Raben and stupendous choreography by Lee Martino, its star shines ever so brightly.

HAIRSPRAY opened in 2002 on Broadway and had 2,642 performances at the Neil Simon Theatre. With music by Marc Shaiman, Lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Williams and book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, HAIRSPRAY and its feel-good, upbeat score includes the songs 'Good Morning Baltimore,' 'Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now' and 'You Can't Stop the Beat.'

Musical Theatre West has announced that it will open its 59th Season with the mega-hit HAIRSPRAY at the beautiful 1,070-seat Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach.

Musical Theatre West is proud to announce that it will open its 59th Season with the mega-hit HAIRSPRAY at the beautiful 1,070-seat Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. HAIRSPRAY previews October 28 and runs for fourteen performances through November 13, 2011

Musical Theatre West is set to announce that it will open its 59th Season with the mega-hit HAIRSPRAY at the beautiful 1,070-seat Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach.

Musical Theatre West is set to announce that it will open its 59th Season with the mega-hit HAIRSPRAY at the beautiful 1,070-seat Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach.

Musical Theatre West has announced that it will open its 59th Season with the mega-hit HAIRSPRAY at the beautiful 1,070-seat Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach.

Mc Coy Rigby Entertainment & FX Arts are thrilled to open their all-new 'Broadway Series' of shows with one of the most popular musicals of all time, the heavenly musical, FOREVER PLAID written by Stuart Ross and directed and choreographed by one of the original 'Plaids,' David Engel. FOREVER PLAID will open on Friday, October 7, 2011 and perform for three performances only at the Fox Riverside Performing Arts Center, 3801 Mission Inn Avenue in Riverside.

MC COY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT & FX ARTS will open their all-new 'Broadway Series' of shows with one of the most popular musicals of all time, the heavenly musical, FOREVER PLAID written by Stuart Ross and directed and choreographed by one of the original 'Plaids,' David Engel. FOREVER PLAID opens tonight and perform for three performances only through Saturday, October 8, 2011 at the Fox Riverside Performing Arts Center, 3801 Mission Inn Avenue in Riverside.

MC COY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT & FX ARTS will open their all-new 'Broadway Series' of shows with one of the most popular musicals of all time, the heavenly musical, FOREVER PLAID written by Stuart Ross and directed and choreographed by one of the original 'Plaids,' David Engel. FOREVER PLAID will open on Friday, October 7, 2011 and perform for three performances only through Saturday, October 8, 2011 at the Fox Riverside Performing Arts Center, 3801 Mission Inn Avenue in Riverside.

Musical Theatre West is proud to announce that it will open its 59th Season with the mega-hit HAIRSPRAY at the beautiful 1,070-seat Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. HAIRSPRAY previews October 28 and runs for fourteen performances through November 13, 2011

Mc Coy Rigby Entertainment & FX Arts are thrilled to open their all-new 'Broadway Series' of shows with one of the most popular musicals of all time, the heavenly musical, FOREVER PLAID written by Stuart Ross and directed and choreographed by one of the original 'Plaids,' David Engel. FOREVER PLAID will open on Friday, October 7, 2011 and perform for three performances only through Saturday, October 8, 2011 at the Fox Riverside Performing Arts Center, 3801 Mission Inn Avenue in Riverside.

HAIRSPRAY, the most anticipated musical theatre event of the summer, comes to the stage of the Moonlight Amphitheatre as part of Moonlight Stage Productions' 31st Summer Season. HAIRSPRAY is the Broadway musical phenomenon that inspired a major motion picture and captured eight Tony Awards including Best Musical in 2003. Now, for the first time at Moonlight, audiences will be swept away to 1960s Baltimore in this smash-hit musical that's piled bouffant-high with comedy and music. Tickets are priced $22-$50 and are on sale now through the VisTix Ticket Office at (760) 724-2110 and online at moonlightstage.com.