National Corporate Theatre Fund (NCTF) is pleased to announce its Annual Chairman's Awards Gala set to take place on Monday, April 4th at New York's Essex House. This year, NCTF Chairman James E. Buckley (KPMG) will honor Chris Campbell (Palace Production Center), Gordon Davidson (Founder & Artistic Director of Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group - Ahmanson, Mark Taper Forum & Kirk Douglas Theatres) and John Lithgow, currently starring in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Broadway.
National Corporate Theatre Fund (NCTF) is pleased to announce its Annual Chairman's Awards Gala set to take place on Monday, April 4th at New York's Essex House. This year, NCTF Chairman James E. Buckley (KPMG) will honor Chris Campbell (Palace Production Center), Gordon Davidson (Founder & Artistic Director of Los Angeles' Center Theatre Group - Ahmanson, Mark Taper Forum & Kirk Douglas Theatres) and John Lithgow, currently starring in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels on Broadway.
The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton and Barbra Streisand (Honorary Chairs), with Young Playwrights Inc. and producers Richard Maltby, Jr., Kevin Stites and Sheri M. Goldhirsch are proud to present 'CHILDREN AND ART,' a spectacular musical gala evening in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 75th birthday, for one performance only at Broadway's New Amsterdam Theatre (214 West 42nd Street) on Monday, March 21, 2005 (7:30 p.m. curtain), the eve of Sondheim's birthday.
MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT, a new musical lovingly ripped-off from the internationally famous comedy team's most popular motion picture, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, begins previews at Broadway's Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th St.) on February 14, 2005 and opens on March 17, 2005.
Members of the public can become a knight when they stop by the home of MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT and take their photo in a cut-out of four stacked knights.
Decca Broadway will record Monty Python's Spamalot, the new musical lovingly ripped off from the internationally famous comedy team's most popular motion picture, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, at Right Track Studios in New York City on February 7th, with a release date for the original cast recording in the Spring of 2005 to be announced.
Hank Azaria, currently starring in Monty Python's Spamalot, has been nominated for a 2005 Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance as Dr. Craig 'Huff' Huffstodt in the Showtime production Huff. The SAG Awards are selected by actors' peers; the ceremony airs on Saturday February 5 at 8 PM ET/PT, 7 PM Central, 6 PM MT.
Bill Kenwright will bring two-time Academy Award-winning actress Jessica Lange back to Broadway in a new production of the Tennessee Williams' classic, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, for a limited engagement beginning previews Thursday, February 24, at 8pm at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47 Street). Opening night for THE GLASS MENAGERIE, which will feature Dallas Roberts, Sarah Paulson and Josh Lucas and which will be directed by David Leveaux, is Tuesday, March 15, at 6:45pm.
Clearly, it is no small coincidence that King Arthur's birthday* and the first performance of the eagerly anticipated new musical MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT both take place on December 21.
The Shubert box office opened on Monday December 6th for MONTY PYTHON'S SPAMALOT. Ticket buyers who braved the cold received a free snack of Hormel's new golden honey grail flavor, created to celebrate SPAMALOT's imminent arrival on Broadway.
