Harry Connick, Jr. Returns To Broadway In Gershwin Musical
by BWW News Desk
- May 5, 2008
Grammy Award and Emmy Award winner and two-time Tony Award nominee Harry Connick, Jr. will return to Broadway in Spring 2009 in Nice Work If You Can Get It, a new musical comedy with music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin, and book by Joe DiPietro ( I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, All Shook Up). Two-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall (The Pajama Game, Wonderful Town) will direct and choreograph.
CA's Opera Pacific to Present Full Concert of Porgy & Bess
by BWW News Desk
- Aug 10, 2006
Opera Pacific will present a full concert version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (October 4-5, 2006) during the opening celebration for the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at Segerstrom Center for the Arts, which is part of the Orange County Performing Arts Center's expansion
Nunn's Shortened Porgy and Bess Opens in London in Nov.
by BWW News Desk
- Jun 30, 2006
A new production of the Gershwin's groundbreaking folk opera Porgy and Bess--trimmed down from 'a four hour opera to a two-and-a-half-hour musical' will begin performances at the Savoy Theatre in London on October 25th and open on November 9th
Of Thee I Sing: The Wild Party
by Michael Dale
- May 15, 2006
Encores!'s latest production helps prove this classic and wholly original musical deserves a higher place in the standard American theatre repertory