Hal David, Chairman/CEO of the Songwriters Hall of Fame (SHOF), today announced that Maxyne Lang will receive the Abe Olman Publisher Award to be presented at the 2009 Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards 40th Anniversary gala, slated for Thursday, June 18th, at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel.
The Tony Award®-winning Old Globe is pleased to announce the cast of its 2009 Summer Shakespeare Festival, featuring two works by Shakespeare, Twelfth Night and Coriolanus, along with Edmond Rostand's celebrated classic, Cyrano de Bergerac. The three productions will be performed in nightly rotation in the Globe's outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre June 13 - September 27, 2009.
THE OLD GLOBE announces calendar for May - August, 2009 Cornelia, By Mark Olsen Directed by Ethan McSweeny May 16 - June 21
An all-star cast of Ana Gasteyer (Wicked, 'Saturday Night Live'), Carolee Carmello (Mamma, Mia!, Parade), Tony? Award-winner Adriane Lenox (Doubt, Caroline, Or Change), Brad Oscar (The Producers, Jekyll & Hyde), Alton Fitzgerald White (The Lion King, Ragtime), John Dossett (The Constant Wife, Gypsy), Sam Harris (The Producers, The Life) and Sara Chase (Godspell at Paper Mill Playhouse) will star in a reading of the eagerly anticipated Broadway-bound musical FIRST WIVES CLUB this Monday, February 2 in New York City. FIRST WIVES CLUB will have its premiere at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego July 15 through August 23, 2009. The cast for the fully staged production will be announced soon. FIRST WIVES CLUB marks the once-in-a-lifetime reunion of the famous Motown songwriting trio Holland-Dozier-Holland (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland), who created such monumental hits as 'Where Did Our Love Go?,' 'Baby Love' and 'Stop! In The Name of Love' for The Supremes and 'How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved By You)' for Marvin Gaye. These chart-topping legends, who had more airplay than the Beatles, Rolling Stones and Elvis combined, have reunited for this one production.
Lamont Dozier, part of the famous songwriting team Holland-Dozier-Holland who is writing the score for the Broadway-bound musical FIRST WIVES CLUB, recently sat down with Billboard to talk about Motown's 50th Anniversary and the upcoming FIRST WIVES CLUB which will premiere at The Old Globe in San Diego July through August 23, 2009.
Lou Spisto, Executive Producer of the Tony Award-winning Old Globe, is pleased to announce the Theatre's complete 2009 Summer Season.
The Globe will play host next summer to 'The First Wives Club - A New Musical,' a world-premiere work based on the 1996 movie about a trio of vengeful ex-wives.
On April 24th, actresses Jessica Hecht, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Amy Brenneman and Kim Raver read excerpts from Hot Flashes, a fictional blog started by writer/producer Mimi Schmir.
The Broadway-bound musical based on The First Wives Club is gradually coming together, with Francesca Zambello confirmed as director and Rupert Holmes set to pen the book
Variety reports Francesca Zambello is in talks to helm the musical adaptation of the hit film, 'The First Wives Club'
Producer Paul Lambert tells Liz Smith who he has his eye on for the 2006 musical in today's New York Post
The First Wives Club, Olivia Goldsmith's best-selling novel and the basis of a smash film, will be a Broadway-bound musical with a score by Motown legends Holland-Dozier-Holland
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