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Two legendary ladies of stage and screen are headed to Laguna Beach this September for exclusive limited engagements at The Laguna Playhouse. First to arrive is ETHEL MERMAN'S BROADWAY September 8 - 19. Then it's time for Cloris Leachman in CLORIS: A ONE WOMAN SHOW September 23 - 27.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) has announced the full slate of 27 musical productions, a developmental reading series and special events for their seventh annual festival. This year's Festival will begin September 27th and continue through October 17th. A full breakdown of this year's performances follows.
The New York Times' Times Talks series will feature two Summer Nights on Broadway events, The Times Center has announced.
Following sell-out seasons in New York and Sydney, the international multi-award-winningmusical star of stage and screen Caroline O'Connor returns to the UK in her one-womanshow Caroline O'Connor: The Showgirl Within, for a strictly limited season at the GarrickTheatre in London's West End from Monday 27 September to Sunday 3 October 2010.
In a two-for-one theater event, Rising Action Theatre is hosting the one-act plays 'Mr. Charles, currently of Palm Beach' by Paul Rudnick and 'Mexico City' by David Leddick. Both plays will star Mr. Leddick, Merry Jo Cortada and Stefan Pinto. Funny and sad, sexy and sinister, the two plays promise an exhilarating emotional experience for the audience.
On Tuesday night I had the privilege of conducting an InDepth InterView with legendary composer, conductor and musical director Marvin Hamlisch. The three-time Oscar-winner has also won a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony, Emmys and Golden Globes making him the only individual besides Richard Rodgers to accomplish as much in his forty-year-plus career. His scores for A CHORUS LINE, THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG and SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, along with his work on classic films like THE WAY WE WERE and THE STING surely cement his place in the pantheon of great American artists, a legend in his own time. On Monday night he also participated - accompanying Idina Menzel on a song from A CHORUS LINE - in the White House celebration of Broadway also starring Nathan Lane, Idina Menzel, Audra McDonald and the First Family themselves which will be airing on PBS in October. He also hosts the 70s music special THE WAY WE WERE, MUSIC OF THE SEVENTIES airing in August on PBS, as well.
Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the dates and venue for the new Broadway production of Anything Goes, starring Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as 'Reno Sweeney.'
Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) announces the dates and venue for the new Broadway production of Anything Goes, starring Tony Award winner Sutton Foster as 'Reno Sweeney.'
FAMILY DINNER - a new play by Michele Willens - will be given its world-premiere Off-Broadway this summer in a production directed by Jamibeth Margolis at the Beckett Theatre on Theater Row (410 W. 42 St.) in Manhattan, with previews beginning June 17 prior to an official press opening June 21.
International award-winning singer Cristina Fontanelli (www.cristinafontanelli.com) will make her 4th-annual appearance at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency on Park Avenue at 61st Street on Thursday, July 1st, 2010 at 8:30pm.
In a two-for-one theater event, Rising Action Theatre is hosting the one-act plays 'Mr. Charles, currently of Palm Beach' by Paul Rudnick and 'Mexico City' by David Leddick. Both plays will star Mr. Leddick, Merry Jo Cortada and Stefan Pinto. Funny and sad, sexy and sinister, the two plays promise an exhilarating emotional experience for the audience.
Director, actor, playwright, and professor Jack Sydow has died, Variety reports. Sydow died on May 28 in Los Angeles, at the age of eighty-eight.
Broadway and film star Patrick Cassidy will play the male lead, Frank Butler, in the Ravinia Festival production of Irving Berlin's hit-filled musical Annie Get Your Gun on August 13, 14 and 15. A scheduling conflict will prevent Brian Stokes Mitchell from appearing in the role as originally announced.
Where else can you see Judy Garland, Liza Minelli, Barbra Streisand Julie Andrews and Ethel Merman all in the same show? Long time Forbidden Broadway diva and impressionist Christine Pedi sings songs made famous by the greatest ladies of the stage, screen and beyond.
International award-winning singer Cristina Fontanelli (www.cristinafontanelli.com) will make her 4th-annual appearance at Feinstein's at the Loews Regency on Park Avenue at 61st Street on Thursday, July 1st, 2010 at 8:30pm.
Listeners will hear an extensive Tony Awards re-cap during this week's edition of Broadway Names with Julie James featuring interviews with the awards show's host Sean Hayes, performer Kristin Chenoweth, winner David Bryan (Memphis, Bon Jovi) and nominees Valerie Harper and Chad Kimball, among others.
This past weekend, Elaine Stritch performed her 'Singin' Sondheim' cabaret in West Hartford, CT. As reported by the Hartford Courant, the A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC-bound star was simultaneously in private rehearsals with director Trevor Nunn. According to the report, Stritch and Peters were in New York working on scenes with Nunn, who then rode to Hartford with Stritch to continue discussions over the two-hour car ride. They continued work at the Roberts Theatre, the same space Stritch performed 'Singin' Sondheim' that evening. Jeremy Cohen, associate artistic director of Hartford Stage, is quoted as saying that watching Stritch and Nunn 'was like [being] a kid in a candy shop ... He's definitely an actor's director and listening them talk about Sondheim was incredible. It's as if they had been working together for decades because they spoke in the common vocabulary of Sondheim.'
25 recordings have been added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry including the original cast recording of GYPSY featuring Ethel Merman. Other titles include Patti Smith's debut album and Tupac's 'Dear Mama.'
FAMILY DINNER, a new play by Michele Willens, is being given its world-premiere Off-Broadway this summer in a production directed by Jamibeth Margolis at the Beckett Theatre On Theater Row (410 W. 42 St.) in Manhattan, with official press opening held last night June 21.
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