George Gershwin News

Broadway Rush, Lottery & Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 2/26/2016.

Ballet West and the Utah Symphony will share the Abravanel Hall stage on February 26 & 27 at 7:30 PM in celebration of the Orchestra's 75th anniversary season. The performance features Utah Symphony performing Debussy's "Jeux" with dancers from world-renowned Ballet West, in choreography co-commissioned by Utah Symphony as well as music by Gottschalk, Gershwin, and Ravel.

Legacy Recordings has just released SUMMERTIME: WILLIE NELSON SINGS GERSHWIN, available today, February 26, 2016.

This year's original show from Musical Theater Heritage will be "AN EVENING WITH COLE PORTER" March 3-13, written by MTH Executive Director & Founder, George Harter. The program will feature an all local cast including the internationally famous tenor, Ben Gulley and Kansas City favorite Lauren Braton.

Principal Baltimore Symphony Pops Conductor Jack Everly presents top notch entertainment.

Theater Works 2016-17 Masterworks Season sees the return of master entertainers, lauded composers, Tony Award ® Winners and two premieres. The 31st MasterWorks season opens with the comedy Noises Off, and is followed by the World premiere of the newest work by the team that brought the works of Cole Porter, A Gershwin Revue celebrates the works of the acclaimed composer George Gershwin.

The Ziegfeld Society of New York City will present ZIEGFELD'S PUNCH BOWL OF 2016: A Tribute to George Gershwin tonight, February 20th.

Today in 1992, Crazy for You opened at the Shubert Theatre, where it ran for 1622 performances. Crazy for You is a musical with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as 'The New Gershwin Musical Comedy', it is largely based on the songwriting team's 1930 musical, Girl Crazy, but interpolates songs from several other productions as well. Crazy for You won the 1992 Tony Award for Best Musical. The Broadway production was directed by Mike Ockrent and choreographed by Susan Stroman.The cast included Jodi Benson as Polly, Harry Groener as Bobby Child, Bruce Adler as Bela Zangler, John Hillner as Lank Hawkins, Michele Pawk as Irene Roth, Jane Connell as Mother, and Beth Leavel as Tess.

Broadway Rush, Lottery & Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 2/19/2016.

The Morrisson Theatre Chorus, under the musical direction of Cesar Cancino, will present its Spring Concert: american favorites: a celebration of america's popular MUSIC on March 18 and March 19 at 8:00pm and March 20 at 2:00pm. AMERICAN FAVORITES: A CELEBRATION OF AMERICA'S POPULAR MUSIC will feature the music of Stephen Foster, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Elvis, Stevie Wonder, Simon and Garfunkel, and many more of our best songwriters.

We have a feeling Broadway fans are going to love the 2016 Boston Pops season, running May 6-June 18, under the direction of conductor Keith Lockhart. Featuring classic Boston Pops programming, including film scores of the silver screen, ballads from Broadway and the great American Songbook, classic rock anthems, and a Gospel Night spectacular, along with an impressive lineup of Boston Pops debuts, new programs that spotlight the best of the worlds of dance and puppetry, and the return of last year's audience favorite -- Pops On Demand: You Choose the Tunes -- the lineup features a slew of Broadway talent, including Sutton Foster, Mandy Patinkin, and Marin Mazzie & Jason Danieley.

Get your tickets now for what could become the hottest ticket of the 2016 theater season.

PORGY UND BESS, das selten gespielte Meisterwerk um Sehnsucht und Verfuhrbarkeit von George Gershwin, gastiert im Sommer 2016 in den renommiertesten Opernhausern Deutschlands. Das Publikum darf sich zur 'Summertime' auf das Gastspiel des New York Harlem Theatre freuen: Die weltweit gefeierte Inszenierung mit nahezu 50 stimmgewaltigen Darstellern und klangstarkem großen Orchester ist in der Dresdner Semperoper (14. - 31.07.2016), im Deutschen Theater Munchen (2. bis 7. August), in der Kolner Philharmonie (9. bis 14. August), in der Hamburger Staatsoper (16. bis 28. August) sowie in der Alten Oper Frankfurt (30. August bis 4. September) zu erleben.

The Ziegfeld Society of New York City will present ZIEGFELD'S PUNCH BOWL OF 2016: A Tribute to George Gershwin on Saturday, February 20th.

San Diego audience favorite Hershey Felder ("George Gershwin Alone," "Monsieur Chopin," "Beethoven," "Liszt," "An American Story," "Irving Berlin") returns to San Diego Repertory Theatre in a pre-New York engagement of "Hershey Felder as Leonard Bernstein in MAESTRO." Fresh from a sold out run of "Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin" at the La Jolla Playhouse, Felder will now perform this signature work about America's finest conductor and composer, Leonard Bernstein, which had its premiere in 2011 at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre. Directed by Joel Zwick, "MAESTRO" plays a limited engagement from Wednesday, July 6 to Sunday, July 17, 2016. Details for the New York presentation will be announced in April.

Gershwin's orchestrial jazz creation remains a quintessential piece of American music.

Broadway Rush, Lottery & Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 2/12/2016.

BroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ: Rush, Lottery & Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 2/8/2016.

The show's official Facebook page has just released a clip of Blake singing the title song on the vinyl from the original musical. Check out the teaser below!

BroadwayWorld.com's SHOW BIZ: Rush, Lottery & Standing Room Only Ticketing Policies - updated on 2/5/2016.