Griffin Matthews News

Not since Broadway vets Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley's Opposite You has there been such a romantically sizzling CD as Gonna Make You Love Me from Broadway babies Matt Cavenaugh and Jenny Powers. Also real-life marrieds, Cavenaugh and Powers have an exciting built-in chemistry that translates so beautifully and dynamically to disc. What makes them different? Offering traditional music that hardly sounds predictable, Gonna Make You Love Me is definitely NOW.

Gonna Make You Love Me, the debut album from Broadway couple Jenny Powers and Matt Cavenaugh, is currently available for digital downloads at all outlets including iTunes and Amazon.com. Physical CD's are also available for purchase on Amazon and CDBaby.com

Set to be released this week, BroadwayWorld.com has this exclusive track 'I Wanna Be With You' from Husband and wife team, Jenny POwers and Matt Cavenaugh's debut album, 'GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME.' Click below to listen and buy the CD this week!

On January 31st, 2011, Michelle Kay & ASCAP Board member Dean Kay presented the 2010 ASCAP Foundation Michelle & Dean Kay Award to Griffin Matthews and Matt Gould.

Husband and wife team, Matt Cavenaugh and Jenny Powers, have announced the track list to their upcoming debut album, GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME, which will be released in March 2011. The ten-track album features covers originally recorded by artists such as Queen, Etta James, Mandy Moore, Joni Mitchell, Sam Cooke, as well as several others. According to Powers and Cavenaugh, 'Over the course of 10 songs, the album follows the journey of two people searching for and finding love in one another.'

Pasadena's Theatre @ Boston Court has announced its 2011 season lineup, which will include a world premiere play along with a collaboration with the CalArts School of Theatre on a production of Tennessee Williams' 'Camino Real,' according to the LA Times.

Pasadena's Theatre @ Boston Court has announced its 2011 season lineup, which will include a world premiere play along with a collaboration with the CalArts School of Theatre on a production of Tennessee Williams' 'Camino Real,' according to the LA Times.

Jonathan Larson Award Winning composer Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews have been invited to workshop their new piece, WITNESS UGANDA, alongside Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, Godspell) as part of the Disney/ASCAP Workshop. Schwartz has described Witness Uganda as 'a new form of musical theatre...breathtaking.'

The ASCAP Foundation is pleased to announce that six new musical works have been selected for presentation at the annual ASCAP Foundation/ Disney Musical Theatre Workshop in Los Angeles. The winning proposals were selected from more than 160 applicants. The workshop will take place February 2, 3, 16, 17, 18 & 19, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. sharp, at the Disney Feature Animation Studio Lot in Burbank, CA.

Rattlestick opens its brand-new F*!@cking Good Plays (festival) tomorrow, Wednesday, January 6th with a 3PM reading of Heidi Shreck's THERE ARE NO MORE BIG SECRETS directed by Kip Fagan.

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater announced today that they will kick off the new year with the F*!@cking Good Plays (festival) - five (5) days of new play readings by eight (8) of today's hottest playwrights.

The National Alliance of Musical Theatre has announced additions to its 21st Annual Festival of New Musicals, taking place October 19-20 at New World Stages.

The National Alliance of Musical Theatre has announced additions to its 21st Annual Festival of New Musicals, taking place October 19-20 at New World Stages.

The National Alliance of Musical Theatre has announced additions to its 21st Annual Festival of New Musicals, taking place October 19-20 at New World Stages.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and Executive Director Kathy Evans announced the writers for the Songwriters Showcase, which will be Co-hosted by David Zippel & Dee Hoty as well as additional casting for the eight musicals in the 21st Annual Festival of New Musicals at New World Stages (340 West 50th St) on Monday, October 19 and Tuesday, October 20, 2009.

Be the Change (Uganda) would like to personally invite you to Witness Uganda (an original music theater presentation) Friday September 18th at 8pm @ The Tank 354 W. 45th, NYC

Due to popular demand, Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews have added a second 9:30pm show to their Friday night Witness Uganda benefit.

The National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and Executive Director Kathy Evans announced the directors, music directors and preliminary casts for the eight musicals being presented as 45-minute staged readings for its 21st Annual Festival of New Musicals at New World Stages (340 West 50th St) on Monday, October 19 and Tuesday, October 20, 2009.

Be the Change (Uganda) would like to personally invite you to Witness Uganda (an original music theater presentation) Friday September 18th at 8pm @ The Tank 354 W. 45th, NYC

Broadway favorite Tituss Burgess, who recently starred as Nicely-Nicely Johnson in GUYS AND DOLLS, presented 'How I Hear It' featuring the Tight-Ass Band at Birdland (315 West 44th Street) on Monday, July 27th at 7pm. BroadwayWorld.com's cameras were there to cheer him and band on!