Harold Prince News

The longest-running show in Broadway history, Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, is set to reach another unprecedented milestone.

California Stage of Sacramento will be presenting the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical, The Threepenny Opera, begining February 5th. This classic show tells the story of what happens when the banks get richer and the poor get poorer. The musical incorporates the tale of the doomed love affair of Mac Heath, London's reining thief, and Polly Peachum, the deceptively sweet daughter of a successful businessman who specializes in human misery and controls the city's beggars. Based loosely on John Gay's much earlier Beggars' Opera, it is filled with betrayals, schemes, revenge, reversals of fortune, and Weill's famously dissonant score.

PNC Broadway Across America - Pittsburgh - presented by The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Broadway Across America, proudly announces the return of Andrew Lloyd Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, directed by Harold Prince, to the Benedum Center from August 25th through September 19th, 2010, as a 2010-11 Season Special.

Catherine Zeta-Jones appeared as a guest on the Late Show with David Letterman last night. During the interview, Zeta-Jones shared her impressions about living in New York City, and talked about the gift that her husband (Michael Douglas) gave her when she told him she wanted to have another baby

The Diary of a Dancer, a brand new one-person show, debuts at The Bridge Theatre @ Shetler Studios for a limited engagement January 21-23, 2010. Written by and starring Wade Dooley, Diary is the autobiographical tale of Mary Shennanbargger, an eighty-something retired performer-turned-teacher.

BRAT productions will be merging worlds in 2010 with their FINAL production of Eugene Ionesco's (24 HOUR) 'THE BALD SOPRANO' FRIDAY, JANUARY 22nd @ the Annenberg Center - Harold Prince Theatre 3680 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA.

Northwestern University's Dolphin Show, America?s largest student-produced musical, is proud to announce its 68th annual production, Parade, a powerful, daring musical from the minds of Jason Robert Brown, Alfred Uhry, and Harold Prince. This year's Dolphin Show will be directed by School of Communication rising senior, Scott G. Weinstein and will open on January 22, 2010 in Cahn Auditorium at Northwestern?s Evanston campus.

BRAT productions will be merging worlds in 2010 with their FINAL production of Eugene Ionesco's (24 HOUR) 'THE BALD SOPRANO' FRIDAY, JANUARY 22nd @ the Annenberg Center - Harold Prince Theatre 3680 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA.

The Diary of a Dancer, a brand new one-person show, debuts at The Bridge Theatre @ Shetler Studios for a limited engagement January 21-23, 2010. Written by and starring Wade Dooley, Diary is the autobiographical tale of Mary Shennanbargger, an eighty-something retired performer-turned-teacher.

Amas Musical Theatre (Donna Trinkoff, Producing Artistic Director) in association with Snap-Two Productions, Inc. will present the World Premiere of Signs of Life a new musical, with book by Peter Ullian, lyrics by Len Schiff, music by Joel Derfner, music direction by Michael Pettry, and directed by Jeremy Dobrish.

MUSICAL THEATRE WEST kicks off the new year with the Stephen Sondheim masterpiece, Sweeney Todd. Previewing on January 29, 2010, Sweeney Todd opens January 30 and runs through February 14 at the spectacular Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler, is based on the 1973 play Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond.

Jim Caruso's Cast Party is proud to announce that for the first time in New York, singer/pianist Billy Stritch will join forces with the big band of Michael Berkowitz, as part of the Broadway at Birdland concert series.

The Cameron Mackintosh/Really Useful Theatre Company, Inc. production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Harold Prince, will make a return to South Florida as a major presentation of the 2009-2010 theatrical season when it opens Wednesday, December 23, brings in New Year 2010, and runs through Sunday, January 17. Well remembered by local theater goers for its phenomenal run when it opened on February 26, 1991 as the premiere presentation of the newly built theater, this 4-week run will mark another landmark presentation as a major 'special' of Broadway Across America-Ft. Lauderdale presented by Florida theatrical Association at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.

BRAT productions will be merging worlds in 2010 with their FINAL production of Eugene Ionesco's (24 HOUR) 'THE BALD SOPRANO' FRIDAY, JANUARY 22nd @ the Annenberg Center - Harold Prince Theatre 3680 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA.

Broadway stars Teri Dale Hansen ('The Boys from Syracuse') and Norm Lewis ('The Little Mermaid' and the upcoming 'Sondheim on Sondheim') bring beloved music of the Great White Way to Princeton on Saturday, January 30, as part of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra's PSO POPS! sixth annual Broadway Concert.

The cast has been announced for Amas Musical Theatre's production of SIGNS OF LIFE. The cast will be led by Erika Amato, Wilson Bridges and Kurt Zischke. Performances begin on February 16 at The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theatre.

Longtime casting director Shirley Rich passed away on December 28th, 2009 at the age of 87 in Greenwich Connecticut of natural causes. Referred to by the New York Times as the 'doyenne of New York casting directors,' Rich's career covered Broadway plays and Hollywood films, with actors such as Judd Hirsch, Sean Penn, and Tom Cruise.

The Diary of a Dancer, a brand new one-person show, debuts at The Bridge Theatre @ Shetler Studios for a limited engagement January 21-23, 2010. Written by and starring Wade Dooley, Diary is the autobiographical tale of Mary Shennanbargger, an eighty-something retired performer-turned-teacher.

"I am delighted to announce our Fantastic 58th Season of Musicals," states Christopher B. Manos, Producer of Theater of the Stars. "We have some wonderful world-class entertainment in store for 2010, from old-fashioned fun to brand new shows that are sure to dazzle. We are excited to bring the incomparable Melissa Gilbert to Atlanta in the new stage version of Little House on the Prairie, The Musical, to bring back Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, and to welcome the Blue Man Group for the very first time to our season. We've been asked for a long time to get The Sound of Music on our series and I'm pleased to say that we have it, along with the absolutely beautiful national touring production of Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Lastly, we'll add some comic relief with 9 TO 5: The Musical based on the smash hit movie with Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton."