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Last week boasted plenty of familiar faces onstage at Birdland in New York City. Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch performed an 8-show run at the historic music room, composer Scott Alan hosted a concert of his songs with a starry cast, and Jim Caruso's Cast Party was the place to be for Broadway and jazz types to show their stuff!
On November 23rd 2009 The York Theatre Company held a gala celebrating The 2009 Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre to Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. The event was held at the Racquet and Tennis Club.
ZERO HOUR, Jim Brochu's award-winning play about the life of theatre legend Zero Mostel is making its Off-Broadway premiere at Theatre at Saint Clement's. Previews began Saturday, November 14th. Produced by Kurt Peterson and Edmund Gaynes in association with The Peccadillo Theater Company, the show celebrated its Opening Night on Sunday, November 22nd at 7 p.m. The limited engagement of ZERO HOUR will continue through January 31st.
The colorful Gypsy Robe, embellished with mementos from Broadway musicals, is presented to the cast member who has the most Broadway chorus credits. Recent Gypsy Robe honoree, FINIAN'S RAINBOW's Lisa Gajda passed the special Broadway garment on to Michael X. Martin backstage at the Neil Simon before the opening night performance and we were there too!
Teri Ralston's Broadway career may only consist of small roles in two musicals but those two musicals, as they say on the Brooklyn side of Shubert Alley, were cherce. Her young soprano can be heard in scattered solo moments on the original Broadway cast albums of Company (as Jenny) and A Little Night Music (as Mrs. Nordstrom), but she's probably most known among musical theatre fans for her delicate and lovely performance of Stephen Schwartz's 'Chanson' in the original didn't-make-it-to-Broadway cast album of The Baker's Wife.
Broadway musical theatre icon Carol Lawrence will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Sunday, October 18, 2009 at a 3:00 pm Gala concert in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, followed by Cocktails and Dinner at 6:30 pm at the New York Athletic Club.
Broadway musical theatre icon Carol Lawrence will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Sunday, October 18, 2009 at a 3:00 pm Gala concert in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, followed by Cocktails and Dinner at 6:30 pm at the New York Athletic Club.
Preview performances began Saturday, September 12th, for the critically acclaimed Donmar Warehouse production of William Shakespeare's HAMLET with Jude Law in the title role, directed by Michael Grandage. The production officially opened last night, October 6th, at the Broadhurst Theatre (235 West 44th Street). HAMLET will play a strictly limited run of 12 weeks only.
Cast members of WEST SIDE STORY received Actors' Equity Association's Third Annual Advisory Committee on Chorus Affairs (ACCA) Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus. The award, which honors the distinctive talents and contributions made by the chorus of a Broadway musical, was presented in a special ceremony at the September 22nd ACCA meeting at Actors' Equity Association (Equity) headquarters in New York City.
Premier Performing Arts, a non-profit professional theatre company producing in Westchester County, presented its inaugural fundraiser, Broadway Tonight with Alan Menken and Friends, at the Tarrytown Music Hall to an enthusiastic crowd.
'Yesterday's Angel,' a series of films to celebrate the work of Natalie Wood, will be shown at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater August 19 through 25.
'Yesterday's Angel,' a series of films to celebrate the work of Natalie Wood, will be shown at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater August 19 through 25.
'Yesterday's Angel,' a series of films to celebrate the work of Natalie Wood, will be shown at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater August 19 through 25.
ReVision Theatre presents a star studded cast featuring Steven Brinberg as Barbra Streisand with special guest Lainie Kazan in a benefit performance of Funny Girl. The one night only event will be at the Paramount Theatre on the Boardwalk in Asbury Park on Saturday, July 11th, at 8 pm.
ReVision Theatre presents a star studded cast featuring Steven Brinberg as Barbra Streisand with special guest Lainie Kazan in a benefit performance of Funny Girl. The one night only event will be at the Paramount Theatre on the Boardwalk in Asbury Park on Saturday, July 11th, at 8 pm.
ReVision Theatre announces star studded cast for benefit performance of Funny Girl starring Steven Brinberg as Barbra Streisand with very special guest Lainie Kazan. The one night only event will be at the Paramount Theatre on the Boardwalk in Asbury Park on Saturday, July 11th, at 8 pm.
Debbie Reynolds, the beloved, iconic and award-winning actress, has brought her smash one-woman show, 'Debbie Reynolds: An Evening of Music and Comedy,' to New York's legendary Café Carlyle for a special four-week engagement which began Tuesday, June 2nd and is playing through Saturday, June 27th.
The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization released the first complete recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein's ALLEGRO on Sony Masterworks Broadway on February 3, 2009. The CD is produced by David Lai, Bruce Pomahac and Ted Chapin.
Theatre Jacksonville presents Happily Red 2009 Hello, Dolly! In Concert With Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman, Book by Michael Stewart. Based on the Play 'The Matchmaker' by Thornton Wilder with Original Production Directed and Choreographed by Gower Champion. Produced for the Broadway Stage by David Merrick and Champion-Five, Inc. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2009 8:00PM Sponsored by Pacer International Starring Pamela Myers and Harvey Evans and featuring Sarah Boone, Michael Lipp, Juan Unzueta Directed by Jean Tait Musical Director: Eugene Gwozdz Choral Director: Rachel Clifton At Theatre Jacksonville's Harold K. Smith Playhouse 2032 San Marco Boulevard Jacksonville, FL 32207 BOX OFFICE: 904.396.4425 Tickets: $60 (includes Champagne and Valentine treats at Intermission) VIP Tickets: $100 (includes 6 PM pre-show cocktail reception at Stellers Gallery)
Join us on Valentine's Day as Theatre Jacksonville presents Broadway legends Pamela Myers and Harvey Evans in a full concert version of Hello, Dolly! sponsored by Pacer International.
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