Howard McGillin News

This Sunday on EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN we present A Tribute to STEPHEN SONDHEIM, coverage of the 24th Annual MAC Awards, and more!

Kaufman Center and New York Festival Of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org), acclaimed by New York Magazine as 'The best classical music programming in New York,' will present an all-new program on May 4 and 6 at 8 PM of American composers, including the premiere of Beautiful Ohio, a song cycle by 2009 Pulitzer Prize- finalist Harold Meltzer, with texts of poet James Arlington Wright and composed specifically for the young American tenor Paul Appleby.

Nearly 300 delighted audience members sailed away on a magical, musical journey as some of Broadway's finest performed at the Bickford Theatre in Morristown, NJ, on Saturday, March 27, at 8 p.m. in an enchanted evening celebrating the classic songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein!

Julie Halston and Howard McGillin have joined the upcoming concert reading of 'Hello! My Baby' held on March 29 at The Shop @ Collaborative Arts Project 21 (Cap 21).

Julie Halston and Howard McGillin have joined the upcoming concert reading of 'Hello! My Baby' held on March 29 at The Shop @ Collaborative Arts Project 21 (Cap 21).

Last night, March 15, The Actor's Fund presented a one-night-only benefit performance of VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, a stage adaptation of the 1967 film, at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College. The evening will benefit their programs and services.

New York Festival Of Song (NYFOS, www.nyfos.org), recently acclaimed by TimeOut New York for its 'A-list artistry,' will present its 2010 Gala, Let Yourself Go, a celebration of the rich musical legacy of America's foremost composer/lyricist, Irving Berlin, on Monday April 12 at 7 PM at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 154 West 57th Street, New York City.

The New York Philharmonic will present SONDHEIM: The Birthday Concert on March 15 and Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. This celebration of the 80th birthday of the great Broadway and film composer/lyricist will include his most enduring orchestral music and songs - performed, in some cases, by the stars of the original Broadway cast productions - in addition to rarely-heard material. Joining the celebration will be (in alphabetical order) Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Jason Danieley, Nathan Gunn, George Hearn, Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, Donna Murphy, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, and others to be announced, including surprise guests. Paul Gemignani, Mr. Sondheim's longtime collaborator, will conduct the New York Philharmonic; Lonny Price is the director; and Mr. Price and Matt Cowart are the producers.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will continue its all-star Spring 2010 season with the debut engagement of Grammy Award nominated vocalist MARILYN MAYE. Performances will be from March 2 to 13, 2010.

Sail away on a magical, musical journey as Broadway's finest performers arrive at the Bickford Theatre in Morristown, NJ, on Saturday, March 27, at 8 p.m. for an enchanted evening celebrating the classic songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein!

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will continue its all-star Spring 2010 season with the debut engagement of Grammy Award nominated vocalist MARILYN MAYE. Performances will be from March 2 to 13, 2010.

As musical theater composers go, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has a staggering amount of hits in his repertoire of past shows. THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, the mini-concert tour now performing through Sunday, February 21 at The Orange County Performing Arts Center, serves as a musical gathering of most of the living legend's greatest hits (and a few not-so-successful, more obscure show compositions as well) into a tight two-hour-and-fifteen-minute concert that's less a theater experience than a symphony concert with some amazing singers. Enhanced by a terrific, full on-stage orchestra under the direction of conductor/musical director Edward G. Robinson, six talented Broadway veterans take the audience show by show through Webber's catalogue.

While the Northern East Coast of the U.S. was hammered with blizzard-like conditions last week, Broadway vet Kevin Kern was busy with the launch of THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER, the concert revue he co-stars in, which compiles many of the prolific composer's musical hits that are in turn interpreted by six talented, well-known performers of the Broadway stage. Luckily, he and the extraordinary cast will get the chance to thaw out a little bit when the show pays a visit to the Orange County Performing Arts Center for a limited, one-week engagement on February 16 through 21. Kern-whose theater credits include Broadway's Wicked, The Wedding Singer, and Les Miserables, as well as the pre-Broadway runs of 9 to 5: The Musical and Next to Normal-recently took some time in between performances to talk with BroadwayWorld/Costa Mesa to discuss the concert, as well as his early work in the original casts of Altar Boyz and 9 to 5 (in the latter, he divulges his early star-struck shyness towards a certain Ms. Parton). He also breaks the exclusive news (to us first!) about his upcoming involvement in a hit Broadway musical that's about to cross the pond over to London!

The cast for The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, which makes a visit to the Orange County Performing Arts Center February 16 - 21, will star performers who are noted interpreters of Lloyd Webber's music and well known to Broadway fans.

Jeffrey Finn Productions' THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER will close on February 14 at the Merriam Theater.

The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber covers thirty-one numbers from twelve Andrew Lloyd Webber shows. These shows include both hits, flops, and favorites - Cats, Evita, Phantom, Sunset Boulevard, Aspects of Love, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph, Song and Dance, Whistle Down the Wind, Starlight Express, The Woman in White and The Beautiful Game. Webber's songs are well loved for their musicality and they are well served by the incredible vocals of six Broadway stars.

Jeffrey Finn Productions announces a limited engagement of THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER at the Merriam Theater Feb. 9 - 14.

Jeffrey Finn Productions has announced a limited engagement of THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER at the Merriam Theater February 9th through 14th.

FEINSTEIN'S AT LOEWS REGENCY, the nightclub proclaimed 'Best of New York' by New York Magazine and 'an invaluable New York institution' by The New York Post, will continue its all-star Spring 2010 season with the debut engagement of Grammy Award nominated vocalist MARILYN MAYE. Performances will be from March 2 to 13, 2010.

In a blog entry on 'In The Wings', Peter Kramer reports that Tony Award nominated actor Robert Cuccioli will take on the role of Guido in the upcoming production of 'Nine' at the Westchester Broadway Theatre ((formerly the Elmsford Dinner Theatre).